Julie came into data sideways from content marketing and turned that into a 15-year career running lean data teams at some of the coolest martech startups in the landscape. In this episode she breaks down how they cloned their best analyst into an AI agent named JimBot, why she pushes back on AI projects without ever saying no, and how she gets companies to fund the invisible foundation work nobody claps for.More
Yearly Archives: 2026
235: Why consent banners, tags and privacy policies never match, with Stéphane Hamel
Stéphane Hamel built the first web analytics QA tool back in 2006, watched an ad blocker quietly borrow his logic, and spent the next 20 years learning that tracking got harder to see every year while the industry got better at documenting it. Now he’s building MANTIS, a privacy observability platform that watches what a website actually does instead of what its policy claims.More
234: How to run a marketing ops audit and turn it into a roadmap, with Kelsie Dube
Sharon walks through why taste is now codifiable, why originality still belongs to humans, and how she pulled a McKinsey-grade deck out of Claude by feeding it her own best work. We get into the lost generation of junior executors and the beekeeper mindset that separates orchestrators from busy bees.More
233: 4 Mindsets that modern marketing leaders need for unpredictable markets, with author Kathleen Schaub
Marketing has spent a century pretending it’s a machine you can feed cash and read like a receipt, and Kathleen is here to take that apart. She makes the case that markets behave more like weather than vending machines, walks through her 4 mindset shifts for leading in the chaos, and explains why a single north-star metric quietly wrecks your decisions.More
232: How taste can be codified into systems and is no longer a durable skill, and what’s next with Sharon Gai
Sharon walks through why taste is now codifiable, why originality still belongs to humans, and how she pulled a McKinsey-grade deck out of Claude by feeding it her own best work. We get into the lost generation of junior executors and the beekeeper mindset that separates orchestrators from busy bees.More
231: Why Lattice careers and communication skills are built for the AI era, with Michele Martin from Ticketmaster
Most career advice still hands you a ladder and tells you to climb. Michele makes the case for a lattice instead, the crisscross path of sideways and diagonal moves that built her range across banking, retail, a startup, and now Ticketmaster.More
230: Zero-click marketing broke the measurement layer, so what should ops teams do now, with Amanda Natividad
Zero click marketing sounds great and all, but how do you actually prove it’s working? Amanda coined the term and she’s spent over a decade building marketing that lives where the audience already is, and in this episode she takes apart the measurement crisis that it creates.More
229: The Privacy lawsuits coming for every marketing team, with Cara Caruso and Dustin Taylor
A privacy-software CEO and a litigation defense attorney scare every marketer in the room, in the most useful way possible. Cara Caruso has scanned over 10,000 websites and found nearly 90% of them non-compliant, while Dustin Taylor has defended more than 100 companies against the exact lawsuits that follow. Together they trace how a forgotten tag from 3 years ago becomes a seven-figure settlement, why your own privacy policy is the document most likely to get you in trouble.More
228: The Dispatch tower (The Dungeon of martech architecture, part 4)
Every vendor in your stack just turned on an agent. Your ESP has one. Your CDP has one. Your MAP has one. None of them know what the others are doing, none of them were told to check, and nobody volunteered to referee it. Welcome to the final floor.More
227: The Correlation masquerade (The Dungeon of martech architecture, part 3)
Your warehouse is clean, your agents are running, everything looks like it’s working, and that’s the trap. This floor is where AI mistakes correlation for causation and scales the mistake at machine speed, eroding revenue behind a green dashboard. We unpack the fix: holdouts, guardrails, and a causal context graph that proves what actually works.More