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Marketing Nuggets
Your marketing mentor & biggest cheerleader, here to share the real, messy, beautiful truth about what it takes to level up your marketing, productivity, and confidence. Whether you're drowning in B2B complexity, chasing B2C creativity, or staring at a to-do list that feels impossible, I'm spilling everything from my 12+ years that I wish I'd known.
We're talking award-winning campaigns that started as complete disasters, the late-night brainstorms that changed everything, and the systems that actually move the needle (plus the epic fails that taught me the most). Because here's what I know for sure: success doesn't happen in isolation. It's about building marketing strategies that work, creating unshakeable confidence for the big scary moments, and using productivity systems that achieve your marketing goals.
No matter where you are in your journey - from graduate to director - this podcast is for ambitious marketers ready to stop playing small and embrace the mess of figuring things out to have a successful and fulfilling marketing career.
Come for the stories. Stay for the strategies that actually work.
Episodes
163 episodes
165: You'll Never Feel Ready - And That's Exactly Why You Should Start
You've been telling yourself you'll go for it when you feel ready. The bigger role. The hand up in the leadership meeting. The idea you've been sitting on for months.Here's the thing nobody tells you: that feeling isn't coming. Not becau...
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164: Stop Being The Best Kept Secret: The Marketer You Already Are Is Open
I became Head of Marketing before 30. No roadmap. No one showing me the way.And somewhere between the boardrooms, the global campaigns, and the teams I was building from scratch, I realised there were four things nobody had ever taught m...
163: Stop Playing Small in Your Marketing Career - How to Stop Waiting and Start Claiming
I spent a long time waiting for someone to tell me I was ready. Ready to show up differently. To take on more. To be in the rooms that felt more like me. The stretch project. The seat at the table that felt more like me.And I kept ...
162: The Mid-Year (ish!) Marketing Check-In - 7 Questions to Get Back on Track
We are seven months into the year. Which means one of two things is true right now. Either you're ahead of where you thought you'd be - which is brilliant and worth pausing to acknowledge. Or something has drifted, slipped, or quietly gone in a...
161: When You're the Only Marketer in the Room
Finance. Operations. Sales. Senior leadership. There are rooms in every marketing career where you are the only person who thinks the way you think and everyone else wants you to justify, translate, and prove the value of what you do. This epis...
160: The Marketing Feedback You're Not Getting And How to Engineer It Yourself
Nobody tells you this when you start a marketing job: feedback is not guaranteed. You can be working hard, delivering well, showing up consistently and still be operating in almost complete silence about how you're actually landing. No one's te...
159: Comparison Is Killing Your Marketing Confidence - Here's the Fix
Comparison isn't the problem. Reading it wrong is. In this episode, I'm getting into the trap most of us fall into...watching someone else's career, feeling behind, and using their highlight reel to write a story about our own inadequacy. We're...
158: The Reason Your Best Marketing Days Feel Different, And How to Have More of Them
On your best days at work - the days where you get to your desk, you know exactly what you're doing, you get into flow, you make real progress on things that matter… what's actually different about those days?I'd bet it's not that you ha...
157: The Six Questions Senior Marketers Ask - That Most Marketers Never Think To
Over a decade in marketing and I can tell you the exact moment I stopped being the person who delivered the update and became the person who shaped the direction.It wasn't a promotion. It wasn't a big campaign win. It was the questions I...
156: How Ambitious Marketers Break Out of Execution Mode and Start Leading
One day, about 5 years into my career, my manager pulled me aside and said something that stung for days."Emma, you're excellent at executing what's in front of you. But I need you to start thinking about what should be in front...
155: You're Already in the Right Rooms. Are You Owning Them?
Here's something nobody puts in a job description.The signals you send before you open your mouth. Where you sit. How you hold yourself when someone else is speaking. The pace you speak at when you finally do. These things are being read...
154: The Three Presence Myths That Are Keeping You Invisible
You've watched someone own a room and told yourself: they're just naturally like that.I used to believe that too. Until I figured out that what I was watching wasn't personality. It was something else entirely.In this episode, I'm...
153: When It All Goes Wrong: The Marketer's Guide to Bouncing Back
Something went wrong. It doesn't matter what - a campaign that tanked, a presentation that died in the room, feedback that landed harder than you expected, a decision that turned out to be the wrong one. It happened publicly. And now you have t...
152: The Three Conversations Every Marketing Manager Gets Wrong (And How to Get Them Right)
There are three conversations that happen in every marketing manager's month. And most of us have been quietly getting all three of them wrong, not because we're bad at our jobs, but because nobody ever taught us what the high-stakes version of...
151: Imposter Syndrome: Why I Hate the Phrase (And What To Do Instead)
I've heard the phrase "imposter syndrome" probably a thousand times in my career. And every time, I hate it. Not because the feeling isn't real, but because I think the label is making us more stuck, not less.In this episode I'm getting ...
150: Feeling Stuck With Your Marketing? Here's What to Do Next
If your marketing role has started to feel a bit... comfortable, then this episode is your nudge.Sometimes feeling stuck in your marketing career isn't about burnout or losing motivation, it's a sign you're ready for something more. And ...
149: Lost Your Marketing Mojo? Here's Exactly How to Get It Back
Every marketer loses their mojo at some point. The ideas stop flowing, the confidence dips, and suddenly you're staring at your to-do list wondering what happened to you.In this episode, I'm sharing the January that nearly made me questi...
148: From AI Tools to AI Marketing Systems: What I’m Building Next
This is the final episode in my AI mini-series and it feels like a turning point.Over the last few episodes I've taken you through how I actually use AI day to day, the mindset shift from speed to outcomes, how to prompt properly, how to...
147: Ai for Confidence: The Unexpected Use Case
Two hours before a keynote to 80+ marketers, I was sitting in a freezing Starbucks trying not to spiral. What if I rush? What if I blank? Is 25 minutes even enough time? (Especially when the last time I spoke, I fully blanked for ten seconds an...
146: How to Lead Your Team Through AI (Even When You're Still Learning It Yourself)
We're barely into Q2 and I'm already sharing this, because I know so many of you are in exactly this position right now.Most leaders wait until the end of the year to share the wins. But with AI moving this fast, I wanted to bring you on...
145: Stop Starting From Scratch: Build Custom GPTs for Marketers
If you’re still opening a new ChatGPT window every time you need something, re-explaining your company, your audience, your tone and your strategy from scratch… we need to talk.Custom GPTs completely changed how I use AI in my marketing....
144: How to Prompt Like a Pro: Smarter AI Starts With You
Most marketers don’t have an AI problem. They have a prompting problem.If you’ve ever typed something into ChatGPT, hit enter, and felt underwhelmed by what came back this episode is for you.In this one, I’m breaking down why prom...
143: You're Saving Time with AI…Now What? Redesigning Your Strategy for Real Results
Last week, we talked about using AI to save time in your marketing work.This week, we’re going a level deeper.Because here’s the realisation I had to face: even though AI was helping me move faster, I was still working in exactly the...
142: Using AI Without the Overwhelm Spiral: How I Actually Save Time as a Marketer
A lot has changed in how we use AI at work, so it was time to update this one.In this refreshed 2026 episode, I’m sharing how I actually use AI in my marketing role to save time, without falling into the overwhelm spiral that so m...
141: How Stop Dreading Presenting to Senior Leadership and Start Crushing Them
Presenting to your peers? You've got plenty of practice. But presenting to senior leadership? That's a whole different game and you don't get those small "micro moments" to build confidence first.In this episode, I'm sharing the strategi...