Bald Ambition
An expert in consultative selling talks to specialists and shares the latest insights in branding, entrepreneurship, business technology, and sheer grit and motivation.
Episodes
77 episodes
Christopher Horrocks Returns to Bust More AI Myths
Christopher Horrocks is back in the Bald Ambition studio just three months after his first appearance to keep pace and continue to call-out AI confusion and misinformation. Since April, frontier models have become dramatically mor...
Paul Fisher and Chris Klimis of Radiant Mobile on Parental Rights and Free Markets
On this 76th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Radiant Mobile CEO Paul Fisher and COO Chris Klimis to discuss one of the most contentious questions of the digital age: who should decide what content reaches our phones, our homes, ...
Leah Nurik and Brandi AI: How the Bots are Rewiring Search, Brands, and Trust
The rules of marketing are changing faster than most companies can keep up. Search engines are becoming answer engines. AI is replacing blue links with synthesized recommendations. And brands that spent years optimizing for algorithms now face ...
Jimi Gibson: The Uninvisible Man of Marketing
Marketing is changing so fast in the age of AI that half the experts are confused, the other half are terrified, and most business owners are stuck somewhere in between. Fortunately, Jimi Gibson isn't interested in panic, hype, or robot-apocaly...
Jordan West Ignites the Social Commerce Club on TikTok
Jordan West thinks most brands are sleepwalking toward irrelevance while creators are building the next marketing empire in plain sight. In this episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie dives headfirst into the chaotic evolution from “influenc...
Matthew Whyatt Brings Consultative Torque to Tech
Matthew Whyatt has spent decades selling technology to giant corporations, governments, and industries so tangled in bad processes and duct-taped infrastructure that half the employees are basically performing digital exorcisms just to keep the...
Gary Lucks Insists We Are the Power — And Shows Us How
On this episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with environmental attorney and activist Gary Lucks to tackle a question millions of frustrated Americans keep asking themselves: “What the hell am I actually supposed to do besi...
Peter Swimm of Toilville Makes AI Actually Work for Businesses
Peter Swimm has seen enough AI hype cycles to know where the bodies are buried. Long before ChatGPT turned “AI” into a household buzzword, he was building chatbots, automating enterprise systems, and watching Fortune 500 companies light piles o...
Hogan Shrum & PIPPA: The AI Cartoon Factory Paying Artists & Keeping Kids Safe
Everyone says AI is coming for your job, your art, your privacy, and maybe your soul. Hogan Shrum has a different idea.In this lively and unexpectedly optimistic episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Hogan Shrum,...
Rob Whitten & Jane Lo p!ng the Coffee Drive-Thru with AI & Robotics
What happens when coffee meets robotics, convenience meets customization, and the morning drive-through gets rebuilt from scratch?In this 68th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Rob Whitten and Jane Lo, the founders...
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Jack Siney Sprints Past Outdated Sales Management with AI-Powered FrontRace
In this sharp, zero-hype episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with FrontRace co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Jack Siney to break down one of the worst-kept secrets in business: after decades of CRMs, dashboards, KPIs, ...
Marvin Martinez & Bandsaw.ai: Practical AI for Real ROI
Most are selling AI like it requires a moon landing, a seven-figure budget, and a room full of consultants speaking in jargon. Meanwhile, most businesses are bleeding money from basic operational nonsense: missed calls, duplicate data entry, di...
Christopher Horrocks on Virtual Intelligence and the Dangerous Myth of Thinking Machines
The 65th episode of Bald Ambition features Mookie diving deep into AI with technologist Christopher Horrocks. Together, they dismantle the two dominant and flawed ways people think about the astonishing tech: dismissed as glorified aut...
Keisha Toni Russell on Merit, Fairness, and Ensuring Equality Under the Law
The 64th episode of Bald Ambition asks a question most people are too afraid or confused to ask out loud: why would a Black female constitutional attorney publicly oppose the nomination of the first Black female Supreme Court justice—a...
Jim Oberweis Brings Old-School Conservatism to the Age of Trump
In this 63rd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with businessman, investor, and former Illinois State Senator Jim Oberweis for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of American politics and its future. ...
Breaking Democracy’s Chains: Metin Pekin Challenges Party Politics
In this 62nd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with author Metin Pekin, whose provocative book Breaking Democracy’s Chains argues that modern Western democracies—especially the United States and the United Kingdom—hav...
Barry Todd Stands His Ground to Find Justice
In this 61st episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Barry D. Todd—a former Army captain and Army Ranger who learned, the hard way, what it feels like when the legal system flips the script on you. After being violently a...
Ramon Perez Democratizes Democracy with Digital Tech
What if voters could weigh in on real legislation—bill by bill—share those results with each other, put them directly in front of elected officials, and then track whether those officials actually voted the way the district wanted? Tha...
Tom Joseph Hosts America's Main Street Party
America’s political system isn’t broken on Election Day, it's broken long before that—in the primaries, where money, party leadership, and donor networks quietly decide who voters are allowed to choose from.In this 59th episode ...
Jeff Goebel Shreds Van Halen Stories
In this 58th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Jeff Goebel, #1 fan and band archivist for a thrilling look at the force behind his VH Stories. Together they take a deep, affectionate, and awe-insp...
My Chat With Chatty Bro: Down the Soul Drain
What happens when a bald, cynical, science- and politics-obsessed podcaster invites his own AI sidekick onto the show—and treats it like a human guest?Season 2's second episode of Bald Ambition is exactly that experiment....
Mirav Ozeri Wants to Know How Much Money You Make!
Season 2 of Bald Ambition gets off to a fun start as Mookie Spitz sits down with Mirav Ozeri—journalist, documentarian, adaptive entrepreneur, and fellow podcaster of her own show How Much Can I Make?—for a wide-ranging, playf...
Inside Tino Reviews: How Martino Chiaviello Built His Own Breakthrough
On this Season 1 finale of the Bald Ambition podcast, Mookie sits down with longtime friend and former colleague Martino “Tino Reviews” Chiaviello — a college professor, digital marketing pro, and most recently social media tech influencer who ...
Birthing a Brand After All Else Fails
In this solo episode, Mookie Spitz lays himself bare after nine relentless months of nonstop creation — 227 podcasts, hundreds of blogs, a new sci-fi novel, thousands of videos, and a one-man multimedia studio powered by caffeine, a gasping lap...
Bridging Division: The Majority in the Middle
In this 53rd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Shannon Watson — founder and Chief Executive of Majority in the Middle, an organization fighting to make bipartisanship more than a talking point. Together, they di...
