Jess Graham spent a decade in executive brand management at Visa, Instagram and high growth start ups before founding Banquet, a strategy practice helping brand leaders who refuse to let AI agents make their brands invisible.

Read about her latest thinking on agentic commerce, the frictionless trap, and discovery tax on her Substack, The Feast https://feast.feastwithbanquet.com/

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Jonathan Tice has spent his career driving growth for start ups and global brands like Dynata & Forst before founding Fit to Scale where he helps founders and CEOs build and scale their GTM operations, navigate critical transitions and achieve consistent, efficient growth. Learn more at FitToScale.co

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Our guest Gully Flowers has spent 25 years building brands across every stage of the customer journey before Co-founding Also Known As and HUSTLE who partner with the world’s most ambitious creatives to provide brands the marketing and production capabilities they need in real-time. You can listen to his podcast, Second Wind by Also Known As, here.

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Our guest Elliot Tomaeno is an investor and the Founder and CEO of ASTRSK, the PR and communications agency that has helped some of the most important startups tell their stories while rewriting how modern companies earn attention. ASTRSK has shaped the comms playbook for a new generation by championing bold ideas, culture-shifting stories, and founders who refuse to follow the old rules.

Read the ASTRSK PR Playbook for founders

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Our guest Duane Mancini has spent his career in medical device innovation at companies like NAMSA and Labcorp before founding Project Medtech a company that focused on investment & consulting services in the medical technology space, shortening product development cycles and bringing life saving tech to market faster.

Listen to Duanne’s Podcast here and check out his book recommendations Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman & The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

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Our guest Rahul Rao has held technology leadership roles at companies like Zillow and QuickFrame before joining Understood.org, a leading non profit empowering 70 million people in the US with learning and thinking differences, as co-president and CTO. Learn more about their work here.

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Our guest Josh Greenberg has spent his career launching start ups and building global programs at brands like Red Bull and Spotify. He now runs Green Mountain Lodge, helping leaders, teams, and artists around the world navigate complexity, shape long-term plans, and uncover new opportunities to create lasting outcomes.

Hear his latest musical finds in his Trail Guides Playlist and get in touch at Green Mountain Lodge

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Our guest Nicole Loher is an award-winning communications expert recognized by Forbes, Adweek, and the Smithsonian Institution for transformative work at the intersection of AI, sustainability, and social impact. She’s the founder of

Climate Communications Collective where she works with orgs like Climate Rights International to fight climate change.

Her first book Love, Loss, and Everything In Between, was just published by Rising Action Publishing and Simon & Schuster. Buy it here

She’s reading Don't Believe Everything You Think and listening to The Gray Area podcast from Vox.

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