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  • How Apple's iPhone harnessed psychology to conquer to smartphone market
    Sep 16 2025

    The iPhone changed everything.

    It's one of the most desirable and innovative products in the world.

    And only creative, brilliant geniuses – like you – own an iPhone.


    At least, that’s what Apple wants you to think…


    But have you ever wondered why you're willing to shell out a thousand dollars or more for a phone when there are perfectly good alternatives at half the price?

    The answer isn't found in processing power or camera specs.

    It's in psychology.

    Join me today as we unpack the psychological tactics Apple uses to make the iPhone irresistible – and how you can apply these same approaches to grow your own business.

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    COACHING
    ✅ To learn more about working one-on-one with Jen and book your free Connection Call, visit https://www.choicehacking.com/coaching-invite

    This month I have 3 spots available - first come, first serve.

    FREE RESOURCES
    ✅ Get a free digital copy of my bestselling book for a limited time, Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings. Get it here: https://www.choicehacking.com/free-book/


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    ✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok @ChoiceHacking

    WORK WITH JEN CLINEHENS & CHOICE HACKING
    Training & Workshops: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. Choice Hacking has worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and McDonalds to help their teams apply behavioral science and marketing psychology.

    Learn more here, and get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page: https://www.choicehacking.com/training/

    Join the Choice Hacking Pro community: Get a Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) for your business when you join the Pro community. Get live weekly Workshops, Group Coaching and Office Hours.

    Learn more here: https://choicehacking.academy/pro/

    Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings": https://choicehacking.com/PodBook/

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  • The Choice Overload Effect: When too many options is a bad thing
    Sep 9 2025

    Have you ever experienced analysis paralysis?

    This describes the feeling of anxiety you get when you have so much information that any action you take feels like the wrong one, so you end up not doing ANYTHING.


    It's really no wonder that the average person can feel overwhelmed by information, options, and choice.


    Every year in the United States, for example, 30,000 new products are released into the market.


    The average American grocery store, so not a superstore like a Walmart, just a normal sized grocery store, has more than 30,000 options on their shelves at any given time.


    And the average Walmart, well, it has more than 120,000 products.


    Everywhere we turn we’re just surrounded by more and more choice.

    But is that a good thing?

    Join host Jen Clinehens (MS/MBA) as we explore the Choice Overload Effect: How too many options can actually have negative consequences for our brains, businesses, and lives. And how we, as business owners, designers, marketers, and corporate leaders can manage the amount of options we give people so they can feel better about buying from us.

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    COACHING
    ✅ To learn more about working one-on-one with Jen and book your free Connection Call, visit https://www.choicehacking.com/coaching-invite

    This month I have 3 spots available - first come, first serve.

    FREE RESOURCES
    ✅ Get a free digital copy of my bestselling book for a limited time, Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings. Get it here: https://www.choicehacking.com/free-book/


    ✅ Get FREE weekly marketing psychology insights when you join my newsletter, Choice Hacking Ideas: Join the 10k+ people getting daily insights on how to 2x their marketing effectiveness (so sales and profit 2x, too) using buyer psychology. Join here: https://www.choicehacking.com/read/

    ✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok @ChoiceHacking

    WORK WITH JEN CLINEHENS & CHOICE HACKING
    Training & Workshops: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. Choice Hacking has worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and McDonalds to help their teams apply behavioral science and marketing psychology.

    Learn more here, and get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page: https://www.choicehacking.com/training/

    Join the Choice Hacking Pro community: Get a Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) for your business when you join the Pro community. Get live weekly Workshops, Group Coaching and Office Hours.

    Learn more here: https://choicehacking.academy/pro/

    Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings": https://choicehacking.com/PodBook/

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  • How one simple psychology principle transformed this product from low class to luxury (and a $41B market)
    Sep 2 2025

    There's a type of fabric that looks like leather, feels like leather, but isn’t leather (or made from any animal materials).

    For decades, it was called "Pleather" – a combination of the words "plastic" and "leather" – and it was considered cheap, tacky, and artificial.

    But today, that same material is a $41 billion market.


    What changed?

    The name.

    Now we call Pleather "Vegan Leather."

    And that simple reframing transformed not just how people perceive the material, but how they feel when they’re wearing it.

    Join host Jen Clinehens (MS/MBA) to explore the fascinating story of how Pleather became Vegan Leather…

    How the meaning we attach to a product or experience defines its value…

    And how you can use this strategy to transform perceptions of your own products and brand.

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    COACHING
    ✅ To learn more about working one-on-one with Jen and book your free Connection Call, visit https://www.choicehacking.com/coaching-invite

    This month I have 3 spots available - first come, first serve.

    FREE RESOURCES
    ✅ Get a free digital copy of my bestselling book for a limited time, Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings. Get it here: https://www.choicehacking.com/free-book/


    ✅ Get FREE weekly marketing psychology insights when you join my newsletter, Choice Hacking Ideas: Join the 10k+ people getting daily insights on how to 2x their marketing effectiveness (so sales and profit 2x, too) using buyer psychology. Join here: https://www.choicehacking.com/read/

    ✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok @ChoiceHacking

    WORK WITH JEN CLINEHENS & CHOICE HACKING
    Training & Workshops: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. Choice Hacking has worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and McDonalds to help their teams apply behavioral science and marketing psychology.

    Learn more here, and get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page: https://www.choicehacking.com/training/

    Join the Choice Hacking Pro community: Get a Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) for your business when you join the Pro community. Get live weekly Workshops, Group Coaching and Office Hours.

    Learn more here: https://choicehacking.academy/pro/

    Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings": https://choicehacking.com/PodBook/

    ★ Support this podcast ★
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    14 m
  • How Coca-Cola used psychology to become the world's most memorable brand
    Mar 11 2025

    Coca-Cola, is unquestionably, the most memorable brand on earth.

    Next to the word “okay” “Coca-Cola” is actually the second most understood word across every language, country, and culture on Earth.

    And that’s not a mistake.

    It’s the result of over a hundred years of careful and deliberate brand management, marketing, advertising, and influencing of culture.

    All in the service of lodging its logo, brand, and product firmly in peoples’ minds.

    But how did Coke do it, why did it work, and what can we learn from their strategy?

    Join me today as we examine the psychological side of Coke’s century-long success - and how we can use its strategies to grow our own brands and businesses.


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    FREE RESOURCES
    ✅ Take this 3-question quiz and get your free, personalized 12-minute video training on how to turn the insights you've learned in the podcast into real-life impact for YOUR specific business. (COMING SOON)

    ✅ Get a free digital copy of my bestselling book for a limited time, Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings.

    ✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok.

    ✅ Get FREE weekly marketing psychology insights when you join my newsletter, Choice Hacking Ideas: Join the 10k+ people getting daily insights on how to 2x their marketing effectiveness (so sales and profit 2x, too) using buyer psychology.

    WORK WITH JENNIFER CLINEHENS & CHOICE HACKING
    Training & Workshops: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. Choice Hacking has worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, and McDonalds to help their teams apply behavioral science and marketing psychology.

    Learn more here, and get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page.

    Join the Choice Hacking Pro community: Get a Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) for your business when you join the Pro community. Get live weekly Workshops, Group Coaching and Office Hours.

    Learn more and schedule a Connection Call here.

    One-on-One Coaching: Get your very own Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) when you work with Jennifer Clinehens one-on-one to grow your business.

    Learn more here.

    Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings"

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    16 m
  • Greatest Hits: The psychology of Starbucks Rewards
    Feb 25 2025

    People love Starbucks.

    But its loyalty app - Starbucks Rewards - is no slouch either.

    Considered a best-in-class loyalty experience, in 2023 interim CEO Howard Schultz shared that Starbucks Rewards drove a whopping 55% of Starbucks total U.S. revenue.

    But how did Starbucks Rewards become the king of loyalty programs?

    Unsurprisingly there’s some marketing psychology and behavioral science behind why the app - and Starbucks - are so addictive…


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    FREE RESOURCES
    ✅ Take this 3-question quiz and get your free, personalized 12-minute video training on how to turn the insights you've learned in the podcast into real-life impact for YOUR specific business. (COMING SOON)

    ✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or on the Choice Hacking website.

    ✅ Get the FREE Choice Hacking newsletter: Join the 10k+ people getting daily insights on how to 2x their marketing effectiveness (so sales and profit 2x, too) using buyer psychology.

    WORK WITH JENNIFER CLINEHENS & CHOICE HACKING
    Training & Workshops: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. I've worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, Adidas, and more. Learn more here, get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page.

    One-on-One Coaching: Get your very own Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) when you work with Jennifer Clinehens one-on-one to grow your business. Learn more and schedule a Connection Call here.

    Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings"

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    13 m
  • The Pratfall Effect: What happens when brands make big, public mistakes (2025)
    Feb 18 2025

    When Barrack Obama was running for President, a journalist asked a bit of a “gotcha” question.

    He asked candidate Obama whether he’d ever smoked m*rijuana.

    And instead of trying to hide a mistake that might’ve cost him the race, he admitted to it.

    Obama said, “When I was a kid, I inhaled. That was the point.”

    Because Obama was already seen as a likeable, smart and competent guy something called the Pratfall Effect kicked in, and made him even more likeable, because now he didn’t seem “too perfect.”

    And it turns out that’s what’s true for presidential candidates can also be true for regular people, celebrities, and consumer brands, too...

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    FREE RESOURCES
    ✅ Take this 3-question quiz and get your free, personalized 12-minute video training on how to turn the insights you've learned in the podcast into real-life impact for YOUR specific business. (COMING SOON)

    ✅ Connect with host Jennifer Clinehens on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, or on the Choice Hacking website.

    ✅ Get the FREE Choice Hacking newsletter: Join the 10k+ people getting daily insights on how to 2x their marketing effectiveness (so sales and profit 2x, too) using buyer psychology.

    WORK WITH JENNIFER CLINEHENS & CHOICE HACKING
    Training & Workshops: Get your team up-skilled marketing psychology and behavioral science with a workshop or training session. I've worked with brands like Microsoft, T-Mobile, Adidas, and more. Learn more here, get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of the page.

    One-on-One Coaching: Get your very own Chief Marketing Copilot (powered by psychology) when you work with Jennifer Clinehens one-on-one to grow your business. Learn more and schedule a Connection Call here.

    Buy my book in Kindle, paperback, or audiobook form: "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings"

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    10 m
  • How psychology built Febreze into a $1B brand
    Feb 11 2025

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    10 m
  • The Psychological Power of "Ugly" Design
    Feb 4 2025

    Thank you for listening to the Choice Hacking podcast!

    Please take 2 minutes to rate and review the podcast because it helps us find new listeners.

    Here are some more resources you might enjoy:

    Find Jen Clinehens and Choice Hacking online: INSTAGRAM/THREADS/LINKEDIN/TIKTOK/YOUTUBE: @choicehacking

    ✅ Join my free newsletter to learn what makes your buyers tick.

    ✅ Buy my book (or audiobook), "Choice Hacking: How to use psychology and behavioral science to create an experience that sings"

    👉 Get a Chief Marketing Psychology Copilot when you join my popular Pro Membership.

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    10 m