In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about Google Workspace Studio, AI Image Generation, Holiday Promos and more!

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Google Workspace Studio - Agent that can work with your inbox and calendar. Opal is new built in as a new type of Gem

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Spotify Wrapped, Strava disappointment, LinkedIn Year in Review

Chris listening to AI Tavern Songs

2026 Will be the year of AI Agents

Legolas in the Nativity - Jesus was more likely a mason than carpenter

Pantone color of the year is Cloud Dancer - A Whisper of Tranquility and Peace in a Noisy World

Vanity Fair and how to make photos less flattering

Latest in AI Image Generation

Happy Holidays - keychain story, Tom K. gets the Fire Tablet

I need a coffee commuter mug

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Holiday Gift Guide

The rest of the Expendables story

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Craig talks about his new book that helps the loved ones of addicts understand their behavior

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The book is now available to order - buy Getting Beyond the Lies here

Going clean, and then becoming the decoder ring for the addict's behavior

Addiction as family disease because of chonic manipulation

Rock bottom as the trigger to change behavior

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The side topics beyond the drug use that create a huge knot of problems

Denial vs. Delusion

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Manipulative language

Creating more awareness around what substances are being abused

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Erik talks about two of his books that came out this year delivering great advice on managing your personal brand, and serving up laughs in his latest novel!

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Check out the past interview with Erik on The Owned Media Doctrine and co-Author of No BS Social Media with Jason Falls

10 Commandments of Personal Branding

Bringing value to others

Give to gain

How to protect your integrity

Informational interviews - how to skip the job boards and getting screened out by AI

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Whither, Utopia

Writing a book about politics, the anthropology of it all

Cancellation culture and the fact that we all have those family members we don't want to talk politics with

How do you write so much?

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ToDoist App

Only Murders in the Building, What We Do In the Shadows

We need Matt Berry as James Bond

Toast

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about electric vehicles, solar energy, carbon harvesting and more from the man behind SuperCool!

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Starting with the plan of being a spy in the CIA!

Teaching at Nanjing University and working for Kryptonite

Watching China ramp up and wondering what a billion cars on the road means

Thunderbird for MBA, Delphi Automotive Systems in Paris

Sustainable Furniture and the rise of the Lazy Environmentalist

To Sirius and then the TV Show

Plantd and the SpaceX connection

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"It's not as hard as building a rocket ship"

Get SuperCool

There's never been a better time in history to build a climate company than right now

Brainbox AI

Carbon Harvesting can't get it done

Interface flooring company

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What's the latest on Solar Panels?

Selling peace of mind through control of your costs and avoiding storm outages

Home batteries that supply the grid at peak

The state of electric vehicles - both battery cost and range anxiety going down

Voltera Charging Depots - solving the problem of the last mile for charges

Subscribing to Commercial Electric Vehicles

Ken Follett's Jackdaws

Operation Mincemeat

Holiday Gift Guide

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Chris and John onsite at the Omni in Boston's Seaport District talk about the event, Gemini 3, GEO, and more!

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Live from MarketingProfs B2B in Boston!

Google Gemini 3 Released - The smartest AI on the market

Google serving up GenAI pages over organic SERP results

How will this affect GEO?

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The difference between getting in the model vs. being retrieved by the model

Cloudflare crash

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The Expendables

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about AI Agents, faster AI, why you'd want a million unread email in your inbox, and more!

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London Event Wrap Up!

Google Opal rolls out beyond US only, check out the TI livestream

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 Instruct Reasoning

Improving AI 200x with smarter math

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Financial risks of China's free AI Models

Jay Schwedelson and his 1,000,000 unread email inbox

Guru event - the Virtual Boondoggle

Shoutout to RingCentral for superior audio fidelity

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Earbuds - Status Pro X, AirPods 4 w ANC

Anker Powerbank w Cable and Watch Charger

iOS 26 watch upgrade hits the battery hard

Holiday Gift Guide - Aura Frames, Leatherman

The Expendables

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn about big branding campaigns vs always on, ad tech, generative ads and more!

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Chloe is Spotify's Global Head of Product and Commercial Growth, overseeing a team of Product Marketers, Trainers and Marketing Scientists, responsible for accelerating product adoption and commercial growth for Spotify Advertising.

Starting at Digitas (past interview), and over to SnapChat

Transitioning from branding plays to self service ad platform

What's the Spotify ad platform made up of today?

The walled garden Ads Manager vs. the Spotify Ad Exchange for programmatic

Instream audio, instream video, and display ads

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AdTech for creators and their promotional goals

Switching from big launch to always on campaigns

What's on your radar for the next year as far as new technologies?

Insta360 GO Ultra is now available! 4k, magnetic mount, removable storage, waterproof and so much more!

The GenAI Audio Tool - creating the copy, selecting the voice

Listeners are more receptive if there's a background track

Diary of a CEO

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In this Marketing Over Coffee:
Learn About Relevance, Culture, and Gaming in Marketing and More!

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Head of State Farm Marketing Alyson Griffin talks about life managing one of America's best loved brands

Coming up through Silicon Valley leading brands HP and Intel

Went from having HP as an agency client to join the internal team

Navigating extreme career transitions

Getting global experience from HP

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Even big brands can have relevance problems

Tripling down on Jake

Bateman vs. Batman

Cranking it up on Gaming with Gamerhood

Leveraging cultural moments

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