Dec 16, 2025
#181: Sam Burke, founder of Hale, joins Pat to break down how he and his team are building “the Sephora for men."
Sam shares his path from engineering and brain-aging research to startups, including becoming chief of staff to Bonobos founder Andy Dunn after a scrappy growth challenge. Great story.
They dig into the...
Dec 4, 2025
#180: Pat sits down with Erik Owen, president and founder of Oak Hill Business Partners.
After 20 years in corporate roles at companies like M&I, Johnson Controls, and Rockwell, Owen realized the “corporate sweater” fit, but it was itchy as hell. That friction pushed him into entrepreneurship, where he launched Oak...
Nov 7, 2025
#179: Corey Rice, Director of Strategy at KORTX joins the pod to unpack two decades of evolution in digital marketing—from his early days back around the time of Friendster to today’s programmatic, data-driven ecosystem.
He explains how real-time bidding reshaped advertising, why first-party data is an underused...
Nov 4, 2025
#178: Dan Ardelan is back. He joins Pat to unpack how Kentico is evolving its CMS into an AI-powered digital experience platform. Dan explains how Experience by Kentico represents a total rebuild—modern .NET architecture, evergreen updates, and a single version approach that keeps it future-proof.
The big story:...
Oct 22, 2025
#177: Oh this is a good one. This episode dives into the reinvention of sports marketing. Fame Sport is on a mission to drag sports partnerships out of 2010 and into the data-driven, story-first era. And Pat sits down with two of the people making that happen: Lynne Robertson and Patrick Campion.
Here a just a few of...