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
71 episodes
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Jack Siney Sprints Past Outdated Sales Management with AI-Powered FrontRace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...
Brand Thyself!
Fifty-two Bald Ambition podcasts and counting, Mookie Spitz turns the mic on himself for a no-bullshit autopsy of his own brand. Drawing on 20 years in marketing, a lifetime of overthinking, and a library’s worth of blogs, boo...
Catalyst of Pharma AI Engagement
The 51st episode of Bald Ambition features Mookie Spitz sitting down with David Mondgock, founder of Catalyst IQ, to discuss how AI is reshaping pharmaceutical marketing and patient engagement from the ground up. They share a deep dive...
LA Comic Con 2025: Authors' Recap & Review
In this 50th episode of Bald Ambition, three indie science fiction authors — Mookie Spitz, Ingrid Moon, and Greg Sorber — break down the mayhem, lessons, and human magic of LA Comic Con 2025, held at the LA Coliseum. Over three exhaust...
The Entrepreneur’s Playbook with Kelvin Abrams
What does it really take to jump off the cliff without a parachute and call it entrepreneurship? In this episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Kelvin Abrams—a zero-BS, get-it-done, grassroots entrepreneur and autho...
Inherit from Your Future Self with Kaleido Life
What if life insurance actually gave you life? In the 48th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Craig Du Bruyn, serial entrepreneur and founder of Kaleido Life, a company re-engineering the very foundations of the 150-year...
Vibe Trading: BotSpot Hits the Spot
In the 47th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Robert Grzesik, CEO of LumiWealth and the mind behind BotSpot—a cutting-edge AI platform that lets you “vibe-code” your own trading strategies. Forget the clunky Bloomberg terminals an...
