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
88 episodes
Jason West on the 1,100-Year-Old Middle Eastern Tea Now Helping Fight Cancer
Jason West, co-founder and EVP of NextGen Scientific, joins Mookie on Bald Ambition to talk about a cancer drug with an unusual origin story. Instead of starting in a billion-dollar lab, it started with a weed growing wild across the M...
Scott Pulcini: A Card-Counting Master of the Universe Now Teaches Day Trading
Scott Pulcini learned to trade the old school way, battle-tested on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade where he got so fast and so good at electronic trading that he once accounted for ten percent of the entire S&P e-mini futures marke...
Chris Carolan: The SaaS Apocalypse Ends with a Conversation
Title: Description:Chris Carolan, founder of the Value-First Team and a HubSpot partner since 2020, joins Mookie on Bald Ambition to talk about what he calls SaaSmageddon, the moment AI starts making th...
Ramon Perez & Dan Williams: Launching Digital Democracy in Florida's 11th
Ramon Perez, Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Project, returns to Bald Ambition six months after his first appearance, and this time he's joined by Dan Williams, a Democratic candidate for Florida's 11th Congressional Distri...
Tino Reviews Redux: Two Old Friends, One Bad Algorithm, and Lots of Robots
Mookie welcomes back "our favorite New Jersey Goomba," Tino Chiaviello of Tino Reviews. These two go way back as colleagues in the marketing world, and in this 84th episode of Bald Ambition wander everywhere old friends wander: TikTok'...
Jason Fishman: How DNA Turns Crowdfunding Into a Marketing Science
Jason Fishman, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Niche Agency (DNA), joins Mookie on the 83rd episode of Bald Ambition to break down a corner of marketing most people never think about: getting everyday people to invest a few hundred or a ...
Why Ganesh Krishnan is Betting His AI Startup Against Today's LLMs
Every major AI company right now is building on the same foundation: the transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Ganesh Krishnan, CEO of AI Hello, thinks that foundation is a dead end for solving AI's biggest unsolved probl...
Dr. Adam Link: Stop Paying for Someone Else's Exit Plan By Buying Their IPO
The market right now is touching valuation levels we haven't seen since right before the dot-com bubble burst. Retail investors are piling into AI and space stocks, chasing SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs like it's 1999 all over again — and ...
Michelle Hamilton from AnswerRocket Leads AI Adoption That Actually Works
Michelle Hamilton has spent almost 40 years as a glass sculptor. She's also the Director of AI Adoption at Answer Rocket, running enterprise AI rollouts for Fortune 50 clients. On this 80th episode of the Bald Ambition Podcast, Mookie ...
Kent Anderson and Joy Moore: How Science Hijacked Your Attention and Lost Your Trust
Science was supposed to be the one institution immune to the attention economy. It succumbed anyway. Kent Anderson and Joy Moore join Mookie for the 79th episode of Bald Ambition to talk about the already dire implications, and what we...
Vance Morris on the Power of Stupid Crime Stories, Disney's Underground Tunnels, and Marketing 101
Mookie is excited to have Vance Morris on the pod today, a marketing expert who got his start on the opening team of Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Resort, spent three and a half years inside Pleasure Island (Disney's one real off-brand experime...
Christopher Horrocks Returns to Bust More AI Myths
Christopher Horrocks is back in the Bald Ambition studio just three months after his first appearance to keep pace and continue to call-out AI confusion and misinformation. Since April, frontier models have become dramatically mor...
Paul Fisher and Chris Klimis of Radiant Mobile on Parental Rights and Free Markets
On this 76th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Radiant Mobile CEO Paul Fisher and COO Chris Klimis to discuss one of the most contentious questions of the digital age: who should decide what content reaches our phones, our homes, ...
Leah Nurik and Brandi AI: How the Bots are Rewiring Search, Brands, and Trust
The rules of marketing are changing faster than most companies can keep up. Search engines are becoming answer engines. AI is replacing blue links with synthesized recommendations. And brands that spent years optimizing for algorithms now face ...
Jimi Gibson: The Uninvisible Man of Marketing
Marketing is changing so fast in the age of AI that half the experts are confused, the other half are terrified, and most business owners are stuck somewhere in between. Fortunately, Jimi Gibson isn't interested in panic, hype, or robot-apocaly...
Jordan West Ignites the Social Commerce Club on TikTok
Jordan West thinks most brands are sleepwalking toward irrelevance while creators are building the next marketing empire in plain sight. In this episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie dives headfirst into the chaotic evolution from “influenc...
Matthew Whyatt Brings Consultative Torque to Tech
Matthew Whyatt has spent decades selling technology to giant corporations, governments, and industries so tangled in bad processes and duct-taped infrastructure that half the employees are basically performing digital exorcisms just to keep the...
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...
