Bald Ambition
An expert in consultative selling shares the latest insights in branding, entrepreneurship, business technology, and sheer grit and motivation.
Episodes
53 episodes
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...
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Episode 53
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1:03:12
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...
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Episode 52
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1:16:34
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...
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Episode 51
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1:03:37
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...
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Episode 50
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1:30:01
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...
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Episode 49
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52:16
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...
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Episode 48
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54:32
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...
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Episode 47
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49:34
Sleep is Our Superpower
In this 46th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Roger Washington, MD, and Scarlet Nickhol, MPP of the Sleep To Live Well Foundation (STLW), to uncover why sleep isn’t just rest—it’s the vital work of human health ...
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Episode 46
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1:14:06
Direct to Patient Engagement in Freefall
In this 45th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with attorney–pharmacist Darshan Kulkarni to dissect the fast-growing world of Direct-to-Patient (DTP) marketing and clinical trial models. He unpacks how DTP has evolved, why i...
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Episode 45
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56:01
FDA Cautions: Winter Is Coming to Pharma DTC
Regulatory turbulence just slammed into the world of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. On this 44th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down again with Dale Cooke, president of Philly Cooke Consulting and FDA Ad La...
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Episode 44
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40:51
Get Started with MyStart Health
The 43rd episode of Bald Ambition with Mookie Spitz welcomes Matthew Stern, CEO of MyStart Health, for a deep dive into how technology and entrepreneurship are reshaping healthcare.We live in an age of disruption—culture, politics, welln...
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Episode 43
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44:41
Get Swart: What Paid Protests Reveal About PR, Politics, and Power
The 42nd episode of Bald Ambition doesn't provide the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, but does highlight the hypocrisy baked into influencer marketing, media, and public relations. Mookie Spitz sits down with ...
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Episode 42
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53:00
Dale Cooke Weighs In on the Looming Threats to Public Health
Host Mookie Spitz sits down again with Dale Cooke, president of Philly Cooke Consulting and FDA Ad Law, known affectionately as the “Yoda of Compliance.” Together, they unpack the chaos rippling through healthcare communications in the wake of ...
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Episode 41
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44:32
Top Talent from Talus
Healthcare and pharma agencies face a tough reality: talent is their lifeblood, but also their greatest liability. On this Labor Day 40th edition of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Sameer Duhmale and Andre de Luz, co-fo...
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Episode 40
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55:30
How the CDC Destroyed Itself (And What To Do About It)
Marketing savvy, political chaos, and raw philosophy collide here as Mookie Spitz—a bald, blunt veteran of advertising and PR—cuts through the confusion to expose how persuasion really works, and why institutions keep screwing it up.I...
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Episode 39
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47:37
Bipartisan Bravado from Mike Gatto
Former California legislator Mike Gatto sits with host Mookie Spitz for an unflinching look at the collapse of bipartisanship, the failures of political messaging, and the growing civil war inside the Democratic Party.Gatto reflects on h...
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Episode 38
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59:02
Empathy: Rocket Fuel of Attention
In today's podcast, Mookie unpacks the parallels between consultative selling and political persuasion. With a marketer’s eye and a content creator’s grind — including his own experiment building 15K+ followers on TikTok — Mookie reveals how na...
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Episode 37
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32:55
Special Needs Kids Need Special Tutoring
In the 36th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz digs into the heart of education with Michelle Waugh—a doctorate-trained scientist who left academia to devote herself to personal tutoring. What makes her story remarkable isn’t ...
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Episode 36
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1:35:15
Futureproofing Music in the Age of AI
Mookie sits down with John von Seggern—jazz bassist turned EDM pioneer, educator, and tech innovator—to explore the fault lines opening in the music industry as AI floods the gates. From synthetic Spotify hit-makers like Velvet Sundown...
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Episode 35
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57:33
How to Get Famous on ChatGPT
Mookie Spitz flips the script on digital fame and asks: how do you become famous not with humans, but with the machines that shape our world? As a marketing strategist turned content creator, Mookie blends insider PR knowledge with his hands-on...
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Episode 34
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26:39
Biohunter, Unleashed! Making of the Audiobook
Sci-fi author Ingrid Moon returns to the pod, this time with voiceover wizard Scott Allen. They join your gloriously bald host, Mookie Spitz, for an unfiltered ride through the making of Biohunter—a post-apocalyptic sci-fi love story b...
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Episode 33
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1:04:09
Ambition: A Cautionary Tale
"Ambition" is taken for granted in our society, a baseline for behavior, and a prerequisite for success and happiness. But at what cost? An even more fundamental ask: Why do we persist? Camus called suicide the only serious philosop...
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Episode 32
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42:13
Moonstruck Musings on Storytelling & Selling
In this loaded episode, your follically-challenged host Mookie Spitz sits down with science educator, technologist, and multi-genre author Ingrid Moon to dissect writing and self-publishing — and why it’s so damn hard to do it well.<...
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Episode 31
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1:25:07
Creative Writing in the Age of AI
Host Mookie Spitz — fresh off finishing his second novel — takes a sledgehammer to the hysteria that AI is the death of creative writing. In this unfiltered deep dive, he argues that the heart of any good writing is timeless: storytellin...
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Episode 30
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1:06:14
A Survival Guide for Self-Publishing
You finally did it! You wrote the damn book. You self-published it. Congratulations!—now brace yourself, because nobody gives a shit. In this brutally honest episode, Mookie Spitz breaks down the gut-wrenching, ego-bruising reality ...
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Episode 29
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56:02