Making More: The Podcast

Brian Franz: Legacy Starts Today, Not at the End Brian Franz describes Envision3 as a manufacturer of your marketing ideas, which is a better description than "printer" once you hear what actually moves through the building. Direct mail, folding carton packaging, RV and automotive catalogs, pharmaceutical inserts, influencer kits assembled by hand. He calls the moment a client finally understands what is possible the light bulb moment, and chasing it is clearly the best part of his job. His f...

Erin Mitchell: The Worst Marketing Client She Ever Had Was Herself Erin Mitchell was leading a marketing team at CVS Health when the company laid off one percent of its workforce in a single day. One percent was five thousand people, and she was one of them. She had always known she wanted to be an entrepreneur. That morning she had to decide whether she actually meant it. Three years later she is a fractional CMO with a client roster she chose on purpose, a seat on the Forbes Coaches Council...

Chris Umar Carter grew up on a farm in Jamaica, feeding pigs and chickens before dawn, where a trip to Kentucky Fried Chicken was a fourteen-mile drive and a genuine treat. He arrived in the United States at twelve years old and learned something quickly: when everything around you is new, you stop talking and you start watching. Middle school was brutal. There were days he locked himself in the bathroom at lunch. Four decades later, he has been a project controller in Brussels, an auditor wh...

Jamaica Slicer spent 15 years as a go-to-market practitioner before she and her co-founder Brian noticed the same frustrating pattern from opposite sides of the table. Early-stage startups desperately needed experienced go-to-market talent. Experienced go-to-market talent kept choosing established companies that could pay more. It was a cycle nobody could break from inside. Their answer was Budburst, a go-to-market consulting cooperative that scales seasoned experts across multiple startups a...

Nick Marquart, Co-Founder & CTO of Infinity Labs: Scaling Trust in a High-Stakes World When Nick Marquart told his eight-months-pregnant wife he was quitting his job to join a startup, he had no savings plan and no entrepreneurial preparation. Six years later, Infinity Labs has grown from seven people to more than ninety, and the son born a month after the company started is about to begin kindergarten. In this conversation, Nick pulls back the curtain on a world most people misunderstand...