Helping content marketers more confidently navigate the world of brand storytelling.
Marketing With Empathy®

Marketing With Empathy®

Marketing With Empathy® helps marketing and business professionals create content that drives better results. Host Sarah Panus, 20+ year content expert and Certified StoryBrand Guide, helps you confidently create content strategies that connect with your audience driving YoY growth for your company and your career. -- Top 5% of all marketing podcasts, and member of Marketing Podcast Network.

Recent Episodes

June 11, 2024

136. REI’s Premium Content Arm: Co-op Studios

EP 136. REI’s Divisional VP of Brand Marketing, Paolo Mottola, returns to give an inside look at how their internal content arm for premium brand storytelling content works. Creating films, podcasts, feature length content …
June 4, 2024

135. REI's new #OptOutside Summer Campaign - Paolo Mottola

EP 135. Paolo Mottola, the divisional VP of brand marketing at REI co-op, joins Sarah to give a behind-the-scenes look at REI’s newest Summer #OptOutside campaign + why they lean into storytelling and advice for brands navig…
May 15, 2024

134. Branded Quiz Tips from my Quiz Coach - Helen Munshi (part 3)

Create quizzes that generate thousands of ready-to-buy leads. Sarah chats with her Quiz Coach, Helen Munshi, to clarify key quiz funnel aspects you need to remember when making your own branded quizzes as part of your conten…
May 1, 2024

133. Interact's AI Quiz Maker - Josh Haynam

EP 133 - [Part 2 of 3 quiz mini-series] Josh Haynam, Co-Founder & CEO of the popular quiz platform, Interact, joins Sarah to share ideas of how to use quizzes to advance a variety of things across your business. + Interact’s…
April 23, 2024

132. What You Can Learn from My First Quiz

BTS of Sarah’s first quiz creation journey and how she’s integrating into her content strategy. What Sarah learned from her “Quiz Coach”: defining audience segments; crafting engaging questions; which quiz platform she recom…
April 9, 2024

131. Building Niche Masterminds for Growth & Engagement

EP 131. Being a marketer is hard. Matt Banker joins host, Sarah Panus, to share a behind-the-scenes of his company's very successful niche mastermind program for accounting firm owners. How you can use this same approach to …
April 2, 2024

130. This AI-Data Engine is Your Brand’s Empathy Secret Weapon - Ian Baer, Sooth

EP 130. Understanding what your customer needs from you emotionally is a NOW thing. Ian Baer from Sooth returns for part 2 conversation around the new AI-data engine that can quickly give your company its empathy secret weap…
March 26, 2024

129. Gen Z Doesn't Buy Things, They Buy Inspiration - Ian Baer, Sooth

EP 129. Guest expert, Ian Baer joins Sarah Panus to talk all things Gen Z. This generation doesn't shop for things -- they shop for inspiration and this is often found across some really novel areas that require an empathet…

Recent Blog Posts

REI’s Premium Content Arm: Co-op Studios, with Paolo Mottola, episode 136

EP 136. REI’s Divisional VP of Brand Marketing, Paolo Mottola, returns to give an inside look at how their internal content arm for premium brand storytelling content works. Creating films, podcasts, feature length content and more.   &n…

REI's New #OptOutside Summer Campaign, episode 135

EP 135 – Paolo Mottola, the divisional VP of brand marketing at REI co-op, joins Sarah to give a behind-the-scenes look at REI’s newest Summer #OptOutside campaign + why they lean into storytelling and advice for brands navigating the cu…

Branded Quiz Tips from my Quiz Coach - Helen Munshi (part 3), episode 134

EP 134 - [Part 3 of 3 quiz mini-series] Create quizzes that generate thousands of ready-to-buy leads. Sarah chats with her Quiz Coach, Helen Munshi, to clarify key quiz funnel aspects you need to remember when making your own branded quizzes as…