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July 18, 2025

How Health & Wellness Brands Can Earn Mom Trust This Summer and Fall

Working moms are overwhelmed in summer and fall. Learn how your wellness brand can build trust, relevance, and connection through content that actually helps. Five storytelling shifts health & wellness brands can make to build genuine trust…

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July 16, 2025

Why Feelings Drive Sales: Value-Based Marketing That Connects and Converts with Emily Lyman, episode 154

EP 154. Why feelings drive sales. Most marketers focus on data—but people buy based on emotion. Guest Emily Lyman, the Founder & CEO of Branch & Bramble agency, breaks down value-based marketing, the 4 core human values, and how to twe…

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May 27, 2025

Fix Your Messaging Strategy Fast – StoryBrand workshop options, episode 153

EP 153. Messaging fuzzy? Sales slow? Host, Sarah Panus walks through the mistake brands make when trying to fix their message, and how StoryBrand workshops may be just what you need to help you go from foggy to focused in about a week.   WA…

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May 13, 2025

Stop Guessing. Start Benchmarking Your Marketing with Hawke AI, episode 152

EP 152. Erik Huberman, CEO of Hawke Media, shares how AI and smart benchmarking are transforming marketing—and what brands need to do to earn moms’ trust and get better results. Discover how Hawke AI uses real-time data to flag wins, spo…

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April 30, 2025

Reach Women Going Through Menopause – ByWinona.com, episode 151

EP 151. Millions of women are navigating perimenopause and menopause—but most brands are oblivious to what they’re going through. OBGYN, Dr. Cat Brown and Marketing Lead, Brooke Matthews of ByWinona.com share what women really experience…

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March 18, 2025

8 Industries Moms Have Huge Buying Power, episode 149

EP 149. Moms care about more than parenting-specific brands. Host, Sarah Panus, reveals eight unexpected industries where moms drive purchasing decisions. Create a clear content plan to reach moms in these markets and drive more leads and sales. &n…

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March 11, 2025

Inside Nickelodeon's Approach to Engaging Moms and Kids - Rob Garay (part 2), episode 148

EP 148. Inside look at how Nickelodeon approached marketing to moms and kids; capturing hearts and minds. Moms drive purchases of family experiences. Rob Garay is back to share his experiences working with Nickelodeon Recreation, a sector responsibl…

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March 4, 2025

Psychology Behind Marketing to Women – Rob Garay (part 1), episode 147

EP 147. What's the psychology behind marketing, and what questions should we ask ourselves when we're trying to reach more moms & women, vs.  men? Rob Garay, author of the book Marketing Minds: A Look at Psychology and Marketing, joins Host…

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Feb. 18, 2025

Secrets to Repeatedly Selling Out Children's Events in North Carolina- with Paul Spring, episode 146

EP 146. Local business spotlight: Paul Spring shares his secrets for repeatedly selling out more than 300 children’s events in North Carolina for his Birthday Party Rockstar and Rockstar Bubbles companies. From magic to foam; texting to google…

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Feb. 4, 2025

Mobile Marketing to Moms with Jennie Lewis, episode 145

EP 145. Moms are on the move all the time, so mobile marketing is important for your brand.  Jennie Lewis of Airship, joins Sarah in this episode to talk about ways to improve brand apps and the mobile web experience. What to look for and ask f…

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Jan. 28, 2025

My 3 Storytelling Pillars & How to Pick Yours, episode 144

EP 144. “What should we talk about this year?” To help answer this in your content marketing plans, Sarah Panus teaches you how to pick your brand’s 3 storytelling pillars – and shares her own new company pillars. LEARN: Why …

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Jan. 21, 2025

Engage Moms With Enriching Video Content w/ Matt Cornelison, FUNGI Media, episode 143

EP 143. Award-winning visual storyteller and agency owner, Matt Cornelison of FUNGI Media, shares ways brands can engage moms with enriching video content marketing. Listen to hear about 3 brands doing this well, employees as influencers, the perfec…

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Jan. 14, 2025

Bumpin Blends Smoothies Simplify Life for Busy Moms w Lisa Mastela, episode 142

EP 142.  Moms decide what she and others around her eat.  Guest, Lisa Mastela, MPH, RD is the CEO of Bumpin Blends, frozen smoothie cubes that caters to moms. Lisa launched the company during maternity leave from her garage & has grown…

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Nov. 26, 2024

Storytelling Tips for Home Industry Success with Ericka Saurit , episode 141

EP 141.  Women make a majority of decisions in the home industry. There’s a lot of products and services sold in the home industry from interior designers to manufacturers and retailers. So what marketing and storytelling works best in th…

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Oct. 29, 2024

SEO Tips to Capture the Attention of Moms – Lorianna Sprague, episode 140

EP 140.  SEO techniques to help your brand better reach and engage more mom customers. Guest, Lorianna Sprague is an SEO expert and founder and CEO of Upfront Mktg, and joins host, Sarah Panus, to share tips to think about in your brand&rs…

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Sept. 17, 2024

Reach Local Moms: MomCo Mom Local NC Community w Kiley Stromberg, episode 139

EP 139.  How can you help more moms on a local level? Kiley Stromberg, the founder of MoCo Mom shares how she’s making a difference for moms in Moore County, North Carolina, by providing crucial resources, fostering a supportive environme…

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Aug. 13, 2024

ANNOUNCEMENT: Pivot to Moms, episode 138

EP 138.  Host, Sarah Panus, has a big announcement about a pivot this podcast is making. Marketing With Empathy is niching down to focus specifically on Marketing With Empathy -- to Moms! It is now the podcast for brands that want to target and…

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Aug. 6, 2024

Inside Forum For Naturals Community - Ted Ning, episode 137

EP 137. Forum for Naturals community founder, Ted Ning shares advice to help brands build and nurture engaged communities. Approaching it like a science experiment, Ted shares learnings, mistakes, listening, and high-level thinking he's learned to b…

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June 11, 2024

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…

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June 4, 2024

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…

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May 15, 2024

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…

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May 1, 2024

Interact's AI Quiz Maker - Josh Haynam (part 2), episode 133

EP 133. [part 2 of 3 mini-series] How to use quizzes in your business - including a new AI quiz maker. A deep-dive discussion with quiz expert, and co-founder/CEO of Interact, Josh Haynam on the Marketing With Empathy® podcast.   QUESTI…

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April 23, 2024

What You Can Learn From My First Quiz (part 1), episode 132

EP 132. [Part 1 of 3 quiz mini-series]  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 engag…

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April 9, 2024

Building Niche Masterminds for Growth & Engagement - Matt Banker, episode 131

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 engage and grow your care…

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