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Conversations with founders, marketers, and creators on influencer marketing, brand building, and social commerce.


How Little Sleepies Built a Fan-Powered Influencer Community
Little Sleepies' Maeher on building an influencer program from scratch, reusing creator content across every channel, and gifting with no strings attached.
Sherri Langburt
Jun 264 min read


From Barstool Sports to Mule Media: Erika on Why Community Is the Next Big Thing for Women
Former Barstool Sports CEO Erika on launching Mule Media, building Work Like a Girl, the AI loneliness epidemic, fearless creator strategy, and Food52.
Sherri Langburt
Jun 124 min read


How Allison Luvera Is Disrupting Box Wine with Juliet: A Premium Brand Built for Women
Juliet Wine co-founder Allison Luvera on building a premium box wine brand for women, creator marketing in alcohol, and calling out copycats as a female founder.
Sherri Langburt
May 294 min read


Inside Pharma Influencer Marketing: Missy Voronyak on Vetting, Compliance, and What Comes Next
Most marketers assume pharma influencer marketing is a contradiction in terms. Can creator content really work inside an FDA-regulated industry? In a recent episode of Like, Love, Share by BabbleBoxx, host Sherri Langburt sat down with Missy Voronyak, a parenting-blogger-turned-pharma strategist who has spent more than a decade proving it can. Here are the takeaways worth saving. From Parenting Blogger to Pharma Influencer Marketing Specialist Missy’s path into healthcare i
Sherri Langburt
May 263 min read


From Side Hustle to Luxury Brand: How Shani Built a Viral Wig Business Through Authentic Storytelling
NYC luxury wig maker Shani shares how authentic storytelling, consistency, and organic Instagram + TikTok strategy built her brand.
Sherri Langburt
May 83 min read


KidBox Founder Jeff Kadavie on AI, Good Screen Time, and Democratizing Storytelling for Kids
KidBox founder Jeff Kadavie joins the BabbleBoxx podcast to talk AI-powered children's books, good screen time, and how creators can monetize stories.

Julien Bernstein
Apr 174 min read


How Sweet Loren’s Built a Better-For-You Food Brand Through Authentic Marketing
In today’s crowded CPG landscape, many brands compete on ingredients, packaging, or price. Few manage to create genuine emotional connections with consumers. Sweet Loren’s has managed to do exactly that, building a brand rooted in transparency, taste, and storytelling. In a recent podcast conversation, Tracy Garbowski shared how the brand has grown by combining data-driven marketing, authentic storytelling, and community engagement. As Garbowski explained, the opportunity to
Sherri Langburt
Mar 94 min read


When the Internet Gets It Right
Last week I found myself following a story online about an abandoned chimp named Punch. Within hours, people everywhere were sharing it, commenting, donating, trying to figure out how to help. It was one of those moments where the internet suddenly becomes very human. Strangers who have never met, scattered across the world, responding to the same feeling: someone needed care. It made me pause. Because beneath the algorithms, platforms, and viral posts, what people are really
Sherri Langburt
Mar 51 min read


How Flybar Is Reinventing Active Play Through Influencers, Retail, and Real Emotion
Flybar is more than a pogo stick company. It is a 100+ year-old brand evolving at the intersection of heritage, active play, retail strategy, and influencer marketing. On a recent episode of the podcast, Sol Ostrowski of Flybar shared how the iconic brand is adapting to modern marketing, why influencer content works in retail, and how real emotion still beats AI. A 100-Year Legacy Built on Active Play “Flybar is an iconic company with a very big heritage. We started in 1918 w
Julien Bernstein
Feb 264 min read


Breaking the Mold: How Tony’s Chocolonely Turns Culture Into Conversation
On this week’s episode, we sat down with Noelle Davidson, Senior Communications Manager for Tony Chocolonely US & Canada, to unpack what it really takes to build a mission-led brand that cuts through culture. As Noelle put it simply, “I think I have the best job in the entire world, which is sharing chocolate and talking about chocolate day in and day out. And furthermore, for a brand that is focused on impact even more than business.” That impact is central. “At Tony’s, we
Julien Bernstein
Feb 194 min read


From Backyard Dye Pots to a Global Snow Brand: Lessons from Max Reade
In a recent episode of Like, Love, Share, Sherri sits down with Max Reade, the young founder behind a fast-growing baggy ski apparel brand, to unpack how a 16-year-old’s hunt for the perfect pair of pants turned into a full-fledged business. What emerges is less a tidy entrepreneurial playbook and more a vivid case study in curiosity, constraint, and creative persistence. A problem on the mountain. Max’s entry into entrepreneurship began, as many good ideas do, with a very sp
Julien Bernstein
Feb 65 min read


Culture, Community, and Why Influencers Actually Work
A conversation with Mallory Gaskin of Citrus Magic and Veggie Wash Influencer marketing didn’t suddenly start working. According to Mallory Gaskin, the reason it works now is because brands finally stopped treating it like advertising. Mallory is the CPG leader behind Citrus Magic and Veggie Wash, overseeing brand strategy, product innovation, packaging, and go-to-market execution across some of Beaumont Products’ largest brands. In her conversation on Like, Love, Share, she
Julien Bernstein
Jan 294 min read
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