About this podcast
Step past the Red Velvet Rope into Zeitgeist, where Cameo co-founder Steven Galanis pulls back the curtain on the renegades behind the consumer brands owning pop culture.
Every week, Steven goes toe-to-toe with the masterminds—founders, CMOs, and disruptors—who’ve turned products into obsessions.
No polished TED Talks here.
These are the raw, unfiltered stories PR teams beg to bury.
Think late-night whiskey confessions with a side of boardroom chaos.
Expect:
• Leadership lessons that cut through the noise
• Secrets to hacking virality
• Origin stories so wild, you’ll hit rewind
• C-suite therapy, no buzzwords allowed
• The playbook to cement your brand in the cultural zeitgeist
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Episodes
- The Untold Story of Amazon Prime, EA Sports, and Building Iconic Brands: Bing Gordon · 2 h 10 min · Episode 9He named Amazon Prime. He helped build Electronic Arts. And he's spent decades discovering what makes people love a brand. Bing Gordon, Electronic Arts co-founder and former…
- How Great Restaurant Brands Stay Relevant for Decades (CEO Lettuce Entertain You, R.J. Melman) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 8Repeated Hit Brands R.J. Melman, CEO of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, shares why some companies stay relevant for decades while others disappear: “Restaurants don’t get…
- How Squire Built the Ultimate Brand Experience - Dave Salvant Co-Founder and President · 44 min · Episode 7Barbershop to Billion. Dave Salvant, President and Co-Founder of Squire, built a platform that’s processed over $1B in payments — but it all started with a bad haircut…
- How We Built Chomps Into a $1B Snack Brand - Co-Founder & CEO Rashid Ali · 1 h 22 min · Episode 6Rashid Ali, Co-Founder & CEO of Chomps, he told us something I can’t forget: 👉 “Our moms were our best customers.” That’s how Chomps started. A frozen steak business that…
- I Built BetMGM & Rocket Mortgage Into Cultural Phenomena (Casey Hurbis, CMO of BetMGM) · 1 h 40 min · Episode 5What does it take to turn a mortgage company and a sports betting app into cultural icons? Casey Hurbis, CMO of BetMGM and the marketing mind who helped Rocket Mortgage break…
- Four Loko's Jaisen Freeman (The Brand Too Bold To Break) · 1 h 5 min · Episode 4They tried to cancel Four Loko. It didn’t work. This is the untold story of how one of the most hated, hyped, and misunderstood brands in America refused to die. Jaisen Freeman —…
- America's Youngest Woman CEO (Lifeway Foods' Julie Smolyansky) · 1 h 33 min · Episode 3Kefir...from $116 to Billion-Dollar Brand...CEO Lifeway Foods, Julie Smolyansky. Julie Smolyansky is the CEO of Lifeway Foods, shares her incredible and inspiring story! Imagine…
- Bourbon Just Became Currency - Unicorn's Phil Mikhaylov · 1 h 9 min · Episode 2From Uber to Unicorn: Reinventing the $100B booze biz. He started with a Google Sheet and a whiskey collector who didn’t know he was sitting on a million dollars. Phil Mikhailov…
- Dude Wipes, Chief Executive Dude & President, Sean Riley · 1 h 5 min · Episode 1What do a Shark Tank smack down and a life-sized foam butt on MTV have in common? They built Dude Wipes—a $200M empire that turned baby wipes into a pop culture phenomenon. In…







