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Bald Ambition

An expert in consultative selling shares the latest insights in branding, entrepreneurship, business technology, and sheer grit and motivation.

business marketing

All Episodes

64:09

Biohunter, Unleashed! Making of the Audiobook

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/19

Sci-fi author Ingrid Moon returns to the pod, this time with voiceover wizard Scott Allen. They join your gloriously bald host, Mookie Spitz, for an unfiltered ride through the making of Biohunter—a post-apocalyptic sci-fi love story between a deadly alien tracker and a teenage human target. They talk shop about audiobooks, content repurposing, and self-publishing in the age of AI. Ingrid reveals how the novel began as a pseudonymous writing challenge—complete with a mystery book cover ...

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42:13

Ambition: A Cautionary Tale

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/15

"Ambition" is taken for granted in our society, a baseline for behavior, and a prerequisite for success and happiness. But at what cost? An even more fundamental ask: Why do we persist? Camus called suicide the only serious philosophical question. In this searing episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz confronts that question head-on, tracing two suicides — Andrew, the consummate overachiever whose perfect life crumbled under a mysterious twitch, and Jacob, the anxious recluse who finall...

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42:26

Killing Ourselves to Live

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/15

"Ambition" is taken for granted in our society, a baseline for behavior, and a prerequisite for success and happiness. But at what cost? An even more fundamental ask: Why do we persist? Camus called suicide the only serious philosophical question. In this searing episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz confronts that question head-on, tracing two suicides — Andrew, the consummate overachiever whose perfect life crumbled under a mysterious twitch, and Jacob, the anxious recluse who finall...

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85:07

Moonstruck Musings on Storytelling & Selling

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/07

In this loaded episode, your follically-challenged host Mookie Spitz sits down with science educator, technologist, and multi-genre author Ingrid Moon to dissect writing and self-publishing — and why it’s so damn hard to do it well. They start with Ingrid’s journey from tech marketing to science classrooms to building reference books for sci-fi authors who don’t know enough science. Astrofiction, Biofiction, Robofiction — yes, those are real, and they’ll save your story from embarrassing “spa...

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66:14

Creative Writing in the Age of AI

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/02

Host Mookie Spitz — fresh off finishing his second novel — takes a sledgehammer to the hysteria that AI is the death of creative writing. In this unfiltered deep dive, he argues that the heart of any good writing is timeless: storytelling driven by human experience, emotion, and characters you actually care about. AI? A useful and enthusiastic sidekick. But it can’t live your life, wrestle with your scars, or dream up the flawed, hungry people who drive real narratives. Mookie spells out exac...

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56:02

A Survival Guide for Self-Publishing

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/01

You finally did it! You wrote the damn book. You self-published it. Congratulations!—now brace yourself, because nobody gives a shit. In this brutally honest episode, Mookie Spitz breaks down the gut-wrenching, ego-bruising reality of trying to market and self-promote a book in a world drowning in content and distraction. From the raw highs of cracking his own creative code and learning how to write a great novel with Jonnie Fazoolie & the Transfinite Reality Engine—a sci-fi r...

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48:52

A Modest Proposal for Fixing the Internet

Bald Ambition ·

2025/07/01

In this episode, Mookie Spitz unloads on the modern internet — tracing its slide from the glorious chaos of Usenet, IRC, and walled-off forums into today’s algorithm-choked, centralized cesspool. He argues for a smarter, AI-driven return to decentralization: digital “tribes” where like-minded people can gather, free from trolling, doomscrolling, and spam, but still get jolts of outside ideas to keep it fresh. Along the way, he breaks down why Twitter became a global trash fire, how Facebook s...

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56:17

The Wall, Part 3: Cracking the Code in 2025

Bald Ambition ·

2025/06/29

In this third installment of The Wall podcast series, Mookie Spitz dives headlong into the chaos of modern marketing, media, and the relentless flood of content competing for human attention. Building on his earlier breakdowns of the death of earned media and the inevitable (but not yet imminent) AI targeting revolution, this episode zeroes in on what to actually do right now — before the bots take over. Mookie unpacks: Why even brilliant content dies on the vine without emotional resona...

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58:14

The Wall, Part 2: Birth of AI Marketing

Bald Ambition ·

2025/06/28

Host Mookie Spitz tears into the brutal reality of digital marketing: your genius content, product, or art is probably DOA — not because it sucks, but because it’s buried under an avalanche of bullshit. In this blisteringly honest solo episode, Mookie traces humanity’s obsession with communication from cave paintings to TikTok, shows how billion-dollar platforms throttle organic reach unless you pay up, and rants about how AI might finally crack the code to connect creators with audienc...

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59:57

The Wall, Part 1: Death of Earned Media

Bald Ambition ·

2025/06/25

In this solo rant, Mookie Spitz dissects the invisible monster we’re all up against—The Wall: a relentless digital flood of content, misinformation, distraction, and algorithmic gatekeeping. He dives deep into how the modern marketer, creator, or brand can barely get a word in edgewise without screaming into a storm of AI-generated junk and viral idiocy. Mookie unpacks how convenience killed privacy, how everyone’s shouting "We are here!" like the desperate Whos in Horton Hears a Who, and how...

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60:05

The Top Dawg of Customer Relationships

Bald Ambition ·

2025/06/07

From class clown to dancefloor king, Howard Wallach joins Mookie Spitz to talk shop, soul, and set lists. In this episode, we go behind the curtain with a master of moments who’s turned DJing into an art form where empathy and customer service become a force for good. Howard reveals how tragedy shaped his hustle, how being of service trumps being the star, and why building trust beats booking gigs. You’ll hear how he created an event juggernaut by focusing on them, not him—and how that mindse...

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110:23

Creating Meaningful Human Connection at Scale

Bald Ambition ·

2025/05/18

Mookie has a spirited chat with David Garrison, CEO of Connect Networks to discuss the organizational challenges of fragmentation, communication, and misaligned priorities—and what to do about it. The two dive headfirst into how David's networking platform leverages human-centered tech to smash silos, spark curiosity-driven collaboration, and build trust through radically simple one-on-one conversations. David explains how most companies chase optimization through systems and metrics while ig...

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64:28

Navigating an FDA in Chaos During Turbulent Times

Bald Ambition ·

2025/05/05

Mookie Spitz welcomes Dale Cooke, one of the most trusted names in FDA regulatory compliance, who shares a survival guide for healthcare marketing professionals during this historic time of sweeping upheaval. Against the backdrop of Trump’s second-term administration, which has eliminated thousands of FDA and HHS positions and ushered in unpredictable deregulation, Dale shares urgent insights from inside the storm. Packed with real-world examples, biting humor, and a touch of Philly cheeseste...

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40:29

The Customer Doesn't Care About You

Bald Ambition ·

2025/04/30

In this punchy, provocative solo episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz delivers a masterclass in consultative selling by starting with an uncomfortable truth: customers don’t care about you—your product, your company, or your clever branding. They care about themselves. And that insight, Mookie argues, is the key to cutting through noise in today’s hyper-distracted digital marketplace. Packed with sharp real-world examples, Mookie walks us through why the traditional “peacock” approach ...

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60:01

Kolming the Future of Health Innovation

Bald Ambition ·

2025/04/22

Your bald host Mookie Spitz sits down with fellow follically-challenged digital strategist and innovator Todd Kolm for a scalp-tingling ride through the world of AI, healthcare, and the ever-elusive art of being human in a hyper-digital age. From caffeine withdrawals to robot ethics, quantified selves, and patient empathy, Mookie and Todd dive deep. They explore why AI is more ingredient than recipe, how human connection still trumps automation in medicine, and why reps still matter more than...

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55:42

Optimizing Healthcare Marketing with AI

Bald Ambition ·

2025/04/22

Bald Ambition welcomes Noriko Yokoi, co-founder of 3Cubed.ai, to discuss how generative AI is actually transforming the advertising landscape — with focus on the highly regulated world of healthcare communications. Noriko shares her journey from two decades in top-tier agencies to launching a startup focused on solving one of the industry's biggest challenges: scaling high-quality, compliant content across digital channels — quickly and cost-effectively. Learn how her team is leveraging agent...

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76:19

The Riley Rizz

Bald Ambition ·

2025/04/09

Host Mookie Spitz chats with advertising legend Tim Riley for a frank, feisty, and fun conversation about career pivots, personal branding, top notch client relationships, and the power of human connection and transformation. From Mad Men-style beginnings in the 1970s auto industry to pioneering digital healthcare marketing at Ignite Health, Tim shares his journey with razor-sharp wit, humility, and—yes—a full head of hair and impressive sex appeal. Discover how a class clown turned ad exec u...

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63:02

Finding The Invisible Gorilla

Bald Ambition ·

2025/04/03

Host Mookie Spitz chats with strategist Andrew Thorne, founder of The Invisible Gorilla consultancy to explore the importance of seeing the "invisible gorilla"—those obvious but overlooked insights—and the need for marketing and PR to merge, moving from rigid silos to more agile, integrated, human-centered approaches. The conversation spans the evolution of digital media, the influence of AI, the loss of agency through convenience, and even the importance of modeling values for children. The ...

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114:04

Rebranding the Democrats for Victory

Bald Ambition ·

2025/04/01

Today the BA pod brings back a prior guest, Vince Parry of Parry Branding Group to talk politics, namely the rebranding of the defeated and despondent Democratic Party. Setting things up by describing the "Trump Paradox" of the Dems having a perfectly antithetical opposition, yet being unable to fight back, the conversation focuses on whether or not the party has only a binary choice between moderates and progressives, and lands on the characterisitics that would embody an "ideal" candidate f...

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75:22

The Sherpa of Impact-Driven Leaders

Bald Ambition ·

2025/03/26

Markets and companies are in transition, and so are many of their top business executives. Having undergone her own career transformation, Silja Chouquet empowers impact-driven leaders to create thriving, successful business models so that they can scale and deliver lasting, sustainable impact. She specializes in social business model coaching, and social innovation speaker engagements, which we discuss along with the unique challenges of female entrepreneurship. The Guest As a TEDx spe...

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