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Bald Ambition

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

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169:46

Jeff Goebel Shreds Van Halen Stories

Bald Ambition ·

2026/02/06

In this 58th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Jeff Goebel, #1 fan and band archivist for a thrilling look at the force behind his VH Stories. Together they take a deep, affectionate, and awe-inspiring journey into the entire Van Halen phenomenon. After meeting last week in front of the brothers' childhood home in Pasadena coinciding with Eddie Van Halen’s 71st birthday, their conversation traces the brothers from immigrant roots and garage-band grind to world-sh...

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62:16

My Chat With Chatty Bro: Down the Soul Drain

Bald Ambition ·

2026/01/10

What happens when a bald, cynical, science- and politics-obsessed podcaster invites his own AI sidekick onto the show—and treats it like a human guest? Season 2's second episode of Bald Ambition is exactly that experiment. Host Mookie Spitz sits down with his “Chatty Bro” personal bot (ChatGPT from OpenAI) for an hour long, unfiltered conversation that moves from 2001: A Space Odyssey to modern data centers, from the Turing Test to trillion-dollar AI infrastructure, from existential dread to ...

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89:57

Mirav Ozeri Wants to Know How Much Money You Make!

Bald Ambition ·

2026/01/09

Season 2 of Bald Ambition gets off to a fun start as Mookie Spitz sits down with Mirav Ozeri—journalist, documentarian, adaptive entrepreneur, and fellow podcaster of her own show How Much Can I Make?—for a wide-ranging, playfully honest conversation about work, money, ambition, and the weird paths people take to survive (and sometimes thrive). Mirav’s story is nuts in the best way: She immigrates to the U.S., sells $1 bags of vegetables in Harlem, dodges police, befriends a hot-dog lady with...

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81:59

Inside Tino Reviews: How Martino Chiaviello Built His...

Bald Ambition ·

2025/12/30

On this Season 1 finale of the Bald Ambition podcast, Mookie sits down with longtime friend and former colleague Martino “Tino Reviews” Chiaviello — a college professor, digital marketing pro, and most recently social media tech influencer who built a real audience the hard way: persistence, experiments, and a ridiculous amount of earbuds, keyboards, LED lights, and gadgets piling up in his garage. They dig into what it actually takes to break through on TikTok, how long it really takes to bu...

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72:55

Birthing a Brand After All Else Fails

Bald Ambition ·

2025/11/17

In this solo episode, Mookie Spitz lays himself bare after nine relentless months of nonstop creation — 227 podcasts, hundreds of blogs, a new sci-fi novel, thousands of videos, and a one-man multimedia studio powered by caffeine, a gasping laptop, a terabyte of monthly wifi, and an old leather “upload chair.” What begins as a celebration of output quickly turns into a brutally honest audit of the chaotic, back-asswards way he’s built his creator life. Mookie digs into the central tensi...

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63:12

Bridging Division: The Majority in the Middle

Bald Ambition ·

2025/10/24

In this 53rd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Shannon Watson — founder and Chief Executive of Majority in the Middle, an organization fighting to make bipartisanship more than a talking point. Together, they dissect the machinery of American polarization, from the “campaign industrial complex” to the dopamine-fed chaos of social media that rewards outrage over nuance. Watson, a former political strategist turned bridge-builder, explains how Minnesota has become a laborat...

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76:34

Brand Thyself!

Bald Ambition ·

2025/10/17

Fifty-two Bald Ambition podcasts and counting, Mookie Spitz turns the mic on himself for a no-bullshit autopsy of his own brand. Drawing on 20 years in marketing, a lifetime of overthinking, and a library’s worth of blogs, books, and podcasts, he finally asks the question every creator avoids: Why the hell isn’t any of this exploding? With a cocktail of cynicism, humor, and self-awareness, Mookie describes the paradox of today’s creator economy — an attention-addicted world bored by its own c...

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63:37

Catalyst of Pharma AI Engagement

Bald Ambition ·

2025/10/15

The 51st episode of Bald Ambition features Mookie Spitz sitting down with David Mondgock, founder of Catalyst IQ, to discuss how AI is reshaping pharmaceutical marketing and patient engagement from the ground up. They share a deep dive into how data, content, and automation collide to form a new marketing reality for healthcare. Key Insights From Personalization to Prediction: Why “customer journeys” in pharma have been insufficient—and how Catalyst IQ’s AI-driven signal mapping and content t...

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90:01

LA Comic Con 2025: Authors' Recap & Review

Bald Ambition ·

2025/10/06

In this 50th episode of Bald Ambition, three indie science fiction authors — Mookie Spitz, Ingrid Moon, and Greg Sorber — break down the mayhem, lessons, and human magic of LA Comic Con 2025, held at the LA Coliseum. Over three exhausting, exhilarating days, they shared tables, stories, and caffeine, surrounded by 120,000 fans, stormtroopers, holograms, and hopeful artists trying to make their mark in a city built on imagination. The trio came away with a shared revelation: the real power of ...

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52:16

The Entrepreneur’s Playbook with Kelvin Abrams

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/30

What does it really take to jump off the cliff without a parachute and call it entrepreneurship? In this episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Kelvin Abrams—a zero-BS, get-it-done, grassroots entrepreneur and author of Get Uncomfortable or Change Course—to break down the often brutal, always compelling truth about building something real. Kelvin isn’t pitching apps or chasing investors. He’s the guy who builds businesses that last—local ventures grounded in community, del...

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54:32

Inherit from Your Future Self with Kaleido Life

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/30

What if life insurance actually gave you life? In the 48th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Craig Du Bruyn, serial entrepreneur and founder of Kaleido Life, a company re-engineering the very foundations of the 150-year-old life insurance industry. Craig shares his personal and professional journey from early battles convincing architects to abandon drafting tables for CAD systems, to the heartbreaking loss of a business partner that sparked his deep dive into how lif...

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49:34

Vibe Trading: BotSpot Hits the Spot

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/25

In the 47th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Robert Grzesik, CEO of LumiWealth and the mind behind BotSpot—a cutting-edge AI platform that lets you “vibe-code” your own trading strategies. Forget the clunky Bloomberg terminals and line-by-line coding. BotSpot is positioning itself as the Lovable of trading: a conversational, AI-powered assistant that builds, backtests, and deploys strategies directly to your broker through secure APIs. Robert walks us through his journey from t...

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74:06

Sleep is Our Superpower

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/21

In this 46th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Roger Washington, MD, and Scarlet Nickhol, MPP of the Sleep To Live Well Foundation (STLW), to uncover why sleep isn’t just rest—it’s the vital work of human health and resilience. From the science of how insufficient sleep corrodes immune systems and accelerates disease, to the cultural myths that glamorize sleepless productivity, this conversation dives deep into the epidemic of sleep deprivation. Dr. Washington shares...

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56:01

Direct to Patient Engagement in Freefall

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/15

In this 45th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with attorney–pharmacist Darshan Kulkarni to dissect the fast-growing world of Direct-to-Patient (DTP) marketing and clinical trial models. He unpacks how DTP has evolved, why it appeals to pharmaceutical companies, and—most importantly—the hidden complexities that come with it. From state law inconsistencies to privacy, advertising, malpractice, and consent concerns, Darshan shows how what looks like a simple shift to “...

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40:51

FDA Cautions: Winter Is Coming to Pharma DTC

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/12

Regulatory turbulence just slammed into the world of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. On this 44th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down again with Dale Cooke, president of Philly Cooke Consulting and FDA Ad Law, to unpack the latest shockwave: the Make America Healthy Again report and the FDA’s sudden announcement of intensified DTC enforcement. Topline takeaways for pharma DTC marketers: The foundational rules haven’t changed — yet.The government has explicitly said...

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44:41

Get Started with MyStart Health

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/10

The 43rd episode of Bald Ambition with Mookie Spitz welcomes Matthew Stern, CEO of MyStart Health, for a deep dive into how technology and entrepreneurship are reshaping healthcare. We live in an age of disruption—culture, politics, wellness—all shifting under our feet. But while the headlines scream collapse, Stern argues the opposite: technology and medicine are colliding to extend lives, cut costs, and democratize access to care. Matt shares his journey from 20 years in digital marketing t...

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53:00

Get Swart: What Paid Protests Reveal About PR,...

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/04

The 42nd episode of Bald Ambition doesn't provide the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, but does highlight the hypocrisy baked into influencer marketing, media, and public relations. Mookie Spitz sits down with Adam Swart, the outspoken founder and CEO of Crowds On Demand. Known for his provocative media appearances and unapologetic takes on modern influence, Swart pulls back the curtain on how public opinion is shaped—not just in boardrooms and newsrooms, but on the streets...

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44:32

Dale Cooke Weighs In on the Looming Threats to Public...

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/02

Host Mookie Spitz sits down again with Dale Cooke, president of Philly Cooke Consulting and FDA Ad Law, known affectionately as the “Yoda of Compliance.” Together, they unpack the chaos rippling through healthcare communications in the wake of CDC restructuring, FDA shake-ups, and a political climate that has turned vaccines—once celebrated as humanity’s greatest public health achievement—into a weaponized political wedge issue. Cooke reassures listeners that, for now, “the train is still on ...

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55:30

Top Talent from Talus

Bald Ambition ·

2025/09/02

Healthcare and pharma agencies face a tough reality: talent is their lifeblood, but also their greatest liability. On this Labor Day 40th edition of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Sameer Duhmale and Andre de Luz, co-founders of Talus, to explore why hiring in healthcare marketing is uniquely difficult, and how their platform offers a way forward. The Challenges Niche Expertise Regulatory Burden Global Fragmentation Time Pressure The Solution Speed — find v...

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47:37

How the CDC Destroyed Itself (And What To Do About It)

Bald Ambition ·

2025/08/29

Marketing savvy, political chaos, and raw philosophy collide here as Mookie Spitz—a bald, blunt veteran of advertising and PR—cuts through the confusion to expose how persuasion really works, and why institutions keep screwing it up. In this episode, Mookie takes on the CDC, the vaccine wars, and the larger collapse of trust in American public health. He starts with a simple truth he learned in the trenches: you can’t make people do what they don’t want to do. That lesson applies just as much...

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