Episodes

Courtney Joaquin, Founder and CEO of Too Much Consulting, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to unpack empathy in marketing: why it's a daily practice, not a buzzword, and how listening, not louder messaging, is what actually earns customer trust.

In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, Vince Quinn, Founder of SBX Productions and a former national radio host, shares how building community and connection turns podcast listeners into real relationships, not just an audience, through intention, systems, and authentic conversation.

In this BLISS Monologue, Tullio Siragusa breaks down operating rhythms, the weekly, monthly, and quarterly cadences that turn ambiguity and mental load into visible trust and reliable execution.

Steph Porter, Founder of Ink and Iron PR, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to describe people first crisis response from the inside: the day a shooting killed an employee and a customer, why the executives went to the site, and what empathy costs when the clock is running.

Gareth Bain, Fractional CMO and Founder of Got Legs Digital Marketing, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit to explain purpose as a client filter: build the mission into the business and the right clients and hires come to you, while the wrong ones screen themselves out.

Noah Smock, Director of Resource Development at ToolBank USA, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain radical sharing: a lending model that takes equipment costs off nonprofit budgets and, more importantly, changes what those organizations think they can take on.

In this BLISS Monologue, Tullio Siragusa breaks down rules of engagement, the unwritten norms that decide how disagreement, mistakes, and bad news get handled, and why consistent enforcement is what turns them into culture.

In this special edition BLISS Monologue, Tullio Siragusa makes the business case for grace, the argument that flexing a system around a person in crisis protects the truth signal, the decision quality, and the retention a company depends on.

Cindi Rosner, CMO and Founder of CinnerG Marketing, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit to argue that emotional intelligence in marketing is an underused growth lever, and to show how customer insight becomes revenue when the whole business is solving for the same thing.

Megan Braverman, Owner and Principal of Berbay Marketing & PR, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain how virtual firm culture gets designed rather than inherited, and why professional service firms that run on individuals instead of systems break at exactly the wrong moment.

In this BLISS Monologue, Tullio Siragusa makes the case for design thinking for leadership rather than products only, and walks through the four questions that turn a recurring organizational problem into one small, testable design move.

Paul Damico, President and CEO of Ascent Hospitality Management, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain how a culture of inclusivity gets built in a 500-restaurant franchise system, one granular conversation at a time.

Paul Waithaka, Account Executive at Zero Company, joins the Marketing With Purpose Kit to take apart the marketing cost center myth, and to explain why the tracking chain from click to closed sale is what decides whether marketing can defend itself at all.

Zechariah Thomas, Founder and CEO of Swift Hockey and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree at 23, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to describe emotional intelligence for founders as a recovery speed: how quickly you return to level after the day tries to knock you off it.

In this BLISS Monologue, Tullio Siragusa makes internal alignment the precondition for any external promise, and offers the alignment mirror exercise: three promises made to the market, the behaviors each one requires, and an honest answer about whether you operate that way today.

Charles Furlough, President and CEO of Pillar To Post Home Inspectors, joins The Bliss Business Podcast with a working definition of a brand as promises made and measured, and a franchise system built to keep them across 47 states and eight provinces.

Kelly Struble, VP of Marketing at Just Between Friends and co-founder of Tama Tea, joins the Marketing With Purpose series on balancing brand and revenue. She explains why brand equity compounds over years, and how to scale without hollowing out the brand.

Chelsea Espinoza, founder and CEO of Road to Jubilee and a quality of life coach, joins the show to make the case for emotional intelligence in business. She explains why systems built for profit quietly tax the people inside them, and what leaders can measure instead.

Tullio Siragusa makes the case for organizational design for flow rather than hierarchy. An org chart shows who reports to whom, but design determines how work actually moves, and reshuffling boxes without fixing decision rights just relocates the dysfunction.

Amanda Fornal, founder of Orange SFM and creator of the Investing in Kindness initiative, joins the show to argue that kindness is a performance multiplier rather than a soft value. She connects psychological safety, loyalty, and long-term sustainability.

Joel Bulger, Chief Marketing Officer of WOWorks, joins the Marketing With Purpose series on building shared metrics across teams. With 30 years in restaurant marketing, he explains why growth stalls at alignment rather than ideas.

Tullio Siragusa opens the BLISS Monologue series with culture by design. BLISS is not a feeling or a slogan, it is a measurable state of alignment where people feel safe enough to tell the truth, clear enough to know what matters, and empowered enough to act without waiting for permission.

Sherrill Kaplan, Chief Revenue Officer at Hand and Stone, joins Tullio Siragusa to talk about leadership feedback loops. After 20 years across Dunkin, Planet Fitness, Zipcar, American Express, and Citigroup, she argues empathy only becomes real when a system asks people how their leader is actually landing.

Jamie Eslinger, Chief Marketing Officer of Shoot 360, joins the Marketing With Purpose series to talk about the brand manifesto she wrote in her first months on the job, and why a brand with the best technology in its category still needed a better story to stop being a secret.