Episodes

Jennifer Lemcke, CEO of Weed Man, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore balancing data and empathy: the E-Myth systems, franchisee business plans, and hard-work ethic that scale a 700-plus location lawn care franchise without losing heart.

Jennifer Sullivan, Fractional Chief Growth Officer at Hollywood Dialect Coach, joins The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore aligning marketing and sales: shared revenue targets, cross-functional reviews, and the discipline of staying curious.

Patrick Cowden, Chief Relational Officer and Architect of Warmspace, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore restoring workplace connection: why trust is an outcome, not an input, and the 70-second rituals that rebuild it at scale.

Neal Courtney, CEO of Cookie Cutters, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore joy driven franchise leadership: how a children's haircut brand pivoted through the pandemic to protect franchisees first and built a business where joy is the strategy.

A Deloitte study found that organizations with strong cross-functional collaboration are 60% more likely to exceed performance expectations. Yet many marketing teams still operate in silos, leading to missed opportunities, duplicate work, and inconsistent customer experiences.




In this week’s Marketing With Purpose Kit from The Bliss Business Podcast, we’re joined by Katherine LeBlanc, SVP of Marketing at 4Ever Young Anti-Aging Solutions.




Katherine is a dynamic marketing leader with o...

Mark Van Wye, CEO of Zoom Room, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain community as infrastructure: how a dog training franchise builds belonging on purpose and turns connection into retention, referrals, and growth, with practical advice for leaders in any industry.

Brian Kellerman, CEO of GoGather, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to share how intentional event design turns meetings into movements. He explains how to build connection on purpose, extend it beyond the closing session, and measure the return on belonging.

Stephen Sakach, Founder and CEO of Zero Company, joins host Michelle Brasfield on the Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore empathy and lifetime value: why emotional connection is profitable, how purpose holds under pressure, and why marketers should audit their humanity as AI scales.

Rachel Fine Wilson, Founder and CEO of Gigglewaters, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore purpose driven hospitality: how a restaurant and movie theater turns food into community care, from COVID meals to hurricane relief, while building a franchise on five core values.

Julie Green, Vice President of Marketing at Heights Wellness Retreat, joins The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explain franchise rebranding with empathy: how purpose, data, and intuition shaped the Massage Heights rebrand, and why alignment and psychological safety matter.

Kim Daly, Founder and CEO of The Zee Suite and a top-producing FranChoice advisor, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain mindset mastery for franchisees: how she grew 350% in a year by changing her thinking, and how any leader can do the same.

Ash Maher, Chief Marketing Officer at Falcon Wealth Planning, joins Mike Liwski on the Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore empathy in market downturns: how purpose and people came first under pressure, and how a feedback loop with business development lifted conversion to 14%.

Raj Sisodia, Co-Founder of Conscious Capitalism and author of Firms of Endearment, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explore healing purpose in business and how love, purpose, and care for every stakeholder build companies that last. Listeners learn why profit follows purpose.

Jonathan Weathington, CEO of Shuckin Shack Oyster Bar, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain restaurant community building: why culture and community are one idea, how listening cut turnover about 40 percent, and why the people inside the four walls matter most.

Dan Wheeler, Chief Marketing Officer at K9 Resorts, joins Mike Liwski on The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore emotional resonance in marketing: using data to create more human experiences in a data-driven world, and turning features into trust.

Ashley Wright, Founder and CEO of Plantista, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain AI that scales expertise: how independent garden centers can use guardrails, a customer advisory board, and one measured step at a time to compete while keeping empathy at the center.

Mason Duchatschek, bestselling author and founder and CEO of Workforce Alchemy, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to expose the workforce profit leaks hiding in turnover, disengagement, and misalignment, and shows CEOs how to measure and fix them before they cost another dollar.

Jessica Martin, Chief Marketing Officer at Payroll Vault, joins Michele Brasfield on The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explain franchise marketing ROI: aligning corporate, franchisees, and customers so a $45 return per dollar is visible, not assumed.

Brooke Clark, Founder and CEO of Seat 1A Advisors, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain career visibility strategy: how executives and rising leaders can share what they know as service, not self-promotion, and build a cadence that creates connection and community.

Gavin McMahon, author, CEO, and co-founder of Fassforward and Story Business, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain business storytelling systems: why every team needs a shared story, how plain language beats corporate jargon, and why any organizational change takes two stories, a destination and a journey.

Lindsey McFadden, Chief Marketing Officer at Stretch Zone, joins The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explain why people interact before they transact, and how a singular focus, clear definitions, and steady communication keep marketing human, personal, and focused on helping people.

Professor Joseph Fuller, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, joins The Bliss Business Podcast to explain how AI and workforce skills are changing together: why most AI experiments fail, how degree inflation could ease, and why social skills and purpose keep work human.

On The Bliss Business Podcast, Dr. Ron Stotts, three-time bestselling author, psychologist, and conscious leadership mentor, explains inner work for leaders: why outer business problems trace back to inner fear, and how self-awareness, breathing, and purpose build stronger, more trusted teams.

Liane Caruso, Fractional CMO at IMAGE Studios and founder of helloCMO, joins Mike Liwski on The Bliss Business Podcast's Marketing With Purpose Kit to explore faces in franchise marketing: how an A-B test, honest communication and empathy keep customer connection alive in a data-driven world.