Corinne Cavanaugh

Lightning Speed

Business EN ↓ 4 episodes

Marketing leaders who engineered revenue growth at Fortune 500 companies share blueprints to help SMBs grow quickly. In each episode, a CMO who has worked with both SMBs and companies including Disney, Microsoft, Estée Lauder, PepsiCo, Wizards of the Coast and more, shares their learnings and systems for acquiring customers, reducing churn, and scaling revenue. Hosted by Corinne Cavanaugh, Harvard-educated three-time founder and former Microsoft marketing leader.

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Corinne Cavanaugh

Episodes

Lightning Speed Ep. 4 | 300 Percent ROAS D2C Profitability | Rachel Wilkie 11.06.2026 21:58

The key to performance marketing, and e-commerce is sending fewer messages with higher intent. That is what Rachel Wilkie does best. She has the results to back it up: 300% ROAS on a $27 million digital marketing budget at Merrell, P&L ownership for $300 million MAC Cosmetics brand and $110 million at Merrell. She has done over 300 Shopify replatforms, and created a revenue engine running 40 e...

Lightning Speed Podcast Ep. 3 | The B2B Pipeline Playbook | Brandon Smith 27.05.2026 18:19

“Find the people with the problem. Talk about the actual risk. Make sure you’re touching the right people who are really in the weeds at the moment.” In this episode of Lightning Speed, Brandon breaks down: how to grow ARR 6X while simultaneously cutting costs, why ABM is a surgical tool not a growth engine, and how to build B2B content that moves both the buyer and the person ho...

Lightning Speed Podcast Ep. 2 | Plug The Leaky Bucket The Retention Playbook That Compounds Revenue | Brad Schlachter 30.04.2026

“A lot of churn is because you aren’t attracting the right customer in the first place.” In this episode of Lightning Speed, Brad breaks down: how to fix the leaky bucket problem in subscription and SaaS businesses, why growing fast and retaining customers are the same goal executed well, and the retention playbook behind some of the most impressive subscriber growth numbers in g...

Lightning Speed Podcast Ep. 1 | Why Your Product Launch Is Stalling | Angela Martin 17.04.2026 21:03

“A launch is not a date. It’s a revenue event.” In this episode of Lightning Speed, Angela breaks down : the real reason product launches stall, the three gaps that kill go-to-market execution, and she explains her 90-day activation roadmap and how it outperforms annual planning. Angela Martin has powered over $52 million in product launches at PepsiCo, Mayo Clinic, Harley-Davids...