The PR Podcast

Nicole Rodrigues is CEO and Founder of NRPR Group , an award-winning, exclusive public relations and marketing firm serving game changers and disruptors around the world. Headquartered in California with team members around the country, they’ve developed and executed strategic campaigns for Yahoo!, Dolby, Sony PlayStation, Hulu and the Oakland Raiders. Nicole has been recognized as a leader in her...

Julie Parker is a #PR consultant, Crisis Communications advisor and a media relations and social media trainer.  She is a Murrow & Emmy Award-winning former reporter for the ABC-TV affiliate in Washington DC and is the former police media director in Prince George’s County, MD and the Fairfax County Police in Virginia. She was also a senior media advisor with the International Association...

Lauren Sergy is a Canadian based communication professional and public speaking geek. She has helped leaders and professionals in Canada, the US, the UK and beyond become more effective leaders through the art and alchemy of public speaking and communication. Her most recent book, “UNMUTE! How to Master Virtual Meetings and Reclaim Your Sanity,” helps people handle the nuances of videoconference c...

Tricia Richards Service is a PR professional and Founder of “I Need A Speaker,” founded to help organizations and event planners find the right speaker for their events. The PR Podcast is your view inside the public relations business. We talk with great PR people, reporters and communicators on how they weave narratives that are informative and fun.  Host Jody Fisher has worked in New York C...

Among David Libby's former clients: the one and only Steve Jobs. How do you go about repping the man who changed the world? We hear his secret.  David Libby is the founder of 2pinz, a San Francisco Bay Area agency that integrates public relations, social media, and content programs to drive and scale highly successful launches for new products, platforms, applications and services. David work...

Lisa Fantino is an award-winning journalist and attorney whose bestselling travel memoir, “ Amalfi Blue, ” has been Number One in the United States, Canada and Australia...and in the Top 10 books on Italy on three continents. As a broadcaster she spent a career on the air at New York’s top news stations, WCBS-AM and WINS-AM, and as an anchor at the NBC Radio Networks. With “Fractured,” her third b...

What makes a crisis? Bill Coletti, CEO and Founder of Kith, a crisis communications agency based in Austin, TX, has specific definition that has NOTHING to do with media. Bill is a C-suite advisor, global crisis comms expert, reputation management strategist and speaker.  Innovative, Adaptive & Creative, Bill focuses his clients on risk management, crisis leadership & management, stra...

Tressa Robbins is an expert in customer onboarding and advocacy, content creation and management, copywriting, social media, public relations and content marketing and more. She has been a guest speaker, lecturer and panelist on social and traditional media relations strategies, PR measurement, communications, as well as personal branding strategies (particularly through the use of social media) a...

Scott Baradell is CEO and founder of Idea Grove, which helps its clients secure trust at scale through its unique Grow With TRUST approach. Scott is an established authority on trust and editor of the online publication Trust Signals, as well as author of the upcoming book Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World . The PR Podcast is your view inside the public relations business. We tal...

Amy Rosenberg is founder and president of Veracity , a PR firm based in Portland, Oregon, established in 2008 that specializes in B2B, SEO and e-commerce related PR, along with spearheading corporate responsibility initiatives. Amy created her own podcast, PR Talk , sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America (Oregon), in 2017 and has hosted more than 100 episodes so that PR people can be...

Amanda Leek is the creator of Press Pounce PR, insightful, reputed, delightful little lion in the jungle of public relations and news, where she and her colleagues work to tailor and personalize PR and public content with a human touch wherever it is most important and relevant. Amanda helps build reputation, relationships & public coverage on behalf of clients using journalistic experience, c...

In this special edition of the PR Podcast we examine the role of reporters in war zones. When we pickup the paper, or turn on the TV or see a video on social media, whether its bombs falling, firefights in the street, or a humanitarian criss, we have to remember we only see and understand the tragedy because of the brave men and women of the press who are there doing their jobs to bring us the tru...

Tamara Sykes is a PR Manager at Postali, and co-host of the weekly #PRLunchHour on Twitter Spaces. Tamara’s digital marketing background and extraordinary communication skills are instrumental in delivering earned mentions for individual lawyers and mid-sized firms. She helps clients create the ideal public persona that supports their digital and traditional marketing.   The PR Podcast is you...

Meredith Garofalo is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and a science & space journalist for News12 Long Island. Over her 14 years in broadcast, she’s worked in Chicago, Ohio, South Dakota, Florida, California and Denver, before landing her most recent gig in New York. She has covered hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical storms, wildfires, snowstorms, and more. She was the 2021 Chair for the AMS S...

We go to the Reddit Public Relations Thread to answer questions posed there including:  - How to improve my writing? - Does what college you go effect going into PR? - What's something you wished you learned earlier? - What does Public Relations mean to you? The PR Podcast is your view inside the public relations business. We talk with great PR people, reporters and communicators on how they...

Mike Maynard is the Managing Director of the Napier Group , a $7M PR and marketing agency for B2B technology companies. Their consultancy uses knowledge, experience and insight to solve marketing challenges and increase the speed of how prospects travel through your funnel, generating opportunities more quickly to increase awareness , generate leads or engage contacts to create opportunities . His...

Paul Furiga is president and chief storyteller of WordWrite, the Pittsburgh region’s largest independent public relations agency. Paul’s book, “Finding Your Capital S Story,” talks about the importance of storytelling in business. Before his PR career, Paul spent two decades as a journalist, covering Congress, the White House and four presidential nominating conventions. He was also an aide to U.S...

Sabrina Ram is the founder and president of Blu Lotus , a national strategic communications consulting agency. With nearly 20 years of public relations and marketing experience, she is passionate about helping organizations make an impact by telling their unique story to a variety of audiences. Throughout her career, Ram has managed strategic communications efforts for major organizations such as...

Brad Marley is owner of Yelram Media, and a marketing & PR pro dedicated to storytelling that helps companies thrive. From content creation to media relations to all types of PR programs & campaigns.. He does it all. His weekly email newsletter is a who’s who and what’s what of the PR industry and required reading for anyone working in our space. The PR Podcast is your view inside the publ...

Jerry Barmash has a long career in media, as a reporter and radio anchor, a blogger and now as a news reporter and editor for Patch.com, covering the south shore of Long Island. He is also the host of the “Here Now the News” podcast, which focuses on the latest news with timely interviews from prominent guests in news, politics and more. We talk about the evolution of news, his years in radio and...

Ashley R. Cummings is a freelance writer specializing in commerce, marketing and Saas. Her philosophy is simple: create content that is interesting, optimized for search, and conversion-driven.  The PR Podcast is your view inside the public relations business. We talk with great PR people, reporters and communicators on how they weave narratives that are informative and fun.  Host Jody F...

It's a holiday week for many of us, so we'll save the guests and do some Reddit #PublicRelations Q&A! Questions this week include: "Do I hire a PR pro or write the release myself?" "Am I too old to get into PR?" "Can I run for Congress and keep my PR job?" and more.  Also a big thank you to all our 2021 guests for sharing their time, talent and perspectives! Wanna be a guest? Reach out to...

Mark Mohammadpour is a former agency executive turned Chief Wellness Officer for his own wellness consultancy after losing and keeping off 150 pounds. His company, Chasing the Sun, offers health coaching tailored for PR professionals. He runs wellness programs, workshops, etc. primarily for PR agencies and in-house teams. We chat about how to make important, life-changing decisions one step at a t...

Hinda Mitchell is the President of Inspire PR Group which she founded in 2014 with the belief that the best decisions are made with “inspiration” and rooted in values and purpose. She has led communications strategy and response for numerous high-profile national crises in manufacturing and production, construction and real estate, environment, nonprofit organizations, schools, activism, food safe...

Amelia Sugerman is a Providence, RI-based Public Relations and Media Relations strategist with 15+ years of agency and in-house experience across numerous industries including travel, health & wellness, and business to business technology.  She’s currently the Senior Manager of Strategic Communication at Collette, a global travel tour operator. She specializes in external communications,...