Are Young Creatives Changing The Industry? Insights and Bites with The One Club's Yash Egami

Eat In or Dine Out: Solo Stove CMO Liz Vanzura Shares S’more Insights

How is building a marketing team like making a s’more? You need to assemble the proper ingredients. A little patience is required. And Liz Vanzura excels at both. On this episode of Eat In or Dine Out, the Solo Stove CMO joins host and HATCH CEO Jennifer Harrington to share how she’s rebuilt the company’s marketing around a lean internal team and proprietary tools developed in-house. Liz shares a few insights, then she shares s’more, including: 🔥 Why Solo Stove isn’t using AI to replace people—they’re using it to enhance people’s decisions.🏕️ How she balances maximizing her in-house marketing team’s talents with opportunities to partner with agencies.🍫 What Solo Stove actually sells (it’s not just fire pits, pizza ovens, and griddles—it’s the togetherness they create). Come gather ’round the Solo Stove and listen in on Liz and Jen’s conversation! BYO Marshmallows. Subscribe for more conversations about agency growth, marketing leadership, talent strategy, and entrepreneurship. HATCH is a Boston based independent, women-owned agency that serves growth-hungry brands a customizable combo of creative capabilities and expertly sourced talent, all from one strategic partner. Follow HATCH: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatc... Instagram: / hatch_the_agency Go to https://hatchtheagency.com/ for more on all things HATCH. Executive Producer: Gregg Warfield Director / Executive Producer: Victoria Ashly Griggs Editor: Cesar Lazare Jr. Motion Graphics: Michael (Alivixi) Guadarrama A Sweeter The Juice Film

Eat In or Dine Out: Scaling, Selling and Dunkin’ With Carrie Kerpen

What does it take to build, scale, and sell a successful marketing agency? Carrie Kerpen, founder of Likeable and one of the pioneers of the social media agency model, joins Jennifer Harrington on Eat In or Dine Out to share insights from building one of the world’s first social media agencies — and what she learned from selling it. Carrie launched Likeable in 2006, long before social media agencies were common. After successfully scaling and selling the business, she shifted her focus to helping women entrepreneurs grow and sell their own companies through The Whisper Group. In this episode, Carrie joins Jen for coffee and Dunkin’ munchkins to talk about: • How independent marketing agencies can maintain creativity and heart while still scaling for large brand clients • Why CMOs are increasingly comfortable with freelance talent—as long as agencies have a strong, trusted talent network • What big brands look for when choosing smaller agencies • Lessons from building and selling a social media agency • And the surprising overlap between New York pride and Dunkin’ loyalty If you're a CMO, agency founder, marketer, or entrepreneur, this episode explores what it really takes to build an agency that can grow, scale, and succeed with major brands. Subscribe for more conversations about agency growth, marketing leadership, talent strategy, and entrepreneurship. HATCH is a Boston based independent, women-owned agency that serves growth-hungry brands a customizable combo of creative capabilities and expertly sourced talent, all from one strategic partner.Follow HATCH:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatch-marketing/?viewAsMember=trueInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hatch_the_agency/Go to https://hatchtheagency.com/ for more on all things HATCH.Executive Producer: Gregg Warfield Director / Executive Producer: Victoria Ashly Griggs Editor: Rayviation Motion Graphics: Michael (Alivixi) Guadarrama A Sweeter The Juice Film #MarketingAgency #SocialMediaAgency #CMO #AgencyGrowth #Entrepreneurship #WomenInBusiness #MarketingLeadership#AgencyLife

Are Young Creatives Changing The Industry? Insights and Bites with The One Club's Yash Egami

Young creatives are changing the advertising industry, and we all need to keep up. On this episode of Eat In or Dine Out, COO of The One Club for Creativity Yash Egami joins CEO of HATCH Jen Harrington to make canolis while discussing a creative's decision to go in-house versus stay independent, how young creatives are paving a new way in work flow, and the importance of diversity in advertising. HATCH is a Boston based independent, women-owned agency that serves growth-hungry brands a customizable combo of creative capabilities and expertly sourced talent, all from one strategic partner.Follow HATCH:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatch-marketing/?viewAsMember=trueInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hatch_the_agency/Go to https://hatchtheagency.com/ for more on all things HATCH.Executive Producer: Gregg Warfield Director / Executive Producer: Victoria Ashly Griggs Editor: Rayviation Motion Graphics: Michael (Alivixi) Guadarrama A Sweeter The Juice Film

Ad Age’s Judy Pollack: Small Agencies and Cupcakes

Small agencies are on the rise. Don’t take our word for it — take Judann Pollack’s. On the newest episode of Eat In or Dine Out, the Executive Editor of Ad Age tells Jennifer Harrington what she sees happening in the industry today:🧁Small, independent agencies are holding their own against the industry’s biggest players by staying nimble and creative.🧁The “Hollywood model” — agencies assembling teams of specialized freelancers for each project — is growing exponentially.🧁The just-launched Ad Age Small Agency Network is giving like-minded small agencies across the country a new way to connect and learn.Watch the episode, then let us know: Do you see these trends continuing in 2026?HATCH is an independent, women-owned agency that serves growth-hungry brands a customizable combo of creative capabilities and expertly sourced talent, all from one strategic partner. Because as marketing leaders flex, adjust, and pivot to stretch fluctuating budgets, hit moving targets, and stay ahead of the competition, they need on-demand access to both fresh creative ideas and ready-to-roll talent. So, what’ll it be today?Follow HATCH:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatch-marketing/?viewAsMember=trueInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hatch_the_agency/Go to https://hatchtheagency.com/ for more on all things HATCH.Executive Producer: Gregg Warfield https://www.instagram.com/capeg0d/Director / Executive Producer: Victoria Ashly Griggs https://www.instagram.com/vagriggah/Editor: Rayviation https://www.instagram.com/rayviation.rocks/Motion Graphics: Michael (Alivixi) Guadarrama @sandyrivercustomsA Sweeter The Juice Film https://www.sweeterthejuicefilms.com/about#advertising #smallagency #agency #podcast #interview

CMO Derek O'Brien: The Power of Partnerships and Korean Treats

On this episode of Eat In or Dine Out Derek O'Brien CMO of Peabody Essex Museum joins Jen Harrington to enjoy Korean treats for take out while they discuss the benefits of creative agency partnership. Be sure to check out the Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture at PEM! Like and follow for more insight from CMOs on how they staff for creative marketing and advertising projects!Executive Producer: Gregg Warfield https://www.instagram.com/capeg0d/Director / Executive Producer: Victoria Ashly Griggs https://www.instagram.com/vagriggah/Editor: Rayviation https://www.instagram.com/rayviation.rocks/Motion Graphics: Michael (Alivixi) Guadarrama @sandyrivercustomsA Sweeter The Juice Film https://www.instagram.com/sweeterthejuicef...Follow HATCH:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatch-mar...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hatch_the_agency/Go to https://hatchtheagency.com/ for more on all things HATCH.