Comms Confidential: The Podcast

Comms Confidential: The Podcast is the definitive podcast to hear from communicators across the industry and hear about their experiences, unique insights from their career, what they most look forward to in the future of PR and more. Guests range from corporate to technology to policy to reputation management and more. Opinions expressed are my own and do not represent the views of PayPal.

Comms Confidential: The Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Joseph Gallo, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Joseph Gallo hosts Comms Confidential: The Podcast, a business show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  If Not Now, When? Adam Belmont on Leaving Agency Life and Betting on Yourself

  Aug 11, 202636 minS1

  After fifteen years inside big agencies, what finally makes a PR pro walk away from the steady paycheck and bet on himself? Adam Belmont has the answer. Adam Belmont is the founder of A-to-B Strategies, a fractional strategic communications practice based in Dallas. From his first internship at Edelman to more than a decade across Ogilvy and ICR, where he rose to managing director, Adam spent his career putting other people in the spotlight before deciding it was time to turn it on himself. In this episode, we discuss leaving agency life, the rise of the fractional PR model, building a referral pipeline before there's an opportunity on the table, running LinkedIn as a storefront instead of a website, pitching podcasts the way you'd pitch a journalist, the question that finally pushed him to start his own firm, and much more. Connect with Adam at https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambelmont/ .

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  Episode #15

  Showing Up Is the Whole Strategy with Monique Kelley, Author of Redefining Networking

  Jul 28, 202640 minS1

  Eighty percent of PR professionals know they need to network. Fewer than half actually do it. Monique Kelley has the answer. From a decade on the agency side at Weber Shandwick, to leading internal and external communications at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, to a full-time professorship at Boston University’s College of Communication, Monique Kelley has now built a consulting practice with no website and no marketing spend, almost entirely through relationships. In this episode, we discuss the AI blind spot that nearly tanked a client’s gym launch, the three-step framework behind her book Redefining Networking, why introverts often out-network extroverts, internal networking and executive sponsorship, what her Boston University students get right that older generations didn’t have the chance to learn, and much more. Connect with Monique on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquekelleygigliotti/ Check out Redefining Networking at https://www.redefiningnetworkingbook.com/

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  Episode #14

  The Joy of Discovery Just Compounds When You Share It. with Dan Lewis of The Comms Stack

  Jul 14, 202637 minS1

  What does it actually take to move a communications team from prompting to building? Enter Dan Lewis, a trained lawyer who became the first social media lead at Sesame Workshop, wrote Cookie Monster’s Reddit AMA, and built a daily trivia email newsletter to more than 100,000 subscribers over 15 years without a dollar of paid acquisition. Now he writes the Comms Stack to help comms pros figure out AI the same way he figures out everything: by building in public. In this episode, we discuss the difference between prompting and building, how to structure a comms AI tiger team, why not hiring junior practitioners is the real AI mistake, the Beehiiv vs. Substack decision, what 15 years of daily writing teaches you about creative endurance, and much more.

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  Episode #13

  We Wanted the Scare Factor Out of It with Erin Miller, Yahoo!

  Jun 30, 202622 minS1

  How does a comms team actually build the case for hiring someone dedicated to AI? Erin Miller has the answer. Erin Miller is VP of Global Corporate Communications at Yahoo, where she's spent the last two years helping reposition a 30-year-old brand for a new era. Her path runs from Porter Novelli and Condé Nast through Meta and Handshake to Yahoo, nearly two decades built on the same instinct: relationships outlast any one job. In this episode, recorded live at Cannes Lions, we discuss how Yahoo built the business case for a dedicated AI operations hire inside its comms team, what actually works (and doesn't) for first-time and repeat Cannes attendees, how Yahoo measures impact beyond the festival, and much more. Connect with Erin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinfrostmiller/

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  Episode #11

  Be a Learn-It-All: The AI Readiness Mindset Every Next-Gen Comms Pro Needs with Susan Oguche

  Jun 2, 202643 minS1

  <p>Susan Oguche spent 20 years climbing the comms ladder, from P&G to Nike to CCO of the Cleveland Cavaliers and now the founder of Brilliance Communications.<br /></p><p>In this episode she breaks down:</p><p>•  The three-stage journey from doer to strategist to trusted advisor and why you can’t skip the rungs.</p><p>•  Why adaptability is the one superpower that scales across every company culture.</p><p>•  How her lean Cavs team became early AI adopters when the tools were barely ready.</p><p>•  What she’s building now for mid-market clients navigating GEO and content infrastr...

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