Creative Got me

Creative Got Me is a podcast for founders, marketers, and creatives who want to build content that moves the needle without losing their soul. Hosted by Monique Ritter, it explores how to stay authentic in a world obsessed with algorithms, speed, and scale. Each episode unpacks the hidden costs of creative pressure, the role of AI in storytelling, and how to bring joy, humanity, and sustainability back into modern marketing.

Creative Got me is a business podcast hosted by Monique Ritter, with 22 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.

Monique Ritter hosts Creative Got me, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  Abnormally Confident: How Melanie Travis Built Andie from Zero to 1M Swimsuits Sold

  Mar 3, 202649 minS0

  <p>She was a film director in training, working on indie sets and squeezing into cabs with other broke twenty–somethings on awards nights. Then she took a customer support internship at a little New York startup, fell in love with building internet brands, and eventually quit to sell swimsuits on the internet.</p><p><br></p><p>That is Melanie Travis, founder and CEO of Andie Swim, and she might be the most “abnormally confident” person I have ever met.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode we talk about how a deeply awkward work offsite at a lake w...

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  How to Build a DTC Brand People Actually Trust (Not Just Buy From) with Eunice Byun @ Material Kitchen

  Feb 24, 202652 minS0

  <p>She left Goldman Sachs and Revlon to sell kitchen tools. Eight years later, she voluntarily killed her best-selling cutting board because new research showed she could do better for customers.</p><p><br></p><p>That's Eunice Byun, founder of Material, and this conversation is one of my favorites.</p><p><br></p><p>While everyone's chasing growth hacks and viral moments, Eunice is building an "old soul" brand. Human customer service. Thoughtful design. Products you actually reach for every day. And a lifetime warranty that's just "reach out and we'll help.”</p><p><br></p><p>We talk ab...

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  How Lica Trains AI to Think Like a Designer with CEO Priyaa Kalyanaraman

  Feb 17, 202655 minS0

  <p>What if your brand had a creative director in the cloud?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I sit down with my boss and Lica’s co-founder/CEO, Priyaa Kalyanaraman, to unpack what we’re actually building and why it’s very different from yet another “type a prompt, get a pretty picture” tool.</p><p><br></p><p>Priyaa has been working in AI and design long before it was cool. From building presentation design agents at Microsoft to experimenting with social creatives at Snap, she’s been obsessed with one question:</p><p><br></p><p>How do you...

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  From Dot-Com Crash to AI Boom: Lessons From 30 Years Online with David Cost

  Feb 10, 202655 minS0

  <p>What happens when you put a 30-year tech pioneer in a room with someone building AI for the next 30?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Creative Got Me, I sit down with David Cost, VP of Digital & Ecommerce at Rainbow Shops and former co-founder of one of the internet’s first price comparison sites, PriceSCAN.com. David has quietly been at the front of every major tech wave so far: personal computing, the early web, mobile, and now AI. He’s seen the dot-com bubble burst, watched Google out-compete his startup, and then turned all of that...

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  Kinship, Grief, and the Real Stories Behind “Successful” Brands: A Solo Episode with Monique

  Feb 3, 202615 minS0

  <p>You see the polished brand. You don’t see the brother who wired $5,000 at midnight because he believed in a tiny baby-hat idea.</p><p><br></p><p>In this solo episode of Creative Got Me, I tell the story behind Kinship, the kids hat company I started in 2016 while pregnant and living in San Francisco. I share how my brother became my first hype man, investor, and co-founder… and how everything changed when he passed away from COVID in 2020.</p><p><br></p><p>There are some things you can “figure out” in business: how to build a tech pac...

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