Growth Department

Growth Department is a business podcast for founders and business leaders who are actively building and want to keep learning as they grow. Each week, host Chelsey Reynolds talks with operators, executives, and entrepreneurs about how real businesses are built and scaled. These conversations focus on the decisions, tradeoffs, and systems that shape growth over time. You’ll hear practical insight on finding customers, building teams, scaling operations, and leading well, alongside honest discussions about how personal growth shows up in professional work. Growth Department slows the conversation down so you can go further, faster.

Growth Department is a business podcast hosted by Chelsey Reynolds, with 67 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.

Chelsey Reynolds hosts Growth Department, a business show with 67 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  CMO Diaries: Brand Is the Moat, Inside a Rebrand, and the Future of Marketing with Leadfeeder CMO Jillian Als

  Jun 4, 202626 minS3

  <p><b>This week's episode: cool people doing cool shit at cool companies.</b></p><p>Chelsey sits down with Jillian Als, CMO at Leadfeeder, where she runs brand, demand, and revenue at a global scale. After nearly 20 years in B2B SaaS, Jillian has done the demand gen CMO playbook and is now leaning hard into brand as the moat.</p><p>Jillian breaks down how she rebranded Dealfront back to Leadfeeder in 90 days, why brand is the most underrated unlock in an AI-disrupted GTM world, and how to make in-person marketing pencil out even when your average deal...

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  Episode #15

  Fraud Girl: How Danielle Spinelli Is Fighting Cargo Theft (with GenLogs)

  May 28, 202620 minS3

  <p><b>This week's episode: cool people doing cool shit at cool companies.</b></p><p>Chelsey sits down with Danielle Spinelli, AKA "Fraud Girl," Director of Partnerships at GenLogs, host of the Tell Me Everything podcast, and 2024 Women in Logistics Award winner.</p><p>After 8 years as a carrier sales broker handling high-value freight like copper and electrical wire, Danielle became one of the most trusted voices in carrier vetting and cargo theft prevention in the industry.</p><p>In this episode, Danielle covers:</p>How she went from rolling the dice on loads to fraud-fighting detective workHow Genlogs...

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  Episode #14

  The Analog Revival: Why Smart Brands Are Adding Friction On Purpose (with Ed Hayes)

  May 20, 202632 minS3

  <p>Ed Hayes has spent 20+ years designing brands, and he's watching something flip. While the rest of the world races toward frictionless, AI-streamlined everything, the smartest brands are doing the opposite. They're adding friction on purpose.</p><p>Chelsey and Ed get into the analog revival happening across categories: Birkenstocks, Le Labo, A24, and a taco shop in NYC that refuses to translate its menu. They cover why brand architecture is being designed to slow people down, how friction is becoming a premium signal, and whether "brand" even survives once AI takes over the shopping experience.</p><p>If you're...

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  Episode #13

  How to Build (and Charge For) Brand Experiences People Love with Tom Gray

  May 7, 202632 minS3

  <p><b>Why brands aren't just hosting experiences anymore. They're charging for them.</b></p><p>In this episode of the Growth Department podcast, Chelsey sits down with Tom Gray, Chief Strategy Officer at Imagination Group, the global experience design consultancy that helps brands build game-changing strategies and experiences for customers, employees, and stakeholders. Tom has spent his career designing the kind of brand experiences people willingly show up for, talk about, and increasingly, pay to attend.</p><p>Tom unpacks the shift from the attention economy to the connection economy, why 93% of what we see on social media is...

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  Episode #12

  Experiential Marketing Done Right with Diana Zwetzich

  Apr 30, 202625 minS3

  <p><b>The era of the Instagrammable photo backdrop is over. So what's next?</b></p><p>In this episode of the Growth Department podcast, Chelsey sits down with Diana Zwetzich, experiential designer and founder of guest-centered brand activations, to talk about why most brand experiences are falling flat and what separates a forgettable pop-up from an activation people actually remember.</p><p>Diana built her career on architectural design and environmental storytelling for global brands, including the viral 29 Rooms experience and Refinery29's Luna Lounge at Coachella. Now she's bridging the gap between experiential design and hospitality, helping brands...

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