In a world driven by the hustle, it's time to tame the hubris and engage with empathy.
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A podcast hosted by Blockchain Israel, the largest community in Israel dedicated to Blockchain Solutions and Crypto Technologies. We'll be bringing thought leaders across industries to hear about their insights and input on how blockchain and crypto and its potential to disrupt industries. Our featured topics: Blockchain · Bitcoin · Cryptocurrency · Smart Contracts · Digital Currency · Virtual Currency · Decentralization · Cryptography · Decentralized Systems · Smart Property
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Rani Mani, Head of Employee Advocacy at Adobe, Love Affair with Influencer Marketing [Ep. 34]
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This is an episode of Empathize It Podcast with host Mordecai Holtz and Rani Mani. Rani Mani is the Head of Employee Advocacy at Adobe. We discuss her love affair with influencer marketing, employee advocacy, empathy and its role in both internal and external brand success. Follow Rani on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ranimani0707 Follow Mordecai on…
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Katie Perry, Everything Matters, Growth and Impact Investing [Ep. 33]
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This is an episode of Empathize It Podcast with host Mordecai Holtz and Katie Perry. Katie Perry is the VP Marketing at Public. A whole new way to invest. Public makes the stock market social. We discuss how everything matters in disrupting an archaic business model, everything matters, and changing the culture of investing. Follow Katie on Twitter…
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Empathize IT: Ep. 32: Jose-Andres Camacho: Simple Effective Communication
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Spent time with Jose-Andres Camacho about the importance of simple, effective communication. Jose shares his experience working with two big brands, Abbott and Adobe, and the differences in delivering a coherent message.
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Empathize IT: Ep. 31 : Katelyn Bourgoin: The Secret Power of Marketers
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Katelyn Bourgoin is a 5X founder turned growth strategist and trainer. She understands the challenges business leaders face because she’s been there herself. With operational experience spanning the marketing, tech, and hospitality sectors, Katelyn has been named as an influential entrepreneur by Forbes magazine and featured in Inc., HuffPost, Bust…
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Empathize IT: Ep. 30 : Christina Garnett: Community over Competition and Marketing Twitter
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Former teacher and marketing director, Christina Garnett works with Fortune 500 brands to strengthen their digital strategy. With inbound marketing at the core, it's crucial that the target audience comes first and Christina focuses her efforts to encourage a deep dive to understand personas, competitors, and more. Christina works to create brand b…
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Empathize IT: Ep. 29: Ari Lewis: Fan Communities and Twitter Threads
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Ari Lewis, co-founder of GreenBlock Group, a strategic communications firm, and OhioX, Ohio’s Technology and Innovation Partnership. My writing is primarily focused on the Attention Economy. I’ve been quoted in publications like the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes and Business Insider.
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Empathize IT: Ep. 28: Jason Schulweis: Collecting Dots and Constructive Tension
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Jason Schulweis, SVP and Head of Brand Partnerships, at Morning Brew discusses collecting dots, repitition and reputation, and constructive tension. Morning Brew has earned its position as a leading business newsletter in today’s digital economy. Every morning, over 2.2M people read Morning Brew’s daily email newsletter covering the latest news fro…
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Ep. 27: Ed Diender Digital Transformation During #Covid19
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During these uncertain times, I had the opportunity to catch up with Ed Diender, CDTO and Vice President, Global Government Business Unit, Huawei Enterprise, about digital transformation during the global COVID pandemic. In this episode, Ed explains how institutions, brands, and governments are embracing digital transformation in a much faster pace…
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Ep. 26: Empathize It: Yam Regev: Tribes, Micro Content and Changing How Marketers Learn
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A long-overdue conversation with Yam Regev, CEO of Zest.is a platform that has literally reconfigured how people learn today in a digital-first world. The foundation of Zest is that professional marketers are the driving force behind curating top-tier consumable and valuable content and not manipulated fluff. And that tribe of active members recomm…
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Ep. 25: Empathize It: Ben Jacobson: A Love/ Hate Relationship with #H2H
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A conversation with Ben Jacobson, who reached out to me via Twitter after I posted episode 3 with Bryan Kramer. Ben said "As a B2B content marketing specialist, I've had a love-hate relationship with Kramer's H2H construct ever since I first encountered it a few years ago :)" During this episode, Ben spills the beans on his theory about the H2H con…
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Ep. 24: Empathize It: Emily Schrader: Social Advocacy and a Global Audience
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A conversation with Emily Schrader, Content and Community Director at Lumen, and Founder at Social Lite Creative. We explore the important role that social media plays in scaling up global movements and organizations aiming to expand and/or strengthen mission. As the former Director of Social Media at Standing Together, an global Pro-Israel advocac…
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Ep. 23: Empathize It: Solomon Choi: Your Only KPI has to be Love
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A conversation with Solomon Choi , Founder and CEO, 16 Handles about building the largest frozen yogurt chain on the East Coast, serving customers with the best experiences, and the real driver to success as an entrepreneur. It's such an honor to host Mr. Choi, who built his business from scratch and offered some tremendous insights on what it take…
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Ep. 22: Empathize It: Vincent Orleck: The Rising Tides of Influencer Marketing
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A conversation with Vincent Orleck about the good, bad, and the ugly surrounding influencer marketing, Vincent runs the Social Media Strategy for Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. He's also a proponent/contributor to the #yesPHX startup and entrepreneurial community. Vincent is also President of Social Media Club Phoenix and the CoHost…
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Ep 21: Empathize It: Pamela Wagner: Why I Cut My Client Base in Half
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A conversation with Pamela Wagner about why she cut half her client base at the end of 2018. Pamela heads Ajala Digital, a global boutique marketing agency focused on Google and Facebook advertising. Before founding the company in early 2016, Pamela worked at Google and in several other industries.
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Ep 20: Nazlina Quadir: Driving a Mission Greater than Yourself
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A conversation with Nazlina Quadir, Winner of Marie Claire's Amazing Women Award 2018. Nazlina is the Founder and Lead Organizer of Women TechMaker in Kuala Lumpur. Nazlina is the perfect combination of an experienced integrated marketing communications (IMC) strategist, an engaging speaker and community builder.…
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Ep. 19: Pavel Bulowski: Your Customer is a Person Not a Bounce Rate
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A conversation with Pavel Bulowski, Co-Founder of Meiro, and of SheLovesData, highlights the points of bridging the gap between data and customers, where most companies fail in marketing with their data sets, and entrepreneurship in general. Meiro is a Singapore based martech startup that enables marketers to connect their user data to real success…
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Ep. 18: Empathize It: Deepak Shukla: SEO, Marathons and Packaging the Soft Skills
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A conversation with Deepak Shukla, Founder and CEO of Pearl Lemon, highlights the constantly shifting SEO industry, what it's like to adapt to these changes and why SEO is never dead. Deepak bootstrapped the business from his mum’s house to a £275k company in less than 24 months. He’s since gone on to invest in algorithmic trading, launch 5-figure …
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Ep. 17: Empathize It: Rachel Miller: The Future of Work, Data, and Purple Sarcasm
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A conversation with Rachel Miller, Senior Social Strategist at the award-winning company, Thulium, a leader in the storytelling arena for B2B companies. Rachel's 15+ years of experience in marketing, especially in the social media marketing, content marketing, and influencer marketing arenas, have been globally recognized in the B2B tech space. For…
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Ep. 16: Empathize It: Sivan Felder: Video Content Marketing and Scaling Your Business
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They say that working with family never goes well. Apparently, they never met Sivan Felder and her brother Barak of Two Heads Consulting. This dynamic duo is crushing the content marketing scene in Israel. In this episode, I interview Sivan Felder, VP, Marketing Director at Two Heads Consulting. Two Heads Consulting is providing impressive value wi…
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Ep. 15: Empathize It: Martijn Boomsma: Unlock the Power of Now
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Imagine that you're working for Nintendo developing games and then the Iphone4 comes out to crush your company. Well, that's what happened to Martijn Boomsma. The Apple App store came and, essentially, killed his business. In this episode, I interview Martijn Boomsma, CEO and Co-Founder of Lab Rooms. After years of being an entrepreneur and creatin…
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14: Empathize It: Reena Friedman Watts: Live from Jerusalem, Passion Brings Next Level Stories
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Ever meet someone in real life, after months of online conversations? What does it take to take your story to the next level?This week, after months of conversations on Linkedin, I finally met Reena Friedman Watts in Jerusalem. I've been watching Reena's videos. I've listened as she interviews amazing people, she's all passion all the time. Today, …
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14: Empathize It: Reena Friedman Watts: Live from Jerusalem, Passion Brings Next Level Stories from Next Level People
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Ever meet someone in real life, after months of online conversations? What does it take to take your story to the next level?This week, after months of conversations on Linkedin, I finally met Reena Friedman Watts in Jerusalem. I've been watching Reena's videos. I've listened as she interviews amazing people, she's all passion all the time. Today, …
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Ep 13: Empathize It: Warren Carlyle: The 7 C's of Building a Thriving Digital Community
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What does it take to build an engaged digital community? And what do octopuses have to do with it?A few months ago, I was introduced to Warren Carlyle via Facebook. His vision on digital community building is so on par with how I approach every client, every project, and every piece of content. It's clear that today, there's a strong call for not o…
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12: Empathize It: Ben Roberts: Reverse Engineering the Customer Acquisition Process
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Ever wonder how to reverse engineer the customer acquisition process to drive real value?After meeting Ben Roberts at Engage Prague, we connected immediately. Ben is just on a social media roll and I'm honored to be part of his growth trajectory. It's clear that today, there's a strong call for transparency and reinventing the process of bringing n…
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11: Empathize It: Lucy von Sturmer: Live from #websummit "Refining the Why of a Brand"
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What are the trends in today's digital space? What are the big brands, companies, and enterprises thinking about?It's clear that today, there's a strong call for transparency and true leadership. Today’s audiences expect more. We expect more from brands, governments, organizations, and leaders. In today's digital landscape, brands need to be delibe…
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10: Empathize It: Carey Fried: Sabre tooth tigers, Google training, and empathy muscles
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Ever wonder what it's like to integrate empathy into a business? Why would a company want to bring this 'soft skill' in the workplace? Hear from Carey Fried all about the experience.Carey Fried is the perfect follow up to Ed Andrew, in episode 9. Ed spoke about self awareness and responsibility. Now it's time to learn all about flexing the empathy …
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09: Empathize It: Ed Andrew: Self Awareness Starts with Responsibility
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After speaking to Jenn Herman, in episode 8 Instagram and being human on social media, I decided to take a step back. It was time to reflect on the human aspects that drive business today.When considering my network, I thought Ed Andrew would be an ideal guest.Ed's brand The Human Consultancy focuses on the human side and one which inspires great p…
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08: Empathize It: Jenn Herman: Instagram, Emotional Marketing and Being Human on Social
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Emotional marketing is hard to get right, especially on Instagram. When I think about Instagram marketing and getting it right, who else could I ask but the famous Jenn Herman?!After speaking to Katie Clift, in episode 7, about PR and Marketing in a digital world, I thought Jenn would be a perfect guest to drill down into the topic of emotional mar…
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07: Empathize It: Katie Clift: PR in a Digital World
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Is there room for PR in a digital world? Can PR still find a position for brands and entrepreneurs?After speaking to Samuel Pavin about the other side of the hustle in episode 6, I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn about raising awareness. When I think about international brand positioning and PR, who better to speak to than my colle…
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06: Empathize It: Samuel Pavin: Reaching the Pique of the Hustle
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I've known Samuel Pavin for several years now, although we only met at Huawei Connect 2017, in Shanghai. After speaking to Walter Jennings in episode 5, I'm excited to speak with Sam about the 'other side' of entrepreneurship, including some of the unstated or taboo topics of entrepreneurship. After reading an article in Techcrunch about the emotio…
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05: Walter Jennings: Influencer Relations, Win/Win Opportunities and Complex Stories
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I've known Walter Jennings for three years, at the time, he was leading the International KOL (Key Opinion Leaders) program for Huawei.Today, I'm honored to host Walter, who is now a Senior Consultant at the Tantalus Consulting Group, serving as the firm’s leading expert on International Key Opinion Leaders and Influencer Relations for corporate re…
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04: Empathize It : Esti Rand: Marketing Charlatans, Wheelbarrows, Mud and Sneeches
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Several months ago, when the idea of this podcast was still in its ideation phases, I had the distinct pleasure to be hosted by Esti Rand on her Business Breakthrough podcast.Now, I'm honored to host Esti who is a long-time colleague, driven entrepreneur and passionate about helping small, medium and large businesses.A Bit About the GuestEstie Rand…
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03: Bryan Kramer: Mad Men of Marketing, Fickle Customers, and Creating Trust
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When I started my podcast, I came up with a top 10 wish list of guests that I'd love to host. Bryan Kramer was on that list.Over the years, I've read all of his books, I've participated in his #H2H Twitter chats, learned from his content, and have listened to his videos. With such a strong community and vast years of digital and marketing experienc…
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02: Empathize It: Ross Quintana: Mac n' Cheese, Retail's Secret Sauce, and Fiverr
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In a world driven by selfies and social; where empathy and entrepreneurs are considered contradictory. In this podcast, Mordecai Holtz aims to put empathy back in the boardroom by hearing from the best entrepreneurs around the world and learning how they’ve learned to “empathize it,” and how it’s actually driving the digital economy.…
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01: Empathy, My Super Powers and My Kryptonite
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In a world driven by selfies and social; where empathy and entrepreneurs are considered contradictory. This podcast aims to put empathy back in the boardroom by hearing from the best entrepreneurs around the world and learning how they’ve learned to “empathize it,” and how it’s actually driving the digital economy.…
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Blockchain Israel Meets with Brian Wallace
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Blockchain Israel meets Brian Wallace, Infographic expert, Blockchain marketer, and a board member of Blockchain Israel. In this episode, we discuss digital marketing and blockchain / crypto scene and what it takes to penetrate the market.
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Blockchain Israel Meets with Josh Liggett
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Blockchain Israel meets Josh Liggett, Investment Analyst/ Fintech and Blockchain Lead for Ourcrowd. In this episode, we discuss the blockchain / crypto scene in Israel, the trends around the world, and the similarities between VC and blockchain scenes.
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