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Brand clarity from the messy middle.
The Branding Laboratory talks with entrepreneurs, operators, and business builders about what makes a brand hold together under pressure. Conversations move from origin stories and messy turning points into practical questions about messaging, visibility, hiring, sales, and leadership.
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The Branding Laboratory approaches branding as the visible outcome of deeper choices. Devo keeps the focus on what founders believe, how they explain their value, and what happens when pressure exposes the weak spots. The show is conversational and fast-moving. Questions often begin as riffs, then narrow into a useful point. That style gives the interviews room to breathe without letting them float away. A guest can start with broken bones, online threats, and performance identity, and the conversation still lands on how entrepreneurs manage pressure. A marketing discussion can begin with ads, funnels, and content, then pull back to the source code of the message itself. The show is especially interested in clarity. It asks what people are actually selling, what makes them different, and why buyers get confused even when the tactics look busy. It also has a strong interest in identity. Episodes with Scott Hogan and Aleksandra Ceho frame business growth as inseparable from how a leader understands themselves. That can make the show feel more personal than a standard entrepreneurship interview. Still, it usually returns to practical ground. Guests discuss workshops, keynotes, referrals, recruiting, selling from stage, founder confidence, and the discipline of showing up clearly. Kat Halushka brings visibility and stage strategy into the mix. Mark Wojcik turns hiring into a brand problem, especially when job descriptions and clone-seeking managers narrow the talent pool. The canned water conversation adds a different texture, using a physical product and a scaling bet to test leadership, capital, distribution, and conviction. The show is not polished into silence. It keeps the banter, the detours, and the occasional sharp edge. That looseness is part of the appeal. The Branding Laboratory is best for business builders who want the real conversation before the cleaned-up lesson.
Made for: The show is for founders, entrepreneurs, business operators, speakers, and service providers trying to sharpen how they lead, explain, hire, sell, and show up. It especially fits listeners who like practical branding talk grounded in lived examples.
What sets it apart: Instead of treating branding as a marketing wrapper, the show ties it to identity, pressure, leadership behavior, and buyer clarity. Its interview style is loose enough for real stories but pointed enough to keep finding the business lesson.
Are you a CEO, entrepreneur, or solopreneur with a drive to build a distinctive brand that resonates with your audience? Are you an industry influencer who understands the importance of authenticity and compelling storytelling in shaping your digital footprint? The Business Branding Laboratory is the podcast for you! Every episode of The Branding Laboratory offers a blend of theory and practice, making complex branding strategies accessible and actionable. We delve into the essence of innovative leadership—unpacking how successful leaders integrate their personal values with their professional objectives to create compelling, authentic brands. Our discussions center around the vital role of.…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Devo connects brand strategy to the hiring, marketing, identity, and growth decisions that founders face in daily business.
The Branding Laboratory treats branding as a set of operating decisions with consequences for hiring, marketing, growth, and leadership. In guest interviews, host Devo repeatedly brings broad ideas back to the choices founders make: clarifying an offer before buying advertising,…
Devo keeps asking the question your polished business language was hoping to dodge.
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A comeback story that treats pressure as a force that can break performance and help rebuild it.
Alex Bolowich's Creighton years come across as a hard stretch: more than nine broken bones, a height disadvantage, online stalking and threats, and a nervous system shutdown that left him missing simple shots.
Clarity has to come before amplification.
The episode treats founder marketing as a messaging problem before it is a spending problem. It keeps returning to buyer confusion, an unclear core message, and the gap between marketing, sales, and branding, which makes the central point easy to follow: promotion does little…
A practical talk about scaling by being clearer, not louder.
Devo and the guest keep the focus on brand momentum, clear messaging, and the harder work of building on what already feels effective without turning it into a performance.
A practical listen about identity, timing, and clearer business decisions.
Aleksandra Ceho treats identity as the force shaping how people show up, decide, and run a business, and the career shift from kinesiology to astrology gives that idea a concrete edge.
Hiring works better when the search leaves room for a real person, not a carbon copy.
Mark Wojcik treats hiring as a conversation between people, not a box-ticking exercise. He makes a practical case for coachability and flexibility, and the point lands: a candidate who can grow with the role may be worth more than someone who only matches a preset list.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Mark Elward links his divorce at 42, six weeks without seeing his children, and a decade in court to his later work coaching men.
The Branding Laboratory episode uses Carl Jung’s “constellation of the unconscious” to frame changes in motivation and identity.
The guest starts with a rupture.
Marketing gets called out for what it often is: busywork without a clear message.
This episode explores how authentic leadership and personal growth are essential for business success through a conversation with entrepreneur Scott Hogan.
This episode features a serial founder discussing her transition from Silicon Valley to launching a canned water business in Maine, exploring the challenges of scaling, leadership, and maintaining identity while building a real brand.
Charlie Sells, founder of Clarity Over Everything, says his work is about getting a 40,000-foot view so brands can cut through confusion and choose what to do next.
The episode opens with a conversation about identity and how it shapes belief, business, relationships, and the way someone moves through the world.
This episode features an interview with business strategist Kat Halushka, who shares her $7 million strategy for selling from the stage to help entrepreneurs monetize their message.
Devo opens by saying AI may reshape recruiting, but it will not remove the need for human connection.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features a business conversation exploring leadership lessons, emphasizing the importance of listening and connecting with people as an entrepreneur.
This episode explores why most business pitches fail and offers alternative strategies, featuring insights from entrepreneur Bryce North on purpose, productivity, and brand building.
This episode features an interview with entrepreneur Shay Prosser discussing how clarity of purpose drives sustainable business growth by bridging strategy and execution.