Zeitgeist: How breakout brands got built

Zeitgeist: How breakout brands got built

Steven Galanis

Episodes 8
Avg. Duration 1h 12m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since May 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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About This Podcast

Step past the Red Velvet Rope into Zeitgeist, where Cameo co-founder Steven Galanis pulls back the curtain on the renegades behind the consumer brands owning pop culture. Every week, Steven goes toe-to-toe with the masterminds—founders, CMOs, and disruptors—who’ve turned products into obsessions. No polished TED Talks here. These are the raw, unfiltered stories PR teams beg to bury. Think late-night whiskey confessions with a side of boardroom chaos. Expect: • Leadership lessons that cut through the noise • Secrets to hacking virality • Origin stories so wild, you’ll hit rewind • C-suite therapy, no buzzwords allowed • The playbook to cement your brand in the cultural zeitgeist Buckle up for Zeitgeist. Subscribe now and join the inner circle. The Zeitgeist podcast is brought to you by Cameo, Personalized videos from your favorite stars. Book yours here: https://www.cameo.com/

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Recent Episodes

How Great Restaurant Brands Stay Relevant for Decades (CEO Lettuce Entertain You, R.J. Melman)

Jun 02, 2026 1h Transcript

Repeated Hit BrandsR.J. Melman, CEO of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, shares why some companies stay relevant for decades while others disappear:“Restaurants don’t get tired. Restaurateurs get…

How Squire Built the Ultimate Brand Experience - Dave Salvant Co-Founder and President

Oct 09, 2025 43m Transcript

Barbershop to Billion.Dave Salvant, President and Co-Founder of Squire, built a platform that’s processed over $1B in payments — but it all started with a bad haircut experience.When we sat down for…

How We Built Chomps Into a $1B Snack Brand - Co-Founder & CEO Rashid Ali

Sep 29, 2025 1h 22m

Rashid Ali, Co-Founder & CEO of Chomps, he told us something I can’t forget:👉 “Our moms were our best customers.”That’s how Chomps started.A frozen steak business that couldn’t scale. No…

I Built BetMGM & Rocket Mortgage Into Cultural Phenomena (Casey Hurbis, CMO of BetMGM)

Aug 26, 2025 1h 40m

What does it take to turn a mortgage company and a sports betting app into cultural icons?Casey Hurbis, CMO of BetMGM and the marketing mind who helped Rocket Mortgage break into the Super Bowl…

Four Loko's Jaisen Freeman (The Brand Too Bold To Break)

Jul 22, 2025 1h 5m

They tried to cancel Four Loko. It didn’t work.This is the untold story of how one of the most hated, hyped, and misunderstood brands in America refused to die.Jaisen Freeman — co-founder and co-CEO…

America's Youngest Woman CEO (Lifeway Foods' Julie Smolyansky)

Jul 04, 2025 1h 33m

Kefir...from $116 to Billion-Dollar Brand...CEO Lifeway Foods, Julie Smolyansky.Julie Smolyansky is the CEO of Lifeway Foods, shares her incredible and inspiring story!Imagine arriving in America as…

Bourbon Just Became Currency - Unicorn's Phil Mikhaylov

Jun 03, 2025 1h 9m Transcript

From Uber to Unicorn: Reinventing the $100B booze biz.He started with a Google Sheet and a whiskey collector who didn’t know he was sitting on a million dollars.Phil Mikhailov is CEO and Co-Founder…

Dude Wipes, Chief Executive Dude & President, Sean Riley

May 12, 2025 1h 5m Transcript

What do a Shark Tank smack down and a life-sized foam butt on MTV have in common? They built Dude Wipes—a $200M empire that turned baby wipes into a pop culture phenomenon.In the premiere of…

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Zeitgeist: How breakout brands got built has published 8 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Business, Business News.

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