Event Peeps | Podcast


Welcome to Event Peeps, the podcast for creators of the brand experience. Listen in as we explore the experiential marketing discipline through the people behind the events—their stories, their passions, their playbooks. And of course, look out for special episodes along the way. (Available wherever you get your podcasts.)

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  • Brand Ambassador Spotlight: Vanessa Leiva on the Hustle and Heart of Live Events

    Community is everything in the brand ambassador world. In 2021, a friend’s recommendation led Vanessa Leiva to the events industry, and she’s been networking ever since, tapping connections to find the right brand ambassador gigs. “We all end up knowing each other in some way, shape or form, or working with each other. It becomes […]

  • Rewriting the Trade Show Playbook, with Robyn Davis, Author of ‘Exhibit Smarter’

    When Robyn Davis “fell into” events, she started taking note of what worked and what didn’t in trade show environments and booth interactions. Her aerospace engineering background and problem-solving mindset helped her develop frameworks for exhibitor success, ultimately leading Davis to become a trade show trainer, consultant and speaker through her company, Exhibitors WINH. Now, […]

  • Building an Invested Community, with Club Ichi’s Liz Lathan and Nicole Osibodu

    Networking can be hard, especially for introverts, so Liz Lathan and Nicole Osibodu co-founded Club Ichi to welcome event professionals from all backgrounds to connect. Their social club and membership community is built around casual, conversation-based gatherings, peer-to-peer exchanges, local meetups and retreats. In this episode, Lathan and Osibodu delve into their friendship origin story […]

  • Designing Theatrical, Immersive Worlds, with Dr. Ilana Gilovich-Stossel

    Since childhood, Dr. Ilana Gilovich-Stossel has been drawn to magic of storytelling and the world-building and imagination that go into it, especially in the theatrical medium. Through her English literature studies and Ph.D. earned at Columbia University, she homed in on the academic side of theatrical performance, which has influenced her career as a creative […]

  • The Power of Mentorship and Betting on Yourself, with Anna Nicholson of Yahoo

    Anna Nicholson likes to feel challenged and excited about her work, and while her first job as an event marketer at a health care startup taught her a lot about executing b-to-b and b-to-e events, she needed more. Enter: Yahoo and what she calls “the best team on the planet.” Nicholson took a leap of […]