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Agency Health Podcast Deep SpecializationWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.In this episode, Arlen chats with Corey Quinn to unpack the strategic foundations behind escaping founder-led sales, specializing deeply in a niche, and building predictable, scalable agency growth. Corey breaks down the discipline of vertical focus, the power of gift-based outreach, and why trust-driven marketing is becoming even more essential.About Our Guest — Corey Quinn:Corey Quinn is an agency advisor and author of Anyone, Not Everyo...

2025-11-1245 min

Agency Health Podcast The Future of New BusinessWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.In this episode, Arlen chats with Mark O’Brien and Jake Goldman about the evolving realities of agency new business, marketing, and the strategic shifts agencies need to thrive in the next 2–3 years. From the dominance of LinkedIn to the increasing role of multi-channel content and human-centric strategies, this conversation is packed with practical perspective for agency leaders and marketers.About Our GuestsJake founded...

2025-10-2249 min

Agency Health Podcast Enabling your agency marketing teamWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.On this episode I’m joined by Aviral Mittal, Director of Marketing for rtCamp, an enterprise WordPress agency with clients like Penske Media, Aljazeera, and Cox Automotive. Avi is a college dropout who started his career in the non profit sector, moved to hospitality, and then embraced entrepreneurship starting his own events company, and now finds himself in tech.Key Insights:Bias toward going...

2025-10-0138 min

Agency Health Podcast Why New Business – Mastering New Business Series ep1Welcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.And what is a healthy agency? A healthy agency is one that creates great value for its clients, people, and owners in a sustainable way.In this episode Arlen and Piotr kick off a new series on agency new business and talk about why it’s hard, what success actually looks like, and how to replace heroics with a system you can operate consistently.

2025-09-1027 min

Agency Health Podcast Inside Scoop: meet cofounder Piotr DelawskiWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.And what is a healthy agency? A healthy agency is one that creates great value for its clients, people, and owners in a sustainable way.On this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Piotr Delawski, my cofounder at Agency Partners. Piotr has been building for the web for 2 decades and has spent much of that time in the agency world. He hails from Poland.In o...

2025-02-2736 min

Agency Health Podcast Optionality: maximizing long-term valueWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.This episode is part of a mini-series on beginning with the end in mind. As we’ll find, building for your exit from the start helps create a thriving agency that delivers great value for you, your team, and your clients.On this episode, I’m talking to Peter Kang of Barrel Holdings about optionality and the lessons from his experience building multiple agencies and now a holding...

2025-02-1242 min

Agency Health Podcast Exit paths: considering your options and life post-exitWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.This episode is part of a mini-series on beginning with the end in mind. As we’ll find, building for your exit from the start helps create a thriving agency that delivers great value for you, your team, and your clients.On this episode, I’m talking to Sarah Durham of Compton Durham, comparing her experiences successfully selling two agencies.Sarah started Big Duck early in her c...

2025-01-2934 min

Agency Health Podcast Ways to win: building a firm for healthy sustainabilityWelcome to the Agency Health Podcast, where we dig deeper into key agency topics – the what, why, and how – mining actionable insights to help build a better firm.This episode is part of a mini-series on beginning with the end in mind. As we’ll find, building for your exit from the start helps create a thriving agency that delivers great value for you, your team, and your clients.In this episode, I’m talking to Shaun Tyndall of Inclind about how to play the long game well. Very few agencies pass the 25-year milestone, but Shau...

2025-01-1542 min

Agency Health Podcast How being exit ready helps your agency thrive nowThis is episode 1/4 in a mini-series on beginning with the end in mind. As we’ll find, building for your exit from the start helps create a thriving agency that delivers great value for you, your team, and your clients.In this episode I’m talking to Jonathan Baker of Punctuation about exit preparedness. Only a small percentage of firms are successfully sold. But you can better the odds, as Jonathan will share.His journey includes business school, marketing strategy for Fortune 500 CPGs, and co-founding and growing a craft brewery into one of the nation’s larg...

2025-01-0136 min

Agency Health Podcast The Agency Health Podcast: Origin StoryOn this pilot episode, Arlen is joined by Lance Robbins, an HR leader and advisor, remote work expert, keynote speaker and podcast host.We share the backstory for Agency Partners and the Agency Health Podcast:How Arlen got into the agency worldThe experience and values that led to Agency PartnersWhat is a healthy agency?The complexities of assessing and improving agency healthThe approach we take to growing agency healthWhat to expect from the podcast going forward and who it's forThe vision Arlen has for agencies in the futureUp next is a 4-episode mini-series...

2024-12-1730 min

The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese Bohemian Grove and the Cremation of Care CeremonyThe Bohemian Grove was founded in 1878 by the Bohemian Club, which was formed in 1872. It is twenty-seven-hundred acres of private land in Monte Rio, California where every summer in July hundreds of the most powerful and influential men attend what is known as the Cremation of Care ceremony. An early version of it was photographed in 1915 and published by National Geographic.In 1989, a writer for Spy Magazine infiltrated Bohemian Grove and mentioned the Cremation of Care ceremony, but did not mention the effigy. The article mostly focused on powerful drunk men dressing in drag and engaged in...

2024-08-1305 min

Fractional Arlen Byrd: Utility versus valueSend us a textToday we're joined by a special guest, Arlen Byrd. Arlen is a longtime friend and former colleague of both Lance and Joshua. We worked together at XWP and Arlen's emphasis on people first has helped have a tremendous influence on how we think. We talked about Arlen's core philosophy of people and their value in an organization. We then discussed what Arlen is up to now, helping agency founders improve their teams. We went through Arlen's journey leading to his current work, his work-life harmony with a family, why it...

2024-07-3146 min

The Undraped Artist Podcast EP.3 Michael Shane Neal Undraped (VIDEO)https://www.michaelshaneneal.com Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Michael Shane Neal has completed more than 500 commissioned portraits on display around the world. His portraits include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, former Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, former President George H.W. Bush, 9th Baronet and Laird of Luss, Scotland Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, former U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter, Robert C. Byrd, and Bill Frist, Federal Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, and actor Morgan Freeman. Receiving his B.A. fr...

2022-06-201h 36

The Undraped Artist Podcast EP.3 Michael Shane Neal Undraped(AUDIO)Since beginning a full time career as an artist at the age of 21, Michael Shane Neal has completed more than 500 commissioned portraits on display around the world. His portraits include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, former Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne, former President George H.W. Bush, 9th Baronet and Laird of Luss, Scotland Sir Malcolm Colquhoun, former U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, U.S. Senators Arlen Specter, Robert C. Byrd, and Bill Frist, Federal Chief Judge Anthony Scirica, and actor Morgan Freeman. https://www.michaelshaneneal.com/ Receiving his B.A. fr...

2022-06-171h 36

The Hirschfeld Century Podcast Episode 5 – Jazz Part 1Jazz! Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington, 1985 Join Al Hirschfeld Foundation Creative Director David Leopold and Archives Manager Katherine Marshall-Eastman as they talk "all that jazz" through the drawings of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. ————————- Lena Horne Fred Astaire Benny Goodman Erroll Garner Billie Holiday Bing Crosby Nat King Cole Rosemary Clooney Tony Bennett Louis Armstrong Anita Ellis Josh White Dee Dee Bridgewater Ethel Waters Rang Tang Frank Sinatra Harry James Louis Prima Duke Ellington Lionel Hampton Artie Shaw George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Glenn Miller Ella Fitzgerald Paula Laurence Great Singers (American Popular Song) BMG Covers Harold Ross...

2017-07-0533 min