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About Up Arrow Podcast The Up Arrow Podcast is your essential listen for actionable, founder-led strategies to scale your ecommerce and DTC ventures, offering an inside track for ambitious entrepreneurs and operators. This isn't another echo chamber of marketing platitudes; it's a dive into genuine growth mechanics. Learn how optimizing mundane elements like product packaging can become a significant revenue driver, turning a cost center into a compounding asset for your brand [1] . Discover frameworks for intentionally building robust personal and professional networks, sidestepping the common founder's trap of isolation, and unlocking unforeseen business opportunities [2] . The Up Arrow Podcast also challenges conventional growth hacks, illustrating how deep customer loyalty and community building through immersive experiences can eclipse traditional funnels, leading to sustained, exponential growth [3] . Tune in for unvarnished insights that cut through the noise, equipping you with the tactics to truly differentiate and scale. Find the complete episode list below.
"We Had 5 Years of Inventory…and It Almost Killed Us" With Brandi Dugal Why the Best eCommerce Brands Spend More Time on Boxes Than Ads With Jason Wong Forget Funnels: The Wildest Growth Hack Is To Build a Town With Al Doan Listen on Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Website
Recent episodes Inside the 40-Year-Old Footwear Brand Still Outsmarting Modern eCommerce With Logan Bird — May 19, 2026 "We Had 5 Years of Inventory…and It Almost Killed Us" With Brandi Dugal — May 12, 2026 Culture That Survives the Exit: How Jay Steinfeld Beat the Odds — Mar 24, 2026 Random Acts of Marketing Are Killing Your Growth With Jennifer Zick — Mar 17, 2026 Why the Best eCommerce Brands Spend More Time on Boxes Than Ads With Jason Wong — Mar 10, 2026 The Hidden Cost of Scaling Fast: Why Founders Lose Friends (And the 2-Hour Fix) With Nick Gray — Mar 3, 2026 10,000 Hours at the Table: How $1B in Deals Actually Get Done With Patrick Griffin — Feb 24, 2026 The Dirty Secret of eCommerce Growth: Everyone Is Copying Everyone With Cherene Aubert — Feb 17, 2026 Why the Most Successful People All End up Writing a Book With Kevin Anderson — Feb 10, 2026 eCommerce Brands Are Just Renting Customers (Here's Why That's Dangerous) With Ross Correia — Feb 3, 2026 Process Wins: Why the Companies That Scale Don't Feel Chaotic With Mikel Lindsaar — Jan 27, 2026 The Customer Journey Mistakes That Kill 8-Figure Brands With Jason Anderson — Jan 20, 2026 If You Want To Be Acquired by Private Equity, Fix This First With Felicia Shakiba — Jan 13, 2026 The Foundation for Scaling a Luxury DTC Brand (While Raising 3 Kids) With Lindsey Johnson — Nov 18, 2025 Telling Your Story is Evolving — How Truth and Persistence Built Pickle Juice Into a Global Brand — Nov 4, 2025 Getting Celebrities To Wear My Hats (Yes, It Happened) With Johnny Persón — Oct 28, 2025 Forget Funnels: The Wildest Growth Hack Is To Build a Town With Al Doan — Oct 21, 2025 Upgrading the CEO Brain: From Grinding to Clarity With Dr. Giancarlo Licata — Oct 14, 2025 Turn Anonymous Traffic Into Revenue: How To Name Your "Unknown" Visitors With Francesco Gatti — Oct 7, 2025 AI Companions: The Visual Layer for LLMs (And Why Your Brand Needs One) With Akash Nigam — Sep 30, 2025 Bravery Is Not Optional: Why Playing It Safe Will Kill Your Business With Jim Moorhead — Sep 23, 2025 Wisdom of Ignorance: Why Knowing Less Could Be the Smartest Move You Make With Alan Gregerman — Sep 16, 2025 Life or Death: The #1 Leadership Blind Spot That Will Cost You Millions With DeDe Halfhill — Sep 9, 2025 Hacking Advertising: How To Get World-Class Creative Without the World-Class Budget With Jon Sneider — Sep 2, 2025 Cheerleading Is a Sport: How To Build a Billion-Dollar Category From Scratch With Jeff Webb — Aug 26, 2025 Only the Paranoid Survive: eCommerce Wisdom From Rishabh Jain — Aug 19, 2025 Stop Leaking Money: The 3-Step Revenue Fix for eCommerce With Erik Christiansen — Aug 12, 2025 Lifecycle Is Everything: The Retention Framework Every eCommerce Brand Needs With Andrew Christison — Aug 5, 2025 Audience Is Everything: Rand Fishkin on AI Search, SEO, and the Future of Marketing — Jul 29, 2025 The Neuroscientist's Guide To Scale DTC: How Daniel Brady Turns Brain Science Into eCommerce Revenue — Jul 22, 2025 How To Get Famous Without Ads: The PR Playbook for CPG Brands With Matt Kovacs — Jul 15, 2025 Brand Storytelling That Actually Works With Emmy-Winning Producer Dani Dufresne — Jul 8, 2025 Retail Revival: Why the Best Brands Are Going Offline Again With Carly Chenault — Jul 1, 2025 Burned Out, Stuck, and Overthinking? Here's How To Get Unstuck and Grow Again With Robert Gilbreath — Jun 24, 2025 HR as a Growth Lever: Building People Ops That Actually Drive Profit With Panagiota Hatzis — Jun 17, 2025 Operational Mastery, Category Clarity, and Building a CPG Brand With Sam Nebel — Jun 10, 2025 Interviewing Grok — Scaling, Superintelligence, and the Soul of AI — Jun 3, 2025 Marketing That Moves People: Building Brands That Become Lifestyles With Caitlin Choate — May 27, 2025 You're Tracking the Wrong Metrics: Leading Indicators of eCommerce Growth With Jesse Allouf — May 13, 2025 Rank or Die: The Future of SEO in a Zero-Click AI-First World With Jeff Oxford — May 6, 2025 Growth Myths: Data-Driven Truths & Fallacies in Modern Marketing With Christian Limon & Eric Seufert — Apr 29, 2025 The Silent DTC Killer: Why Your Team Structure Is Holding You Back With Jenica Oliver — Apr 22, 2025 Inside PacSun: The Secret To Winning Gen Z, AI, and Fashion's Future With CEO, Brieane Olson — Apr 15, 2025 Your Mind Is Hindering Your Growth: How To Unlock It With Optimism & Bravery With Melanie Marshall — Apr 8, 2025 Actionable AI for Marketers – The Human in the Loop With Britney Muller — Apr 1, 2025 Your UGC Sucks: How Hero Content Scaled This Brand From $3M to $2B With Jacques Spitzer — Mar 25, 2025 Why Most Founders Fail at Content (And How To Fix It) With Nathan Chan — Mar 18, 2025 Content Wars: Product Pages vs. Resources — Which One Wins in SEO With Kristan Bauer — Mar 11, 2025 The $100M CPG Playbook: Pivots, Failures, and the Secrets To Winning With Will Nitze — Mar 4, 2025 Nine Change Principles: Tamsen Webster on Overcoming Growth Plateaus Using Strategic Communications — Feb 25, 2025