Humans of Email

What are Jen and Natalie up to between seasons? Well, Jen is trying to make Email TikTok A THING... and they're both preparing to launch Season 2 of Humans of Email!

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IT'S HERE! Our final Mistakes episode of Season One, featuring Nout Boctor-Smith, Matthew Smith, and Guilda Hilaire. Listen in as they share their stories about typos gone wild, making mistakes from leadership positions, and the worst thing that can ever happen to your email program.

For our final interview of season one, we're bringing in a member of the email community who's so famous, she only needs one name. It's Guilda Hilaire! Guilda is the Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce, and a champion of community and education in the email space. 

Join us for the final interview of season one and hear how Guilda created the spaces she wanted to see in the email community—from Twitter Spaces to Salesforce communities, to UNSPAM stages, to lifting unheard voices and stories.

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Megan Boshuyzen has a job many email geeks dream of. As the Senior Email Developer at Pathwire, including the Email on Acid brand, she gets to create some of the coolest emails in the biz! In this bonus episode of Humans of Email, Megan talks about how she broke into public speaking, the impact of her learning disability on her career, her part in founding a publishing house, and so much more.

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Founder, kind person, email geek: Matthew Smith is all of these things, in addition to his noteworthy roles with Really Good Emails and the UNSPAM conferences. In Episode 10 of Humans of Email, we're getting authentic and personal with Matthew to learn more about his least favorite French words, what he hopes people remember him for, and what it's like to build Really Good Emails.

BTW, you can shoot Matthew a DM on Twitter or Email Geeks Slack to request a 15% discount on an upcoming UNSPAM conference.

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In Episode 9 of Humans of Email, we're diving into the world of B2B email with Nout Boctor-Smith, who oversees lifecycle marketing at LaunchDarkly and serves as a community manager for Email Geeks. We're talking with Nout about how B2B email requires a special set of skills (and patience), how the B2B Badgers group came into being, and why she has 50 Dyson Doks living in her garage.

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Sometimes, email accidents are a group effort. In Episode 8 of Humans of Email, we're once again talking about our biggest blunders. Tune in for a conversation with AWeber's Dave Stys, Barkley's Jessica Best, and Candid's Kristin Bond to hear their most cringe-worthy email mistakes and group effort fails.

How do you launch a successful speaking career in the email industry? On Episode 7 of Humans of Email, we're talking with Jessica Best, VP of Data-Driven Marketing at Barkley and international keynote to find out. Join us for a conversation on how she worked her way from small, local speaking gigs to stages across the world, including SXSW and Content Marketing World. Plus, we'll talk about Kansas City, her passion for food, and why she loves email in the first place.

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On Episode 6 of Humans of Email, we're bringing in Dave Stys, Senior Technical Product Manager at AWeber, for a conversation that's out of this world! From his career start in astronomy to his work on bringing more AMP to the world of email, Dave talks about his unlikely path to becoming an email geek, his life at home, and whether or not Pluto is a planet.

Plus, Jen and Natalie are back on the conference circuit! See below for links to our upcoming speaking engagements.

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Our mistakes are what make us most human! And that's why we're dedicating three episodes this season to campaign and career mishaps. Tune in for the most memorable mistakes recounted by Mark Robbins, Stephanie Griffith & Alice Li.

BTW, that incredible Splat the Fly interactive email by Mark Robbins can be found right here: https://codepen.io/M_J_Robbins/full/VwwjGj

On Episode 3, we're talking with Alice Li, Staff Engineer at Squarespace, co-creator of the first-ever interactive email, and a powerful voice for allyship in the email space. Alice shares her Chinese-American family's incredible immigration story, her perspectives on the many challenges Asian Americans face, plus her personal connections to Rick and Morty and Joan Jett. 

We learned a lot during our conversation with Alice, and you will too.  

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In episode two of Humans of Email, we're bringing in podcaster, SMS strategist, and self-proclaimed cat lady Stephanie Griffith.

Season 1 Episode 2's conversation with Stephanie is all about adventures: Icelandic travel tips, good and bad experiences along the buyer journey, cats named after Hobbits, and how digital community helped Stephanie take her career to the next level. Plus, Stephanie explains why she calls herself an email geek with an SMS problem.

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In the premier episode of Humans of Email, it's Valentine's Day! And Jen and Natalie are launching the Humans of Email podcast as their love letter to the email marketing industry.

Season 1 Episode 1 features an interview with interactive email expert Mark Robbins. A Software Engineer at Salesforce and a member of the AMP for Email Working Group, Mark explains how he transitioned from unemployed musician to legend status as an email developer, the impact of dyslexia on his career, and more.

BTW, that incredible Splat the Fly interactive email that Mark mentioned can be found right here: https://codepen.io/M_J_Robbins/full/VwwjGj