Welcome to Call Your Publicist! The podcast designed for start-up owners, entrepreneurs, and small business decision-makers. Join us as we dive into the backstories of successful businesses, CEOs, and thought leaders to uncover valuable insights and guide you in mastering the art of storytelling.
Everyone's Their Own Publicist Now — Is That Killing the Industry or Saving It?
Social media handed every founder a megaphone. The question is whether they know how to use it.
In this episode of Call Your Publicist, Jenna Guarneri and Alexandra Anastasio dig into one of the most contested conversations in the industry right now: with LinkedIn thought leadership, TikTok brand storytelling, and Instagram carousels functioning as press releases, do founders still need a publicist? They get into what founders actually get right when they tell their own story, where the DIY PR approach quietly goes sideways, and why the blind spots that come with doing your own PR can do more damage than no PR at all. Jenna shares what she sees on the agency side when founders come to her after years of going it alone, and Alexandra breaks down what actually happens when a founder cold pitches a journalist directly.
The answer isn't that founders should stop owning their story. It's about knowing which parts of PR to keep close and which parts to hand off.
This episode is brought to you by Levitate. Get 35% off your first year by visiting levitate.ai/CYP.
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11 May 2026
How to Build a Business That Never Stops Growing with Jesse Lipson
The best businesses aren't built on transactions. They're built on relationships, and the founders who figure that out early win.
In this episode of Call Your Publicist, Jenna Guarneri and Alexandra Anastasio sit down with Jesse Lipson, serial entrepreneur and founder of Levitate, a platform that helps relationship-based businesses stay meaningfully connected to their clients at scale. Jesse breaks down how watching his wife's company burn money on CRM tools sparked the idea for Levitate, why he's treated entrepreneurship as a career calling since his early twenties, and what it really looks like to build technology that strengthens human connection rather than replaces it. He also gets into the parallels between PR and sales, how founders can protect client relationships while scaling fast, and what he's doing with Levitate's recent $16 million raise.
If you're building a business where relationships are the product, this one is the roadmap.
And before you listen: get 35% off your first year at Levitate by visiting levitate.ai/CYP.
🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
4 May 2026
Everything You See at the Met Gala Was Planned a Year Ago
The red carpet looks effortless. It is anything but.
In this episode of Call Your Publicist, Jenna Guarneri and Alexandra Anastasio break down the layers of PR strategy behind Hollywood's biggest nights, from the Oscars to the Met Gala, and what founders and entrepreneurs can take from it. They get into how celebrities campaign for awards months before the show, why the carpet is the single biggest PR moment of the year for up and coming designers, how the rise of digital creators is reshaping who gets access, and what it really means to build a visual story around your brand.
If you've ever wondered what's actually being orchestrated behind those red carpet moments, this one pulls back the curtain.
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