Growth Department

About Growth Department

Growth Department is a business podcast for founders and business leaders who are actively building and want to keep learning as they grow. Each week, host Chelsey Reynolds talks with operators, executives, and entrepreneurs about how real businesses are built and scaled. These conversations focus on the decisions, tradeoffs, and systems that shape growth over time. You’ll hear practical insight on finding customers, building teams, scaling operations, and leading well, alongside honest discussions about how personal growth shows up in professional work. Growth Department slows the conversation down so you can go further, faster.

Publisher

Chelsey Reynolds

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jul 2025

Latest episode

4 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

53 of 67 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Jun 2026

   CMO Diaries: Brand Is the Moat, Inside a Rebrand, and the Future of Marketing with Leadfeeder CMO Jillian Als

   This week's episode: cool people doing cool shit at cool companies. Chelsey sits down with Jillian Als, CMO at Leadfeeder, where she runs brand, demand, and revenue at a global scale. After nearly 20 years in B2B SaaS, Jillian has done the demand gen CMO playbook and is now leaning hard into brand as the moat. Jillian breaks down how she rebranded Dealfront back to Leadfeeder in 90 days, why brand is the most underrated unlock in an AI-disrupted GTM world, and how to make in-person marketing ...

2. 

   28 May 2026

   Fraud Girl: How Danielle Spinelli Is Fighting Cargo Theft (with GenLogs)

   This week's episode: cool people doing cool shit at cool companies. Chelsey sits down with Danielle Spinelli, AKA "Fraud Girl," Director of Partnerships at GenLogs, host of the Tell Me Everything podcast, and 2024 Women in Logistics Award winner. After 8 years as a carrier sales broker handling high-value freight like copper and electrical wire, Danielle became one of the most trusted voices in carrier vetting and cargo theft prevention in the industry. In this episode, Danielle covers: How s...

3. 

   20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Analog Revival: Why Smart Brands Are Adding Friction On Purpose (with Ed Hayes)

   Host Chelsey and brand designer Ed Hayes explore how smart brands intentionally add friction to create meaningful customer experiences in an increasingly digital world.

Inside a recent episode

The Analog Revival: Why Smart Brands Are Adding Friction On Purpose (with Ed Hayes)

Published 20 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And they brought that back. You know, insurance is one where you'd think, oh, that's going to go super digital. But there are some where they're, especially the premium ones, where they're offering face-to-face so you can go and meet them. And so I think any part of any category can be sped up. I think there's just different, some will speed up, some will slow down, some will digitize, some will stay analog. some will take friction away some will add friction i think probably every single category there's room for an analog human friction full experience and the opposite within each category you know fast fashion it's not going away you know shane it isn't going away people like it there's a need for it but the opposite is also true. […]

Who has been a guest on Growth Department

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ed Hayes
• Tom Gray
• Diana Zwetzich
• Jennie Malafarina
• Andre Ankri

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

6,459

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

81

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