Permission to Seek

About Permission to Seek

Humans & Brands is a podcast that understands how connected work and life are, and that building a career is just as personal as it is professional. Hosted by Lauren Douglass, a marketer and founder of the thought leadership agency Reverve, the show features conversations with people who are brands, work in brands, or build brands, about the journey of work and life. The goal is that no listener should have to navigate the journey alone. These conversations are a chance to learn what leaders have been through; from the wins to the falls, and the questions that don’t make it onto resumes. Lauren asks the things we’re often too afraid to say out loud: What does failure feel like? How do you deal with imposter syndrome? How do you become a good leader? But she also talks about brands and marketing—because brands are made by people, and people are brands. The show explores how identity shows up in the work we do, the content we create, and the stories we tell about ourselves and our companies. She’s not the expert in the room, she is figuring it out alongside the audience. Every episode is designed to leave the audience feeling a little less alone and a little more confident in their pathway forward.

Publisher

Lauren The Seeker

Category

business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jan 2025

Latest episode

9 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 54 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   54. Beers With Friends Over Boring Meetings, with Dana Hork, Founder, Beers With Friends

   Host Lauren Douglass interviews Dana Hork, Founder of Beers With Friends, about her innovative agency model that prioritizes speed, collaboration, and creative sprints, offering a fresh perspective on modern brand building.

2. 

   4 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   53. Building A Brand On Your Own Terms, with Stefanie Beach, Founder, The Marketeer Group

   Host Lauren Douglass interviews Stefanie Beach, Founder & CEO of The Marketeer Group, about building a resilient brand on your own terms through motherhood and setbacks.

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   29 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   52. Strong Opinions, Loosely Held, with Lou Paskalis, Ad Fontes Media

   Host Lauren Douglass interviews Lou Paskalis, Chief Strategy Officer at Ad Fontes Media, about marketing's current challenges and future opportunities.

Inside a recent episode

54. Beers With Friends Over Boring Meetings, with Dana Hork, Founder, Beers With Friends

Published 9 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And you have to tap back into that. So I imagine that your experience in branding kind of came into that almost obsessive level of focus on solving the problem. Yeah, so... My co-founder, James Wood, is a longtime agency-side creative leader, and I'm a longtime brand-side marketer. And we were actually agency client partners together. Oh, cool. And that's important because we had worked together previously, and his expertise and background about how agencies work and what their incentives are is equally as important to what makes brand marketers tick. Totally. And if I think about what we're doing differently, it's not just how do we solve brand, market, or pain points, but it's how do we create a partnership across agencies and clients that's a win-win for both, an agency that creatives want to work with and strategists want to work with and subject matter experts want to work with. […]

Who has been a guest on Permission to Seek

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

• Dana Hork
• Stefanie Beach
• Lou Paskalis
• Carolina Cespedes Virguez
• Lee Evans Lee

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

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

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

50

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Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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