IN-EAR INSIGHTS: WEEKLY PODCAST FROM TRUST INSIGHTS
Strategy Meets Data. Every Week.
In 30 Minutes or Less.
Most business podcasts are either too academic to be useful or too superficial to be actionable. We built In-Ear Insights to bridge that gap. We skip the banter and get straight to the answers you need to solve your most burning business questions.
The CEO and the Data Scientist.
Here’s the thing: Data is useless without a strategy, and a strategy is just a guess without data.
On In-Ear Insights, we bring those two worlds together using the 5P Framework (Purpose, People, Process, Platform, Performance).
CEO Katie Robbert and Chief Data Scientist Christopher Penn break down the people and processes required to make technology work for your bottom line. We share our wins, our mistakes, and the “Now What” so you can lead with authority.
Respecting Your Time and Learning Style.
Consumption on your terms. Full resource suite for every episode.
Video
Watch the “work” happen. We often share screens to show you charts, code, and frameworks in action on YouTube.
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High-quality production for leaders on the move. Listen on your commute, at the gym, or between meetings.
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Practical Tips for Every Level of Leadership.
The Strategic Leader
Learn how to prove ROI and align technical teams with business goals.
The Enterprise Executive
Navigate data governance, AI ethics, and compliance risk with confidence.
The Agency Principal
Gain the technical validation you need to protect margins and win business.
Stop Guessing. Start Executing.
Recent deep-dives include:
- ✔ Qualitative Data at Scale: Turning survey results into strategy.
- ✔ The Shift to Agentic AI: Preparing your team for AI delegates.
- ✔ GA4 Attribution & ROI: Fixing measurement reports.
- ✔ The 5P Framework for AI: Why purpose matters most.
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Recent Episodes
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Evaluating New TechnologiesBased on a question from our analytics community, in this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris tackle the challenges of new technology. When a new piece of technology makes a big splash, how do we evaluate it? How should we assess whether it’s right for us, whether it makes sense to pursue it? What ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Audience Demographics and Market ResearchIn this episode of In-Ear Insights (the @TrustInsights podcast), Katie and Chris discuss generation gaps, audience demographics, and what to do when your analytics indicates you’ve got the wrong audience. How do you conduct market research and then pivot based on the results? Tune in now to find out. Watch the video here: Listen to the audio ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Data-Driven Decisions and Social GoodIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris look at the upcoming release of hate crime data analysis and broader implications. When data collection is flawed or missing, how do you still make decisions? What do you do when you have to do something because lives are on the line, but you lack enough data? ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Transparency in Research and DataIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the importance of transparency and disclosure in research and data. These are troubled, uncertain times – not for the macro situation, but for our willingness to collectively accept statements of fact without verifying those facts or inspecting the methodology behind a piece of data. They also ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Client Retention with Gini DietrichIn this week’s In-Ear Insights (the Trust Insights podcast), we conclude our series of interviews with successful agency owners. We talk with Gini Dietrich. Gini Dietrich is the founder, CEO, and author of Spin Sucks, host of the Spin Sucks podcast, and author of Spin Sucks. She has run and grown an agency for the ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Client Retention with Brooke SellasIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, we continue our exploration of client retention strategies in the current global crisis. Katie and Chris chat with Brooke Sellas, founder and CEO of B-Squared Media, on her best tips for client retention and loyalty. She delivers insights about which industries are doing more with digital marketing, how she manages ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Client Retention with Jay BaerIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, we continue our focus on client retention with our guest Jay Baer. Join Katie and Chris, along with Jay, as they talk about client retention, what expectations to set, a farming strategy for clients and goodwill, how this crisis is different from the Great Recession, and much more. Learn more about ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Client Retention with Mitch JoelIn this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris talk to fellow agency owner and marketing superstar Mitch Joel. Mitch dishes on what agencies should be doing to retain clients, keep business, and move forward during a global crisis. You’ll learn some of his favorite tips, how to think about your ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: SEO AnalyticsIn this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss SEO analytics. SEO is a marketing discipline crammed with data, but what data matters? What data is reliable? Listen in as they discuss common SEO metrics, what SEO data matters to business impact, and how to build an SEO analytics dashboard ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Early Warning Systems for Marketing AnalyticsIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss early warning systems. When looking at your analytics, what metrics constitute leading, realtime, or lagging indicators, and how should you think about using them to determine when trouble is brewing? Learn about what exponential math is, how it factors into trend detection, ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Preparing Your Career For An Economic DownturnIn this episode, Katie and Chris discuss preparing your career for an economic downturn with advice appropriate for the present day and yet-to-be-seen scenarios. From skills and certifications to building a personal brand to how to pitch people, get practical advice for making it through a financial crisis, global recession, or other unforeseen circumstances. Listen to ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Predictive Analytics for Unpredictable EventsIn this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris respond to a listener question: how valid are predictive analytics forecasts when you’re in the middle of massively unpredictable events? How do you deal with the anomalies of a black swan event, and how do you tell the difference between an anomaly and a breakout (continuing ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Data-Driven B2B Marketing PersonasIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris answer a mailbag question from Denise: “My question is about UX copywriting. Other than using a service like “crystalknows.com,” how do I know which words and phrases influence a specific buyer persona? Which words or CTAs influence a 35-year-old CTO male who makes craft beers on the weekends?” Dig ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Should You Be a Data Scientist?In this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss whether or not you need data science skills to be an effective marketer. Find out the answer, plus why machines won’t be taking your job any time soon, as well as some helpful tips for growing your marketing analytics skills. Mentioned in the show: Hugging Face’s ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Marketing Analytics, Ethics and Data PrivacyIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris address pressing questions about the ethics of marketing analytics, data collection, and consumers’ right to privacy. What should marketers be collecting? What shouldn’t they? What are the implications of unused, personally identifiable information laying around in marketing analytics, marketing automation, and CRM systems? Tune in now to ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Data Analytics Requirements GatheringIn this week’s episode, Katie and Chris discuss data analytics requirements gathering. When you’re setting out on any kind of marketing analytics project, how do you go about determining what data you’ll need? This process is called requirements gathering, and it’s not as simple as it sounds. Listen in for tips on how to go ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Human-Centric Data StrategyIn this week’s episode, Katie and Chris discuss appropriate and inappropriate uses of marketing analytics, data, and machine learning/AI when it comes to making people feel less or more valued. They talk about a Human-Centric Data Strategy. Learn how electronic health records and customer data platforms are similar, what mistakes they both make, and how to ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and AIIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie is out keynoting an event in Europe, so Marketing Over Coffee host John Wall steps in to talk about account-based marketing (also known as target account marketing or key account marketing) and applications of AI to it. John and Chris talk about uses of machine learning for lead scoring, ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Data Analytics, Business Analytics, and Marketing AnalyticsIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the differences between data analytics, business analytics, and marketing analytics. What do all these terms mean? What’s the difference? How do you know when you’re doing one versus another? They also tackle differences in job descriptions and titles as ways of thinking about the various forms ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Reporting and Dashboarding BasicsIn this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the basics of reporting and dashboarding best practices. What should a good report or dashboard look like? What does a dashboard report have in common with the cockpit of an Airbus A321? Listen in and get some tips to bring to your next reporting meeting. Listen ...
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