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.
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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
- In-Ear Insights: Social Media ListeningIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris talk about social media listening. What is it, and why does it sometimes fall very short of expectations? Learn what social media listening tools can and can’t do out of the box, and why expertise is mandatory to pair with even the best tools on the market. ...
- In-Ear Insights: Measuring ChatGPT PerformanceIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss how to set up a testing plan for measuring ChatGPT and whether it is working for you or not. From time savings to risk mitigation, think about the different ways large language models could be improving your business, then develop a measurement plan to see if ...
- In-Ear Insights: Social Media ROIIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss social media ROI. What is it, how do you compute it, and why do marketers do such a bad job with it? Learn the most common mistakes with social media ROI, when it’s useful as a metric, and what your next steps should be to find ...
- In-Ear Insights: Risks of Replicating Data Without SourcesIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the challenges of replicating data and what to do when asked to use data to make conclusions. They explain that the lack of information can be a hindrance to making accurate comparisons, but having domain expertise and knowledge of available data sources can help in creating ...
- In-Ear Insights: Third Party Relationship ManagementIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris talk vendor and partner management, aka third party relationship management. What is it? How do you choose vendors and partners who fit your requirements best? How do you position yourself as the vendor of choice? Tune in to find out! Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it ...
- In-Ear Insights: Obstacles to Becoming Data-DrivenIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris tackle a common challenge in organizations wanting to adapt a data-driven marketing methodology: stakeholders who don’t make data-driven decisions. Learn why this is the case and what you can do to help transition those stakeholders to more of a data-driven point of view. Watch the video here: Can’t see ...
- In-Ear Insights: Motivation, Momentum, and ManagementIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss how to manage motivation of a team, especially in demotivating circumstances. How do you keep people interested over a long period of time in a sustainable way? What if you don’t have the budget or resources for tangible retention methods? Tune in to learn motivation tips! Watch ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: How Business Requirements Gathering Boosts RevenueIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris talking business requirements gathering. Often seen as administrative overhead, business requirements gathering can dramatically increase revenue if you do it right. Learn what business requirements gathering really is, why it’s often done incorrectly (or not at all!) and how you can implement the process better to make ...
- In-Ear Insights: Data Science vs. Data Analytics: What’s the Difference?In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the differences between data science and data analytics. They delve into how data science focuses on exploring why things happen, while data analytics focuses on what happened. They also touch on the importance of requirements gathering and the role of data engineering. Tune in to the ...
- In-Ear Insights: Secrets of the C-SuiteIn this week’s In-Ear Insights podcast episode, Katie and Chris talk about one of the secrets of the C-Suite, based on a recent LinkedIn article. What does one set of executives do to be more productive that others don’t, and what lessons we can learn from it? Tune in to find out! Watch the video here: Can’t ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: 2022 Year In ReviewIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris look back at the year that was. We looked at the impact of Twitter’s change in leadership and Google’s announcement that Universal Analytics is being discontinued. We also discussed the rise and fall of NFTs, Bitcoin and Web 3.0 technologies. We discussed the need to find a ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Unwritten Rules of Community ManagementIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris tackle the written and unwritten rules of community management, especially for private social media communities like Discord. What makes a community management team successful? What makes it prone to chaos? How do you set up your community and your moderation team to be successful? Tune in to ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: How Important Is Accuracy?In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris tackle how to present analytics and data to stakeholders in a world where opinion and emotion increasingly triumphs over data and basic facts. How important is accuracy? How do we stay true to our commitments to be data-driven when decisions are made with emotions? Tune in to ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: What Should My Salary Be?In this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris answer one of the most common questions for jobseekers: “What should my salary be?” Learn the two different methods for determining how much compensation to ask for, and ways to handle salary negotiations in interviews. Key points from this episode: 1. The first step in determining your salary ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: How To Adapt For The Cookieless FutureIn this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris tackle the question on every advertiser’s mind: how to adapt for the cookieless future? What should we do about the cookieless future? What things should marketers know – what’s going away? What’s still available? What strategies should marketers pursue to no longer rely on third party data ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: How to Customize Content Without the Data?In this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris talk about personalization and customization of content. In an era when privacy regulations are throttling data marketers can obtain and the media environment is in total chaos, how do we still manage to customize and personalize? In order to customize your content without data about people, you ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Can I Believe What I Read?In this week’s episode, Katie and Chris tackle news media’s usage of data. Is what you read believable? How would you go about proving it? We examine some recent claims in Bloomberg and Business Insider about racial slurs on Twitter and the process for verifying that claim, extending it to the role data-savvy organizations should ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Do I Need To Be an SEO Expert in 2023?In this episode, Katie and Chris discuss the evolution of SEO and where it’s going, where AI and machine learning fit in, and what trends to be aware of as you create content and optimize it for search in 2023. Tune in to learn more! Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2022 Key TakeawaysIn this week’s episode, Katie and Chris run through a list of some of their key takeaways from the MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2022 conference. Influencer marketing may be a good way to reach your target audience, as data privacy restrictions make it more difficult to buy lists or use data from social media platforms. The great marketing ...
- {PODCAST} In-Ear Insights: Go To Market StrategyIn this episode of In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris discuss the sudden re-emergence of people promoting go to market strategy (GTM) and what it means. Why is this suddenly a thing again, when GTM is as old as product marketing itself? Go to market strategy is a subset of marketing strategy that is focused on how ...
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