Snafu w/ Robin Zander
Welcome to Snafu, a podcast about sales, persuasion, and work. Amidst all the change going on in the world today, “durable" skills are often the most resilient.
Snafu is a podcast for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and ambitious professionals who need to sell – but aren’t quite comfortable yet.
Robin Zander has spent more than 20 years tackling things he doesn’t know how to do. From starting a restaurant in three weeks without any prior restaurant experience to performing as a self-taught acrobat with the San Francisco Opera, Robin has built his life and career around learning new things.
But growth isn’t all upside. Trying new things comes with lots of failures. On Snafu, Robin sits down with authors and entrepreneurs to talk about a more human approach to sales, persuasion, and work.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Ask Robin P. Zander, Episode 1
Hello and welcome to the Robin Zander Show! Today my colleagues at Zander Media are asking me a few questions about work and home. It’s always fun to turn the interviews around on myself, especially …
Tinuiti CEO, Zach Morrison, on Winning AdAge’s “Best Place to Work”
My guest today is Zach Morrison, the CEO of Tinuiti, one of North America’s largest independent digital marketing agencies.
Tinuiti manages more than $1.5 billion in advertising, spent across the tri…
Discovering My Voice
I’ve always been insecure about my voice. For whatever reason, it never occurred to me before that I could train my own voice, just like I train handstands, writing, and business. But a few months ag…
Creating Personal Connections with Katie Bisbee, CMO of DonorsChoose
Katie Bisbee is the Chief Marketing Officer of one of the most innovative non-profits in the world - Donors Choose. DonorsChoose.org was one of the very first organizations to use crowdfunding, befor…
Big Picture Branding with Michele Floriani, Chief Marketing Officer at Sequoia Consulting Group
I’m so excited to introduce my guest today: Michele Floriani, Chief Marketing Officer at Sequoia Consulting Group.
Sequoia started out as an HR broker 20 years ago, but has morphed into a full servi…
Bullying, Sensitivity, and Growth: The Journey from Boy to Man
This is one of the toughest parts of my life to look back on. And there is so much value in looking at ourselves, understanding our history, bringing those moments to the present and asking, “Who do …
Job Portraits CEO Jacqui Gibson-Clark on laughter, mistakes, and building an ad agency devoted to service
Today’s delightful guest is Jacqui Gibson-Clark, CEO of Job Portraits.
Job Portraits is an employer branding studio, which helps fast growing companies showcase their culture and values to prospecti…
Daily Writing Habit
One of my most important self-awareness practices is my daily writing habit. And I've always written a lot, not just for the blog or publishing books, but for myself to synthesize my own learnings. I…
Aubrey Blanche of Mathpath and Culture Amp: Do the Next Right Thing
Today’s guest is Aubrey Blanche, who is both the Director of Equitable Design for People and Product at Culture Amp and the CEO of Mathpath. Aubrey is laser-focused on equitable design, and if you ha…
A Student of Ido Portal and Moshe Feldenkrais: Movement Practice
I’ve had intensive physical practice - a movement practice - from quite a young age. But in almost 3 decades of maintaining a rigorous movement practice, I have struggled to define myself and what I …
The Future of Work Needs to Invest in Itself with Allison Baum Gates, General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital
My guest today is Allison Baum Gates, a General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital and a lecturer at the Business School at Columbia University and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Al…
Everything Communicates, Everything Influences with Graham North
My guest today is Graham North, creator and head of Brand Camp at the iconic ad agency of Goodby, Silverstein, and Partners, the team behind Got Milk and many memorable campaigns. Graham just won “St…
The Joy of Learning: Robin Gets Interviewed!
This podcast is a little bit different. As part of a rebranding exercise for this website, my YouTube channel, and RPZ overall, I recently sat down with Jonathan Kofahl, my dear friend and producer/d…
Community and Joy with Nate Floyd
As part of the updates to this website and across the RPZ brand, I’ve recently sat down for a half dozen interviews with close friends. And instead of the typical “Robin conducts an interview”, I hav…
Gayle Karen Young Whyte, former head of People and Culture at Wikimedia, on Immediacy and Resilience
My guest today is Gayle Karen Young Whyte, former head of People and Culture at Wikimedia (the parent company behind Wikipedia). These days Gayle is very politically active and consulting with a sele…
Dr. Emily Anhalt, Founder of Coa, on the mental health revolution
Hello and welcome to the Robin Zander Show. My guest today is Dr. Emily Anhalt, a clinical psychologist and the co-founder of Coa, a startup building virtual and in-person centers to practice and imp…
Jeremy Liew, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners on Doing the Impossible and Staying Relevant at 50
Hello, and welcome back to the Robin Zander Show!
My guest today is Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Jeremy heads up investments in consumer technology at Lightspeed, a well-kn…
Finding inner peace through 24 years of solitary confinement with Eldra Jackson III of Inside Circle
Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show. My guest today is Eldra Jackson III.
Eldra is a TED mainstage speaker and the co-executive director of Inside Circle, a non-profit which works to end cycles of…
Mark Brand, Food Activism and A Better Life Foundation
Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show.
I first met Mark Brand through his talk at Responsive Conference 2017. The conversation in today’s episode is broad in scope, but the central thread is Mark’s …
Jude Gomila, Golden, and Mapping Human Knowledge
Welcome back to the Robin Zander Show!
For today’s episode, I sat down with Jude Gomila to talk about his journey as an entrepreneur and his start-up Golden.
I first met Jude, and learned about Gold…