Episodes: 25
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: < 100
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: Canada
YouTube: 106.0k subscribers
Instagram: 30.0k followers
Publicly listed emails
joel@cmoalpha.com
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Joel Crampton - U.S.-based fractional CMO for RIAs and wealth managers, and founder of CMO/Alpha.
Mandy MacPhee - Canada-based fractional CMO and founder of illumination, focused on marketing for founder-led companies.
Ben Finklea - Human Judgment In AI Use, AI Tools For Fractional Cmos, Prioritization, And Niche Product Development.
Marc Shaffer - Building Client Trust Through Consistency, Delegation, Books And Content, Podcasting, And AI Adoption In Financial Planning.
The Pendulum Swings Back: AI, Trust, and the Return of In-Person Marketing
October 09, 2026
For this episode, Joel Crampton reports in from Future Proof, the financial services conference on the beach in Huntington Beach, California, with 5,500 advisors, marketers, and fintech leaders in attendance. Mandy MacPhee joins from home, and the two dig into what Joel is hearing on the ground: a growing pushback against AI generated marketing, a return to in person events, and why niching down locally still beats going broad.Their conversation covers the state of AI models right now, the re...
Judgment Is the Thing AI Still Can't Fake
September 23, 2026
An AI can generate a thousand versions of anything. It still takes a human to know which one is right.In this episode, Joel Crampton and Mandy MacPhee sit down with Ben Finklea, a fellow fractional CMO and the founder of Armbrain, an AI tool built for fractional CMOs. Ben was the one who convinced Mandy to go all in on Claude nine months ago, and this conversation covers what he's learned since, what AI is genuinely good at, where it falls apart, and how a bad morning with seven unfinished ta...
One Year In: What Twenty Three Episodes Taught Us About Consistency
August 20, 2026
A year ago, Mandy MacPhee and Joel Crampton weren't sure they'd be in sync as podcast partners. Twenty four episodes later, they're marking the anniversary the same way they started, just the two of them, no script, riffing on marketing.In this episode, Mandy and Joel look back on their first year of CMOs Without Borders: which episodes stuck with them, what they've learned about consistency, and how doing the work themselves has changed the advice they give clients who want to launch their o...
WealthTech Today · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
Fintech Impact · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
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