The Ampersand Manifesto: Make Your Mark in Multiple Fields

Jessica Wan

j@jessicawan.com

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Booking Overview

This podcast spotlights multi-hyphenate professionals who’ve built credible careers across very different fields. It’s a strong booking target for PR teams looking for human-interest thought leadership—where guests can explain how they connect callings, build uncommon authority, and redefine success in their own terms.

Metrics

Episodes: 72

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Contact Information

j@jessicawan.com

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Host

Jessica Wan - Executive Coach | Classical Singer | Former Marketing Leader & Tech Executive. Jessica helps founders and leaders make the invisible visible, with 20+ years scaling brands like Apple, Smule, and th...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Established professionals with evidence of success in two or more distinctly different domains (e.g., tech/AI plus arts; healthcare plus dance; academia/research plus communications). Guests often have a public footprint such as authorship (books), media/publishing reach (e.g., large podcast distribution), or notable organizational leadership/collaboration work.
Required Achievements:  
Published author (book publication), Significant audience reach (podcast/video/community at scale), Demonstrated cross-sector leadership (e.g., institutional collaboration), Credible track record in multiple fields (recognized skills/credentials), Public-facing creative or teaching work

Recent Guest Discussions

Chris Lele - Using Generative AI While Preserving Originality And Voice; Connecting AI Education With Music, Speaking, And Skill-building

Leigh Marz - Finding Silence Across Disciplines; Collaboration And Cross-sector Work (including NASA And Public Health/environmental Efforts); Dance As A Bridge To Collaboration

Talia Sherman - Building An Interdisciplinary Career Path; Creating A Language-focused Global Podcast; Navigating Academia-adjacent Work With Research And Communications

Recent Topics

Career, Leadership, Personal Brand, Multidisciplinary, Coaching

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Ampersand Manifesto: Make Your Mark in Multiple Fields
:

Chris Lele: Collecting Difficult Skills Across AI, Music Composition, and Big Words

June 10, 2026

Jessica talks with Chris Lele, an AI educator, learning strategist, writer, musician, and lifelong collector of difficult skills. He spent 20 years in test prep, creating thousands of SAT, GRE, and GMAT questions, publishing a bestselling vocabulary book, and reaching millions of students through YouTube. Today, he teaches professionals how to use generative AI without losing their originality, judgment, or voice. Chris is also a classical pianist, composer, Toastmasters speech competitor, fi...

Leigh Marz: The Power of Silence on the Page, the Dance Floor, and Across Sectors

June 03, 2026

Jessica talks with Leigh Marz, Author, Collaboration Consultant, and Rhythm & Motion Dance Instructor and Choreographer. She and Justin Zorn co-authored the book Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise, published by HarperCollins and translated into 15 languages worldwide.Leigh's favorite way to find internal silence is on the thumping dance floor! She's a choreographer and dance instructor with Rhythm & Motion, a high-energy dance workout program that cultivates a we...

Talia Sherman: Bridging Disciplines, Global Podcasting, and the Future of the Multi-Hyphenate

May 27, 2026

Jessica talks with Talia Sherman, recent grad & podcast creator and host.Talia Sherman just graduated from Brown University (congrats!), where she studied Linguistics and English with honors. She was an undergraduate fellow at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. In the spring of her senior year of high school, she founded Tomayto Tomahto, an interview based podcast on language. Streamed in over 90 countries and showcasing the voices of professors from many different universities, Toma...

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