The Trending Communicator

Hosted ByDan Nestle

In today's hyper-accelerated communications world, keeping up means juggling reputation, brand building, crisis management, storytelling, and more while adapting to new technologies like generative AI. The Trending Communicator, hosted by Dan Nestle, is your guide through this chaotic landscape. This podcast dives into the challenges of PR, communications, and marketing today, with experts sharing real stories and strategies for overcoming those challenges and more. It's the perfect resource for professionals looking to innovate, take risks, and stay ahead. Join us to make sense of today’s communications chaos, one insightful conversation at a time.


All Episodes

Weird Unicorns, AI, and the TBD Career: The Future of Work – with David Armano

Is it wrong to be future-focused in your career? At what price should you pursue innovation or push boundaries in your organization? Are you aware that there could be a growing urgency gap between you and your employer that may eventually be too wide…

How AI is Changing the Content Dynamic (And What We Should Do About It) – with Rob Davis

Let’s face it, dealing with the future isn’t something we can kick down the road. And at the intersection of people, technology, and brand, change is coming faster than ever before. We could blame Generative AI. Or we can embrace it and use it as an…

Spectacular Communications Requires Audacious Communicators – with Mark Schaefer

All of us know we’re in an age of disruption. If you want to thrive and grow as a communicator or marketer, it’s not AI you have to worry about. What should keep you up at night is the prospect of succumbing to the Dull. AI can do dull better than you…

How Communications Drives Organizational Health – with Ethan McCarty

Is the Communications function, as many in our profession claim, an organization’s nerve center? Where messages and stories are the electric impulses that cause synapses to fire, muscles to move, and hearts to beat? Or is this understating the case?…

How to Fight Digital Threats and Build a Culture of Trust – with Lisa Kaplan

Let’s face it: it’s getting worse out there. Trust in institutions, brands, and even people seems to be spiraling ever downward.  What can we, as communicators, do to break this cycle, protect our brands, and build a culture of trust?  In…

Building and Leading the AI-Enabled Enterprise Comms Team – with Megan DiSciullo

For years, we’ve been talking about upgrading the communications function – or at least modernizing it, bringing comms into parity with their Marketing colleagues. Embracing technology is the most visible part of this journey. But what good is…

AI, Bots, and Disinformation, Oh My – with Rafi Mendelsohn

When your brand, company, country, or even you are the target of social media attacks, what if you can’t even identify the source of the problem? What if the attackers aren’t real people? What if the entire attack is a complete lie, disinformation…

AI Recipes, Critical Thinking, and the Imperfect Human – with Kami Huyse

Is AI the greatest gift ever for lazy people? I’ve often said that if you want to find a better way to do something, ask a lazy person. Laziness, as it turns out, is a virtue. Lazy people want to find the most efficient way to get through a task. No…

Why You Need to Practice Forensic Listening in a Crisis – with Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey

How do FBI hostage negotiation tactics link to public relations and corporate crisis management? And how can understanding both help you prove your value to your stakeholders and audiences?  Demonstrating value is a familiar hurdle for…