Join MaryRuth and special guests as they dive deep into the world of health, wellness, and purposeful living. Each episode is a fresh, inspiring conversation with thought leaders, health experts, and everyday changemakers who share practical tips and empowering stories to help you take meaningful steps toward your best self. Whether you're seeking motivation, holistic guidance, or just a little joy in your wellness journey—this podcast is here to help you move forward every day.
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Parenting Smarts! We need them, and sometimes we feel them. Our host, Dr. MaryRuth Hackett, is a mom of four with a doctorate in educational psychology, specializing in child development. Parenting Smarts blends together the science of child development and the realities of family life. Thanks for listening! Be sure to subscribe, download, and share with the people you know who could use some Parenting Smarts!
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Competing on Amazon and retail media requires you to effectively harness the growing amount of data and capabilities made available by the retail platforms. Intentwise Connect, hosted by Intentwise CEO Sreenath Reddy and Intentwise Customer Success/Product Evangelist Jason Chan, aims to share know-how and best practices through in-depth conversations with experts in advertising, marketing, sales, and more.
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Self-Discipline is Self-Love: Do You Want the Life You SAY You Want? | With Eric Bigger
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33:37In this deeply inspiring second episode of the Move Forward Every Day With MaryRuth's podcast, MaryRuth sits down with her executive coach and dear friend Eric Bigger, who has supported her personal and professional journey for years. Together, they explore the powerful role of daily routines — morning and nighttime — and how these simple, intentio…
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Revenue Strategy For a Fast Growing Brand - A conversation with the CRO of MaryRuth Organics
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37:31What does it take to scale a wellness brand in a saturated market? Jay Hunter, CRO of MaryRuth Organics, shares the inside story. Takeaways: Why MaryRuth Organics runs a 24/7 TikTok Shop livestream and how it fuels cross-channel awareness Jay’s approach to analytics, including T-ROMs (Total Return on Marketing Spend) and real-time dashboards The st…
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Peak Season Strategy and Planning Around Tarrifs
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20:57How can brands navigate peak season planning when tariffs, supply chain uncertainty, and shifting consumer behavior threaten margins? In this episode of the Intentwise Connect podcast, Sreenath Reddy talks with Martin Heubel, Founder of Consulterce and former Amazon Vendor Manager, about proactive strategies to protect profitability and optimize in…
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From side hustle to successful exit: Kiri Masters on entrepreneurship and building a retail media agency
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42:16What does it take to turn a side hustle into a full-scale agency that gets acquired? In this episode of the Intentwise Connect podcast, host Sreenath Reddy sits down with Kiri Masters, founder of Bobsled Marketing, to unpack the full arc of her entrepreneurial journey—from launching her Amazon consulting agency while working at JPMorgan Chase to gr…
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Stephanie Burke joins MaryRuth to talk about how to help children understand the spiritual world in age-appropriate ways.
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How ROUTINES, Time Blocking & the Compound Effect Have Helped MaryRuth For 20 Years
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15:07In this powerful debut episode of the Move Forward Every Day With MaryRuth’s podcast, MaryRuth Ghiyam — the founder and CEO of MaryRuth’s — opens up about the personal routines, mindsets, and time management tools that have helped shape her life and career over the last 20+ years. From building a mission-driven wellness brand to raising four young …
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MaryRuth dives into the virtue of faith and ways to nurture it in ourselves and in our families.
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Unlocking new KPIs for growth with Amazon Marketing Cloud
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28:30Brands are moving beyond ROAS and embracing full-funnel strategies. In this episode, Joe Shelerud, Co-founder and CEO of Ad Advance, joins Sreenath Reddy to unpack how Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) is transforming measurement, targeting, and retail media strategy. From custom audience creation to lifetime value modeling, Joe breaks down what’s worki…
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Unlocking Full-Funnel Growth with Walmart Connect
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9:15In this episode of the Intentwise Connect Podcast, recorded live at Prosper 2025, Sreenath Reddy sits down with Tommy Wong, Senior Manager of Technology Partnerships at Walmart Connect. They dive into Walmart’s evolving retail media strategy, including the launch of the Display Advertising API, the growing impact of on-site display ads, and how sel…
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MaryRuth is joined by Jennifer Ellis to reflect on patience, what they have learned and how to practice it in family life.
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How can we choose our words, listen to the Lord and discern well? Fr. Will Schmid joins MaryRuth to discuss how to allow wisdom to permeate our lives and families.
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How to scale your content strategy across a large catalog
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31:32David Feinleib, founder and CEO of ITSRAPID, breaks down how to create product content for Amazon, Walmart, and more that can scale across thousands of products in a catalog. He walks through how to test new content, track analytics, and use automation to implement content strategies quickly.By Sreenath Reddy
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Gail Davis, MaryRuth's mom, joins the program to help us learn how to cultivate courage in ourselves and our families.
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Formulating data strategy for a global e-commerce brand
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39:26Brands sort through thousands of signals every day. Here’s how Nathan Moran, head of growth strategy and analytics at Edgewell, thinks about building a data strategy that can cut through the noise and allow for agile response to performance swings.By Sreenath Reddy
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George Meressa, CEO of Clear Ads, has worked in digital advertising since 2009. In this conversation with Intentwise CEO Sreenath Reddy, he walks through how the business of PPC advertising itself has shifted—and what he expects is coming next.By Sreenath Reddy
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Olivia Spears joins MaryRuth to explore how to cultivate kindness in our families.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Tina McAllister-Smith joins MaryRuth to talk about how stories can teach virtues and the Golden Rule.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Nell O'Leary and MaryRuth share a casual, vulnerable conversation exploring attachment parenting and spiritual detachment.
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MaryRuth welcomes Lindy Wynne to explore the virtue of temperance and how to cultivate it on ourselves and within our families.
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Megan Hjelmstad joins MaryRuth to explore the virtue of fortitude. Help your kids be able to endure difficulty and to do hard things.
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MaryRuth shares some thoughts and wishes everyone a Merry Christmas!
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Joyce Coronel joins MaryRuth to talk about different seasons of life and how to foster hope in all circumstances.
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Amazon agency M&A: An acquirer’s perspective
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33:14Dan Brownsher, founder and CEO of the Amazon consulting agency Channel Key, has grown his business in part by acquiring other agencies. In this podcast, he breaks down why acquisitions is such a successful growth lever, how he chooses which agencies to acquire, and how he folds their teams into his.By Sreenath Reddy
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How AMC helps execute a full-funnel Amazon strategy
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26:27Amazon Marketing Cloud is now available for everyone, whether or not you run DSP ads. AMC now helps you not only measure your Sponsored Ads and DSP campaigns, but it also allows you to create highly granular audiences for both DSP and Sponsored Ads. In this episode, recorded live from unBoxed 2024, Jeffrey Cohen, Amazon Ads Tech Evangelist, highlig…
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How do we grow in virtue as parents and foster a culture in our home focused on virtues? Emily Jaminet explores ways to transform our hearts, make priorities, examine interactions, and be disposed to the grace that helps cultivate family life striving for virtue.
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As we launch into a season exploring virtues related to family life, MaryRuth explores the importance of sleep and how it contributes to well being. Physical rest helps us pray better, relate better and parent better.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Katie Burke joins MaryRuth to talk about what piety is, what it can look like in family life and how to cultivate it in your home.
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Jenna Guizar joins MaryRuth to discuss growing in the virtue of humility as parents and encouraging it in our children. They reflect on depending on God, knowing who He is and who we are. Join them in praying the Litany of Humility.
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MaryRuth explores the virtue of prudence. She shares definitions, how it relates to other virtues, what it can look like in family life and how to cultivate it in our homes.
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From Startup to Exit: Lessons Learned from Building an Amazon Agency
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47:33John Ghiorso has seen the e-commerce agency landscape evolve from a DIY world to a professionalized, big-money endeavor. In this podcast, Ghiorso talks with Sreenath Reddy about how agency leaders should brace themselves for an increasingly competitive landscape, how they should be thinking about differentiating themselves, and why the future of B2…
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Deep dive: The intricacies of brand protection
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28:48Brands spend tons of money advertising on e-commerce platforms—but why don’t they reserve some of that for brand protection? Manu Sareen, CEO of i2o Retail, talks through the pervasive brand protection issues in our industry. Brands that don’t monitor their re-sellers closely enough might create customer experience issues that reflect poorly back o…
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Key Prime Day takeaways beyond just the numbers
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34:34You probably already know the top-line numbers about how much Prime Day grew in 2024. But what are all of the lessons lingering beneath the surface? In this podcast, Chris Moe, CEO of Cartograph, explains the granular takeaways from Prime Day—from badging to price matching to measuring profitability, and so much more. Here are all of the most impor…
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Fr. MarkMary Ames joins MaryRuth for another conversation about fatherhood. They explore the ways parents, especially fathers, can provide what kids need to flourish.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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How do you remain consistent yet adapt to individual children and circumstances when making decisions about discipline? Gina Festerer joins MaryRuth to explore this and more questions related to discipline.
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In an early episode, MaryRuth addressed discipline, but the next two episodes take a deeper dive into the topic. In this episode, MaryRuth provides framework for the purpose of discipline and concepts to consider. In the next episode a guest will join her to provide practical tips.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Parents get stressed! How can we deal with stress in a way that is healthy? How do we keep from losing it? MaryRuth explores the science behind stress and shares practical tips to help parents manage it.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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The state of the M&A landscape for agencies
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16:47After a recent lull, M&A activity is on the rise again in the e-commerce space. So how do agencies in particular prepare for an exit, and what kinds of multiples can they expect? Nate Jackson, managing director at Two Roads Advisors, breaks it all down. He discusses the importance of maintaining a diverse and balanced portfolio, the necessity of ha…
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Crafting a unique Walmart Connect strategy
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13:45Don’t fall into the trap of a copy-and-paste strategy. To succeed on Walmart Connect, you need to build ad campaigns that take into account the specifics of the platform. In this latest episode of the Intentwise Connect podcast, Sonya Hober, Head of Technology Partnerships at Walmart Connect, advises marketers on how to craft a unique strategy for …
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Parenting can be an emotional rollercoaster. How can we teach our children to understand and deal with emotions? How can we handle our own feelings as well? Cindy Bird joins MaryRuth help us with our emotional health.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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How do children benefit from grandparents? How about grandparents from grandchildren? Anita Hackett and Carol Damaso join MaryRuth to explore the grandparent effect and how to cultivate healthy multigenenerational dynamics.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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How do you help your kids learn to follow through to get things done? MaryRuth explores the definition of grit and how to encourage its development in our children.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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We live in a noisy, distracting culture. How do we cultivate silence for our ourselves and our families? Nell O'Leary joins MaryRuth to help us find ways to invite exterior and interior silence into our lives.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Get practical answers to your parenting questions. MaryRuth and Christy Isinger tackle questions that were submitted by listeners.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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BWG Connect: Turn Your Ecommerce Data into Insights
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29:35This episode originally aired on the BWG Connect podcast. In this episode, Intentwise SEO Sreenath Reddy outlines for BWG Connect co-founder Aaron Conant the key elements of a good data strategy. With the right tactics in place, brands can quickly understand how profitable their products are, how many incremental sales they are driving, and much mo…
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When and how to allow social media is a popular question parents ask. It's a complicated answer. MaryRuth explores the research on mental health and social media to equip you to find the right answers for your children.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Bojan Gajic has spent the last two-decades scaling technology businesses within the e-commerce industry, including Helium 10, where he served as CEO. He’s now CEO of AVASK, a firm of indirect tax experts, with a well-reputed specialism in global e-commerce expansion, international taxation, accountancy, business advisory and consultancy services.…
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Every day we're faced with big and small decisions. Some decisions require discernment, a longer period of prayerful time before making a decision. Claire Dwyer joins MaryRuth to explore some strategies for making sound decisions and cultivating those skills in our families.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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Parenting teens can be challenging. Deb Herback joins MaryRuth to discuss how to create a culture that helps young people grow, understand boundaries, know their worth and cultivate faith.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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MaryRuth explores the development of self-perception and self-worth along with tips to help cultivate it in ourselves and in our children.
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Eric Brooker joins MaryRuth to share about his journey toward discovering his worth. His book is You Are Enough: Overcoming Lifelong Doubts of Worthiness.By Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix
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