The Dan Nestle Show

The Dan Nestle Show

By Daniel 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.

09/25/26

Defy Organizational Gravity with Synthetic Personas - with Dr. Matt Wilkinson

What happens to a customer's words between the research readout and the campaign launch? Usually they survive in meaning and die in language. Every review cycle sands off a little more of the emotion that made the insight worth having, until the mark… Read more

09/08/26

The Profession That Makes Everyone Else Look Great - with Heather Campbell

Try this at your next industry conference: ask a communicator when they last looked at a piece of work and said "that was good," and stopped there. No "but." Chances are you'll get a blank stare, because we spend our careers making CEOs, brands, an… Read more

08/12/26

Authority Intelligence Is Built for People, GEO is for Brands - with Erin Lanuti

Who handles generative engine optimization for you? Not for your company - for you. A brand has an answer to that question: a team, a vendor, a budget line, a dashboard somebody checks on Mondays. A person usually has nobody at all, and the tools tha… Read more

07/29/26

The Research PR Couldn't Afford Until AI - with Rich Gallagher

Somewhere along the way, PR research came to mean a survey reverse-engineered to confirm whatever the client had already decided to say. Real research, the slow and expensive kind, stayed with the academics, because nobody on the agency or client sid… Read more

07/06/26

Why Human Conversation is the OS for AI - with Sarah Neely

Can you build word of mouth on purpose? Few people are better equipped to answer it than Sarah Neely. She's spent two decades engineering the conversations most brands just hope will happen by accident, and she's now the founder of SignalSwell, buil… Read more

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