PRSA SV #FridayForum Podcast
PRSA Silicon Valley #FridayForum is the go-to podcast for the PR Tech community. In 2025, join host Mark Lewis as he interviews the region's top communicators for insightful conversations on the local PR scene, insider tips and motivational stories from the many corners of our communications field.
Podcasting since 2021 • 47 episodes
PRSA SV #FridayForum Podcast
Latest Episodes
#FridayForum Halloween Special: Jeannie Entin on spooky PR for Spirit Halloween
Jeannie Entin, who you may remember from earlier this season, returns for this mini-episode. She looks back on her time supporting PR for the ubiquitous Halloween megastore, Spirit Halloween. We hear about consumer PR, supporting new sales idea...
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#FridayForum: Lamiya Cotton & Mercy Mehzun on PR’s new generation
Lamiya Cotton and Meseret “Mercy” Mehzun wrap up this season by sharing the very beginning of their careers. From screenagers to AI’s influence in their work, Lamiya and Mercy talk about a new generation of PR pros and how the pandemic caused a...
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#FridayForum: Erin McCabe on acquisitions & the global/local balance
Erin McCabe leads communications at cloud platform OpenText. We talk acquisitions, international communications, values and how a comms team can have a common AI understanding. Plus, we hear how her appreciation of storytelling leads to a bette...
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#FridayForum: Gerry Corbett on 50 years in the industry (and if 2025 PR is actually better than 1975)
Gerry Corbett is a PR thought leader and former PRSA chair and CEO. We follow his five-decade career from the beginning, when he reeked of garlic and spent his days in wind tunnels, to a fruitful corporate comms stretch working with 17 CEOs. He...
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#FridayForum: Meghan Fintland on all things C—cyber, crisis and comms
Meghan Fintland runs PR at the cybersecurity firm Rubrik. We hear how she finds motivation in causes close to her heart and cuts through tech jargon by focusing on the human element in storytelling. She also discusses expanding channels for tho...
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