Jess Weiner grew up consuming media cascaded with women who looked nothing like her. Even at a young age, the bullied performing arts enthusiast knew her life's work would be focused on image consciousness and empowerment. Fast forward to 2015 and that young girl has become a highly sought after media maven, consulting with the world's top brands on creatomg empowering interactions with today's women and young girls. In fact, for the past 9 years, Jess has served as Dove's Global Self Esteem Ambassador, leading programs and creative engagements aimed at the women the brand serves through its powerful messaging. On Innovation Crush, Jess breaks down the myths behind industry buzzwords like "authenticity" and "empowerment," how improv encourages her consulting, the hurdles of entrepreneurship, and sheds light on the creative craftsmanship that goes in to supporting the groups that brands promise to support.

Ron Evans, Matt Campbell, and Maris Smith talk with Dmitri Matheny, http://dmitrimatheny.com), awesome jazz artist and super self-promoter. Dmitri talks about the day-to-day grind for individual artists having to promote themselves, highlighting some of his best practices and how he's created relationships over the years that have built into a powerful following.
NAMPRadio Recommends:

• Matt recommends: Mountain Dew introduces new banner advertising using the Facebook API -- when you click on the "like" button, it ads you to the Mountain Dew business page, without taking you away from the site you're watching the ad on. Good stuff. 
• Maris recommends:Google Moderator -- you open up the topic, and then other people can vote the content up or down by popularity, date, etc.
• Ron recommends: SonicBids.com -- electronic press kit service and Dmitri recommends reverbnation.com
• Dmitri recommends: Sivers.org -- cool blog by Derek Sivers, all about music and business

Outro music: “Country” by Dmitri himself, with his partner in crime, Darrell Grant! Find out more about the CD and the guys.