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The Influence Economy Podcast with Shayna Davis

The Influence Economy Podcast with Shayna Davis

Shayna Rattler Davis 220 Episodes Aug 17, 2026

The Influence Economy Podcast with Shayna Davis explores how technical leaders can leverage external signals to build trust and win markets. Host Shayna Davis discusses strategies for making professional credibility stand out. The show focuses on personal branding, thought leadership, and market influence for technical professionals.

Episodes

Borrow A Region's Playbook To Build Your Own Credibility w/ Eric Moore of BioNTX
Borrow A Region's Playbook To Build Your Own Credibility w/ Eric Moore of BioNTX Aug 17, 2026 0:25:10 Let's keep it real. Great tech doesn't close rounds. Great tech doesn't win categories. And great tech definitely doesn't stop a competitor with a weaker product from eating your lunch. What closes the gap is credibility, and this week's guest has spent years building it for an entire region.I sat down with Eric Moore, Chief Development Officer at Bio North Texas, to talk about what it actually ta
How Investors Decide If You're Worth the Risk w/ Jason Kraus
How Investors Decide If You're Worth the Risk w/ Jason Kraus Jul 15, 2026 0:26:30 Why the best tech doesn't always win, and what actually gets founders fundedHere's something I say often on this show: the best tech doesn't always win. What wins is the founder and the leadership team that can actually show up with credibility outside the four walls of the company. And nobody sees that pattern play out more than the person deciding whether to write the check.That's why I brought
Why Tech Startups Lose to Competitors With Weaker Products
Why Tech Startups Lose to Competitors With Weaker Products Jun 15, 2026 0:16:36 Your technical advantage has an expiration date. And most founders aren’t doing the math on how soon it hits. I’ve been in conversations with founders lately who are still building their entire competitive strategy around their tech. And I get it. You’ve poured real time, real ingenuity, and real money into what you’ve built. But here’s what I keep watching happen: the market isn’t waiting for fou
The Trust Ledger Most Tech Founders Never Audit
The Trust Ledger Most Tech Founders Never Audit Jun 8, 2026 0:19:14 A few weeks ago, I was in a room with 5,000 builders, enterprise leaders, and investors at Human+Tech Week in San Francisco. I went expecting to spend five days deep in conversations about AI, the future of work, and where technology is headed. And those conversations happened. But that’s not what I kept noticing. What I kept noticing — what nobody was naming out loud — was a live credibility audi
What Separates Founders Who Raise From Founders Who Don’t
What Separates Founders Who Raise From Founders Who Don’t May 25, 2026 0:19:18 Your deck is not the problem. I know that’s not what you want to hear when you’re three weeks out from investor meetings and you’re still tweaking your competitive slide. But let’s keep it real: the deck is the last ten percent. What happens in the ninety percent before it is what actually determines whether you walk out of that room with a term sheet or a polite pass. In this solo episode, I’m br
What Every Tech Founder’s Pitch Is Missing
What Every Tech Founder’s Pitch Is Missing May 18, 2026 0:11:24 Most founders walk into high-stakes rooms — investor meetings, client pitches, panel stages — and lead with the wrong thing. They lead with the product. The features. The data. The roadmap. And the room stays flat. Let’s keep it real: that’s not a pitch problem. That’s a story problem. And in this episode, I’m breaking down exactly why technical founders default to product-first communication, wha
The Leadership Skill AI Will Never Replace
The Leadership Skill AI Will Never Replace May 10, 2026 0:16:09 There’s a question I don’t think enough leaders are asking themselves — and it’s not about strategy, headcount, or even product roadmap. It’s simpler than that, and it’s also more urgent than most leadership teams realize: If someone went looking for you right now, what would they find? That question is the heart of this episode. Because we are in the middle of one of the most significant shifts i
What Leaders Get Wrong About External Pushback w/ Jeff Wetherhold
What Leaders Get Wrong About External Pushback w/ Jeff Wetherhold May 4, 2026 0:25:49 Most leaders walk into high-stakes external conversations thinking the goal is to win the argument. It’s not. And if that’s your approach, you’re already losing. In this episode, I sit down with Jeff Wetherhold — a behavioral science researcher, change management expert, and faculty member with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement — to break down what’s actually happening when leaders face pus
Why Your Comms Strategy Keeps Getting Undermined
Why Your Comms Strategy Keeps Getting Undermined Apr 27, 2026 0:18:45 Your comms strategy is only as strong as the leaders delivering it. And if you’ve been doing damage control after panels, media interviews, or enterprise sales conversations — you already know this. In this episode, I’m naming the pattern that most comms leaders and marketing executives are too close to the problem to say out loud: your technical leaders are stepping into external moments every si
What Leaders Get Wrong About External Influence w/ Carlee Wolfe
What Leaders Get Wrong About External Influence w/ Carlee Wolfe Apr 20, 2026 0:32:11 You can be the most brilliant person in the room and still be invisible. Let’s fix that. In this episode, I sit down with Carlee Wolfe, a global talent and leadership executive who has spent her career at the intersection of leadership, influence, and the future of work. Carlee leads global integrated talent management at Hyatt Hotels Corporation and has held leadership roles with Under Armour and
The Real Reason Deals Stall
The Real Reason Deals Stall Apr 5, 2026 0:15:45 Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: your sales cycle isn’t long—you’re just asking people to trust you too late. And if that stings a little, good. Because this is where most leadership teams are getting it wrong. We’ve been conditioned to believe slow deals are just the nature of B2B—more stakeholders, more complexity, more time. But let’s keep it real: two companies with the same product, sa
You’re Visible But Not Credible w/ Laura Camacho
You’re Visible But Not Credible w/ Laura Camacho Mar 30, 2026 0:30:31 Let’s keep it real—visibility is already happening whether you’re intentional about it or not. The question is: are you sending the right signals, or are you leaving your credibility up to chance? In this episode, I sat down with executive communication strategist Laura Camacho to unpack one of the biggest blind spots in modern leadership. Too many leaders are still operating like visibility is op

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