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🎉 Episode 100: The Top 7 Episodes You Need to Send to a Friend

Brain Driven Brands

Release Date: 09/16/2025

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Brain Driven Brands

We kicked off Season 3 with some heat. 🔥 In this episode, Nate and Sarah talk about why the volume game in ads is broken — and how brands are shooting themselves in the foot by flooding their accounts with 100+ AI-generated ads a week. Spoiler: consumers aren’t dumb. They’re tired, frustrated, and tuning out repetitive, irrelevant creative. We share some new stats on consumer behavior (61% are less likely to buy after seeing the same ad too many times, 49% flat out refuse). We dig into why volume ≠ diversity, why overloading creative teams is unsustainable, and why the future...

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Brain Driven Brands

In this episode of Brain-Driven Brands, Nate and Sarah kick off Season 3 by reflecting on some of our favorite episodes from past seasons, share the lessons that stuck with us, and give you a preview of what’s coming next. If you haven’t listened to Brain Driven Brands for long, or if you jut wanna send your friend some good content this week, SEND THEM THIS. 🔑 Key Takeaways Why “just spending more on ads” is the wrong lever—and the surprising shift that actually drives scale. The one theme that secretly connected our favorite past episodes (storytelling, bias, and...

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In this episode, Nate and Sarah walk through one of the easiest ways to steal customers from your competitors using psychology and behavior science…by using Consumer Casey as a case study!   JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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On this episode of Brain Driven Brands, Sarah quizzes Nate on a super secret study that could boost his sales by 42%...if he’s only willing to do what Sarah says he should. 😅 Source: https://app.sciencesays.com/p/your-product-benefits-must-seem-related   JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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In this episode of Brain Driven Brands, special guest Joanna Wallace joins Nate and Sarah to look at some of Nate’s favorite ads and Joanna chimes in on what she likes and might not like.    JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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In this episode of Brain Driven Brands, special guest Joanna Wallace joins Nate and Sarah to discuss some of the marketing strategies, tactics, methodologies and theory we’re just not gonna believe anymore…mostly because we were wrong about them.    JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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  We don’t even know how to describe this episode so...you’ll just have to listen to it.   JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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On today’s episode of Brain Driven Brands, we dissect a brand new psychological topic: Nash Equilibrium One that might mean the difference between    JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:

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ON this episode of Brain Driven Brands, Sarah has beef with Nate, we talk about the Tampon ad that changed a nation, and dissect the real reason your ads aren’t working! All this and more… JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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Sarah and Nate are back for another round of “guess the study”! This time, Sarah quizzes Nate on a marketing study that showed one super secret hack for increasing customer’s likelihood to buy by 5.43X!   JOIN The TETHER Community-   CoHost: Nate Lagos Twitter: LinkedIn: Tactical and Practical Podcast:   Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/ Twitter: Linkedin:   Instagram: Watch me on YouTube:   Thanks to Cytrus for the theme song, “Sky High” You can follow and find them on Spotify:  

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More Episodes

In this episode of Brain-Driven Brands, Nate and Sarah kick off Season 3 by reflecting on some of our favorite episodes from past seasons, share the lessons that stuck with us, and give you a preview of what’s coming next. If you haven’t listened to Brain Driven Brands for long, or if you jut wanna send your friend some good content this week, SEND THEM THIS.

🔑 Key Takeaways

  • Why “just spending more on ads” is the wrong lever—and the surprising shift that actually drives scale.

  • The one theme that secretly connected our favorite past episodes (storytelling, bias, and identity)… and why we didn’t see it until now.

  • A behind-the-scenes look at what we’re building for Season 3—something we’ve never shared publicly before.

🔑 Episodes Referenced:

  • The “When” Episode – about when people are primed to buy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000675762314
     
     
    $100M Marketing Challenge – a live experiment episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000693460164
     
    The Orange Episode / Apples vs. Oranges – about the seriously shady business of orange juice vs apple juice (juice/consumables): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000702690496
     
    Ford to Range Rover Episode – identity-based buying contrast episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000702997660
     
    Sarah Makes Snake Cry – a memorable/funny one that might change copywriting forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000710416478
     
    Gut Driven Brands – spinoff episode when Sarah was out, so Scotty & Nate ran it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000679071306
     
    The “Because” Episode – got notable (kinda negative) listener reactions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000687116891
     
    BONUS: BPE Episode – people couldn't get enough of this one: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000700103181
     
    BONUS: Valence of Testing – one of the best episodes we've done by far! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-driven-brands/id1752169629?i=1000710416478

👉 Learn more how to apply psychology to your ads: skool.com/tether-lab

CoHost: Nate Lagos

Twitter: https://x.com/natelagos

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natelagos/

Tactical and Practical Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tactical-practical/id1752915534

 

CoHost: Sarah Levinger

Learn more at: https://www.tetherinsights.io/

Twitter: https://x.com/SarahLevinger

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahlevinger/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarah.levinger/

Watch me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKwfjt_7PU5N_2fTfHemXXg