This episode is the origin story for the Earning Your Seat podcast.
In this pilot episode, Dino Delic, Head of the Data-Driven Comms Research Lab at Meltwater, takes you behind the scenes of how Earning Your Seat came to life, and why it never really felt like a podcast. Along the way, you’ll meet the voices at the table: Genevieve Brammall, Head of PR at News Corp Australia, and Stephanie Lerdall, Head of Corporate Communications at Morningstar.
What started as a series of conversations about data-driven communication quickly became something else. A place to test ideas in real time. To ask questions without neat answers. To talk honestly about confidence, leadership, data, and what it actually means to show up in rooms where decisions get made.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing strong work but struggling to prove it, questioning your confidence, or wondering if you’ve truly earned your seat at the table, you’re not alone. This show is for you.
Welcome to Earning Your Seat, a Meltwater Podcast.
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- Dino Delic, Head of the Data-Driven Comms Research Lab on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinodelic/
- Genevieve Brammall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieve-brammall/?skipRedirect=true
- Stephanie Lerdall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniesheppard/
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- Join the Data-Driven Comms Community: https://community.meltwater.com/p/ddc
What is Earning Your Seat?
The role of communications has changed. The expectations are higher. The margin for error is smaller.
Earning Your Seat is a podcast for communications leaders operating under changed expectations without a clear playbook.
Hosted by Dino Delic, Stephanie Lerdall, and Genevieve Brammall, the show places the hosts inside an experience many communicators recognize. Smart, capable leaders learning in real time how influence is earned, tested, and sustained.
Each episode features candid conversations with leaders across communications, data, media, and technology. Alongside those conversations, the hosts test ideas in real time, question what they have been taught, and confront where common advice breaks down under organizational pressure.
This is not aspirational thought leadership. It is a practical look at growth as it happens. How communicators earn trust, collaborate across functions, and lead with authority in a world moving faster than the role itself.
Pull up a chair. The work begins now.