VelociTEA
Episodes
Episode 13 | Content Sommeliers
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In technical communities, trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. Developers have a nose for authenticity and credibility. In this episode of Veloci...
Episode 12 | How Big Companies Lose (and Regain) Momentum
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Velocitea, Emily and Forrest break down the pendulum swing they’ve seen across marketing and engineering teams: fast, autonomous execut...
Episode 11 | Distributed by Design
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Velocitea, Emily and Forrest pull back the curtain on how they’ve built and scaled a fully distributed company in an era obsessed with ...
Episode 10 | Why B2B Influencer Marketing Works Differently
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Velocitea, Emily and Forrest break down the real differences between B2C and B2B influencer marketing: from affiliate links and promo cod...
Episode 9 | AI vs. Developer Identity
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Velocitea, Emily and Forrest discuss how the tech world is currently having a massive identity crisis, how AI is alienating developers fr...
Episode 8 | Why Most Product Marketing Misses the Mark
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Velocitea, Emily and Forrest are joined by product marketing legend Jim Walker for a deep, opinionated, and wildly practical conversation...
Episode 7 | Becoming a Tech Influencer (The Right Way)
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Velocitea, Emily and Forrest break down what actually makes someone successful in this space (spoiler: do the work first). They als...
Episode 6 | How Influencer Marketing Actually Works
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Velocitea, Emily and Forrest pull back the curtain on how influencer marketing actually gets built from startups to enterprise gian...
Episode 5 | Vibe Marketing, AI Slop, and Why Being Weird Still Wins
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Velocitea, Emily and Forrest take on “vibe marketing”: the growing trend of letting AI drive your content and hoping for the be...
Episode 4 | We’re Not Trying to Kill DevRel
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Velocitea, Emily and Forrest tackle a spicy question: Are we trying to kill Developer Relations? (TLDR: no.) The two unpack how Dev...
Episode 3 | We’re Not Trying to Kill DevRel
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Velocitea, Emily and Forrest tackle a spicy question: Are we trying to kill Developer Relations? (Short answer: no.) The two unpack...
Episode 2 | Maybe Don’t (with Kendall Miller)
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Velocitea, Emily and Forrest are joined by the one-and-only Kendall Miller: community-builder, meetup-runner, connector-of-humans, and se...
EPISODE 1 | We Started a Business, Now We Start a Podcast?
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural episode of Velocitea, co-founders Emily Freeman and Forrest Brazeal finally sit down in the same room (a rare event!) to talk about h...