The Brands That Win Q4 Are Not the Ones Who Show Up in October — Here's What They Do Instead

She is six months pregnant, opening her sixth studio location and managing a 70-person team. And she is only executing about half of the marketing strategy Savannah gave her. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah breaks down the full case study of her fitness studio client in San Diego, who sent one push notification and made 1,000 sales in 24 hours, then made 100,000 dollars in founding memberships for a studio that had not even opened yet. Here's what this episode covers: Why a studio with tens of thousands of email subscribers, SMS contacts and a solid social following was not making nearly the money it should have been The market research that revealed her audience was mostly women who had not worked out consistently in years, and how that changed everything about how they marketed The light bulb moment content, UVP content and founder forward marketing that took her reach from flat to flying Why most of her sales came from Instagram, not email or SMS, and what that tells every founder about writing off platforms they think are dead

Áine Rock had a life that looked perfect on the outside. Beautiful house, two kids, everything in place. And she recognized she was not happy and not fulfilled. So she blew it up. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Áine, author of Blow Up Your Life: The Wild Art of Wanting More, co-founder of Savanya Wellness, certified coach and breathwork healer, to talk about what it actually looks like to leave a life that no longer fits, how somatic therapy helped her handle the fallout and what 15 years of marketing experience taught her about building a brand from lived experience. Here's what this episode covers: The sacred pause and how moving her family across the country in an RV from Chicago to Los Angeles led Áine to her real path Why Savannah had a bigger unlock in a few months of somatic work than in years of talk therapy and what that work actually looks like How nervous system work helped Áine handle the reactions to sharing her story publicly as a recovering people pleaser who felt like having people mad at her was going to kill her Why you cannot outsource what you have not mastered and what happened when Savanya hired an agency

Most founders start thinking about Black Friday the week before. The ones who actually win it start four weeks out and are already closing sales before they ever make a public announcement. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah walks through the complete Black Friday marketing playbook, the promotion options, the four week countdown and the exact moment you stop teasing and start selling, so that when Black Friday arrives you are converting an audience you already warmed instead of trying to warm and convert at the same time. Here's what this episode covers: Why a massive discount is not always the right Black Friday move and two other promotion options that protect your brand and your price point Week by week breakdown of what your marketing needs to do in the four weeks leading up to Black Friday Why the people who buy from you on Black Friday discovered you weeks before Black Friday and what that means for your October strategy How to capture Black Friday sales before you ever publicly announce your promotion

Serena Kerrigan, known as SFK, is the founder of Let's Fcking Date and author of the brand new book Let's Fcking Date: Become the Prize, Enjoy the Ride, and Never Settle Again. She is a Duke University graduate, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and the creator and star of Peacock's Older Hotter Wiser. Her book is the dating bible for women who want love, have standards and are done apologizing for either, releasing September 22, 2026. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Serena the day before her book launch to talk about building a global brand around radical confidence, what it means to show up as the prize and how Let's F*cking Date went from a digital series to a community of over a million people. Here's what this episode covers: What Let's F*cking Date actually is and how it became a card game franchise, sold-out live shows, a Peacock series and now a book Why Serena built her entire brand on the premise that you are already the prize and never once positioned it around fixing women The real tools inside the book including the List, the 3P Theory, the Roster, the F*ck No Funeral and the Glue What the Let's F*cking Date community is really built on and why it's something no competitor can replicate Let's F*cking Date is available for pre-order now at https://letsfuckingdate.com, releasing September 22, 2026. Connect with Serena on Instagram at @serenakerrigan. Apply to work with Savannah HERE: http://bit.ly/applywlfpodcast or DM her on Instagram @itssavannahjordan ( / itssavannahjordan ) with your takeaway. Serena Kerrigan, Let's F*cking Date, you are the prize, dating book, female founder, Forbes 30 Under 30, book launch, self worth

In 2006 Lauren Alexander co-founded LNA Clothing in Los Angeles at 22 years old — hand-sewing dresses, selling to boutiques around LA and figuring it out as she went. No business plan. No fashion degree. Just a genuine idea and the delusion of someone young enough not to know how hard it was going to be. Nearly two decades later LNA is still independent, still growing and still entirely hers. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Lauren to talk about what building a fashion brand from scratch actually looks like — the early days getting into Barneys, Nordstrom and Saks, the zipper legging that catapulted them in 2008, why she never took outside investment and what nearly 20 years of staying true to your aesthetic actually teaches you about building something that lasts. Here's what this episode covers: How Lauren and her co-founder April started LNA with no business plan and figured it out as they went The zipper legging that catapulted LNA in 2008 and what it taught Lauren about evolving a brand Why celebrity dressing — from Madonna to Kate Moss to Brad Pitt — built the brand before influencer marketing existed Why she never took outside investment — and what that decision has meant for the brand over nearly 20 years