Marketing Happy Hour · 2026-05-07 · 29 min
Five years ago, Marketing Happy Hour was launched from scratch - Canva logo, Google searches, and zero podcasting experience. In this milestone episode, Cassie walks through the full arc of her career: from a self-pitched internship at a Florida restaurant group to a pivotal move to New York City, from leaving a stable agency job to start her own business in 2019, to building MHH into the community it is today. Cassie gets refreshingly honest about the comparison trap of entrepreneurship, why she stopped chasing the "big brand on the resume" and started following what she actually loves, and the one piece of advice she'd give her younger self. Key Takeaways: // Cold pitching with concrete ideas beats cold pitching with just your resume. When Cassie landed her first internship - at a restaurant group with no open listing - she didn't just ask "can I help?" She came with specific ideas and made it easy for the hiring manager to say yes. The lesson: don't make the person on the other end do the work of figuring out how you fit. // The biggest career accelerator is often the move you're scared to make. For Cassie, that was packing up and moving from Tampa to New York City.
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