About this episode

Maryann Pfeiffer shares her journey from being laid off to founding a successful women-led digital marketing agency.

Nobody plans to launch a business six months pregnant after a layoff. But sometimes the squiggle chooses you. Maryann Pfeiffer didn't set out to build an agency. She started with a "temporary" consulting gig to get through an impossible moment — and a decade later, that temporary fix had grown into 108 Degrees Digital Marketing, an award-winning, women-run agency specializing in email-led digital strategy. What started as survival became something she intentionally shaped into a business that...

People in this episode

Hosts: Colleen DelVecchio, Ashleigh Beadle

Guest: Maryann Pfeiffer

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• women in business
• digital marketing
• career change
• agency building

Keywords

• layoff
• business launch
• women-led agency
• consulting
• digital strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 108 Degrees Digital Marketing

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