#159 "Human-Centered Growth Marketing with Sherry Grote and Mariam Nusrat"

"When you bring the human approach… people bring business to you." -Sherry Grote

Sherry Grote is an international marketing executive, speaker, and fractional CMO known for driving revenue growth and organizational alignment across global B2B SaaS companies. With over two decades of experience, she's led transformative marketing initiatives at every stage of business growth—from being the first employee at a startup that scaled to a scheduled IPO with Goldman Sachs to doubling revenue for a bootstrapped company in just nine months. Her leadership blends strategic vision with hands-on execution, harmonizing strategy, data, and collaboration to deliver measurable, scalable results.

As the founder of The Harmony Hero Initiative, Sherry empowers caregivers and marginalized leaders to go from unseen to unforgettable, helping them balance purpose, performance, and personal well-being through coaching and executive development. Whether building high-impact demand generation engines, mentoring marketing leaders, or speaking on stages around the world, Sherry is passionate about turning complexity into clarity and growth into lasting impact.

Website: https://theharmonyhero.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrygrote/

Instagram: @theharmonyhero

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Mariam Nusrat is a Forbes Next 1k Entrepreneur, Clinton Global Honoree, Tedx speaker and winner of the Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Show, Mariam Nusrat is a US-based Pakistani entrepreneur, with 11 years in the purposeful video games sector and 15 years of experience in the Edtech space, working at the World Bank across 22 different countries.

Mariam is the Founder of Breshna.io, a no-code/AI game maker platform that empowers users to create, share and monetize their own purposeful video games at lightning speed, think Canva for games! The platform has over 2m game clicks, 180k registered game makers and 160k+ games published across education, social impact and marketing. Mariam has also raised $2.7m in seed funding from investors including Paris Hilton and Randi Zuckerberg. Mariam also founded GRID, a gaming studio that creates low-cost mobile games for positive behavior change among the bottom billion. The team has created games for a wide range of development projects focusing on education, reproductive health, climate action and social cohesion. Mariam is on a mission to unleash the power of no-code and AI technology to empower the next 100m people to tell their stories through video games.

Website: https://breshna.io/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamnusrat/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Breshna

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breshnagame/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breshnagame/

In this episode, Sherry and Mariam share how purpose and innovation can transform both people and businesses. They discuss the power of authentic leadership, the rise of no-code and AI technologies, and how creativity—whether in marketing or game design—can be a force for empowerment, growth, and lasting impact.

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