Mari Botta
@mcbotta.bsky.social
🧏♂️ Most underestimated leadership skill?
Listening — not talking.
Often founders default to "talking" mode not "hearing".
Listening leads to
👉 Clearer decisions.
👉 Uncover real problems instead of guessing.
👉 Build team trust.
The founder who listens gains the advantage.
#Startups #FractionalCMO
Listening — not talking.
Often founders default to "talking" mode not "hearing".
Listening leads to
👉 Clearer decisions.
👉 Uncover real problems instead of guessing.
👉 Build team trust.
The founder who listens gains the advantage.
#Startups #FractionalCMO
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🧏♂️ Most underestimated leadership skill?
Listening — not talking.
Often founders default to "talking" mode not "hearing".
Listening leads to
👉 Clearer decisions.
👉 Uncover real problems instead of guessing.
👉 Build team trust.
The founder who listens gains the advantage.
#Startups #FractionalCMO
Listening — not talking.
Often founders default to "talking" mode not "hearing".
Listening leads to
👉 Clearer decisions.
👉 Uncover real problems instead of guessing.
👉 Build team trust.
The founder who listens gains the advantage.
#Startups #FractionalCMO
You think you have a marketing problem.
➡️ 90% it’s a clarity problem that erodes trust
🍥 When clarity drops, trust drops
🍥 When trust drops, growth stalls.
🍥 Wasted time comes from a lack of clarity.
#Founders #Leadership #GoToMarket #Clarity #MarketingLeadership
➡️ 90% it’s a clarity problem that erodes trust
🍥 When clarity drops, trust drops
🍥 When trust drops, growth stalls.
🍥 Wasted time comes from a lack of clarity.
#Founders #Leadership #GoToMarket #Clarity #MarketingLeadership
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
You think you have a marketing problem.
➡️ 90% it’s a clarity problem that erodes trust
🍥 When clarity drops, trust drops
🍥 When trust drops, growth stalls.
🍥 Wasted time comes from a lack of clarity.
#Founders #Leadership #GoToMarket #Clarity #MarketingLeadership
➡️ 90% it’s a clarity problem that erodes trust
🍥 When clarity drops, trust drops
🍥 When trust drops, growth stalls.
🍥 Wasted time comes from a lack of clarity.
#Founders #Leadership #GoToMarket #Clarity #MarketingLeadership
In my first career, I produced global ad campaigns and was the Executive Producer on network launches in LATAM.
Today, as a Fractional CMO I draw on the same leadership lessons.
Need some marketing leadership on your team? Message me
#startupCMO #FractionalCMO #Startups #Strategy #Entrepreneurship
Today, as a Fractional CMO I draw on the same leadership lessons.
Need some marketing leadership on your team? Message me
#startupCMO #FractionalCMO #Startups #Strategy #Entrepreneurship
September 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In my first career, I produced global ad campaigns and was the Executive Producer on network launches in LATAM.
Today, as a Fractional CMO I draw on the same leadership lessons.
Need some marketing leadership on your team? Message me
#startupCMO #FractionalCMO #Startups #Strategy #Entrepreneurship
Today, as a Fractional CMO I draw on the same leadership lessons.
Need some marketing leadership on your team? Message me
#startupCMO #FractionalCMO #Startups #Strategy #Entrepreneurship
When your work helps connect entire communities, the results hit differently.
As Fractional CMO for Uplink Internet, I helped transform the brand’s voice, campaigns, and customer connections — driving real growth and deeper community impact.
#FractionalCMO #MarketingLeadership #CommunityImpact
As Fractional CMO for Uplink Internet, I helped transform the brand’s voice, campaigns, and customer connections — driving real growth and deeper community impact.
#FractionalCMO #MarketingLeadership #CommunityImpact
August 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
When your work helps connect entire communities, the results hit differently.
As Fractional CMO for Uplink Internet, I helped transform the brand’s voice, campaigns, and customer connections — driving real growth and deeper community impact.
#FractionalCMO #MarketingLeadership #CommunityImpact
As Fractional CMO for Uplink Internet, I helped transform the brand’s voice, campaigns, and customer connections — driving real growth and deeper community impact.
#FractionalCMO #MarketingLeadership #CommunityImpact
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This right here......
May 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This right here......
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It’s borderline criminal.
March 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It’s borderline criminal.
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Supported by billionaires like Musk, President Trump has laid the groundwork for the biggest heist in American history—the rapid destruction of Social Security, disguised as “reform.”
Because how dare Americans ask the morbidly rich to help support the middle class!
Because how dare Americans ask the morbidly rich to help support the middle class!
Trump and Musk’s Plan to Destroy Social Security Started Tuesday Night
It starts with cutting staff at the Social Security Administration. That will sow confusion. Then it builds from there.
newrepublic.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Supported by billionaires like Musk, President Trump has laid the groundwork for the biggest heist in American history—the rapid destruction of Social Security, disguised as “reform.”
Because how dare Americans ask the morbidly rich to help support the middle class!
Because how dare Americans ask the morbidly rich to help support the middle class!
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What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
March 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What better way to combat antisemitism than by stripping funds from a university with the highest percentages of Jewish undergraduates of any school in the Ivy League?
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This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
March 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This Sunday, the whole country needs to spring forward from 1939.
Si lunging further into ignorance
March 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Si lunging further into ignorance
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Goldman on Trump trying to dismantle Dept of Ed through an executive order: "Just the fact that this is what he's doing shows his disdain for the American people, shows his disdain for public education, shows his disdain for special programs that are essential for so many Americans to use & learn."
March 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Goldman on Trump trying to dismantle Dept of Ed through an executive order: "Just the fact that this is what he's doing shows his disdain for the American people, shows his disdain for public education, shows his disdain for special programs that are essential for so many Americans to use & learn."
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NO. It would be illegal. The Department was created by Congress. He can’t close it unilaterally. Speak plainly.
March 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NO. It would be illegal. The Department was created by Congress. He can’t close it unilaterally. Speak plainly.
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Disbanding the Dept of Education
Cannot be done without an act of Congress
Keep Reposting
Cannot be done without an act of Congress
Keep Reposting
March 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Disbanding the Dept of Education
Cannot be done without an act of Congress
Keep Reposting
Cannot be done without an act of Congress
Keep Reposting
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DOGE scrubbed a long-dead contract from its site—the same place it’s been posting phony “receipts” to fake success.
Do they not understand how government works, or are they lying to the public?
My opinion: These aren’t mistakes. They’re trying to dupe us.
Do they not understand how government works, or are they lying to the public?
My opinion: These aren’t mistakes. They’re trying to dupe us.
March 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
DOGE scrubbed a long-dead contract from its site—the same place it’s been posting phony “receipts” to fake success.
Do they not understand how government works, or are they lying to the public?
My opinion: These aren’t mistakes. They’re trying to dupe us.
Do they not understand how government works, or are they lying to the public?
My opinion: These aren’t mistakes. They’re trying to dupe us.
So the USA ranks #13 amongst developed nations for education and the answer is to destroy the Dept of Education instead of reform? Captain chaos wants to make sure the population plunges into ignorance - it’s starting to feel like the Dark Ages! #darkages #uschaos #usdeptofeducation
March 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
So the USA ranks #13 amongst developed nations for education and the answer is to destroy the Dept of Education instead of reform? Captain chaos wants to make sure the population plunges into ignorance - it’s starting to feel like the Dark Ages! #darkages #uschaos #usdeptofeducation
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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
boards.greenhouse.io
March 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
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SpaceX rocket explodes, causing some flight delays.
Elmo shits in our skies and nothing stops him.
It is a total waste of tax dollars, shut it down.
Elmo shits in our skies and nothing stops him.
It is a total waste of tax dollars, shut it down.
March 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
SpaceX rocket explodes, causing some flight delays.
Elmo shits in our skies and nothing stops him.
It is a total waste of tax dollars, shut it down.
Elmo shits in our skies and nothing stops him.
It is a total waste of tax dollars, shut it down.
Another adult man bully throwing a temper tantrum. How much of this can we take? I’ve had my fill.
A grown man throwing a temper tantrum.
Stephen Miller Throws Bonkers Tantrum After CNN Host Pushes Back On DOGE Cuts
Why you mad, bro?
www.comicsands.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Another adult man bully throwing a temper tantrum. How much of this can we take? I’ve had my fill.
If you have to resort to playground bullying as an adult that says a lot about your lack f intellectual capacity.
Musk went straight to the slurs after being called out yet again for saying that astronauts have been stranded on the International Space Station by the Biden administration for “political reasons”—a lie that astronauts themselves have repeatedly debunked.
Elon Musk Loses It After Astronaut Dares Calls Out His Lie
Elon Musk called a famous astronaut a slur simply because he countered one of his newest talking points.
newrepublic.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If you have to resort to playground bullying as an adult that says a lot about your lack f intellectual capacity.
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It's Me Maria Botta
A Global Explorer, Storyteller & Fractional CMO on the Move
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February 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Great interview with Dr Ruha Benjamin. Her ideas around fostering imagination and the idea of “home”.
open.spotify.com/episode/7Kyq...
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RIP… D.E.I. with Ruha Benjamin [VIDEO]
What Now? with Trevor Noah · Episode
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February 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Great interview with Dr Ruha Benjamin. Her ideas around fostering imagination and the idea of “home”.
open.spotify.com/episode/7Kyq...
open.spotify.com/episode/7Kyq...
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Hundreds of employees at the 1,800-person National Nuclear Security Administration were fired on Thursday. Many of them described the situation as a “national security crisis.”
Trump’s Purge Hits Nuclear Weapons Agency—Setting Off National Crisis
The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees at perhaps the one agency where stability is needed most.
newrepublic.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Hundreds of employees at the 1,800-person National Nuclear Security Administration were fired on Thursday. Many of them described the situation as a “national security crisis.”
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Two coders have already infiltrated the DOGE website and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Website Is Already Getting Hacked
The DOGE.gov website is such a coding disaster that pretty much anyone can take over.
newrepublic.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Two coders have already infiltrated the DOGE website and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another.