Decision Makers
Decision Makers features conversations with leaders at the highest levels of business, government, and media, exploring how they made it to the top and what they learned about how decisions are made being there. Hosted by Matt Kalmans and Sacha Samotin, the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Applecart.
Decision Makers features conversations with leaders at the highest levels of business, government, and media, exploring how they made it to the top and what they learned about how decisions are made being there. Hosted by Matt Kalmans and Sacha Samotin, the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Applecart.
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Episodes

Feb 12, 2025
Jim Wilkinson
Feb 12, 2025
Feb 12, 2025
51 min
Hear from Jim Wilkinson, Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications.
Feb 12, 2025
51 min

Oct 24, 2024
Steve Israel
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
52 min
Hear from Steve Israel, Former DCCC Chairman.
Oct 24, 2024
52 min

Sep 11, 2024
Kate Bedingfield
Sep 11, 2024
Sep 11, 2024
1 hr 2 min
Hear from Kate Bedingfield, former White House Communications Director for President Joe Biden and CNN Political Commentator. Prior to joining the Biden White House, Kate spent her career in senior communications roles on competitive Democratic campaigns for President, Senate, and Congress, in addition to at the Motion Picture Association.
Sep 11, 2024
1 hr 2 min

Jul 18, 2024
Ken Mehlman
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
47 min
Hear about Ken Mehlman’s journey to the highest levels of politics and business – including serving as Chairman of the RNC, campaign manager for President George W. Bush in 2004, and now Partner, Global Head of Public Affairs and Co-Head of KKR Global Impact at KKR – one of the country’s leading private equity funds.
Jul 18, 2024
47 min

May 2, 2024
Sean Patrick Maloney
May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024
55 min
Hear from U.S. Ambassador to the OECD and former Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney about his journey from a volunteer on Bill Clinton’s ‘92 campaign to Congressman, member of House Leadership, and now Ambassador – in Episode One of Applecart’s new podcast Decision Makers.
May 2, 2024
55 min

About Applecart
Applecart advises the C-Suites of hundreds of industry-leading organizations spanning dozens of Fortune 500 companies, top communications and advertising agencies, major trade associations, leading nonprofit organizations, and governments – from Blackstone and the Business Roundtable to Intuit and the Environmental Defense Fund. Applecart’s platform enables CEOs, Chief Corporate Affairs Officers, CCOs, CMOs and other C-Suite executives to generate visibility for their most valuable content with critical decision makers and those in their orbits across nearly any channel.


