Networking Without the BS: Building Relationships That Actually Hold
November 3, 2025
An introvert spent 20 years avoiding networking, then a Trader Joe's system failure left him with no one to call. This is what he learned the hard way.
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BusinessMy Job Sucks: Taking Back Control of Your Working Life
November 3, 2025
The old social contract is dead. Learn to spot layoffs early, decode corporate doublespeak, protect yourself legally and financially. From someone who saw bot
Book MarketingFocus on LinkedIn: The Complete Professional Playbook
November 3, 2025
Advanced LinkedIn strategies from a Senior LinkedIn Branding Expert. 300+ executive profiles optimized. Crisis management, scam protection, algorithm mastery.
BusinessMy Boss is Insane: And Other Workplace Nightmares
November 1, 2025
Practical survival guide for toxic workplaces. Documentation, escape funds, boss-proof skills, mental health, when to walk away. From someone who lived it for
CareersFrom Hiding in the Closet to Front Row Center: How a Camera Broke a Lifetime of Shyness | Optimal Conversations, Episode 6
December 29, 2023
The December 29, 2023 reciprocal interview with Author Talks guest Mary Wong: 2,000 systems and unaccepted awards, shy-versus-introvert defined, the closet childhood, the grief decision at Skull Rock, Marjani and front row center, the couples matched and one divorced by…
CareersFrom IT Leader to Storyteller: The Boss Certified Insane and the Gig Economy Playbook | Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Episode 220
October 26, 2023
The October 26, 2023 episode: the first disk defragmenter, SCADA still running on VAX/VMS, 1980s phone-card fraud profiling, phone phreaks, the boss with an insanity certificate and the armed-guard firing day, John Shields and Dan Bane, customer-free digital transformation, the…
CareersThe U-Boat Commander, the Skull Rock Decision, and No Plan B | Real with O’Neill
August 15, 2021
The August 15, 2021 interview with Dakota O'Neill: Scholastic books and Iwo Jima at seven, the desegregation bus seat that ended prejudice, the crying U-boat commander and the word competence, BASIC filling a schedule hole, married four times in two…
CareersWriting to Advance Your Career: From VAX Clusters to 54+ Ghostwritten Books | The SynAck FinAck Podcast
February 14, 2021
The February 14, 2021 interview: 1981 DEC clustering and the first disk defragmenter, SCADA water systems, the Trader Joe’s exit, the $1,000-a-book apprenticeship and same-day $10,000 turnaround, the four-four-three-one technical book tally, the report-in-the-trash CEO, LinkedIn rules from 100+ profiles,…
CareersFrom Trader Joe’s to Zombie Apocalypses: The Born to Write Interview | With Azul Terronez
November 29, 2019
The September 11, 2019 Born to Write interview: celebrity ghostwriters versus the credibility mid-market, the wrestler predecessor and the Afghani client's escape from a prison of 15,000 skeletons, vomit-on-the-page drafting from 4:30 a.m., three promotion hours in every eight, BookBub…
CareersGrief, Belly Dancers, and Taking Control: The Full Life Story Interview | Live Your Life with Chris Baker
January 24, 2019
The January 24, 2019 W4CY interview: the four-person startup vice presidency, SCADA water systems, 20 years running Trader Joe's computers, losing his wife and refusing to keep grief as a friend, Marjani and the belly dance photography years, $4-an-hour first…
CareersVanity Publisher Warnings and What Writing Actually Pays | The Exceptional Scribble Show, Episode 233
October 16, 2018
The October 2018 hour on the economics of writing: vanity publisher and rights-grab warnings, the remote screen-share publishing walkthrough, why autobiographies rarely sell, series-first fiction strategy, what ghostwriting, LinkedIn profiles, copywriting, and blogging each pay, job board scams, and the…