Matt Hawksley: Learning in the Open
Leadogo founder Matt Hawksley on leaving a 20-year logistics career, the 40-day road trip that launched his reinvention, learning in the open, and mentoring entrepreneurs in Ghana.
Tag: Leadership Interview
Episodes of Leaders and Their Stories: conversations with executives, founders, and experts turning experience into influence.
AI and Your CareerRiley Kaminer: AI Says It in Three Times the Words
Tech journalist and ghostwriter Riley Kaminer on writing more than 1,000 startup stories for Refresh Miami, why AI stretches everything to three times its length, and what gets lost when young professionals let AI do the thinking.
AI and Your CareerJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written Down
Retired Navy veteran and technology leader Jay Stifflemire on losing a contract two days before Christmas, founding a publishing company by January 2, and the memoir for his children that started it all.
AI and Your CareerGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free Will
Organizational systems architect Georgie-Ann Getton on the story you tell yourself, setting goals as a floor rather than a ceiling, and the morning she missed a turn and realized she had forgotten she could turn around.
CybersecurityYaron Vorona: Can’t Is Almost Always a Choice
Startup coach Yaron Vorona on coaching deep tech founders through the Series A step up, escaping the supplicant trap, and why can't is almost always a choose not to.
For Executives & ProfessionalsJoe Rockey: AI Is a Function, Not a Relationship
Consultant Joe Rockey returns with one test for every AI decision: is it a function, or is it replacing a relationship? Get it wrong and AI costs you money and clients.
For Executives & ProfessionalsCraig Leonard: Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not Your Resume
LinkedIn strategist Craig Leonard on how the interest-based algorithm decides who sees you, why most profiles read like resumes, and where AI helps and where it wrecks the job.
For Executives & ProfessionalsAnthony Markey: Everybody Is Worth a Coffee
Insurance broker and I Know A Guy Iowa host Anthony Markey returns to explain why everybody is worth a coffee, and why the person you let talk is the one who refers you.
CommunicationRoyce Blake: Your Voice Is an Instrument, and You Are Playing Three Keys
The first guest this show ever had returns fifty episodes later. Royce Blake on why your voice is an instrument, why you hate the sound of it on playback, and the one technique he would teach if he could only…
CreativityMike Merkur: Driving the Bus While the Pizza Flies
Leadership is driving a school bus while everyone in the back throws shoes and pizza. Mike Merkur on being fired fifteen times, hiding the workshop from the customer, and using neurodiversity instead of fixing it.
AEONoah Landow: The Machines Stopped Being Predictable
Thirty years of IT taught everyone that a system behaves the same way twice. Noah Landow, who founded Macktez in 1996, on AEO, live queries, and the adjustment nobody prepared for.
BlockchainBeating the No-Win Scenario: Kobayashi Maru Decisions, Sunk Costs, and Changing the Rules | Michael Santore
BlockSkunk founder Michael Santore joins Richard Lowe to talk no-win scenarios, the elevated paradox, the fantasy sports startup that stopped like a spaceship, sunk costs, and why AI compliance is quietly asking for immutable audit logs.