About this podcast
A podcast dedicated to interviewing professionals and their journey with a focus on those moments of growth.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 52 episodes
- Ep 51 - "Internet Pioneer" with James Gorman · Episode 51James Gorman helped wire the early internet, stood in a New York data center turning screwdrivers in the morning and pitched bankers in the boardroom that afternoon, and once…
- Ep 50 - "Carrying Forward" with Robert Gold · Episode 50Robert Gold was 26 years old, on track at KPMG, when his father died at 51. His dad ran a small CPA practice out of the basement of the family house, office wedged between the…
- Ep 49 - "Built to Adapt" with David G. Ewing · Episode 49Two weeks into his freshman year at Harvard, David G. Ewing tore his Achilles tendon clean in half. The football career he had been recruited for ended before it started, and he…
- Ep 48 - "Meaningful Returns" with Marc Shaffer · Episode 48Marc Shaffer is the CFO of Searcy Financial, a firm that started in 1976 with one founder serving physicians and has spent 50 years turning itself into something more. He wrote a…
- Ep 47 - "Get Referred" with Andrew Brown · Episode 47Andrew Brown has spent 30 plus years inside professional services, financial services, SaaS, and digital marketing agencies, and he kept noticing the same pattern. The best leads…
- Ep 46 – “Suits & Streets” with Oscar Durán · Episode 46Oscar Duran reads four books at a time, runs a bespoke tailoring atelier with his partner Katie, renovates old buildings through his community development company Black Sailboat…
- Ep 45 - "Serving Intentionally" with Todd Milner · Episode 45Todd Milner almost kept driving. It was 3:30 on a Friday afternoon in western Kansas, he had a two-hour drive home, and he was done. Something told him to pull a U-turn into one…
- Ep 44 – “Courage to Be” with Kelly Narowsky · Episode 44Kelly Narowsky woke up one Saturday to texts from strangers trying to buy cars. Hackers had taken over her Facebook account, impersonated her with a stolen copy of her driver's…
- Ep 43 - "Reinventing Yourself" with Mark Davis · Episode 43About a year and a half before this conversation, Mark Davis took over Translube Lubricants, the 50 year old family business his parents founded in 1975. One of his first moves…
- Ep 42 - "Ego Tension" with Christian Brim · Episode 42Christian Brim has spent 28 years running Core Group, a firm that helps entrepreneurs in creative industries trade financial anxiety for clarity. But the conversation with Sam…
- Ep 41 – “Through it All” with Jayme Busch · Episode 41Jayme Busch grew up selling polished rocks on a busy street in Bellevue and never really stopped selling something. By the time she sat down with Sam, she had been through Mary…
- Ep 40 - "Mission Driven" with Rusty Fulling · Episode 40Twenty five years into running Fulling Management and Accounting in Olathe, Kansas, Rusty Fulling has seen the full arc of small business pain. Owners projecting four million in…
- Ep 39 – “Gold or Straw” with George Commons · Episode 39George Commons keeps returning to a single verse: 1 Corinthians 3. It's the passage about every person's work being tested by fire, with only gold and precious stones surviving…
- Ep 38 – “Tribal Dynamics” with Mike Grigsby · Episode 38Mike Grigsby introduces himself as a retired Kansas City Missouri police officer first, not as a former FBI forensic examiner, former CIO, or 25-year executive coach. It's a…
- Ep 37 - "Grass Roots" with Eric Kelting · Episode 37Eric Kelting didn't know e-discovery existed until the day he interviewed for a job in it. Eleven years into running Complete Legal, the litigation support company he co-founded…
- Ep 36 – “Wonders of Insurance” with Christian Roduner · Episode 36Christian Roduner grew up in Rossville, Kansas, a farming town with one stoplight that never turns green and a high school class of thirty-five. He graduated with no job offers…
- Ep 35 - "Becoming Again" with Keith Davenport · Episode 35Keith Davenport recorded this episode from a park in Olathe, after a library patron sat behind him in frame and a cello lesson pushed him out of his home office. That small…
- Ep 34 – “Dopamine Trap” with Matthew Entringer · Episode 34Matthew Entringer didn't grow up around homelessness. Then one bitter December in 2021, three or four people were bundled up in the lobby of his downtown Kansas City apartment…
- Ep 33 - "Class Act" with Paul Abugattas · Episode 33Paul Abugattas has signed the books, run the stores, unloaded the containers, and stood outside a crime scene at 24 wondering what on earth to say to the SWAT team. He grew up…
- Ep 32 – “Don't Drink the Water” with Meghan Hovee · Episode 32Clients at Hovey and Company joke that you shouldn't drink the water. Babies keep arriving. Meghan Hovee runs a predominantly women led accounting firm in Kansas City, and she…
