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Jeffrey van Leeuwen Podcast#41 - Former Secret Service Agent: The Psychology of Interrogating Evil | Brad BeelerWhat does true evil look like? And how do you confront it face-to-face? In this raw conversation with Brad Beeler, who served as a Special Agent for the United States Secret Service for 25 years, we explore his extraordinary career confronting humanity’s darkest crimes, especially those involving children. Brad reveals a rarely-seen side of the United States Secret Service, reflecting deeply on his experiences as a polygraph examiner, where he faced some of the most malicious individuals imaginable.
In our conversation, we also discuss:
Why empathy can become a crucial weapon in interrogations, even with society’s wo...
2025-07-291h 49
Premium Ad-Free: Straight White American JesusIt's in the Code Ep 124: "Religion as Make Believe"Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 700-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/What does it mean to “believe” something? What is distinctive about religious belief? Is it different from other kinds of belief? In this episode, Dan interviews philosopher Neil Van Leeuwen to discuss his book, Religion as Make Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity, which opens up a provocative and illuminating account of religious belief. Check it out as Dan and Neil explore these and othe...
2024-11-271h 04Straight White American JesusIt's in the Code Ep 124: "Religion as Make Believe"Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 700-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/What does it mean to “believe” something? What is distinctive about religious belief? Is it different from other kinds of belief? In this episode, Dan interviews philosopher Neil Van Leeuwen to discuss his book, Religion as Make Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity, which opens up a provocative and illuminating account of religious belief. Check it out as Dan and Neil explore these and othe...
2024-11-271h 04
Attributed - A podcast by DreamdataWhy sponsoring a football team makes sense for a B2B software companySometimes you come across a company that does things differently. Cledara is one of those. They’ve just become the stadium sponsors of Cambridge United Football ClubWe are sitting down with Brad van Leeuwen, the Co-Founder and COO of Cledara, to talk about the connection they’ve made between sponsoring a football team and the success of a B2B software company.In this conversation, Brad will share his expertise on the unconventional yet strategic move of B2B software companies entering the world of sports sponsorship.
2024-05-2036 min
Motorsport News PodcastMNews: DJR’s future, Ricciardo returns, Kostecki goes NASCAROn this week’s Castrol Motorsport News Podcast, hosts Andrew van Leeuwen and Stefan Bartholomaeus unpack the big news, including…- The big-picture strategy behind DJR’s Bathurst wildcard- Brodie Kostecki’s NASCAR deal… and will SVG return?- Tickford’s curious co-driver choice- Mid-season Supercars review: the winners and losers - Who wins the championship from here?Autosport’s Grand Prix editor Alex Kalinauckas also joins the pod for a deep-dive into all the big topics in Formula 1.- Daniel Ricciardo’s return to F1 with...
2023-07-1847 min
From Start to ScaleSeason 1 Wrap Up & Thank youIt is a wrap. Season 1 is in the books. Thank you all for listening and being a part of this amazing journey. I love receiving all the emails and DMs about episodes that resonated or you learned something in. Keep them comingThank you to my guests:Jim FranklinRami EssaidJen HendersonKyle YorkJen SaxtonAdam BurrowsCarrie KerpenPeter CowenSam EttusGabe CooperDavid CohenTom Coburn...
2023-07-0702 minFrom Start to ScaleTransitioning out of founder led sales to thousands of customers + $24M in funding with Brad van Leeuwen, co-founder & COO at CledaraThis episode of the From Start to Scale podcast features Brad van Leeuwen, co-founder and COO at Cledara. Brad talks about how he initially built the company and scaled sales from the wee early days. His approach to hiring sales reps, especially early on is insightful. Then he goes on to hire a ‘been there, done that’ sales leader and talks through the areas of investment to improve efficiencies throughout the team and benefits they have seen. We talk about a million things in between. This is a fun one - enjoy!Brad’s bio:Brad v...
2023-06-141h 05
Metrics that Measure UpWhen to introduce SaaS Spend Management - with Cledara co-founder and COO, Brad Van LeeuwenOver February and March 2023, we spoke with several founders, CEOs, and executives at SaaS Spend Management vendors.In this episode of the Metrics that Measure Up podcast, we discussed the evolution, best practices, and ideas on how to introduce a SaaS Spend Management program with Brad Van Leeuwen, Co-Founder and COO at Cledara.Brad stated that his own experience as an entrepreneur with the challenges associated with SaaS spend was the catalyst to founding Cledara. When a company is small, a manual process such as using the founders' credit card for all expenses is fine...
2023-03-0728 min
DisrupTVDisrupTV Episode 288, Brad Van Leeuwen, Jeff LernerThis week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Brad van Leeuwen, Co-Founder & COO of Cledara and Jeff Lerner, Founder and Chief Vision Officer of ENTRE, the world’s fastest growing education startup and Author of Unlock Your Potential.
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.
2022-08-051h 01
Motorsport News PodcastMNews: Ownership rift - Where to for Supercars and ARG?This week’s Castrol Motorsport News Podcast unpacks a dramatic week in Australian motorsport. Host Andrew van Leeuwen and V8 Sleuth’s Stefan Bartholomaeus analyse a rejected international bid to buy Supercars and the immediate fallout. The Australian Racing Group has fired some significant shots at its fellow Supercars shareholders in the aftermath, but where does it go from here? The boys also run through the state of play on Gen3 as the clock continues to tick down to 2023, share the pain of Pukekohe Park Raceway’s impending demise and look ahead to the OTR SuperSprint at The Bend. AVL ca...
2022-07-2639 min
/Film WeeklyMini-Water Cooler: Fantastic Beasts, High Sierra, The Adam Project, Defending Your Life, and MoreOn the April 14, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Opening Banter:
At The Water Cooler:
What we’ve been Doing:Brad went to Houston for a wedding
What we’ve been Reading:Brad started reading “You’ve Got Red on You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life.”
What we’ve been Watching:Ben watched High Sierra.
Brad watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Adam Pr...
2022-04-1441 min
Uncharted PodcastUncharted Podcast #123 ft Brad van Leeuwen: The Crossover of SaaS and Fintech Plus Tips to Expanding to The US Market from EuropeBrad is the co-founder and COO of Cledara. Cledara combines management tools for teams with a payments platform to help companies take control of the software they use to run their business. This allows them to operate more effectively across teams, comply with regulations and ultimately focus on what really matters - serving their customers.
Prior to Cledara, Brad was VP of Partnerships at Railsbank, the BaaS unicorn backed by Visa, where he was responsible for banking infrastructure globally and the company's go-to-market. Prior to Railsbank, Brad was Chief Partnerships Officer at dopay and a Principal at the...
2022-04-0424 min
Planet EconomicsBrad Van Leeuwen: Co-founder of FinTech Startup, Cledara, talks his journey founding a startup, what matters in FinTech, and the future of FinTechBrad describes himself as a FinTech tragic, having worked in-and-around the industry as an investor and then as an early employee, he decided to found Cledara, which makes SaaS scalable. In today's episode, he goes into detail about his career, his biggest lessons, what he would do differently, and what makes a startup successful. He then dissects the FinTech industry, what it means for the wider economy, what the industry is like, and the best way for young people to get into FinTech.
Brad's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BradvanL?s=20
Cledara Twitter: https://twitter.com...
2021-02-2244 min
Fintech Family HourEnding SaaS Madness with Brad van LeeuwenListen now | Hello friends, we’re coming back with another dose of “everything is fintech,” this week. Specifically, we’re talking SaaS. We all have a SaaS problem. We’re not referring to your sister’s never ending *sass* at the dinner table (assuming you still live with you sister…just go with it). We’re talking about the Software as a Service subscription insanity that we’re all drowning in at work. Get on the email list at www.forfintechsake.com
2021-01-291h 02
Life on Mars - A podcast from MarsBased012 - One SaaS to rule them all - Controlling access, expenses and more with Brad van Leeuwen (Cledara)SaaS is becoming messy. Companies tend to hoard them involuntarily just because they're cheap and easy to sign up for, so it's easy to subscribe and forget.Have we reached the point of SaaS fatigue? Difficult to say, as there are several actors within companies signing up for SaaS, so we might not know everything we signed up for unless we're in the finance department and audit them thoroughly.In fact, as a company, we also need to control not only what we sign up for, but what our team uses individually. Sometimes SaaS infiltrates...
2020-09-291h 01
Banking on Air#04 Embedded payments with Brad van Leeuwen (Cledara)Brad van Leeuwen is the COO and co-founder of Cledara. He enjoys creating things that make the world better. His personal mission is to try to understand things from first principles and move from there. Cledara's mission is to make SaaS scalable for the companies and people that use it. Cledara was named SaaStock SaaS Startup of the Year in 2018, is a member of Techstars London and is backed by Anthemis, one of the world's top fintech VCs.
In this episode we speak about embedded payments and how they will drive the future of fintech. We also...
2020-04-2244 min
Inside SupercarsInside Supercars - #255 - The Internet and Motorsport MediaThis week, Inside Supercars looks at how the Motorsport Media landscape has changed over the last 10 years. With the start of Speedcafe.com motorsport journalism was transformed. Brett Murray and Grant Rowley talk about how they set the wheels in motion. Gordon Lomas, Stefan Bartholomaeus and Tom Howard discuss how they worked through the new 24/7 news cycle. Andrew Van Leeuwen (Motorsport.com) and Mark Fogarty (Auto Action) provide their perspective on the new Media world and how they have managed the transition. Roland Dane, Barry Rogers and Brad Jones all reflect on their frustrations of how their sport is reported.
2019-10-2446 min