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Engineering FoundersBalancing shifting priorities, leveraging your founder network, and navigating cost vs. value w/ Sumeet Vaidya @ CraftingIn this episode, we cover some of the most important founder challenges, including engineering management, prioritization / time management principles, analyzing the market, and making the decision to sell to enterprise early on with Sumeet Vaidya, Co-founder & CEO @ Crafting. He unpacks the story behind Crafting & the decision to found it along with how he knew he was the right person to lead this org. Patrick & Sumeet dissect GTM strategies when it comes to enterprise sales, how funnel optimization for sales works, and making business decisions while navigating cost vs. value. We also chat about the importance of forming founder-to-founder connections...
2025-07-3142 min
The Engineering Leadership PodcastVision-first leadership & reimagining product w/ “Shift Out,” Do-It-as-a-Service & Jobs-to-Be-Done w/ John Amaral #226John Amaral (CTO and co-founder @ Root.io) joins us to discuss the evolving role of engineering leaders and why vision-first leadership & building your “vision” muscle is more critical than ever. We dive into why “shift left” is dead and why SaaS is being replaced by “do-it” as a service. John also unpacks how to think in outcomes, apply the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework to eliminate toil, and reimagine product experiences. Plus, we look inside Root.io’s approach to building AI-native security products that ship daily. Whether you’re rethinking your org design or exploring the frontier of AI-powered engineering, this episode will res...
2025-07-0844 minEngineering FoundersBuilding insight engines, emotionally intelligent AI products & blending PLG / enterprise GTM w/ Aiswarya Sankar @ Entelligence.AIHow do you build an AI product that engineers actually enjoy? ****Aiswarya Sankar, co-founder of Entelligence.AI, reveals how her team is creating an AI-powered “insight engine” that supports (and celebrates) the work of engineering teams. We explore how Entelligence.AI evolved from code search to a full-stack insight engine that reduces merge times, improves code quality, and makes teams more effective. Aiswarya explains how personalization, context awareness, and positive reinforcement drive adoption. Plus Aiswarya unpacks the psychology of feedback, how to make AI feel collaborative (not corrective), and their dual GTM strategy blending product-led growth with enterprise sales. Whet...
2025-05-2941 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastFrom architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222How do you go from deeply technical IC to leading 100+ engineers - and still stay close to the tech? Prashant Ramarao, SVP of Engineering & Head of AI @ Yahoo shares lessons from his unconventional leadership journey, exploring the mindset shift from expert IC to executive! We cover how to scale your leadership while maintaining technical credibility and how to effectively communicate with GMs & other non-technical stakeholders. Plus, Prashant shares personal AI projects that enhanced his technical credibility, leadership skills & understanding of how to integrate AI into products If you’re navigating the leap from technical to strategic, or scaling your le...
2025-05-2743 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastThe Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie #221AI is reshaping the fundamental economics of startups—lowering product development costs, compressing GTM cycles, and rewriting the rules of competition. In this episode, Craig McLuckie (Co-Founder & CEO @ Stacklok, co-creator of Kubernetes) unpacks “the epoch of the startup,” a moment of massive disruption where fast-moving founders have a unique edge over incumbents. We explore how Craig is navigating this new era from rethinking cost structure, value capture, and defensibility to leveraging open-source, community, and asymmetric advantages as core pillars of Stacklok’s strategy. Craig shares lessons from pivotal product shifts, frameworks for identifying moats, and the broader societal implications of AI-dr...
2025-05-2042 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastLessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219When Farnaz Azmoodeh (CTO @ Linktree) stepped into her new role, she unexpectedly took on product & design just three months in—owning all of engineering, product, and design during a critical period of change. In this episode, Farnaz shares hard-won lessons from that transition, including the mindset shift from delivery to discovery, balancing data vs. intuition in decision-making, knowing when to pivot your product strategy, and building small / fast-moving cross-functional teams. We also cover applying the 80/20 rule to simplify complex product surfaces, her favorite frameworks for pattern recognition, and how to reset assumptions when pattern-matching can backfire. If you’re navi...
2025-05-0643 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastEmpowering Teams & Cultivating True Ownership in Engineering Orgs w/ Wade Chambers #218Wade Chambers, Chief Engineering Officer @ Amplitude, joins us to discuss what it looks like to empower individual engineers & overall engineering teams and recommendations for creating a culture that cultivates ownership! First, Wade defines what true ownership looks like – and what it doesn’t look like. We cover frameworks for identifying & cultivating high ownership in individuals & across teams, implementing systems that encourage ownership, communicating shared vision / goals, and coaching engineers when passing the baton of ownership. We also discuss navigating difficult conversations around empowerment / ownership – or lack thereof – and Wade shares examples of impactful questions to ask.ABOUT WADE CHA...
2025-04-2944 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastEssential questions & leadership principles to navigate change, fear & uncertainty w/ Rukmini Reddy #214ABOUT RUKMINI REDDYRukmini Reddy is the Senior Vice President of Engineering, responsible for managing product and platform delivery, infrastructure, and data science. Reddy joins PagerDuty from Slack where she guided the vision, strategy, and execution of a comprehensive re-architecture, transforming the messaging software into an automation platform that empowered users to streamline their work.Additionally, Rukmini spent over a decade in senior executive roles at various enterprise companies, where she built a strong track record in driving engineering and product strategy during periods of hyper-growth and product transformation across SaaS, B2B, and B2...
2025-04-0145 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastBuilding platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam #213ABOUT ELIOT HOROWITZEliot Horowitz is the Founder and CEO of Viam, an engineering platform unlocking AI, automation, and data for devices in the physical world. With a deep commitment to advancing technology, Eliot leads Viam in helping companies build solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more.A career software developer and technology leader, Eliot co-founded MongoDB in 2007, writing the core code base for the pioneering database and leading the engineering and product teams for 13 years as CTO. MongoDB, which went public in 2017, has since reached a market cap of...
2025-03-2542 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastLeading transformation, inspiring vision & empowering teams to operate autonomously w/ Kevin Stewart #212ABOUT KEVIN STEWARTKevin Stewart is an engineering executive focused on building teams to build products. He has helped shape the engineering culture at a number of startups, digital agencies and cloud companies. Kevin is particularly experienced in leading remote and distributed teams to consistently deliver quality products. Although he currently resides in Seattle, Kevin is a lifelong New Yorker with dreams of relocating to a sunny island in the Caribbean.SHOW NOTES:Determining what you think is broken vs. what is actually broken (2:57)Focusing on the root issues around leadership & decision-making (4:46)Strategies for...
2025-03-1847 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastData governance, adversarial testing & more - Essential strategies to scale AI responsibly in a shifting regulatory environment w/ Jim Palmer #210ABOUT JIM PALMERJim Palmer is the Chief AI Officer at Dialpad. Previously he was CTO and Co-Founder of TalkIQ, a conversational intelligence start-up with expertise in real-time speech recognition and natural language processing, acquired by Dialpad in May of 2018. Prior to TalkIQ, he was the founding engineer on the eBay Now local delivery service.SHOW NOTES:Tips and cheat codes for navigating AI governance (3:30)Breaking down red teaming & adversarial testing in AI governance (8:02)Launching and scaling adversarial testing efforts (11:27)Unexpected benefits unlocked with adversarial testing (13:43)Understanding data governance and strategic AI investments (15:38)Building...
2025-03-0448 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastFaster iteration & execution: Insights from Google Workspace’s AI product experience journey w/ Anurag Agarwal #204ABOUT ANURAG AGARWALAnurag Agarwal leads the Google Workspace engineering organization, overseeing products such as Gmail, Calendar, Chat, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet that help billions of users and customers across the world to connect, create, and build together.With over 18 years of experience at Google, Anurag’s expertise spans a wide range of consumer and enterprise products and technologies. His career began in the Display Ads team, where he played a pivotal role in developing publisher ad-serving products from the ground up. He then worked on the Search Ads team driving a number of...
2025-01-2344 minEngineering FoundersDe-risking the co-founder relationship & experiments to stress-test your partnership w/ Jake Schwartz @ EndorsedJake Schwartz (Co-Founder @ Endorsed) joins us to talk about de-risking the co-founder relationship! We cover how they built in stress-tests to validate co-founder fit, how to host a hackathon to stress-test your partnership, and why reference calls are an important component of finding a co-founder. Plus the story behind Jakes's transition from Life360 to co-founding Endorsed, prioritizing which projects to focus on, early-stage product strategy considerations around AI, and why you need to approach your customers with a genuine sense of curiosity.ABOUT JAKE SCHWARTZJake is an engineering leader, entrepreneur, and technology investor based...
2024-12-1236 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastBuilding an AI-first company & interactive AI avatar leadership use-cases w/ Rong Yan #200In this episode, we explore building an AI-first company and engineering org with Rong Yan (CTO @ HeyGen)! We dive into the potential of HeyGen’s interactive avatars, imagining how they can help engineering leaders scale their impact, foster team alignment, coach effectively, and accelerate decision-making. Rong shares insights on the structure of an AI-first company and optimizing for AI teams with engineering capabilities. Plus what it means to “lead with speed” and balance product quality and velocity in an AI-first company and key leadership principles, like why it’s crucial to invest in your top performers and how to act as a...
2024-12-1047 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastHow engineering leaders can better drive business outcomes & increase alignment between product and engineering w/ Gokul Rajaram #198In this episode, Gokul Rajaram illuminates how eng leaders can better impact business outcomes & become key players in business strategy! We also address strategies for better goal setting & decision making, shifting to a customer-centric structure, recommendations for building alignment between cross-functional groups, positive collaboration between product & engineering, and how to achieve greater productivity.ABOUT GOKUL RAJARAMGokul Rajaram is an investor and company helper. He serves on the boards on Coinbase, Pinterest and The Trade Desk. Most recently, he was an executive at DoorDash, a food ordering platform. Prior to DoorDash, he worked at Block...
2024-11-2643 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastFrom VPE to CTO - mission-aligned teams, prioritizing company over department outcomes & the power of a “not do” list w/ Ryan Fox #197Ryan Fox, CTO @ Super.com, joins us to dissect his leadership transition from Vice President of Engineering to CTO. He shares how he created his own job description and – perhaps most importantly – identified & found buy-in around his “not do” list. We also cover Ryan’s favorite strategies for coaching department heads, why it’s important to focus on strategic thinking as an eng leader, tips for instilling accountability & autonomy, and defining different levels of situational leadership. Patrick and Ryan also dissect Super.com’s MAT leadership approach and how it is incorporated into their engineering functions.ABOUT RYAN FOX
2024-11-1940 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastLeading change, navigating career growth & finding inspiration beyond engineering - Live from ELC Annual 2024! #196In this episode, we’re bringing listeners into the final conversations from the pop-up podcast booth at ELC Annual 2024! Patrick sat down with a few eng leaders attending the event to discuss takeaways from ELC Annual 2024 & eng leadership insights they want to share with others in the community. He chatted with Nick Hurlburt (Executive Director of the Aselo program @ Tech Matters), Manju Abraham (Vice President of Engineering, Primary Storage @ HPE), and Bhupesh Bansal (Head of Engineering - Product Server @ Square). These leaders share some of the guiding principles of their eng leadership careers, highlights from ELC Annual 2024, advice for fi...
2024-11-1229 minEngineering FoundersScaling costs & being enterprise ready from day 1 w/ Nancy WangNancy Wang, Venture Partner @ Felicis and Former GM @ AWS, joins us to discuss strategies & considerations for scaling costs, becoming enterprise ready on Day 1, maintaining business health, and more. We cover Nancy’s journey as a founding product manager at AWS and how those lessons have guided her throughout her career & how she coaches founders. We address why it’s paramount to prioritize scaling costs early on as a founder, how to make design decisions with cost considerations in mind, and what tools you can employ to identify the features that most benefit your customers. Finally, Nancy & Patrick talk about how...
2024-11-0745 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastCollaborative Teams Are More Productive Teams w/ Marcel Weekes & Arquay Harris #192One of the most important aspects of success is a team’s ability to collaborate – but it can also be one of the most challenging parts. In this episode, we’re highlighting a popular session ELC Annual 2024 on how to encourage collaboration, ultimately increasing productivity and creating more likely outcomes of success. This conversation features Marcel Weekes, VP of Product Engineering @ Figma, and Arquay Harris, former VP of Engineering @ Webflow. This conversation also features a robust Q&A session from ELC Annual attendees on their most pressing collaboration questions – including diagnosing teams that are struggling to collaborate, how to measure...
2024-10-1541 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastPodcast Break for ELC Annual 2024!We’re taking a quick break from releasing episodes for a few weeks while we wrap up everything for ELC Annual. We’ll be back in late September with new guests! We have some excellent sessions at the conference - check out the agenda here: https://sfelc.com/annual2024#agendaJoin us at ELC Annual 2024!ELC Annual is our 2 day conference bringing together engineering leaders from around the world for a unique experience help you expand your network and empower your leadership & career growth.Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to expand your...
2024-08-1503 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastSpeed v. Quality, Measuring Productivity & Cross-Functional Relationships - Tackling the Top 10 Eng Leadership Challenges! #186This is Part 2 of our Top 10 Challenges series! In this episode, we’re focusing on three common team challenges that eng leaders face: how to increase velocity without losing quality, measure productivity & create meaningful metrics, and work cross-functionally with other teams. We identified these challenges based on conversations with hundreds of eng leaders from podcast episodes, ELC events, and more. For this ep, we’ve pulled insights from various eng leaders, including Richard Wong @ enrich, Fatemah Alavizadeh @ Notion, Andrew Fong @ Prodvana, Randall Koutnik @ Jellyfish, Abi Noda @ DX, Barbara Nelson @ InfluxDB, Laura Fay @ L Fay Associates, and Jeremy Henrickson @ Rippling.
2024-07-0942 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastThe Top 10 Challenges Engineering Leaders Face: A Sneak PeakAfter surveying hundreds of engineering leaders, we’ve pinpointed the top 10 challenges engineering leaders face! Exciting news - next week marks the launch of our 4-part series, sharing some of the best insights from hundreds of ELC events, podcasts & conference sessions. The finale? A dynamic rapid-fire session with Shopify's VP of Engineering, Farhan Thawar, tackling each challenge head-on.Have solutions of your own? Share your strategies and help spread knowledge throughout our community. Reach out at podcast@sfelc.com or tag ELC in a post/comment on LinkedIn.Join us at ELC Annual 2024!EL...
2024-06-2502 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastConscious Career Growth w/ Wade Chambers #183In today’s episode, we’re highlighting one of our favorite past conversations, featuring Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Included Health. We cover tools for increasing your capacity to win as an eng leader, getting unstuck in your career / moving forward, and applying “conscious growth” and neuroplasticity principles to the career. Wade shares stories of success – and failure – as an eng manager, best practices to measure success as an eng leader, and how to increase your team’s performance & potential.ABOUT WADE CHAMBERSWade Chambers (@wadechambers) is the CTO and SVP of Engineering at IncludedHealth...
2024-06-111h 01The Engineering Leadership PodcastInside ELC Annual 2024: 2 days to recharge, reconnect & empower your growth #180Welcome to a special episode highlighting ELC Annual 2024, our annual conference bringing together engineering leaders from around the world! Tune in to hear how we built this 2-day experience to be the ultimate accelerator of leadership and professional growth. We cover how the conference will expand your perspectives with curated peer-led roundtables and expert-led sessions with people like Thuan Pham (former CTO @ Uber & Coupang), Melody Hildebrandt (CTO @ FOX), James Everingham (VPE @ Meta) Marcel Weekes (VPE @ Figma), Rajashree Pimpalkhare (VPE @ Twilio) and 40+ more speakers! We promise that you will walk away from the event with meaningful connections and actionable strategies...
2024-05-2108 min
The Marketing Book Podcast484 The Unsold Mindset by Colin Coggins and Garrett BrownThe Unsold Mindset: Redefining What It Means to Sell by Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown ABOUT THE BOOK: This Wall Street Journal bestseller is captivating readers of Adam Grant, Dan Pink, and James Clear and has been called "a life-changing book as much about life as it is about selling." What if the greatest salespeople on the planet are the opposite of who you think they are? Everyone sells, every day. It's why the most successful people are so good at selling themselves, their ideas, or their products. Yet when pe...
2024-04-191h 15
Listen in at Roche CourtJacob van der Beugel in conversationThis conversation between artist Jacob van der Beugel and students from Andover College, ruminates on the language of ceramics, and how his practice has incorporated unexpected materials such as concrete, to communicate new meanings. This diverse discussion addresses topics such as the potential of partnerships between art and science; and explores the ideas presented in his work, including his interest in genetics and DNA, the relationship between determinism and self-determination, and in what ways his works might be seen as ‘portraits’.Jacob van der Beugel’s solo exhibition ‘Wherever the Two Shall Meet’, located in the gallery of Roche C...
2024-02-0745 min
Ramis Books LibraryThe UNSOLD Mindset | Redefining What we Know about 'SELLING'** Watch the same Book Summary in YouTube - https://youtu.be/vqGp6kaBHhs
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2024-02-0332 minEngineering FoundersSolving the right problems and competing on execution risk w/ Varun Mohan @ CodeiumHow do you know if you’re actually solving a problem or building a product people actually want? Varun Mohan, CEO & Co-Founder @ Codeium, joins us to share the journey behind Codeium. We talk about determining the right problem / product to pursue. He shares his best frameworks for decision making, determining if it’s time to pivot, and ultimately testing your hypotheses. He also discusses the three main types of risks founders face & strategies to compete on “execution-risk.” Plus Varun shares tips for building your product with the future in mind, even if the technological capabilities aren’t there yet.ABOU...
2023-11-3040 minThe Engineering Leadership PodcastBecoming a great coach: Practices & principles to help you make a bigger impact on your teams w/ Jill Wetzler #157In this episode, Jill Wetzler shares practices and principles to help you become a great coach! As an Executive Coach & former VP of Engineering, Jill shares how attending her first coaching workshop impacted her career trajectory and the frameworks she uses to help create a mindset of possibility, foster positive relationships, cultivate trust, navigate threats, and help people think about the future. She shares her own experiences working through these frameworks & how it helped guide her career decisions. Plus we discuss tools for implementing a peer coaching structure into your org & how to make the most of peer group...
2023-11-3048 min
Listen in at Roche CourtCharlotte Verity in conversationStudents from Salisbury Sixth Form College explore a diverse range of subjects in this conversation with Charlotte Verity. These include the exactitude of oil painting, the importance of observation, and issues inherent in her work such as memory and the passing of time.‘Charlotte Verity’s practice is ultimately concerned with mapping the ephemerality of her immediate surroundings. The way nature fluctuates, the seasons, the weather, the light – the life cycle of the plant life around us. As Verity works from her garden and studio, her subjects, taken from the natural world, are painted slowly...
2023-07-1433 min
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Listen in at Roche CourtFernando Casasempere in conversationThis conversation between ceramic artist Fernando Casasempere and students from Andover College, ruminates on the nature of ceramics, addressing its properties as a ‘living material’. It also tackles subjects such as climate change, the power of taking risks in art and the importance of sharing food and conversation! 'After studying both ceramics and sculpture in Barcelona, Casasempere returned to his birthplace, Santiago, where he consolidated his studies by working as a ceramics sculptor. After exhibiting extensively, both in Chile and North America, his work began to feature in exhibitions overseas. He then moved to Lo...
2023-06-2924 min
Listen in at Roche CourtAlison Wilding in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Alison Wilding OBE and A Level art students from Hardenhuish School and St Mary's Calne in Wiltshire, discussing topics including the artist’s use of conflicting materials; connections to myth and ancient artefacts in her work; the influence of artists such as Rachel Whiteread and Barbara Hepworth; and the sustaining power of the creative process.‘Wilding was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and, from 1970 to 1973, at the Royal College of Art in London. Her sculpture is closely concerned with the physical...
2023-05-2445 min
Listen in at Roche CourtMichael Craig-Martin in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Michael Craig-Martin and A Level art students from South Wilts Grammar School in Salisbury discussing topics such as the artist’s approach towards colour, the importance of creativity in any profession and Craig-Martin's journey towards becoming an internationally-renowned artist. Craig-Martin is best known for his vibrant representation of everyday objects that celebrate the ordinary and everyday. The artist was awarded a CBE in 2000, was an elected Royal Academician in 2006 and knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2016. Craig-Martin blurs the boundaries between what is 2D and 3D in his sculp...
2023-03-2938 min
Garage Conversations with CharMore Tiny Health Jewels: Motivate Your MindReferencesEmail JulesJules on FacebookJules' InstagramThe Perfect Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life by Craig BallantyneCan't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David CogginsTiny Changes Remarkable Results: Atomic Habits (An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones) by James ClearSacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman Editing by reliable_sounds
2023-03-251h 00
The Masterlink PodcastAnalogue Guy in a Digital World with Dan Coggins (Audio Designer)Dan Coggins is our guest this week on the Masterlink Podcast, Season 2 | Episode 21. Dan talks to Rob Blackham (Blackham Images) and Stefan (Redtenbacher's Funkestra).Dan is a renowned electronic design engineer and well known for his now legendary Lovetone FX pedals, Dinosaural guitar effects and as of recent Thorpy FX.He also has an impressive vinyl collection and as a passionate music lover has an extensive knowledge of music history including plenty of interesting details.Learn more about Dan Coggins & ThorpyFXClick HERE if you want to...
2023-02-231h 01
Put Me In, Coach!The Great (Re)scheduling!This week the team talks about the exciting new changes to the MLB schedule this year that will see every team playing every other team in the league. Plus, we dive into the controversy around RSNs, the Bally Bankruptcy, and Blackouts, explore the history around night games and inter-league rivalries, and ask what it will take to get young people interested in baseball - perhaps a Mariners/Marlins rivalry? Who knows!
Put Me In, Coach! is a baseball podcast hosted by Matt Coggins and Carl Mizell. Theme music is by Quack Quack Seat Back...
2023-02-2245 min
Listen in at Roche CourtNao Matsunaga in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Nao Matsunaga and A Level Art students from Wellington Academy, discussing how materials can transcend dual identities, Matsunaga’s ways of working through ‘artist’s block’, finding the end point and much more.Matsunaga’s experimental work, which he creates with clay, wood and paper, goes beyond the everyday object into the realm of the unusual and extraordinary. The artist often references the natural world in his sculpture and how humans have engaged with it, especially cavemen. Figurative elements such as facial features and limbs are also often evident, particularly i...
2023-01-2334 min
Listen in at Roche CourtLaura Ford in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Laura Ford and GCSE Art students from Pewsey Vale school, discussing topics including the impact of childhood upon Ford’s career, her experience as a woman artist, and in particular, her intriguing sculpture ‘Espaliered Girl’ previously on display at Roche Court Sculpture Park.Ford’s work often combines a sense of playfulness, suggested by her representation of children and fantasy, with uncomfortable and unnerving undertones. Her child-like sculptures are hybrid creatures with strange, faceless heads that convey a political message and speak to Ford’s feminist agenda.Laura Ford has had solo exhib...
2022-11-1830 min
The Kitchen TableThe Kitchen Table – A Conversation With Anthony Kastros (S2 E2)Anthony Kastros is a 32-year veteran of the fire service and a retired Battalion Chief with Sacramento
Metro Fire District.
Chief Kastros was personally affected by a fatal fire early in his career which fueled his desire to improve
his command and control skills. Through this event, he discovered not only a desire to improve himself,
but also a passion and desire to teach others with the hope that they would not have to have the same
experience he did.
Chief Kastros has written many books including Mastering the Fire Service Assessment and...
2022-09-081h 32
Listen in at Roche CourtBill Woodrow in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Bill Woodrow and A Level art students from Woodroffe School, discussing the artist’s practice and his disparate, yet harmonious sculpture ‘Endeavour’ on display at the entrance of Roche Court Sculpture Park.From afar, Endeavour resembles the black silhouette of a war weapon set against a patchwork quilt of expansive fields. The sculpture faces away from Roche, poised ready to launch explosives over the roaming cows. Its placement at the entrance of the park, next to Peter Randall-Page’s ‘Fructus’, is largely uncanny and yet, upon closer inspection of Woodrow’s work, its placem...
2022-02-2123 min
Listen in at Roche CourtNika Neelova in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Nika Neelova, Thalia Allington-Wood and Thomas Marks following the New Art Centre's recent exhibition ‘One of Many Fragments’ (11 September-20 November 2021) featuring work by Neelova and Thalia’s father, Ed Allington. The New Art Centre’s exhibition, ‘One of Many Fragments’, was shown in two halves. Allington’s work was presented in the main gallery, while Neelova’s sculpture was displayed in the adjoining 19th century orangery. This juxtaposition encouraged visitors to contemplate the mentor-student relationship between these two artists and the similarities or differences in their work. Fascinated by architectural object...
2021-12-2132 min
Listen in at Roche CourtFred Baier in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Fred Baier, following his recent exhibition ‘Form Swallows Function’ at the New Art Centre (Jan – May 2021). Featuring conversation with Timothy Revell from the Articulation initiative and A Level students from Dauntsey’s School. 'Form Swallows Function' presented Baier as a ‘furniture artist' (a term the artist has used himself) and explored the relationships between geometry and function, making and concept.The artist was amongst the first furniture designers to recognise the potential of computers and digital rendering programs as tools to assist and advance the practice of three-dimensional design but has...
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The Wellness FanaticSecrets to LongevityIn this episode, I give you some information that can possibly help you live longer, as well as improve your quality of life. The inspiration behind today's podcast is my impending 49th birthday! Also, I have recently listened to several podcasts on longevity, and how important it is to own our choices related to the way we eat, the way we interact with others, and the way we move our bodies. I wanted to share a few things I have read and heard in hopes that it can spark that idea within you to create the change you need to be...
2021-07-2025 min
Texas Signal PodcastSignalCast — More new Bills and More Voter SuppressionWelcome to another episode of SignalCast! Signal's Joe Deshotel and Jessica Montoya-Coggins cover the following topics:
Voter suppression — HB 6 moves to the floor, anti-voter suppression presser in Dallas at AT&T and the broader movement to get corporations to oppose restrictions including American Airlines
10 Marijuana bills, Dan Patrick says they are dead he opposes legalization
Vax — Texas moves up to 45th past Arkansas
GOP healthcare priorities do not include Medicaid expansion
Beto... Will he or won’t he?
George P. Bush considering a run against Paxton
Congress allocated $19 billion in federal stimulus money to Texas public education, but schools...
2021-04-0941 minTexas Signal PodcastSignalCast — Greg Abbott Piling onWelcome to another weekly roundup with Texas Signal! In this episode, Joe Deshotel and Jessica Montoya-Coggins discuss the following topics:
PUC Chair caught on tape resigns, now zero commissioners remaining
Dan Patrick putting pressure on re: ERCOT appointees and price adjustment
Abbott’s Statewide press tour, regarding Houston for voter suppression bills and Dallas to blame migrant children for COVID
McConaughey criticized mask mandate removal
Ken Paxton and the bill that would expand powers re: abuse of office which is the thing he’s accused of and going through his wife’s committee
Art Acevedo leaves Houston for Miami
Ant...
2021-03-1936 minTexas Signal PodcastSignalcast – Abbott Worsening Coronavirus ResponseSignal's Joe Deshotel and Jessica Montoya-Coggins discuss the week's news, including:
Abbott's mask mandate repeal and opening Texas 100 percent
ErCOT CEO fired. PUC chair resigned Dan Patrick took credit
Sid Miller attacks Abbott. Is he running for governor?
Ken Paxton in court. Judge trying to dismiss abuse of office suit. Judge Meachum said can proceed.
Dr. Ronny Jackson accused of being an abusive boss and drinking on the job.
HR1 passed / Texas lege targeting all night voting in Harris Co.
2021-03-0527 min
Listen in at Roche CourtJacqueline Poncelet in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with Jacqueline Ponclelet and David Ward, discussing Poncelet's recent exhibition 'Now and Then' at the New Art Centre (21 Sept 2020 - 9th Jan 2021) and addressing topics as diverse as tattoos, taste, self-censorship and cultural identity.This exhibition spanned 35 years of Poncelet's practice across disciplines, in work that often defies categorization. She was a major figure on the international ceramics scene in the 1970s and 80s, and in the 90s diversified her practice to include painting, sculpture and public art commissions, ending the decade as one of the three curators of the British Art Sho...
2021-02-0132 min
Listen in at Roche CourtDavid Murphy in conversationJoin us ‘in conversation’ with David Murphy, one of the exhibiting artists at the New Art Centre and in the recent 'Common Thread' Exhibition (01 Jun – 29 Aug 2020).'Common Thread' brought together a group of artists whose works all focused on the history of textile technology and design, revealing the place that textiles have in art and in contemporary society. In this episode, we explore the ideas behind David Murphy’s work, including concepts of the micro/macro and how 'the textile language' is manifested. Links to other textile works as a result of the c...
2020-11-1910 min
UpbringingRESIST Q&A // My spirited kid verbally abuses us and I’m worriedToday we hear from a parent who is exhausted from navigating the persistent frustrations, anger and big feelings of her spirited daughter. She worries about the possibility of her daughter ALWAYS being like this, as well as the impact of her big outbursts on the wellbeing and behavior of her younger brother. We explore temperaments, stress, kids’ brains, boundaries, empathy, acceptance and why OUR BELIEFS ARE EVERYTHING.We also chat ways to lean in to our kids’ big feelings, rudeness, harsh words, anger and frustration with bravery, boundaries, empathy and the understanding that IT’S ALL...
2020-08-0348 min
Fret TalkFret Talk Episode 137 - "YAMM doing alright, our mucker? (The Guitar Show Birmingham 2020 Special)"BudgetPedalChap is joined this week by Lee Pedabadoo and Will Powell to discuss The Guitar Show Birmingham, YAMM 2020. We discuss all of the amazing exhibitors that we had the opportunity to chat with, including the brilliant gents at Two Notes demonstrating their new Captor X; Anasound with the elements reverb as well as the spinner as well as the two different tremolo circuits that it can be used with; Thorpy FX with another amazing colab with Dan Coggins in the Camoflange amongst many others. We may or may not squeeze a little information in about the amazing curry, seriously...
2020-03-161h 37
Payments InnovationNew Fintech Called CashStash GIves Users a Shareable Digital Wallet with Turner CogginsEver split a bill with a group of friends? Ever get stuck with more than your fair share? That’s the sort of issue CashStash is committed to solving: Co-Founder Turner Coggins came on the Payments Innovation podcast to share how his new application allows users more transparency in their shared payments. With CashStash, users can store funds in a shared virtual wallet, giving all members visibility into who’s paid, who hasn’t, and who may need a reminder message. Turner is a Senior Financial Consultant at Capco., has worked with PwC, and received his MBA from Emory. He’s seen i...
2019-01-0817 min
Blacklines & BillablesVoices of ClioCon 2018SummaryEpisode 13 of the Blacklines & Billables podcast: our “Voices” podcast from the Clio Cloud Conference in New Orleans. We asked a range of lawyers and technologists attending the conference for on-the-spot short answers to a range of questions about ClioCon, the technological needs of small law and solo practitioners, and trends on the legal technology landscape more broadly. Their reactions and impressions created this pod, which captures a snapshot of the ClioCon experience and provides a window into the important conversations currently taking place in small law-focused legal tech community.
2018-11-1833 min