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Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractitionals #20This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.In this 20th and final Open Coffee session, we had a strong mix of new and familiar voices: Chris Hilton, Jim Grey, Michael Berris, Noel Putaansuu, and me. We dug into what it really means to build a fractional practice, how to structure offers, and where the pitfalls show up when you drift into agency models.We got into: Why proposals work better as structured menus than open-ended negotiations Starting a fractional practice when you’ve only worked in corporate How to h...
2025-10-201h 14Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #19This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Chris Hilton brought in a live dilemma: when a founder friend wants you full-time but you’re only willing to engage fractionally, how do you make it work?We compared notes on retainers, boundaries, and the risks of equity-heavy compensation, while also detouring into business acquisitions, old cars, and the politics of refrigerants.We got into: Structuring retainers to balance client comfort and fractional freedom Why equity in exchange for comp is often a scam at the engineer level The...
2025-10-131h 00Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #18This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Noel Putaansuu joined this session just before heading into a job interview. We compared buying a business versus getting a job, and dug into what it means to keep the lights on while still trying to build something bigger.We talked about the lag on publishing Open Coffee episodes, batching content, and why LinkedIn Live isn’t worth the headache. Noel walked through his clean energy project, SAFE notes, and the search for a lead investor. We ended up in DevOps land: on-c...
2025-10-0644 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #17This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Michael Payne joined me for a Monday catch-up, where we compared notes on buying businesses, bidding on local chamber RFPs, and how AI is reshaping the work of fractionals.We dug into how AI can empower rather than replace us — from drafting proposals and building lightweight SDLCs to quickly ramping up on new industries. Along the way, we also talked scams, old tech still hanging around, and the economics of big-tech hiring and layoffs.We got into: Exploring a car...
2025-09-2948 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #16This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Michael Payne shared where he’s been focusing lately — getting more intentional about local networking, Rotary, and building visibility as he gets ready to launch his book, Beyond the Commit: The Human Side of Software Development. Preorder: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Commit-Software-Development-English-ebook/dp/B0FP4239CD (available October 6, 2025)From there we went wide. Fractional roles, DevOps tools, wood stove smoke sensors, HVAC systems, and how every business is now both a tech and a data business. It was one of those conversations where...
2025-09-221h 06Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #15This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Chris Hilton joined this session as he considered stepping into the fractional CTO path. Kevin Knoepp and Diego Woitasen brought in their own perspectives from private equity portfolio work and consulting.The conversation moved from DevOps history into the real challenges of building a fractional business: positioning, pricing, politics, and people.We got into: Early stage startups expecting a fractional CTO to act like a founder Navigating equity offers and why they’re really investment decisions Deciding when to take...
2025-09-151h 01Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #14This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.We started with Thomas Smith joining from his truck — peaceful, quiet, and ready to talk shop. That led straight into a deep dive on why shell scripts break developers’ brains, the difference between command languages and programming languages, and why determinism in infrastructure is mostly a myth.From there, Michael Payne walked through turning a dev contract into a local fractional CTO role, and the pros and cons of offering small-town IT services as a lead-in to higher-value fractional work.We got...
2025-09-081h 12Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #13This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Livio Zanardo jumped in mid-gaming break to share how his fractional practice has gone from quiet to bursting — enough that a waiting list might be next. We talked through picking the high-value work, parking the low-value stuff, and how calling yourself “fractional” makes strategic sales easier.Stephen Lauck drew a hard line between strategy and delivery — why mixing them can bury the real work — and made the case that most companies don’t need a DevOps army, just a couple of great people to buil...
2025-09-011h 08Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #12This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Ying Wang joined after a two-week grind chasing a timeout bug in DigitalOcean. The fix turned into a Michelin-star dinner for the engineer who stuck it out. She’s interim CTO for a mortgage tech startup, deep in B2B SaaS, and thinking about when to niche further — and when to shift from a single full-time client to a true fractional portfolio.Matt DiBerardino came in mid-career transition, looking to figure out what “fractional” really means and how it overlaps with consulting. We dug int...
2025-08-2547 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #11This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Noel Putaansuu is a fire investigator, engineer, and inventor — building smart, wireless systems to help wood stoves burn cleaner than new. He’s got patents, prototypes, working sensors, and field testers — but he’s still solo.This call turned into a go-to-market jam session: how to find the right partner, what a fractional CEO actually does, and why talking to chimney sweeps might matter more than raising VC.Livio Zanardo helped frame the real ask — and connected the dots between regulated ma...
2025-08-1844 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #10This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Ben Mills talked through building his fractional CFO practice — from early referrals to cold outreach and content experiments. He shared how a single lucky LinkedIn Navigator DM turned into a client, and how he tracks everything to learn what works.Diego Woitasen reflected on shifting from agency owner to solo consultant — and how a Kubernetes post from five years ago closed his biggest deal. We dug into long-tail content, building writing habits, and how fractional credibility shows up over time.We got...
2025-08-1154 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #9This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Michael Payne joined for the first time and shared what it’s like going from consulting architect to fractional CTO — mostly solo, mostly govtech, mostly East Texas.Adam White came in hot with a new positioning experiment: Technical Waste Management. His pitch? Let your best engineers build — I’ll clean up everything else.Stephen Lauck mapped the CTO spectrum into three types: the fixer, the tech lead, and the customer-facing business mind.We got into:who fixes your AI MV...
2025-08-041h 21Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #8This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.This one went deep on delivery models, retainers, and how different Fractionals think about packaging value — from finance to DevOps and everything in between.Jim Grey just landed his first fractional gig and walked us through the process — from outreach to proposal to finally realizing: “I like building things and fixing things — but not running them forever.”Ben Mills shared his shift from 25 years in public accounting to fractional CFO work — and how he now avoids time tracking entirely. His engagements fo...
2025-07-281h 05Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #7This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Noel Putaansuu joined us to talk about measuring smoke opacity, fine particulates, and what it’s like running a fractional business where you’re the engineer, the scientist, the marketer — and the only one who understands the chart.Stephen Lauck cut straight to it: fractional work isn’t about technical hurdles — it’s about human ones. Internal politics. Indecision. Fear of making the wrong move. His advice? Flip a coin, pick a path, and iterate.Adam White took that advice and used Claud...
2025-07-241h 04Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #5This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.This one got deep into the business of being Fractional:Stephen Lauck and Sam Taggart swapped war stories about Zoom chaos, Teams pain, and what tool sprawl does to delivery flow.Adam White shared his path from full-time to fractional to full-time again — and back — plus the existential dread of pitching live to other CTOs.Meena Narsinghani broke down the challenge of straddling product and engineering — and how AI agents are already reshaping backlog grooming and user story generati...
2025-07-241h 00Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #3This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.This session went long and deep — and hit a lot of notes on what it actually means to run a fractional business.Karl Schmidt, Lukas Czerwinski, Sam Taggart, Travis Russi, and Russ Waddell all joined. We talked about: client acquisition when your network runs out why founders say “CTO” when they mean “coder for equity” how to pitch retainers without selling hours pricing advisory work by value, not time targeting Crunchbase-funded startups who still don’t have technical leads nontraditional fractional work — from ro...
2025-07-241h 17Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #2This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.In this session, I talked with Daniel Afonso about what it’s like to be a fractional ops person trapped in a broken full-time environment — and what it takes to build a business around automating infrastructure.We dug into: how CI/CD can be used to hide bad decisions behind fake security why hourly billing often leads to work that never needs to finish what real infra automation looks like — and why so few people can do it well how to target b...
2025-07-2427 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #6This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Livio Zanardo kicked this one off with a classic: “None of this happened until I started calling myself a fractional CTO.” The positioning shift that launched a bunch of new work.We followed that thread all the way through pricing, nonprofits, fixed-fee framing, and how hard it is to back out of hourly once it’s in the room.Then Adam White dropped a live demo of using Claude Code to generate a full production-ready website in a couple hours — SonarCloud...
2025-07-241h 04Open Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #4This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Brian Ng, Karl Schmidt, and Jan Nala Thundi joined me for this one.Karl was heading into Web Summit and dreading the small talk. We flipped it: what if it’s just a listening tour?Brian shared how his post-Meta reconnection work has hinged on low-pressure follow-ups and long-tail relationships. Jan dropped signal from the UK finance market — fractional roles are underpaid, misunderstood, and rarely packaged well.We got into: how to turn casual intros into paid audits...
2025-07-2457 minOpen Coffee For Fractionals with David RaistrickOpen Coffee For Fractionals #1This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Brian Ng was the very first guest at Open Coffee for Fractionals.We talked about what it’s like to go from Director at Meta to solo fractional — and how weird it feels to sell yourself for the first time.Brian's building his practice now: mentoring founders, advising startups, and figuring out what he doesn’t want to do — all while reconnecting with his network and exploring what kind of fractional CTO work actually fits.We got into: why so...
2025-07-2330 min
Fit for Fortune with David Mirza#9 Calum Raistrick - Female Fat Loss, Menstrual Cycle Dysfunction and HRT - Fit for Fortune Podcast00:00 Intro 01:02 Blood testing prior to a diet 04:13 Amennorhea and menstrual cycle disfunction 18:39 Hormone replacement therapy 25:48 Biggest setbacks for women during dieting 29:31 How to manage a post-diet phase better? 32:17 Dieting 35:44 Fat quality vs quantity 36:46 Bodyweight setpoints in a dieting phase 48:38 Personal questions to Calum 1:00:16 Outro
2025-03-111h 00
The BackTracker History ShowWarmley Clock Tower: Halloween 2022Season: 3 Episode: 38 William Champion’s Zinc and Brass Works was, in the 18th century, probably the largest industrial site in Europe. His methods enabled him to produce a much higher quality brass than his rivals. He prospered until his patent ran out, then his rivals started to use his processes and he went bankrupt.This episode not only tells you more about this remarkable character but you also get to hear exactly what happened when we were invited on a paranormal investigation in the Warmley Clock Tower, part of William's manufacturing complex. Let me tell you...
2022-10-3133 minThe BackTracker History ShowWarmley Clock Tower: Halloween 2022Season: 3 Episode: 38 William Champion’s Zinc and Brass Works was, in the 18th century, probably the largest industrial site in Europe. His methods enabled him to produce a much higher quality brass than his rivals. He prospered until his patent ran out, then his rivals started to use his processes and he went bankrupt.This episode not only tells you more about this remarkable character but you also get to hear exactly what happened when we were invited on a paranormal investigation in the Warmley Clock Tower, part of William's manufacturing complex. Let me tell you...
2022-10-3133 min
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Romance, Clean & WholesomeNancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate & More: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama collection by Nancy MitfordPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nancy Mitford: Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate & More: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama collection Author: Nancy Mitford Narrator: Jane Knowles, Pauline Letts, Elizabeth Proud, Amanda Root, Full Cast, Prunella Scales, Timothy West, Edward De Souza, Teresa Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Clean & Wholesome Publisher's Summary: BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmes The eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels...
2022-06-1605 min
Catalyst Pharmacy Podcast43 - It All Started With a Vision Ft. David Raistrick🎧 The idea for En-Vision America was born out of a family poker game. With vision impairment in the family, the Raistricks programmed a way to electronically tag playing cards and read the name of each card aloud through an earpiece. Today, this has evolved into a range of accessible products for pharmacies to better service their visually impaired patients. From text-to-speech options, to braille printed labels, and dual language translations, the ScriptAbility product line is changing lives for patients everywhere through increased accessibility and medication adherence.
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2021-08-2550 min
The Blind SideEn-Vision America, deleting Facebook, and long live BrailleJonathan has a couple of new gadgets. A new Samsung wireless charger that allows the iPhone X to be upright which helps with Face ID, and a Bluetooth transmitter dongle that he hopes will help him and Bonnie to use Aira at the same time. He describes both cool new toys.To subscribe to the Accessible Phones Discussion list mentioned in this episode, send an email to blindphones+subscribe@groups.io.We're thrilled to be Libsyn's Rockin' Libsyn Podcast this week. Read Libsyn's piece about The Blind Side Podcast.Mosen Consulting and this...
2018-04-111h 27
Main MenuMain Menu 22 Apr 2016we bring you an interview with David Raistrick and Amanda Tolson from En-Vision America. We are talking out of this world bar code scanning and stellar prescription help with the ID Mate Galaxy and Scriptalk. First though we continue our conversation with Larry Skutchan of the American Printing House. It is more on braille, technology and a great deal for students from APH! Then it is a battle more exciting than Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Bador! Yep, it is a good old fashion showdown!
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All Cool Blind Tech ShowsScripTalk Station from En-Vision America.In this episode David Raistrick shows us the importance of the
ScripTalk Station.
Currently, there are many people that have difficulty reading or understanding the contents and instructions of their prescription medications. The small print and look-alike packaging of medicine vials can lead to confusion, non-compliance, and mistakes. En-Vision America has created a solution to this serious issue with ScripTalk Station. You can reach David at 1-800-890-1180
2013-03-2106 minAll Cool Blind Tech ShowsID Mate From En-Vision America.In this episode David Raistrick from en-Vision America demonstrates the capabilities of the
5th generation i.d. mate Quest bar code scanner.
For more information North American listeners can call 1-800-890-1180
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