Best Applying A Growth Mindset To Leadership And Scaling Podcasts (2025)

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AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20

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Share Episode Microsoft's John Papa, Partner General Manager of Developer Relations for all things dev and code joins the show to talk developer relations...from his Mac. He reveals his small part in the birth of VS Code (back when its codename was Ticino) after he spent a year trying a new editor every month. The conversation dives deep into "Agen…

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Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute In the wake of one of the worst AWS incidents in history, we're joined by Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at Incident.io. The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing incidents in highly regulated environments like FinTech, where the penalties for downtime are har…

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Ep 55. Anna Prell on Building Forage, Being Acquired and Building Again 51:29

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By Anna Prell, Laura Nicol, Katie Noonan, Tom Brunskill

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The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases 29:34

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute We're joined by 20 year industry veteran and DevOps advocate, Adam Korga, celebrating the release of his book IT Dictionary. In this episode we quickly get down to the inspiration behind postmortems as we review some cornerstone cases both in software and in general technolog…

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Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research 55:29

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Share Episode ⸺ Episode Sponsor: Attribute - https://dev0ps.fyi/attribute Jenna Pederson, Staff Developer Relations at Pinecone, joins us to close the loop on Vector Databases. Demystifies how they power semantic search, their role in RAG, and also unexpected applications. Jenna takes us beyond the buzzword bingo, explaining how vector databases ar…

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Ep 54. Betting On People with Mahesh Muralidhar 1:11:49

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Laura Nicol dials into Mahesh Muralidhar. From day one, Mahesh has been obsessed with making a difference. He was early in Sydney’s startup scene in the 2010s post-MBA—first chasing his own idea, then finding impact (and peace) in helping others build. What followed? A career that reads like three lifetimes in one. Inside: The romantic, messy-beaut…

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The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds 52:41

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Share Episode This episode we are joined by Andrew Moreland, co-founder of Chalk. Andrew explains how their company’s core business model is to deploy their software directly into their customers’ cloud environments. This decision was driven by the need to handle highly sensitive data, like PII and financial records, that customers don't want to ha…

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Ep 53. Savannah Black on Range, Hypergrowth & ADHD 1:02:35

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Laura Nicol dials into Savannah Black. For Savannah, being a startup operator is about making the company work in the real world. All the forward planning, mission, and vision stuff is important. That’s the on-paper part. But being an operator is about making it actually work. You can see it in action at Crypto Tax Calculator: four roles, three pro…

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How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale 45:31

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Share Episode We welcome guest Ang Li and dive into the immense challenge of observability at scale, where some customers are generating petabytes of data per day. Ang explains that instead of building a database from scratch—a decision he says went "against all the instincts" of a founding engineer—Observe chose to build its platform on top of Sno…

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Ep 52. Operational Leadership with Alexey Mitko 58:36

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Laura Nicol dials into Alexey Mitko. Alexey’s career has been all about operational leadership. Finance, HR, legal — he’s held the keys to the gritty, foundational work that lets startups scale without falling apart. He puts it simply: “When the startup community has been so generous in teaching me how to see the world differently as a 20-something…

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The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos 59:26

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In a special solo flight, Warren welcomes Meagan Cojocar, General Manager at Pulumi and a self-proclaimed graduate of “PM school” at AWS. They dive into what it’s like to own an entire product line and why giving up that startup hustle for the big leagues sometimes means you miss the direct signal from your users. The conversation goes deep on the …

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Ep 51. Falling in Love with Startups and Running—Phoebe Pincus 54:55

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Laura Nicol dials into Phoebe Pincus, COO at Startmate and Co-Founder at Cheeky Run Club. We cover a lot. Learning to lead when you've never had female leadership role models. Being the opposite of a perfectionist. Her career journey from psychology student to general manager to chief of staff to COO. We also get into starting Cheeky Run Club, bala…

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FinOps: Holding engineering teams accountable for spend 55:07

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In this episode of Adventures in DevOps, we dive into the world of FinOps, a concept that aims to apply the DevOps mindset to financial accountability. Yasmin Rajabi, Chief Strategy Officer at CloudBolt, joins us to demystify, as we acknowledge the critical challenge of bringing together financial accountability and engineering teams who often are …

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Ep 50. Emer McCann on Building People Functions & Scaling Orgs 55:39

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Laura Nicol dials into Emer McCann, Head of People & Chief of Staff at Simply Wall St. Emer scaled Deputy’s people and culture through hypergrowth (70 to 350 employees) before joining Simply Wall St as employee #15 to build from zero. She’s the quiet force behind the chaos. The puppeteer, the glue, the phrasebook for hard conversations. Inside this…

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The Auth Showdown: Single tenant versus Multitenant Architectures 53:24

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Get ready for a lively debate on this episode of Adventures in DevOps. We're joined by Brian Pontarelli, founder of FusionAuth and CleanSpeak. Warren and Brian face off by diving into the controversial topic of multitenant versus single-tenant architecture. Expert co-host Aimee Knight joins to moderate the discussion. Ever wondered how someone beco…

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Ep 49. Liani Strauss on Keeping Tracksuit on Track 1:02:01

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Laura Nicol connects with Liani Strauss, Chief of Staff at Tracksuit. Liani’s background in industrial engineering gave her structure. Startups gave her speed. Today, she works at the intersection of strategy, systems, and people—helping shape how Tracksuit scales from the inside out. Inside the conversation: Early days of BizOps at Tracksuit: “We …

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Ep 48. Paul Redfern on Growth, Scale and Staying Human 53:37

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Laura Nicol connects with Paul Redfern, Chief Operating Officer at Big Picture Medical. He’s someone who’s spent most of his career toggling between product and operations, and getting pretty good at living in the grey. And becoming “reasonably okay-ish” in a whole bunch of different worlds. This episode is all about a tension every operator knows …

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Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win? 1:06:35

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Episode Sponsor: PagerDuty - Checkout the features in their official feature release: https://fnf.dev/4dYQ7gL This episode dives into a fundamental question facing the DevOps world: Did Kubernetes truly win the infrastructure race because it was the best technology, or were there other, perhaps less obvious, factors at play? Omer Hamerman joins Wil…

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Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity with Aimee Knight 1:17:55

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In this episode, Aimee Knight, an expert in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) whose experience hails from Paramount and NPM, joins the podcast to discuss her journey into SRE, the challenges she faced, and the strategies she employed to succeed. Aimee shares her transition from a non-traditional background in JavaScript development to SRE, highlig…

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Ep 47. The Water Cooler Chat with Gaby Howard & Laura Nicol 55:27

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Laura Nicol connects with today's co-host: the wonderful Gaby Howard, Head of Growth and Operations at Carted. Gaby’s no stranger to the podcast—she first appeared on Ep 23. Gaby Howard on Navigating the Shift from Founder to Operator in Tech: Insights from Carted and Flaunter, where the wonderful Paloma interviewed her about her journey from found…

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Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig 1:04:57

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of MCP (Machine Control Protocol) servers and their role in enabling agent interactions. Gil Feig, the co-founder and CTO of Merge, shares insights on how MCP servers facilitate efficient and secure integration between various services and APIs. The discussion covers the benefits and challenges of using MC…

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No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding 1:00:38

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Warren talks with Nathan Goulding, SVP of Engineering at Vultr, about what it actually takes to run a high-performance cloud platform. They cover everything from global game server latency and hybrid models to bare metal provisioning and the power/cooling constraints that come with modern GPU clusters. The discussion gets into real-world deployment…

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Ground Truth & Guided Journeys: Rethinking Data for AI with Inna Tokarev Sela 52:45

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Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO and founder of Illumex, joins the crew to break down what it really means to make your data “AI-ready.” This isn’t just about clean tables—it’s about semantic fabric, business ontologies, and grounding agents in your company's context to prevent the dreaded LLM hallucination. We dive into how modern enterprises just cannot bu…

Applying A Growth Mindset To Leadership And Scaling Podcasts

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Calling Operator with Laura Nicol

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Adventures in DevOps

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AI, IDEs, Copilot & Critical Thinking 53:20

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Solving incidents with one-time ephemeral runbooks 49:59

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Ep 55. Anna Prell on Building Forage, Being Acquired and Building Again 51:29

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The IT Dictionary: Post-Mortems, Cargo Cults, and Dropped Databases 29:34

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Vector Databases Explained: From E-commerce Search to Molecule Research 55:29

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Ep 54. Betting On People with Mahesh Muralidhar 1:11:49

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The Unspoken Challenges of Deploying to Customer Clouds 52:41

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Ep 53. Savannah Black on Range, Hypergrowth & ADHD 1:02:35

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How to build in Observability at Petabyte Scale 45:31

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Ep 52. Operational Leadership with Alexey Mitko 58:36

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The Open-Source Product Leader Challenge: Navigating Community, Code, and Collaboration Chaos 59:26

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Ep 51. Falling in Love with Startups and Running—Phoebe Pincus 54:55

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FinOps: Holding engineering teams accountable for spend 55:07

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Ep 50. Emer McCann on Building People Functions & Scaling Orgs 55:39

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The Auth Showdown: Single tenant versus Multitenant Architectures 53:24

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Ep 49. Liani Strauss on Keeping Tracksuit on Track 1:02:01

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Ep 48. Paul Redfern on Growth, Scale and Staying Human 53:37

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Should We Be Using Kubernetes: Did the Best Product Win? 1:06:35

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Mastering SRE: Insights in Scale and at Capacity with Aimee Knight 1:17:55

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Ep 47. The Water Cooler Chat with Gaby Howard & Laura Nicol 55:27

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Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig 1:04:57

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No Lag: Building the Future of High-Performance Cloud with Nathan Goulding 1:00:38

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Ground Truth & Guided Journeys: Rethinking Data for AI with Inna Tokarev Sela 52:45