Best Brave Software Podcasts (2025)

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Anne Steptoe - SVP, Software Development @ Propel 43:24

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25d ago43:24

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When I (Anna) first met Anne over 10 years ago while working together at Pelmorex, I was struck by her exceptional emotional intelligence and people-first leadership style — qualities that are truly foundational to creating safe, brave spaces. Today, Anne is the Senior Vice President of Software Development at Propel Holdings, where she leads the s…

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What will Quantum Computing Change? 1:21:41

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Quantum computing is often dismissed as a distant sci-fi future, but Ethereum OG John Lilic and Oxford physicist Stefano Gogioso argue the timeline is shrinking fast with roadmaps converging around 2030. In this episode, they break down the "woeful" state of quantum readiness in crypto, explaining how Shor's algorithm could eventually shatter the e…

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Haze Schepmyer - Life-Event Transitions Mediator 52:15

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Haze Schepmyer is a Life Event Transitions Mediator,dedicated to activating FlowXible Approaches Across Physical, Emotional and Mental Experiences. With an authentic blend of compassion and expertise, Haze helps to guide accountable individuals through some of life's most challenging transitions, by empowering them to navigate change with grace and…

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The Swamp, the Software, and the Self-Doubt: Finding Confidence in Chaos with Kari Sipinen 41:33

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What do swamp volleyball, software debugging, and self-doubt have in common? A lot more than you’d think. In this episode, Anne sits down with Kari Sipinen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kari-sipinen), a Finnish-born engineer, world-champion swamp volleyball player, and all-around discomfort-zone explorer, who has turned mud, mistakes, and mindfulnes…

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DevConnect 2025: Inside The Biggest Ethereum Event in History 44:43

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“DevConnect 2025 was about touching and feeling Ethereum IRL”Nathan Sexer, lead of the DevConnect 2025 and Events team at the Ethereum Foundation, gives a peek into the largest iteration of Devconnect ever, with 20,000 attendees, and why the team pivoted to a "World's Fair" format, creating tangible districts for DeFi and Privacy to let attendees t…

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Shab Baharyeh - Communications and Engagements Strategist: Co-founder YourFriend 49:08

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Shab is a communications and engagement strategist with roots in digital marketing, media sales, and community engagement - known for designing inclusive experiences and aligning messaging across diverse audiences. She is also co-founder of YourFriend, a Toronto-based events and engagement studio that designs emotionally resonant experiences for br…

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Executive Intelligence - CEO of IFS Nexus Black Kriti Sharma on what it takes to succeed with industrial AI 32:14

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In our latest Executive Intelligence podcast, Phil Wainewright speaks to Kriti Sharma, CEO IFS Nexus Black, for an inside view on IFS' pursuit of industrial AI. The two explore the upside of industrial AI but also how to address the risk factors. Is autonomous AI viable in industrial settings? If so, how should it be managed? Listen in...…

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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Judy Herman’s Guide to Getting Real (and Getting Free) 35:18

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What happens when the therapist becomes her own best client? Meet Judy Herman (https://www.judycounselor.com/), psychotherapist, author, and retreat facilitator who turned decades of personal pain into a roadmap for emotional freedom. After surviving a 30-year marriage filled with toxicity and raising four kids, Judy didn’t just heal—she rewrote th…

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Why is the SEC Concerned about Privacy now? 1:02:58

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At DevConnect 2025, Sebastian and Friederike speak with Peter Van Valkenburgh about the rapidly evolving battle for digital rights. Peter challenges the industry's comfort with transparency, arguing that "transparency will destroy neutrality." He uses the history of SWIFT to illustrate how a once-neutral messaging system was captured by geopolitica…

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From Clearance to Career: How to Get a Tech Job After the Military 39:28

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This month on Service to Software, Army Reserves Veteran and Technical Recruiter Stephanie Holman joins Code Platoon's Rich Luby to share how Veterans can translate military experience into rewarding tech careers. As a recruiter in the Defense, Intelligence, and National Security space, Stephanie has helped countless Veterans and cleared profession…

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Emotional Intelligence in Action: Turning Conflict into Connection 9:10

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This week, Anne (https://YourChangeSpeaker.com) takes a quick dive into one of her favorite emotional-intelligence tools for real-world connection: how to approach tough conversations without blowing up the bridge you’re trying to build. Drawing on her keynote and workshop material, Anne revisits the cognitive triad—how our thoughts, feelings, and …

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Jerome Mugambi - OpenUp Founder 49:14

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After a life-altering motorcycle accident, JeromeMugambi defied the odds. With broken bones and months of recovery ahead, he promised his former director: “Give me ten days. I’ll walk across that convocation stage.” And he did! Supported by sheer determination and the cheers of his MBET classmates, Jerome crossed the stage at his convocation at the…

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Cosmos: The Linux of Blockchains? 55:06

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Captured live at Cosmoverse 2025, this episode brings host Sebastian in conversation with Michael (better known as Cryptocito, Cosmos investor via Cito Ventures) and Magnus (@0xMagmar, Co-CEO Cosmos Labs). Against a backdrop of institutional gravitas, central banks mingling alongside Revolut executives, the conversation traces Cosmos' arc across fi…

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The Secret Life of a Divorce Lawyer: Heartbreak, Humor, and Voodoo Dolls with Lois Liberman 41:10

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When the gloves come off in divorce court, Lois Liberman (https://www.blankrome.com/people/lois-j-liberman) brings empathy, grit, and a wicked sense of humor. In this Dancing in the Discomfort Zone episode, the powerhouse attorney with 36 years in matrimonial law spills the truth about what really goes down when love unravels—and how to come out st…

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Yield Basis: Disrupting Defi & Bitcoin Yield 1:00:05

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Brian Fabian Crain and Michael Egorov, Curve Finance founder, discuss Curve's origins: solving inefficient DAI/USDC swaps after MakerDAO borrows by creating a DeFi AMM for stablecoins and LSTs. It hit 1M TVL with a bonding curve concentrating liquidity at 1:1, more effective for pegged assets than Uniswap. Features grew to include BTC wrappers, stE…

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Flip the Box: How Shari Leid Turned Isolation into a Movement for Meaningful Connection 29:13

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What happens when you give one woman a year to run around to all 50 states to share a meal with total strangers? In this Dancing in the Discomfort Zone episode, Shari Leid (https://linktr.ee/animperfectlyperfectlife) proves that connection is the ultimate adventure. Adopted from Korea after being found in a cardboard box, Shari has flipped her stor…

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Sam Sebastian - VP, North America Regions - Google Cloud 52:02

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Sam knows a thing or two about leading with impact in fast-moving, high-stakes environments. He’s held senior leadership roles at some of the world’s most innovative companies. Sam’s known not just for driving growth and innovation, but for doing it the right way — by putting people, culture, and purpose at the center. Anna had the pleasure of work…

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Lamina1: Building The Future of The Creator Economy 59:47

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Sci-fi titan Neal Stephenson, whose Snow Crash coined the term 'metaverse' and Cryptonomicon, which foreshadowed crypto in 1999, joins Friederike to discuss his "hard sci-fi" method: building immersive, consistent worlds, not prophecy. He's now co-founder of Lamina1, aiming to restore Web1's ethos and give creators IP sovereignty with direct microp…

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Navigating The Engineering Job Market in Today's World 31:25

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In this episode, Jorge Lara, a Software Engineer at AirBnb and previous Code Platoon Mentor joins Code Platoon and our host, Rich Luby, to talk about what it's like being a Software Engineer in today's world and how someone can launch a successful tech career today. Jorge also talks about his dedication to supporting Military Veterans has allowed h…

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Widower, Father, Fighter: Keep Those Feet Moving with AJ Coleman 36:23

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What do you do when life hits you with every curveball imaginable—hearing loss, heartbreak, grief, and single parenthood—all before 40? In this powerful episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I talk with AJ Coleman, (https://keepthosefeetmoving.com) widower, single dad, financial crime fighter, and author of Keep Those Feet Moving. His story is…

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Is Blockchain Still a Revolution or Becoming Another Upgrade? Ep.621 1:15:34

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As blockchain tech gets co-opted by legacy players for efficiency gains, has the revolution lost its edge? Crypto philosopher Paul Dylan-Ennis and Jito's Head of Governance, Dr. Nick Almond, join Friederike to probe this shift from 2017's visionary DAOs to today's Telegram-negotiated votes and whale capture. Rooted in philosophy and complex systems…

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Strategic Unruliness: The Art of Breaking Rules That Hold You Back with Kim Bolourtchi 39:02

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What happens when a rule-following lawyer trades the courtroom for the dance floor—then builds a business teaching leaders how (and when) to break the rules? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I sit down with Kim Bolourtchi,(www.kimbolourtchi.com) recovering perfectionist, competitive Latin dancer, and now strategic unruliness exper…

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Building Confidence One Brave Step at a Time with Jenn Espinosa Goswami 34:05

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What if confidence isn’t something you’re born with—but something you build? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I talk with Jenn Espinosa-Goswami, (https://www.weightlesschronicles.com/) international speaker, certified speaking coach, and founder of Weightless Chronicles, about her journey from bullied kid to bold speaker. After gr…

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Brave: Building the Private User-Friendly Internet - Kyle Den Hartog 1:07:04

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Brave has spent a decade building a privacy-first browser that empowers users with tools like ad-blocking and fingerprinting protection, now serving 100 million monthly active users. Security engineer Kyle Den Hartog joins Friederike to unpack the centralization traps in digital identity from email's spam-driven dominance to one-size-fits-all DeFi …

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Executive Intelligence - r.Potential CEO Greg Shewmaker on the brave new world of Digital Labor 26:22

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On the brink of Dreamforce 2025, dignomica's Stuart Laughlan caught up with r.Potential CEO Greg Shewmaker to hash out the transition to a new world of Digital Labor, and the changes that entails for organizations as they deepen their AI initiatives.By diginomica

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GRIT to GRATITUDE: Seeing Life Through a New Lens with Laura Bratton 29:38

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What would you do if you started losing your sight in high school—and by graduation, the world had gone completely dark? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I sit down with Laura Bratton, (Www.laurabratton.com) speaker, author, and founder of Ubi Global, whose story proves that adversity doesn’t define you...your mindset does. Diagno…

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Noble: Solving Crypto's Liquidity Problem, One Chain at a Time - Jelena Djuric 41:26

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In this episode, Sebastien is joined by Jelena Djuric, co-founder of Noble, a generic asset issuance chain built for the Cosmos ecosystem. Jelena shares her journey into crypto, which began with an interest in political science, leading her to discover Bitcoin's potential. She describes the origins of Noble, created to solve a critical need within …

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Marsha-Gaye Knight: Clinical Assistant Professor | Founder- Black in Sport Business (BSB) 51:56

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Marsha-Gaye, born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, embarked on a remarkable journey that led her to become a prominent figure in the field of sports marketing and equity advocacy. A Clinical Assistant Professor, a Public Speaker and Advocate for Women founding Black in Sport Business (BSB), an organization dedicated to connecting black professional…

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Nina Purewal - Founder - Pure Minds Inc. | Mental Health Advocate 52:50

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Nina is the Founder of Pure Minds Inc., a social enterprise that conducts mental wellness and mindfulness workshops for the corporate and public sector. She is the co-author of the International Bestseller Let That Sh*t Go, a no-filter, practical approach on how to find peace of mind and happiness in the everyday. Nina has been studying mindfulness…

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Safe Brave Stories Returns 31:14

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Anna and I provide a bit of background of who we are and what are our hopes for this podcast and a broader commitment to helping curate a community to enable safe brave spaces within ourselves, our relationships and our broader communities.

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Blind, Bold, and Brilliant: Seeing Beyond Limits with Kijuan Amey 40:06

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Benjamin Sarquis Peillard: Cap Labs – Insured Yield & the Future of Stablecoins 58:02

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In this episode, Sebastien Couture is joined by Benjamin, the founder of CAP, a stablecoin protocol designed to provide insured yield. The protocol features two main products: CUSD, a digital dollar, and stCUSD, its staked, yield-bearing version. Yield is generated through an "allocation engine" where third-party operators borrow from the protocol'…

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Tea with Your Demons: Healing, Self-Trust, and Living with Fun, Compassion, and Kindness with Amazing Soul 41:16

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What if your pain, physical, emotional, even traumatic, wasn’t a life sentence, but an invitation? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I talk with Amazing Soul (www.themindfckco.com), Army veteran, mentor, and founder of The MindFCK Co., about what it really takes to heal. After years of chronic back pain, trauma, and suicidal though…

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From Uncertainty to Action: Navigating Life as a Military Spouse 25:35

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In this episode, Maria Mendez Reed, a Military spouse, TV Director, and Nonprofit CEO, joins Code Platoon and our host, Rich Luby, to share her insights on stepping into action as a Military spouse. Drawing from her own experiences, Maria talks about the importance of pursuing your own dreams all while supporting your partner in service, and how to…

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Mento: Onchain FX Markets - Decentralising World Currencies - Markus Franke 1:06:14

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TradFi FX markets are slow, expensive and often lack liquidity for direct swaps between different world currencies, having to route through USD pairs. While crypto could technically solve pairing through AMM pools, those needed to be arbitraged in order to reflect TradFi rates. With 15 fully-backed stablecoins, Mento is building the largest FX infr…

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Joy at Work Isn’t Fake Smiles—It’s Leading With Love with Gretchen Schott 33:30

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What happens when life throws you the hardest challenge—and you choose to turn grief into growth? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I sit down with Gretchen Schott, (https://www.gretchenschott.com/) speaker, author, and leadership powerhouse, to talk about her new book Joy at Work When Women Lead and what it really means to bring a…

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Stress Survival: Simple Habits to Boost Happiness, Resilience, and Calm with Ruth Ann Colby Martin. (no bug eating required) 55:19

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What if getting happier wasn’t about buying more, doing more, or being “fearless”, but about learning a few smart survival moves for modern life? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, survivalist-professor-midwife Ruth Ann Colby Martin (https://RACMedge.com) turns a year in the wild into a practical framework you can use at work, at ho…

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f(x) Protocol: Decentralized Yield-Bearing Stablecoin & 0-Liquidation Perp - Cyrille Brière 1:00:22

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Without a doubt, the introduction of stablecoins has vastly increased overall crypto liquidity, adoption and real-world use cases as they offered a safe haven against the industry’s volatility, especially during bearmarkets. However, despite being extremely efficient, the main stablecoin actors (i.e. Circle & Tether) are centralised entities. Many …

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Euler: The DeFi Super App - Michael Bentley 1:00:01

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Euler is a DeFi lending protocol built around the idea of permissionless modularity, enabling users to lend and borrow almost any crypto asset with flexible, permissionless pools, tailored to individual risk profiles. Moreover, Euler Vault Kit (EVK) and Ethereum Vault Connector (EVC) enable the creation of custom lending vaults which, in turn, can …

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Letting Go: A Point/Counterpoint Discussion with Lisa Demmi and Anne Bonney 36:25

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After last week's conversation with Sarena Diamond, I started to think about Letting Go, and whether my perspective was right. (My perspective: Letting go is good...most of the time!) I do this a lot. "Am I wrong? I could be wrong! Let's investigate." So I invited my friend and consummate Change Hater, Lisa Demmi (https://LisaDemmi.com) over for an…

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Executive Intelligence - UiPath CEO Daniel Dines gets real about agentic AI 26:44

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UiPath’s SAP transformation became a use case for automation-first ERP - achieving a 93% clean core and scaling finance 7x revenue without adding headcount. But what does “agentic ERP” really look like in practice? Can AI agents work alongside humans and robots without adding risk? And what lessons can technical founders take from scaling UiPath fr…

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Laid Off, Let Go, and Leveled Up with Sarena Diamond 37:58

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What do you do when life hands you a layoff, single parenthood, and a house full of 28 years’ worth of memories… all at once? In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I sit down with organizational change powerhouse Serena Diamond (www.diamondsolutionsgroupllc.com) —former IBM exec turned entrepreneur—who shares how she navigated a major …

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Zama: FHE and The Holy Grail of Blockchain Privacy 56:12

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Blockchains operate as a public ledger, ‘disclosing’ the entire transaction history and associated data to everyone. While verifiability and traceability are key traits, as blockchains gain global adoption, those very features hinder the process. Self custody, on-chain identities, corporate strategies, transaction history, private deals, all repres…

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Code After Combat: Lessons from the Transition to Tech 33:56

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In this episode, Zach Blackburn, a Software Engineer at Affirm and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, joins Code Platoon and our host, Rich Luby, to share his insights on the transition from a life in service to a life in tech. Zach, a former Code Platoon student, now a Software Engineer L5 at Affirm talks about the importance of apprenticeship programs …

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Pareto: Customizable On-Chain Private Credit Marketplace - Matteo Pandolfi 1:08:21

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Built primarily for institutional-grade clients, Pareto delivers customizable on-chain credit markets designed to expand DeFi liquidity and TradFi tokenization through structured yield strategies tailored to diverse risk profiles. Pareto allows its users to construct individualized credit lines in specific risk-ajusted tranches, with custom: intere…

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350 Episodes Later… and Still Dancing (You’ve Come Far Too, BTW) 7:12

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It’s a milestone, y’all! In this solo episode, I’m throwing a little party in your ears to celebrate the 350th episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone! But don’t worry—it’s not just a victory lap. It’s a powerful reminder of one of the most overlooked confidence-building tools we’ve got: looking back. If you’re stuck in “I’m not there yet” mode, …

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Executive Intelligence - Sage CTO Aaron Harris on how he built a different kind of AI for finance (and why SaaS is not dead!) 42:42

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Sage's 2017 purchase of SaaS finance innovator Intacct has become one of the most improbable acquisition stories in the history of enterprise software. Our hot seat guest, Sage CTO Aaron Harris, was in the middle of all of it. But bringing multi-tenant finance innovation to the rest of Sage was just the beginning. Now SaaS faces a disruptive challe…

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Confidence Isn’t a Trait—It’s a Skill (and You Can Totally Learn It) with Diana Rogers Jaeger 36:14

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In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, we’re busting the myth that confidence is something you either have or don’t. (Spoiler: that’s garbage.) Speaker, coach, and talent optimization strategist Diana Rogers Jaeger (https://www.dianarogersjaeger.com/) joins me to break down confidence into something way more approachable—and buildable. …

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Lagrange: ZK-Proving AI Alignment - Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh 56:51

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In an age when AI models are becoming exponentially more sophisticated and powerful, how does one ensure that proper results are being generated and that the AI model functions in desired parameters? This pressing concern of AI alignment could be solved through cryptographic verification, using zero knowledge proofs. ZKPs not only allow for verifyi…

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Work Jerks, Beware: Rich "The HR Guy" Salon Is Here 36:47

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You’ve met them—Two-Face Timmy, Micromanaging Maria, and Pessimistic Pete—and no, they’re not cartoon villains. They’re your coworkers… and they’re draining your soul. In this episode of Dancing in the Discomfort Zone, I sit down with Rich Salon (aka “The HR Guy” https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-salon-sphr-shrm-scp/) to talk about how to handle jer…