Best DM Brian Podcasts (2025)

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Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin Access 15:39

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This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at real platform engineering in the wild. We start with Cloudflare’s write-up on building an internal maintenance scheduler on Workers. It’s not marketing fluff. It’s “we hit memory limits, changed the model, and stopped pulling giant datasets into the runtime.” Next up: AWS databases are now available insid…

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Ship It Interviews: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam) 30:38

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This is a Ship It Weekly interview episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and the convo feels useful. In this episode I’m joined by Mazharul “Maz” Islam (DevOps with Maz). Maz is a UK-based DevOps Engineer who shares practical, real-world DevOps content on YouTube and …

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GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CI 12:06

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This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to AI agents. We start with GitHub Actions. GitHub announced a new “cloud platform” charge for self-hosted runners in private/internal repos… then hit pause after backlash. Hosted run…

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IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on Aurora 16:14

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In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps. First up, IBM is buying Confluent for $11B. We talk about what that means if you’re on Confluent Cloud today, still running your own Kafka, or trying to choose between Confluent, MSK, and DIY. It’s part of a bigger pattern after IBM’…

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AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing Staging 22:00

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In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run systems. We talk about regional NAT Gateways and Route 53 Global Resolver on the networking side, ECS Express Mode and EKS Capabilities as new paved roads for app teams, S3 Vectors GA and 50 T…

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Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub Guardrails 16:40

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In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD and Copilot updates. We start with Kubernetes’ new configuration good practices post and how to turn it into a checklist to clean up Helm/Kustomize and kill off “hotfix from…

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Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SRE 15:53

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In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms. First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and moving it into best-effort maintenance until March 2026. We talk about what that actually means if you’re still using it and how to think about choosing and rolling …

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Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub Outages 12:54

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In this special kickoff episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian walks through three major outages from the last few weeks and what they actually mean for DevOps, SRE, and platform teams. Instead of just reading status pages, we look at how each incident exposes assumptions in our own architectures and runbooks: Topics in this episode: • Cloudflare’s globa…

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Brian Lee and Brian Liu: The LegalZoom Story 40:30

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Brian Liu is the co-founder and founding CEO of LegalZoom which is a technology platform giving access to professional legal advice. The company has a $2B+ valuation today with over 1,000 employees. Brian Lee is an entrepreneur. He is co-founder and former president of LegalZoom.com, co-founder and former CEO of ShoeDazzle.com, and co-founder and f…

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Gestures: The Physical Idioms (with Kevin Bauer) 48:20

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Kevin Bauer (Nerdy for 30, Twenty Sided Podcast) whips up a dazzling orcish high-five, a Twin Port salute, and even a breezy Untethered Cities idiom. This is a really fun one! Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what …

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Carly London and Juhi Pikale 39:02

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Our first episode of 2022 features 2 great marketers in Juhi Pikale and Carly London. Carly is the Head of Growth at WearLIVELY Juhi is a results driven growth marketer with 8+ years in the e-commerce industry, successfully deploying over $500MM so far in direct response advertising across paid social, SEM, OTT, TV, affiliate etc. Early adopter and…

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Beholders Are Just Evil Santas (with Tim Keck) 51:18

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Tim Keck (Nerdy for 30, Come at Me Show) dives deep into the subconscious of Monderak, the All-Seeing—the lawful evil beholder god of The Fractured Realms. Turns out, lawful evil can look a lot like Christmas. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel…

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Games, Games, Games (with Alise Morales) 46:09

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Alise Morales (Tooning Out the News, Betches Sup) creates some brand new games including a children's game, a drinking game, and even one for the magical teens chasing the latest Tik Tok trend. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-buildi…

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Naming the World (with Pat Wise) 1:01:12

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Pat Wise (Audio Snacks, Political Therapy) talks about the cosmos and answers one of the most important questions we've asked on this podcast: What is the name of the world? Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in…

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Zaraaaga, the Director's Cut (with Jenny Gustafson) 1:04:30

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Jenny Gustafson just couldn't stay away so we had to bring her back on to tell us everything about the newly created island of Zaraaaga (yes there are canonically that many a's...) Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide …

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The Devout Troubadours of Bartle, the Scribbler (with Lauren Moore) 55:57

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Lauren Moore tells us how to properly pray to Bartle, the Scribbler. But don't worry, he's super chill about it. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–no…

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It's not YOUR campaign anymore! 36:26

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Hi everyone, thanks for listening and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it that you made it this far. This episode we talk about the importance of thinking about the story arc. Recognizing that your players have an impact on the world and that the campaign now has co-authors. We also introduce the first ever DM challenge. The challenge is ther…

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Mythic Treasures (with Angela Palladino) 49:18

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Angela Palladino (Ya Gotta Have a Podcast) finds some powerful hidden treasures and names them Melissa and Karen. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–n…

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The Dregg Empire is Really Really Hot (with Alex Song-Xia 55:32

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Alex Song-Xia (Rick and Morty, The Squirrel Comedy Theater) invents a nations where everyone is just too dang hot. And it just gets weirder from there. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will d…

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Where the hell are we? 31:10

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So, you've decided to start a campaign, well now you need to provide a setting so your players can start immersing themselves in your world. We discuss the task of creating a town/city or country, while following the mantra of "Start small...get big." We also have our first DM's Toolbox where we highlight DonJon's fantastic Fractal World Generator.…

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Sips, Drips, and Gulps or: The Many Currencies of the Fractured Realms (with Jenny Gustafson) 1:00:42

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Jenny Gustafson (Twenty Sided Podcast, R.M.S. Titanfall Arc) explores the ins and outs of the many varieties of currencies of the Fractured Realms, and discovers a brand-new island while she's at it! Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-…

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Death & Taffy (with Vivek Netrakanti) 50:38

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Vivek Netrakanti (We Fixed It) builds two wildly different holidays for the Fractured Realms: one a religious murder event, the other a world-wide taffy-fueled day off. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-worl…

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Baby Steps 31:11

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So you've decided to start a campaign? In this episode we highlight starting a campaign on a budget (i.e. don't buy every book in the store), common challenges and focusing on making sure that you and your players have similar expectations. We also have our first Reference Tomb challenge, so I'm hoping to hear back from a lot of you...a lot meaning…

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Trailer 1:40

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Hi everyone. This is just to give you a brief description of what we're going to do on the 30 minute GM. Also it gives you the chance to figure out if you can stand to listen to my voice for 1/2 an hour every two weeks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brian-lawton1/message…

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The Many Stenches of Viz Kyne, The Rotting (with Nathan Yaffe) 57:19

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Nathan Yaffe (Drawfee) explores the first of the nine major gods of the Fractured Realms: Viz Kyne, The Rotting. We discuss his followers, his legendary weapons, and debate what he would smell like based on his mood. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin th…

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Twilight Assembly...ASSEMBLE! (with Mike Luongo) 40:41

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Mike Luongo dives deep into the Twilight Assembly: its origins, its turning points, even its dress code. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–no matter …

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Drunken Trees of the Mirewood (with Sage Boggs) 51:23

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Sage Boggs (The Tonight Show, Lo-Fi NYC) describes the "Times Square" of the Mirewood Forest and details the alcohol-loving bears that live there. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discus…

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Wonders of the World (with Abby Hepworth) 1:02:12

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Abby Hepworth (PureWow) builds three wonders of the ancient world. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–no matter how crazy– will become canon within th…

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Untethered Taboos (with Julian Edward Williams) 43:32

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Julian Edward Williams details the taboos of the Untethered Cities high above the Shards of Azore. Canon Fodder is the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–no matter how cr…

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Orcs Wear Tims (with Shenuque Tissera) 39:29

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Shenuque Tissera joins Brian to discuss the fashion trends of the orcs of the Greying City of Venna. Introducing Canon Fodder, the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about worldbuilding and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of Worldbuilding to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–no mat…

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Introducing Canon Fodder 1:23

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Introducing Canon Fodder, the Twenty Sided Podcast’s first supplementary show all about world-building and lore. Each week a guest will spin the Wheel of World-building to decide what in-world topic we will discuss. And whatever we come up with–no matter how crazy– will become canon within the Fractured Realms and within The Twenty Sided Podcast it…

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Ziv Haklili: Co-Founder of Scale 22:48

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Ziv is the CoFounder of Scale, a next-generation DTC house of brands he founded with his childhood friend and business partner, Ben Flohr to create meaningful connections between brands and consumers—and positively impact thousands of lives. With expertise in strategic vision, product development and creative direction, he built a strong organizati…

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Lila Stewart: Co-Founder of Hari Mari 18:08

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Lila, along with her hubby, Jeremy are travellers. They know firsthand that comfortable footwear is an important staple in every adventurer’s pack. Like they tend to do after scampering up miles of mountainous trails and endlessly exploring new cities, theirs wore out. In a futile search for something durable, unique, and free of painful break-in p…

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Sarah & Christine: Co-CEO & Co-founder of Glow Recipe 36:58

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Sarah and Christine are both the CEO & Co-founder of Glow Recipe. It has been their mission since 2014 to empower everyone to feed their skin the ingredients it needs, when it needs it. Because no one day is the same. Naturally potent, clean formulations with sensorial, unexpected textures and antioxidant-rich fruit extracts are their thing, and th…

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Michael Wieder: Co-Founder, President, & CMO at Lalo 23:28

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Co-Founder of Lalo, Michael Wieder, realized very quickly that when it comes to shopping for baby products, parents tend to get overwhelmed by their unlimited options. As a result, Lalo focuses on two core products, the Daily Stroller ($515), and a 2-in-1 high chair and play chair combo called The Chair ($195). When it came to designing these produ…

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Cody Levine: Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Twice Toothpaste 26:00

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Cody is in business with his older brother, Julian, who's in L.A. right now, and Lenny Kravitz, who’s their third business partner. They all came together four years ago alongside their family. Cody's dad is a dentist in New York, or more like an oral health expert scientist turned entrepreneur and philanthropist. His father with his mom, launched …

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Ben Siedl: CEO & Co-Counder of Neyborly 36:08

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An entrepreneur who finds opportunity in under-utilized assets and hidden human potential. Ben is currently on a journey building exciting, unique short-term rental spaces by transforming vacant retail spaces into thriving creative hubs for professional and social uses. His business is growing quickly and is always looking for new partnerships, ide…

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Richard Henne: Co-Founder of Ivory Ella 36:53

5y ago36:53

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Richard Henne is a Temple graduate entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Ivory Ella, an elephant themed charitable women’s e-commerce brand, as well as the Co-Founder of TM38 LLC, a full-service digital agency servicing entrepreneurs and established businesses alike with its proven grass root marketing strategies. His newest brand; Soothe LLC, is a he…

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Scott Norton: Co-Founder of Sir Kensington's 36:52

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Scott Norton is co-founder of Sir Kensington's, best known for making condiments with character. With a mission to bring integrity and charm to ordinary and overlooked food, Sir Kensington's has become an integral offering at the leading retailers and restaurants across the country. In 2017, Sir Kensington’s was acquired by Unilever to join a famil…

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Ju Rhyu: Co-Founder/CEO of Hero Cosmetics 36:29

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Ju Rhyu is co-founder/CEO of Hero Cosmetics. Hero Cosmetics was launched in 2017 with one product, Mighty Patch, as a test on Amazon. Now, Hero Cosmetics sells a box of Mighty Patch every 15 seconds in channels like Amazon, Target, DTC, Neiman Marcus, Goop, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and more. She has been named to the Inc. Magazine 2019 Femal…

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Bassima Mroue: CEO and co-founder of SkinTē 33:48

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Bassima Mroue is the CEO and co-founder of SkinTē, the first-ever collagen sparkling tea positioned at the intersection of beauty, beverage and wellness. The brand is experiencing rapid growth, was Finalist for Best Ingestible 2 years in a row by IBE, and has been recognized by media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Inc, Allure, G…

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Jaime Schmidt: Founder of Schmidt's Naturals / Author of Supermaker 46:16

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Jaime Schmidt is the quintessential maker-made-good. As the founder and former CEO of Schmidt's, Jaime led the brand to sales in over 30 countries and onto the shelves of Target, Costco, CVS, Walmart, and Whole Foods. The brand was acquired by Unilever in 2017, and Jaime continues to support their global expansion. Today, as an investor with her fu…

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Kara Lynn Joyce: CEO of Lead Sports Co. // Three-Time USA Olympic Swimmer 39:01

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Kara Lynn Joyce is a three-time USA Olympic swimmer living in Long Beach, CA. Kara competed in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics for team USA winning a total of four medals. As a swimmer for the University of Georgia, Joyce won 18 NCAA titles and set the American Record in the 50 yard and 50 meter freestyle. In 2010 she moved to Denver to train with…

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Marc Randolph: Co-Founder of Netflix 50:17

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Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. As co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix, he laid much of the groundwork for a service that’s grown to 150 million subscribers, and fundamentally altered how the world experiences media. He also served on the Netflix board of directors until retiring from the company in…

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Kevin Belbey: The Montag Group: 50:49

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As an agent at The Montag Group, Kevin represents sports broadcasting clients from national networks to local markets. His clients include play-by-play announcers, analysts, radio hosts, writers and reporters. Kevin is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of…

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Rob Angel: The Creator of Pictionary 39:15

5+ y ago39:15

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Rob Angel is the creator of the popular game Pictionary. On our episode, he shares exciting news about his upcoming book: Game Changer (https://robangel.com) Game Changer is the story of how a twenty-three-year-old waiter from Seattle had the outrageous dream of beating industry giants Milton Bradley and Mattel at their own game. With no experience…

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WEWEARCUTE: TikTok Creators with over 10M followers 31:08

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Wewearcute has over 6,400,00 followers on TikTok. They consistently achieve millions of views on their account. Hear their story: Learn how they started What it takes to succeed on the platform Where they got their inspiration and more Follow us on Instagram to stay up to date with new podcast episodes: @stackingrowth…

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Liz Hernandez: Founder of WORDAFUL 29:37

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My name is Liz Hernandez, I’m a Mexican American Emmy-nominated television personality and journalist. As a former radio host and entertainment reporter for Access Hollywood, E! News and MTV, my career has been built on words, but no chapter more meaningful than the one I am currently living with WORDAFUL, a video and live event series that focuses…

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Laura Hutfless: Co-Founder FlyteVu 41:48

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Laura Hutfless is a Co-Founder of FlyteVu, a Nashville-based full-service entertainment marketing agency founded in 2015 that connects brands to consumers through compelling storytelling, unparalleled experiences, and the power of pop culture. In only four years under Laura’s leadership, FlyteVu has experienced 2230% revenue growth and was named to…

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Taiki Green: Co-Founder of Watch Momentum 50:04

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Taiki Green, co-founder, and former collegiate pitcher, started working at the start-up baseball training company, Driveline Baseball. After working as the head of content there he then left to be a freelance Director/Producer. Taiki has worked with a number of organizations such as ESPN, Fox Sports, MLB, and Parkwood Entertainment. His goal now is…