Best Redgate Podcasts (2025)

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Redgate Advocates: Their Origin Stories 23:53

26d ago23:53

23:53

The Redgate Advocates (Kellyn Gorman, Ryan Booz, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) sat down at the PASS Summit last year and spent some time telling how they went from working directly in tech, to helping others work with tech - both inside and outside of Redgate and their products. Check out other Simple Talks episodes at https://rd.gt/3TJocZ9 Conn…

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Why You're WASTING Money on SEO & Ad Agencies - Mirabella Mindset w/ Scott Redgate 43:39

1M ago43:39

43:39

🚀 Mastering Digital Marketing for Salons: Insights with Nick Mirabella & Scott Redgate 🚀 In this power-packed episode, Nick Mirabella sits down with Scott Redgate, a digital marketing expert who’s been transforming small businesses with his expertise in SEO, Google Ads, and AI-powered content creation. Nick, who runs a successful salon business, di…

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Louis Flies Solo 40:30

12d ago40:30

40:30

In this special solo episode, host Louis Davidson stays ‘full screen’ for the entire show and answers the very questions he asks of others! Where it all started, what tech he loves, the one obvious thing he loves to do outside of working with databases (which has been mentioned before)...it’s all covered here! Check out other Simple Talks episodes …

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From Frustrated Stylist to CEO: The Real Story Behind Christian Michael Hair Extensions 1:00:56

14d ago1:00:56

1:00:56

Your Hair Extension Company SUCKS | Mirabella Mindset Podcast ft. Tiffany Loe of Christian Michael Hair Extensions 💥 Ready for a raw, no-BS deep dive into the shady side of the hair extension industry? In this episode of The Mirabella Mindset Podcast, host Nick Mirabella sits down with Tiffany Loe, the powerhouse founder of Christian Michael Hair E…

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The Hard Truth about Salon Ownership | Mirabella Mindset 40:13

26d ago40:13

40:13

The Truth About Salon Ownership: What No One Tells You 💇‍♀️💼 In this powerful episode, we break down the realities of salon ownership—raw, honest, and eye-opening. Just because you're a brilliant stylist doesn’t mean you’re ready to own a salon. That’s the hard truth. Owning a salon requires an entirely different mindset, a new skillset, and the co…

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From Burnout to Freedom: The Vision Shift Every Salon Owner Needs 41:58

28d ago41:58

41:58

Absolutely! Here's an engaging, SEO-optimized YouTube description that captures the essence of the livestream excerpt: 🔥 Why Vision is Everything: For Salon Owners and Ambitious Creators 🔥 In this powerful excerpt from a live stream, James and Nick dive deep into the transformational power of VISION—not just for your salon, but for your life. Wheth…

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The Authentic Advantage: Nick Mirabella & Dimitra Louro on Building a Brand by Being REAL on Social Media. 40:24

1M ago40:24

40:24

Get ready for an insightful and inspiring podcast episode featuring Dimitra Louro, the powerhouse owner of Malia Extensions! Join us as we dive deep into Dimitra's incredible journey from a stylist and salon owner to a full-blown entrepreneur and creator of a thriving hair extension brand. In this episode, you'll hear how Dimitra took matters into …

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Coffee chat with Kellyn Gorman 47:21

1M ago47:21

47:21

In this Coffee Chat episode, Louis sits down with Redgate Advocate Kellyn Gorman. Kellyn tells her origin story of becoming a leader in the data community, which is as inspiring as it is interesting, and the conversation also covers security (and the inherent trust issues data professionals have!), fact-checking ourselves, aging DBAs, Lego obsessio…

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Why Partnerships Fail - Mirabella Mindset 34:59

1M ago34:59

34:59

Are you struggling with a business partnership, especially in your salon? Or are you considering entering one and want to know the secrets to success? Then this is a must-watch video! In this insightful discussion, we dive deep into why partnerships often fail, with the central theme being a lack of proper communication. But we don't just stop ther…

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The Life Of A Bi-Coastal Stylist w/ Monroe DelSole Hosted by Nick Mirabella 1:01:41

1M ago1:01:41

1:01:41

🔥 Bicoastal Hair Secrets, Curly Hair Expertise & Salon Industry Truths! 🔥 Join us for a fascinating conversation with Monroe, our incredibly talented and bicoastal stylist who travels between New Jersey and sunny California! Get ready for a deep dive into the world of hair, salons, and the entrepreneurial spirit. In this episode, we explore: East C…

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Unlock Your Inner Superhero: Salon Stories and Hair Industry Insights - Mirabella Mindset Pod 50:46

2M ago50:46

50:46

**Dive into the world of hair and salon ownership with Nick Mirabella and Nikki Cestaro's Author of Super Hairo! In this episode, Nick Sits down with Author of Super Hairo Nikki Cestaro and discusses: The inspiration behind writing her book, which started as a therapy journal during a frustrating time as a salon owner. The realities of being a salo…

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State of the Database Landscape 2025 31:05

2M ago31:05

31:05

In this episode of Simple Talks, Louis, Steve, Kellyn and Grant get together to discuss the recently released State of the Database Landscape Report 2025, delving into topics around security, professional development and AI. Download the full report here: https://www.red-gate.com/solutions/state-of-database-landscape/2025/?utm_source=podcast&utm_me…

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Beyond the Chair: Building Your Salon Clientele - What is a Client in 2025 20:21

2M ago20:21

20:21

Hey everyone! In this video, we're diving deep into client acquisition strategies for salon owners and stylists. Whether you're struggling to attract new clients or find talented stylists to join your team, this video is for you!Here's what we'll cover:•The dual role of clients: Understanding that your staff are also your clients•Marketing strategi…

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Coffee chat with Erik Darling 42:44

2M ago42:44

42:44

This week's show is with "definitely not a folk music artist" Erik (with a k) Darling from Darling Data. Erik weaves a tale of a decidedly non-data focused start to his career, solving the same problems over and over, spicy foods, family life, all while dropping some great names along the way. https://sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-10-sqlsaturday1105/ X: …

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Introducing a new PostgreSQL book! 33:44

3M ago33:44

33:44

In this week's podcast, we are doing our very first "special episode". Two of the Redgate Advocates (Ryan Booz and Grant Fritchey) have written a book on PostgreSQL titled "Introduction to PostgreSQL for the data professional". So Louis sat down with them and asked them about the book, the process of creating it, and much more. For more about the b…

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Unlock Salon Leadership Mastery: Motivate, Train, and Inspire Your Dream Team! 34:49

3M ago34:49

34:49

Welcome to today's deep dive into salon leadership and training—your guide to running a thriving, high-performing salon! In this video, we're covering everything from motivating your team to creating powerful training programs that transform your staff from apprentices to expert stylists. Whether you're a salon owner or leader, this is packed with …

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Virtual Assistants for the Beauty Industry: How They Can Transform Your Salon Business 33:28

3M ago33:28

33:28

Welcome to an insightful conversation with Shauna, the founder of Stylesmart VA, a company dedicated to providing virtual assistant services tailored for the beauty industry! 🌟 As a hair stylist herself, Shauna understands the daily challenges salon owners face, from overwhelming client communication to administrative overload. In this video, she s…

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Redgate and Wolf - Episode 35: Got My Mind Set on Clues 1:46:21

3M ago1:46:21

1:46:21

Angus is confronted by Maxwell Jones, a teen streamer and seeker of the supernatural truth! While hounding Angus about werewolves, the unlikely duo find themselves in grave danger... seroRPG on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@seroRPG website: https://redgateandwolf.com chatroom: https://discord.gg/55fU84VTCq bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/redg…

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Coffee chat with Scott Stauffer 43:14

3M ago43:14

43:14

It is the start of season 2, and we are kicking it off with Scott Stauffer talking about coffee, video games, the glorious innovation of technology over our years, guide dogs, AI, and so much more. Without giving away too much, in the show there is a discussion about guide dogs. This part of the recording went on too long, so it was cut for the mai…

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#70 Mirabella Mindset - Your Onboarding Process SUCKS 45:54

3M ago45:54

45:54

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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#69 Mirabella Mindset with Jennifer Alvarez 46:52

4M ago46:52

46:52

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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Mirabella Mindset #68 Level Up Your SEO 43:04

4M ago43:04

43:04

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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Redgate and Wolf - Bonus Episode: Visions of Sugar Plums 2:34:13

4M ago2:34:13

2:34:13

Angus finds himself magically transported to a winter wonderland where he meets Esther, JR and Tammy Jo Marple. Will they be able to work together to—hopefully—save Santa and Christmas... maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Originally live-streamed on sero's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/serorpg Warning: Probably NSFW :P Guest Starring: Jonny as the Keeper The Monste…

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Mirabella Mindset #67 with Timur Grigorchuk 56:01

4M ago56:01

56:01

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset #66 - The Freedom Salon Method 40:50

4M ago40:50

40:50

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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Live with Kelly from Scissors Make Cents 45:25

4M ago45:25

45:25

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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Ending the Season Together 58:19

4M ago58:19

58:19

Today, all the hosts (Louis Davidson, Ryan Booz, Kellyn Gorman, Steve Jones, and Grant Fritchey) get together for a festive adjacent discussion about AI, content, books, community, vector, PIVOTing, observability, and we end up with a brief discussion on gluten-free gingerbread men (because we did!) All this, though absolutely none of us broke into…

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The Mirabella Mindset #65 w/ @Hair_by_Denean 42:42

5M ago42:42

42:42

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset #64 42:45

5M ago42:45

42:45

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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Coffee chat with Mala Mahadevan 41:40

5M ago41:40

41:40

In this coffee chat episode of Simple Talks, Louis spends nearly an hour chatting with SQL Server community champion Mala Mahadevan. Learn how Mala got into computing despite her passion for horticulture, her favorite thing about working in technology, and a love for national parks. And stick around to the end where Mala and Louis share their frust…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 63 24:51

5M ago24:51

24:51

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 62 1:06:39

5M ago1:06:39

1:06:39

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 61 24:35

5M ago24:35

24:35

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 59 42:53

5M ago42:53

42:53

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 58 1:08:16

5M ago1:08:16

1:08:16

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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How is Oracle different from other data platforms? 20:04

5M ago20:04

20:04

In this Advochats episode of Simple Talks, we welcome a new Advocate to the podcast - Kellyn Gorman! And since Kellyn is the Oracle Advocate, this week's show focuses on how Oracle differs from other data platforms that the advocates have used. More episodes of Simple Talks can be found at: https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/podcasts/ Check out S…

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Coffee chat with Aaron Bertrand 50:26

6M ago50:26

50:26

On this episode of Simple Talks, Louis hangs out with Aaron Bertrand and talks hockey, curling, football, hybrid cars and even some technology. One of the big (non-sports) themes of the episode is that Aaron is a problem-solver and is interested in how issues can be overcome with technology - even if his focus now and in the conceivable future is b…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 57 36:25

6M ago36:25

36:25

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 56 29:34

6M ago29:34

29:34

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 55 54:56

6M ago54:56

54:56

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 54 36:17

6M ago36:17

36:17

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 53 17:20

6M ago17:20

17:20

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 52 34:17

6M ago34:17

34:17

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 51 39:28

6M ago39:28

39:28

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 50 43:43

6M ago43:43

43:43

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 49 5:04

6M ago5:04

5:04

Welcome to The Level Up Academy with Nick Mirabella! Are you a hairstylist, salon owner, or beauty industry professional looking to elevate your career and business? You've come to the right place! At The Level Up Academy, we provide you with the tools, strategies, and inspiration you need to achieve exceptional success in your personal and profess…

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Data masking and subsetting 18:02

6M ago18:02

18:02

What’s data masking? What’s subsetting? Get past the jargon as Redgate advocates Grant, Steve & Ryan break down these processes, explain why they’re important, how they work, and their personal experiences of both.By Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, Ryan Booz

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Coffee chat with Kevin Feasel 40:29

7M ago40:29

40:29

On this episode of Simple Talks, Louis sits down with Kevin Feasel and talks database design, conferences, battle tech games, and a lot more. Kevin has one of the most interesting origin stories so far in this series. He is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and is the model of a great member of the data community. Also on the podcast, Louis learns a fe…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 48 18:37

7M ago18:37

18:37

Welcome to "The Mirabella Mindset," your daily live show dedicated to empowering you with the tools, insights, and strategies to elevate your life and career. Join us every day on YouTube as we explore the transformative principles of The Level Up Academy, designed to help you unlock your full potential. What to Expect: Daily Topics: Dive into a ne…

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The Mirabella Mindset Live EP 46 9:51

7M ago9:51

9:51

Welcome to "The Mirabella Mindset," your daily live show dedicated to empowering you with the tools, insights, and strategies to elevate your life and career. Join us every day on YouTube as we explore the transformative principles of The Level Up Academy, designed to help you unlock your full potential. What to Expect: Daily Topics: Dive into a ne…

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