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In this episode of the Industry Spotlight, joining host Sam D'Arc are Travis Siebert, SVP at DealerPay, and Kris Towle, Chief Accounting Officer at Niello Company to discuss why one of the auto industry's oldest processes, collecting cash and checks from parts and service customers, still costs dealerships money, time, and trust. They speak candidly about the safety risk of sending drivers out with cash, why most dealerships never question an outdated process until something goes wrong, and why live phone support, not just software, is what keeps a group this size from ever looking at another vendor. They explain: ⌠Why parts delivery drivers ended up doing accounting work they were never trained for ⌠How a single bounced check could cost a full week of chasing down payment ⌠Why missing cash on a delivery route became an uncomfortable question nobody wanted to ask ⌠Why the switch to mobile payments meant money was in the bank the very next morning ⌠Why Niello Company has never looked at another payments partner since making the switch This episode of the Car Dealership Guy Podcast is brought to you by DealerPay. Topics: 02:50 Fixed Ops Causes More Accounting Headaches. 04:30 Drivers Make Terrible Accountants. 05:50 Cash In Trucks Is A Theft Problem. 06:45 Selling Nationwide Hurts Local Retention. 09:50 Dealerships Are Slow To Adopt Digital Payments. 12:15 Onsite Training Eliminates Employee Pushback. 13:10 One-Person Payment Eliminates Customer Confusion. 14:20 Digital Reporting Shows Exactly Who Took Money. 17:05 Answering The Phone Beats AI Every Time. 18:50 Showing Up Matters More Than Technology. 22:50 Accounting Touches Every Part Of The Business. 23:50 Dennis Pushes Harder Than Tully Does. DealerPay - Dealer Pay is the payment platform built exclusively for car dealerships, connecting fixed ops, variable ops, and back office with sub-10-second, card-present transactions and automated reconciliation, whether it's at the counter, the service drive, or a mobile delivery. Visit @ here to see how it works for your dealership. 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Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Enterprise AI is moving beyond experimentation toward a harder question: where does it actually create measurable business value? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Nikhil Narvekar, CIO and SVP of Global Business Services at Graphic Packaging Holding Company, about building an AI strategy around tangible outcomes. Narvekar explains how Graphic Packaging is applying AI to supply chain and logistics, reconsidering the need for a single ERP after 23 acquisitions and counting, and democratizing AI through fusion teams and employee training. Why Graphic Packaging took a cautious approach to enterprise AI How AI is helping optimize supply chain and logistics decisions Why a common data layer could change the ERP consolidation equation How fusion teams bring business and IT together around AI outcomes Why human domain knowledge remains essential as AI matures This episode is presented by ElevenLabs â Bringing technology to life. Learn more at elevenlabs.io This episode is also presented by Retool â Build internal software better, with AI. Learn more at retool.com
Meet Cute Presents: As Is - Part 3. It's still late-night at the gay bar and Phoenix is taken under the wings of Fairy Godmothers: Nina west and Saundra Lezzenbaum. Story by Savannah Hankinson. Directed and Produced by Adrian Alexander Alea. Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing by Tanya Orlov. Dialogue Editing by Hilary Long. Starring: Brandon Contreras, Gabrielle Filloux, NaĂŻma Hebrail Kidjo, Simone Policano, Jake Robertson, Alyssa Simmons, Nina West. A Fox Entertainment Studios Production. Meet Cute Director, Development & Production: Lucie Ledbetter. President, Head of Studio: Fernando Szew. EVP, Head of Scripted: Hannah Pillemer. SVP, Development: Brie Neimand. SVP, Physical Production: Ani Kevork. VP, Production: Jamie Kellum. Production Executive: Bianca Veiga. VP, Post: Imran Shaikh. Post Lead: Paul Rivet. Production Finance: Michael Anthony DaCampo, Roland Arenz. Follow @MeetCute on â â â â â â â â â Instagramâ â â â â â â â â  and @MeetCuteRomComs on â â â â â â â â â Twitterâ â â â â â â â â  & â â â â â â â â â TikTokâ â â â â â â â â . Check out our other rom-coms, including KERRI with Pauline Chalamet, IMPERFECT MATCH with Arden Cho, and DUMP HIM! with Minnie Mills. Check out our other dramas, including FIRE & ICE with Chiara Aurelia and Jack Martin, and POWER TEN. Check out our other fantasies, including A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW and I'VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS. Have a crush on us? Follow Meet Cute, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Westgate Las Vegas is betting on something Vegas can't manufacture: history. Dawn Rawle, SVP of Marketing, Advertising and Guest Experience, joins me on No Vacancy from the very stage where Elvis performed, standing on the original planking he walked across decades ago. Westgate doesn't treat that #LasVegas history like something trapped in a display case. The team uses it to shape what guests experience right now. That means Barry Manilow today, memories of Elvis and Liberace everywhere, and team members who've spent decades creating the kind of personal service guests remember. Westgate takes all of that heritage and turns it into a very current #GuestExperience rather than chasing whatever happens to look newest. There's a reason this place still feels connected to the Vegas people fell in love with in the first place. See how Westgate turns its #Hospitality history into something guests still want to experience today. Want the weekly roundup of news, videos, and what you might've missed from #NoVacancyNews? Text HOTEL to 66866.
Q2 Innovation Studio just marked its fifth anniversary, with more than 90% of Q2 Digital Banking Platform customers now using its SDK and partner ecosystem. Johnny Ola, SVP of Q2 Innovation Studio, shares the origin story, explains how Q2 vets and works with partners, highlights the use cases banks and credit unions are prioritizing today, and previews what's next as Q2 Code opens up new ways to build on the platform. Related Links [News Release] Q2 Innovation Studio Marks Five Years [Webpage] Q2 Innovation Studio [Blog] A Closer Look at Q2 Code [LinkedIn] Johnny Ola
Meet Cute Presents: As Is - Part 3. It's still late-night at the gay bar and Phoenix is taken under the wings of Fairy Godmothers: Nina west and Saundra Lezzenbaum. Story by Savannah Hankinson. Directed and Produced by Adrian Alexander Alea. Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing by Tanya Orlov. Dialogue Editing by Hilary Long. Starring: Brandon Contreras, Gabrielle Filloux, NaĂŻma Hebrail Kidjo, Simone Policano, Jake Robertson, Alyssa Simmons, Nina West. A Fox Entertainment Studios Production. Meet Cute Director, Development & Production: Lucie Ledbetter. President, Head of Studio: Fernando Szew. EVP, Head of Scripted: Hannah Pillemer. SVP, Development: Brie Neimand. SVP, Physical Production: Ani Kevork. VP, Production: Jamie Kellum. Production Executive: Bianca Veiga. VP, Post: Imran Shaikh. Post Lead: Paul Rivet. Production Finance: Michael Anthony DaCampo, Roland Arenz. Follow @MeetCute on â â â â â â â â â Instagramâ â â â â â â â â  and @MeetCuteRomComs on â â â â â â â â â Twitterâ â â â â â â â â  & â â â â â â â â â TikTokâ â â â â â â â â . Check out our other rom-coms, including KERRI with Pauline Chalamet, IMPERFECT MATCH with Arden Cho, and DUMP HIM! with Minnie Mills. Check out our other dramas, including FIRE & ICE with Chiara Aurelia and Jack Martin, and POWER TEN. Check out our other fantasies, including A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW and I'VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS. Have a crush on us? Follow Meet Cute, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aus Nordafrika kommen Asylbewerber in die Schweiz, die vor allem straffĂ€llig werden wollen. Christoph Blocher schwört seine SVP auf die NeutralitĂ€t ein. Oswald GrĂŒbel ist fĂŒr hĂ€rtere Kapitalvorschriften fĂŒr die UBS. Ein spanischer Professor findet die Schweiz zu trĂ€ge.
In this episode of the Industry Spotlight, joining host Sam D'Arc are John Keohane, VP of Operations and Partner at Temecula Valley Buick GMC, and Liam Golightly, SVP of Customer Success at Podium to discuss how AI operator agents are giving dealership leaders a way to run their entire operation without being in every conversation themselves. John built his own AI agent, which he nicknamed Emily, to scrape telematics data, run weekly revival campaigns on stale leads, and even coach his sales team by timing how fast they respond before Emily steps in. The results are hard to ignore: Emily replaced his old bulk texting tool, helped uncover a customer-pay revenue drop in six seconds instead of weeks, and pushed his service department's customer-pay repair orders up 12 to 13 percent this year. For a single-point dealer competing against much larger groups, John says the technology has become a genuine equalizer. This episode of the Car Dealership Guy Podcast is brought to you by Podium. Topics: 04:15 CPA Brain Overwhelmed By Reports. 06:10 Low-Hanging Tech Is Ripe. 07:25 Telematics Data Was Untouched. 09:25 Cold BDC Texts Feel Impersonal. 10:45 Operator Is AI For GMs. 13:00 Emily Texts Revival Campaigns Daily. 14:25 AI Revives Dead Leads Warmly. 16:15 Emily Surfaces Near-Miss Sales. 18:45 Salespeople Race To Beat Emily. 19:55 Employees Use AI To Beat AI. 23:30 Podium Sieves All Outreach. 33:50 AI Levels The Playing Field. Podium - the AI platform trusted by one in three dealerships. Podium helps dealers consolidate sales, service, messaging, and voice into one connected system that actually runs the work. If your AI isn't driving real outcomes, it's time to take a closer look @ here. 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Tribeca Festival Director and SVP of Programming Cara Cusumano joins No Film School's GG Hawkins to reflect on 25 years of Tribeca and explain what independent filmmakers should understand about today's festival landscape. Cusumano discusses Tribeca's evolution from its post-9/11 roots into a multidisciplinary storytelling festival, how programmers evaluate nearly 14,000 submissions, why filmmakers should build relationships with their peers instead of chasing gatekeepers, and how festivals are responding to shifts in film distribution and audience behavior. She also shares how emerging filmmakers can participate in festival communities even without a film in the lineup and why creating distinctive work matters more than waiting for the perfect opportunity. In this episode, No Film School's GG Hawkins and guest Cara Cusumano discuss... How Tribeca's founding mission of community, connection, and celebrating movies has endured across 25 years Cara's path from attending the first Tribeca Festival as a film student to becoming Festival Director and SVP of Programming Why networking is really about building relationships with your contemporaries and growing together throughout your careers How programmers view filmmakers and why they are actively looking for work to champion rather than trying to keep filmmakers out What makes a project feel distinctly right for Tribeca, from independent storytelling to memorable audience experiences How Tribeca manages and evaluates nearly 14,000 film and project submissions Why passionate advocacy inside the programming room can matter even when programmers disagree about a film Why festival feedback is complicated and how programming decisions can depend on the composition of the entire lineup, not simply the quality of an individual film How Tribeca expanded beyond features and shorts into television, podcasts, games, VR, immersive work, and creator-driven storytelling The value of human curation as an alternative to algorithmic discovery Why Tribeca is interested in projects that blur the boundaries between film, games, immersive media, podcasts, and other formats How the role of film festivals is changing as selling an independent film directly out of a festival becomes more difficult Why festivals increasingly function as places for talent discovery, career building, networking, and demonstrating audience demand How the in-person festival experience can create moments that cannot be replicated through individual at-home viewing How emerging filmmakers can participate in Tribeca through programs like the Storytelling Summit even if their work is not selected Why Cara hopes Tribeca remains flexible enough to respond to new forms of storytelling that do not yet have an established industry category Her advice to stop waiting for the perfect moment, keep collaborating, and make work because of the story rather than its potential festival or distribution outcome Memorable Quotes: âIt's building a relationship with your contemporaries, and then you all grow. Like anyone who I know who has a position of power is only 'cause we were in the trenches as assistants 20 years ago.â âProgrammers want to discover films. They live in fear of missing something amazing. They want to build those relationships.â âThe industry player's coming less to buy completed projects than they are to scout future talent.â âThere's never a perfect moment and, and it- the more that you can be creating and collaborating, and don't think about, like, what festival is this going to get into or what's the distribution going to be?â Guest: Cara Cusumano on IMDb Find No Film School everywhere: On the Web: No Film School Facebook: No Film School on Facebook Twitter: No Film School on Twitter YouTube: No Film School on YouTube Instagram: No Film School on Instagram
What if the biggest barrier to scaling your retail media investment isn't technology, but a fundamental disagreement on what success even looks like?Agility requires not just adopting new tools, but also being willing to challenge the measurement frameworks we've grown accustomed to.Today, we're going to talk about the nuanced world of in-store retail media measurement and why the old rules no longer apply. Specifically, we'll cover:- Why the standard approach to measuring in-store media, often borrowed from digital, is creating friction and stalling budget growth.- How to create a unified measurement language that aligns brands, retailers, and agencies around a common definition of success.- Practical steps to move in-store media from experimental budgets to scalable, repeatable investments grounded in actual product movement.To help me discuss this topic and ISM and IAB's recent report, I'd like to welcome Paul Brenner, SVP, Global Retail Media and Partnerships at In-Store Marketplace (ISM) and Collin Colburn, Vice President, Commerce & Retail Media at IAB) and Collin Colburn, Vice President, Commerce & Retail Media at IAB.About Paul BrennerPaul Brenner is Senior Vice President of Retail Media and Partnerships with 25+ years of leadership in media, entertainment, and ad tech. He has led innovation in audio and broadcast, driving advancements in audience measurement, in-car experiences, and data attribution, and later scaling in-store audio advertising through strategic growth and partnerships. Known for identifying high-impact technology and revenue opportunities, Paul now focuses on evolving the in-store retail media landscape.Paul Brenner on LinkedInAbout Collin ColburnCollin Colburn serves as Vice President, Commerce & Retail Media at IAB where he leads the Commerce Center of Excellence. In this role, he drives innovation, education, and standards across the commerce ecosystem to help brands, retailers, and technology partners deliver better media opportunities, customer experiences, and business outcomes. Prior to IAB, Collin led Growth and Go-To-Market Strategy at Horizon Commerce and spent over a decade at Forrester, where he pioneered the firm's performance marketing and retail media practice. He partnered with B2B and B2C CMOs to advance their marketing strategies, while also expanding Forrester's Fortune 500 client portfolio. Collin's insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Digiday, and MediaPost. A popular industry speaker, Collin has keynoted global industry events in addition to being a quarterly guest on Bloomberg TV.Collin Colburn on LinkedIn---------- Resources ----------In-Store Marketplace (ISM)The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems.Read the report mentioned in the show.We're proud to be a media partner for #MAICON26 - Oct. 13-15! Learn how AI can power your marketing and business and help you grow smarter. Use code AGILE150 to save!Reach your customers with Reddit. Spend $500 in ad spend, get $500 back in ad credit!Chaser is the only Slack-native project management platform that helps teams turn messages into tracked tasks, automate follow-ups, and maintain team-wide visibility, without adopting another tool. Now integrated with Claude and other GenAI tools. Learn more at trychaser.com and use code AGILEBRAND for a 3-month free trial (normal trial is 14 days).The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San Jose.Start building your own apps with Replit and get $20 off.Enjoyed the show? Tell us more at and give us a rating so others can find the show.Connect with Greg on LinkedInDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more.Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology.The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Step inside the mind of Dr. Hossain Marandi, President of Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital and SVP of SSM Health Pediatric Services, as he shares how merging clinical insight with business strategy elevates the standard of care. Discover the thoughtful, inclusive process behind building a family-centered pediatric campus designed to bring comfort, spiritual support, and world-class care to patients. Tune in to gain practical wisdom on servant leadership, empathy-driven decision-making, and the ultimate key to rallying a team around a shared vision: the power to create belief.Guest Links:Dr. Marandi's LinkedInSSM Health Cardinal GlennonCredits: Host: Lisa Nichols, Executive Producer: Jenny Heal, Marketing Support: Joe Szynkowski & Dylan Price, Podcast Engineer: Portside MediaSomething Extra with Lisa Nichols
Ben Butcher spent nearly three decades helping shape some of the most recognizable entertainment brands in the world, including five years at Disney, twelve at Pixar, and ten as SVP of Creative at Funko.Then he decided to build something of his own.On this episode of YES, BRAND, Hersh Rephun sits down with Ben, founder and CEO of Kaleidos Creative, an artist-led company creating original characters, stories, and intellectual property from the ground up.The challenge is radically different.At Disney, Pixar, and Funko, the audience already existed. The characters already carried meaning. At Kaleidos, Ben and his team have to create that connection before anyone knows what the characters are supposed to mean.Hersh and Ben explore how beloved brands can eventually become trapped by their own history, why creative freedom still has to coexist with commercial reality, and what changes when an artist moves from contributing to someone else's world to becoming responsible for the whole thing.They also get into AI, and Ben offers a refreshingly human reason Kaleidos has chosen not to build its creative process around it: the messy middle is the part they actually love. The mistakes, experimentation, collaboration, and evolution are not inefficiencies to eliminate. They are the creative experience itself.At its heart, this episode asks:What happens when someone who spent decades building other people's worlds finally decides to create one of his own?https://kaleidoscreative.com/--Hersh's new book, SELLING THE TRUTH: A âSemoir' with Insights for Life & Business is a semi memoir drawing on his adventures as an Authority Advisor and Standup Comedian. It is part business book, part happiness formula for life, and an amuseful read, whether you're building a business or burnishing your self-image.You can kickstart your own messaging evolution with a one-on-one 5-Minute Fix.Take the 60-second Get Off Your Assets Quiz, and find other resources here: https://www.hershrephun.com/selling-the-truth/
Jason Watson is a for-real serial entrepreneur. His career reads like a highlight reel of reinvention: He started in business development at American Woodmark and Bridgeway Media before founding Dublin Dog in 2006. He eventually sold that to Remington Outdoor Company in 2012. There, he launched RK9, a division building specialized canine products for law enforcement and defense. In 2018, he founded Recon K9, developing K9 products for military and federal agencies, while simultaneously becoming SVP of Sales and Business Development and a Partner at The Dog Wizard. Jason has built brands, sold them, rebuilt them, and given back â all while staying remarkably consistent about the one thing he clearly loves most: dogs. Jason, welcome to The BrandBuilders Podcast!Â
In this special bonus episode, Kaila and Kyle tape their very first live episode at Verizon HQ in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Listen to hear Kaila and Kyle share what they learned from their own early career experiences with Verizon's intern class (aka VTerns), as well as hear professional insights and advice from Christina Schelling, Verizon's own SVP of Human Resources (whose early career experiences include working for the CIA). 00:00 Intro 03:08 Kaila's internship experience at Goldman Sachs 04:19 Kyle's first career experiences 08:57 On figuring out what you want to do with your career 11:41 The 30-60-90 Framework 16:41 On learning from your bosses 17:47 Using naivete to your advantage 19:59 SVP of Human Resources, Christina Schelling 22:02 Christina's experience at the CIA 26:41 The unexpected skills that are becoming more valuable today 30:25 The areas that young professionals should focus on developing in the first 5 years 35:33 The cost of perfectionism in your career 39:37 The questions young professionals should ask in interviews This episode was sponsored by Verizon. Visit mycareer.verizon.com to apply to open roles and learn more about working at Verizon today. Want to get all of Kaila & Kyle's career resources? Subscribe to Per My Last Email: https://www.permylastemailshow.com/Â Watch Per My Last Email on YouTube:Â Â @PerMYLastEmailShow Follow Per My Last Email Instagram: @permylastemailshow TikTok: @permylastemailshow Twitter: @permylast_email Have a question for us? Send us an email or voice note to permylastemail@morningbrew.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Each week on Per My Last Email, Morning Brew's resident career experts Kaila and Kyle â whose careers have collectively spanned the corporate, government, nonprofit and startup sectors â debate the trickiest challenges in work life, and share tactics on how to overcome them. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app!
No new episode this week, we're on a break. So, here's one from November 2025 that just became relevant again: Perplexity's free year with Airtel has begun expiring, and the numbers are just being reported: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/perplexitys-free-ai-offer-left-it-with-millions-more-users-in-india/Listen back to what we predicted and how things panned out.------This week, Two by Two debuts a new format: âReverse engineering the playbook.âHosts Rohin Dharmakumar and Praveen Gopal Krishnan attempt to crack the math behind this recent wave of AI-telco partnerships in India. Why are companies like Perplexity, Google, and OpenAI racing to bundle their expensive premium subscriptions with Airtel, Jio, and Phonepe? To decode the economics, they are joined by two industry experts with firsthand experience managing these exact types of deals: Chandrashekhar Vattikuti (ex-CPO of Inmobi and SVP of their Telco Cloud business) and Prakash Deep Maheshwari (head of product at Grab and former director of growth for Netflix in India and Southeast Asia).The group explores whether Indian telcos are desperate for differentiation or simply cashing in on a gold rush where the smartest move is to sell shovelsâor in this case, subscribers. Prakash argues this is a classic Prisoner's Dilemma: once one telco bundles an AI service, the others have no choice but to follow.They also break down the actual structure of these deals, from minimum guarantees to the marketing halo the partnerships create. The conversation gets into why OpenAI likely entered these deals âkicking and screamingâ to protect its platform ambitions, while Chandra offers a reality check on whether these massive user numbers will actually stick around once the free periods end.Episodes referenced in the conversation: 1. âDo we even need product managers?'â Two by Two episode 13 with Chandrashekhar Vattikuti 2. âThreat models, using taste to defend margins, ChatGPT's âcollab' with Phonepe'- Zero Shot episode 9
In this episode of Edge Perspectives, host Trevor DaRin is joined by colleague Bill Woodson, Sr. Principal, and special guest Steven Chew, SVP of Service Lines at Tampa General Hospital, to explore how one of the nation's leading academic medical centers built and scaled a service line organization unlike any other. Steven shares the journey from seven service lines in 2017 to 30 today, the accountability model driving their growth, and how a culture of innovation paired with real time analytics keeps care close to the communities they serve.  Note to our listeners: Sg2 Perspectives was recently renamed Edge Perspectives. Same great hosts, same great content, expanding to cover data-driven market intelligence, quality and operations insights from health care provider leaders. There is no action needed for you to keep this podcast in your subscriptions and feeds. But you will see a new logo and a new name. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. Contact the hosts with your comments or episode ideas or visit The Leading Edge by Vizient on LinkedIn.
Meet Cute Presents: As Is - Part 2. V and Phoenix's chemistry heats up as they tour apartments together. when Phoenix finds herself locked out of Teddy's apartment, she seeks refuge in a local gay bar where she meets two fabulous drag queens. Story by Savannah Hankinson. Directed and Produced by Adrian Alexander Alea. Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing by Tanya Orlov. Dialogue Editing by Hilary Long. Starring: Brandon Contreras, NaĂŻma Hebrail Kidjo, Jake Robertson, Alyssa Simmons. A Fox Entertainment Studios Production. Meet Cute Director, Development & Production: Lucie Ledbetter. President, Head of Studio: Fernando Szew. EVP, Head of Scripted: Hannah Pillemer. SVP, Development: Brie Neimand. SVP, Physical Production: Ani Kevork. VP, Production: Jamie Kellum. Production Executive: Bianca Veiga. VP, Post: Imran Shaikh. Post Lead: Paul Rivet. Production Finance: Michael Anthony DaCampo, Roland Arenz. Follow @MeetCute on â â â â â â â â â Instagramâ â â â â â â â â  and @MeetCuteRomComs on â â â â â â â â â Twitterâ â â â â â â â â  & â â â â â â â â â TikTokâ â â â â â â â â . Check out our other rom-coms, including KERRI with Pauline Chalamet, IMPERFECT MATCH with Arden Cho, and DUMP HIM! with Minnie Mills. Check out our other dramas, including FIRE & ICE with Chiara Aurelia and Jack Martin, and POWER TEN. Check out our other fantasies, including A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW and I'VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS. Have a crush on us? Follow Meet Cute, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Perhaps you've heard of Athena Club, one of the millennial-era DTC personal care brands of the 2010s that offered period products, razors, and deodorant. Once fragrance entered the mix (and the brand entered Target and Walmart), Athena Club unofficially reintroduced itself with an assortment of eight scents across body wash, lotion, and fragrance mists. Most recently, their scents Banana Sunmilk and Pink Marshmallow gained traction on ScentTok, and got our attention as well. We welcome SVP of Marketing Emily Ferber on this episode to discuss creating compelling scents for the mass market, how she got her start in beauty at Into The Gloss and Glossier, and what it takes for a brand to find its legs in an oversaturated market.[What we smell like today: Bvlgari Omnia Amethyste, Phlur Vanilla Canyon]
Alaska Airlines is proving that the best CX transformations make complexity disappear for customers. As Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines moved onto one technology foundation, the goal was to replace separate bookings, tickets, apps, and support channels with a more connected journey while preserving what makes each brand distinct. This week on The Modern Customer Podcast, Charu Jain, SVP of Merchandising and Innovation at Alaska Airlines, shares how technology, operational preparation, and human care can work together to transform CX at scale. Listen to the full epside now! Blake Morgan was called "The Queen of CX" by Meta. She is a customer experience futurist and author of three books on customer experience. Follow Blake Morgan on LinkedIn For regular updates on customer experience, sign up for her weekly newsletter here. Learn more at www.blakemichellemorgan.comÂ
In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Kris Zyp, SVP of engineering at HarperDB, in the third and final episode in the series about how Harper went from a closed-source company to an open source company. We talked about what Kris saw as the risks and benefits of going open source before they went open source, how they ended up deciding what went into the open source project versus in the enterprise edition, and where the gray areas where. The CEO of Harper, Stephen Goldberg, said that 80% of moving from a closed-source company to an open source company was about communication. I was curious what Kris said about where the heavy lifting was in the transition; but I was also curious about his insights into product strategy, because when I asked his colleagues about product strategy in the transition to open source they both punted to him. We talked about developing a framework for deciding what features go into which edition, and how that framework is communicated internally and externally. We talked about who makes the ultimate product strategy decisions, and what they take into account when making these product strategy decisions. We also talked about using trial and error, the unexpected benefits of being open source, and how Kris thinks that many people overestimate the risks and underestimate the benefits of being an open source company. PS a huge thunderstorm started while I was recording this episode! You might be able to hear it in the background. Are you a closed-source software company thinking about open sourcing a key part of your codebase? Are you wondering how you'll balance the relationship between the project and product? Reach out, because those are the kind of questions I help companies resolve â and they see dramatic growth as a result.Â
SVP and Stanford Steve are here to give their thoughts on various CFB storylines - including the recent AP Top 25 Preseason Poll release - ahead of the season and break down some NFL preseason games. Steve thinks Indiana is too low and the Hoosiers can do it again, and there also might be some former champs who could make noise in 2026 as well in the Big Ten. Week 1 isn't great but Week 2 is loaded, and the guys give the games they're looking forward to most just a couple weeks out. Optimism is easy to come by this time of year⊠is that what makes August great? SVP brings up the compelling case of why August might be one of the better months of the year. Plus, the Orioles are in the mix, Ty Simpson looked good in his debut, Cashmere Keith displayed phenomenal composure and SVP shares more insight into his progress on CFB 27. Finally, the difficulty approaching Arizona State sorority girls, various stories on why SVP was NOT a model student, a jellyfish update, thoughts on the Jayden Daniels situation, Super Bowl predictions, and Rest In Peace Skip Bertman. | SVPod Approx. Time Codes (0:00) Intro (0:45) SVP's concern (3:50) Football season is loading (10:18) CFB Week 1 isn't as good this year (14:33) What the Big Ten has become (19:03) AP Poll evaluation (25:05) A look at Miami and FSU (29:03) Can someone repeat the Cignetti script? (30:33) Michigan's outlook (34:23) Early CFB season look ahead (35:28) Is August sneaky great? (41:18) CFB 27 update (46:35) SVP was NOT a model student (52:03) Good luck, ASU men (53:30) Jellyfish update (59:16) Programming note (59:38) THANK YOU (1:01:08) Cashmere Keith's composure was admirable (1:05:48) Orioles are in the mix! (1:08:23) RIP Skip Bertman (1:13:23) Thoughts on the Jayden Daniels situation (1:17:41) Ty Simpson looked good (1:19:53) SB LXI predictions (1:21:53) Week 0 lines (1:23:43) Thanks for watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Johann Kerbrat, SVP & General Manager of Robinhood Crypto, joined us to discuss the rapid growth of Robinhood Chain and the launch of AI agentic trading. Recorded July 17thTopics:- Robinhood Chain's launch and growth- AI Agent trading- Tokenization market outlook- Clarity Act outlook âïžâïž GoMining is an All-in-one Bitcoin superapp to mine, earn and use BTC. They have 5 Million+ users and have been live since 2021. - https://link.gomining.com/c/2569792/3988365/54916Â
Something enormous is happening with hotels in India, and I don't think enough people realize the scale of it yet. I brought Bruce Ford, SVP of Lodging Econometrics, back to No Vacancy because the numbers coming out of #India are pretty staggering, but the real story goes much deeper than the size of the pipeline. Global hotel companies are making major moves across the country, investment is accelerating, and Bruce sees development spreading into markets that barely register on most people's radar today. And this isn't simply another #HotelDevelopment boom. Bruce explains why this cycle looks very different from the last big push into India, what changed, where the opportunities are emerging, and why the #Hospitality industry should start looking at India very differently. Some of the numbers Bruce drops during this conversation genuinely surprised me, and they may change how you think about where the next major era of hotel growth will come from. Thanks to our friends at Actabl for supporting No Vacancy. Actabl gives you the power to profit. Visit Actabl.com. And if you want more conversations like this, subscribe to No Vacancy so you don't miss what's coming next. Want the weekly roundup of news, videos, and what you might've missed from #NoVacancyNews? Text HOTEL to 66866.
How can an intentional career trajectory help you create your ideal job? In the thought leadership pieces he has published on LinkedIn for years, Riccardo Cosentino has been transparent about the hard work that has led to his success, as well as the burnout and failures along the way. This episode provides a peek behind the publishing curtain: Mikaila Kukurudza, who writes those well-read pieces based on conversations with Riccardo, takes her insightful interviewing process on the record. The probing behind-the-scenes conversation with Riccardo explores his recent transition into the role of SVP of Nuclear Financing at AtkinsRĂ©alis. The two cover emerging opportunitiesâboth cultivated and circumstantialâand shine a light on the way major programmes ties into the changing needs of this resurging industry.Riccardo reflects on why nuclear became the clear next step in his career and how the demands of financing these energy endeavours compare to transit projects. The conversation also goes beyond the technical to examine the personal questions underneath: how to learn at a senior level, how to create opportunities that did not previously exist in pursuit of purpose, and how to manage burnout. Riccardo is open about what this transition has taught him about motivation, leadership, failure, and returning to the kind of major programmes work that energizes him the most.Key TakeawaysWhat makes financing nuclear projects different from financing other major infrastructure;Why nuclear power has re-entered the conversation around energy sovereignty and long-term infrastructure planning;Why creating your own opportunity can require curiosity, persistence, and a willingness to hit dead ends;How senior leaders continue learning when stepping into new industries or highly specialized roles;What the career roadmap can teach about leadership, empathy, and impact.Quote: âAll the things I've done since 2019âŠI was looking for a purpose." - Riccardo CosentinoThe conversation doesn't stop hereâconnect and converse with our community via LinkedIn:Follow Navigating Major Programmes: https://www.linkedin.com/company/navigating-major-programmes/ Follow Riccardo Cosentino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cosentinoriccardo/ Read Riccardo's latest at www.riccardocosentino.com  Listen to Riccardo's article on burnout: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/grass-greener-riccardo-cosentino/ Follow Mikaila Kukurudza: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikaila-kukurudza/Â
Joining Brendan to discuss the top stories in Sunday's newspapers are: farmer & presenter of Ear to the Ground, Darragh McCullough; Columnist with the Irish Daily Mail and Sunday Independent, Brenda Power; Law Lecturer at NUI Galway, Larry Donnelly; Head of Social Justice and Policy at SVP, Louise Bayliss; and RTE Sports Commentator, Greg Allen.
That's a wrap for Season 19 of The ModGolf Podcast! Our team is currently working on your next twelve episodes for Season 20, which launches mid September 2026. We heard some amazing stories from a diverse group of guests who discussed how innovation, inclusion, technology, entertainment, sustainability, celebrity, hospitality and community building intersect to shape the future of golf. If you didn't get the chance to listen to all of our twelve Season 19 episodes, this bonus show gives you a recap of the great conversations I had with some of the golf industry's top influencers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Hopefully this will inspire you to listen to a couple of the episodes listed below. Let us know which ones you enjoyed the most and I'd love to learn why you liked them! Our Season 19 guests were: Episode 1: Hyman Ngo, Co-Founder of Levelwear What does it take to build a golf apparel brand carried by 85 of the top 100 clubs in both the US and Canada? Hyman Ngo, Co-Founder of Levelwear, joins The ModGolf Podcast to share his journey from contract manufacturer to industry leader, revealing the "Who's With You" manifesto, the brand's commitment to sustainable performance apparel, and how authentic relationships with caddies and golf pros drive long-term success in the competitive golf fashion space. Click to listen
Jaguars GM James Gladstone and SVP of Football Ops Tony Boselli join the show to share their feedback on joint practices with the Saints and how they plan to take advantage of Preseason Week 1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Elizabeth Boldin Thomas is SVP of Business Transformation and Intelligence at Centennial. She talks about how the company rolled out Claude to a small cross-functional cohort, why in-person training and a group of internal influencers made the difference, and how the effort has already saved roughly 2,800 person hours a year. She also covers the distinction between AI and automation, the weekly show and tell that keeps momentum going, and why the human side of change management matters more than the technology. James Cook is the Head of Retail Research for JLL. Keisha Virtue is the Retail Research Manager in the Americas for JLL. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Listen: WhereWeBuy.show Email: jamesd.cook@jll.com YouTube: http://everythingweknow.show/ Read more retail research here:  http://www.us.jll.com/retail Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license. Â
Most people know HPE for servers, compute, and storage. David Hughes leads a pillar that gets less attention. He runs the SSE and security business inside HPE Networking, which he says accounts for about a third of the company now that HPE has merged with Juniper, and which organizes into four pillars: campus and branch, data center switching, routing infrastructure, and security. Recorded on location at Black Hat USA 2026, the conversation opens on a balancing act Hughes hears constantly. Customers want to push hard on AI adoption while staying protected and avoiding undue risk. The same tension runs between teams. Networking answers for performance and user experience. Security answers for protecting those users and the company's data. HPE's answer is to embed security thinking into the network itself, making it a sensor and an enforcement point for the security team. What happens when users are no longer only people? The identity question moves to devices, workloads, and agents. Hughes frames it as human and non-human identity, and his position is to take the ZTNA architecture that works for people and adapt it, starting with IoT devices, then workloads, then agents. Put an agent in a sandbox and it sees only the subset of resources it is supposed to reach. How do networking and security teams work from the same picture? Through shared visibility and agentic technology across the management layer. HPE is putting agentic technology into how it manages storage, compute, networks, and security products, then meshing those agents together so a wifi complaint that turns out to be a firewall policy change gets to root cause faster, with automatic remediation as the goal. Hughes also covers post-quantum cryptography, where HPE is moving across all product lines to introduce quantum resistant and quantum safe capabilities in hardware and software, with some launched this year and more coming through the following quarters. The deadline arrives earlier than most calendars suggest, because data harvested today can be decrypted later. Rounding it out: HPE Threat Labs, announced earlier in the year with Mounir Hahad's team from Juniper at its core, and AI focused capabilities on the next generation firewalls covering observability, role based governance over which services employees can use, and session level inspection of prompts and responses. Hughes closes with a direct invitation to CISOs who know HPE for compute and networking and have yet to meet the security team. This is a Brand Briefing. A Brand Briefing is an on-location conversation recorded on site at Black Hat USA 2026, putting a spotlight on the guest and their company and pairing it with the editorial reach of ITSPmagazine. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/performance/#briefing GUEST David Hughes, SVP and GM of SASE and Security for Networking at HPE On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hughes-42751636/ RESOURCES Black Hat USA 2026 event coverage from ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/black-hat-usa-2026-cybersecurity-event-coverage-in-las-vegas HPE: https://www.hpe.com/ HPE Threat Labs: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/hpe-labs/threat-labs.html Are you interested in telling your story? â¶ïž Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full â¶ïž Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight â¶ïž Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight â¶ïž Get your own Brand Briefing at an upcoming event: https://www.studioc60.com/buy-brand-briefings KEYWORDS david hughes, hpe, sean martin, brand briefing, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, black hat usa 2026, zero trust, ztna, non-human identity, agentic ai, ai security, post-quantum cryptography, network security, sase, sse, hpe threat labs, self-driving network, firewall governance, juniper, iot security, cross domain troubleshooting Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
One of the biggest problems with healthcare isn't a lack of data, but the fact that none of it is connected. We have lab results, wearables, environmental exposures, sleep scores, and medical records scattered in different places. Yet we're often left without a clear picture of what all that information actually means for our health. I sat down with Nasim Afsar to explore how artificial intelligence could help us bring those pieces together. We talked about using tools like Claude and Gemini for health questions, the limitations of today's AI models, privacy concerns, and why relying too heavily on numbers can disconnect you from what your body is telling you. We also look at where healthcare is headed, from continuous monitoring and predictive analytics to personalized prevention before symptoms become bigger problems. You'll hear about how to filter through biohacking noise, make smarter decisions with your health data, and use technology without letting it replace your own judgment.  "Large language models have access to a wealth of information that can help you better understand what your information says, and potentially brainstorm about what else could be going on." ~ Nasim Afsar  In This Episode: - The pillars of intelligent health - Using AI to analyze complex health symptoms - Best LLMs and wearables for health data - Avoiding health optimization overload - Monitoring and consolidating data for health intelligence - Bias in AI recommendations - How algorithms shape health information - Three steps to take charge of your health - AI health tools and where to get Nasim's book  Products & Resources Mentioned: Nasim Afsar's Book, Intelligent Health: A resource built to unify data, harness AI, and empower people to thrive. Get it at https://www.nasimafsarmd.com/book Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil: Try a full-size $39 bottle for just $1 to cover shipping at https://getfreshwendy.com  Puori Grass-Fed PW1 Whey Protein: Use code WENDY20 to save up to 32% off your order and get a free shaker worth $25 at https://puori.com/wendy20 Tru Energy Skincare Bio Adaptive Hydration Oil: Try the oil and save up to $197 at trytruenergy.com/wendy5 Heavy Metals Quiz: Check your toxicity score and receive a free video series on how to detox your body. Take the quiz at https://heavymetalsquiz.com  About Nasim Afsar: Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, is a visionary healthcare executive dedicated to transforming health and care across the globe. As the former SVP and Chief Health Officer at Oracle, Dr. Afsar led multiple business units, including the Health Transformation Office, where she partnered with delivery systems globally to advance clinical outcomes and operational excellence. She spearheaded Product Strategy, building a robust operational go-to-market framework and leading Global Market Strategy and Entry. Additionally, she established a dynamic marketplace for Third-Party Partnerships. She founded and chaired the Oracle Health AI in Healthcare, Retail in Healthcare, and Payers Steering Committees, driving transformative innovation for customers. At UCLA Health, she served as Associate Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer. You can learn more about her work at https://www.nasimafsarmd.com/  Disclaimer The Myers Detox Podcast was created and hosted by Dr. Wendy Myers. This podcast is for information purposes only. Statements and views expressed on this podcast are not medical advice. This podcast, including Wendy Myers and the producers, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from using the information contained herein. The opinions of guests are their own, and this podcast does not endorse or accept responsibility for statements made by guests. This podcast does not make any representations or warranties about guests' qualifications or credibility. Individuals on this podcast may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to herein. If you think you have a medical problem, consult a licensed physician.
What happens to a brand when the story it tells about its AI adoption moves faster than the results it can actually show?Agility isn't about telling that story faster. It's about being able to change what you say â repeatedly, as the technology changes â without losing the thread of what your company is actually for.Today, we're going to talk about the widening gap between AI ambition and business reality, and what that means for enterprise marketing leaders. Specifically, we'll cover:- The shift from selling an AI vision to proving tangible value.- How AI is pushing marketing into closer alignment with product and revenue.- What it takes to build trust â inside the company and out â when the outputs of AI systems are hard to explain.To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, Mark Abramowitz, Chief Marketing Officer at Dataiku.About Mark AbramowitzMark Abramowitz is Chief Marketing Officer at Dataiku, The Platform for AI Success. In his role, he oversees global brand and demand strategy, and is responsible for building awareness of Dataiku as the platform that unifies people, governance, and AI systems to deliver real results at scale.Mark brings extensive experience scaling enterprise platform businesses. Prior to Dataiku, he served as SVP of Product and Solutions Marketing at ServiceNow, leading product marketing as the company scaled from $6 billion to nearly $11 billion in revenue and spearheading the launch of Now Assistâthe fastest-selling product in ServiceNow history. Before ServiceNow, Mark spent 15 years at Salesforce and 5 years as SVP of Product Marketing for Service Cloud.Mark Abramowitz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markabramowitz/---------- Resources ---------- Dataiku: https://www.dataiku.comThe Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://aglbrnd.co/r/2868abd8085a9703We're proud to be a media partner for #MAICON26 - Oct. 13-15! Learn how AI can power your marketing and business and help you grow smarter. Use code AGILE150 to save! https://aglbrnd.co/r/7fe458ced0f04658Reach your customers with Reddit. Spend $500 in ad spend, get $500 back in ad credit! Learn more: https://advertalize.com/r/491818c79fb1873fChaser is the only Slack-native project management platform that helps teams turn messages into tracked tasks, automate follow-ups, and maintain team-wide visibility, without adopting another tool. Now integrated with Claude and other GenAI tools. Learn more at trychaser.com and use code AGILEBRAND for a 3-month free trial (normal trial is 14 days).The most influential minds in software, AI, and engineering leadership will be at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America, September 23-25 in San Jose. Learn more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/60a7299222a7bcf1Start building your own apps with Replit and get $20 off. Learn more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/93531742a7625a20Enjoyed the show? Tell us more at and give us a rating so others can find the show at: https://aglbrnd.co/r/faaed112fc9887f3Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstromDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/35ded3ccfb6716baCheck out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.comThe Agile Brand is produced by Missing Linkâa Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to Mastering Cyber with Host Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah, PhD, SVP & Deputy CSO at Mastercard, and former White House technology executive. Listen to this weekly one-minute podcast to help you maneuver cybersecurity industry tips, terms, and topics. Buckle up, your 60 seconds of cyber starts now! Sponsored by Mastercard: https://mastercard.us/en-us.html
Send us Fan MailAgentic AI is coming to credit unions and Saris AI is helping lead the charge.What is Agentic AI? Agentic AI acts as an agent that autonomously executes multi-step workflows. That is, Agentic AI does. It doesn't tell you what to do. It does it for you.Saris AI says it can automate 70% of tedious, complex back office tasks. It delivers a 300% productivity increase. And 9.8x cost reduction.A core focus is lending, but Saris AI also helps with other areas of credit union operations that would benefit from automation. And that's lots of places.Does that sound like a revolution?On the show are Danial Jameel, Saris CEO and a co-founder, and Chase Clelland, SVP of People and AI at Grow Financial FCU, a $3.8 billion institution headquartered in Florida.Note that Clelland talks at length not only about the benefits of this agentic AI but how to prep employees in working with it. And Grow's policy is no staff reductions due to AI implementations. It's a good story about how to improve employee acceptance of these new tools that indeed represent an unfolding workplace revolution.As for exactly what's involved in the revolution - the technology - Jameel is the man to tell what this means for credit unions.Know this: Clelland is adamant that the credit unions that are embracing AI will soon be in a much better place than those that don't.Like what you are hearing? Find out how you can help sponsor this podcast here. Very affordable sponsorship packages are available. Email rjmcgarvey@gmail.com  And like this podcast on whatever service you use to stream it. That matters.  Find out more about CU2.0 and the digital transformation of credit unions here. It's a journey every credit union needs to take. Pronto
Eddie Connor, SVP of Commercial Sales with StoneX, talks through the August WASDE report and big production change in the Western Corn Belt vs last year. What are the implications to the US farmer? Tune in!
Pat Brady, SVP of Mercury Public Affairs, former chairman for the Illinois Republican Party, joins Lisa Dent to discuss the results of the Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota primaries and what it means for politics in the area. He later shares his thoughts on the recent candidates who lean further left than traditional Democrats.
Meet Cute Presents: As Is - Part 1. A heartbroken Phoenix sleeps on her best friend's couch until he urges her to find a new place. when she crashes an upscale open house, she meets V, a glamorous older realtor, and is totally taken by her. Story by Savannah Hankinson. Directed and Produced by Adrian Alexander Alea. Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing by Tanya Orlov. Dialogue Editing by Hilary Long. Starring: Brandon Contreras, Gabrielle Filloux, NaĂŻma Hebrail Kidjo, Simone Policano, Jake Robertson, Alyssa Simmons, Nina West. A Fox Entertainment Studios Production. Meet Cute Director, Development & Production: Lucie Ledbetter. President, Head of Studio: Fernando Szew. EVP, Head of Scripted: Hannah Pillemer. SVP, Development: Brie Neimand. SVP, Physical Production: Ani Kevork. VP, Production: Jamie Kellum. Production Executive: Bianca Veiga. VP, Post: Imran Shaikh. Post Lead: Paul Rivet. Production Finance: Michael Anthony DaCampo, Roland Arenz. Follow @MeetCute on â â â â â â â â â Instagramâ â â â â â â â â  and @MeetCuteRomComs on â â â â â â â â â Twitterâ â â â â â â â â  & â â â â â â â â â TikTokâ â â â â â â â â . Check out our other rom-coms, including KERRI with Pauline Chalamet, IMPERFECT MATCH with Arden Cho, and DUMP HIM! with Minnie Mills. Check out our other dramas, including FIRE & ICE with Chiara Aurelia and Jack Martin, and POWER TEN. Check out our other fantasies, including A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW and I'VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS. Have a crush on us? Follow Meet Cute, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
All links and images can be found on CISO Series This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is Nada Noaman, SVP and CISO, Estee Lauder Companies. In this episode: Skipping the apprenticeship Privileged users nobody manages like one Findings without the authority to fix them Security was always behavioral A huge thanks to our sponsor, Native The Cloud Security Control Plane. Native helps enterprises turn built-in cloud security controls into active, operational defenses across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, so teams can enforce secure-by-design architecture at the source, preview impact before rollout, and keep guardrails aligned as cloud environments change. Learn more at native.security. Â
Three of the biggest names in games reported inside a single week and the headline numbers pointed three different directions. Nintendo's profit nearly doubled. Roblox missed on revenue while its player count rose. Take-Two was hours from reporting a loss.Underneath all of it sat the same question, and it's the one worth asking about your own game: is the pool of players getting bigger, or are you just getting better at extracting from the pool you already have?Greg Posner and Colan Neese are joined by Simeon McMillan, founder of the media and tech stocks newsletter Accrued Interest, who came up through TV, radio and cable ad sales before he started writing about the companies. Plus the debut of Bull or Bear, where we assign the side and make you argue it whether you believe it or not.In this episode00:00 Cold open and intros03:05 Rockstar announces a trailer, and premieres it on Netflix09:27 Greg thinks it's a stunt. Colan doesn't.12:26 The black hole: why games launching before GTA are already losing share14:51 Bull or Bear, round one: can GTA 6 hit investor expectations?18:35 13% attention share against a 2% field22:16 How to actually read an earnings call, and why EPS is the wrong line27:51 Nintendo: profit doubled, forecast unchanged, and the tariff asterisk29:05 The number nobody leads with: 130 million players, flat for three years37:02 Ocarina of Time, the Zelda film, and Nintendo's two-ponds problem43:22 How Switch became the value machine by standing still49:13 Bull or Bear, round two: has Switch 2 already proven itself?52:35 House notes53:42 Roblox: what trust and safety actually costs a platform55:11 Trapped in kid land, and the ad ceiling Roblox can't move01:00:50 Where to find everyoneNumbers worth keepingGTA 6 at roughly 13% demand share against a field where most fall titles sit near 2%. Nintendo's total player relationships flat near 130 million for about three years. Roblox averaging around a minute and a half per experience.Demand-share figures are Colan's own MindGame data at Screen Engine/ASI.GuestsSimeon McMillan writes Accrued Interest at accruedint.com, also on Substack.Colan Neese is SVP of Gaming at Screen Engine/ASI and writes Patch Notes on LinkedIn and Substack.Correction: Greg refers to Roblox reporting "yesterday." Roblox reported its Q2 2026 results on July 30, a week before this conversation.Player Driven Live runs every Thursday. Get the week's argument in The Operator's Briefing at playerdriven.io/level-up, or argue it out with us in Discord.
How can you create an HR Business Partner Center of Excellence?Why does HR need to shift from owning programs to owning business outcomes?My guest on this episode is Christina Schelling, SVP, Human Resources, VerizonDuring our conversation Christina and I discuss:Why naming the HRBP group a Center of Excellence gives partners community, shared goals, and focused development.How the HR business partner role is evolving to be more strategic.How Verizon defined HRBP success with four shared metrics aligned to their strategy.Why HRBPs don't need to be experts in everything, and how COE partners make them stronger.How Verizon partnered with their HR tech vendors co-create innovative AI talent solutions.Connecting with Christina SchellingConnect with Christina Schelling on LinkedInEpisode Sponsor:Next-Gen HR Accelerator - Learn more about this best-in-class leadership development program for next-gen HR leadersHR Leader's Blueprint - 18 pages of real-world advice from 100+ HR thought leaders. Simple, actionable, and proven strategies to advance your career.Succession Planning Playbook: In this focused 1-page resource, I cut through the noise to give you the vital elements that define what âgreatâ succession planning looks like.
Twenty years ago, a young logistics lieutenant solved an impossible field problem with a Franklin Planner, a satellite phone, and a contact who happened to be at his desk. It worked â but it ran on luck. Bill Pessin has spent his career since making sure the mission never has to. He joins Tyler Sweatt to trace the line from Army logistics to leading Salesforce's Missionforce, and why acceleration, not just speed, is the point.What's happening on the Second Front:How a satellite phone and a Franklin Planner solved an impossible field problem â and why depending on luck is a system failureWhy Salesforce is the âcentral nervous systemâ of the mission enterprise, from HUMINT to workflowHow Missionforce was born from a single dinner between Marc Benioff and a combatant commanderWhat âaccelerationâ really means when moving faster through the mission is the goal, not the metricThe one piece of government friction he'd fix first if he had a magic wandBill Pessin is SVP of Missionforce at Salesforce and a U.S. Army veteran who has led the company's national security business since 2014.Connect with Bill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billpessin/Connect with Tyler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylersweatt
She led moonshot projects at Google X. Then she walked away to take on one of America's hardest problems: a youth mental health crisis where roughly 20 million teens and young adults need care â and only half get it. In this episode of Inspiring Women, Laurie McGraw talks with Obi Felten, founder and CEO of Flourish Labs, about a different model for closing that gap: training young adults with lived experience to become accredited, professional peer supporters â and scaling it with telehealth and AI through Peers.net. In this conversation: - Why Obi left Google X moonshots for mental health - The care gap: ~20M young people in need, only half reached - Peer support as a way to expand the mental health workforce â not just add clinicians - Winning Medicaid contracts to reach underserved youth - Peer support in high-risk moments, like post-ER care for suicidal teens - What it takes to scale a mission to a million supporters About the guest â Obi Felten: Founder and CEO of Flourish Labs, scaling professional peer support via Peers.net. Previously led technology moonshot projects at Google X and was Director of Consumer Marketing for Google across EMEA. BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Oxford; based in California. â obifelten.com · flourishlabs.com · peers.net About the host â Laurie McGraw: Laurie is a 30-year health technology executive and creator/host of Inspiring Women. She's Executive Vice President at Transcarent, and previously served as President and Chief Client Officer of Allscripts and SVP at the American Medical Association. A Brown University cognitive science graduate, board director, speaker and advocate for health equity and women's leadership, she started Inspiring Women to close a stubborn gap: women make up 70% of healthcare's workforce but hold only about 20% of C-suite roles. â Inspiring Women with Laurie McGraw advances women to healthcare leadership â and keeps them there. New episodes every Tuesday. #InspiringWomen #MentalHealth #HealthcareLeadership #WomenInHealthcare #PeerSupport #DigitalHealth #GoogleX
Most people who want to speak on stage have no idea how the first step actually happens. JD Miller does. He is the CEO of the James Duane Group and SVP at CyberRisk Alliance, he runs events across the country, and he decides who gets a microphone and who does not. In this conversation, Sean Barnes and JD break down the real progression from nobody to keynote speaker. It starts with a phone and a tripod in your living room. It moves to a panel seat, then a fireside chat, then a short session, then the keynote. JD explains what he checks on LinkedIn before he books anyone, why he intentionally gives first-time speakers a slot, and why the ask should never come in the first conversation. They also get into why copying another speaker sets you up to fail, how one recorded conversation turns into a dozen assets, and why picking one platform beats being everywhere. Sean shares the six years he spoke for free and the mistake he made telling organizers he could talk about anything. JD shares the night he literally fell off the back of a stage and why it helped him. If you are an executive who wants a bigger voice and does not know where to start, this is the roadmap.  Key Moments 0:09 - How Sean and JD first met, and why the connection stuck 1:05 - JD's path: church announcements, sports anchor, thousands of broadcasts, hundreds of podcasts 2:21 - Sean's story: extreme introvert to keynote speaker, and why people do not believe it 2:51 - You can be a public speaker no matter where you land on the introvert scale 3:36 - Toastmasters, improv, and practicing into a microphone with nobody listening 4:19 - Why short-form clips train you to land the plane 5:39 - The worst thing you can do is compare yourself to someone with 30 years in 6:33 - Sean on speaking free for almost six years to get the reps 8:20 - The mistake of telling an organizer you can talk about anything 9:07 - Do not be the Cheesecake Factory of topics. Keep it small and specific 9:57 - How to actually get on a panel: build the network first 11:07 - Why JD books first-time speakers on purpose, and where he places them 12:27 - Build the relationship before you make the ask 13:14 - The QR code badge trick that removes friction 14:07 - Getting comfortable being uncomfortable 15:59 - Stage skills carry straight into the boardroom 16:14 - The extrovert's hardest lesson: let silence breathe 17:03 - Eye contact as a signal, on a panel and in a meeting 18:18 - How JD opens a room and gets an audience leaning forward 20:16 - Do not copy your mentor. Borrow traits and make them yours 22:32 - Document everything and build social proof 23:41 - What JD checks before he agrees to book someone 24:20 - One piece of content is really 12 pieces of content 26:08 - Know where your audience lives and stop trying to be everywhere 27:50 - The 4-1-1 approach to posting 29:11 - Be patient, and find a mentor who has done it 30:17 - Failure stories, including the time JD fell off the stage 31:31 - When you fumble, keep moving and never apologize 32:43 - The full path, start to keynote, in one recap 33:13 - Where to find JD  Key Takeaways Start smaller than you think you should. A phone on a tripod, a panel seat in the corner, four people in a room. Reps come before pay, and for Sean that meant roughly six years of speaking for free. Own one topic, not every topic. Telling an organizer you can speak on anything pushes the work onto them and cheapens your brand. A narrow, specific topic makes you easy to book. Build the relationship before the ask. Organizers check your LinkedIn for a voice and a track record before anything else. Show up, connect, create content, then ask next year.  Podcast Show Notes â Episode 294 | 08.11.2026 Episode Title: From Panels to Keynotes: The Real Path to Becoming a Speaker | JD Miller & Sean Barnes  Guest: JD Miller CEO, James Duane Group SVP, CyberRisk Alliance LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdwaynemiller/ Website: https://www.jamesdwayne.com/  Host: Sean Barnes Wolf Executives, Houston, TX  Website: https://www.wolfexecutives.com  https://www.seanbarnes.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanbarnes/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/wolfexecutives https://www.linkedin.com/company/thewayofthewolf/ LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7284600567593684993/  Twitter: https://x.com/seanbarnes https://x.com/wolfexecutives  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_seanbarnes https://www.instagram.com/wolfexecutives  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_seanbarnes  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theseanbarnes
What if every door that ever opened for you started with a message you almost didn't send? In this episode, Susanne Sandler, SVP and GM of Fintech at Mews, a $2.5 billion global hotel technology company, shares how a bold application as a college sophomore led her into the office of the CFO of Merrill Lynch, and how a cold message to a keynote speaker years later led to six years working alongside the future CEO of Booking Holdings. Susanne runs the fintech division at Mews, which accounts for 75% of company revenue. But the principles that drive how she leads trace back to two men who saw her potential before she did, and to one simple belief: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.  [00:03:48] What She Does and Who She Serves SVP and GM of Fintech at Mews, a $2.5 billion global vertical SaaS company Mews calls itself the operating system for modern hotels Runs the fintech business, which is about 75% of company revenue [00:04:30] Who Mews Serves Serves everything from small mom and pop hotels to large global chains Partnerships with Best Western, Choice, and the Asian American Hotel Owners Association AHOA members make up about 60% of US hotels [00:05:30] What Inspires Her Travel is where people have their most memorable experiences Most people name a trip when asked about their best moments of the year Mews removes the manual work so hotels can focus on the guest experience [00:06:48] How She Got Here Started her career in financial services and investing in financial companies Won her undergraduate business plan competition and launched a tech startup in New York The last 12 to 13 years have been focused on travel tech and fintech Says she feels lucky every day doing work that combines both passions [00:08:17] Client Impact: The Multi-Currency Win Launched a product letting hotels offer FX services to guests Guests can lock in their price in their own currency Hotels now earn markup revenue that previously went to banks and card networks Some hotels cover the full cost of all their Mews services from this product alone [00:10:52] AI at Mews: Thoughtful, Not Trendy Building a semantic data layer combining guest, property, and payments data The goal is better insights and experiences, not just cutting headcount Early results from the approach have been incredible [00:12:11] The Vision for Fintech at Mews Wants to build a holistic financial suite for hotels Expanding beyond payments into accounts, loans, and supplier payments Everything is deeply embedded and connected to hotel data [00:13:27] Why Hospitality Is Underserved Hotels have seasonal cash flow that banks struggle to understand Mews holds all bookings data plus a revenue management system That gives a full forward-looking picture of the business Underwriting becomes far easier than a bank reading old financial statements [00:15:08] The First Relationship That Changed Everything Saw an internship posting at NYU Stern for the CFO of Merrill Lynch Assumed it couldn't be the real CFO; applied anyway Walked in thinking worst case she meets someone impressive, best case she gets the job A short-term role became over two years with growing hours and responsibility [00:17:54] What She Learned from Him Finding people who believe in you and see your potential is everything Learned resilience by working under constant high-pressure stakes He was precise and held her fully accountable for her numbers People still compliment her composure; she credits that early training [00:20:24] Treating Every Human with Respect Watched him treat the person cleaning his office the same as a head of state He did it because it was right, not for gain That taught her the kind of person she wanted to become as she grew senior [00:21:31] How He Set Her Up After College He opened doors to meetings with teams across Merrill Lynch She still had to prove herself and work the grueling hours Landed a role investing in equity, debt, and early fintech companies That first role set the tone for the next 20 years [00:25:02] What Makes Mentorship Actually Work Both sides have to invest in the relationship Assigned mentorships often fail; organic ones tend to succeed Nobody owes you anything; it is all give and take [00:26:13] The Second Relationship: Glenn Fogel Saw Glenn deliver a keynote at a conference in 2013 and was blown away He told the story of rebuilding Priceline after the dot-com crash The company is now Booking Holdings with a $135 billion market cap [00:28:18] The Cold Message That Changed Her Career Reached out just to tell him the presentation was incredible He responded, they talked, and he ended up hiring her She worked with him and his team for over six years [00:29:08] What She Learned from Glenn Got a front row seat as he became CEO of Booking Holdings in 2017 Was handed some of the most critical projects for the business Learned what leadership looks like at the highest level Left only because she had learned enough to run a company at IAC [00:31:26] You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don't Take For every story that worked, there are hundreds that went nowhere She repeats the Gretzky line whenever imposter syndrome shows up There is almost no downside to taking the shot [00:33:10] Why Glenn Still Makes Time Even as a global CEO, he finds time for people who reach out He has never become overconfident or self-important He continues supporting people who did right by him Relationships become exponentially more valuable as both people grow  KEY QUOTES "Finding those people who believe in you and see potential in you, I would say, is so important." - Susanne Sandler "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. I say that to myself a lot when I'm like, well, what's the point?" - Susanne Sandler "That's how we all give back, and that's how we all create this great karma in the world and support each other." - Susanne Sandler CONNECT WITH SUSANNE SANDLER Website: https://www.mews.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannegreenfield  Thanks for tuning in! If you liked my show, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe! Find me on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher
Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve are back to dive into the top training camp storylines in the NFL. After discussing proper beach etiquette and the massive Jellyfish problem affecting the east coast beaches to begin the show, SVP shares his thoughts on this year's Commanders team, explaining why he might be higher on them than the consensus. If Jayden Daniels can stay healthy, how high is Washington's upside? It's also CFB training camp season, and Steve takes a look at the Week 0 matchups sharing what he's keeping an eye on. Plus, reaction to the NFL HOF speeches, specifically from Adam Vinatieri and Drew Brees, the big issue with CFB preseason prognostication, the Bills' rough alternate uniforms and more. Finally, SVP shares the perfect moment he shared with his son, Charlie, and Steve shares how his daughters are gearing up for basketball season. Lastly, important fantasy football deliberations and SVP's all-time Twitter comeback. Time Codes/Topics (0:00) Intro (1:12) The Jellyfish problem (10:22) Burning beach questions (12:52) How crazy is eating full subs on the beach? (16:52) Proper beach tactics (18:37) Left-to-right or circle corn eater? (21:42) Laremy Tunsil injury reaction (23:37) Commanders season outlook (28:07) Training camp szn in full swing (30:30) HOF game reaction (32:02) CFB Week 0 look ahead (33:32) The issue w/ CFB preseason prognostication (39:36) Who is the best team in the NFL? (42:47) The new Bills uniforms⊠(44:47) HOF speech reactions (53:12) SVP's perfect moment with Charlie (1:04:01) Steve's daughters are getting ready for bball (1:14:31) Orioles thoughts (1:21:53) Fantasy deliberations (1:28:30) SVP's Twitter response (1:29:26) Thanks for watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We welcome Mike Spagnola, President of SEMA, back to the show, along with SEMA Show VP Tom Gattuso and SVP of Public and Government Affairs, Karen Bailey-Chapman for a in-depth conversation about SEMA. Holman gets the skinny on what big changes are coming to the 2026 SEMA Show, how SEMA is evolving as an organization, and where SEMA is headed.  The Truck Show Podcast is produced in partnership with AMSOIL and OVR Mag. Don't forget to check out truckshowpodcast.com for special offers from our friends and sponsors.  AMSOIL amsoil.com  OVR Magazine OVRmag.com Use promo code @truckshowpodcast for a free annual digital subscription or a discount on a print subscription on ovrmag.com.
How does a brand sell car-sized orders online? Discover the omnichannel, Amazon, AI, and customer acquisition strategies behind hundreds of millions in e-commerce sales. âș Watch The Podcasts On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Helium10SeriousSellersPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 âș Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast âș Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension âș Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) âș Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft What does it take to sell hundreds of millions of dollars online, and what happens when the average customer order can cost as much as a car? In this episode, Bradley Sutton catches up with Alvaro Lopez, SVP of Marketing at Flooret, in Switzerland to unpack his journey from studying international relations to becoming an experienced e-commerce operator. Along the way, Alvaro built and exited his own Amazon business, helped scale Solo Stove and its sister brands across international marketplaces, and managed an Amazon portfolio that grew to nearly $65 million in annual sales. Today, Alvaro is applying those lessons at Flooret, a premium flooring company that built much of its success through direct-to-consumer e-commerce. Selling flooring online creates a very different customer journey than selling a typical Amazon product. Customers often begin by purchasing small samples before committing to a full flooring order covering around 1,000 square feet. That makes understanding customer acquisition costs, sample-to-order conversion rates, and the entire purchasing funnel especially important. Now, Flooret is expanding further into marketplaces like Amazon and Home Depot by meeting customers where they already want to shop. Alvaro explains why sellers should stop thinking of themselves as simply an âAmazon brandâ and instead focus on building a true omnichannel business. That means establishing a direct relationship with customers through a website, email, and SMS while still taking advantage of Amazon's massive bottom-of-the-funnel demand. He also breaks down how Helium 10 can help larger brands estimate their realistic obtainable market and determine how much opportunity actually exists inside a category. The conversation also dives into AI, lean teams, and finding opportunities that create the greatest impact with the least effort. Alvaro believes AI should amplify strong employees rather than automatically replace them, especially in areas like creative production, reporting, and business analysis. His final advice is simple but powerful: regularly step back and identify the highest-impact opportunities in your business. Sometimes the next big win is more revenueâbut improving shipping costs, customer service, retention, or returns can be just as valuable to your bottom line. In episode 760 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley and Alvaro discuss: 00:00 - Introduction 02:28 - From Diplomacy To E-Commerce 04:43 - Launching And Exiting His Amazon Brand 06:54 - Scaling Solo Stove On Amazon 08:41 - Building A Massive Flooring Brand Online 11:13 - Expanding Beyond Direct-To-Consumer 15:28 - How The Flooring Sample Funnel Works 18:31 - Bringing High-Ticket Flooring To Amazon 23:12 - Stop Being Just An Amazon Brand 24:11 - Building Your Website, Email, And SMS 27:53 - Using Helium 10 For Market Sizing 30:17 - Using AI To Amplify Your Team 33:16 - The Effort-Impact Scorecard Strategy
HOST: Michael Fanning, SVP & Co-Owner, Windermere Coaching. Host of the Windermere Ask a Coach podcast.EPISODE SUMMARY:Sellers are pushing to pay agents less, skip repairs, or dump prep costs onto concessions and some agents have quietly reinforced the idea that a good agent should help cover the bill. This episode walks through the listing consultation, the pre-listing inspection, and the Windermere Ready loan program, and draws a hard line between an agent's expertise and a seller's financial responsibility for their own home.WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:- Identify friction points during a walk-through before they quietly lower a buyer's mental price- Recommend a pre-listing inspection so defects surface on the seller's terms, not the buyer's- Explain how the Windermere Ready loan program actually works financed, not free- Reframe seller pushback using the doctor and mechanic analogy- Script the listing consultation conversation about who pays for whatRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS:Windermere Ready Program Windermere Real Estate, in partnership with Notable Finance, LLC and Move Forward Financial, LLC2025 Profile of Home Staging National Association of RealtorsCONNECT:windermerecoaching.comSubmit a topic: fanning@windermere.com
Today we are joined by Brian Hussey, SVP of Howler Cell Threat Services at Cyderes, discussing their work on "Bad Ads, Worse Binaries: Fake Claude Code Installer Drops Infostealer." Howler Cell identified an SEO poisoning campaign targeting people searching for Claude Code installation guides, using a fake Anthropic page and a ClickFix lure to trick victims into running a malicious MSHTA command. The attack uses a six-stage, largely fileless chain that employs an MP3/HTA polyglot, PowerShell obfuscation, AMSI bypasses, per-victim infrastructure, and in-memory execution to evade detection. The final payload is a .NET infostealer that steals credentials, while Anthropic and the legitimate Claude Code installation process were not compromised. The research and executive brief can be found here: Bad Ads, Worse Binaries: Fake Claude Code Installer Drops Infostealer
Meet Cute Presents, As Is: After her long-term relationship crashes and burns, Phoenix is forced to crash on her gay best friend's couch. While looking for a new apartment, she meets an older woman and falls hard, only to realize that she isn't the sole recipient of her affection. Story by Savannah Hankinson. Directed and Produced by Adrian Alexander Alea. Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing by Tanya Orlov. Dialogue Editing by Hilary Long. Starring: Brandon Contreras, Gabrielle Filloux, NaĂŻma Hebrail Kidjo, Simone Policano, Jake Robertson, Alyssa Simmons, Nina West. A Fox Entertainment Studios Production. Meet Cute Director, Development & Production: Lucie Ledbetter. President, Head of Studio: Fernando Szew. EVP, Head of Scripted: Hannah Pillemer. SVP, Development: Brie Neimand. SVP, Physical Production: Ani Kevork. VP, Production: Jamie Kellum. Production Executive: Bianca Veiga. VP, Post: Imran Shaikh. Post Lead: Paul Rivet. Production Finance: Michael Anthony DaCampo, Roland Arenz. Follow @MeetCute on â â â â â â â â Instagramâ â â â â â â â  and @MeetCuteRomComs on â â â â â â â â Twitterâ â â â â â â â  & â â â â â â â â TikTokâ â â â â â â â . Check out our other rom-coms, including KERRI with Pauline Chalamet, IMPERFECT MATCH with Arden Cho, and DUMP HIM! with Minnie Mills. Check out our other dramas, including FIRE & ICE with Chiara Aurelia and Jack Martin, and POWER TEN. Check out our other fantasies, including A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW and I'VE BECOME A TRUE VILLAINESS. Have a crush on us? Follow Meet Cute, rate us 5 stars, and leave a review! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scott Van Pelt joins Mina for the final NFL Power Rankings episode! Mina puts two teams head-to-head, SVP chooses which one he'd rank higher, and the other team drops to face a new challenger. They repeat the process until all 32 teams are ranked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices