by Rob Valincius | May 13, 2026 | Blog
This week I sat down with one of the most genuinely fascinating guests I’ve had on the show. He’s a systems engineer with more than 20 patents, a medical device designer who has commercialized 26 devices across totally unrelated fields, and the guy who...
by Rob Valincius | May 7, 2026 | Blog
From Research Brewer to Energy Drink Entrepreneur There are not many people who can say they helped develop White Claw, worked as a research brewer at Anheuser-Busch, ran their own brew pubs, did a stint in corporate strategy at FedEx, and then came back to the...
by Rob Valincius | Apr 29, 2026 | Blog
What if a single spontaneous act of kindness at a hotel pool in San Francisco could spark a global movement? That’s the story Nicholas Adkins tells, and it starts with a pair of robot monkey socks gifted to a retired Israeli man named Shlomo. Nick is the founder...
by Rob Valincius | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog
Leave Your Backpack at the Fence This week on Drink O’Clock, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Janet Dickey, head field hockey coach at Westbrook High in Connecticut, certified mindset coach, and founder of Victory Mindsets. Janet is about to head into her...
by Rob Valincius | Apr 10, 2026 | Blog
What happens when a 22-year-old from a small town in West Michigan decides, with almost no planning and no cell phone, to fly halfway around the world to teach English in South Korea? She spends the next 20 years trying to decode what actually happened to her. That is...