by Rob Valincius | Jun 10, 2026 | Blog
Jon grew up in Kansas City, never got hit by a tornado there, and then moved to Nashville in 2016 where everybody told him the tornadoes just bounce off the hills. The night before it happened, his wife actually asked him what they would do if a tornado came, since...
by Rob Valincius | Jun 10, 2026 | Blog
I sat down this week with bestselling, award-winning author and voiceover artist Aaron Ryan, and it turned into one of those conversations that wanders in the best possible way. We covered how he became a writer, why he treats his creativity like a business, how he...
by Rob Valincius | May 20, 2026 | Blog
The Conversation You’re Not Supposed to Have There’s an unwritten rule in American small talk: don’t bring up politics with strangers. David Deighton, artist and founder of Triptych Dialogue, has spent the last six years systematically breaking that...
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...