What we listen to
The Uncharted Veterinary Podcast
Aug 5, 2026
Dr. Andy Roark and Tyler Grogan, CVT, address a mailbag question from a veterinary technician lead struggling with conflicting directives from multiple doctors and unclear expectations. They discuss strategies for distinguishing personal preferences from practice-wide policies, identifying patterns that warrant systemic solutions, managing authority limitations, building trust through servant leadership, and establishing clear communication with practice management through regular check-ins focused on problems, impacts, and proposed solutions.
Aug 5, 2026
Jimmy Turner and Justin Harvey analyze Medscape's 2026 physician compensation report, which surveyed approximately 6,000 doctors across 29+ specialties. They examine four key findings: 28% of physicians report earnings below family needs despite earning $266K–$417K; a paradox where 53% feel personally fairly compensated but 61% believe the profession is underpaid; 70% of doctors rarely or never negotiate compensation due to employer "no negotiation" policies; and 40% maintain side gigs outside clinical medicine. The hosts discuss how fixed compensation models suppress high performers, moral injury from insurance denials, and why autonomy losses drive physicians toward entrepreneurship.
Dr. Mike Woo-Ming presents the '5 Minute Protocol,' a system for physicians to delegate non-clinical work to AI tools by treating them as a chief of staff rather than just tools. The episode covers three practical applications: automated patient education letters, weekly CEO reviews of practice metrics, and a delegation filter to categorize tasks. Woo-Ming emphasizes that physicians have a delegation problem, not a time problem, and shows how to reclaim approximately 5 hours per week through simple AI prompts and review workflows.
Aug 5, 2026
Bec Darley, CMO of Vodafone Australia, discusses how the brand competes as a challenger number three player against entrenched market leaders Telstra and Optus. She explains Vodafone's strategy of embracing its disadvantages, partnering with comedian Ali Wong for bold creative campaigns, and building internal organizational strength before aggressive market expansion. Darley emphasizes the importance of marketing leaders understanding finance, legal, unit economics, and organizational change to drive business impact beyond traditional marketing functions.
Aug 4, 2026
Mike Deaton, co-founder of Flipping Dirt, shares how he and his wife transitioned from 20+ years in corporate roles at Motorola, Nokia, and Microsoft to building a seven-figure national land investing business after being laid off on the same day in 2016. The conversation covers the land flipping business model (buying vacant land below market value and reselling at profit), how Mike applies operational excellence from his corporate background to keep the business lean and scalable, and how he's leveraging AI and automation to compete effectively. Mike discusses his philosophy of eliminate-automate-delegate, market selection strategy, pricing psychology, and his vision for scaling both the land business and his coaching program through systemization and AI-enhanced tools.
Aug 4, 2026
Security Weekly News episode 604 covers major cybersecurity topics including vulnerabilities in hardware wallets, autonomous AI-driven attacks using DeepSeek, infrastructure-targeting ransomware exploits, captive portal compromises at conferences, the eBay journalist harassment scandal, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) security risks. Host Doug White discusses emerging threats ranging from flawed random number generators to agent-to-agent privilege escalation, with guest Aaran Leyland providing expert commentary on AI security deployment challenges.
Aug 4, 2026
Benoy Thanjan, Founder and CEO of Reneu Energy and host of the Solar Maverick Podcast, discusses the dramatic shift in solar development capital, market consolidation, and the rising complexity of project execution. He and host Peter Pongracz examine why early-stage solar projects struggle to attract investment, why solar-plus-storage is becoming the market standard, and the critical role of local relationships and regulatory navigation in project success. The episode highlights the paradox that while solar technology is simple, the financing, permitting, interconnection, and delivery mechanisms have become increasingly complex.
Aug 4, 2026
Davida Lindsay-Bell, Chief People Officer at Hanna Andersson, discusses why AI transformations are struggling and how psychological safety is foundational to successful organizational change. She shares her framework for operationalizing psychological safety through behavioral competencies, calibration rubrics, and decision-making frameworks, and explains how trust and intelligent failure enable both cultural transformation and AI adoption.
Aug 4, 2026
Ammar Alim, Product Security Engineering Lead at Adobe, discusses how to build an automated, agentic WAF pipeline to respond to vulnerabilities within 24-hour exploit windows. He explains Adobe's approach to managing seven different commercial and open-source WAFs using AI agents, multi-model architectures, and reinforcement learning to generate, test, and deploy virtual patches at scale.