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Episode 424 with Billy Strawter of BLAC Magazine
On this episode, we chatted with long time friend of the program Billy Strawter, owner and publisher of BLAC Magazine. We talked about basically starting a print magazine in a digital world and how to balance all forms of media. We then got into expansion, as BLAC has now entered into 6 new markets. Lastly, we…
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Episode 423 with Travis Waye and Bailey Terrell of CallHarbor
Randy and I had a great conversation with Travis Waye and Bailey Terrell from Call Harbor. We started things off right by making fun of the acronym UCaaS but then really started getting into some interesting stuff. Most of us look at telecommunications as an afterthought in the tech stack, especially when it comes to…
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Episode 422 with Nuri Gocay
Friend and former cohost Nuri Gocay has returned to the States after working two years in New Zealand. We catch up and Nuri tells us what life in New Zealand is like, what the biggest culture shocks were, and what he missed most from the US. This was a great, light-hearted end to 2021. It…
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Episode 421 with David Franco of Exceptional Academy
This week’s guest is David Franco, Director of Exceptional Academy, a post-secondary program that provides IT certification training with a focus in cybersecurity for Detroit-area adults with disabilities. David spoke with us first on episode 337 where he introduced the program. Now, he’s giving us an update on how the program is going, what the…
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Episode 419 with Jason Brown of The Shyft Group
This week, we had a chat with Jason Brown, currently the IT Security Manager at The Shyft Group, formerly the CISO at Merit. We immediately talked about the mindset you have to be in moving from a Service Provider model to the public and then to the private sector in terms of security and privacy. We also chatted…
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Episode 420 with Tom Celani of Luna Entertainment and Rudy Patros of Securatech Solutions
Episode 420—you know what that means? We are talking all things marijuana. Mary Jane. The devil’s lettuce. You get the point 🙂 And who better to talk about it than Tom Celani, the owner, president, and CEO of Luna Entertainment, the mother company of Metro Detroit based MotorCity Harley-Davidson, MotorCity Power Sports, Freedom Hills amphitheatre, TC Vineyards Inc., and the Celani Family Vineyards in Napa Valley. Celani is…






