Leadership, Business and Entrepreneurship in an Ai world

What does it take to turn complex business challenges into scalable products that drive measurable impact?

Shubhangi Das—Product Manager at ASOS in the UK, with prior experience building data, growth, and AI products at Purplle in India—joins us for a conversation about product strategy, analytics, and what changes (and what doesn't) when building across startups and large organizations.

Over the past five years, Shubhangi has worked on everything from pricing and experimentation to supply chain and compliance products used at global scale. She specializes in turning complex business challenges into scalable products. She loves talking about product management, e-commerce, analytics, AI, and sharing practical lessons, real product stories, and honest conversations that help other product professionals grow.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it's like building AI and e-commerce products at ASOS and Purplle

• Turning complex business challenges into scalable product solutions

• Practical lessons on product strategy and analytics

• Driving measurable impact in product management

• What changes—and what doesn't—when building across startups and large organizations

• Real product stories from pricing, experimentation, supply chain, and compliance

• Honest conversations about growing as a product professional

Connect with Shubhangi Das:

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Interested in Being a Guest?

If you're a leader, entrepreneur, or executive with insights to share about leadership, business, and entrepreneurship in an AI world, I'd love to connect. Submit your information here to be considered for a future episode:

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What if your greatest success as a business owner isn't what you build—but who you develop to run it after you're gone?

Rich Ashton has survived a four-decade career in the world of small business. He has succeeded and he has failed—but his greatest success was training a group of primarily blue-collar employees to run his businesses so he could retire. He authored Growing Your Own: Common Sense Advice for Developing Leaders Within a Small Business and now speaks regularly about his experiences.

Rich purchased a nearly bankrupt HVAC company in 1988 and successfully rebuilt it into a business recognized for excellence. Along the way, he recognized the need for leadership development in trades businesses and designed a program to identify and develop motivated employees into small business leaders. The employees he trained now run his businesses. In retirement, Rich divides his time between his family and his passion for leadership development.

In this episode, Rich shares why small businesses usually don't develop leaders, the cost of not developing a leadership team, and what attracted him to small business in the first place. He discusses the key leadership principles he teaches, whether there're's really a a difference small between leading a small business and a large one business, and who his key mentors were owner. He also opens up about who facing failure, making a mid-career correction, the role passion plays in building a small business, and whether the idea or the execution matters more.

If you wants to build a team that can run the business without you—or you're curious about how to develop leaders from within—this conversation with Rich Ashton will give you practical, real-world insights.

In this episode, we explore:

• ​ Why small businesses usually don't develop leaders
• ​ The cost of not developing a leadership team in a small business
• ​ What it is about small business that attracted Rich
• ​ The key leadership principles he teaches
• ​ Is there really a difference between leading a small business and a large one?
• ​ Who were some of Rich's key mentors during his career?
• ​ Are leaders born or developed?
• ​ How employee empowerment changes the culture of a business
• ​ Facing failure: how Rich made a mid-career correction
• ​ The role passion plays in building a small business
• ​ Which is more important: the idea or the execution?

Connect with Rich Ashton:

• ​ Website: https://growingyourown.net/
• ​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-ashton/

Get His Book:

Growing Your Own: Common Sense Advice for Developing Leaders Within a Small Business

Available now

https://growingyourown.net/

Learn More:

Visit his website for information on his book, speaking engagements, and leadership training workshops.

https://growingyourown.net/

AI is accelerating at an extraordinary rate. But are our organizations—and our people—keeping up?

Chris White—global technology executive, entrepreneur, speaker, digital optimist, global citizen, and author of Non-Optional Collaboration: Human Leadership in the Age of AI—joins us for a conversation about one of the defining leadership challenges of the AI era: the digital world is accelerating faster than the human one, and winning requires us to get better at both.

Chris has spent more than 30 years building, scaling, and transforming businesses. He spent nearly two decades at Cisco during its extraordinary growth from roughly $1 billion to $50 billion in revenue, including leading the transformation of a $3.2 billion business from worst to first. He later served as President of the Americas for Philips Lighting, CRO of Bloom Energy, and a senior commercial executive at Analog Devices. He's also built and exited software startups—one sold to Microsoft, another acquired by Cisco.

His argument is provocative but practical: AI alone isn't the competitive advantage. The advantage comes from combining better AI with better human performance, collaboration, and execution.

In this episode, we explore:

• You say AI is accelerating exponentially, but humans aren't. Why is that becoming such an urgent business problem?

• You call AI versus humans an "unfair race." What do leaders need to do right now to close that gap?

• After nearly 20 years at Cisco during its growth from roughly $1 billion to $50 billion, what did you learn about building teams that can actually keep up with extraordinary change?

• You moved your family to Bangalore to help build Cisco's globalization capability in India. What did living and leading in another culture teach you that you could never have learned from headquarters?

• You've worked across startups, software, networking, energy, semiconductors and major global corporations. What separates organizations that execute brilliantly from those that have great strategies but struggle to deliver?

• You transformed a $3.2 billion business from worst to first. What did you actually change—and what can other leaders learn from it?

• You've experienced M&A from almost every side—founder, acquired executive, buyer, integration leader and operator. Why do so many acquisitions disappoint after everyone has celebrated the deal?

• You stepped away from executive life to support your wife through her fight with cancer. How did that experience—and finally having time to stop, research and reflect—change your perspective on leadership and what really matters?

• What exactly is "Non-Optional Collaboration," and what can a leadership team listening today start doing differently on Monday morning?

• You're a self-described digital optimist. What excites you most about AI—and what must humans get dramatically better at if we're going to capture its full potential?

• AI Is Accelerating. Is Your Team? The Unfair Race Between Digital and Human Performance

• Better AI AND Better Humans: The New Competitive Advantage

• Mind the Gap: AI Is Accelerating—Are Your People Keeping Up?

• Close the Gap: Winning the Race Between AI and Human Performance

Connect with Chris White:

🌐 Website: chriswhite.com

💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chriswhite

Get His Book:

Non-Optional Collaboration: Human Leadership in the Age of AI — available now on Amazon

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Interested in Being a Guest?

If you're a leader, entrepreneur, or executive with insights to share about leadership, business, and entrepreneurship in an AI world, I'd love to connect. Submit your information here to be considered for a future episode:

🔗 https://www.joinpodmatch.com/leadershipbusinessandentrepreneurshipinanaiworld

What happens when you've spent more than two decades building a successful career in technology—and then, at 50, you decide to publish your first novel and build the publishing house you wanted it to come from?

Jay Floyd—author, storyteller, coach, technology leader, and founder of Tomorrowlight Books—joins us for a conversation about reinvention, creativity, neurodiversity, and why some of the most important work of your life may begin much later than you expected.

Jay's debut novel, Thunderbird & Kool-Aid, is a literary crime and coming-of-age story set in 1988 Cleveland, exploring friendship, masculinity, family, violence, and the difference between the people we know and the legends we make of them. His work sits at an unusual intersection of storytelling, technology, leadership, coaching, neurodiversity, entrepreneurship, and reinvention. After more than two decades building a career in tech, he's now building toward something he's wanted for much longer: a life centered around telling stories, helping people, and creating things that leave a mark.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why did you decide to publish your first novel at 50, after building an entirely different career?

• What do you mean when you say you're trying to build "the A24 of books"?

• Why did you create Tomorrowlight Books instead of simply self-publishing Thunderbird & Kool-Aid under your own name?

• How did growing up in 1980s Cleveland shape Thunderbird & Kool-Aid and the way you think about neighborhood legends, masculinity and memory?

• What have more than two decades in technology and leadership taught you about storytelling and human behavior?

• How has being neurodivergent affected the way you create, lead, coach and build things?

• What happens when the identity that made you successful is no longer the identity you want to spend the rest of your life living?

• What does AI change about creativity, and what parts of human storytelling become more valuable because of it?

• How do your experiences as a coach, leader, husband and father find their way into your fiction, even when you aren't writing autobiographically?

• What would you tell someone in their 40s or 50s who suspects the work they're best known for isn't the work they're ultimately supposed to leave behind?

• I Published My First Novel at 50. Then I Built a Publishing Company.

• Building the A24 of Books: Why the Future of Publishing Might Belong to Smaller, Stranger Voices

• When Your Successful Career Isn't Your Final Act: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife

• What Tech, Coaching and Neurodiversity Taught Me About Being a Storyteller

• Every Neighborhood Has a Legend: Memory, Masculinity and the Making of Thunderbird & Kool-Aid

Connect with Jay Floyd:

🌐 Website: jayfloyd.com

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💼 LinkedIn: [Please provide handle]

📘 Facebook: [Please provide handle]

Get His Book:

Thunderbird & Kool-Aid — Jay Floyd's debut novel and the first release from Tomorrowlight Books. The page includes the book, available editions, the original companion soundtrack, and more about the world behind the story.

📚 Tomorrowlightbooks.com/tb

Learn More About Tomorrowlight Books:

An independent publishing house for distinctive stories and writers with voices too interesting to sand down.

🌐 Tomorrowlightbooks.com

What is a brand, really? And why do so many companies struggle to measure brand health in a way that actually drives growth?

Harry Zhang—co-founder of Timelaps—joins us for a conversation about the future of brand tracking, why traditional methods fail, and how to measure what actually matters.

Harry started his career as a market research consultant before co-founding HackQuest, a leading developer education and hackathon platform with over 2 million users, which was acquired by a public software company. He holds a degree from Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Now, with Timelaps, he's on a mission to reinvent how companies track and understand their brand.

About Harry Zhang:

Harry Zhang is the co-founder of Timelaps. He started his career as a market research consultant before co-founding HackQuest, a leading developer education and hackathon platform with over 2M users, which was acquired by a public software company. He holds a degree from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.

In this episode, we explore:

• What is a brand? Why defining it matters more than ever

• What is brand tracking? A comprehensive guide for 2026 marketing teams

• Why do you need to track brand health—and what metrics actually matter?

• Why does traditional brand tracking fail?

• What does Timelaps do, and how does it collect data?

• Brand marketing vs. performance marketing: How to actually split the budget?

• What's the impact of AI on brand tracking?

• What are Category Entry Points? The buying moments that decide market share

• Harry's journey before founding Timelaps: from market research consultant to startup founder

• How did he discover and validate the idea for Timelaps?

• What's the vision of Timelaps?

Key Questions Answered:

• What is a brand?

• What is Brand Tracking?

• Why do you need to track brand health?

• Why does traditional brand tracking fail?

• What does Timelaps do?

• How does Timelaps collect the data?

• Brand marketing vs. performance marketing. Which side wins?

• What's your journey before founding Timelaps?

• How did you discover and validate the idea of Timelaps?

• What's the vision of Timelaps?

Why This Matters:

Most companies treat brand tracking as an afterthought—a quarterly survey or a vanity metric. But in an era of AI-driven discovery, shifting consumer behavior, and fragmented attention, understanding your brand's health is more critical than ever. Traditional brand tracking fails because it's slow, expensive, and often disconnected from the metrics that actually drive revenue. Harry and Timelaps are changing that.

About Timelaps:

Timelaps is a brand tracking platform built for modern marketing teams. It helps companies measure brand health, track category entry points, and understand the buying moments that decide market share. Visit their website for an interactive demo and additional information about who they are, who they help, what they do, and why they built Timelaps.

Connect with Harry Zhang:

🌐 Website: timelaps.io

🐦 Twitter/X: [Please provide handle]

📸 Instagram: [Please provide handle]

💼 LinkedIn: [Please provide handle]

Learn More About Timelaps:

Visit https://www.timelaps.io/ for an interactive demo and additional information about who they are, who they help, what they do, and why they built Timelaps.

What happens when you have a €42,000 deal ready to sign—and you open the call by arguing against your own proposal?

Lukas Lanxenlehner did exactly that. The project wasn't where the client's growth was actually blocked, so they built something smaller instead. And he counts that as the reason the client stayed.

His philosophy is simple: Business first, technology second.

Lukas Lanxenlehner joins us for a conversation about why most of what you want to automate isn't the thing worth building first, why AI just makes a broken business happen faster, and why the clients who resist AI hardest often end up with the best systems.

About Lukas Lanxenlehner:

When Lukas started automating his own company, he hired freelancers—first on Fiverr, then on Upwork. He wrote the brief, they delivered, he gave feedback, they delivered again, and it still wasn't right. At some point he stopped sending feedback and learned to build it himself.

Looking back, they built exactly what he asked for. What nobody involved had done—including him—was work out whether the thing he was asking for was the right thing to build in the first place.

So that's where he starts now. Before anything gets built, he goes through the business with the owner and finds where the growth is actually blocked—and it's usually not where they expected. That conversation is uncomfortable sometimes, because the thing an owner has already decided to buy is often the thing that would have moved the least.

Then he builds the thing that actually moves it, which is normally sales, marketing, invoicing, and reporting brought into one place instead of five. Everything he builds for a client, his own team of six runs on first—which is how he knows what breaks and what needs looking after.

He works with owners of established companies who already have a team—law firms, medical practices, and advisory businesses.

In this episode, we explore:

• You work on the business first and the technology second. What does that actually mean in a first meeting?

• Most owners arrive already knowing what they want automated. How often is it the right thing?

• You've talked clients out of projects they were ready to pay for. What happened afterwards?

• How do you find where the growth is actually blocked inside somebody else's business?

• You say that if a business is broken, AI makes the broken part happen faster. Where have you seen that?

• You hired freelancers for a year and they built exactly what you asked for. Why was that still a failure?

• Your clients are skeptical about AI and most have been sold something by a provider that never delivered. What actually changes their mind?

• If somebody listening does exactly one thing after this episode, what should it be?

• Most of what you want to automate is not the thing worth building first

• Why talking clients out of projects they arrived ready to pay for is sometimes the best business decision

• The year Lukas paid freelancers to build the wrong thing perfectly

• Why the clients who resist AI hardest end up with the best systems

• How to find where growth is actually blocked—and why it's usually not where you think

• Bringing sales, marketing, invoicing, and reporting into one place instead of five

• Why every system he builds for clients, his own team of six runs on first

• What actually changes a skeptical business owner's mind about AI

Connect with Lukas Lanxenlehner:

🌐 Website: lukaslanx.com

💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lukaslanx

📸 Instagram: instagram.com/lukaslanx

See How Lukas Actually Works:

Visit lukaslanx.com to see a live client system you can look through—which tells you more than anything he could say about it.

If you're a business owner who wants to understand where your growth is actually blocked, why AI isn't the first answer, and how to build systems that actually move the needle—this conversation is for you.

Most businesses are working harder than ever to get noticed online yet the rules of digital growth are changing rapidly. AI-powered platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity are transforming how people discover businesses, making traditional marketing strategies less effective on their own.

Elias Curtis Founder and CEO of Transformed Design Inc. joins us for a conversation about the future of AI and digital marketing, building scalable businesses, biblical counseling, discipleship, and how timeless biblical principles can guide wise decision-making in every area of life.

With more than 17 years of experience, Elias has helped startups, entrepreneurs, and established organizations build scalable digital growth systems through strategic branding, website development, SEO, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), AI automation, CRM systems, and conversion-focused marketing. His passion is simplifying complex technology into practical strategies that business owners can implement immediately to generate more leads, improve customer experiences, and scale with confidence.

In addition to his work in technology, Elias serves in church leadership and is trained in biblical counseling and discipleship, bringing a thoughtful, Scripture-centered perspective to conversations about faith, leadership, and personal growth.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is and how AI search engines like ChatGPT and Gemini are changing how consumers find and choose businesses

• Why optimizing your digital footprint for AI engines matters just as much as—if not more than—traditional Google algorithms

• The single biggest operational mistake business owners still make when trying to scale their online presence

• Why most businesses don't have a traffic problem—they have a conversion problem

• How to transform an expensive "online brochure" website into an active, 24/7 automated sales tool that converts passive visitors into high-intent leads

• The most common "leaky bucket" in marketing funnels where businesses unknowingly lose the most money and leads

• Why it's dangerous to prioritize beautiful brand design over hard technical data—or vice versa

• How to seamlessly unify brand design, custom web development, and business automation to support frictionless, long-term scaling

• Where the line is between using technology to scale efficiently and maintaining genuine human connection with customers

• How being an active software developer and SaaS platform creator changes the way Elias approaches marketing strategy for agency clients

• One actionable strategy to streamline your systems and get better results this week

• How biblical counseling, discipleship, and Christian leadership inform Elias's approach to business, relationships, and personal growth

• How timeless biblical principles can guide wise decision-making in entrepreneurship, technology, and life

Whether discussing entrepreneurship, technology, faith, or the intersection of all three, Elias brings thoughtful, practical, and encouraging conversations that leave audiences equipped with actionable insights.

If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, or leader who wants to understand the shift from SEO to GEO, build a smarter business engine, and scale with confidence—this conversation is for you.

Connect with Elias Curtis:

🌐 Website: transformeddesign.com

📞 Schedule a complimentary 30-minute business growth strategy session: transformeddesign.com/contact

🎙️ Topics: AI search, GEO, automation, lead generation, CRM systems, biblical counseling, Christian leadership

What happens when your business grows but instead of gaining more freedom, you end up carrying more responsibility, making more decisions, and feeling like everything still depends on you?

Tim Campsall award-winning business coach, author of Create Your Millionaire Mindset, and creator of the Messy Middle Assessment and Messy Middle Owners Ecosystem joins us for a conversation about the frustrating stage of growth where businesses get stuck before they scale.

Today, Tim Campsall is known as The Messy Middle Guy. He helps established owner-led businesses navigate the stage where the business has grown, the team has grown, and revenue may be growing—but instead of gaining more freedom, the owner finds themselves carrying more responsibility. Too many decisions still come back to them. Accountability is inconsistent. Systems haven't kept pace with growth. And the business still depends too heavily on the owner. His work focuses on building stronger teams, better systems, greater accountability, and a more valuable business that can run without them.

In this episode, Tim Campsall walks us through the three stages of business growth Early Growth, The Messy Middle, and Scale and explains what changes as a business moves through them. He discusses what specifically happens in the Messy Middle, what it means when the business has outgrown how it's being run, and the warning signs that too much still depends on the owner. He also explains how a successful business owner ends up becoming the bottleneck, how to actually get unstuck, what a business needs in place before it's truly ready to scale, and how building a business that can run without the owner makes it more valuable. Plus, he discusses the role an owner's mindset plays in getting unstuck and scaling and what becoming a business owner taught him that more than 20 years in the corporate world couldn't.

If you're a business owner who feels like too much still depends on you or you're stuck in the frustrating stage where working harder isn't producing better results this conversation with Tim Campsall will help you recognize what's happening in your business and understand what you can do differently.

In this episode, we explore:

· The three stages of business growth: Early Growth, The Messy Middle, and Scale

· What the Messy Middle is and how to know when you've reached it

· Why growing businesses actually become more dependent on their owners

· What it means when your business has outgrown how it's being run

· The warning signs that too much still depends on the owner

· How a successful business owner ends up becoming the bottleneck

· How to get unstuck and scale

· What needs to change before a business can move from the Messy Middle into true scale

· Building stronger teams, systems, accountability, and leadership

· How building a business that can run without you makes it more valuable

· Why every stage of growth requires a different version of the owner

· Why Self Made Is a Myth and why no one scales alone

· What becoming a business owner taught Tim that the corporate world couldn't

Connect with Tim Campsall:

· Website: https://themessymiddleguy.com

· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcampsall/

· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timcampsall/

· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timcampsall/

· YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@timcampsall

Listen to His Podcast:

Self Made Is a Myth: How Business Owners Escape the Messy Middle and Scale

https://themessymiddleguy.com

Get His Book:

Create Your Millionaire Mindset: Attracting Everything You Want in Business and Life — available now

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Access Complimentary Resources:

Visit The Messy Middle Guy website for the Messy Middle Assessment, book, newsletter, podcast, workshops, community, and videos designed to help business owners identify where they are in their growth journey and choose the resource that is most useful to them.

https://themessymiddleguy.com

What if the same habits and systems that made you successful are now the very things keeping you stuck—and you never consciously chose to make your life smaller?

Chris Abazis—speaker, business coach, entrepreneur, and author of Spontaneous As Fuck—joins us for a candid, funny, and thought-provoking conversation about routines, identity, "smart" decisions, and how to start saying yes again.

Chris Abazis has spent more than 20 years coaching entrepreneurs, sales professionals, and leaders through growth, change, communication, and the pursuit of success. He's trained and coached over 1,000 professionals, built and led businesses, spoken on stages, and reinvented his own career more than once. Along the way, he became fascinated by a paradox he kept seeing in both his clients and himself: the same behaviors that help us become successful can eventually become the behaviors that keep us stuck. We build routines that work.

In this episode, Chris Abazis shares what "The Program" is and how we know when it's quietly making our decisions for us, why the habits that make us successful eventually keep us stuck, and what he means when he says, "Failure gives you permission to leave. Success doesn't." He also discusses why people tend to become less spontaneous as they become more successful and responsible, the difference between spontaneity and impulsiveness, and how to interrupt autopilot without recklessly blowing up the life or business you've worked hard to build.

If you've been feeling stuck in routines that no longer fit, wondering why success hasn't brought the fulfillment you expected, or ready to break the script and embrace a little productive discomfort, this conversation with Chris Abazis will make you laugh, think, and maybe do something about it.

In this episode, we explore:

· What "The Program" is and how we know when it's quietly making our decisions for us

· Why the habits and systems that make us successful eventually become the things that keep us stuck

· What "Failure gives you permission to leave. Success doesn't" really means

· Why people tend to become less spontaneous as they become more successful and responsible

· The difference between spontaneity and impulsiveness—and why that distinction matters

· How to interrupt autopilot without recklessly blowing up your life or business

· Why discomfort is useful information—and how to tell productive discomfort from a bad decision

· How our identities become cages, especially when we've become successful at being who everyone expects

· Why being "inefficiently human" may become a competitive advantage as AI optimizes our lives

· One experiment anyone can try to discover where they've been postponing, overthinking, or automatically saying no

· When success becomes the cage: how the habits that built your life can start making it smaller

· Stop waiting for someday: why your life gets smaller one reasonable decision at a time

· Are we optimizing the humanity out of our lives?

Connect with Chris Abazis:

· Website: https://www.chrisabazis.com/

· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisabazis/

· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisabazis/

· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrisabazis/

· YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisabazis

· TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisabazis

Get His Book:

Spontaneous As Fuck — available now

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Take the Free 7-Day Spontaneous AF Challenge:

A simple way to put the conversation into action. Each day includes a small prompt designed to interrupt autopilot, create a little productive discomfort, and get you saying yes to experiences you might normally overthink or avoid. No major life overhaul required—just seven days of doing life a little differently.

https://go.spontaneousaf.com/challenge

What happens when the career you built for decades takes a sharp turn and you have to decide whether to play it safe or take a completely different shot?

Ryan Drumheller golf technology entrepreneur, IT executive, author, and cofounder of Dogleg Digital joins us for a conversation about toxic workplaces, career setbacks, recovery, reinvention, and the unexpected path from firewalls to fairways.

Ryan Drumheller did not follow a traditional path into technology, leadership, or entrepreneurship. He grew up in a small Michigan town, began college at 29, earned over 170 professional certifications, and built a career leading technology organizations across multiple industries. That journey included toxic workplaces, closed doors, painful setbacks, difficult leadership lessons, recovery, and eventually the opportunity to build something of his own. Today, he is the cofounder of Dogleg Digital, a connected technology platform being built for golfers and businesses across the golf industry.

He is also the author of From Firewalls to Fairways, a memoir that uses a round of golf to tell the story of his career. The book explores leadership, resilience, career reinvention, lifelong learning, toxic environments, recovery, and the different shots required when the direction of your life changes. As the host of the Decline Invite podcast, he understands what makes a valuable guest: he comes prepared, communicates honestly, shares the episode with his network, and focuses on giving the audience a practical and memorable conversation.

In this episode, Ryan Drumheller shares what Dogleg Digital is and what problem he's building it to solve within the golf industry, why golf needs a connected technology ecosystem instead of another standalone application, and how more than 20 years in technology and leadership prepared him to build a company in golf. He also discusses how listening, collaboration, fair pricing, and strong partnerships are shaping Dogleg Digital, what inspired him to write From Firewalls to Fairways and structure it as a round of golf, and how toxic workplaces, difficult leaders, and career setbacks shaped the leader and entrepreneur he is today.

In this episode, we explore:

· What Dogleg Digital is and what problem it's built to solve within the golf industry

· Why golf needs a connected technology ecosystem instead of another standalone application

· How more than 20 years in technology and leadership prepared Ryan to build a company in golf

· How listening, collaboration, fair pricing, and strong partnerships are shaping Dogleg Digital

· What inspired Ryan to write From Firewalls to Fairways and structure it as a round of golf

· How toxic workplaces, difficult leaders, and career setbacks shaped the leader and entrepreneur he is today

· What beginning college at 29 and earning over 170 professional certifications taught him about lifelong learning

· What the dogleg metaphor reveals about changing direction and choosing different tools

· What advice he'd give someone trying to recover from a professional setback or reinvent their career

· What he hopes readers and members of the golf industry take away from his book and Dogleg Digital

· From firewalls to fairways: turning a career in IT into a new future in golf

· Recovery shots: what toxic workplaces and professional setbacks can teach us

· Listen before you build: creating better technology and partnerships for golf

Connect with Ryan Drumheller:

· Website: https://www.ryandrumheller.com/

· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandrumheller/

Listen to His Podcast:

Decline Invite

https://www.ryandrumheller.com/podcast

Get His Book:

From Firewalls to Fairways — preorder the Kindle edition on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHPK2WY4

Learn More About Dogleg Digital:

A connected technology platform being built for golfers and businesses across the golf industry.

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