Catching up on another deep-dive episode with Hunter Rogers, co-founder of TeraHash and a decade-long crypto veteran, as he breaks down what actually matters in Bitcoin and why most hype-driven narratives don’t survive the long term. From traveling the world with Tron and speaking at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton to building Bitcoin-native yield infrastructure, Hunter shares hard-earned lessons from multiple market cycles and explains why real value beats speculation every time.

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Michael Peres interviews Brooke Lively, a scaling strategist who helps law firm leaders grow with clarity, traction, and sustainable profitability. A serial entrepreneur with an MBA, a CFA, and two decades in the legal industry, Brooke blends sharp financial insight with a very human approach to growth. She’s also an international bestselling author of eight books for law firms, with her latest work focused on using EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to scale.

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Michael Peres is joined by Jon Fry, CEO and founder of Lendflow, an embedded lending platform powered by AI that helps fintechs, lenders, and vertical SaaS companies launch credit products faster. With a background in accounting and finance from the University of Texas at Austin and experience building channel growth at Quickline Credit, Jon now focuses on the infrastructure layer that lets others build smarter, more efficient lending programs on top of Lendflow.

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Michael Peres welcomes Laura Jaye Cramer, a brand strategist, writer, and founder of Cowboy Media & Marketing and its publishing arm, Waiting Room Publishing, which produces five magazine titles including Candlelight Magazine and Clarity Magazine. Based in Seattle and originally from Colorado, Laura focuses on print media for end-of-life and senior living industries, telling nuanced, human-centered stories in spaces most people don’t like to talk about – but everyone eventually faces.

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Catching up on an inspiring episode with Stephen Keighery — Australian entrepreneur turned U.S. real estate investor — as he shares the unconventional path that took him from Bondi Beach to building a $315M ASX-listed company, and then starting over again in Louisiana. From founding High Pages Group and scaling it to 300 employees and 35,000+ paying customers, to walking away from corporate life and tackling distressed real estate in New Orleans, Stephen breaks down the mindset, risks, and reinvention required to build meaningful businesses across borders.

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Catching up on another episode with Duane Varan – CEO of MediaPet.ai and pioneering media scientist – as he breaks down how decades of academic research, neurometrics, and AI collided to reshape the future of advertising! From running real-world experiments on the impact of television to leading Disney’s innovation lab, Duane shares the long, unexpected journey that led to building an AI video platform capable of producing near-real, high-performing ads at scale.

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Catching up on another episode with Sanny Liao – co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Fable Security and a PhD-trained data scientist – as she unpacks how a love for pure math led her into the front lines of cybersecurity and human risk. From abstract algebra at Barnard to leading data science teams at Abnormal Security and Teleport (now X), Sanny shares why the future of security isn’t just technical—it’s deeply human.

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Michael Peres is joined by Dr. Tere Linzey, licensed educational psychologist and founder of BrainMatterZ, a program that helps kids and teens strengthen auditory processing, executive functioning, attention, and memory. With 30+ years in education and research experience at places like Harvard and UC Berkeley, Dr. Linzey now runs a private practice in Carmel and Santa Barbara, focusing on practical, science-backed ways to optimize the brain so students can actually thrive in school and life.

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Catching up on another episode with Tony Pham — fractional CMO, Web3 marketing leader, and certified meditation teacher — as he shares a rare blend of startup intensity and grounded calm. From nearly becoming a diplomat to scaling Life360 to 60M+ users and helping shape some of crypto’s most influential projects like Kava, Kadena, and TrustToken, Tony unpacks a career driven by curiosity, clarity, and calm under pressure.

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Catching up on another episode with Nita Laad – Bay Area tech leader, engineer-turned-entrepreneur, and founder of Nexia AI – as she shares her journey from growing up in Goa, India to building enterprise-scale products in Silicon Valley and now shaping the future of human-plus-AI collaboration. With over 20 years across engineering, product, and go-to-market roles at companies like Cisco, HP, and FireEye, Nita unpacks what it really takes to move from corporate scale to startup speed, and why AI should amplify humans—not replace them.

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