Career Closeup

Incredible Closeup this week with recording and mixing engineer Orlando Gomez of Beacon Hill Recording studio! Orlando gives us a great insight to the world of producing multi-platinum level musical projects, working with local talent to superstar artists and the teamwork behind the scenes it takes to make it all come together. Orlando discusses his own personal experiences in the industry as well as his recommendations for success...

Today on the Podcast and in honor of Veteran’s day, a very special interview with a U.S. Army Veteran that Francis and I know well.  We get an insight on what it is like to serve, the job of the enlisted in the service and to serve in the role as an officer.  The words sacrifice, challenge and demanding are mentioned.  Despite the depth of these words, they do not do justice to the true hardship our service members and their famili...

Myongki “Tony” Yi is a tattoo artist in El Paso who owns his own tattoo studio, 3Tattoo. Tony's studio is as unique as his style, and this keeps him booked months in advance. In this episode we discuss how he started in Fine Arts at a design school, and just before completing the program, he came to find tattooing as a viable career option, despite the stigma it carries. Specifically for Tony, being of Korean decent, such a field i...

This is a quick Closeup with Jose Cos.  We are looking into more information about the avenues to complete a medical education.  With a national shortage of physicians, efforts are in place to try and increase the number of graduating doctors.  In addition to more medical schools opening throughout the country, accelerated programs that decrease the years of study from 8 years to 7, or even 6 years in some cases, are expanding acro...

Today’s episode features a very special interview addressing working in a field dealing with one of our country's leading social issues.  We sit down with Megan Bennett, a case manager working with homeless teens in the Dallas area. We learn about the challenges and wins when counseling, parenting and guiding these troubled youths at times through the most fundamental life skills needed to transition to a more stable life.  Megan’s...

On this episode of Career Closeup, we meet up with Tony Kasowski.  Tony is in an enviable position working a job he loves with both altruistic rewards and the ability to make a living.  Together with his cofounder at Phoenix’s St. Vincent De Paul’s Urban Garden, they took on the challenge of converting an old parking lot in South Phoenix and transforming it to a fertile, high yielding farm.

The medical field is consistently vast in its opportunities and career fields.  On this episode of Career Closeup we sit with two emergency room ultrasonographers, Jaime Aguirre and Jezzelle Solorza.  Jaime and Jezzelle were kind enough to make time to explain their role in diagnosis and management of the acute patient.  From the training and education you will need to succeed in this field to the typ...

Thinking about a career in medicine? Are you working towards the daunting path of premed courses and MCAT review? This is the podcast for you. On this episode, we had the opportunity to sit down with Brennon Barajas (MSIII) and Angela Guerra (MSII) for a breakdown into the world of applying, getting in and surviving medical school. Both Brennon and Angela will be the first physicians in their family and...

We sit down with Andres Capra and follow his journey to his career as a Tactical Paramedic. This is a relatively new field where he works as an Austin EMS Paramedic and also trains with Austin PD SWAT/ Travis County Sheriff SWAT teams. His pathway includes becoming a Marine right out of high school, digging ditches for electricians, having his own company building decks and framing houses, and being a...

Mike Henderson is a Territory Sales Manager for Medtronic in their CBG division. He manges the sales of the Resolute Integrity Stent which is used for cardiac catheterizations.

In this podcast, Mike discusses working in many areas of sales, including: automotive, retail, pharmaceutical, orthopedic devices and cardiac devices. In each field he not only strives to learn everything about his products, he also learns about the competit...

David Chen is a young businessman, entrepreneur, rally car driver and we found him to be pretty motivational as well!  He tells us about his path to success (becoming partner with Deloitte by age 33) and how it contained both wins and losses, and how he picked himself back up, evaluated his situations, adjusted his sails and tried again. He explains what it is like to grow up and have culture identity issues due to having Chinese p...