MasterStroke with Monica Enand & Sejal Pietrzak

MasterStroke with Monica Enand & Sejal Pietrzak

Join tech powerhouses Monica Enand and Sejal Pietrzak - Founders, Tech CEOs, and Board Chairs, as they pull back the curtain on the real playbook of leadership, innovation, and transformation. In MasterStroke, Monica and Sejal go beyond the headlines with candid, no-fluff conversations featuring the disruptors, visionaries, and decision-makers who are reshaping industries and redefining what it means to lead. Each episode dives deep into the strategies that matter most from mastering time and leading through complexity to decoding market trends and navigating the fast-moving world of technology. From artificial intelligence to the urgent need for transparency in innovation, MasterStroke explores the issues shaping the future of business and leadership. The result? A smart, energizing, and actionable series designed to equip you with the tools, insights, and mindset to lead with impact and make your own masterstroke. Georgianna Moreland serves as Creator, Executive Producer, and Managing Editor.

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April 15, 2025 19 mins

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In this powerful episode of MasterStroke, Monica Enand and Sejal Pietrzak dive into the age-old debate of luck versus hard work. While talent and the willingness to hustle are common, they argue that courage is the true differentiator – the variable that separates those who reach their goals from those who don’t.

Courage, they explain, is about pushing through the fear of failure and st...

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Host Monica and guest host Ned Renzi are joined by Vani Hari, better known as “the Food Babe,” for an eye-opening conversation about America’s food system. With over 10,000 chemicals approved for use in the U.S - compared to just 2,000 in Europe. Hari has made it her mission to expose what’s really in our food. 

Dubbed by The New York Times as “public enemy number one of big food compan...

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Georgianna Moreland - Creator, Executive Producer & Managing Editor;
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Monica Enand and guest host Ned Renzi sit down with Jeffrey Brashear, a veteran technology consultant with over 30 years of experience advising financial giants like Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. They dive into how AI is reshaping enterprise, from unlocking new revenue streams to raising serious ethical questions.

AI is moving fast—some companies are embracing it as a competitive ...

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In this episode of MasterStroke, Sejal and Ned are joined by @Sunil Wadhwani, a tech entrepreneur and philanthropist whose journey from co-founding Mastech, Inc.  and IGate to leading a $4.5 billion acquisition by Capgemini is nothing short of remarkable. Sunil has not only built businesses but transformed industries. After navigating the ups and downs of tech and finance, he pivoted t...

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In honor of Grammy season and our love of music, Monica Enand and Sejal Pietrzak, joined by Executive Producer Georgianna Moreland, sit down with the legendary Tre Nagella. A four-time Grammy-winning engineer, record mixer, and music producer—now nominated for his fifth Grammy—Tre’s career spans multiple genres, from pop to country. He’s collaborated with some of the biggest names in m...

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Join host Monica Enand and guest host Ned Renzi as they welcome Anna Maria Ponzi, second-generation vintner former CEO of Ponzi Vineyards and author of Pinot Girl, for an in-depth conversation about the evolution of Ponzi Vineyards.

Maria shares her family’s inspiring journey, from pioneering Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine industry in 1969 to their landmark sale to the B...

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November 12, 2024 39 mins

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What would you do if you were next in line to scan your boarding pass for a work trip, expected at an important board meeting the next day—but your gut was telling you to not get on the flight?

In this powerful episode of MasterStroke, Executive Producer Georgianna Moreland and Host Monica Enand welcome back co-host Sejal Pietrzak, who recently returned from a leave of absence. Sejal sh...

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Join host Monica Enand and  guest host Ned Renzi for an enlightening conversation with Thomas Kramer, a distinguished CFO known for steering companies like Cvent, Opower, and IonQ through the complex waters of public offerings and technological advancements. 

"If we do not figure out how quantum computing will works our world will eventually be covered with data centers a...

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Robyn  Benincasa,  World Champion Adventure Racer, a  CNN Hero, a Guinness World Record Endurance Kayaker, a best-selling author,  founder of The Project Athena Foundation, and one of the Top 10 Speakers featured by Harvard Business Review shares her incredible story of resilience and triumph in the tough world of adventure racing. She reveals how her experiences, from grueling Ironman...

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Ever wonder how emotions can either boost or derail your leadership? Monica and Sejal  sit down with their colleague and friend Amy Jen Su, co-founder and managing partner of Paravis Partners and author of the Harvard Business Review classics The Leader You Want to Be and Own the Room. Amy brings timeless wisdom from her books, sharing how leaders can embrace authenticity and emot...

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In this compelling episode, Monica Enand and guest co-host Ned Renzi delve into the dynamic intersection of educational leadership and technology with Dr. Monica Goldson, the retired CEO of Prince George's County Public Schools. Dr. Goldson's journey to becoming one of the pioneering leaders in one of the nation's largest and most diverse school districts offers invaluab...

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In this episode, host Monica Enand and co-host Ned Renzi dive into how tech giants like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are shaking up Silicon Valley with aggressive cost-cutting moves. We discuss Musk's downsizing at Twitter and Meta's pivot, focusing on what these changes mean for the workforce—especially young professionals navigating a tough job market.

We also break down th...

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August 23, 2024 46 secs

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Georgianna Moreland - Creator, Executive Producer & Managing Editor;
Matt Stoker - Editor


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Get ready for an eye-opening episode as Monica teams up with guest host Ned Renzi to dive into the world of venture capital with Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures. Discover how Manu's unique philosophy of solving his own problems has led to an impressive track record, with seven unicorns emerging from just over 51 investments.

We explore the asymmetric risk-return profile of venture capita...

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In today's episode of Masterstroke, we dive into the troubling decline in U.S. life expectancy and how society's view of aging affects us all. Hosts Monica and Sejal, along with Dr. Anique Bryan, a leading expert in anti-aging and regenerative medicine, uncover secrets to boosting your longevity and quality of life. 

Dr. Bryan explains that true anti-aging medicine is about mo...

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Unlock the secrets of fostering trust and innovation through the power of Conversational Intelligence (CIQ) with our latest guest, workplace strategist and holistic executive coach, Marla Teyolia  Founder of the Culture Shift Agency

In this episode of MasterStroke Monica and Sejal discuss with Marla the groundbreaking CIQ framework developed by Judith Glasser, revealing how our conversa...

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July 9, 2024 35 mins

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In this episode of Masterstroke, Monica and Sejal chat with Ned Renzi from  
Enjoy the Work, a seasoned venture capital advisor. They explore what it takes to go from a passionate founder to an effective CEO. Ned, a founding partner of Birchmere Ventures, shares traits that make entrepreneurs successful, like a passion for problem-solving and a relentless drive to improve.

They talk...

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Get ready to be amazed by the brilliance of a marketing genius!

WIldfang Founder & CEO Emma Mcilroy join Monica and Sejal to share her incredible journey from Cambridge University to establishing Wildfang, a groundbreaking gender-fluid clothing brand. They discuss how her experiences at Nike and Barclays shaped her vision for Wildfang, a company dedicated to inclusivity a...

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Ever wondered how the CEO of a major tech company balances the intense demands of running a business with the equally challenging task of parenting? 

On this episode of MasterStroke with Monica and Sejal, they sit down with Nick Mehta CEO of  Gainsight

 to explore his heartfelt journey of navigating both worlds. Nick opens up about the stereotypes men face in parenting roles, sharing per...

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