Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations
The #1 Discipline-Based PodcastDiscipline. How does it play a role in your life? How does it drive your decisions? Do you have too much or too little? Every profession, hobby, or passion requires a level of discipline. I have used it in weight loss (+130 lbs.), family death, and found a +25 year business. Am I an expert? Absolutely not!Please join me, as I speak to interesting people and find out how discipline affects their career, life, goals, and decisions.AudienceDo you long for self-discipline growth in any of the following areas? Health, Fitness & #Wellness: #WeightLoss #Exercise. #Fitness & #Athletics #EatingHealthy & #Diet #Relationships#Business, #Technology & #Science: #BusinessGrowth #Productivity / #Process #Empowerment #Art & #Culture: Expanding taste & curiosity in: #Food / #Travel / #Film / #Music & #Comedy
Episodes
Christina Klein, a visionary leader at Lansweeper, joins Joey Pinz at IT Nation Orlando to share her unique blend of creativity, discipline, and data-driven leadership. From learning carpentry as a child to leading tech innovation and women’s leadership programs, Christina discusses how she bridges design, technology, and purpose. She reveals how Lansweeper empowers MSPs with deep asset visibility, accelerates cyberse...
Recorded live at IT Nation, MJ Shoer (Chief Community Officer, GTIA) breaks down how the newly branded Global Technology Industry Association is delivering practical wins for MSPs. We cover the GTIA ISAO (built with ConnectWise) for actionable threat intelligence, the cybersecurity Trust Mark that validates your internal controls against your chosen framework, and how GTIA’s unbiased research can be co-branded for QBR...
In this insightful conversation, Carolyn April, Senior Researcher at GTIA and longtime CompTIA veteran, shares how her journalism roots shaped her passion for unbiased channel research. From designing surveys that reveal real market truth to helping MSPs adapt to AI disruption and cybersecurity complexity, Carolyn explains how data can empower strategic decisions. She also opens up about her personal discipline throug...
In this insightful IT Nation conversation, Rick Murphy, Managing Partner at Cogent Growth Partners, joins Joey Pinz to discuss the mindset and mechanics of successful MSP mergers and acquisitions. Rick opens up about his 60-pound weight loss journey and parallels it with running a business — both require discipline, consistency, and a clear goal.
He explains why every MSP will eventually trade hands, why “exit strategy...
Cristina Carretero, Partner Marketing Manager at Arctic Wolf, joins Joey Pinz at IT Nation Connect 2025 to discuss the evolution of channel marketing, the power of AI in partner enablement, and her global journey from Spain to the cybersecurity stage. With over 20 years in marketing, Cristina shares how language, clarity, and collaboration help MSPs thrive — plus her personal discipline practices rooted in meditation,...
Caroline Goles—marketing strategist, tech advisor, and former Microsoft leader—joins Joey Pinz at IT Nation Connect to talk about balance, curiosity, and the intersection of AI and humanity.
She shares how trail running through national parks, reducing screen time, and reading voraciously fuel her creativity and focus. Together, they explore goal-setting through “Misogi” challenges, the harmony of art and science in ma...
From lasers to leadership, this IT Nation Connect 2025 conversation with Lawrence Cruciana, founder of Corporate Information Technologies, reveals how discipline, curiosity, and science fuel cybersecurity innovation.
A former Disney audio engineer and laser physicist, Lawrence shares how attention to detail and standardization shaped his approach to business, how a case of industrial espionage inspired his cybersecurit...
What do chess, rock climbing, and business have in common? For tech visionary and problem-solver Stephen Yu, everything is a puzzle waiting to be understood. In this episode of Joey Pinz Conversations, we explore how the founder of Adaptive Catalog approaches life and leadership through curiosity and pattern recognition—from teaching his son chess to building solutions that let MSPs “sell without quoting.”
Stephen shar...
Blake Myers lives life on the edge—literally. A semi-pro bull rider, former powerlifter, and cybersecurity specialist at Blumira, Blake shares how discipline connects every aspect of his adrenaline-fueled journey. From surviving eight-second rides to helping MSPs defend clients from cyber threats, he reveals the mindset it takes to stay focused under pressure. Recorded live at #ITNationConnect 2025, this conversation ...
In this engaging IT Nation 2025 conversation, Kate Schlarf, Senior Marketing Leader at Moovila, joins Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations to unpack how MSPs can turn project chaos into clarity and profit. She reveals how Moovila’s Project Hub—a library of MSP-built templates—helps partners improve forecasting, eliminate scope creep, and boost project margins.
Kate also shares her insights on branding, marketing, and com...
At IT Nation Connect 2025, Mike DePalma—VP of SMB Cybersecurity at OpenText—sits down with Joey Pinz to talk about rebuilding community in the MSP world, evolving vendor programs, and the tidal wave of AI reshaping security and operations.
Mike shares how OpenText’s new EDR rollout is simplifying life for ConnectWise partners, the surprising results of their latest MSP Report, and why most AI projects fail—hint: it’s n...
#775 Canalys Forum Chicago 2025 -Jay Ryerse: ⚙️ Climbing Higher: Cybersecurity, AI & Personal Growth
🏔️ From summiting Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks to reshaping how MSPs think about cybersecurity, Jay Ryerse embodies what it means to evolve. In this powerful conversation, Jay and Joey Pinz explore how curiosity, structure, and mindset fuel both personal and professional transformation.
💻 As VP of Global Security Advocacy at SentinelOne, Jay breaks down the realities of AI-driven threats, tool overload, and what MSPs...
In this deeply moving episode, Joey Pinz sits down with Erica Bonham, a trauma recovery therapist, EMDR clinician, and author of Always Enough, Never Done. Together, they explore how healing doesn’t happen through willpower or “positive thinking”—it begins in the body.
Erica reveals the difference between “big T” and “little t” trauma, how experiences get stored in the nervous system, and why self-compassion is a biolo...
🎧 In this inspiring conversation, Joey Pinz sits down with a man who bridges two worlds — the rhythm of creativity and the logic of data. From teaching himself piano 🎹 to producing music in his 20s, Robin Ody now helps shape the global IT channel as a senior analyst at Omdia.
They explore how music production and data analysis share the same creative DNA: structure, intuition, and flow. Robin opens up about 🎼 overpr...
In this episode of Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations, Jordan Rackie, CEO of KeyFactor, opens up about leading a 600-person cybersecurity company while staying grounded as a dad, musician 🎹 and coach. He shares how quantum computing is reshaping data security, what “agentic AI” really means, and why focus—not frenzy—drives real innovation.
Rackie reflects on learning piano 🎵 to unwind between board meetings, balancin...
Recorded live at Cyber Bay 2025 in Tampa Bay, this conversation dives into how educators are preparing students for a rapidly changing tech world. 💡
🎙️ Guest: A STEM educator at Angeline Academy of Innovation shares how his students are embracing AI, cybersecurity, and robotics—proving that the next generation isn’t afraid of technology, they’re shaping it. From exploring what’s real vs. artificial online to understa...
Meet Rapid7’s Deral Heiland—a self-described “visual historian” who balances high-tech research with hands-on artifacts from Roman coins to Civil War relics 🪙📷. We explore how tactile history sharpens perspective, why he resets daily in a 19th-century apothecary he built on his property ☕📖, and the real-world state of cybersecurity in 2025. Deral breaks down AI’s double-edge—amplifying attackers while supercharging...
🎒 From the Appalachian Trail to the frontlines of cybersecurity education, Melissa Dark’s journey is a masterclass in vision, persistence, and innovation. Recorded live at Cyber Bay 2025, Melissa shares how her outdoor adventures mirror her mission to empower teachers across America with real-world cybersecurity and AI training.
👩🏫 A former Purdue professor and founder of a 7-university consortium, she’s helping 32...
Former Army veteran and cybersecurity strategist Nia Luckey joins Joey Pinz Conversations live at Cyber Bay 2025 to explore how calm, creativity, and courage intersect in today’s fast-moving digital world.
From 13 years in the U.S. Army to leading major security operations for Cisco, JSOC, and AT&T, Nia reveals how adaptability, humility, and trust fuel progress in both tech and life. She reflects on her TEDx Sugar...
What happens when a pro athlete turned fitness leader faces the fight of his life? Mike Laird’s journey is a raw, powerful story of survival, resilience, and purpose. After years of building fitness businesses and mentoring trainers, Mike’s life changed with a shocking diagnosis: a rare appendix cancer. Following a grueling 10-hour surgery and months of recovery, he emerged with a scar that tells a bigger story—one of...
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