Business, Brains & the Bottom Line

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a critical part of business operations—but few organizations have asked the most important question: What happens when AI goes down?

In Part 4 of the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Series, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda as the team explores why AI is creating an entirely new category of disaster recovery challen...

You can buy the best security tools on the market, but when disaster strikes, your recovery depends on people, not technology. In Part 3 of this series, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda. Joe Ross explains why tabletop exercises are essential, how to prepare business stakeholders before a crisis, and what really happens when 150 critical applications suddenly go offline. They...

Managing modern IT infrastructure isn’t just about servers and networks anymore; it’s about identity.

In Part 2 of this five-part series, Paul sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulveda. Joe Ross takes listeners inside the complexity of supporting more than 400 business units across 180 domains, three cloud platforms, and five Microsoft tenants. As organizations embrace hybrid a...

Disaster recovery has undergone a complete transformation. What was once focused on tape backups, secondary data centers, and keeping systems online has become a race against sophisticated cyber threats where minutes matter and identity is the new security perimeter.

In this episode of Business, Brains & The Bottom Line, Paul Di Liegro sits down with Joe Ross, Joe Galvan, Terry Murray, John Parker, and Stephen Sepulvedato explor...

What separates top-performing enterprise sales organizations from everyone else? According to Carl Erickson, CEO of Beacon Worldwide Sales Consultants, it starts with understanding how buyers think.

In this episode of Business, Brains & The Bottom Line, Carl shares the strategies, insights, and real world lessons that have helped Beacon Worldwide work with 60% of the world’s top 10 enterprise selling organizations and gene...

How does a small six-person family business in Victoria, British Columbia earn more than 775 Google reviews and attract customers from across North America?

In this episode, we sit down with John de Jong, founder of ** Alley Kat Signs and Marketing**, to discuss what it really takes to stand out in today’s digital-first marketplace. With more than 45 years of sales and marketing experience, John shares the lessons he’s l...

What separates basic tax filing from true financial strategy? In this episode, we sit down with Michael Uadiale, Managing Partner at Smeed CPA, to break down the world of proactive tax strategy, wealth preservation, and financial planning for high-net-worth entrepreneurs and real estate investors.

Michael shares how his unique combination of CPA, CGMA, and FCA credentials helps business owners think beyond compliance and focus on lo...

What does it take to build three companies from zero to $4M ARR, and do it while living abroad and navigating global talent markets?

In this episode, Brian Samson, Founder & Chairman of Plugg Technologies, shares his journey from startup builder to nearshoring expert, connecting U.S. companies with top talent across Latin America. Drawing from his time as an expat in Argentina, Brian offers a grounded, real world perspec...

By day, Eddie Collins designs complex enterprise systems. By night (and weekends), he manages something even more intricate, the living, breathing superorganism of a honey bee hive.

In this episode, Eddie shares how he stumbled into beekeeping and why it’s far more than just a hobby. From the surprising inspiration behind the famous “four years without bees” quote to pop culture references like Bee Movie and The Be...

Everyone’s talking about AI transforming business, but where’s the real impact?

In this episode, we sit down with Rusty Jensen, CRO of ConnexAI, to unpack the growing gap between AI ambition and execution. While executives envision sweeping transformation, most organizations are stuck in pilot mode, failing to convert ideas into measurable business value.

Rusty shares a candid, front-line perspective on why so many AI ini...

Once AI is embedded across an organization, the question is no longer if it’s being used, it’s who is responsible for how it’s used.

In this final episode of the AI Executive Series, we move beyond theory and into the hard reality of governance, policy, and enforcement. What does effective AI governance actually look like in practice? And why do so many well-designed policies fail the moment they meet real human be...

Artificial intelligence is often framed as a productivity breakthrough—but its biggest impact may be happening inside our own minds.

In this episode of our AI Executive Series, the conversation shifts from technology and security to something far more personal: how AI is changing the way humans think, learn, and are perceived at work.

Drawing on emerging research from MIT and Harvard Business Review, we explore the concept of c...

AI doesn’t just make businesses faster — it makes attackers faster too.

In Part 3 of The Executive AI Series, the discussion moves from shadow adoption to active exploitation. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a productivity tool. It has become a force multiplier for cybercrime.

We break down how AI is transforming the threat landscape:

• AI-driven phishing that is personalized, scalable, and nearly indistinguish...

As AI becomes easier to use, it becomes harder to control.

In Part 2 of The Executive AI Series, the conversation pivots from awareness to exposure. What started as productivity gains now reveals a deeper leadership challenge: Shadow AI.

Employees are adopting AI tools faster than policies can be written. Sales teams are uploading client data. HR is experimenting with generative tools. Executives are using meeting recorders and summa...

AI isn’t coming. It’s already embedded in your organization.

In Episode 1 of The Executive AI Series, we start with a leadership wake-up call. 

We explore how AI is reshaping productivity, accountability, and even how we think at work, often faster than organizations are ready for.

Executives across industries are waking up to a simple but uncomfortable reality: AI is already influencing productivity, decision-making,...

In a world full of transactional networking and surface-level connections, Sarah Hubbard is redefining what it means to build relationships that matter.

Sarah is the Founder and CEO of The Intentional Network and the author of the book by the same name—a results-driven approach to networking built on authenticity, trust, and shared growth. Her community brings together high-performing professionals who aren’t just exchan...

Most startup pain doesn’t come from product; it comes from people. In this episode, Lisa Novak, Founder of LMNHR, pulls back the curtain on the most common HR and culture mistakes she’s seen across high-growth tech companies, and how to fix them before they derail momentum.

Lisa explains how fractional HR leadership gives startups access to senior-level expertise without the full-time overhead, and why getting pe...

Todd Schuchart, Founder of Sales Chowder, joins the podcast to share how AI sales agents are helping teams close more deals by doing less manual work.

We talk about the real cost of slow follow-up, why most CRMs fail without automation, and how AI voice, SMS, and chat agents can instantly respond, qualify, and book meetings—without disrupting your existing tech stack. Todd also introduces the Found Money Agent™ and explains ho...

Most business owners think a book is about selling copies. Henry DeVries knows better.

In this episode, Henry DeVries, publisher of Indie Books International, host of Agency Rainmaker TV, and ghostwriter/editor of more than 200 business books, including a McGraw-Hill international bestseller, breaks down how a book can become one of the most powerful tools for attracting ideal clients.

Henry shares the simple, repeatable framework he...