🌟 Episode Summary: AI can help businesses identify threats faster—but it also introduces new agents, behaviors, conversations, and vulnerabilities that must be secured. Ryan Grant, Country Manager for ESET North America, joins Joey Pinz to explain how cybersecurity is changing as organizations rapidly adopt artificial intelligence. Ryan shares lessons from...
#945 Matt Peters: 🤖 Why Human Care Still Wins in an AI World
🌟 Episode Summary: What if the best use of artificial intelligence isn’t replacing people—but helping them do more meaningful work? Fixify co-founder and CEO Matt Peters joins Joey Pinz to explore how AI, automation, and human care can work together to transform IT support. Drawing on his experience at Check...
#944 Michelle Woodward Hodges: 🎯 Show Up to Glow Up
🌟 Episode Summary: What separates a job from a profession—and a manager from a genuine leader? Michelle Woodward Hodges, SVP of Global Channels and Alliances at Barracuda, joins Joey Pinz to explore leadership evolution, channel transformation, cybersecurity partnerships, and the personal systems behind sustained success. Michelle shares how growing up...
#943 Victoria Nelson: 🎯 The Power of Asking for What You Want
🌟 Episode Summary: What if the habits meant to make you sound agreeable are actually weakening your authority? Victoria Nelson left a toxic family environment in Russia at 18 with approximately $500 and a bag of clothes. After rebuilding her life in London, she entered the fashion photography industry, managed...
#942 Heather McLean: 🚀 How People-First Leaders Make AI Work
🌟 Episode Summary: Why do promising AI initiatives fail even when the technology works? Heather McLean believes the answer usually involves people, processes, leadership, and trust. Heather is an Air Force veteran, technology leader, entrepreneur, and founder of McLean Forrester. In this conversation with Joey Pinz, she shares how leading...
#941 Andy Syrewicze: 🛡️ The Cybersecurity Basics Businesses Keep Missing
🌟 Episode Summary: Cybersecurity threats are becoming faster, more targeted, and increasingly difficult to recognize—but many organizations continue to neglect the fundamentals. In this episode of Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations, Andy Syrewicze draws on 24 years in IT to explain how artificial intelligence is transforming phishing, Microsoft 365 security, and...
#940 Anne Montgomery: 🎙️ From ESPN to Foster Mom: When Life Rewrites the Plan
🌟 Episode Summary: Anne Montgomery spent much of her life entering places where women were told they did not belong. She pursued sports broadcasting when male coaches refused to be interviewed by her, became a certified official across five major team sports, worked for ESPN and eventually led a football...
#939 Robin Harris: 🌟 Stop Climbing the Wrong Mountain
🌟 Episode Summary: What happens when determination takes you up the wrong mountain? Robin Harris—technologist, certified hypnotherapist, interfaith minister, storyteller, and advocate for human potential—joins Joey Pinz to explore how social conditioning, fear, technology, and spiritual disconnection can pull people away from the lives they were meant to create. Robin...
#938 Stella Grigoryan: 🎨 Why Beautiful Branding Still Fails
🌟 Episode Summary: A beautiful logo might attract attention—but without a meaningful story and clear strategy, it cannot build a lasting brand. Stella Grigoryan, founder and creative director of Analogia Creative, joins Joey Pinz to explain why branding must come before design and marketing. Raised in an Armenian family of...
#937 ChannelCon 2026: Greg Jones – 🤝 Why MSPs Should Never Grow Alone
🌟 Episode Summary: MSPs are under pressure to launch AI services—but rushing forward without the right foundations could create more risk than opportunity. In this episode of Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations, Joey speaks with Greg Jones, Kaseya’s Senior Vice President of MSP Success, about sustainable MSP growth, AI adoption, partner...