🌟 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...
#936 ChannelCon 2026: Hollie Whittles – 👑 The Hidden Cost of High Achievement
🌟 Episode Summary: Success may look effortless from the outside, but Hollie Whittles MBE knows how much work—and personal strain—can exist behind the achievements people see. In this episode of Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations, Hollie shares her remarkable dual life as a technology leader and professional musician. She explains how...
#935 ChannelCon 2026: Reza Sanjideh – 🧠 Think Differently Before the Next Crisis
🌟 Episode Summary: What if cybersecurity tools are not the foundation of protection—but compliance is? Reza Sanjideh, founder and president of Advanced 2000, joins Joey Pinz to explain why MSPs and government contractors must stop treating compliance, cybersecurity, and IT services as separate responsibilities. Drawing on more than three decades...
#934 ChannelCon 2026: Roberto Elizondo – 💻 What 30 Years in Tech Teaches You
🌟 Episode Summary: What happens when clients adopt artificial intelligence faster than their technology providers can secure it? Roberto Elizondo has operated Trinet International since 1992, watching the technology industry evolve from hand-built computers and break-fix support to managed services, cybersecurity, and AI. In this conversation with Joey Pinz, Roberto...
#933 ChannelCon 2026: Jennifer Anaya – 💡 Stop Selling Technology—Start Selling Business Value
🌟 Episode Summary: Technology companies often talk about products, features, and capabilities when customers simply want to know one thing: “How will this help my business?” In this episode of Joey Pinz Discipline Conversations, Jennifer Baier Anaya, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Ingram Micro, explains why MSPs must...
#932 Andrea Waltz: 🚫 How Hearing More No’s Leads to Greater Success
🌟 Episode Summary: What if the fastest route to success begins with hearing “no” more often? Andrea Waltz, co-creator of the bestselling Go for No! philosophy, joins Joey Pinz to explain why rejection is not a verdict—it is information. Andrea shares how a district manager’s unexpected advice to her husband,...
#931 Alane Boyd: 🚫 Stop Being Your Own First No
🌟 Episode Summary: What happens when the freedom you worked years to achieve leaves you feeling lost? Alane Boyd helped grow a business from a few hundred thousand dollars to $17 million in revenue before completing two successful exits. Yet after spending 11 years building the company, the sale brought...