🌟 Episode Summary: 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,...
#779 ITNation Connect 2025 – Blake Myers: Eight Seconds of Chaos: What Bull Riding Taught a Cybersecurity Pro
🌟 Episode Summary: 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...
#778 ITNation Connect 2025 – Stephen Yu: ♟️ The Puzzle Mindset: From Chessboards to Boardrooms
🌟 Episode Summary: 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...
#777 ITNation Connect 2025 – Lawrence Cruciana: From Lasers to Leadership: Lawrence Cruciana’s Mission to Secure American Ingenuity
🌟 Episode Summary: 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...
#776 Erica Bonham: 🌿 Healing Isn’t in Your Head: Rewiring Through the Body
🌟 Episode Summary: 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...
#775 Canalys Forum Chicago 2025 -Jay Ryerse: ⚙️ Climbing Higher: Cybersecurity, AI & Personal Growth
🌟 Episode Summary: 🏔️ 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...
#774 Canalys Forum Chicago 2025 -Jordan Rackie: 🌐 From Quantum Threats to Family Values: Building Trust That Scales
🌟 Episode Summary: 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...
#773 Canalys Forum Chicago 2025 -Robin Ody 🎹 From Beats to Business: How Creativity Shapes the Channel
🌟 Episode Summary: 🎧 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...
#772 Cyber Bay 2025 – Melissa Dark: 🧭 Teaching Cyber to Tomorrow: How Education Fuels Security
🌟 Episode Summary: 🎒 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...
#771 Cyber Bay 2025 – Deral Heiland: Coins, Code & Cyber: From Visual History to IoT Security 🛡️📜
🌟 Episode Summary: 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...