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A guest didn’t show up for the scheduled interview time, so I decided to do a solo video on timing presentations. It got me thinking that I should do more of these types of videos, so I will. I also decided to turn the videos into podcast episodes. This will […]

Chemical engineer Michael Benjamin was a presenter at the 2019 Professional Development Conference of the National Society of Black Engineers. His presentation was on being debt free at 23 (can you relate?). He’s also an author. He wrote The Power of Yet. We spoke about becoming an author, becoming a […]

Steve Buchanan works as a Group Manager at Avanade, is a Microsoft MVP, and maintains a technology blog, Buchatech. We talked about what a Microsoft MVP is (I honestly had no clue), his motivation for getting into tech, and his plans for his blog.  To contact Steve: buchatech.com Twitter: @buchatech

Claude Jones is a man of many talents. His day job is as the site lead at WalMart Labs, but he is also the founder San Diego Tech Hub, the Elevate Foundation, and the Practical Leadership Guy. His talent for tech and public speaking is truly inspiring; I’ve heard him […]

I learned about David Goldberg after watching his TEDx talk. He’s lead quite an interesting life. A PhD in civil engineering who ended up being a professor, there were entrepreneurial stints in between teaching gigs. He resigned his tenure track professorship and founded ThreeJoy Associates. He’s also an author, writing […]

Sol Rosenbaum is an engineer who cares deeply about public speaking for engineers, among other things. According to him, networking, personal development – soft skills in general – are key to getting ahead as an engineer. Technical skills alone just won’t cut. We talked about his motivation to become an […]