The Variance

On Perseverance as the Boat and Lessons as the Wake, Why We Went Back to Adaptive, and Why the Over-50 Team Is My Trade Secret I sat down with Dave Bookbinder on Behind the Numbers — a show that goes beyond the data to explore the people, stories, and insights that drive business success. Dave is a business valuation expert and best-selling author, which meant the conversation kept snapping back to the questions founders actually need to answer: how do you scale responsibly,

On Cutting Without Grip, Why Kimberly's MS Diagnosis Made Her a Perfect Product Advisor, and How Adaptive Design Serves Anyone Who's One Second From a Diagnosis I sat down with Kimberly Nash on The Chronic Truth Podcast — a show built specifically for people navigating chronic illness diagnoses and searching for community and practical answers. Kimberly was recently diagnosed with MS and is losing fine motor control in her hands. She's exactly who NULU was built for, and our

On the In Medias Res Life, Why Ego Death Is Leadership, and How to Build Your Own Lightning I sat down with Matt Levenhagen on The Builders Podcast — a show dedicated to uncovering the first principles behind building businesses, products, and services — for a conversation that ran a little over an hour and covered ground I don't always get to explore in this depth. Matt is a builder himself (Unified Web Design, Unified Plugins) and asks the kinds of questions you only get fr

On Character as Currency, Ego Death as Leadership Strategy, and Why Retirement Is a Slide Toward Irrelevance I sat down with Dwight Heck on the Give A Heck Podcast — a show built around helping people live life on purpose, not by accident — for a wide-ranging hour-plus conversation that started with my origin story and ended somewhere I didn't expect: an argument against retirement as a life goal, and a case for character as the actual currency of leadership. Along the way we

On Military Training as Entrepreneur Training, Why Adaptation Isn't Surrender, and Why Advice Is Just Information I sat down with Peter Turner on The Break It Down Show — a veteran-led interview show with an audience of military entrepreneurs, creators, and adaptive innovators — for a nearly hour-long conversation that felt like two military guys who've been through the corporate wringer comparing notes. We covered everything from the accidental origin of NULU to why the sand

On the Science of Where Ideas Come From, Why Storytelling Is the Real Moat, and Regenerative Braking for Aging I sat down with Robert Gaines on the Free Time Mastermind Podcast — a show he built around helping entrepreneurs and inventors — for a wide-ranging conversation that started with red legs and West Point, moved through the biology of ideation, wandered into the crooked economics of the U.S. Patent Office, and ended on a philosophy I've been calling regenerative brakin