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Welcome to 'The Family Compass', a podcast where we navigate the diverse landscape of family dynamics in Australia and beyond. Join us, as we delve deep into the heart of family life, discussing everything from traditional nuclear units to blended families, single parenthood to co-parenting, and much more. We're not just here to share expert insights and practical advice, but to spark meaningful conversations that resonate with every listener—whether you're going through a tough divorce, adj ...
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Welcome to OAT! Join us to discuss ideas and tools that make our software and development processes faster, more efficient, and healthy! We talk about performance improvements and valuable optimizations to software development processes like testing, debugging, running in production, open-sourcing or collaborating. Learn from experts how they improved their products, engineering processes or life habits and apply those in your work! Hosted in the UK by two software engineers: Ivan Valkov, th ...
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Welcome to the Prosper Brief, hosted by the Prosper Company. On this podcast, we explore the forefront of innovation and transformation within the hospitality industry. Each episode delves into key issues facing the hospitality industry, including economic development, the future of work, innovation and technology, business of inclusion, and personal growth. The Prosper Brief seeks insights and inspiration tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities in hospitality.
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Curiosity, Resilience, and Leadership: A Conversation with Horace Dawson
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Episode Summary In this conversation, Horace Dawson, former CEO of Red Lobster, reflects on a life and career shaped by global experiences, from his father’s role in the U.S. Foreign Service to his own journey through law, entertainment, and ultimately the restaurant industry. Horace emphasizes the importance of curiosity, relationship-building, an…
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From Feedback to Loyalty: Transforming Guest Experience with Zack Oates
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In this episode, Zack Oates, founder of Ovation, explains how his guest feedback platform empowers restaurants to turn customer feedback into actionable insights. He emphasizes the critical role of customer retention in increasing revenue and dives into how technology can support real-time engagement, especially through channels like text messaging…
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From Kitchen to CEO: Kep Sweeney’s Journey and PDQ’s Success
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Summary: In this episode, Kep Sweeney, the CEO of PDQ, joins the show to discuss his journey in the restaurant industry, the challenges of leading a business during the COVID pandemic, and how PDQ adapted to the evolving market. He touches on the importance of digital strategies, in-house recruiting, and the future of restaurant consolidation. Kep …
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Decisive Leadership Under Pressure: Reggie Stover’s Journey
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Episode Summary: In this episode of the Prosper Brief, Reggie Stover, Chief Human Resource and People Experience Officer at Henny Penny, joins the conversation. He dives deep into his involvement with the Prosper Accelerator program, his personal leadership journey, and how his military background shaped his leadership style. He emphasizes the impo…
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From Boardroom to Table: How Kellanova Redefines Food Service with Inclusion and Innovation ft. Michelle Barnes and John Major
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Summary of the Episode This episode features Michelle Barnes, Director of Commercial Strategy, and John Major, Director of National Accounts at Kellanova, discussing their experiences with the Prosper Accelerator program, which they were a part of in 2023. They talk about their journeys in the food service industry, their roles at Kellanova, and ho…
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From Dishwasher to CEO: Jim Balis on Building Restaurant Empires
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Podcast Summary In this episode of The Prosper Brief, the host interviews Jim Balis, a lifelong restaurant operator and former CEO of Sizzling Platter. Jim shares insights from his extensive experience in the restaurant industry, starting from his early days as a dishwasher to becoming a CEO overseeing 4,000 restaurants in Capital Spring’s portfoli…
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#4 In conversation with Mike and James Wall, two dads, one daughter and an international adventure
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In episode four of The Family Compass, we sit down with Mike and James to talk about their experiences as a same sex couple and their journey to becoming parents to their daughter, Ava. In a wide-ranging conversation, Mike and James share their stories, individually and as a couple, from coming out, embracing their identity and the impact of the sa…
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Revolutionizing Beverages with Botrista: A Conversation with Jason Valentine
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Summary: In this episode, Jason Valentine, Chief Strategy Officer at Botrista, takes us through his remarkable career in the restaurant and beverage industries. He shares how his early experiences in his family’s restaurant franchise laid the foundation for his passion for hospitality and leadership. Jason discusses the innovative technology behind…
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Tom Wilkie’s Path to CTO at Grafana Labs: Startups, Pivots, and Perseverance
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Tom Wilkie, the CTO of Grafana Labs, talks to us about his professional journey. We cover how he got into software engineering, his first startup, working as an EM at Google, and what motivated him to go back to an IC role. We talk about his time at Grafana from when they were only 25 people to now when Grafana Labs has more than a thousand employe…
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Diversity, Technology, and The Future of Dining: A Conversation with Chip Wade
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Episode Summary: In this episode of The Prosper Brief, we sit down with Chip Wade, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group. Chip shares his personal journey through the hospitality industry, offering insights from his rich career with companies like Legal Seafoods, Dunkin' Donuts, and Red Lobster. He also reflects on his leadership principles, includ…
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Ted Balestreri: Love, Leadership, and Legacy in Hospitality
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In this inspiring episode of The Prosper Brief, host Neil Sudaisar interviews Ted Balestreri, a trailblazer in the hospitality industry and the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Balestreri Award. Ted shares his incredible journey from delivering newspapers in Brooklyn to building a hospitality empire, including founding the famous Sardine Fact…
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In the third episode of The Family Compass, Kate shares her story and in doing so, touches on a range of issues including raising a child with special needs, the challenges of being a single mother, grief and recovery, blended families and step-parenting, family dynamics and role-modelling, balancing career and family life, adapting to change and f…
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The Recipe for Success: Josh Halpern on Leadership, Mentorship, and Shaq's Big Vision
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Summary of the Episode: In this podcast episode, Josh Halpern, CEO of Big Chicken, dives into the origins and rapid growth of the Shaquille O'Neal-inspired restaurant chain. He discusses the non-traditional expansion of the brand, from cruise ships to arenas, and its customer-centric philosophy. Halpern reflects on working with Shaquille, Big Chick…
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Prosper Brief - Introduction: Elevating the Industry and Building Connections
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In the inaugural episode of The Prosper Brief, David Jobe, Luke Kircher, Hattie Hill, and Anthony Zaller dive deep into the essence of the Prosper Forum, a transformative gathering designed to elevate the hospitality industry and build meaningful connections. This year it will be held from August 25 to the 28, 2024. This exclusive event brings toge…
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#1 Welcome to The Family Compass - In conversation with Michelle and Zach
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In the first episode of The Family Compass, hosts Michelle and Zach introduce themselves and the podcast. Drawing on their extensive backgrounds in family law and law enforcement, Michelle and Zach aim to explore the complexities of family dynamics, the impacts of separation on children, and the importance of access to professional help in regional…
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#2 In conversation with Kay Martin, legal veteran, community advocate and professional mentor.
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In this episode of The Family Compass, we chat with Kay Martin, a distinguished family lawyer with 40 years of experience. Kay recounts her journey from studying in Melbourne to building her legal career in Mildura, detailing how her practice evolved from part-time work to owning her own firm. Known for her collaborative and compassionate approach,…
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Databases, Drive, and Diversity - Lessons from Xata's CEO Monica Sarbu
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Monica Sarbu, the CEO and founder of Xata.io, talks to us about her inspiring journey from getting into tech to building Xata - the serverless database platform for modern apps. We chat about the founding of her first company, Packetbeat, its acquisition by Elastic, and her time as a director there. We talk about mentoring, diversity, and hiring en…
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Building a Global Scale Authorization Startup: The Story of AuthZed's Co-Founder Jimmy Zelinskie
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In this episode, we talk with Jimmy Zelinskie, co-founder and CPO of AuthZed, about his journey in building a global scale OSS authorization startup. Jimmy shares insights into the creation and evolution of SpiceDB, an open-source database optimized for authorization decisions. We chat about Jimmy’s story of transitioning from an engineer to a prod…
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The Open Source Data Movement Unicorn: Michel Tricot's Airbyte Story
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In this episode, we talk with Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, about his journey in building a successful open-source data movement platform, the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and insights into startup culture and balancing work with family life. Michel shares his experiences from being a software engineer to leading a…
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Profiling, AI, and Creating a Startup Culture: Insights from PolarSignals' Founder Frederic Branczyk
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In this episode, we sit down with Frederic Branczyk, founder of PolarSignals, to explore the intersection of advanced profiling techniques, AI-driven optimizations, and the nuances of building a successful startup culture. Frederic shares his journey from a technical contributor to a startup leader, offering insights into both the technological and…
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Optimizing SW Adoption & Maintenance: API Compatibility Guarantees with Björn Rabenstein
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Today we have a very special guest, Björn Rabenstein, ultra experienced engineer, long time Prometheus maintainer. In this episode we touch on the topic of versioning and backward or forward compatibility of software APIs and interfaces. Learn how to make your code nice for others or use versioned components effectively for yourself. We discuss sem…
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Optimizing Productivity with Mindfulness, Self-Compassion & Motivation
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In this episode we discuss an important topic of productivity in our live and work. We explore often forgotten topic of motivation for our work, self-compassion, energy balance to tackle tedious tasks and healthy habits for software development, meetings and more! We also touch on the topic of social media use. References: Amazon Prime moving out o…
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Optimizing Freedom as a Digital Nomad with Becky Pauley
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Working from a tent, prioritizing your electricity between your monitor or cooking dinner, canal boat life, and more. These are some of the things we talked about with Becky Pauley at KubeCon Europe 2023. This episode covers all the great things about the digital nomad lifestyle, but also dives into some of the challenges. Join us for the interesti…
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Optimizing Cloud Native by Interviewing KubeCon EU Attendees: Efficiency, AI adoption, WASM, eBPF
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In this episode we do a little retrospective on the last week KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam. We also share and discuss amazing answers from a few quick interviews Bartek performed with epic KubeCon attendees. You won't believe what we learned! Big THANKS to all interviewees for amazing answers: Christina, Harsh, Michael, Jimmy and Raphaël! Reference…
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Optimizing SRE Productivity with AI feat. Alex Jones, founder of k8sgpt
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AI is already changing how different industries operate with tools like ChatGPT and Github Copilot. Today we talk about a new tool, k8sgpt, that gives you SRE superpowers using AI. We are joined by its creator, Alex Jones - Director of Kubernetes Engineering at Canonical. We talk about how tools that utilize AI are built, how they change our day to…
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Optimizing DevOps and Organizational Structure: Solving The Phoenix Project
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In this episode Ivan asks Bartek to solve the problems presented in the book "The Phoenix Project". We talk about DevOps, organizational structures, the mythical 10x engineer, the value of mentors, and why Kubernetes does not just magically solve all of the above. No prior reading of "The Phoenix Project" required - we also try to keep spoilers to …
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Optimizing Prometheus Efficiency with Bryan Boreham
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Have you ever wondered how people find performance bottlenecks and improve them in complex systems? What tools and techniques work in real life applications? When should you stop optimizing? Well, this is the episode for you. Our first ever guest, Bryan Boreham from Grafana Labs, sits down with us and walks us over his experience of optimizing the …
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Optimizing Cognitive Load with Middlewares and Tripperwares
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episode{pod="oat"} 0 # Welcome to our first, number 0 (ofc, arrays always start from zero), episode! The first episode is about something very hands-down and actionable in the software--the middleware coding pattern! What is it? Is it under-hyped? What are the alternatives? Before the main topic, Ivan & Bartek discuss (20m) some exciting tech news …
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