City Manager Unfiltered

About City Manager Unfiltered

City Manager Unfiltered is a podcast by a city manager for city managers. I am your host, Joe Turner, and I’m on a mission to build a community for ambitious city managers. I want to provide you with the career tools and resources to help make you a better executive so you can rack up victories, polish your resume, dominate interviews, land your dream job, and win your contract negotiations. If you are a city manager looking to level up, check out my podcast, City Manager Unfiltered. Hit that subscribe button today so you don’t miss an episode.

Publisher

Joe Turner

Category

business · government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 May 2023

Latest episode

25 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

103 of 145 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Teaching Local Government via Citizen Academies with Jeff Niten | Ep. 144

   City Manager Jeff Niten discusses Mountlake Terrace's citizen academy, which educates locals on government operations and cultivates community engagement in an interview with Joe Turner.

2. 

   18 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   In Defense of Parks & Recreation with Michael Patton | Ep. 143

   Michael Patton is passionate about parks and recreation and he feels like the podcast has ignored this aspect of government operations for too long. A few weeks back he messaged me and articulated his case for why parks and recreation departments should be seen more as vital components of local government and not just "nice to haves" or afterthoughts in the eyes of the city manager. And speaking of city management, Michael thinks that parks and recreation directors possess a vast array of skills and experiences that should help them be successful city and county managers. SHOW NOTES: Link to Michael Patton's LinkedIn profile Subscribe to my FREE weekly newsletter. It is called the "City Manager News & Job Board" newsletter and can be found here: https://cmnews.beehiiv.com/ AAME MEMBERSHIP: To join the American Association of Municipal Executives (AAME), sign up at this link: https://community.aame.org/ AAME JOB BOARD: The AAME has a free job board exclusively focused on executive and senior level local government recruitments. To post a job, go to: https://jobs.aame.org/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: If you would like to support the podcast by making a donation, please use the "Buy Me A Coffee" link. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple or your preferred platform if you enjoy the show. It helps tremendously. But more importantly, refer your friends and peers to podcast through personal conversations and posts on your social media platforms. Joe Turner's LinkedIn Page Note: Page may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

3. 

   11 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Beating Alcohol Addiction by Never Giving Up with Matthew McManus | Ep. 142

   Matthew "Matt" McManus shares his transparent journey to sobriety, discussing the reasons behind his alcohol addiction and his ultimate motivation for change in an interview with Joe Turner.

Inside a recent episode

Teaching Local Government via Citizen Academies with Jeff Niten | Ep. 144

Published 25 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's, that's amazing accomplishment to get that kind of, not only turnout, but interest level. The interest level in, uh, uh, Sienna does a lot of work on that front. So those are deputy city manager Carolyn Hope, but really the on our side, you know, internally. I don't give you the run down here in a second, or internally, we, uh, included just about all employees, right? I want, uh, the folks that, uh, are at the front desk to take an utility payments to, uh, be talking to people during the classes, because you, that's how you build relationships, right? And you involve the entire team, and they all put something together. […]

Who has been a guest on City Manager Unfiltered

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Jeff Niten
• Matthew McManus
• Matt McManus
• Chris Mann
• Tim Rundel

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

10,132

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

226 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

76 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

98

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