Laser Focused
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Podcast Overview
<p><strong>Laser Focused </strong>is a 30-minute podcast that cuts straight to the defining moments of leadership - those crucible experiences when everything is on fire and you are the one holding the extinguisher. Unlike traditional business podcasts that celebrate victories from a safe distance, the focus is on the raw, specific moments when leaders did not know what to do next. No frameworks. No theory. Just honest conversations about what it feels like leading through crisis - and what works.</p><p></p><p>The mission: Making leadership a little less lonely by sharing the truth about what it costs and what it takes.</p><p></p><p></p>
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Publishing Since
1/25/2026
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April 6, 2026
Everything Changed with One Vote | Quint Boa
<p>Quint Boa built Synima from a two-person operation in his daughter's bedroom into a 50-person video and animation agency across London, New York, LA, and Amsterdam, serving Fortune 500 clients including JP Morgan.</p><p>Then Brexit killed his biggest client overnight. The European Commission couldn't have a UK company making videos about how great Europe is while Britain was leaving. Cash flow collapsed. Quint's identity was so wrapped up in the company that the crisis became existential -- and he turned to drinking to cope.</p><p>He talks about clawing back from that, expanding into New York and Amsterdam out of necessity, and how leaning hard into animation saved the business. Plus: how AI is now reshaping his entire industry, why charities are sleeping on AI video, and bringing dead CEOs back to life for shareholder meetings.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://quintboa.com">quintboa.com</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://synima.com">synima.com</a></p>
March 22, 2026
The Only Decision | Bob Stewart
<p>Bob Stewart is a serial CTO and founder of Apex Velocity Catalyst. He served as CTO at Dell EMC's Global Security Group and Motorola's Internet & Networking Group, was elected Chairman of the Board at ACRES overseeing $140M in clinical research technology, built the world's first blockchain-based online voting platform at Votem, and led biometric security at Sonavation. He also ran tech due diligence at CMGI during the dot-com era, including the acquisition of Elon Musk's first company Zip2.</p><p>Bob's crucible: after pouring nearly two decades of IP into a blockchain-based platform for ethical medical records and clinical trial compliance, an activist investor tried to strong-arm him out. When Bob pushed back, the threats got personal. He chose to shut the whole thing down rather than hand control to bad actors and betray the people who trusted him: Green Berets, Gold Star families, and leaders in academic medicine.</p><p>He talks about the PTSD-like aftermath of walking away from something that central to your identity, rebuilding through Rust and AI, and why you should never bring in outside money unless it's an absolute full stop.</p>
March 9, 2026
Get them excited about Fishing | Aviel Ginsburg
<p>Aviel Ginzburg is General Partner at Founders Co-op and the founder of Foundations Seattle, the invite-only community shaping the next generation of Pacific Northwest startups. Before that, he founded Simply Measured, scaling it to 150 people.</p><p>Aviel talks about a leadership lesson that took him years to learn: stop telling people what to do. As a founder, he powered through decisions himself. As an investor giving that same advice to founders, it backfired badly. They learned nothing, blamed him when it went wrong, and he didn't even have the context to be right.</p><p>His real approach now: get people so close to the edge that jumping is the only option left. Don't give a man a fish. Don't teach a man to fish. Get him excited about fishing. He shares how he groomed an analyst into a CEO by doing something most leaders won't: making himself completely vulnerable, pulling someone into his uncertainty and messy decision-making rather than performing confidence.</p><p>Plus: building Firefox extensions with unexpected user bases, learning leadership skills from World of Warcraft raiding guilds, and why The Courage to Be Disliked is the book he rereads every couple of years.</p>
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- What is Laser Focused?
<p><strong>Laser Focused </strong>is a 30-minute podcast that cuts straight to the defining moments of leadership - those crucible experiences when everything is on fire and you are the one holding the extinguisher. Unlike traditional business podcasts that celebrate victories from a safe distance, the focus is on the raw, specific moments when leaders did not know what to do next. No frameworks. No theory. Just honest conversations about what it feels like leading through crisis - and what works.</p><p></p><p>The mission: Making leadership a little less lonely by sharing the truth about what it costs and what it takes.</p><p></p><p></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
- Does this podcast accept guests?
Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
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