Let's Ride w/ Paul Estrada

About Let's Ride w/ Paul Estrada

Who else is trying to figure $hit out? Welcome to Lets Ride w/ Paul Estrada – the podcast where a dad tackles the big questions of life, career, and everything in between, by talking to interesting people that have the answers! When I turned 18, I lost sleep at night with questions that Google was not yet sophisticated enough to answer: What career should I pursue? How can I be more than just average? And how do successful people get to where they are (was there a secret handbook I didn't know about)? After 22 years of pondering these existential dilemmas, I’ve finally pieced together some answers – An answer that is sufficient for now, but one always in need of refinement. Join me each week as my 6 ½ year old son, Adrian, throws out a thought-provoking question or idea, and I invite a guest to help me sufficiently respond to him. From learning about money and investing, to finding a passion in life, and exploring careers that can be meaningful for you, we cover it all with a dose of humor and some soundbites of wisdom. So, if you’re a parent or a young adult navigating these tricky waters, or if you want confirmation that other people are sometimes just as lost as you, you’ve come to the right place.

Publisher

Paul Estrada

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jan 2025

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   On-Air Personality: Addiction, Recovery, and KROQ

   She chased a dream job in radio and actually got it, then addiction quietly turned that dream into a free fall. Megan Holliday joins us to tell the parts most people hide: the first drink at 13, the obsession that followed, the way drugs escalated from “weekend fun” into daily survival, and how her career at stations like Live 105 kept moving even as her life started to collapse. We talk about what rock bottom really looks like when it’s not a metaphor, getting fired, losing stability,...

2. 

   21 Apr 2026

   Supply Chain Expert: Choosing Uncertainty Over Comfort

   You can do everything “right” and still feel stuck. That’s the tension at the heart of my conversation with Niraj Jha, a guy whose life is basically a case study in reinvention. He grows up in India in a culture where the default success path is loud and clear, then chooses something almost no one around him understands: life at sea as a merchant marine, learning by doing, traveling constantly, and building real confidence in high-stakes environments. We start with something deceptively simp...

3. 

   31 Mar 2026

   DC Lobbyist: Raise Your Hand When Opportunity Calls

   Most people don’t miss opportunities because they’re lazy. They miss them because they don’t recognize the moment for what it is, then they never follow up. That’s why this conversation with Sean Todd hit so hard for us: it’s a real, messy, funny, human story about how careers actually get built when you don’t have a master plan. We talk about the unglamorous middle parts most people skip: graduating without a clear path, taking chances that look irrational on paper, and pushing through the ...

Who has been a guest on Let's Ride w/ Paul Estrada

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

• Travel Ball Dad & CEO
• Alex Payeta
• Adam Blanchard

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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

Quality

33

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51