Slackers is a podcast for leaders, builders, and creators who want to make work better—more productive, more human, and a lot less frustrating.
Hosted by longtime media and technology insiders Jonathan Sasse and Jaime Solis, the show blends candid stories, sharp insights, and practical lessons from decades spent navigating corporate life and creative industries.
This isn’t a rant about what’s broken or a step-by-step playbook. It’s a conversation about what actually works; the small wins, the hard lessons, and the patterns that make better teams, better ideas, and better outcomes possible.
Each episode connects dots across leadership, strategy, creativity, and culture, helping you think more clearly about how work gets done, and how to do it better.
We call it “Slackers” because the heavy lifting happens outside the show. So think of us as a weekly companion on your path to better work and a better way of working.
Doing Things Other People Don't Do: Building 5ive Tool Baseball with Jared Eichelberger
“You get to do things other people don’t do by doing things people don’t do.” In this Season 1 bonus episode — and a preview of what’s coming in Season 2 — Jaime and Jonathan sit down with Jared Eichelberger, former MLB pitcher and founder of 5ive Tool Baseball Academy in San Diego. Twenty years into building a business rooted in youth baseball, culture, and life skills, Jared opens the books — literally — on what it takes to turn a passion into a real operation. We hope you enjoy this behind-the-curtain founder conversation, and be sure to subscribe so you don't miss all the new insider conversations coming your way in Season 2.
17 Mar 2026
Calling All Builders: Real AI Use with Keegen Knapp
The tools are only as powerful as the curiosity behind them. Keegen Knapp is a senior strategist and product builder who has been deep in AI tooling as a practitioner. In this episode, Jaime and Jonathan pull him into a wide-open conversation about what AI actually looks like when someone who builds things for a living sits down with these tools every day. From competitive intelligence agents to synthesized executive teams to personal operating systems, this is the tactical episode the show has been building toward.
10 Mar 2026
The Domino's Effect
Most companies think their competitors look like them. They don't.
In this episode of Slackers, Jaime and Jonathan explore why the real competition today is not the company selling the same thing you are. It is the experience somewhere else that trained your customer to expect something better.
From Domino’s Pizza Tracker reshaping expectations around delivery transparency to the way seamless digital products quietly reset the bar for every other industry, this conversation unpacks why customer expectations move horizontally across experiences and why companies that only benchmark their direct competitors often miss the real threat.
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