Boardroom Sessions Podcast
Here at Boardroom Sessions we meet Southern California's Best and Brightest Technology Leaders and Executives. We learn about their backgrounds, business models, challenges and goals. Take a listen, join the discussion and enjoy!
About the host Mike Miller
When not in the Boardroom of one of his clients, consulting on Digital Transformation and Platform Architecture, Mike can be found at the beach. He lives in Huntington Beach California with his wife and 3 children. His true passions are Surfing, Stand Up Paddle Boarding, Trail Running and Triathlon. He is a seeker of information and a self-admitted Podcast junkie.
- Update frequency
- every 46 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Shane Shepherd - Asst. Professor of Finance & Economics at USC on the state of the US Economy
Meet Shane Shepherd, Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at the USC Marshal School of Business. We go deep from the individual investor’s viewpoint on Tariffs, Bitcoin, what’s new with AI in…
2025 Goal Planning with Dave Rhoads ( 5th annual)
We would have had this discussion with or without sharing with you all. We review last years highlights and how we measure, evaluate our high level Virtues we want to embody for the following year an…
Mark Schulein – CEO – Crown Ace Hardware, Waterman, Community Do Gooder, Hard Charger and super hard charging bright light of a human being!
Mark is the CEO of a 23 location Ace Hardware chain called Crown Ace Hardware and a local hero to may of us who know him. Mark and my lives have met on several areas and we dive into them here one at…
“It’s not all about Tech” - Collaboration with “Up Shift Creek” Podcast host Mark Redgrave
In this special Collaboration Podcast I sit down as the first ever guest of “Up Shift Creek Podcast” with the host Mark Redgrave. Mark is Business Transformation Consultant and focuses on the People …
Eric Ching - Career as a Lifeguard - Coolest job ever!
In this Boardroom Session we meet Eric Ching, recently retired Marine Safety Officer and Captain of the Huntington Beach Lifeguards. When I was 17 years old and working in a lifeguard tower at the be…
2024 Goal planning with Dave Rhoads
Welcome to this annual tradition where my good buddy Dave Rhoads - CEO and founder of Blue Street Capital, and I share our plans and processes for the New Year Goal Planning. We go fast and hard here…
Dave Dyson – Eclipse Telecom – “Lessons I learned while working from my Van"
Dave is one of my favorite humans period! I am so grateful for the opportunity to sit and pick his brain on the is podcast. Dave is a legend in the Channel business and has built a very successful bu…
Matt Vaught - Tattoo Artist & Social Media All Star
Conversational AI – A special live OCTP panel event
Welcome to a special live recording of a panel event that I hosted at our OCTP (Orange County Technology Professionals) networking happy hours. About once a quarter we have a live panel event to disc…
Danny Nichols - Operation OpenWater
Danny Nichols is a personal hero of mine for many reasons. First he is a selfless giver and runs one of the most impactful philanthropic organizations I know called Operation OpenWater serving the Ve…
2023 Goal Planning with Dave Rhoads & Mike Miller
This time of year as always we discuss Goal Planning and Vision Boards in the Boardroom Sessions Podcast, but my guest Dave Rhoads takes the mic this year. He flips the show on Mike and we get deep i…
#37 Shane Shepherd - PhD of Finance, Professor of Finance and Economics at USC
If you are like me you have been hearing a lot of doom and gloom on the economy. I wanted to ask the expert, my friend Shane Shepherd – PhD of Finance and USC Professor of Finance and Economics at US…
#36 J.P. - Russell Surfboards
In this session we meet my buddy JP owner of Russell Surfboards in Newport Beach. I have been a long time brand loyal shop rider for the Russell brand and am a bit of a fan. We dive into the origin s…
#35 - Rick Dellar - Renaissance Man
In this Boardroom Session we meet Rick Dellar a true renaissance man and one the Pioneers in the Channel Industry. A few words to describe him - Entrepreneur, Channel Industry pioneer, Real estate D…
#34 Benjamin Gleitzman - CTO and co-founder of Replicant A.I
In this BRS we meet Benjamin Gleitzman, CTO and co-founder of Replicant A.I. Replicant is at the front line of the Conversational A.I. space with a very exciting solution for the CX space. We discuss…
2022 Goal Planning with Dave Rhoads
Welcome to the second annual Goal Planning session with Dave Rhoads, President and CEO of Blue Street Capital. We hope to inspire you and give some direction as to how we go about our goal setting fo…
#32 - John Poli – Healthcare Technology Expert
John has held positions in Healthcare as the CIO & CEO. He has been an advisor at Gartner and currently an Industry Principal at RingCentral. We dive deep in to the changing landscape of Technology t…
#31 Tyler Altrup - Social Media and the Enterprise
Why should the Enterprise care about Social Media? We dive into the many reasons why and how companies are using Social today. We meet with Tyler Altrup of Sprinklr, a Social Media Marketing and Enga…
#30 - Duane Forrester – Search expert
Duane is an expert in the field of Search having worked at Microsoft with Bing and now with Yext. We all search many times a day but do you really know how it works? We dive right in here.
Duane’s Li…
#29 Brent Totty - Volv
In this BRS Podcast we meet Brent Totty of Volv. Brent is building a Tech Start Up that uses AI to help Coaches, Trainers and Advisors build habits among their subscribers and followers using Text Me…