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Storyliving
The Storyliving Podcast provides a platform to learn from inspiring leaders and their stories. We collaborate with a diverse group of top tech leaders to dissect their personal journeys and share insights from times of success and adversity to provide inspiring guidance for viewers. Our founder, Jack Griffin, explores trending leadership and development topics to give listeners unique tips for success within the tech industry. Happy listening!
Current Episodes
Tim Tully
Tim Tully, Chief Technology Officer at Splunk, shares valuable wisdom on how to attract and retain top talent in the latest episode of Storyliving!
We hope you enjoy learning from his experience at Splunk and Yahoo plus a special storying about joining Yahoo’s Founder, David Filo, in New Orleans to engineer disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina.
Cyra Richardson
Cyra Richardson, Chief Product Officer at Wind River, shares valuable wisdom on how to embody radical care in the latest episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from her experience at Wind River, Microsoft, and Amazon and the challenges she faced and conquered along the way.
Fernando Delgado
Fernando Delgado, Sr. Product Manager at Google, shares valuable wisdom on how to persevere through rejection in the latest episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from his experience at Microsoft, Yahoo, and startups where he was on the brink of working for Uber before accepting a product lead role at Google.
Tim Saeger
Tim Saeger, Chief R&D Officer of iRobot, shares insight on how to optimize for personal growth in this episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from his experience working in the defense industry and Bose, two career paths that added even more value to his story on how to excel in high-pressure cultures and plan for retirement from tech!
Hongmei Huang
Hongmei Huang, VP of Informatics at Genentech, shares inspiring and informative insights in this week’s episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from her experience at Genentech, Assembly Biosciences and, Johnson & Johnson, including fascinating talking points on and around data management tied to patient care and drug development.
Jeromy Carriere
Jeromy Carriere, Engineering Director at Facebook, shares insight on how to enable high-performing teams on this episode of Storyliving!
We hope you enjoy learning from his vast experience at Google, Fidelity, and Microsoft, including an inspiring story about selling a successful startup to AOL during the dot-com era and lessons from Doug Hubbard’s measurement research.
Tenni Theurer
Tenni Theurer, VP of Product at Verizon Media, shares inspiring and informative insights in this week’s episode of Storyliving.
We hope you enjoy learning from her experience at IBM, Visa, and Yahoo, including a special story about working on a stealth project in Austria where she stood for her values and came out stronger with encouraging career lessons.
P.P.S Narayan
How do we approach personal mastery to build organizational influence? P.P.S. Narayan, senior engineering leader at Apple, shares intriguing insights for leading high-performance tech teams in this week’s episode of Storyliving. We hope you enjoy learning from his unique experience at Bell Labs and Yahoo, including a special story of technical innovation where he helped lead the first international live stream of an NFL game.
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How Listening Can Propel Your Career
How many times a day do you find yourself in a conversation with someone and catch yourself more focused on how you’re going to respond, rather than actually listening and digesting what the other person is saying? This is something that we all do, even if we don’t...
How To Set Professional Development Goals
From the time we first enter school, we are taught that one of the most important things we can do to set ourselves up for success is to give ourselves different goals to hit. In high school this may look like getting two “As” and three “Bs” in our classes, or making...