Between Fires and Futures: Real Conversations for Tech Leaders Navigating What’s Now—and What’s Next
Between Fires and Futures is the podcast for modern tech leaders caught in the constant tension of today and tomorrow.
It’s the space between daily firefights—cloud issues, AI hype, security breaches—and the visionary work of building scalable, resilient, future-ready organizations.
Each week, we talk with the strategists, technologists, and innovators doing the real work of leading change. These are unfiltered conversations that expose the tradeoffs, wins, and lessons no one puts in the case studies.
No spin. No fluff. Just pressure-tested leadership, real-world insight, and bold thinking.
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Episodes
8 episodes
Power Is the New Currency: AI Adoption vs. Infrastructure Reality for CIOs with Joel St. Germain
AI is moving faster than the infrastructure that powers it. While headlines focus on breakthrough models and business outcomes, CIOs and IT leaders are running into the real bottleneck: data centers, power capacity, and sourcing.In this ...
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Why Women Are Essential to Transforming IT Leadership in the Age of AI with Leslie Bonsett, April Armijo, Lara Mayes
In this powerful and candid conversation, host Tonya Turrell sits down with three trailblazing women from GCG — Lara Mayes, April Armijo, and Leslie Bonsett — to explore how female leaders are reshaping the future of tech. Together, they unpack...
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From Firefighting to Forward Thinking – Automation for the Modern IT Leader with Chris Miller, Advizex
Want to know what automation strategies are actually working for real enterprise teams?Automation may be one of the most overused buzzwords in IT—but it’s also one of the most underutilized solutions. In this episode, we sit dow...
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The IT Leader Has Evolved – Are You Still Just a Technologist? with Jason Frame, Southern Nevada Health District
Is your IT leadership evolving fast enough to meet the demands of today’s human-first, AI-driven future?In this episode, Tonya sits down with Jason Frame, CIO of the Southern Nevada Health District, to talk about what it truly means to l...
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40:45
The Cost of Complexity – How IT Leaders Can Rein in Cloud Spend without Killing Innovation with Martin Hauskrecht, Labyrinth Labs
Is your cloud bill out of control—despite doing “all the right things”? You’re not alone.In this episode of Tonya sits down with Martin Hauskrecht, Head of Engineering at Labyrinth Labs and curator of the TLDR DevOps newsletter, to unpac...
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IT Can’t Do it Alone – Solving the AI Adoption Gap with Steve Grosso & Danny Jones, Advizex
Are your AI pilots technically successful—but still not going anywhere? You’re not alone. So what’s really holding back AI adoption in enterprise environments?In this episode of Between Fires and Futures, we sit down wi...
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The Tech Buying System Is Broken—Here’s What I’m Doing About It
Ever wonder why tech buying feels broken—and what could actually fix it?In this episode, host Tonya Turrell, founder and CEO of TechnologyMatch.com, pulls back the curtain on the legacy lead generation system that’s failing tech leaders—...
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AI at the Speed of Light: Allen Clingerman on Data, Infrastructure & the New Era of Tech Leadership
In this premiere episode of Between Fires and Futures, host Tonya Turrell sits down with Dell Technologies’ Chief Technology Strategist, Allen Clingerman, to cut through the AI noise and get clear on what tech leaders actually need to ...
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