Mork Unfiltered

Told she lacked executive presence and would "never get very far here," Jill Gawrych had every reason to quit, shrink, or fight back. She did none of those things. Today she's the Chief Human Resources Officer of Springs Window Fashions, and this is a raw conversation about feedback, career reinvention, and what it really takes to grow when someone tells you you're not enough. Jill started her car...

Welcome back to Mork Unfiltered, folks! Everybody in business loves to spout the old cliché that "people are our greatest asset," but almost nobody can prove it on a financial spreadsheet. My guest today is the rare leader who can. Shawn Premer is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Consumers Credit Union, an organization that has pulled off an astounding 18.5% organic year-over-year growth for d...

Two Names. One Life. Zero Masks. How an executive kept a secret double life for a decade—and why she finally chose leadership over hiding.   She ran HR for a 500-person company by day and wrote about her broken marriage and incurable illness under a fake name by night. Terrified that showing weakness would destroy her career, she kept both worlds completely separate. Until a single comment from a...

Every company claims that people are their most important asset, but how many organizations actually lead that way? In this episode, I sit down with Gabriella Bedor, a seasoned Chief Human Resources Officer who spent nearly two decades at PwC before making a high stakes leap out of her comfort zone.   Gabriella shares her unexpected journey from working a supermarket cashier lane, where she learne...

What if the secret to building high-performing teams isn't pushing harder, tracking more metrics, or driving endless KPIs: but a single, fundamental word most executives are too afraid to use?   In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I sit down with top CHRO Rod Branch, a leader whose career path bridges two completely different worlds. Rod started out as a petroleum engineer braving -95° wind chills...

What happens when the system you are working inside is designed to make you doubt yourself? Today, I sit down with Nikki Odom, Director of Human Resources for the City of Minneapolis. Nikki started her journey as an attorney navigating corporate law firms where she was often the only African American in the room. After facing immense pressure and getting pushed out of law firms twice, she had ever...

What does it actually take to build an empire from absolute scratch, scale it through three rounds of private equity, and then walk out the door forever?   In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I sit down with Matt Aston, founder and former CEO of GPRS. Matt started with zero customers, a maxed-out phone that would not ring, and a single ground-penetrating radar machine. Fast forward 25 years: he bu...

Growing up so poor that your family sends you into restaurant dumpsters to find food usually feels like a life sentence. Most people in that situation find a ceiling they can never quite break through. My guest today didn't just break through it, he completely shattered it.   In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I sit down with Jason Desentz, Chief Human Resource Officer at Toshiba Americas. Jason...

Have you ever spent days or even weeks dreading a conversation you know you need to have? Maybe it’s asking your boss for a raise, confronting a coworker with bad body odor, or dealing with a struggling team member who just isn’t delivering. We’ve all been there. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: avoiding the conversation isn’t saving you from the conflict; it’s making the situation ten times wo...

We have been conditioned to believe that the best leaders are the ones with the most answers, the most data, and the most experience. But what happens to leadership when AI gives everyone access to PhD-level knowledge at their fingertips? In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I sit down with Dr. Jermaine King, Chief Human Resource Officer, university professor, presidential leadership scholar, and a...

What happens when your dream evaporates overnight, your bank account hits negative $2,800, and the venture you dropped out of college for is left running on fumes?   Most founders fold. Matthew Vega-Sanz just changed the game.   In this raw, unfiltered episode, I’m sitting down with the ultimate startup contrarian. Matthew didn't cut his teeth in Silicon Valley; he learned business by fixing broke...

Welcome back to Mork Unfiltered, the podcast where we strip away the corporate jargon, bypass the polished LinkedIn highlight reels, and dive straight into the messy middle of true success. In this episode, I sit down with Satish Veranazi, the mastermind of global operations at Unify CX, whose career reads like a masterclass in calculated recklessness. Satish went from a management trainee in Indi...

Hey folks, welcome back to Mork Unfiltered. On today’s episode, we are diving deep into what I call the "messy middle" of success with an absolute powerhouse at the intersection of blockchain leadership and impact: Aly Madhavji. Aly is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund, where he has helped scale over 200 web3 and emerging tech startups. He’s a UN consultant, an INSEAD alum, and a be...

Most people spend their whole career chasing the safe door. Ankit Jain keeps walking through it and then setting it on fire behind him. He left Google. He built a company and sold it. He went back to Google to run an AI venture fund. Then he walked away from that too. Today he runs Infinitus, automating the most critical and time sensitive phone calls in American healthcare, at a scale that now to...

Hey folks, welcome back to Mork Unfiltered. On paper, today's guest had the kind of upward trajectory we all look at with pure envy. Billy Keels spent more than two decades scaling the absolute peaks of enterprise tech sales—including a massive 16-year stint at SAP, plus years at Dell and Computer Associates. He was managing eight-figure budgets, leading teams of hundreds across the globe, speakin...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to Resilience: https://aa5c-ea.systeme.io/resilience 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking Can an eye scan save your life?  In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I sit down with Professor Pearse Keane, a world-leading ophthalmologist who is turning the human eye into a "window to the rest of the bo...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking Are you pretending everything is fine while feeling deep down like something is fundamentally off? In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I’m getting raw and real about the nine...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking Hey folks, Patrick Mork here. We’re kicking off the new year with something I’ve never done before on the show, and I think it’s going to rock your world. Let’s be real: most...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to Resilience: https://aa5c-ea.systeme.io/resilience 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking "If you think business is just about the numbers, you’ve already lost." Welcome back to Mork Unf...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking How do you find your own voice when you are standing in the middle of rock and roll royalty? In this episode of Mork Unfiltered, I meet the talented Chloe Trujillo. She is a...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to Resilience: https://aa5c-ea.systeme.io/resilience 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking What happens to our identity when the jobs we were trained for no longer exist? In this episode...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to Resilience: https://aa5c-ea.systeme.io/resilience 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking "Silicon Valley is changing—and not everyone is going to like where it’s headed." In this episod...

Send us a text 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to an Epic 2026: https://gamma.app/docs/Morks-Guide-for-an-Epic-2026-hemh311wz29r1jg 👉 Download Mork’s Guide to Resilience: https://aa5c-ea.systeme.io/resilience 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience, and Leadership: https://patrickmork.com/speaking In today’s world, we are obsessed with more—more earnings, more shares, more revenue. But what i...

Send us a text I Quit! Why This Successful VC Blew Up His Career to Find Purpose Have you ever felt like you climbed the wrong mountain? That moment when you realize success on paper doesn't equal happiness? Today on Mork Unfiltered , we dive into the raw, honest story of Sergio Massano —the Portuguese investor who walked away from the cushy world of venture capital to build an investment platform...

Send us a text 👉Download Morks Guide to Resilience: https://aa5c-ea.systeme.io/resilience 🌟 Hire Patrick to speak about Purpose, Resilience and the world of startups: https://patrickmork.com/speaking Welcome back to More Unfiltered, folks! This episode is one every founder needs to stop and listen to. We're pulling back the curtain on the single most critical, yet most messed-up, part of buildin...