Mork Unfiltered

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...

Send us a text Are you chasing the wrong version of success? In this raw, solo episode of Mork Unfiltered , recorded from Singapore, I unpack a powerful mindset shift that could change how you live your life. After flying 24 hours to spend time with my 81-year-old father for the 25th anniversary of Insead's Singapore campus, I was reminded of the real stuff that makes life rich: experiences over s...

Send us a text Ahmad “AL” Fares did not just build a company. He built a mission born out of necessity, pain and a belief that connectivity is the gateway to human possibility. In this powerful conversation, AL sits down with Patrick and shares how growing up in the slums of Beirut during civil war, surviving with limited access to the internet and later traveling to more than 100 countries shaped...

Send us a text When Valerie Bowden volunteered in Africa, she thought she was helping. What she discovered instead would shatter her view of charity forever. After uncovering heartbreaking corruption in the aid industry, Valerie made a bold choice — to stop “helping” and start building. From that moment, she dedicated her life to creating meaningful impact through entrepreneurship. Today, she’s th...

Send us a text In today’s episode, we’re diving deep into some of the toughest and most rewarding parts of leadership and life. From managing Millennials and Gen Z, to giving feedback that actually helps your people grow, to understanding what really matters to your team beyond profits. We’ll also talk about facing fear head-on, how to overcome it using Tim Ferriss’s “fear setting” method, and wha...

Send us a text What does it take to build a tech company in a country where everything seems to be falling apart? In this episode of Mork Unfiltered , I sit down with Juan José Pocaterra , Founder & Chairman of Vikua and Co-founder & CEO of Wawa — two companies transforming how people live and move across Latin America. Juan’s story is extraordinary. From navigating Venezuela’s political a...

Send us a text Let’s be honest—most people suck at setting goals. We make resolutions in January, and by February they’re already dead. Why? Because we set the wrong goals, in the wrong way. In this episode of Mork Unfiltered , I break down what I’ve learned about goal setting from years of coaching leaders, teams, and writing my book Step Back and Leap . I’ll share why most people fail, and more...

Send us a text What does it take to raise over €1 billion and build 3,200 EV charge points across nine countries in just four years—while staying grounded and purpose-driven? In this episode of Mork Unfiltered , I sit down with Julien Belliato , co-founder and Deputy CEO of Electra , one of Europe’s most ambitious EV charging startups. Julien is not your typical tech founder. He’s an engineer, sys...

Send us a text In this episode of Mork Unfiltered , I sit down with Andrew Parker, founder and CEO of Papa, to explore one powerful question: Why is connection the cure? What started as a way to support his grandfather has become a national platform delivering millions of visits and tackling loneliness as a true healthcare challenge. Andrew shares the personal stories that inspired Papa, the messy...

Send us a text Welcome to another unfiltered episode where I’m joined by my long-time friend and tech visionary, Ilja Laurs. Ilja is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and a public figure who has been shaping the technology landscape for over two decades. He was recognized by the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and The Wall Street Journal for his contributions to technology and the mobile internet ecosy...

Send us a text Let’s be real—hiring the right people can make or break your company. Get it right, and you’ve got a rocket ship. Get it wrong, and you’re burning time, money, and energy you can’t get back. In this episode of Mork Unfiltered , I sit down with Alfredo Vaamonde, a three-time founder and co-founder of Papa (the health-tech unicorn tackling loneliness), to talk about his latest venture...

Send us a text What would make you walk away from a stable corporate career with no backup plan? For Tara LaFon Gooch , it was the realization that she was living a version of success that wasn’t hers. Once afraid to even speak up on a Zoom call, Tara went on to become a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, CEO, and creator of the GRASP Method — a framework for building confidence from the inside out...