Pentimento Podcast

Linda Latto has spent her career asking one question: what is being asked of me right now? She has answered it from Alaska to Georgia to Seattle to Portland to Southern California, across roles in real estate, healthcare, government, and now coaching and consulting. But the through-line was never the job title. In this conversation, Linda traces a world-cracking moment in her mid-twenties, the slo...

What if the greatest obstacle to your growth was never your circumstances — but your certainty? Laura Miner spent much of her life in a world where questioning wasn't allowed. She learned early that you defend what you see — or else. It wasn't until her mid-40s, with no bachelor's degree and a funny argument with her husband, that everything began to shift. In this conversation, Michae...

Joel Junker was always told that leaders get results, and that leaders are measured based on the results that they get. But, after decades of building an identity around results — Army officer, Notre Dame grad, and a 27-year career helping military leaders transition into business, he realized it all came with a cost that he didn't fully see until life stopped cooperating with his plan. In thi...

What does it look like to stop chasing your life and start receiving it? Dr. Sherri Lynch has spent decades building things — programs, degrees, careers, community — including Women Lead, a program she founded at Gonzaga University that has grown over eleven years into a gathering place for women in leadership. But some of the most meaningful moments in her story weren't planned. They arrived....

Barry Barfield has spent his adult life following a pull he didn't choose so much as discover — through theology, law, liturgical dance, campus ministry, and decades of quiet service in places most people never think to go. In this conversation, Barry and Mike trace a journey that has wound through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Jerusalem, and 34 years at Gonzaga Preparatory High School. Along th...

Jay Ballinger came home to help his father for six months in 1982. He never left. Forty-four years later, Jay is still with the same family-owned company — moving from sales rep to division manager to his current role as Director of Leadership Development, and earning the unofficial title of "culture cop" along the way. It's a career he never planned, in a field he never studied, tha...

An introduction to the Pentimento Podcast — what it is, what it asks, and what it hopes to find. Narrated by Michael Carey.