Solving America's Problems

On Solving America’s Problems, Jerremy Alexander Newsom and Dave Conley discuss with Cruz Gamboa the shift from corporate to entrepreneurship and the importance of “inner work” to find meaning. Dave shares his own decade finding purpose after tech. Cruz uses Jesus as example of impact without wealth. He helps founders trapped making revenue but unable to make payroll or “paying the business.” Most...

On Solving America’s Problems, Jerremy Alexander Newsom and Dave Conley speak with Cruz Gamboa. As GE exec he closed massive $800M deal in Latin America with 50 people grinding long days, missing family, leading to burnout. Promotion brought no joy. Fear, scarcity, and achievement-based identity trap people. Corporate delivered skills and pay but the success guarantee was false. His breaking point...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley host 27-year-old New York HR professional Kathryn Conley. She earned an international studies degree equipped with soft skills yet mistrustful of the system and drifted into HR amid a tough market. Kathryn describes starting fully remote during the pandemic, the disorienting shift to hybrid, paying $3,000 rent in Brooklyn, and needing early financial liter...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley ask Kathryn what today’s moment will teach future generations and what scares or gives her hope; she cites AI, future access to clean water, and especially human connection, arguing technology and social media can both unite communities and isolate people into judgmental, exclusionary spaces, reducing empathy. She describes small acts of community—like bak...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley discuss how AI is reshaping hiring, arguing that blasting resumes into automated systems misses the human connection and that networking and informational interviews still matter. Kathryn, who works in HR ops, says much of her job (emails and core systems) could be replaced by AI, while many HR ops peers feel resilient because they’ll manage and direct AI;...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley spot MAGA fractures as influencers JP Sears to Patrick Bet-David bail on Trump, eyeing midterm and lame duck risks. They review S&P 500 resilience despite Iran volatility and gas prices, contrasting PE ratios vs free cash flow for AI-heavy big tech like Meta, Amazon, Google. AI bubble selloff largely over with sector rotation ahead, April bounce likely...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley open by noting half of recent college graduates work jobs that don’t match their degree and entry-level professional work is being cut faster than any prior downturn. They interview 27-year-old New York City HR professional Kathryn Conley, who studied international studies, describes graduating with soft skills plus a distrust of the system, and says she f...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave “DC” Conley interview James Klein , who has spent 45 years building businesses without finishing college and runs his consulting entirely by word of mouth. Klein describes leaving school at 19, trusting gut instincts , and the entrepreneurial rollercoaster. He outlines a K-shaped economy where capitalized businesses scale while others struggle, predicts a recessi...

Jerremy and Dave interview Canadian entrepreneur James Klein about universal healthcare . He details the government health card system, wait times for procedures, doctor shortages, and private pay options. Americans face high monthly premiums while Canadians pay through payroll. The talk turns to a new social contract for work by 2030 as automation and AI change fields like banking and law. Klein...

Jerremy and Dave hear from James Klein on why a recession is likely 3-6 months away with conditions like the Jimmy Carter era. Sustained high oil prices will drive inflation and limit rate cuts. AI helps with repetitive work but creates garbage output and favors a few big companies. Klein argues trades are understaffed and entrepreneurship is far harder than the hype suggests. Timestamps: (00:00)...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley break down how Middle East tensions are impacting markets. They review the S&P 500 futures, energy sector breakout then stall, and gold and silver forming double tops while now tracking stocks. Dave bets the bottom isn't in and calls for lower lows next week. They cover the week ahead including the Iran deadline, CPI, and share hedging strategies for v...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave “DC” Conley speak with James Klein about entrepreneurship without a degree. He shares leaving at 19 when his father had cancer and discovering he couldn't be an employee. Klein explains trusting gut instincts on the rollercoaster and supporting his kid through Canadian medical school. He breaks down the K-shaped economy , why working capital is everything for inv...

The old American playbook is breaking. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley interview Spencer Conley, a Big Four consulting manager, about why the traditional path of degree, hard work and stability no longer delivers. Half of new grads are underemployed while AI rapidly reprices desk jobs. Spencer chose a small liberal arts college to graduate nearly debt-free, then moved from presidential c...

Jerremy Alexander Newsome asks Spencer and Dave to forecast how AI will reshape America’s workforce over the next 25 years. Spencer predicts corporate slides and analytics done by AI, pushing young workers toward trade schools and hands-on skilled trades. Healthcare becomes more efficient and potentially cheaper. Dave says the U.S. lacks coordinated workforce planning like Denmark, Germany, Singap...

Corporate AI pitches sell efficiency but often mean headcount reduction. Spencer and Dave discuss how job losses to AI have already happened at large research firms through restructuring. Spencer details deployments in customer experience with AI kiosks, multi-cloud data integration to inject AI, and coding tools that spit out near-complete solutions fast. Early client quick wins include document...

Jerremy and Dave break down a wild market open as Q1 2026 closes. Tech, oil, and metals are up, but the VIX sits above 30. They see it as a relief rally fueled by escalating tensions in the Middle East, with Trump’s threat on the strait pushing oil higher. They won’t buy “war is over” talk without real signals from Iran. Jerremy maps it to past March selloffs and calls for SPY to test 650 before s...

The traditional American playbook is breaking. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley explain how school, credentials, and work no longer deliver as half of new grads end up underemployed, AI reprices desk jobs, and first-year pay lands closer to $35,000. Guest Spencer Conley got the deal he was promised through non-conventional choices. He attended a small liberal arts college on a strong fina...

Japan shows a different standard. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley discuss his trip to Tokyo where he saw zero homeless people, fewer than five overweight individuals, spotless streets, and cheap food. They link it to cultural pride – Japanese people are “too proud to be homeless” – and contrast with Las Vegas. Then they turn to Iran: the U.S. and Israel aren't controlling escalation as I...

Go to school, get a degree, get a job, build a life — that contract expired and nobody sent the memo. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley trace the wreckage: a 16-year-old who can't get hired at Wendy's , a retirement vehicle that was really just a tax code loophole , and an AI wave aimed squarely at people who thought sitting behind a laptop meant safety. The World Economic Forum says 78 mi...

The Department of Labor had $145 million earmarked for apprenticeships in shipbuilding, semiconductors, and healthcare. Then it got zeroed out . Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley close the Work In Progress opener by pulling apart the distance between what Washington announces and what actually lands. Workforce training budgets are shrinking . Skilled trades can't find workers. Immigration...

Eighty-one percent of workers fear losing their jobs in 2025 — and most of them can't afford to quit anyway. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley call the Great Stay what it is: a debt trap dressed as job stability. Then they crack open the retirement system. The 401(k) was never designed for you — it's section 401(k) of the tax code , a corporate cost-saving accident that got rebranded as a...

A buddy told Dave he was qualified for "stupid" — that's how he got hired at AOL with 200 college credits and nothing to show for it. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley skip the inspirational playbook and get blunt: showing your feet on Instagram is not a career, professional athlete is not a plan, and your gap year needs a deadline . Then the real edge: Americans are trapped in a cycle whe...

The deal was always simple: school, degree, stable job, good life. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley launch their Work In Progress series by asking what happens when that pipeline stops delivering . College is outdated and overpriced, trades aren't the universal fix everyone claims, and entry-level hiring is quietly seizing up. People in their circles feel fine — but Jerremy's 16-year-old...

erremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley close out the Trigger Warning series with a full recap of what four guests taught them about guns in America. 44,000 gun deaths a year. 62% are suicides — disproportionately lonely rural veterans. The rest is mostly young men killing each other in concentrated zones. Richie and Josiah brought the moral framework. Stephen Orr mapped the three-trigger progres...

Stronger doors, working locks, bulletproof glass — $500 million could make every American school safe. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley break down why that hasn't happened, then pivot to a harder problem: schools that don't teach . Miami-Dade has buildings at roughly 30% occupancy turning out graduates who can't read, and political resistance blocks every attempt to fix it. They debate wh...