The Michael Peres Podcast

Michael Peres interviews Brooke Lively, a scaling strategist who helps law firm leaders grow with clarity, traction, and sustainable profitability. A serial entrepreneur with an MBA, a CFA, and two decades in the legal industry, Brooke blends sharp financial insight with a very human approach to growth. She’s also an international bestselling author of eight books for law firms, with her latest wo...

Michael Peres is joined by Jon Fry, CEO and founder of Lendflow, an embedded lending platform powered by AI that helps fintechs, lenders, and vertical SaaS companies launch credit products faster. With a background in accounting and finance from the University of Texas at Austin and experience building channel growth at Quickline Credit, Jon now focuses on the infrastructure layer that lets others...

Michael Peres welcomes Laura Jaye Cramer, a brand strategist, writer, and founder of Cowboy Media & Marketing and its publishing arm, Waiting Room Publishing, which produces five magazine titles including Candlelight Magazine and Clarity Magazine. Based in Seattle and originally from Colorado, Laura focuses on print media for end-of-life and senior living industries, telling nuanced, human-cen...

Catching up on an inspiring episode with Stephen Keighery — Australian entrepreneur turned U.S. real estate investor — as he shares the unconventional path that took him from Bondi Beach to building a $315M ASX-listed company, and then starting over again in Louisiana. From founding High Pages Group and scaling it to 300 employees and 35,000+ paying customers, to walking away from corporate life a...

Catching up on another episode with Duane Varan – CEO of MediaPet.ai and pioneering media scientist – as he breaks down how decades of academic research, neurometrics, and AI collided to reshape the future of advertising! From running real-world experiments on the impact of television to leading Disney’s innovation lab, Duane shares the long, unexpected journey that led to building an AI video pla...

Catching up on another episode with Sanny Liao – co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Fable Security and a PhD-trained data scientist – as she unpacks how a love for pure math led her into the front lines of cybersecurity and human risk. From abstract algebra at Barnard to leading data science teams at Abnormal Security and Teleport (now X), Sanny shares why the future of security isn’t just te...

Michael Peres is joined by Dr. Tere Linzey, licensed educational psychologist and founder of BrainMatterZ, a program that helps kids and teens strengthen auditory processing, executive functioning, attention, and memory. With 30+ years in education and research experience at places like Harvard and UC Berkeley, Dr. Linzey now runs a private practice in Carmel and Santa Barbara, focusing on practic...

Catching up on another episode with Tony Pham — fractional CMO, Web3 marketing leader, and certified meditation teacher — as he shares a rare blend of startup intensity and grounded calm. From nearly becoming a diplomat to scaling Life360 to 60M+ users and helping shape some of crypto’s most influential projects like Kava, Kadena, and TrustToken, Tony unpacks a career driven by curiosity, clarity,...

Catching up on another episode with Nita Laad – Bay Area tech leader, engineer-turned-entrepreneur, and founder of Nexia AI – as she shares her journey from growing up in Goa, India to building enterprise-scale products in Silicon Valley and now shaping the future of human-plus-AI collaboration. With over 20 years across engineering, product, and go-to-market roles at companies like Cisco, HP, and...

“Catching up on another episode with Greg Lok — president of Butcher’s Bone Broth and a scrappy, first-generation American entrepreneur — as he shares how immigrant grit, intellectual curiosity, and bold career pivots helped turn a small family business into a nationally recognized food and wellness brand with 50%+ year-over-year growth. From blue-collar roots to startups, supply-chain hacks...

Michael Peres with Kayley Hamilton, a two-time Emmy Award–winning former Hollywood reporter and founder of UPLVL, where she helps founders and experts secure celebrity-level media exposure. After a decade interviewing A-list stars on red carpets for outlets like Entertainment Tonight and Us Weekly, Kayley now helps purpose-driven experts become go-to thought leaders featured in top publications, p...

Michael Peres is joined by Punit Jajodia, tech entrepreneur, educator, and one of Nepal’s 40 Under 40 most influential young leaders. Punit is the co-founder and CEO of Programiz, a platform transforming how beginners learn programming through interactive courses and gamified experiences. Over the past decade, he has grown Programiz from a simple blog into a global education product that helps mil...

Michael Peres with Michael Jones, general partner at Science Inc., the venture studio and fund behind more than 6 billion dollars in combined exits, including brands like Dollar Shave Club, Liquid Death, Scopely, Rover, and more. Formerly CEO of Myspace and one of AOL’s youngest senior vice presidents, Michael now sits on the boards of Liquid Death, Mammoth Media, Pray.com, and Mindset Health, giv...

Michael Peres is joined by Dr. Momo Vuyisich, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Viome, where he leads the development of RNA-based tests that decode the gut microbiome and other biological systems to power precision nutrition. A molecular biologist with more than two decades of experience, Dr. Vuyisich has dedicated his career to understanding how chronic diseases really begin in the body –...

Michael Peres sits down with Jill Jones and Elizabeth Reeder, lifelong friends, busy moms, and co-founders of FitQuo – a practical, science-backed fitness system designed to help real adults over 40 feel strong, capable, and confident again. After watching people they love struggle with mobility, strength loss, and “feeling old” far too early, they became certified personal trainers and built a pr...

Michael Peres welcomes with Kelsey Formost, head of marketing at Togal. AI, an award-winning construction tech company using AI to transform pre-construction. A marketing expert and copywriting thought leader, Kelsey blends strategy, human psychology, and her Hollywood background to create entertainment-first brand storytelling that actually connects. In this episode, you’ll learn: • How a theater...

Michael Peres sits down with Michael Wu, general manager and president of Phison Technology USA and a veteran of 20+ years in the NAND storage industry. After starting in radio frequency engineering, Michael took a leap into storage when Phison opened its U.S. office, helping grow it into a leading flash storage solutions provider and overseeing its American operations today. In this episode, you’...

Catching up on another mind-bending episode with Anna Murray — co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Sixero and founder of eMedia — as she joins Michael Peres for a deep dive into quantum computing, post-quantum security, and the future of data protection. From philosophical questions about reality and superposition to the very real risks quantum computers pose to today’s encryption, Anna b...

Catching up on another powerful episode with Matt Boden — owner of Fresh Coat Painters of Tampa, nationally recognized entrepreneur, and cancer survivor — as he shares a raw, inspiring journey from college hospitality jobs to building an award-winning painting franchise with heart. From owning restaurants across the Southeast to facing a life-altering cancer diagnosis at 27, Matt opens up about re...

In this episode, Michael Peres sits down with Steve, a forward-thinking financial leader whose career spans private equity, hedge funds, and investment banking—experience that ultimately led him to co-found RYT, a next-generation layer-one blockchain built to fix the inefficiencies buried deep inside global financial systems. From missed “early Bitcoin” moments to navigating today’s rapidly maturi...

In this episode, Cameron opens up about his early days hacking together GeoCities pages on a 10GB IBM Aptiva, why he dropped out of university to chase Facebook affiliate revenue, the chaos and brilliance of nonlinear productivity, and how two decades of internet evolution shaped his thinking about SEO, content, and building brands in the age of AI. If you’ve ever wondered how digital natives actu...

Michael Peres is joined by Vladimir Vukicevic, CEO and founder of Better and Better, a wellness-driven oral care brand turning toothpaste into a daily delivery system for essential nutrients. A childhood bone cancer survivor from Chernobyl who spent years managing chronic vitamin deficiencies, Vladimir set out to build a pill-free, habit-based way to support long term health. Before launching Bett...

Catching an extraordinary episode with Dr. Sherman Silber — one of the world’s foremost pioneers in reproductive microsurgery, IVF, and modern infertility treatment. From developing breakthrough microsurgical techniques to innovating vasectomy reversals, ovary transplantation, and ovarian longevity, Dr. Silber has shaped the very foundation of today’s fertility science. In this conversation, he sh...

In this powerful episode, Dr. Ritu Saluja-Sharma — double board-certified emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician — shares why she walked away from 20 years in the ER to tackle the real crisis happening long before patients arrive at the hospital: America’s broken relationship with food. After treating decades of preventable disease, Dr. Ritu built Head Heart Hands, a science-based nut...

In this powerful episode, Michael Peres sits down with Dr. Hany Demian—physician entrepreneur, CEO of Florida’s BioSpine Institute, and a pioneer in regenerative and minimally invasive spine treatments. From surviving a bombing in Egypt to practicing emergency medicine in Canada, to leading a cutting-edge spine practice in Florida, Dr. Hany shares the remarkable journey that shaped his mission: re...