The Sam Thompson Stroll

It didn't take long before Kyle Tannanbaum identified the driving force behind the rise and fall of NBA teams: business. With experience in the Dallas Mavericks front office, he began to see how ownership groups, contracts, CBA agreements, and other business interests dictated what was happening on the court. Today, he shares his findings and insights through an independent YouTube channel: Ba...

Music first piqued Jamis DeKay's interest when his Mom played him classic rock albums as a 6 year old. Today, Jamis is pursuing his own music full-time as a part of ifsowhatfor, an indietronic duo. He also recently toured as a bassist with Dogpark - an indie rock band - on their spring 2025 tour. Before pursuing his own music full-time, Jamis was a talent manager at Hallwood media and had rele...

Adam Liang left McKinsey as a Senior Business Analyst and joined Ropes AI as the COO. However, it was a more natural transition than you might expect. Today, Ropes is working to transform the way in which engineering talent is evaluated by delivering asynchronous assessments custom-made to the specifications of each role and the given customer's domains and tech stacks. Tune in to hear how Adam ma...

Quentin Tarantino said that the best film school is directing a feature film with no budget… Ben Klein has graduated from film school. At UW Madison, Ben co-directed Wasted, a film unapologetically depicting the post-COVID college experience in its rawest form. He also organized a one-night only premier to bring Wasted to the historic Village East by Angelika theatre in NYC. Fast forward to today,...

Evan Lasseter's journey to collegiate football is truly one of a kind. Diagnosed with leukemia during a post-grad athletic year, he deferred college to undergo treatment. When chemotherapy failed - a rare outcome affecting just 5% of patients in his situation - he pivoted to immunotherapy and a bone marrow/stem cell transplant. Now, cancer free, Evan plays safety for the Wesleyan football team...

After four roles and four and a half years, Bea Panitz arrived on ESPN's campus with the toolkit to succeed in their public relations department. Her journey from Michigan State Swimming to ESPN was everything but conventional - tune in to hear about her career journey to ESPN, her work in public relations, and her experience pitching ESPN's presence at the Met Gala. Much love, one love! D...

Michael Callahan had no doubts about enrolling in the FDNY EMS academy following his graduation from the University of Arizona in 2024. Tune in to hear about his training to become an EMT, how the events of 9/11 continue to shape the values of the FDNY, and his transition from high school to college amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (with a digression into our high school basketball team). Much love, o...

Joey Lane rolled over in his bed on January 1st and thought about taking a cross country road trip while working his tech product management job remotely: he hit the road January 3rd. Hear about Joey's experience on the road, his dedication to transcendental meditation, his experience as a product manager at capital one, and how he used his road trip to evaluate his next move. Much love, one love!...

Cam Bell took an unconventional step after graduating from Yale in 2023: he decided to move down to Jacksonville, Florida to plan neonatal surgeries at KLS Martin. Cam and I - former college roommates - sit down and discuss his time at KLS, outlook on medical school, his period of self discovery living in Jacksonville, and his hobbies and health routine. Much love, one love! Donate to So Chabe at...

Fed up with his friends complaining about the price disparities of Zyn (nicotine pouches) across NYC, Will Goldman sat down with his co-founder and did something about it. With a background in product management, programming, and entrepreneurship, they found immediate success with ZynMaps, an app that displayed stores selling Zyn and their prices in a map based format. Discontent with the values p...

After hanging up his bat and mitt, Jake Gehri entered the world of NYC finance. He also developed a mindset shift towards longevity, or preparing his body to continue to do the things he loves well into old age. In this episode, we discuss his exercise framework throughout the years, his professional journey (including him founding The Hitting Rope) and upcoming transition to Private Equity, and t...

Theo Henry packed up his bags in NYC and left his SWE job at Snapchat to move to Tel Aviv and join Maccabi Beer Yaakov as a professional basketball player. In this episode, we discuss Theo's move to Israel, his experience playing professional basketball, and his career as a software engineer and entrepreneur. Much love, one love! Topics: 00:00 - Introduction 01:22 - Move to Tel Aviv 07:16 - Growth...

Sol Thompson - my dear brother - wears many hats. While earning his masters in sustainability management, he continued growing his men's fashion podcast Pair of Kings and worked as a fellow at Morgan Stanley . Tune in to hear about Sol's insights into sustainability x finance, his fellowship experience, and his journey into men's fashion. Much love, one love! 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:11 - Sus...

As Ben Schwartz began his career in investment banking, he knew he needed to change his lifestyle and habits to maintain the fitness baseline he established as a division-one golfer at Cornell. Tune in to hear about how he balances work, life, and the other things that make life worth living! Much love, one love! Episode topics: (00:00) - Introduction (01:24) - Work life balance in IB (12:33)- Exe...