The TribalHub Podcast

Listen in as TribalValue partner, BuyersEdge Platform, talks through the grower-to-plate look at your operations produce purchasing.  From the supply chain impacts to industry trends and forecast and usage and optimization to local tribal community connection, this is a great conversation that will leave you with a strong understanding of how to plan and procure the produce needs for your operatio...

Finding a good partner to work with is challenging.  Both parties need to work together through challenges together. They need to go above and beyond and be committed to each other's success. They need to understand each other and their organization.  All these things build trust, authenticity, and credibility. And, this is exactly how one could describe the relationship between the Quinault India...

It's time to reimagine how you offer food to your guests.  Are you using technology to bring efficiencies to your businesses,  researching alternate options to items like disposable food containers that will have less of an environmental - and financial -  impact, or are you working with solution providers to find new products that will help you navigate staffing shortages?  If not, you should be....

Join Buyers Edge Platform and Domenic Vertucci, Director of F&B at Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville, CA, for a conversation about what is trending within the tribal casino foodservice industry. As a partner of TribalValue, Buyers Edge Platform is sharing exclusive purchasing solutions to aid operators in finding the best solutions for optimal cost management. Listen in as they share action...

How does burnout happen?  How do you reduce it from happening in the first place?  How can you help your team when you see burnout happening?  These are the topics covered in our conversation with Michael Levitt, the founder & Chief Burnout Officer of The Breakfast Leadership Network.  Listen in as we talk to Michael about his journey which led him to help people across the nation to identify...

In this podcast we talk with the team at Choctaw Nation about their digital transformation project to create an effective and secure digital platform that serves their tribal membership.  It’s a project that has continued to grow for the Nation as their members have seen first hand the benefits digital services can bring.   Listen in to hear how the continuous improvement and growth of the people,...

Access to broadband and wireless internet services has kept us together during the Covid pandemic.  From holiday zooms to online schooling; from telehealth calls to work from home office meetings, it’s the connection we needed during this crazy time.  Unfortunately, not everyone has had access to this type of connection.   In Tribal communities, only 65% of the total population has access to broad...

After being closed down for months due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, tribes across the country are working hard to reopen their governments and businesses in a safe and health manner. Many things have changed over this time, and are still changing. The world is in a constant flux, we are still in the midst of the global pandemic and tribal leaders across the country still need to be at the top of thei...

In today’s episode we showcase a conversation between Jason Lockwood, Health Information Consultant for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Justin Raisor, Sr. Account Executive of Nutanix. The two recently joined on a TribalWise webinar and discussed the success the tribe had when they migrated RPMS from a traditional architecture to a Nutanix framework.   IHS and private sector tribal health facilities us...

When you hear the word "ICONIC" what do you think of?  Your favorite shoe brand?  The sports player you idolized as a child?  A business leader that revolutionized the world with their invention?  We all desire to be ICONIC - but how do you reach that status? Calvin Stovall, the Chief Experience Officer for ICONIC Presentations, specializes in delivering high-energy, customized keynote presentatio...

There is an emerging growth of telehealth services within tribal nations right now that has been spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is changing the way patients look at healthcare. And it is changing the way providers give that care. In this episode, we talk with Dr. James Stallcup, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, and Toni Potts, Director or Health Applications, both with Cherokee Nation Heal...

In this episode, we share some great lessons that our TribalValue partner, Virtual Procurement Services (VPS), discussed during a recent webinar with our TribalHub division. Learn the keys to utilizing a proper procurement strategy to reduce and recover technology costs, optimize purchasing processes, and improving organizational collaboration.   Now more than ever, tribal nations and businesses w...

We're back and excited for our first podcast in a while!! Listen in as Mike Day (Founder & Executive Officer, TribalHub) and I  talk with two high level leaders from two casinos in two different parts of the country.  John Filippe, Executive Director of MIS for the Quinault Beach Resort & Casino in Washington and Dawn McGrady, CFO for the Little River Resort and Casino in Michigan. They op...

All of us here at TribalHub hope this podcast finds you and your family well and safe during this unprecedented health crisis we are all experiencing. None of us have a blueprint that shows us how we, as business professionals, should respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.  This is uncharted waters for all of us. So...what ARE we supposed to be doing?   That’s what we asked Larry Fretz of InfoTech Rese...

All of us here at TribalHub hope this podcast finds you and your family safe and well.  In the midst of this global pandemic, I hope that this show brings some "normalcy" to your day. In this episode we are going to cover the digital divide that we see in Indian Country and what the non profit group MuralNet is doing to help tribes across the country bridge that divide. Wireless high speed interne...

All of us here at TribalHub hope this podcast finds you and your family well and safe during this unprecedented health crisis we are all experiencing. Sharing information on resources and programs that are showing meaningful benefits to tribes and tribal casinos is one way that we here at TribalHub are striving to be a positive resource to the entire tribal community right now. We will get through...

Brian Brashier, Director of Broadcast Productions, for the Chickasaw Nation in Ada Oklahoma talks with host Michelle Bouschor about what it’s like to run multiple community radio stations in Southwest Oklahoma. One of the most unique aspects of the station setup is their use of multiple networking technologies to connect the stations to transmitters instead of using the traditional radio frequency...

Steve Nino, IT Director for the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, and his team had an amazing year in 2019. They received multiple industry awards (Including the TribalNet Industry Award !), converted their core gaming AND POS systems, and brought broadband to their reservation. Listen in while host Michelle Bouschor talks with Steve about this and how he has built an incredible relationship with th...

In this episode, we give you a quick listen into the conversation host Michelle Bouschor had with Steve Nino, CIO for the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians and the Soboba Casino & Resort. Steve and his team had an amazing year in 2019 - they received multiple industry awards (Including the TribalNet Industry Award), converted their core gaming AND POS systems, and brought broadband to their reser...

In this episode, host Michelle Bouschor talks with Patrick Tinklenberg, VP of IT for the Sycuan Casino & Resort in El Cajon, CA. Listen in as Patrick talks about how he and his team incorporated innovative tech systems into the Sycuan Casino & Resort rebuild, get his thoughts on the right amount of IT involvement during a project of this size, and his advice on switching from working as a...

We're giving you a listen into to our upcoming episode with Patrick Tinklenberg, VP of IT at the Sycuan Casino & Resort!  Great discussion on the casino's expansion, new technology that was implemented, and how he kept his team motivated during such an intense time.  Be sure to subscribe to never miss an episode, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn. For more infomraiton on Sycuan...

Our TribalValue partner can assist your Tribal Nation in building an agile software defined data center.  Listen to see if they could be a fit for you!   For more information, visit here:   https://www.tribalhub.com/tribalvalue/nutanix/    

Working with a small team and a limited budget means you have to get creative.  And that's exactly what the IT team at Modoc Nation (and by team we mean team of 2!) did when they were tasked with creating a new website for their tribe.  Listen as we talk with Ben Karnes, Network Administrator, and discuss his solution to creating a beautiful website by involving their small Oklahoma community.   V...

Listen in as we give you a sneak peak into next week's episode where we talk with Ben Karnes, network administrator of the Modoc Nation, and learn of his creative ways to find a solution to a website challenge!    

In this episode of the TribalHub podcast, host Michelle Bouschor visits the TribalHub team in their Portage, MI office and talks about the history, creation, story selection of  the bi-annual TribalNet spring magazine!  What is the focus of this must-have publication?  Why should YOU be excited to get your digital copy on March 15?  Take a listen and see!