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Core Sample
by Stories from the women holding up the mining, critical minerals, oil & gas and defense world.
A podcast for women in mining, natural resources, oil & gas and defense. Pull up a chair. Glad you found us. sturnellahq.substack.com
Episodes
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Governments Can Move Fast but Supply Chains Can’t
Governments can change policies, introduce tariffs, restrict exports, and commit billions of dollars to strategically important industries. Financial markets can respond almost immediately. But rebuilding an industrial supply chain takes years. In this episode of Core Sample, Sydnie examines the...
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Cybersecurity Shouldn't Be an Afterthought
After attending Defense TechConnect and meeting entrepreneurs developing technologies for defense and advanced manufacturing, one question stood out: How do we make cybersecurity a natural part of building a business? Many of these companies are working with connected equipment, industrial…
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Caroline Chapdelaine on Building Defense Hardware at Scale
Caroline Chapdelaine on Building Defense Hardware at Scale What does it really take to manufacture advanced defense hardware in the United States? In this episode of Core Sample, I sat down with Caroline Chapdelaine, CEO of Northstar Photonics, to talk about what sits behind a finished piece of...
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The Choke Point Is Moving
The Choke Point Is Moving America is rebuilding its industrial base but rebuilding capacity is only part of the problem. The next challenge is protecting the people, knowledge, capital, technology, suppliers and infrastructure that make that industrial base work. In Episode 16 of Core Sample, I’m...
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Follow the Choke Point
Can’t Find a Cybersecurity Job? The Work May Be Moving Somewhere Else. For recent college graduates, the cybersecurity labor market can feel contradictory: employers continue to talk about a skills shortage, yet breaking into the profession has become extraordinarily difficult. In Episode 15 of...
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The New Risk Perimeter
I skipped a week and I feel a bit rusty after Black Hat USA but I hope you enjoy. America is investing heavily in mines, processing facilities, advanced materials, magnets, batteries, semiconductors, drones, and defense manufacturing. But as the industrial base expands, so does the definition of...
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Security Is Physical: From Mine Sites to Farm Fields
Cybersecurity does not stop at the server room. When technology controls a conveyor, ventilation system, irrigation pump, grain elevator, drone production line, or manufacturing cell, a cyber incident can stop physical work, damage equipment, interrupt food production, and potentially affect…
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Acceleration: Money Is Moving Faster Than Organizations
In this episode of Core Sample, Sydnie examines the gap between winning a strategic opportunity and being ready to absorb it. The race is no longer only about securing critical minerals, contracts, or federal capital. It is about execution. In This Episode * The proposed $1.5 trillion FY2027...
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From the Ground to the Arsenal: Follow the Money
In this episode of Core Sample, Sydnie connects the suspension of CMMC Phase II with the proposed $1.5 trillion national-defense budget, the Office of Strategic Capital’s new financing pathways. The central question is not simply how much the government is spending but how taxpayers are expected…
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Critical Minerals and Mine Sites
In This Episode What critical minerals mean for defense, energy, AI, and advanced manufacturing. How abandoned mine lands and tailings may fit into the domestic mineral security conversation. Why mineral security is not only about new mines. The policy changes that could improve U.S. mineral...
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Volatility is Not the Story
We hit 1,000 downloads recently, so a big thank you. In this shorter Fourth of July episode of Core Sample, I’m reinforcing two signals that matter right now. First: gold tested the $4,000 level, commodities are still feeling heavy, and the tape is uncomfortable. But the strategic thesis hasn’t...
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The Map is Public Now
On June 25th, the Department of War released a PR email about the Investment Intelligence Center, a public dashboard tracking more than $6.5 billion in national-security capital across hundreds of investments. In this episode of Core Sample, I walk through what the map shows, what it confirms…
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From the Ground to the Arsenal
At one point this year, the United States reportedly had roughly two months of rare earth supplies left for the materials that go into precision munitions, radar, night vision, and the F-35. In this episode of Core Sample, I show you how the public documents connect rare earth processing...
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Episode 7 Run Your Own Race
SHOW NOTES: Title: Run Your Own Race Subtitle: Joan Benoit Samuelson broke away from the pack at mile three and won the first women’s Olympic marathon mostly alone. I just spent three days at the Elko Mining Expo, and what I saw there told me something the tape didn’t. Going it alone isn’t always...
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Episode 6 Patience Is Golden
I started my career as an equity trader straight out of college at an asset management firm. Later I went into investment banking and then hedge funds. Long before cybersecurity, I was reading the data. And the data right now is telling a story most people aren’t hearing. In 2025, gold returned...
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Episode 5 When Everything Feels Uncertain, The Numbers Know
Jumping in to add a note - I know these recordings are not perfect, they are not supposed to be but the information needs to be shared and that is why I’m doing this. Show Notes: There is a specific feeling that shows up when you’re standing at a crossroads. A career that stopped fitting. A…
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Episode 4 Your First Due Diligence Tool Is Free
I started this episode differently as yesterday (5/14/2026) I gave a talk to ISACA Phoenix and I wanted to make the presentation available to this audience. The link to the PDF presentation with the worksheets is on page 5 and 17. The worksheets help guide a career pivot and this may be relevant…
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Episode 3 The Ore Body Nobody is Talking About
There is an ore body in the mining and critical minerals space that nobody is talking about. It’s not a deposit. It’s a workforce gap. And it sits right at the intersection of cybersecurity governance, capital markets, and resource sector expertise. In this episode of Core Sample, I’m naming it…
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Episode 2 The Timing Will Feel Wrong
I ran a race this weekend. I didn’t run a great one. The time was off. My splits weren’t where I wanted them. And standing at mile 26, I made a choice about the story I was going to tell myself — the timing was off. Not the runner. There’s a difference. And it matters. In this episode of Core...
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Episode 1 Original Story
Show Notes. EPISODE 1: SHOW NOTES PACKAGE Show Notes: This is the episode where it all begins. I’m Sydnie Beckman — founder of Sturnella, capital markets cybersecurity advisor, endurance athlete, and gold bug since 2001. In this first episode of Core Sample, I’m telling you exactly how I got…
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Welcome to Core Sample
This is Core Sample — a podcast about the women who work across the full length of the mining and critical minerals supply chain. From the pit to the boardroom, from the assay lab to the trading desk, their work powers the energy transition, national defense, and the global economy. Most people...
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A podcast for women in mining, natural resources, oil & gas and defense. Pull up a chair. Glad you found us.
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