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227: Is Pretty Privilege REAL in IT?, US H-1B Visa Crackdown, In-Person Interviews Return?

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226: Ep. 222 | Is Your Degree Useless?, OpenAI Breaches Gov Systems, Should you Quit a $200K Stable Job?

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225: Are Trades Better Than Tech? Gen Z Work Debates, Claude Money & HBO Max Hack

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224: Is Your Career Stagnating? Navigating Tech Shifts, Resume Gaps & AI Risks

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223: GenZ vs Boomers on Student Debt, IDScan was hacked, 284M Records Stolen in McKesson Breach

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222: Meta Pays $18B for Kids Data, Fake 49ers WR Scams $1.3M, Is Gen Z Soft?

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221: CISSP w/ No Experience is USELESS?, Walmart FINALLY Adds Apple Pay, 100+ Apps Still Isn't Enough?

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220: Anthropic Watermarking AI ?, North Koreans worked for US Government, Google PIxel 11

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219: Meta Hit w/ $942M Fine, Finance Execs getting extorted for 10Ms , Job Market isn't dead?

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218: Google Exposed Claude Chats , OpenAI vs HuggingFace, Brinks Security gets hacked?

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217: $137k Job Scam Exposed, Iran Hacking US Water Grid, OpenAI Security Breach

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216: Coca-Cola Hack, Apple's Secret Zero-Day, Why Gen Z Loses Job Offers

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215: Why is Apple suing OpenAI?

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214: The First AI Ransomware Attack, 3 Million Texas IDs Stolen & Fake Zoom Interview Hack?

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213: Day in the Life of a Chief Information Security Officer

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212: How to Build a Six-Figure Tech Career Using Linux

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211: Coupang’s $409M Fine, ServiceNow Flaw, Anthropic Fable and AI Hiring Bias

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210: IBM was hacked 56,000 times(and nobody knew)

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209: 20 Final Round Interviews but ZERO OFFERS ‼️

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208: From Air Force to Six-Figure Cloud Engineer

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207: 6-Figure Tech Careers for Vets: The Real Truth

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206: Is the Job Market Cooked(in 2026)?

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205: Is Claude Mythos the End of Cybersecurity? (Project Glasswing)

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204: Ep. 204 FBI Director & Lockheed Martin Hacked: America’s Worst Security Disaster?

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ep. 203 Iranian hackers Just DELETED Stryker: The Scariest Cyber Attack of 2026.

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Ep. 202 Why Gen Z is getting FIRED, Capella's Master Degree in 36 days, $300k Cyber Jobs

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Ep. 201 Why Jack Dorsey Just Fired 4,000 People (And Who Is Next) |

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200: Ep. 200 What Amazon & Meta Aren’t Telling You About Layoffs

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From College Dropout to $500k AWS Cloud Engineer

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What Recruiters Really Think: Resumes, AI, and Job Search Myths Uncovered

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199: Episode 199 Ex Intel Employee stole 18,000 files, Top Breaches of 2025, Career Advice for your 30s

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198: Ep. 198 Breaking Into Security: Helpdesk Roots, GovTech Woes, and Red Team Dreams

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197: Episode 197 Would you Return to Office for a $250k Salary?

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IT Helpdesk helped him become a Cyber Security Analyst(in 2025)

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Ep. 196 CrowdStrike's Insider Threat Problem, $140k Student Loan Debt, and Phishing Attacks

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Episode 195 Cloudflare’s Outage, DoorDash hacked, Nvidia $57B revenue, and Tech Career Crashouts

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Ep. 194 AfroTech Recap, Amazon Layoffs, Business Casual

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Ep. 192 How we got into Cyber Security (tips for newbies)

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191: Ep. 191 Why Women love AI and not Men

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190: Ep 190 Why getting a job feels impossible right now

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Ep. 189 Do College Universities need AI for Graduate Success?

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188: Ep. 188 Are GRC Analyst roles dead, is GRC engineering the future, tech startups

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187: Episode 187 Cyber Security Engineers, Advanced Degrees, & Security Awareness

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186: Ep. 186 The Honest Truth about Security+, Govtech, & working helpdesk Ft. Symone Beez

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185: Ep. 185 IT Helpdesk helped Triple his income

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184: Ep.184 Cyber News: PaloAlto buys CyberArk,Tea App Hacked again, Tech Women leave TikTok

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183: Ep. 183 The Tea App Data Breach: Millenial Managers, Sam Altman on ChatGPT Legal Protection

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182: Ep. 182 Mastering Cloud Careers: Real Talk on Help Desk, DevOps, and Tech Interview Strategies

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181: Ep. 181 Tech Job Market: Data Roles, Cloud Engineering, AI Strategy, and Career Growth

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180: Ep. 180 Discover Six-Figure Career Opportunities in Energy (Pivot Now)

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179: Ep. 179 Will CompTIA Sec+ land you a SOC Analyst role?

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178: Ep. 178 The $200k Big 4 GRC Cyber Security Consultant

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177: Ep. 177 iOS 26, Google Cloud Outage, Android 16, & Discord Invite Link Exploits

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176: Ep. 176 Become a Project Manager without Experience (in 2025)

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175: Ep. 175 From Carmax Car Salesman to IT Infrastructure Architect |

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174: Ep. 174 GRC Is Technical: Breaking the Non-Technical Stereotype in GRC

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173: Ep. 173 CrowdStrike Layoffs, AI Missteps, and Industry Shakeups

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172: Ep. 172 The Truth about Networking Careers: Network Engineering vs Networking Security

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171: Ep. 171 The Truth About Cyber Security Careers: Bootcamps, AI, and GRC

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170: Ep.170 The Ai Copyright Problem

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169: Ep. 169 HR Expert Reveals Shocking truth about Corporate America

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168: Ep. 168 How to get into IT without ANY EXPERIENCE

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167: Ep. 167 What is RPA (Robotic Process Automation) ?

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166: Ep. 166 From $12 an Hour to Tech Millionaire feat Troy Buckholdt

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167: Ep. 165 Google Buys Wiz for $32 Billion in EPIC deal

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164: Ep. 164 The HONEST TRUTH about being a SOC Analyst

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163: Ep. 163 Tech Job Market Struggles, AI Recruiting Interviews, T-Mobile $25k Payout

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162: Episode 162. | From Dental Assistant to Cloud Engineer ft. ShaeInTheCloud ​

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161: Episode 161. Get into GovTech: Become an ISSO with NIST RMF

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160: Ep. 160 | How to Get into Cybersecurity with ZERO Experience

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159: Ep. 159 Why is it hard to find a job in 2025?

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158: Trump Offers Government Employees 8 Month Buyout or RTO ,ChatGPT vs Deepseek , What is DEI?

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157: Ep. 157 JP Morgan wants Employees in OFFICE 5 days a week | Tiktok is getting banned!

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156: Vivek Ramaswamy Erupts on American Culture on X

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155: IT Director EXPOSES the TRUTH about working in Tech

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154: How to become a Salesforce Administrator

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153: Was United Healthcare's CEO Murdered? ep. 153

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151: Why Cybersecurity Needs a Makeover! ft Miranda Stanfield ep. 152

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151: Are Cyber Security JOBS in DEMAND ? Ep. 151

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150: How to PIVOT into Cyber Security in 6 Months with NO EXPERIENCE

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149: She Quit Teaching to work in Tech

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148: How to Kickstart Your Career in Project Management

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147: Top Flight Security of the World Craig

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146: From NOC Analyst to Remote Entry-Level Incident Response Analyst

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145: From No Experience to Security Engineer

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141: IS AI increasing Unemployment in TECH? | Remote work coming to an end?

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143: JOB HOPPING EXPOSED ! | How to BEAT PIPS from HR expert

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142: DEI is the new N Word

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141: No EXPERIENCE to CLOUD ENGINEER | Get into the CLOUD or DIE TRYING

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140: You need Helpdesk to get into Cybersecurity?

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139: The MYTH about the CYBER SECURITY INDUSTRY

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138: Dell & Intel Layoffs Impact Thousands | Tech CEOs back track on RTO Mandate

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137: The $300k GRC Cyber Security Consultant | How to Pivot into GRC

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139: The TRUTH about GETTING into CYBER SECURITY

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135: The AT&T Cyber Attack is BIGGER than IMAGINED all CUSTOMERS Affected

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134: Was the Federal Reserve Bank Hacked?

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133: From Software Engineer to Cybersecurity Analyst with Sandra Liu

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135: How to Start your Cyber Security Career with Splunk !

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132: From MailRoom Clerk to Six-Figure Cyber Security Engineer

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131: How LONG should it TAKE to find a JOB in 2024?