SkillSharp Media
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SkillSharp The Podcast offers you insider access to information, trends, and insights to navigate building a successful career. SkillSharp’s team of veteran media industry recruiters with 50+ years of experience at well-known brands such as NBC, FOX Sports, Warner Bros., The CW, House of Blues, Disney, Universal Studios, & IGN, delivers career-transforming insights through Game-changer Conversations, Entrepreneur Journeys, Career Stories, and Recruiters' Secrets. Check us out on YouTube: @skillsharpmediaWhether as a professional or creator, climbing the corporate ladder or launching a business, get the competitive edge you need from SkillSharp. Subscribe to get new episodes and bonus content…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
SkillSharp turns recruiting, AI hiring, creator-economy work, and career readiness into practical signals for professionals navigating a changing job market.
SkillSharp The Podcast... Career Advice To Stay Sharp! is a Business & Finance show with a career-first read on work under pressure. Across the sampled episodes, Brian Wright and Todd Nakasone keep the conversations close to the questions professionals actually face: job search…
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A blunt case for speed, adaptation, and building your own lane when the market stalls.
The episode frames a recruiter story as a plainspoken argument for speed, adaptation, and self-possession when the market stops cooperating. Its core point stays steady: take in information, judge it quickly, and put it to work right away, whether the subject is conversation,…
AI hiring feels more concrete once screening starts narrowing a crowded pool into a short list.
The episode turns AI recruiting into a practical look at how hiring teams sort a crowded applicant pool, set filters, and decide who deserves a real conversation.
A practical tax-planning conversation that treats retirement money like a long game.
The episode keeps its focus on tax planning, moving cleanly through 401(k)s, Roth accounts, traditional IRAs, and the question of how to divide retirement money with strategy instead of guesswork.
A practical talk about creator trust, AI pressure, and the jobs changing underneath both.
The episode treats the creator economy as part of a bigger work and hiring conversation. Brian Wright and David Bracken talk through how AI, new tools, and changing workplace expectations are reshaping jobs, and it stays grounded rather than drifting into abstract talk.
A plainspoken look at hiring delays, candidate communication, and the slow grind of the process.
This episode stays with hiring delays and candidate communication, with Benny Williams joining Brian Wright and Todd Nakasona for a practical talk about timing, volume, and how long the assessment process can take.
Career advice that treats value, not charm, as the thing that opens doors.
This episode treats career movement as something earned by creating value first and then building enough trust for others to advocate. It keeps circling back to purpose, effort, and the gap between being recognized and having someone actively support the next step, which gives…
A practical AI conversation about workplace change, talent, and the first real steps companies can take.
This episode keeps its feet on the ground. SkillSharp looks at practical ways companies can start using AI, and Dominique Goulet brings enough staffing, agency, and workforce experience to keep the discussion tied to real hiring and operating choices.
AI is changing hiring fast, and this episode explains that shift from a recruiter-side perspective.
This episode offers a recruiter-side look at how AI is changing hiring, with Paul Duran drawing on experience from Plaid, Facebook, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, and blockchain.com.
Journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte interviews researchers and authors on women, money, bias, and burnout.
Isabel Berwick and FT colleagues dissect CEO loneliness, burnout and workplace power shifts.
Brian Wright sits down with Derek McKeith, the founder of Bad Beans Coffee.
SkillSharp The Podcast’s "Professional Pivot Series" episode "Are You An Influencer?
What does a career pivot actually look like?
The host and a guest spend the episode on how AI is changing recruiting for candidates and hiring teams.
Thomas Walker shares his career transformation journey from crushing failure managing a Nigeria consulting P&L to discovering alignment with his actual strengths.
Benny Williams says he hit a ceiling at Fox in 2006 or 2007 and stopped emotionally investing in a company he believed would never make him VP.
Todd opens the show by welcoming listeners back to SkillSharp and setting up a conversation about staying sharp in the market.
The conversation stays focused on tax planning and how to build a strategy that fits the person in front of them.
The guest kicks off with a blunt claim about success.
SkillShark podcast interview with entrepreneur David Bracken exploring career diversification across entertainment marketing, startups, and emerging technologies.
Olu Ogunade, a 20+ year marketing veteran with roles at Warner Bros, Disney, NBC, and Complex Media, discusses his unconventional path to executive leadership.
Paul Duran joins SkillSharp to talk about AI and recruiting.
SkillSharp welcomes Dominique Goulet, VP of AI Workforce Solutions at Onward Search, for a practical conversation about staffing, creative agency support, and how companies can start using AI without overcomplicating it.