Purpose, told through lived experience.
What Would Dave Do? follows reflective conversations with people working through business, art, therapy, finance, public life, and clearer direction. The tone is loose and human, with plainspoken stories leading into practical lessons about success, service, family, money, and personal direction.
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What Would Dave Do? is a warm, interview-led show built around the search for a person’s why. It is not polished into tight lessons. That looseness is part of its character, because guests are allowed to circle a memory, correct themselves, and find the point in real time. The conversations often begin with ambition. They usually end somewhere more personal. JB Gossinger talks about systems for high achievers and the difference between money and peace. Todd Malloy brings the discussion toward burnout, responsibility, corporate life, and the work of helping people understand themselves. Senator Bob Packwood turns a political career into a conversation about relationships, preparation, and how power actually moves through institutions. Bo Turner explains Bitcoin mining through money, energy, computing, and the gap between nodding along and actually understanding a system. Scott Harris uses New York City real estate to talk about homeownership as emotion, identity, and long-term wealth. Robert D. Laurentis brings aviation, danger, service, and youth exposure into the same story. Joey Muray challenges familiar assumptions about debt, car payments, Wall Street, and financial freedom. Tim Packard’s episode follows a former police officer who risked comfort for art, then built a life around helping other artists sell their work. The show is broad by design. Business, finance, therapy, politics, art, and adventure all become ways to ask the same question. What did this person choose? What did it cost? What did it teach them? The tone stays friendly and curious, with short affirmations keeping the guest moving. It suits listeners who like practical wisdom delivered through lived experience rather than tidy lectures. The strongest episodes feel like a good long conversation after the headline has faded and the real story starts.
Made for: For listeners drawn to reflective interviews with people in business, public life, creative work, therapy, finance, and people who have changed direction. It suits anyone who likes practical life lessons carried by personal stories.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its plainspoken curiosity: guests are not squeezed into a niche, but invited to connect work, money, risk, service, and identity. The result feels more like a thoughtful conversation than a packaged business lesson.
In memory of my best friend—whose life was tragically cut short—I created this podcast to carry his spirit forward. He had a rare gift: he saw people deeply, asked thoughtful questions, and lived with quiet conviction. What began as a tribute has grown into something much more. Now three seasons and over 55 episodes in, this podcast has become a space for meaningful conversations—an invitation to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters. Through stories from people of all walks of life, we explore how we grow through challenge, find purpose in the everyday, and stay grounded in aut...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations connect financial independence, career changes, operating systems, and institutional relationships to the motives behind consequential decisions.
What Would Dave Do? follows consequential choices back to the motives and working systems underneath them, using guest-led conversations and an openly curious host.
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A grounded conversation about systems, purpose, and success beyond wealth.
This episode argues for a plain idea: high achievers usually need a system more than they need more motivation. JB Gossinger ties that point to Get It Done Now and keeps success framed in broader terms than money, bringing in work, peace, contribution, and even the choice to…
A seasoned senator treats politics as relationship work, not performance.
Senator Bob Packwood comes across as a seasoned political operator, someone who understands how government works through access, pressure, strategy, and the plain value of relationships.
A flight story that opens into service, exposure, and a broader mission.
Robert DeLaurentis is introduced with a clear sense of stakes: a North Pole flight, a burst jet fuel tank, chemical burns, fumes, watering eyes, and the choice to keep going because the mission mattered more than the discomfort. That gives the episode a firm center right away.
A blunt, practical look at how debt can quietly keep freedom out of reach.
What Would Dave Do? frames a money conversation as a direct challenge to the usual script: work hard, climb the ladder, buy the things, and call it freedom.
A former police officer's shift into art becomes a clean story about value, conviction, and why people buy what they cannot leave behind.
Tim Packard is presented as a business-minded art seller whose story turns on value, risk, and the confidence it takes to stand behind original work.
Retail change, translated into shopper logic.
Retail strategy from inside the brand room.
Executive retail insight, close to the customer.
Retail strategy from inside the operating room.
Retail tech channel talk with practical edges.
Motivation is not the point.
This episode features an interview with Todd Malloy, a psychotherapist and corporate consultant, discussing burnout, personal responsibility, and his journey from a challenging childhood to his current therapeutic work.
Senator Bob Packwood gets a warm welcome at home.
This episode explores how Bitcoin mining redefines economic energy through an interview with Bo Turner, founder of Abundant Minds, who discusses generating passive income and educating high net worth individuals about Bitcoin's deep technology and financial implications.
This episode features an interview with Scott Harris, a New York City broker and author, discussing the emotional and financial aspects of homeownership, including his experiences selling luxury properties in Manhattan.
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The host opens by framing Tim Packard as a former Toronto police officer who left the badge for art.
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Host Tim Winter interviews Leon Anderson, president of Instrument Agency, about his unconventional career path from acting to leadership, starting with how he got a job at Metal Toad while filming a commercial.
Host Tim Winter interviews Ben Rigsby about his work with robots and self-interactive kiosks in retail, exploring leadership and technological innovation.
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