IT leadership without the gloss.
You've Been Heard talks with IT leaders about how they moved from hands-on technical roles into rooms where decisions get made. The conversations stay close to real work: compliance pressure, documentation gaps, staffing limits, systems change, and the long process of earning trust.
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You've Been Heard is a long-running IT leadership interview show with a strong preference for lived experience over polished theory. The format is simple. A guest explains where they started, what they are responsible for now, and what had to change for their voice to matter inside an organization. That structure gives the show a steady career-story backbone, but the conversations rarely stay purely biographical. They move quickly into the work itself. Recent episodes cover IT operations in construction, healthcare, veterinary medicine, government contracting, design-build environments, and enterprise transformation. The guest list includes CIOs, IT managers, cybersecurity leaders, and transformation voices who have spent time close to the machinery of business. A recurring point is that technology is not the whole conversation. Several guests push toward finance, logistics, procurement, supply chain, documentation, process, requirements, data governance, and the human friction that slows good ideas down. That gives the show a useful anti-hype streak. AI appears, but usually through practical questions: what it changes and where it removes excuses for weak documentation or slow delivery. Compliance gets similar treatment. CMMC, audit trails, government cloud, and contractor obligations are discussed as business realities with cost, timing, and contract consequences. The tone is informal, sometimes a little rough around the edges, and that works in its favor. It sounds like IT people comparing notes after the firefight, with enough structure to turn stories into lessons. The show is strongest when guests explain how they learned to talk to non-technical leaders without dumping the burden of technology onto them. It values kindness, clarity, preparedness, and being direct about what breaks when teams hide knowledge in one person's head. For listeners growing from technical contributor into manager, director, or CIO-level work, it offers a steady stream of field notes from people already making that climb.
Made for: Built for IT professionals, managers, directors, and aspiring technology leaders who want candid career lessons from people doing the work. It also fits business operators who rely on IT and want to understand the pressures behind the service desk.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by tying career progression to operational specifics: documentation, compliance, governance, business translation, and team design. It is less about trend-chasing and more about how technology leaders earn trust under real constraints.
Having a seat at the table. Nice. Being heard? Nicer. For decades, IT leaders have been the backbone of defensible business growth, solving problems that could cripple a business often before anyone noticed.We know this world.The late nights. The firefights.The impossible deadlines that somehow got met.IT Professionals don’t just fix.They fortify.They’re the frontline heroes fighting an improbable battlethriving where others break,armed with a resilience the strongest military leaders consider simply another day safeguarding the world.When things get rough, you’re indispensable.When everything’s humming like a well-oiled Tesla, you’re the hidden engine of progress, often asked to do the extr…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Working IT leaders turn cybersecurity, documentation and governance into clear lessons about the management decisions behind reliable business operations.
You've Been Heard puts working IT leaders behind the microphone and keeps the conversation close to decisions made under pressure. Doug Kameen and Michael Moore ask guests to explain the operational reality behind cybersecurity, documentation, data governance, vendor evaluation…
A ransomware war room meets the neglected documentation folder you keep promising to update.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded IT leadership conversation about lean teams, business alignment, and practical technology collaboration.
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CMMC comes across as a permission-to-play cost, with government cloud making compliance an operational decision.
Cybersecurity compliance becomes a business survival issue in this practical conversation with Nathan Hoffman, who traces 25 years in IT from desktop support to IT director and explains how CMMC ties into work with the U.S. government and DOD requirements.
A grounded look at the workload, career hindsight, and pressure behind a cyber attack.
A cyber attack gives this conversation its weight as Lee Lottie, Director of IT at Spectralink Corporation, talks through the human toll of keeping an IT team moving under pressure.
A candid leadership episode about family pressure, emotional control, and senior IT responsibility.
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Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
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Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Brené Brown's long-form conversations linking grief, caregiving, politics, and nonviolence to her vulnerability research.
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Doug Kameen interviews Lee Lahti, Director of IT at Spectralink Corporation, about his career and leadership.
IT Manager Eric Helbinger discusses his experience with an ERP implementation that nearly bankrupted his company.
Scott Kutz shares his career journey from IT intern to IT manager in the construction industry, emphasizing the importance of never saying no to opportunities and always learning.
Rob Spellman shares his 20-year career journey from database administrator to Chief Information Officer at QTC Health Services.
CIO Antonio Marin discusses the importance of focusing on business outcomes rather than technology when engaging with C-suite executives.
Piotr Mlodecki discusses his journey from businessman to tech leader, emphasizing technology as a means to business outcomes and the potential for AI to disrupt monolithic ERP and CRM systems.
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Andrew Rosenblatt starts with the day-to-day reality.
Tim Armstrong starts with the ground he is standing on.
Nathan Kaufman and the host on You've Been Heard focus on CMMC, DoD contracting, and the pressure of getting compliant before October 2025.
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Doug Saunders shares his unconventional path from Russian history to IT leadership and discusses the evolving role of CIOs in the age of AI.