Laser Focused

Laser Focused is a 30-minute podcast that cuts straight to the defining moments of leadership - those crucible experiences when everything is on fire and you are the one holding the extinguisher. Unlike traditional business podcasts that celebrate victories from a safe distance, the focus is on the raw, specific moments when leaders did not know what to do next. No frameworks. No theory. Just honest conversations about what it feels like leading through crisis - and what works. The mission: Making leadership a little less lonely by sharing the truth about what it costs and what it takes.

Laser Focused is a business podcast hosted by Mark Alcazar, with 5 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mark Alcazar hosts Laser Focused, a business show with 5 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Everything Changed with One Vote | Quint Boa

  Apr 6, 202629 minS0

  <p>Quint Boa built Synima from a two-person operation in his daughter's bedroom into a 50-person video and animation agency across London, New York, LA, and Amsterdam, serving Fortune 500 clients including JP Morgan.</p><p>Then Brexit killed his biggest client overnight. The European Commission couldn't have a UK company making videos about how great Europe is while Britain was leaving. Cash flow collapsed. Quint's identity was so wrapped up in the company that the crisis became existential -- and he turned to drinking to cope.</p><p>He talks about clawing back from that, expanding into New York and...

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  Episode #3

  The Only Decision | Bob Stewart

  Mar 22, 202638 minS0

  <p>Bob Stewart is a serial CTO and founder of Apex Velocity Catalyst. He served as CTO at Dell EMC's Global Security Group and Motorola's Internet & Networking Group, was elected Chairman of the Board at ACRES overseeing $140M in clinical research technology, built the world's first blockchain-based online voting platform at Votem, and led biometric security at Sonavation. He also ran tech due diligence at CMGI during the dot-com era, including the acquisition of Elon Musk's first company Zip2.</p><p>Bob's crucible: after pouring nearly two decades of IP into a blockchain-based platform for ethical medical records and clinical...

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  Get them excited about Fishing | Aviel Ginsburg

  Mar 8, 202624 minS0

  <p>Aviel Ginzburg is General Partner at Founders Co-op and the founder of Foundations Seattle, the invite-only community shaping the next generation of Pacific Northwest startups. Before that, he founded Simply Measured, scaling it to 150 people.</p><p>Aviel talks about a leadership lesson that took him years to learn: stop telling people what to do. As a founder, he powered through decisions himself. As an investor giving that same advice to founders, it backfired badly. They learned nothing, blamed him when it went wrong, and he didn't even have the context to be right.</p><p>His real approach...

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  Know Your Line Before You Walk In | Rebecca Norlander

  Feb 3, 202633 minS0

  <p>Rebecca Norlander is a renowned technology leader and Chief Product Officer at Verific.AI. Rebecca tells her story from when she was a Group Manager running the release of Windows XP SP2 during a white-hot security crisis. A senior executive demanded she withhold the update from millions of users. She said no - in a room full of people who outranked her, with her job on the line.</p><p></p><p>Rebecca talks about what it takes to stand your ground when the stakes are real: knowing where your line is before you walk into the room, being...

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  Laser Focused

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  Jan 25, 20261 minS0

  <p>Laser Focused is a podcast for founders and tech leaders navigating the hardest moments of leadership—the ones you can't talk about with anyone. Host Mark Alcazar sits down with operators who've been through the fire to share what they actually did when everything broke. 30 minutes or less. No frameworks, no theory—just honest conversations and practical wisdom. New episodes coming soon.</p>

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