Path Found

Path Found is the podcast for anyone who’s ever asked, “What now?” This show explores the real, messy, and inspiring journeys people take to find fulfilling work—and themselves. From pivots and side hustles to mentorship and major career changes, Path Found reveals what college never taught and counselors never said.

Path Found is a arts podcast hosted by Monica Argandoña, with 47 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.

Monica Argandoña hosts Path Found, a arts show with 47 episodes published.

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  Episode #46

  The Longway Into Hollywood with Brian DeAngelis

  Aug 13, 202657 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Brian DeAngelis knew by about age ten that he wanted to make movies. Getting there took a lot longer than that. He didn't get into a single film school he applied to out of high school, so he went to UC Santa Cruz and built his own program out of whatever he could find and joined a fraternity, mostly because he was an introvert and knew he needed an obligation that would get him out of his room. That fraternity is where his first industry job came from. A few years producing in Silicon Valley followed, then a full-court press on film school applications: cold calls to admissions offices, flights to Los Angeles, and a professor who crumpled up his resume in front of him and asked what was actually interesting about him. He landed at USC's graduate film program, then in animated comedy development at Illumination, and today he's in studio operations at Warner Bros., where he sees the part of the business most creative people never do. This episode is part of our AI & Careers series, and Brian gives one of the clearest accounts we've heard of what artificial intelligence is actually doing inside a major studio right now — not the headlines, the day-to-day. But the conversation is bigger than that. It's about how opportunity really moves, why the friend on a junior agent's desk may matter more than the executive, and why, in Brian's words, "all of the people who do so much hard work here at one point or another are successful because they had the audacity to play." Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #45

  What a Career That Survived the Mac Can Teach Us About AI

  Aug 6, 202634 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Pete Stiefel has adapted to more technological upheaval than almost anyone in marketing. He began his career building print artwork by hand, with T-squares, boards, and film strippers, then helped lead his company into the desktop publishing era when he convinced them a Macintosh would cut typesetting costs by 80%. He was right. He also watched that same revolution put an entire industry of film preparation specialists out of work. Now Pete uses AI every day as a marketing creative for a home improvement company, compositing people into CGI room renders, generating campaign concepts, and drafting headlines. In this episode of our AI & Careers series, he explains what AI does brilliantly, where it falls flat, and why he believes the human idea is still the only thing that can't be automated. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #44

  Local Journalism, Legacy, and the Age of AI

  Jul 30, 202634 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Peter Weinberger has spent his career at the intersection of community and journalism, first as a photojournalist and, for the past two decades, as the publisher and owner of the Claremont Courier, a family institution since 1955 and one of the oldest papers still publishing in the greater LA area. In this episode, Peter talks about what it really means to run a local newspaper in 2025 — the economics, the ethics, and the AI bots that showed up uninvited in November and cut his website traffic in half. He shares why he believes local journalism will survive, what only a human reporter can do, and what he'd tell a journalism student walking in the door today. This episode is part of Path Found's AI series. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #43

  Finding the Wild: How MacNeil Lyons Turned a Dream into Yellowstone Insight

  Jul 23, 202636 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail What does it take to build a real life in Yellowstone, not as a visitor, but as someone who stays? MacNeil Lyons grew up crisscrossing the country, from Colorado to the eastern shore of Maryland, to California, and never lost his pull toward wild, open places. In this episode, he traces a career that moved through nine years of National Park Service seasonal and term positions, a stint with the Yellowstone Association Institute, and a brief private sector chapter before founding Yellowstone Insight, his own guiding company, roughly ten years ago. We get into what it actually looks like to build a life in a place like Yellowstone — not as a visitor, but as someone who has chosen to stay when the seasonal contract ends. MacNeil talks candidly about the appeal and the limits of NPS life, the pivot to nonprofit and private work, and what it cost, financially and personally, to launch a small business in a gateway community. He also reflects on the unexpected forms mentorship took across his career, how his college major opened rather than narrowed his options, and the version of success he never anticipated but wouldn't trade. Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. New episodes drop every Thursday. Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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  Episode #42

  The Distance Between the Plan and the Path

  Jul 16, 202630 minS1

  Send us Fan Mail Elise Barrow had it mapped out: Johns Hopkins, medical school, doctor. Her father held a PhD; college was never a question, and medicine was the destination. Her first semester didn't change the direction so much as the certainty. She moved from biology to public health, concentrated in international health and psychology, and finished in four years, because that's simply what you did. What came next was a career built on adaptation. Two years at the D.C. Health Department doing community health outreach through the anthrax scare and the Beltway sniper crisis. An MPH at NYU. Work at the New York City Department of Health on breastfeeding and prenatal care initiatives. Then Mount Sinai and the National Children's Study, an ambitious 21-year, NIH-funded longitudinal study tracking environmental exposures in women and children. Today she manages interventional trials in women's oncology, doing the kind of science that finally makes sense of everything she learned at 18 but couldn't absorb yet. In this episode, Elise reflects on the cost of rigid timelines, what she wishes she'd told her 18-year-old self, and why she's raising her own kids with an entirely different message about time, exploration, and what you're allowed to become. 🎧 Listen to “ Path Found Podcast ” Real stories of pivots, side quests, and scenic routes that inspire new possibilities. 📅 New episodes drop every Thursday. 👉 Subscribe & Listen : https://www.youtube.com/@PathFoundPodcast ★ Follow, rate, and share if you’ve ever taken the scenic route. Get Involved: 🌐 See the work we’re doing at Keystone Network - Web: https://keystonenetwork.org 💬 Submit your comments, questions for guests, or suggest new guests you’d love to hear from! 📷Instagram: @pathfoundpodcast

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