Press, interviews, and guest work.

Podcast · June 2026

The AI Edge Podcast: He Built an AI That Helps Cancer Patients at 2 AM

Louis Fernandes hosts an audience of commercial real estate operators, so I expected to spend the hour on Firmspace. The conversation kept returning to how the pieces of a career fit together, and the answer runs through a pharmacy counter on Long Island, a small nonprofit in New York, and my dad's diagnosis in 2005.

We covered the TC Navigator, a chat agent trained only on documents real humans vetted and deliberately not connected to the open web, and what it means that people find it at 2 a.m. in ten languages. Also the failures: an AI support reply that asked a paying member who they were, and an email meant for Austin members that reached a decade of the database.

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Podcast · December 2025

Mallett and Michelle on Dripping Springs, Ep. 206: Grab Life By The Balls

A conversation that wove together Bourbon Street stories, testicular cancer awareness, nonprofit lessons, AI creativity, the future of work, and what it means to build organizations with integrity. We covered my path from Long Island to New York City to Austin, why I stepped into leadership at the Testicular Cancer Foundation, and how operations, empathy, and systems thinking shaped my work across nonprofits, technology, and real estate.

We also dug into Firmspace, the evolution of proworking, AI-assisted writing, and what happens when life, family, and mission intersect. A reminder of how a balcony encounter in New Orleans can turn into a decade-long connection.

Panel · May 2024

Flex World Series: Hospitality as a Competitive Edge, with OfficeRnD

A virtual panel on hospitality as a competitive advantage in flexible workspace, hosted by Ivan Guberkov of OfficeRnD, with Ed Hobbs of X+Why and me representing Firmspace. We explored how hospitality moved from a nice-to-have to a defining factor in retention and brand trust.

I shared how Firmspace approaches hospitality operationally: not perks or aesthetics, but reliability, friction removal, and a consistent experience supporting privacy, security, and productivity. We covered where NPS helps and where it doesn't, why the real frontline is the daily relationship between team and member, and what Will Guidara's "unreasonable hospitality" looks like in a coworking environment. In flex workspace, hospitality is not an amenity. It is the product.

Podcast · August 2023

The Flex Uncensored Podcast: Clarity in Flex

With hosts Jamie Russo and Giovanni Palavacini, on Firmspace's growth, our focus on established professionals, and my own path from operations to CEO. We covered why Firmspace was built deliberately for attorneys, financial services, and other privacy-driven professionals, and how that focus shapes product decisions. I described my approach to leadership: servant leadership, staying close to daily operations, and extreme ownership.

The conversation moved into design and infrastructure, including demountable walls, acoustic strategy, and the tension between flexibility and confidentiality, plus our positioning as aspirational but attainable, between mass-market coworking and long-term direct leases.

Podcast · 2020

InspiredInsider with Dr. Jeremy Weisz: Building Stupid Cancer

The story behind building Stupid Cancer into one of the most recognized voices in young adult cancer advocacy: the early scrappy road trips, the creation of the OMG! Cancer Summit, and the operational systems that turned a small community into a national movement. Why young adult cancer needed its own platform, how storytelling united a dispersed community, and what I learned scaling programs and partnerships.

The episode also traces the move from volunteer to executive, and the discipline and infrastructure required to support a mission at scale.

Television · March 2012

The Morning Blend: The OMG! Cancer Summit

A segment spotlighting the OMG! Cancer Summit, the national gathering for adolescents and young adults affected by cancer. Why this age group had been overlooked, how community-building became a lifeline, and what made the 2012 Summit a turning point: a weekend of education, connection, and empowerment for survivors, caregivers, advocates, and clinicians.

Campaign · 2012

Stupid Cancer Road Trip

The 2012 Stupid Cancer / Get Busy Living Road Trip was a national awareness campaign that took young adult cancer advocacy directly into communities. Sponsored by Volkswagen, the tour reached ten cities with meetups, hospital visits, and partner events.

It worked as a grassroots storytelling platform: survivors, caregivers, and supporters connecting in person and finding resources they struggled to locate locally. The journey ended in Las Vegas at the OMG! Cancer Summit, feeding the tour's momentum straight into one of the largest annual gatherings of young adult cancer survivors in the world.