The Work Ethic Podcast with Bidemi Ologunde

Bidemi Ologunde

The Work Ethic Podcast with Bidemi Ologunde is a professional growth and productivity podcast about building dependable output, sustainable excellence, and healthier systems for work. Hosted by intelligence analyst, author, and podcaster Bidemi Ologunde, the show explores leadership, ambition, focus, career development, high performance, entrepreneurship, diaspora work life, and practical weekly challenges for builders, professionals, and teams.

  1. 6d ago

    28. Karisya "Ysa" Moran Adames - Career, Service & Joy

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde speaks with Karisya "Ysa" Moran-Adames about building a demanding career in corporate banking while remaining grounded in service, curiosity, and joy. How do high performers stay dependable without surrendering their health or values? What does sustainable ambition look like beyond hustle culture? Ysa shares practical lessons from finance, community leadership, travel, and creative work.

    28. Karisya "Ysa" Moran Adames - Career, Service & Joy

  2. Jul 2

    27. The Career Climbing Wall

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores The Career Climbing Wall, a practical framework for navigating non-linear careers with clarity, dignity, and sustainable excellence. What happens when your career no longer follows a ladder? How can pivots, lateral moves, proof-of-work, and reinvention become strengths rather than sources of shame? This episode is for career switchers, immigrants, mid-career professionals, laid-off workers, builders, operators, students, and anyone trying to build a meaningful life through changing seasons. Listeners will also receive this week's challenge, the Seven-Day Career Climbing Wall Audit, and are invited to share reflections, progress, and feedback inside the show's private WhatsApp Community.

    27. The Career Climbing Wall

  3. Jun 18

    26. Dr. Robert B. Kerstein, DMD

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde speaks with Dr. Robert B. Kerstein (DMD), a pioneer in computerized bite analysis and digital occlusal technology, about how dentistry can move beyond subjective guesswork toward more precise, data-driven treatment. What does a patient's bite reveal about TMJ symptoms, headaches, prosthesis failure, and overall comfort? Why does much of dentistry still rely on outdated methods when real-time digital measurements are available? And how can tools like T-Scan help clinicians improve outcomes while reducing treatment time? Dr. Kerstein earned his D.M.D. in 1983 and his Prosthodontic certificate in 1985 from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where he later served as a clinical professor of Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics for 13 years. Beginning in 1984, he has studied every generation of T-Scan technology, from the original T-Scan 1 to the current T-Scan 10 Novus, and over the past four decades has become the leading authority in Computerized Occlusal Analysis. He has published extensively in leading dental journals and edited nine research volumes on T-Scan applications. A pioneer and academic advocate for digital occlusal technology, Dr. Kerstein teaches a measured, data-driven approach that improves bite-related treatment outcomes, enhances patient comfort, reduces prosthesis failure and remakes, and shortens overall treatment time.

    26. Dr. Robert B. Kerstein, DMD

  4. Jun 11

    25. Aaron Hoffmann

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde sits down with Aaron Hoffmann, Senior Security Engineer at Rula, for a conversation on career growth, cybersecurity community, AI, and the human side of technical work. They discuss Aaron's path into security, his experience across different industries, his BSides Tampa community involvement, and how public speaking has shaped his perspective. What is AI actually changing for defenders? Where is the hype getting ahead of reality? How should organizations think about shadow AI, automation, resilience, and trust? Aaron also reflects on work ethic, burnout, continuous learning, and what the next generation of security professionals should understand about building a durable career.

    25. Aaron Hoffmann

  5. Jun 4

    24. Caregiving, Shift Work, and Sustainable Excellence

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores caregiving, shift work, and sustainable excellence for parents, elder caregivers, healthcare workers, retail workers, drivers, builders, operators, and other schedule-constrained listeners. How can ambitious people keep producing meaningful work while protecting the capacity that makes the work possible? What systems help when family responsibilities, night shifts, unpredictable schedules, and career goals all collide? Bidemi breaks down practical tools for capacity planning, recovery, handoffs, care circles, and weekly shutdowns, with a clear focus on durable excellence rather than hustle culture. Listeners will also receive this week's challenge: create a Sustainable Excellence Map with fixed responsibilities, energy risks, protected recovery, and one meaningful excellence commitment. Share your sentence and end-of-week feedback inside the show's private WhatsApp Community.

    24. Caregiving, Shift Work, and Sustainable Excellence

  6. May 28

    23. Chanda Coston

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde speaks with Chanda Coston, founder of Chanda Co., a U.S. Navy veteran, business strategist, coach, and Personal PMP/Success Strategist who helps women entrepreneurs in the "third quarter of life" turn their experience into income, build businesses that fit their current season, and move from scattered effort to structured execution without burnout. The conversation follows Chanda's timeline from military service to corporate strategy, consulting, entrepreneurship, and coaching: What does reinvention really require after 40? How can women choose the right business model for the life they are actually living now? Where can technology, automation, and project-management systems create clarity, and where do they quietly fuel overwhelm? Chanda shares practical lessons on confidence, focus, execution, and building a business that supports life instead of consuming it.

    23. Chanda Coston

  7. May 21

    22. The Ambition Gap Is Usually a Support Gap

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores a powerful question: when someone looks "less ambitious," are they actually less ambitious, or less backed? Centering women and under-supported professionals, Bidemi examines how sponsorship, manager advocacy, flexibility, feedback, and visible support shape sustainable excellence across careers, businesses, creative work, sports, and community life. What happens when ambition is present, but the system around it is thin? How do professionals, builders, leaders, and performers identify the support gaps quietly limiting their growth? Listeners are invited to take part in the Seven-Day Support Gap Challenge: choose one ambition, name the missing support, identify one person with leverage, and make one clear ask this week. Participants can share reflections and feedback inside the show's private WhatsApp Community.

    22. The Ambition Gap Is Usually a Support Gap

  8. May 14

    21. Money, Meaning, and the Side-Hustle Trap

    Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores the tension between money, meaning, and well-being in a generation trying to stay ambitious without becoming chronically overextended. When does a side hustle create freedom, and when does it quietly become fear in disguise? How do you build multiple income streams without turning your whole life into work? And what does sustainable excellence look like for students, operators, creators, managers, founders, freelancers, athletes, and diaspora builders carrying real financial pressure and big personal goals? Listeners are invited to take part in this week's Money, Meaning, and Margin Audit challenge by naming one project, side hustle, or ambition they are carrying, identifying its money purpose, meaning purpose, and margin cost, then deciding whether to continue, resize, pause, or stop for the next 90 days. Share your reflection and feedback inside the show's private WhatsApp Community.

    21. Money, Meaning, and the Side-Hustle Trap
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The Work Ethic Podcast with Bidemi Ologunde is a professional growth and productivity podcast about building dependable output, sustainable excellence, and healthier systems for work. Hosted by intelligence analyst, author, and podcaster Bidemi Ologunde, the show explores leadership, ambition, focus, career development, high performance, entrepreneurship, diaspora work life, and practical weekly challenges for builders, professionals, and teams.

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