Off the Record

Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal and Platinum Bank
Off the Record

Off the Record is a podcast exploring the lives and stories of Twin Cities executives. Join the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, in partnership with Platinum Bank, for robust conversations with local leaders as they share pivotal moments in their lives, some of their career highlights, and their goals for the coming years. You know their names and faces, now get to know their stories.

  1. 12/23/2024

    Off the Record’s original podcast hosts Kathy Robideau and Dave Faust reconvene for finale episode

    In a wrap-up episode of Off the Record, the original hosts Kathy Robideau, now the chief growth officer at Versique, and Dave Faust, president and CEO of Platinum Bank, join Jen Hellman, president and CEO of Goff Public, in a memorable conversation. The two special guests open up about their own career journeys and what they’ve learned by going “off the record” over the past 49 episodes with Twin Cities business leaders. “It’s so inspiring to watch the risks people take and the bets they...

    53 min

  2. 12/09/2024

    Tami Diehm, president and shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine, on keeping calm under pressure

    To this day, Tami Diehm, president and shareholder at Winthrop & Weinstine, still relies on a valuable professional lesson she learned in her early days as a restaurant server. “We had a number of little sayings and things at Perkins that I have carried through to my practice today, one of which is really important to the whole Winthrop & Weinstine culture, and that’s, ‘Poise under pressure,’” Diehm says on the latest episode of the Off the Record podcast, brought to you by Plati...

    37 min

  3. 11/25/2024

    Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt on trusting the process

    Never miss an episode of Off the Record. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.In her younger years, Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt felt she couldn’t look too far into the future. As someone who grew up with a lot of adversity and then became a young mom at age 15, she knew the challenges of just living from one day to the next, she says on the latest episode of the Off the Record podcast. But determination and trusting the process helped get her through. “People have to hav...

    50 min

  4. 11/11/2024

    Chris Harrington, president and CEO of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, on getting immersed in the Twin Cities community

    One of the best ways to get acquainted with a new home is to start meeting people. Detroit-born Chris Harrington, now the president and CEO of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, admits on the latest episode of Off the Record that he had never before set foot outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when he accepted the top job with the nonprofit. But he had some familiarity with the region, he says — and it didn’t hurt that he spent his first six months meeting a th...

    43 min

  5. 10/28/2024

    Aaron Engler, president of Border Foods, on grinding toward success

    Never miss an episode of Off the Record. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.From chasing a girl from California to Minnesota to working his way up the ladder at his family’s company, Border Foods, Aaron Engler has always been what his parents call a “grinder.” His hard work and persistence paid off: that California girl has been his wife since 2008, and Engler is now the president of Border Foods. But getting to that career status certainly wasn’t easy, he said. “In my exp...

    32 min

  6. 10/14/2024

    Dr. Pearce McCarty, orthopedic surgeon for Allina Health and co-founder, DOCSI, on entrepreneurial inspiration

    Never miss an episode of Off the Record. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.Allina Health orthopedic surgeon Dr. L. Pearce McCarty III won’t settle for doing things halfway. When, as a team physician for the Minnesota Twins, he needed a certain type of medical implant he couldn’t get in the operating room, he created it himself. The next step was to figure out how to commercialize it, he says in the latest episode of the Off the Record podcast. When others told him he could lea...

    53 min

  7. 09/30/2024

    Michael E. Jordan, UNRL founder and CEO, on his journey from college dropout to athleisure entrepreneur

    At an early age, UNRL Founder and CEO Michael E. Jordan knew he didn’t want to enter the construction industry like his parents and brother.“My roommates, they were always up all night playing Call of Duty. And I was … in the middle of designing a catalog for a company that does sublimation printed jerseys.”When Jordan saw the hockey team Minnesota Wild’s logo, he thought, “How cool is that? All of the depth in that logo of the river and the sun. … I want to design logos like that when I grow...

    41 min

  8. 09/09/2024

    Benjamin Jo VandenWymelenberg, founder and CEO, Woodchuck USA, on the magic of getting your hands dirty

    Never miss an episode of Off the Record. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.On the eve of starting grad school, Benjamin Jo VandenWymelenberg dropped and shattered his phone. After building an early prototype of a wood phone case to protect it, he nixed the grad school idea and started a business selling high-end custom wood products. As the founder and CEO of Woodchuck USA, VandenWymelenberg now aims to “connect people with nature,” as he says on the latest episode of the Off ...

    32 min
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Off the Record is a podcast exploring the lives and stories of Twin Cities executives. Join the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, in partnership with Platinum Bank, for robust conversations with local leaders as they share pivotal moments in their lives, some of their career highlights, and their goals for the coming years. You know their names and faces, now get to know their stories.

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  • Creator
    Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal and Platinum Bank
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Off the Record
  • Show Website
    Off the Record

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