The Measuring Post

Joe Massa
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  • Self-Improvement
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The Measuring Post is a podcast about growth, not perfection. It’s a place to pause, reflect, and measure what actually matters in your life, your work, and your personal development. Not by comparing yourself to others, but by comparing who you are today to who you were yesterday. I'm Joe Massa, and I created this show because I believe growth isn't a solo journey. Each week, you’ll hear thoughtful interviews with incredible guests: entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people doing meaningful work, sharing real experiences, lessons learned, and practical insights you can apply right away. These conversations are designed to help you think differently, grow intentionally, and move forward with clarity. Alongside the interviews, you’ll also find The Daily Measure, short, bite-sized solo episodes focused on simple words of wisdom and actionable ideas you can use in your daily life. Think of these as quick check-ins to help you stay grounded, focused, and consistent. This isn’t about hype or shortcuts. It’s about honest conversations, small improvements, and growing together over time. If you’re someone who values progress, reflection, and becoming a better version of yourself, you’re in the right place. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform, join the conversation, and grow with us.

  1. Aug 27

    One Role, Two Leaders with Chidimma A. Abuka PhD

    Joe Massa sits down with Dr. Chidimma Abuka, Executive Director of Global Co-Leadership Development and Change Management at Polymathes Consulting and author of "Co-Leadership: One Role, Two Leaders," to explore why leadership doesn't have to rest on one person's shoulders. They dig into her Dualist Co-Leadership System framework, how companies can assess readiness for co-leadership, the role of ego and trust, and why human connection still beats AI when it comes to shared leadership. 00:00:55 - Welcome to The Measuring Post; intro to guest Dr. Chidimma Abuka and her background00:01:46 - Dr. Abuka joins the show and shares her excitement about the topic00:02:25 - How her diverse background in business, design, and sustainability led her to study global leadership00:03:43 - The "train and engine" analogy for how disciplines connect to leadership00:04:25 - Common misconceptions about co-leadership vs. co-founding00:05:03 - Co-leadership as intentional design, not divided responsibility00:06:00 - Why one-person leadership is becoming harder in a complex world00:07:07 - The need for a common language and framework in co-leadership00:08:01 - Benefits of shared decision-making and reduced stress on leaders00:08:19 - Introducing "creative friction" as a healthy dynamic between co-leaders00:09:14 - Real-world examples of co-leaders working across different locations00:11:15 - Where co-leadership works best and where it doesn't00:12:16 - Assessing organizational readiness and trust before implementing co-leadership00:13:52 - Explanation of the Dualist Co-Leadership System framework00:14:19 - Breakdown of the four domains and 13 criteria of the framework00:15:37 - Comparing co-leadership to co-parenting and professional "marriage"00:16:50 - Creating conditions for people to think and work well together00:18:04 - How co-leadership eliminates bottlenecks in business00:18:58 - Overview of the book "Co-Leadership: One Role, Two Leaders" and its companion workbook00:20:00 - How the workbook helps leaders reflect, score, and track progress over time00:22:00 - Addressing ego struggles and power dynamics in co-leadership00:23:04 - How Polymathes Consulting facilitates workshops to work through ego and trust issues00:24:35 - The long-term payoff: co-leaders who "finish each other's sentences"00:25:59 - Discussion on AI's role and why human connection still matters in leadership00:29:06 - Overview of Polymathes Consulting and its three pillars: leadership, learning, and the built environment00:32:22 - The value of multidisciplinary perspectives in solving complex problems00:33:41 - Where to find Dr. Abuka, her book, workbook, and Polymathes Consulting00:35:12 - Final advice: assess your organization's "temperature" before adopting co-leadership00:36:04 - Closing thoughts on avoiding becoming the bottleneck in your own business00:37:07 - Sign-off and thanks

    One Role, Two Leaders with Chidimma A. Abuka PhD

  2. Jul 2

    Breathing Clean with Ramiro Moreno

    In this episode of The Measuring Post, host Joe Massa interviews Ramiro Moreno, the founder of DWD2 Clean Air. They discuss the often-overlooked importance of breathing clean air and how Ramiro pioneered a way to clean automotive and home AC systems without dismantling them. Ramiro shares his journey from discovering a foul odor in a car in the late 1970s to launching a successful business twenty years later. #themeasuringpost #CleanAir #moldremediation #EvaporatorCleaning #entrepreneurship #DWD2

    Breathing Clean with Ramiro Moreno

  3. Jun 25

    Debt to Wealth with Ron Harris

    Ron Harris, MBA, FLGPE, MBE, is a multi-time author, financial educator, and founder of Financial Literacy Group, LLC. He holds a master's degree in global marketing and communications from the University of Essex in the UK and has spent more than two decades studying how money moves through economies around the world. His mission is to bring the same financial tools and strategies that banks and wealthy families have used for generations to everyday working and middle-class Americans. In this conversation, Ron breaks down his Hybrid Financial Arbitrage approach, explains why debt and retirement are the same problem, and shows why the life insurance policy sitting in your drawer might be the most misunderstood financial tool you own.  #financialliteracy  #themeasuringpost   #lifeinsurance

  4. Jun 18

    Defying Tax with Janna Scott

    Janna Scott didn't set out to build a software company. She set out to answer a simple question her clients kept asking: are my crypto taxes accurate? So she ran an experiment. She took one wallet with 350 clean, simple transactions — straight buys, sells, and conversions — and ran it through every major crypto tax product on the market. Fourteen products. Some of them backed by multi-billion dollar companies. Two of them under contract with the IRS itself. She got fourteen different answers. Some differed by tens of thousands of dollars. Nine months of forensic accounting later, Janna had a full breakdown of why every product was wrong, where the math broke, and how the algorithms were quietly allowing users to commit accidental fraud. She offered her research to all fourteen companies for free. They all said no. One tried to sell her the product on the call. Then in September 2023, every one of them quietly changed their calculations without telling a single user who had already filed. Janna and Joe got into the John Doe letters the IRS has been quietly sending out since 2021, the $147 billion in crypto capital gains the IRS has on its radar, the absurd "shareholders" example where one exchange and two crypto tax products it part-owns all spit out three different numbers from the same data, and what DeFi Tax does differently — pulling directly from the blockchain with no edit options, building an audit trail that holds up in front of the IRS, and adding tax strategy on top of compliance. #FourteenAnswers #CryptoTaxes #DeFiTax #JohnDoeLetters #BlockchainAudit #themeasuringpost

  5. Jun 11

    Seventh Gear with Sean Martin

    Sean Martin sang his first opera at seven years old in a 5,000-seat tent in Mendocino. By twenty, he was an airborne infantryman jumping into Iraq on the 18X special forces fast-track contract. He came home with a Combat Infantryman Badge, the death of his best friend Jeff Bisson on his conscience, and PTSD the Army barely recognized. What the military taught him about turning on a "seventh gear" of combat readiness, it didn't teach him how to turn off. For nearly five years he white-knuckled it through the civilian world — getting fired from service jobs because the thousand-yard stare kept dragging him back to Iraq mid-sandwich, playing the card game Memory at the VA because he couldn't finish a round in 30 minutes. In 2012 he had a psychotic break that finally landed him in a VA psych ward, surrounded by doctors who told him to lay it all out for the first time. Music became the path back. Not just performing, but writing songs from inside the war he was still fighting in his head. Sean and Joe got into the loss of Jeff Bisson a day and a half before he was scheduled to become a Golden Knight, the difference between the stage and the studio, how scrupulous management cost him an entire album, and why he believes perspective plus gratitude is the only formula that pulls someone out of the deepest hole.

    Seventh Gear with Sean Martin

  6. Jun 4

    Cash Flow Clock with Gary Preisser

    Gary Preisser grew up thinking there were only three real professions: teacher, lawyer, or doctor. Numbers came easy, so he ended up in tax prep, where he made an early discovery that shaped his whole career. People got excited about big tax refunds, and Gary had to break the news that they'd just loaned the IRS money for a year at zero interest. That moment defined how he thinks about wealth: the function of every dollar matters more than the feeling of holding it. Four and a half years ago, Gary co-founded Stonebriar Wealth Advisors with one mission — strip out the jargon, the hidden curtains, and the cookie-cutter risk questionnaires that dominate the industry. In their place: ask better questions, design around purpose, and time the money to match the moment. Gary and Joe got into the cash flow clock, why bonds are quietly killing returns for younger investors, the difference between asset allocation and asset location, why a fiduciary label doesn't mean someone's good at their job, and the one Aesop's fable lesson most retirees miss — the ants ate the food. They didn't just admire it. #FunctionOfWealth #CashFlowClock #AssetLocation #StoneFramework #purposefirst #themeasuringpost

    Cash Flow Clock with Gary Preisser

  7. Jun 3

    Permission Proximity with Shannon Fernando-Rubera

    Shannon Fernando-Rubera was rejected from all 13 medical schools she applied to in 2007. Instead of reapplying, she got on a plane to Kenya and lived in Kibera, one of the largest informal settlements in Africa. That detour became her actual calling. Fifteen years later, the organization born from that rejection, Alabaster International, has spread to Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka, brokered an unprecedented agreement between the Ethiopian and Kenyan governments to share a drought-resistant crop called NSET, and earned recognition twice from the Clinton Global Initiative. Shannon and Joe dug into the philosophy that drives the work: communities are partners, not victims. The best solutions already exist within the cultures being served. Aid is a short-term band-aid; sovereignty is the real goal. And the simplest framework she lives by: permission and proximity. You can't lead from a distance, and you don't lead at all without being invited in. #PermissionAndProximity #AlabasterInternational #TreeAgainstHunger #WomenLed #communityled #themeasuringpost

    Permission Proximity with Shannon Fernando-Rubera

  8. May 7

    Retirement Reality with Ben Millan

    Ben Millan pulled back the curtain on what most financial advisors won't tell you about retirement planning. After pivoting his practice to focus exclusively on seniors during COVID, he developed a contrarian philosophy: forget the famous 4% rule and chasing a magic dollar amount. The only number that matters is your income gap, the difference between your guaranteed monthly income (Social Security, pension) and what you actually need to live on.  Joe and Ben covered why annuities have been unfairly demonized (Social Security is technically the most common annuity in America), how to properly structure indexed universal life insurance as "the rich man's Roth," why 95% of advisors don't know how to set these products up correctly, and the brutal math of why putting away less than 10% of your income mathematically guarantees you won't retire well.  #incomegap #retirementplanning # stressfreeretirement #measuringwhatmatters #themeasuringpost #seniorfinances

    Retirement Reality with Ben Millan
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The Measuring Post is a podcast about growth, not perfection. It’s a place to pause, reflect, and measure what actually matters in your life, your work, and your personal development. Not by comparing yourself to others, but by comparing who you are today to who you were yesterday. I'm Joe Massa, and I created this show because I believe growth isn't a solo journey. Each week, you’ll hear thoughtful interviews with incredible guests: entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and everyday people doing meaningful work, sharing real experiences, lessons learned, and practical insights you can apply right away. These conversations are designed to help you think differently, grow intentionally, and move forward with clarity. Alongside the interviews, you’ll also find The Daily Measure, short, bite-sized solo episodes focused on simple words of wisdom and actionable ideas you can use in your daily life. Think of these as quick check-ins to help you stay grounded, focused, and consistent. This isn’t about hype or shortcuts. It’s about honest conversations, small improvements, and growing together over time. If you’re someone who values progress, reflection, and becoming a better version of yourself, you’re in the right place. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform, join the conversation, and grow with us.

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  • Creator
    Joe Massa
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    71
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Measuring Post
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