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The Dwayne Kerrigan Podcast
Dwayne Kerrigan, a veteran of over 35 years in the business world with nearly 30 ventures across 12 industries, hosts a podcast focused on unsung yet successful entrepreneurs. Together, they explore personal journeys, insights, and strategies.
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Oct. 14, 2026
161. Scaling FlyGuys with Operational Excellence | FlyGuys CEO Joe Stough
FlyGuys CEO Joe Stough returns for Part 2 of this conversation on scaling technology companies through operational excellence, culture, and AI. Joe breaks down the four-element operational excellence management system he built plus the cultural foundation of the golden rule and iron sharpens iron and explains how the company's AI data infrastructure platform now serves seven industries through one configurable pipeline. If you're building a company that needs to scale past its current ceiling,
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Oct. 7, 2026
160. Building an Intentional Culture | FlyGuys CEO Joe Stough
Joe Stough built a piece of software that ExxonMobil, Shell, and ConocoPhillips ran their worldwide safety operations on and he says none of it would have worked without a psychological framework he almost let disappear along with the mentor who created it. In this episode, he traces the throughline of intentional culture across three very different companies. In this episode: How Joe's early experience running Dynamic Systems International shaped the fundamentals he built his next company, Syn
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Sept. 30, 2026
159. The Space Between Fear & Action | Michelle “Mace” Curran
At 500 knots each, two F-16s point straight at each other with less than a second to react, one of them upside down. That's the moment Michelle "Mace" Curran walks Dwayne through in Part 2 of this conversation, and it's just the entry point into a masterclass on what she calls "the space between": the pause between feeling fear and deciding what to do with it. In this episode: The near head-on collision during a Thunderbirds training pass, closing at roughly 1,000 mph, missing by what she belie
