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Irregardless

Podcast by Bryzos

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Irregardless. Debated word. Undebatable energy. Hosted by Shep Hickey, CEO of Bryzos, Irregardless is the no-filter podcast where the metals industry kicks back and speaks freely. From steel market trends and tech to wild stories and left-field tangents, this show brings real talk with real people from all corners of the industry—and beyond. But we don’t stop there. Expect discussions on leadership, startups, entrepreneurship, and the unpredictable paths that connect it all. It’s brought to you by the team behind Bryzos—the digital marketplace built for the metals world. We’re on a mission to bring speed, transparency, and zero BS to buying and selling metals. No script. No fluff. Irregardless of the topic, we’re gonna talk about it. Check out the app and join the community at Bryzos.com

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49 episodes

episode 49: NASCC 2026 Special - Steel Industry Insights from the Show Floor artwork

49: NASCC 2026 Special - Steel Industry Insights from the Show Floor

We're taking Irregardless to NASCC! This special episode was recorded at NASCC 2026 in Atlanta, where Rachel was joined by three guests from across the steel industry. Tyler Sease, President of Southern Steel Engineers, talks about building a niche structural engineering firm that works exclusively with fabricators, detailers, and erectors. Haylee Fort, Business Development at Willbanks Metals, shares her unconventional path into the steel industry and what she loves about the supplier side of the business. And Mike Brown, PM and Structural Engineer at John A. Martin and Associates (JAMA), gives us a look at how a 75-year-old LA firm serves steel fabricators and contractors nationwide. Three guests, one conference, a whole lot of steel industry insight.

20 May 2026 - 24 min
episode 48: Jonah Myerberg Pt. 2 - Inside Desktop Metal's Blueprint for Manufacturing artwork

48: Jonah Myerberg Pt. 2 - Inside Desktop Metal's Blueprint for Manufacturing

In Part 2, Rachel continues her conversation with Jonah Myerberg, CTO and co-founder of Desktop Metal. Jonah breaks down exactly how Desktop Metal's binder jetting technology works and why it's fundamentally different from the laser-based metal printing that came before it. From printing green parts at room temperature to sintering in a furnace, he makes a complex manufacturing process surprisingly easy to understand. The conversation gets into the real economics of scaling a deep tech company, what it actually takes to bring metal additive manufacturing to mass production, and why Desktop Metal's approach has the potential to change how things are made across industries. If you've ever wondered how metal parts go from powder to a finished product, this is the episode.

6 May 2026 - 44 min
episode 46: Emmy Ross - From Weddings to Welding artwork

46: Emmy Ross - From Weddings to Welding

Emmy Ross, Director of Business Development at Astro Metal Craft and StellarCraft, joins us to talk about growing a custom metal fabrication business and the unique challenge of marketing to two very different worlds: architects and industrial buyers. Emmy walks us through landmark projects like the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and the Minnesota State Office Building, and explains how StellarCraft is carving out its own identity in architectural metals. Emmy's path to metal fabrication is anything but straight. After 15 years running a wedding and event planning business, she came on full-time at the family business in 2023 and hasn't looked back. We cover industrial marketing, the time/cost/quality tradeoff, a fresh ERP rollout, and what it takes to spin StellarCraft off as its own women-owned certified company.

1 Apr 2026 - 54 min
episode 45: Matthew Nix - From Horseshoes to Heavy Industrial artwork

45: Matthew Nix - From Horseshoes to Heavy Industrial

In this episode, Shep Hickey sits down with Matthew Nix, founder of Nix Companies and fifth-generation owner of what started as a blacksmith shop in the late 1800s. Matthew shares the story of a family business that spent four generations quietly defying the odds, never growing, never dying, staying strictly mom-and-pop. When Matthew joined, everything changed. He walks through how he spotted the opportunity in the baby boomer wealth transfer, built a roll-up strategy around adjacent metal shops, and created a shared services model that lets each location stay lean while punching above its weight. They also dig into the entrepreneurial mindset, the cash flow lesson he learned the hard way during a record growth year, how mentorship has shaped his career, and why watching his 11-year-old build a video game with AI in an afternoon was a wake-up call. Oh, and his family's full story is chronicled in the book Forging Ahead, available now on Amazon.

18 Mar 2026 - 36 min
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