El Toro Podcast

Buckle up, El Toro is back for Season 2! On this episode, we welcome back El Toro CEO Stacy Griggs. Stacy is a high energy technology executive with strong leadership skills. Stacy has built and managed high-performing teams of sales professionals, engineers and software developers while working in Internet Advertising, Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting and Shared Hosting for over a decade. This episode's featured spirit is Smoke Wagon Bourbon Whiskey out of Las Vegas, ringing in at 114 Proof. Hosts: David Stadler Ari Kruger Jeremy Ficklin

Tenacity, Discipline, Control, Determination, Zen…Is this episode featuring an expertly trained ninja? An especially ascetic monk? You’re not even warm, and neither is Kiara Loucks—our own future bobsled hall-of-famer. One of El Toro’s newest additions pardons her abstemious Olympic lifestyle to partake in libations and conversations. What does it take to become an Olympic hopeful? What does it even take to get considered? Hard work, planning, and a little bit of adversity to start. Grab the bottle that tastes just right but can also clean a wound to keep up with the hot takes on this gold medal dialogue.

Tenacity, Discipline, Control, Determination, Zen…Is this episode featuring an expertly trained ninja? An especially ascetic monk? You’re not even warm, and neither is Kiara Loucks—our own future bobsled hall-of-famer. One of El Toro’s newest additions pardons her abstemious Olympic lifestyle to partake in libations and conversations. What does it take to become an Olympic hopeful? What does it even take to get considered? Hard work, planning, and a little bit of adversity to start. Grab the bottle that tastes just right but can also clean a wound to keep up with the hot takes on this gold medal dialogue.

John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Lukas Nelson, Rachael Yamagata, Jason Mraz...Is that enough name drops, because John Alagia has more in the chamber? World renowned producer John Alagia swung by the studio and just happened to have Earl Bud Lee, Grammy award winning writer (including the song "Friends in Low Places"), tag along. Unfortunately, the Grammys were too heavy to lug with, but they made up for it with tales of the tape and scribbled hits on the back of napkins, as they've both lost count of the millions of records sold and streams accounted for. How do you get started turning your passion into a career? What's sync licensing look like in 2019, and how can a person in the recording arts even make a dime? Is client experience really that important if you're the best at what you do? Wash down all those answers with a nice highball or something a bit more neat. Stads and Auz throw down with two of the heaviest hitting titans in the entrepreneurial world of music.

John Mayer, Dave Matthews Band, Lukas Nelson, Rachael Yamagata, Jason Mraz...Is that enough name drops, because John Alagia has more in the chamber? World renowned producer John Alagia swung by the studio and just happened to have Earl Bud Lee, Grammy award winning writer (including the song "Friends in Low Places"), tag along. Unfortunately, the Grammys were too heavy to lug with, but they made up for it with tales of the tape and scribbled hits on the back of napkins, as they've both lost count of the millions of records sold and streams accounted for. How do you get started turning your passion into a career? What's sync licensing look like in 2019, and how can a person in the recording arts even make a dime? Is client experience really that important if you're the best at what you do? Wash down all those answers with a nice highball or something a bit more neat. Stads and Auz throw down with two of the heaviest hitting titans in the entrepreneurial world of music.