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The CU2.0 Podcast

Robert McGarvey

This podcast explores contemporary, critical thinking and issues impacting the nation"s credit unions. What do they need to be doing to not just survive but prosper?

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 378 AI vs Big Data: The Anne...

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2025/11/12

Send us a text Big data vs. AI. Is this a war inside the walls of credit unions or can the two flourish in harmony? On the show are Anne Legg, founder and CEO of Thrive 3.0, where the mantra is leveraging data to better members’ lives, and Saroop Bharwani, co-founder and CEO of Senso, where he has been bringing AI to credit unions for several years. What you’ll hear in this episode is that indeed big data and AI can - should - co-exist for optimal results in credit unions. Along the w...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 377 Laura Beauparlant on...

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2025/11/05

Send us a text You have a brand. Know it or not, like it or not, you do. And on the show today is Laura Beauparlant, a Canada based keynote speaker and consultant who helps clients know and polish their personal brand. What’s your brand on social media? In meetings? At conferences? Others sense your brand and that means it’s important for you to buff your brand until it shows you off in your best light. In the show Laura talks about the how to of shaping your personal brand. And...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 376 JUDI.AI's Gord Baizley on...

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2025/10/29

Send us a text About 45 credit unions are customers of JUDI.AI and they are drawn by the company’s simple promise: Eliminate friction in business lending. There is money to be made serving small businesses and JUDI.AI has the formula, says Gord Baizley, the company’s CEO. A key is automating a lot of the process and that’s JUDI.AI’s business. Here’s why the company exists: “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but 40-50% of small businesses rank access to capital as ...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 375 Casey Boggs on AI as the...

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2025/10/22

Send us a text “Prepare: AI is the new CU crisis super villain.” That’s the title of a recent CUInsight story authored by Casey Boggs, founder of Reputation US, an d of course we had to get him on this podcast. Understand, I am a strong supporter of AI in general and AI in particular inside credit unions. This is a life and death matter. Yet there is a possible downside to AI and we already know that the main AI tools have played substantial roles in teen suicides, in creating...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 374 Room 39a's Blake Woods on...

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2025/10/15

Send us a text Exactly what is Room (39)a? There’s one at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center but today we are talking about the Room (39)a at CFCU, Community Financial Credit Union in Michigan, where past CU 2.0 Podcast guest Tansley Stearns serves as CEO and she has launched this Room (39)a as a CUSO that will offer subscriptions to its research. As for what it does, CFCU’s Room (39)a describes itself this way: “a place where possibility and the unexpected collide. We blend the precision of res...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 373 Tropical Financial's...

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2025/10/08

Send us a text Three years ago Tropical Financial Credit Union, a $1 billion south Florida institution, signed on as a sponsor of the Florida Panthers and magic happened because the Panthers - in the National Hockey League - won the Stanley Cup in 2024 and won again in 2025. That’s the equivalent of winning the World Series in baseball or the Super Bowl in football and, definitely, the Panthers now are the darlings of south Florida because everybody loves a winner. On the show is Marylen Yi...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Kirk Kordeleski On What to Know Now...

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2025/10/06

Send us a text Back on the show today after a hiatus is Kirk Kordeleski, onetime CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union and now a partner in Parc Street Partners where he focuses on credit union executive retirement plans. Kordeleski has been on the show many times but he always is welcomed back because he has deep insight into what it’s like to be a credit union CEO and also into how to compensate those CEOs appropriately. Here’s a link to the Kordeleski Archives. What brings Kordele...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 372 Tansley Stearns and the...

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2025/10/01

Send us a text Tansley Stearns had been working in a credit union for maybe five years when a big idea grabbed her: she decided she wanted to be a CEO of a credit union. For a young woman who had grown up on a farm in southern Michigan that was a very big idea. Three years ago she made it happen, when she was named CEO at Community Financial Credit Union, a Plymouth MI headquartered institution. How is she liking the job? Is sitting in the CEO seat what it’s cracked up to be? ‘I...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 371 Lobbyist Elizabeth...

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2025/09/24

Send us a text Whew, credit unions dodged the threat of loss of their tax exemption - but don’t think all is smooth sailing for credit unions in today’s turbulent Washington DC. Lots is happening that may impact credit unions, large and small. On the show is repeat guest Elizabeth Eurgubian, a lobbyist - with the Defence Credit Union Council among her clients - who also has served as NCUA Director of the Office of External Affairs and Communications and Policy Advisor to Chairman Harp...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 370 Raddon Chief Economist...

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2025/09/17

Send us a text You might know it as the dismal science, but a conversation with Bill Handel, Chief Economist of Raddon, a Fiserv company, is anything but dismal. It in fact is an enlightening romp through the complexities and confusions of today’s global economy. In the show Handel makes a prediction about the future of interest rates - and, no, don’t expect an imminent return of 4% 30 year fixed rate mortgages. He also talks about how young adults are adjusting their financi...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 369 TrustGrid and the Secure...

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2025/09/10

Send us a text I am not going to explain to you in any detail what TrustGrid does and that is because in the show Joe Gleinsner, a co-founder of the Austin TX company, does a much better job of explaining than I could. But here’s the fact: TrustGrid’s tools - which enable secure connections of fintech apps with banking systems - are on the job at a couple thousand US credit unions, says Gleinser. Why haven’t you heard of it? That’s because TrustGrid does not sell to credit un...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Lee Silber on "The Credit Union Way" -...

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2025/09/08

Send us a text Now for a feel good show. Lee Silber has put together a book, The Credit Union Way, that he says is inspired by the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and right away that tells you this is a feel good book. How did it come together? On the show Silber tells how he put together the stories - each of which relates a special credit union moment. In the episode Silber reads a chapter from the book - entitled Frank’s Fund - that was written by Anne Legg who happens to be a...

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CU 2.0 Poscast Episode 368 Kirk Drake on AI and LAUNCH

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2025/09/03

Send us a text AI - is it real or a mirage? What is certain is that today AI is on the lips on just about everyone in credit union land. What also is real is a recent MIT finding that 95% of large companies with AI initiatives are getting zilch out of them. Ouch. That does not have to be the reality for credit unions. On the show today is Kirk Drake, CEO of CU 2.0, author of FINANCIAL, a 2020 book that envisions the rise of AI in our lives and in credit unions, and he also is hostin...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 367 First City CU Implements...

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2025/08/27

Send us a text In a year about 500 members of First City Credit Union in Pasadena die. It’s a credit union with 57,000 members. And what happened after the member’s death? On the show is Saeid Kian, CEO and co-founder of Ribbon, a fintech that has developed a tool kit to help credit unions speed up the process of settling a member’s estate and also - this is huge - helping the credit union retain some of those assets on its books. Also on the show is Nav Khanna, CEO of the $900 mi...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 366 Hear a Credit Union Member...

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2025/08/20

Send us a text This is a CU 2.0 Podcast first. Never before, in almost 500 episodes, have we done this. On the show is Crystal Zarse, a member of Interra Credit Union, a $1.7 billion Indiana based institution, and she is here to tell about her experience using the Prizeout Cashback+ debit card which rewards users with cashback often around 10% of purchase price, sometimes much more. Focus on that. Here’s a member who has taken time out of her to tell what benefits she gets by usin...

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CU 2.0 Podcast A CU Exec Talks about Eltropy's...

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2025/08/18

Send us a text Call this a week of different kinds of shows. Today we are doing something we have never done before. The guest - the only guest - is Lisa Weinstein, VP of Member Relations at Virginia Credit Union and a 33 year veteran of the credit union industry. There is no Eltropy employees also on the show. Weinstein is here to talk about Eltropy’s Collections 2.0, an AI powered tool kit designed to combat delinquencies and increase collections. How is it working at $7 bi...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 365 Derek Coburn on Let's...

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2025/08/13

Send us a text When will you retire? What years of your life should be the ones where you work the longest, hardest hours? On the show today is Derek Coburn, author of Let's Retire Retirement: How to Enjoy Life to the Fullest—Now and Later, a book that very probably will rock your mind because it challenges key beliefs that most of us share about retirement. For instance: at what age will you retire? Probably your answer is 65, that’s the number that jumps off most lips.&...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 364 Wright-Patt CU and...

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2025/08/06

Send us a text You probably have forgotten about the role of credit unions in the country’s marijuana business - estimated to be north of $40 billion. I know I had. It’s been years since we did a show on this topic. But on the show today is Kevin Hart, CEO of Green Check Verified, a business that provides tools to financial institutions that serve the country’s many marijuana businesses. As Hart says in the show, narijuana may not be legal in federal law - it is legal in 39 states f...

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CU 2,0 Podcast Episode 363 Clearview FCU's Bill...

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2025/07/30

Send us a text What exactly does a credit union’s chief strategy officer do? On the show today is Bill Snider, the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at Clearview Federal Credit Union, a credit union with around $2 billion in assets that serves 10 counties around Pittsburgh. Longtime listeners will recall that I have expressed skepticism about strategies at many credit unions, also their commitment to innovation. Snider is here to show that in fact a credit union indeed can ...

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CU 2.0 Podcast Episode 362 Shared Services Are The...

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2025/07/23

Send us a text Could shared services be the cure that puts a halt to the epidemic of mergers among credit unions? Could shared services help credit unions increase their efficiencies and dramatically lower their costs so that they can better compete against big banks and fintechs? On the show today are Vin Anand, CEO of Member Support Services (MSS), and an evangelist for shared support services at credit unions. To spread this word Anand has brought in Gene Foley, former CEO of Harvard...

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