Renaissance Circle

Preserving Legacy Through Conversational IntelligenceWhen my father passed earlier this year, I found myself lost in paperwork, probate, and grief. But buried in decades of our email exchanges, I rediscovered his mind - the lawyer, the mentor, and the storyteller. From that spark came AI-Dad: a living archive powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that preserves not just my father’s words, but the way he reasoned, taught, and cared.Built on more than 58,000 curated items - emails, legal

Steve Muskal sits down with Lloyed Lobo, cofounder of Boast.ai and Traction, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of From Grassroots to Greatness.From escaping Kuwait during the Gulf War to building a $10M ARR company without a marketing team, Lloyed shares how community-led growth became his superpower. He explains why entrepreneurs should think like athletes, how to design “gravity companies” that pull people in, and why resilience is built through micro-habits, relationships, and health.We

Behind the Bar, Ahead of the Curve — Two bartenders walk into a startup and start reinventing how people learn, earn, and invest in themselves. Dakota and Vladimir are blending hospitality and machine learning to build tools that gamify skill-building, reward contribution, and turn human growth into real-world equity. A conversation about grit, AI, and the XP economy where people are the startups.

Biomedical engineers Megan Phillips and Fernanda Campos join Steve to explore the leap from research to entrepreneurship. They discuss career design, women’s health innovation, and how curiosity, strategy, and grit fuel meaningful ventures. A candid talk on validation, leverage, and building what truly matters in medtech and beyond.

Personal Passion, Professional Pivots, and Mastering Medical DevicesAt age 12, Christy Shearer was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes—a shock that became her lifelong source of purpose. In this candid, fast-moving conversation with neighbor and host Steven Muskal, Christy traces how that early experience inspired empathy, discipline, and a three-decade career leading global diabetes-device and pharma teams. From the science of ultra-rapid insulin to the realities of women in leadership, this episode

Steve and Dom explore cybersecurity, music, and the search for balance in health, heritage, and harmonyCybersecurity expert, musician, and health hacker Dom Mather joins Steven Muskal for an open, deeply human conversation that moves between code, chords, and connection. Together they explore how to find balance in a world that’s constantly evolving — from cyberattacks and AI to grief, grounding, and guitar solos.Dom’s story starts in Sussex, England, where his father helped write early CAT-scan