#420: Peter Stringer
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Matthew McQueeny sits down with digital strategist Peter Stringer for a conversation that begins with childhood memories of Boston sports and journalism—but quickly turns into an exploration of fascinating career parallels. Both Matthew and Peter started as aspiring sports journalists. Both discovered the web in its infancy and used HTML, websites, and digital publishing to bypass the traditional media gatekeepers. One landed with the New Jersey Nets. The other with the Boston Celtics. Together, they witnessed—and helped shape—the transformation from newspapers to websites, from websites...
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#305: One-Season Stand
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Matt talks about this crazy 2019 NBA free agency season, Kawhi Leonard leaving Toronto for Southern California, the Brooklyn Nets, and more! *originally released 7/6/19
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#419: Lawrence Shaw
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Matt McQueeny sits down with Lawrence Shaw, founder of Sitemorse and AAANow, for a wide-ranging conversation that moves from Middle England and early mobile phones to The RAF, the future of AI, digital trust, accessibility, and organizational readiness.
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#418: Jordan Kanter
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Matthew McQueeny sits down with Jordan Kanter for a conversation about Chicago, sports, technology, data, AI, and what it means to stay human in a rapidly changing digital world. Jordan shares stories from growing up in the Chicago area during the Michael Jordan Bulls era, visiting iconic John Hughes movie locations, and discovering technology through VCRs, early Apple computers, Netscape, Linux, and open-source culture. From there, the conversation moves into his path from pre-med and psychology into data, analytics, consulting, and digital experience work. The episode explores how Jordan’s...
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#417: Graham Jones
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Matt sits down with Graham Jones for a wide-ranging conversation that goes far beyond martech, AI, and digital strategy. Graham shares the personal story of losing his father at a very young age, growing up just outside London, and later piecing together family history through secondhand stories, football culture, and curiosity. The conversation moves through music, punk scenes, psychology, marketing, and the evolution of a career shaped by boredom, curiosity, and a fascination with technology. Matt and Graham dig into what it means to grow into your work, how psychology underpins marketing,...
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#416: Mike Thompson
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Matt reconnects with longtime industry friend Mike Thompson, now at Sesimi, for a wide-ranging conversation on sales, storytelling, creative automation, AI, family, and the human side of career pivots. Mike joins on the road from Houston and shares what life looks like eight months into his new role at Sesimi. The conversation explores how he approaches conference networking at scale, why relationship-based selling still wins in a noisy AI-fueled market, and how hyper-personalized outreach can cut through when generic automation fails. Matt and Mike also dig into what Sesimi actually does...
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#415: Aaron Jansen
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Aaron Jansen is an Account Manager, Commercial at Sitecore. In this episode, Aaron starts with his childhood in Fort Collins, winds through Alaska, Chicago, and the newsroom world, and lands in enterprise tech. Along the way, Aaron shares stories about growing up in Colorado, finding his way as a young adult, meeting his wife in Fairbanks, building a career in graphic design and digital media, and unexpectedly becoming part of the evolution of modern journalism. Matt and Aaron dig into the changing economics of news, the rise and fall of local papers, the promise and pitfalls of digital...
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#414: Pieter Versloot
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Pieter Versloot is the co-founder of Plate CMS. In this episode, Pieter shares his journey from growing up in the Netherlands and training as a car mechanic to building a career in marketing, software, and entrepreneurship. Along the way, he reflects on the lessons learned from the automotive world, digital marketing’s evolution, the difference between products and services, and what it really takes to grow a company with vision and resilience. The conversation also explores Plate’s origin story, the changing role of CMS platforms in the age of AI, and why structured content,...
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#413: Cuneyt Uysal
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Cuneyt Uysal joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation on technology, hockey, startups, globetrotting, and digital transformation. From building websites for upstate New York pizza shops in the dot-com era to a global career across Red Dot, Sitecore, Optimizely, and now Dataweavers. The conversation digs into the early days of building websites, the rise of CMS and enterprise social, the evolution of digital experience platforms, and what agentic AI could mean for marketers, technologists, and the future of work.
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#412: Tim Castano, Jayme Alfano Mulhern (Oscars 2026)
Mix-Minus with Matthew McQueeny
Join Matthew McQueeny, Tim Castano, and Jayme Alfano Mulhern for their 12th annual Mix-Minus Podcast Oscars special! Dive deep into the 2026 Academy Awards as our hosts explore each of the major categories and nominees. This year’s Best Picture race is a battle of titans, featuring: Sinners (the record-shattering frontrunner with 16 nominations) One Battle After Another Hamnet Marty Supreme Frankenstein Bugonia F1 The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Train Dreams For Best Actor, the heavyweights include Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After...
info_outlineMatt is joined by Greg Hrinya and Tim Castano to talk 2016 NBA Finals, following the Golden State Warrior's Game 4 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. The discussion hits on LeBron James' prime window, Stephen Curry's unique dominance, Kevin Love's future, and more.
Hrinya covers the Brooklyn Nets for Examiner.com and Castano is the President of a public-policy nonprofit who once filled in for David Stern during an NBA Draft dress rehearsal.