Podcasts

I don't run a podcast. But every so often someone invites me onto theirs to talk about Ambiki, The Problem-First Method, building software, or how speech therapy and code ended up in the same career.

Mark Kennedy had me on Real Gaijin, his show about foreigners building lives and businesses in Japan, for the long version of how I got here: arriving at Kansai Gaidai with zero Japanese, two years in investment banking, teaching English at an eikaiwa, and teaching myself to code along the way. That path is how I ended up running Ambiki from a 40-home farming village, starting most days at 4 a.m. to overlap with the U.S. East Coast. We also got into the winter night my son had a febrile seizure and every neighbor came out to the end of their driveway to ask how they could help, which retired my complaints about neighborhood duty for good.

Dr. Caroline Biesalski had me on The Inspired Choice to talk about building Ambiki therapist-first, the teletherapy privacy feature we shipped during COVID that no one ended up using, and the idea behind The Problem-First Method: understand the problem before you fall in love with a solution.

Kim Dutro Allen and K. Todd Houston had me on Telepractice Today to trace how Ambiki began — where the idea came from, the early decisions that shaped it, and what it took to grow it into the platform speech, occupational, and physical therapists rely on today.

Telepractice Today has been delisted.