Hello and welcome to Grody & UnPrOfEsSiOnAL, my name is Justin McMenamy, and my mission is to share both profitable and painful leadership lessons I have acquired over a twenty-year career as a misfit in corporate America. Like everyone, I have worked with and for hundreds of leaders across my career. While some leaders are great, and many are good, the vast majority find themselves tossed into leadership and left to figure it out on their own. Grody & Unprofessional seeks to share leadership stories harvested from my own experiences and from the experiences of others through approachable and candid conversations with the aim of educating and shaping your leadership journey. Grody & Unprofessional episodes will toggle between focused monologue on specific lessons or mindsets I have acquired from my experiences and conversations with other leaders seeking to understand their convictions and strategies for inspiring, motivating, and maybe sometimes cajoling a group into action. Grody & Unprofessional is not a memoir, it’s not a forum to gripe or complain about the past or present. The rules are simple, I aim to convey leadership lessons through storytelling. If a given story has a hero, we will use proper names, if the story has a villain, a dolt, or if there is the potential for embarrassment, proper names will be removed. While we do NOT aim to embarrass people or organizations, we do intend to embarrass poor leadership behaviors and mindsets common to many leaders and organizations. My experience has been that demand for talented leaders outstrips supply by at least tenfold, Grody & Unprofessional is my feeble attempt to improve supply. I hope you will join me as we seek to uncover people, product, and organizational leadership lessons through the musings of a corporate misfit and his friends.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHello and welcome to Grody & UnPrOfEsSiOnAL, my name is Justin McMenamy, and my mission is to share both profitable and painful leadership lessons I have acquired over a twenty-year career as a misfit in corporate America. Like everyone, I have worked with and for hundreds of leaders across my career.
Recent episodes include "Business as a Team Sport w. Bryce Baker" (29 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Name It & Claim It Innovation w. Jim Weber" (15 October 2026, 46 minutes), and "Is Leadership Worth the Weight? w. Drew Norton" (1 October 2026, 35 minutes).
Grody & UnPrOfEsSiOnAL publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 49 minutes.
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Episode #59
Host Justin McMenamy and guest Bryce Baker discuss the perspective of business as a competitive team sport rather than as a family or a “job for life,” noting shorter employer-employee horizons and remote work. They...
Episode #58
Host Justin McMenamy continues the multi-episode conversation with Jim Weber about leadership lessons and innovation, revisiting Jim’s advice that companies should declare themselves innovative even if they aren’t. The...
Host Justin McMenany welcomes back sales leader and coach Drew Norton to discuss Norton’s personal health journey, including losing about 100 pounds from a high of roughly 265 through cutting soda, increasing activity...
Episode #56
Host Justin McMenamy welcomes sales leader and coach Drew Norton to discuss sales and leadership. Norton explains that salesmanship often comes with a negative stigma (e.g., “used car salesman,” “sales is a four-letter...
Episode #53
Host Justin McMenamy interviews Dale Koch, a longtime product developer/manager at Precision Planting, about creating products within new product categories versus iterative “bigger, faster, cheaper” product development...
Episode #52
Justin McMenamy continues his multi-episode conversation with Jim Weber. In this portion of the conversation, they tackle topics like leadership, innovation, and hiring in organizations built to create the future rather...
Episode #51
Host Justin McMenamy continues his conversation with Brent Adamson, co-author of “The Challenger Sale” and “The Framemaking Sale”. <br /><br />When asked if Challengers are born or taught, Adamson argues Challengers are...
Episode #50
This is the first of two episodes in which Justin McMenamy interviews Brent Adamson, acclaimed author of The Challenger Sale. <br /><br />Justin leads off the conversation by sharing how The Challenger Sale helped...
Episode #50
This is the first of two episodes in which Justin McMenamy interviews Brent Adamson, acclaimed author of The Challenger Sale. Justin leads off the conversation by sharing how The Challenger Sale helped codify Precision...
Episode #49
Host Justin McMenamy and guest Jim Weber discuss techniques by which innovative teams can survive inside large bureaucracies. They discuss the need for the innovative leader to set a different “cultural thermostat,”...
Host Justin McMenamy interviews Steve “Roach” Roehrich, a veteran naval aviator, former Fortune 50 Chief Business Improvement Officer, and aerospace manufacturing CEO, about leadership lessons acquired and deployed in...
Host Justin McMenamy welcomes Leo Salotti, co-founder of Terranova, to discuss leadership lessons learned from cross-cultural management and career transitions. <br /><br />Across the episode, Leo describes lessons...
Episode #46
Host Justin McMenamy and Jim Weber continue their conversation on fostering a culture of innovation including methods of preventing it from being killed by pessimism and process. <br /><br />This episode covers...
Episode #45
Host Justin McMenamy interviews entrepreneur and marketer Danny Kirk. The conversation spans topics like defining failure and success, the place for pessimism in business, and leadership lessons drawn from the great...
Episode #44
Host Justin McMenamy interviews Andy Pearson, creative director at Liquid Death. <br /><br />Through the conversation, Pearson recounts stories, from early in his career, of buying taxidermy squirrels and navigating...
Host Justin McMenamy and guest Jim Weber continue their multi-episode discussion around the many ingredients which comprise a successful culture of innovation. <br /><br />On the topic of brainstorming both Justin and...
Host Justin McMenamy welcomes Kristen Patty to discuss leadership and HR lessons from their time at Precision Planting during a decade of growth from under 100 employees to over 500, including global expansion across...
Episode #41
In this episode host Justin McMenamy welcomes fellow leadership podcaster Erin Thorpe. <br /><br />Across the conversation each discusses formative early-career experiences and how they shaped their mid-career focus on...
In the first episode of the mini-series entitled “<b>Innovation: Is It More Than a Feeling?</b>” host Justin McMenamy and Jim Weber explore the concept of innovation. The episode delves into defining the necessary...
This episode features host Justin McMenamy and guest Caleb Schleder discussing the Situational Leadership model. They delve into the four leadership styles (L1 through L4) and their applications based on employee...
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