Jewish Professionals Podcast
Jewish Professionals Podcast
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The JP Podcast (Jewish Professionals Podcast) is dedicated to exploring the journeys of Jewish professionals across various industries. Our goal is to provide insight, inspiration, and practical wisdom. We aim to highlight the unique challenges and triumphs of being a frum Jew in the modern workplace while fostering meaningful discussions on career growth, faith, and identity.
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The podcast focuses on the unique challenges and triumphs of being a frum Jew in the modern workplace, touching on themes of career growth, faith, identity, and intersectionality. Episodes include discussions on life experiences in public relations with guests like Chaim Zakheim, who shares insights on balancing religious values with professional demands, and transformational journeys of leaders like Dean Strauss, who discusses the shift from corporate executive to academic mentor.

The JP Podcast (Jewish Professionals Podcast) is dedicated to exploring the journeys of Jewish professionals across various industries. Our goal is to provide insight, inspiration, and practical wisdom. We aim to highlight the unique challenges and triumphs of being a frum Jew in the modern workplace while fostering meaningful discussions on career growth, faith, and identity.
In this episode of the Jewish Professionals Podcast, we sit down with Lawrence Askowitz, founder of Gabriel Advisors, a trusted advisory firm led by leading experts in the digital infrastructure, telecom, and related technology services sectors. A graduate of Columbia University and Yeshiva University, Lawrence has spent more than three decades in capital markets and M&A, with earlier chapters of his career at Deutsche Bank, Lazard, Credit Suisse, ZelnickMedia, Kidron Capital Advisors, and Bank Street Group, where he originated, structured, and executed transactions for many of the leading companies in the telecom, media, and technology sector. He has also held board roles at companies including 180 Connect, Horizon PCS, and Lumos Networks, and continues to help lead the YU Wall Street Group. In our conversation, Lawrence shares how he broke into the finance industry, some cool infrastructure projects he helped finance, how to know when the time is right to leave a company, the impact AI is having on every sector, how young professionals can provide value early in their careers, and his perspective on the future of infrastructure, including data centers in space. His story offers a candid look at building a long, evolving career on Wall Street and the lessons that have guided him through every chapter.

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