BizTech Superhero
BizTech Superhero
Podcast Description
BizTech Superhero: the podcast that empowers you to unleash the technology superpowers within your business!
Hosted by business technology expert Joshua McNary, each episode features short, insightful interviews with business leaders, industry experts, and thought leaders, delivering actionable information you can implement right away. Listen we dive into the latest tech trends, tools, and strategies to help small and medium-sized businesses thrive in today’s digital landscape.
Whether you're looking to streamline operations, enhance productivity, or harness the latest innovations, you can become a "BizTech Superhero" and transform your business into a tech-savvy powerhouse.
Subscribe now and discover how to unlock your business's most significant challenges using the superpowers of technology.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers various topics including technology trends, business innovation, AI applications, and operational efficiencies. Episodes explore themes such as enhancing productivity through tech, streamlining operations, and the impact of AI on startup growth, exemplified in discussions like Eric Engelmann's contributions to venture startup growth with AI.

BizTech Superhero: the podcast that empowers you to unleash the technology superpowers within your business!
Hosted by business technology expert Joshua McNary, each episode features short, insightful interviews with business leaders, industry experts, and thought leaders, delivering actionable information you can implement right away. Listen we dive into the latest tech trends, tools, and strategies to help small and medium-sized businesses thrive in today’s digital landscape.
Whether you’re looking to streamline operations, enhance productivity, or harness the latest innovations, you can become a “BizTech Superhero” and transform your business into a tech-savvy powerhouse.
Subscribe now and discover how to unlock your business’s most significant challenges using the superpowers of technology.
Steve Shriver on Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship, Automation, and Tech at EcoLips & More
Host Joshua McNary interviews Steve Shriver, CEO of EcoLips and Bug Soother in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a serial entrepreneur who owns five businesses and advises startups. Shriver describes EcoLips as a certified B Corp guided by the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit, and shares how mountaineering experiences shape his approach to goal-setting, resilience, and perspective.
He outlines his other ventures—Bug Soother, Brewhemia cafe, Soko Outfitters, and The Olympic event venue—plus a new patented product, Secure Outlet, and recounts making and distributing hand sanitizer during COVID through a partnership with Cedar Ridge Distillery. On technology, he discusses manufacturing automation, the Red Zone production monitoring system, challenges of equipment uptime and power needs, and the complexity of disparate tools driving a move to the DCOM ERP.
They also discuss early experimentation with ChatGPT, organizational change management, and Shriver’s advice to “try something new” with technology.

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