Pete has been a broadcaster for the last 30 years, falling in love with the edit bay in the back of a newsroom in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He studied journalism at the University of Colorado with a focus on long-form documentary production, turning that early experience into a career helping businesses shape the stories of their brands through image and sound. Pete earned an M.S. in Organizational Design and spent fifteen years teaching graduate marketing students the power of human-centered communications. From public relations teams on global multi-million dollar brand projects to marketing for independent business owners, Pete has helped shape communications that build brands. In 2006, he launched Fifth & Main, LLC., a media consultancy focused on brand-building through the nascent field of podcasting. In 2020, nearly 3,000 individual podcast episodes behind them, the company rebranded as TruStory FM with an ear toward the next decade of podcast education and entertainment.
Pete has hosted as well as been a panelist on a number of episodes.
This page features episodes on which he has been a host.
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Tommy’s steering wheel once came off at a stoplight, Pete has opinions about your dryer that will make you uncomfortable, and both hosts discover that the invisible labor of adulthood — from oil changes to fabric weight sorting — is basically a series of maintenance rituals nobody trained us for.
You’ve been working out for months and you’re still basically doing the same thing you did on day one — and somehow you’re surprised it’s not working. This week, Srdjan explains why your body is smarter than your effort, and what it actually takes to stop spinning your wheels.
Kyle says if you’ve ever been in an argument, said something stupid, and then thought of the perfect comeback the next morning in the shower — congratulations, you’re a writer. This whole episode is about that: the gap between what’s real and what’s true, and how creative work lives in the space between.
We unpack Robert Redford’s Quiz Show in the True Lies series: institutional pressure, father-son devastation, and how privilege turns fraud natural.
Welcome to Season 11 of All The Feelings: Still Adulting, where Pete and Tommy prove that being a grown-up is just an elaborate prank we’re all somehow still falling for. This week: The culinary industrial complex.
Bonding leave sounds simple until you try to coordinate it with FMLA, align measurement periods that don’t match, and manage scenarios the law’s drafters probably didn’t anticipate. Sarah Piscatelli and Mary McNally explain why the distance between a well-intentioned benefit and getting it right in practice is wider than most HR professionals expect.
You’ve tried connecting tasks to meaning and designing your environment—but what happens when you’re still stuck? James Ochoa helps us understand what’s really happening beneath the surface when motivation strategies aren’t enough.
We unpack Hallström’s The Hoax in our True Lies series, exploring how a literary fraud spun out of control through fake documents, method acting, and institutional complicity.
No judgment. Just two guys, a microphone, and the shared understanding that being a grown-up is less “having it all figured out” and more “Googling things frantically at 2 AM while pretending you’re fine.”
Chris Pratt wakes up strapped into a futuristic courtroom chair with 90 minutes to live and an AI judge who looks like Rebecca Ferguson, so naturally the movie turns into Minority Report: Touchpad Edition. Pete Wright, Andy Nelson, Tommy Metz III, and Steve Sarmento argue whether Mercy is a cautionary tale about surveillance and AI… or just a very shiny roller coaster that keeps finding new ways to trip over its own shoelaces.