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.
See episodes where Pete has been a panelist right here.
Overwhelmed by syllabi and not sure how to start planning your semester? We’re breaking down ADHD-friendly strategies to help you go from panic to plan with tools that actually work for your brain.
What’s the real difference between training at a big national gym and a private studio? New trainer Brooke Passey joins Pete and Srdjan to unpack incentives, atmosphere, and coaching—and Srdjan drops news about his own bodybuilding prep.
We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the big one, the one that most people probably started with because it was the move to theatrical, it’s Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 film “Ju-on: The Grudge.”
If you’ve ever thought “My life would be so much easier if I just changed my name to Wanda Milkshake,” then you already understand the energy of this episode. Also, we’d like to introduce you to our brand ambassador, Brooksie Skittles.
What happens when you run an entire season of a podcast and then realize you’ve been ignoring your listener mail the whole time? Pete and Tommy make amends the only way they know how—by diving headfirst into tales of canine fast-food heists, elderly romance, lucid dream saddlery, and the great crockpot conspiracy of the American Midwest.
AI can write your first draft, but it can’t shake a new hire’s hand. In this episode, Pete, Kyle, and Terry dig into where AI truly saves time in HR, where it goes off the rails, and how smart teams are building practical guardrails so the tech helps—not harms—people and culture.
Jane Foster falls into the Aether, and Pete falls for the cinematography—while Matthew wonders if someone accidentally put Twilight in his Thor. This episode dives into horror pacing, Infinity Stone inconsistencies, and the infinite dramatic range of Stellan Skarsgård (who, mercifully, isn’t in this scene).
Kyle Olson has spent a lifetime building fictional worlds—and now, he’s navigating the very real terrain of grief and legacy. In this episode, he opens up about unexpected losses, the stories we leave behind, and the quiet power of being seen.
Looking for a trainer but overwhelmed by options? Srdjan lays out how to vet a coach, why private gyms often deliver better outcomes than big-box memberships, and the exact questions that reveal whether you’re in good hands.
What if the college major is a relic of an old world—and the real work of higher education is helping students design their own? In this conversation, we explore how to return intention, joy, and human agency to the center of the college experience.