Jessica Lattif built a successful career in tech, rising from a support role to senior engineering management at companies including Meta, Salesforce and Stripe. But behind the title and compensation, work was taking a toll on her health and sense of self.

In this episode, Jessica shares how to recognize when a job is asking too much of you and what you can do when quitting is not an immediate option. She explains why documenting health concerns matters, how to explore workplace accommodations and leave benefits, and how “radical prioritization” can help you reclaim your time and energy.

She also offers practical ways to set boundaries, advocate for greater flexibility and reconnect with the parts of yourself that have nothing to do with your career.

About Jessica Lattif

Jessica Lattif is the founder of Not Working in Tech, a platform, podcast and coaching practice supporting people experiencing burnout, toxic workplaces and the feeling that they have lost themselves inside their careers. After more than a decade in tech, including leadership roles at Meta, Salesforce and Stripe, Jessica now uses her experience to help others protect their health, navigate difficult work situations and build lives that feel more sustainable.

Not Working in Tech → notworkingintech.com

TikTok → @notworkingintech

LinkedIn → Not Working in Tech

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder of Tripoint Strategic Group, where she works with businesses and organizations on strategy, marketing and growth. She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, exploring the stories, decisions and experiences that shape how people build and lead.

To learn more or be a guest, visit:

tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:

tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

For years, Minhdoan Ngo did what many of us are taught to do: work hard, achieve more and keep moving toward the next goal.

He served in the Marine Corps, built a successful corporate career, invested in real estate and became a provider for his family. But eventually, he had to confront a harder question: Why weren’t all of those external measures of success creating the fulfillment he expected?

In this episode of Tripoint Conversations, Minhdoan, founder of Contagious Healer, shares what led him to stop looking outward and start paying attention to what was happening internally.

We talk about the pressure to perform, the expectations we carry from childhood, why we sometimes avoid uncomfortable emotions by fixing, explaining or shutting down, and how those patterns can follow us into our closest relationships.

More importantly, Minhdoan shares practical ways to start recognizing those patterns in your own life, including how to identify when you’re triggered, become more aware of what you’re actually feeling and respond differently in the moment.

It’s a conversation about what happens when achieving more stops being the answer, and the work of figuring out what actually is.

Learn more here: https://www.contagioushealer.com/

About Minhdoan Ngo

Minhdoan Ngo is a Marine Corps veteran, entrepreneur and founder of Contagious Healer. Drawing from his own journey from high achievement to greater self-awareness, he now helps men better understand the patterns shaping their lives and relationships. Through coaching, brotherhood programs and retreats, his work focuses on emotional awareness, vulnerability, personal growth and becoming more present for the people who matter most.

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder of Tripoint Strategic Group, where she works with businesses and organizations on strategy, marketing and growth. She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, exploring the stories, decisions and experiences that shape how people build and lead.

To learn more or be a guest, visit:

tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:

tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

When a team is struggling, the usual response is to add something: another training program, a new process, more meetings, or another tool. But what if the problem is not a lack of effort or ability? What if capable people are being slowed down by competing priorities, unclear expectations, and leaders who are too involved in the day-to-day work?

In this episode, Jimmy Burroughes shares what he learned as a British Army officer, corporate general manager, and now founder of JBL High Performance. He explains how leaders can give their teams greater clarity, make better use of the expertise around them, and recognize when being helpful has turned them into the bottleneck.

Jimmy also shares practical ways to improve communication, decide what truly deserves your time, and determine what should be stopped, slowed down, or swapped when something new is added. You’ll also learn about a free assessment you can take to find out whether you are creating a bottleneck, or send to your boss if you suspect the problem may be coming from somewhere else.

The conversation also covers the early warning signs of burnout, why resilience cannot fix an unsustainable workload, and how AI may help leaders spend more time developing people and making better decisions.

About Jimmy Burroughes

Jimmy Burroughes is the founder of JBL High Performance and the creator of Simplify to Amplify, a leadership approach that helps organizations remove performance friction and equip leaders to work with greater clarity and impact.

A former British Army officer and corporate general manager, Jimmy has worked with thousands of leaders around the world. He is also the author of Beat Burnout, Ignite Performance and the creator of Aiden, an AI-powered performance and coaching platform.

Learn more and take the free leadership assessment at:

https://www.jblhighperformance.com

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder and strategic partner of Tripoint Strategic Group, a Louisville-based marketing and strategy firm helping businesses and nonprofits clarify their direction, strengthen their marketing, and turn ideas into action.

With more than 20 years of experience across marketing, product, and strategic growth, Kristina has led initiatives for global brands and now works alongside small to mid-sized organizations ready to grow.

She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, where she talks with leaders, founders, and operators about the experiences that shaped them and the lessons others can put to work.

To learn more about working with Kristina or being a guest, visit:

https://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:

http://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

A plant from the Middle East. A laboratory in a one-stoplight town in Kansas. And a question that has now turned into years of cancer research.

I recently sat down with Jason West, co-founder of Genzada Pharmaceuticals, to hear a story that is pretty hard to believe until you hear how it unfolded.

It starts with Jason’s father, Gene, who grew up near Jerusalem and remembered a plant that had been used as a traditional remedy for more than a thousand years. Years later, as a chemist living in Kansas, he decided to figure out what was actually in it.

That curiosity turned into something much bigger than any of them expected.

They began identifying and studying compounds in the plant. Word spread around their small Kansas town. People began asking for the tea they were making and sharing their experiences. But instead of assuming those stories proved anything, the family kept digging into the science.

Today, that work has grown into Genzada Pharmaceuticals, investigational cancer drugs and human clinical research.

Jason takes us through that journey and what happens when something interesting in a lab starts showing enough promise to keep pursuing it.

We talk about the years of research most of us never see, why his team considers itself its own biggest skeptic, what they’re learning about how their investigational drug may work, the nutritional supplements developed alongside the pharmaceutical research, and what it takes to move a potential drug through clinical trials.

There is still a lot they are working to understand and a long road between promising research and an approved treatment. But that might be what makes this story so interesting.

About Jason West

Jason West is Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Genzada Pharmaceuticals and CEO of Hyatt Life Sciences. With a background in biology and law, Jason is helping lead Genzada’s development of investigational therapies and clinical research in oncology.

Learn more:

Genzada Pharmaceuticals: genzada.com

Hyatt Life Sciences: hyattlifesciences.com

About Kristina Lowe
Kristina Lowe is the founder of Tripoint Strategic Group, where she works with businesses and organizations on strategy, marketing and growth. She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, exploring the stories, decisions and experiences that shape how people build and lead.

To learn more or be a guest, visit:

tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:

tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

Have you ever stopped to think about where your everyday decisions are taking you?

Frank Mesa believes each decision moves us in one of three directions: we evolve, revolve, or devolve. We move forward, repeat the same patterns, or allow ourselves to move backward.

Frank knows what each of those looks like. He began his career as a train conductor and worked his way up to Chief Operations Training Officer at MTA Metro-North Railroad. While his career was moving forward, other areas of his life were not. He was nearly 100 pounds overweight, facing serious health issues, and relying on alcohol to manage stress.

In this conversation, Frank shares how he began recognizing the habits and emotions behind his choices and built a system for making better ones. His ERD framework, featured in his book Alchemy: It’s As Easy As E-R-D, offers a simple question to use when an idea, impulse, or emotion takes over: Will this decision help me evolve, keep me revolving, or cause me to devolve?

We also talk about the morning routine that changed his health, why success can create dangerous blind spots, what competing on the first season of The Amazing Race taught him about pressure and self-awareness, and how small decisions build momentum over time.

If you feel stuck in the same patterns and are ready to start moving forward, this conversation will help you take a closer look at the decisions shaping your health, career, relationships, and personal growth.

About Frank Mesa

Frank Mesa is the founder of Mesa Solutions Inc., an author, consultant, and former transportation executive. He spent more than 30 years at MTA Metro-North Railroad, beginning as a train conductor and eventually serving as Chief Operations Training Officer.

Throughout his career, Frank led workforce training and development for thousands of employees and helped modernize railroad training through virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and digital learning systems.

Frank is also the author of Alchemy: It’s As Easy As E-R-D, which introduces his framework for identifying where individuals and organizations are evolving, revolving, or devolving. Through Mesa Solutions Inc., he now helps transportation organizations improve workforce development while also helping people make more intentional decisions in their personal and professional lives.

Frank also competed on the first season of CBS’s The Amazing Race.

Learn more:

https://mesasolutionsinc.com/

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder and strategic partner of Tripoint Strategic Group, a Louisville-based firm that works with businesses and organizations to clarify direction, align strategy, and drive growth. With over 20 years of experience across marketing, product, and strategic development, Kristina has led growth initiatives for global brands and now partners with small to mid-sized companies and nonprofits to help them move from ideas to execution.

She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, a podcast focused on real stories from leaders, founders, and operators, exploring the decisions, challenges, and moments that shape how people build and lead.

To learn more or be a guest, visit:

https://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:
http://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

Most of us know the kind of person we want to be. More patient. Less stressed. Better listeners. More present with the people we love. The hard part is knowing what to actually do.

In this conversation, Linda Babulic shares the habits she's developed through decades of coaching, leadership training, and her own life experiences. We talk about why so many people feel stuck, how small daily practices can help you feel more grounded, why nature matters more than we realize, and how becoming a better listener can change your relationships at home and at work.

Linda also shares the story behind her upcoming novel, The Orange Compass, a story about a young woman searching for direction and discovering that the answers she's looking for aren't nearly as far away as she thought.

Topics in this episode:

• Why communication and conversation aren't the same thing

• The daily habit Linda says can change your mindset in minutes

• How to approach conflict without making it worse

• Why gratitude is more than just saying "thank you"

• The connection between nature, stillness, and clarity

• The leadership lesson that changed the way Linda lives and leads

• Why listening is one of the most overlooked life skills

About Linda Babulic

Linda Babulic is an author, speaker, executive coach, and founder of Zest Your Life. For more than 30 years, she's helped people strengthen relationships, improve communication, and live with greater intention through coaching, workshops, and speaking.

She's the author of ZEST Your Life: A Taste of Inner Wisdom and will release her new novel, The Orange Compass, this September. The book follows a young woman searching for direction and weaves together many of the same lessons Linda has spent years teaching about purpose, relationships, and intentional living.

As promised in the episode, Linda is also offering Tripoint Conversations listeners access to her free Three Daily Rituals guide. While you're there, you can also join the waitlist to be the first to hear when The Orange Compass launches.

Learn more at lindababulic.com.

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder and strategic partner of Tripoint Strategic Group, a Louisville-based firm that works with businesses and organizations to clarify direction, align strategy, and drive growth. With over 20 years of experience across marketing, product, and strategic development, Kristina has led growth initiatives for global brands and now partners with small to mid-sized companies and nonprofits to help them move from ideas to execution.

She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, a podcast focused on real stories from leaders, founders, and operators, exploring the decisions, challenges, and moments that shape how people build and lead.

To learn more or be a guest, visit:

https://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:
http://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

What if feeling overwhelmed isn't about having too much to do? What if it's about making the same decisions over and over again?

In this episode of Tripoint Conversations, I sit down with Jennifer Kattula, Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft Advertising, to talk about something every busy parent and professional can relate to: the mental load.

Jen shares how the same systems thinking she uses to lead global teams has shaped the way her family approaches everyday life. From creating family values and "default decisions" to using AI as a personal chief of staff, she offers practical ideas that make life feel less reactive and more intentional. We also talk about why you don't have to do everything, why playing to each person's strengths matters, and how a few small systems can create more space for the people and priorities you care about most.

We talk about:

• Why understanding your identity should come before building systems
• How Jen and her husband created a family vision before they were married
• The power of "default decisions" and how they reduce decision fatigue
• Practical family rhythms that bring consistency without adding rigidity
• Why trying to force yourself into someone else's routine, like becoming a 5 a.m. person, often doesn't work
• Dividing responsibilities at home based on each person's strengths
• The simple five-minute "special time" practice they use to connect with their kids
• How Jen uses AI as a personal chief of staff to organize work and family life
• Why focusing on three to five priorities each season leads to more progress than trying to do everything
• The advice she'd give her younger self about confidence, identity, and self-awareness
  

About Jennifer Kattula

Jennifer Kattula is the Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft Advertising, where she leads global marketing strategy and teams. Beyond her corporate leadership role, she's also the creator of House Rules, a framework designed to help families build more intentional lives through identity, systems, technology, and everyday rhythms.

Drawing on her background in engineering, marketing, and leadership, Jennifer applies systems thinking beyond the workplace, helping families reduce the mental load of daily life so they can spend more time on what matters most. She's currently developing a guided platform to help families create their own values, mission, and operating principles.

Learn more at jenniferkattula.com.

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder and strategic partner of Tripoint Strategic Group, a Louisville-based firm that works with businesses and organizations to clarify direction, align strategy, and drive growth.

With over 20 years of experience across marketing, product, and strategic development, Kristina has led growth initiatives for global brands and now partners with small to mid-sized companies and nonprofits to help them move from ideas to execution.

To learn more or be a guest, go to:

https://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast

Tripoint Conversations is independently produced. If you’d like to help keep these conversations coming, you can support the podcast here:
http://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/support

David Cooper has been on both sides of business for over four decades, as the owner of seven companies and as the attorney who has since helped hundreds of others build, structure, and sometimes walk away from theirs. In this conversation, he talks about what he watches for when entrepreneurs walk through his door, what business partnerships get wrong before they even start, and the week he made a last-minute call that saved him from losing everything.

David shared about:

• Operating agreements aren't just legal formalities, they're the plan for when things go wrong. Without one, a corporate divorce can fracture both the business and the family.
• The conversations most partners avoid (financial exposure, exit strategy, pledging personal assets) are the exact ones that matter most before anyone signs anything.
• Entrepreneurs tend to plan for the upside. David makes them think through the downside, including whether their spouse is genuinely on board with what they're risking.
• Using AI or online templates to draft your own business agreements is, in his words, "fraught with peril." The nuance is specific to your situation, and getting it wrong is expensive.
• The best business decision David ever made came a week before close: he demanded cash instead of stock on a gut feeling. The company went bankrupt 13 months later.

About David Cooper

David Cooper is a Louisville-based corporate and business attorney with nearly five decades of experience advising entrepreneurs, business owners, and organizations through formation, growth, transactions, and succession planning.

Today, through the Law Office of David H. Cooper, he helps clients navigate business transactions, partnership agreements, acquisitions, contracts, succession planning, and strategic decision-making. Drawing from both legal expertise and real-world business experience, David serves as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs looking to build strong foundations and create long-term success.

About Kristina Lowe

Kristina Lowe is the founder and strategic partner of Tripoint Strategic Group, a Louisville-based firm that works with businesses and organizations to clarify direction, align strategy, and drive growth.

With over 20 years of experience across marketing, product, and strategic development, Kristina has led growth initiatives for global brands and now partners with small to mid-sized companies and nonprofits to help them move from ideas to execution.

She is also the host of Tripoint Conversations, a podcast focused on real stories from leaders, founders, and operators, exploring the decisions, challenges, and moments that shape how people build and lead.

To learn more or be a guest, go to:

https://www.tripointstrategicgroup.com/podcast