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Zero To Prove

Zero to Prove is a podcast for leaders who’ve reached the point in life where they’re no longer chasing titles, status, or validation.

Podcast · By Anthony Bay · English · Official site

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6
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Sep 23, 2026
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Jul 15, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    Aaron Khoo: Knowing When Success Is No Longer Enough (opens the original)

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    Aaron Khoo spent nearly 30 years in technology, including ten years at Microsoft, time working on the early body-camera team at Axon, and almost ten years at AWS. In this episode of Zero to Prove , Aaron talks with Anthony Bay about the decisions that shaped his career, from leaving Microsoft shortly after a promotion to eventually stepping away from Amazon without another full-time role waiting. He discusses why successful careers can become difficult to leave, the loss of identity that can com

  2. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Jeff Teper: Taking More Shots on Goal and Staying in the Game (opens the original)

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    Jeff Teper has spent more than three decades at Microsoft, helping build products including SharePoint and Teams and repeatedly reinventing his work as technology moved from the PC to the internet, the cloud and now AI. In this conversation, Jeff reflects on taking a 50% pay cut to join Microsoft, choosing opportunities over titles, learning from failed products, and the leaders who continued to bet on him before success was obvious. He also explains why taking more “shots on goal” matters, why

  3. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    Dennis Hoffman: Why Time Is the One Thing You Can Never Get Back (opens the original)

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    Dennis Hoffman spent 22 years at EMC and Dell Technologies, moving deliberately from role to role, engineering, strategy consulting, startup founder, corporate fixer, and division builder, driven by what he calls his one real motivator: the fear of lost time. In this conversation, he traces the mentors and moments that shaped that instinct, from a business school application that changed the trajectory of his career to founding and selling a company in the wreckage of the dot-com crash, to the o

  4. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

    Paul Suzman: Curiosity, Service and a Life You Never Need to Retire From (opens the original)

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    Paul Suzman moved from South Africa to Seattle in 1980 with few connections and went on to build a successful commercial real estate business by pioneering an approach focused entirely on representing tenants rather than landlords. But his story extends far beyond business. In this conversation, Paul reflects on immigration, integrity, relationships, and the experiences that led him from farming and real estate to helping guide VillageReach, a nonprofit working to improve healthcare access in so

  5. Episode · Jul 30, 2026

    Paul Clarke: Building a Life of Purpose, Not Position (opens the original)

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    Paul Clarke has spent his career helping some of the world’s most influential professional and financial services organisations navigate transformation, crisis, and change. In this conversation, he reflects on the collapse of Arthur Andersen, the lessons he learned inside organisations including Deloitte, EY, McKinsey, Prudential, and Paul Hastings, and why calm, attentive leadership can be more powerful than commanding a room. Paul also shares how relationships shaped nearly every major career

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