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In a World with Real Media

Hosted by Brad Burrow of Real Media, In a World with Real Media dives into the lives of successful business leaders to learn how they overcame adversity, seized opportunities, and grew from experience.

Each relaxed, long-form conversation traces a guest’s full career arc — the hometown roots, the hard lessons, the advice worth keeping — and closes with a signature twist: their best movie-trailer voice.

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In a World with Real Media is a Kansas City business podcast hosted by Brad Burrow of Real Media. Each relaxed, long-form conversation follows one leader’s full career arc, from hometown roots to the hard lessons, and closes with a signature twist: their best movie-trailer voice.

Yes. In a World with Real Media is a Kansas City business podcast. Brad Burrow talks with business owners, builders and experts from Kansas City, one at a time, about how they built their careers, recorded on video and audio in the studio at 9101 Barton Street, Overland Park.

Brad Burrow hosts In a World with Real Media. He founded Real Media, the Overland Park video and podcast production company that produces the show, and every episode is recorded on video and audio in the podcast studio at 9101 Barton Street.

Every episode of In a World with Real Media is recorded on video and audio in Real Media’s own podcast studio at 9101 Barton Street in Overland Park, Kansas. The same room and crew are available if you want a show of your own.

Latest episode

October 13, 2026
In this episode of In a World with Real Media, host Brad Burrow talks with Stephanie Sider, managing director of Turnstone Investment Banking and president of ACG Kansas City . Stephanie traces her path from a fourth-generation farm in Palco, Kansas, through K-State and Hallmark…

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Business owners, builders and experts from Kansas City, one at a time.

Brad sits down with Will Carter, Senior VP and Director of Marketing at Central Bank of the Midwest and an independent filmmaker.…
July 24, 2026
Bobbi Jo Reed tells Brad how she went from addiction, trauma and homelessness to founding Healing House KC. She explains why a…
June 26, 2026
Julie Weeks traces a career from broadcast journalism to marketing at Boulevard Brewing and now community marketing at Arvest Bank. She and…
June 19, 2026
Lauren Schieffer, known as The Colonel's Daughter, traces her path from a childhood shaped by constant military relocation to a career as…
June 12, 2026
Pastor Don Lewis and Lee Bramlet join Brad to talk about Fatherhood Foundations and the effect of fatherlessness on families. They describe…
May 29, 2026
Jeremy McDowell tells Brad how he built a Midwest youth softball organization over twenty years. He then launched the KC Diamonds, Kansas…
May 22, 2026
Lori Krueger, an executive coach with Novus Global and chaplain for the Kansas City Current, joins Brad to talk about faith and…
April 24, 2026
Rick Boxx tells Brad how a near-drowning in a Hawaiian riptide reshaped his life and his work. He describes building Unconventional Business…
April 3, 2026
Carrie Olsen talks with Brad about a voiceover career spanning commercials, promos, e-learning and voice matching for Hollywood films. She describes going…
March 20, 2026
Joe Jaap, who founded EmoryDay in 2004, joins Brad to talk about digital marketing that actually converts. They cover paid social, lead…
February 16, 2026
Michael Mackie talks with Brad about a career that ran from Iowa newsrooms to interviewing Emmy and Academy Award winners. He discusses…
December 23, 2025
Buddy Biancalana, shortstop on the Royals' 1985 World Series team, explains Zone Motion, a neuroscience-based approach to peak performance. He and Brad…
December 12, 2025
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