336: Christmas Special | Higher Ed AV Podcast

This year’s Christmas episode is a return to the roots: a reflective, personal conversation recorded during Christmas week. Joe Way anchors the episode in Isaiah 9:6—Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace—and connects those four names to a transformational year of health, leadership growth, humility, and a renewed commitment to peace. Along the way, he ties these themes back to AV leadership: finding strength beyond yourself, leading through vulnerability, creating a safe environment for your team, and becoming the calming presence that restores unity when pressure rises. Read More

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December 21, 2025

Santa’s AV Leaders’ Naughty and Nice Lists | Business of AV

Joe Way takes a moment to reflect and reframing the key themes covered in the Business of AV over 2025, and reframes them into Santa’s list as a leadership lens. What deserves to be reinforced, what needs to be released, and what we’re hoping to build next. Let's celebrate leaders who practice specific, authentic gratitude, design rest and boundaries as part of the job, and create cultures of service, shared ownership, and trust instead of heroics and constant accessibility. Let's challenge hustle, ambiguity, performative appreciation, and hiding failure. Read More

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December 14, 2025

Close the Tabs | Business of AV

The year doesn’t end when the calendar flips, it ends when you finally stop carrying it in your head. Close the tabs, set clean boundaries for your time off, and unplug on purpose so you can actually recover. Unplugging isn’t a luxury… it’s leadership. Read More

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Business of AV Hustle to Healthy Redefining Culture

December 5, 2025

Redefining Work Culture: From Hustle to Healthy | Business of AV

When we constantly say yes without protecting rest, we quietly destroy our presence, decision-making, and culture, even as the work still gets done. Redefining hustle culture as a healthy, human-centric culture is how we protect our teams, our families, and our long-term impact. Read More

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December 3, 2025

Background Music | Business of AV

What if the most powerful influence on your leadership, relationships, and decisions isn’t what you say out loud, but the silent “background music” playing in your head? Joe Way explores how your internal soundtrack, those looping thoughts, stories, and assumptions, can either undermine or amplify your impact, and shows you how to intentionally remix it to match the story you actually want your life to tell. Read More

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November 29, 2025

335: Joe Way’s Higher Ed AV Thanksgiving Episode | Higher Ed AV Podcast

In this special solo Thanksgiving episode of the Higher Ed AV Podcast, Joe Way steps “back to the roots” of the show with a reflective, unscripted gratitude list and a peek at what’s coming next. He explains recent changes to the podcast format including, inviting with executive and AV-adjacent guests, episodes stuck in limbo, and... Read More

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