GRC conversations without the checkbox theater
Every week, Omar Sangurima sits down with the people building compliance that actually works. Engineers, assessors, founders, and auditors talking about what they shipped and what broke along the way.
What the show is
No panel of vendors explaining why their dashboard is the future of risk.
Practitioners, not pitches
Guests are people doing the work. Engineers, assessors, founders, and auditors who have shipped something and can say what broke.
About an hour, one take
A real conversation on Riverside, lightly edited. No script, no pre-approved questions, no marketing review.
Members hear it first
Every episode drops early for GRC Engineering Club members on Patreon, then goes out to everyone else.
Recent episodes
Episodes drop early on Patreon for members, then go public on YouTube.
The End of Security Theater: Why TPRM and SOC 2 Are Broken
Escaping the RMF Trap, Validating AI Vendors, & The Curiosity Hack
Beating the Bootcamp Hype, AI "Vibe Coding," & The Tinkerer Mentality
Breaking the GRC Silo: Getting Risk into the Product Backlog
"Jimmy is Vibe Coding": Autonomous Agents & Crushing Tech Debt
The "Lead Auditor" Scam, Niche Domination, & Why GRC Budgets Are Shrinking
Coming on the show
Everything we need in one shot: how your name should read on the thumbnail, a photo we can actually use, what you want to get into, and when you can record. Omar takes it from there.
Recording from home? Set up your lighting first so you are not backlit on the episode.
Questions guests ask
No. Membership has nothing to do with it. We book people who are doing interesting work in GRC, security, and compliance engineering, whether or not they have ever paid us a dollar.
Omar Sangurima, who hosts and produces the show, emails you directly to lock one of the times you gave us and sends a Riverside link. Nothing else is required from you before the recording.
It becomes your episode thumbnail. Pulling it from LinkedIn gets us a small, over-compressed image that looks rough at full size, so we would rather ask you for a good one than crop a bad one.
You can talk about what you have built and how it works. What does not land is a product walkthrough. The audience is technical and they can tell the difference immediately.
Give us the five that are easiest for you and Omar will work around it. Guests have recorded on Saturdays and before flights. Scheduling is the least difficult part of this.
Know someone who should be on?
Send them this page. Some of the best episodes started as somebody in the club Slack saying you have to talk to this person.