ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Connections. Conversations. Common Threads. A podcast that seeks to explore what brings us and keeps us together. One conversation at a time, we share stories of struggle, triumph, and leadership that leave a lasting impact. Join host Heath Alloway as he highlights the ways guests have touched the lives of others in their communities, and tackling the big questions we all face. How can I make an impact? What is my role in molding our future? Am I making a difference?
Rooted in legacy, the power of one: This is Common Threads.
Rooted in legacy, the power of one: This is Common Threads.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
36 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
24 episodes
since Oct. 29, 2025
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Jennifer McCloskey started her career as a civil engineer in construction and at the Department of Energy before founding Girardi Associates, where she now trains leaders across corporations, government agencies, and universities worldwide. On Episode 23 of Common Threads, she tells Heath Alloway a…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
David Harper sold books door-to-door before landing in Big Four accounting, then left it to chase the sales side he felt he was missing. That detour eventually built the forensic accounting and valuation practice he ran solo for a decade and that merged, via another merger, into Sorren. David now l…
When legendary figure in the profession, Sam Allred, set an "expiration date" for his retirement, Upstream Academy spent five years preparing for the handoff before Jeremy Clopton officially became managing director. Jeremy joins Heath Alloway on Episode 21 of Common Threads to discuss that transit…
MaryEllen Prance knew she wanted to be an accountant by her sophomore year of high school, and she's never looked back. Now a partner at Sorren and a leader in its Construction and Real Estate sector, she tells Heath Alloway on Episode 20 of Common Threads that she has built a career around somethi…
Michael Horwitz has spent 25 years building the BDO Alliance into the largest network of independent accounting firms in the country, and he's watched the profession compress a generation's worth of change into the last three years. On Episode 19 of Common Threads, the first featuring a guest exter…
Accounting was never the career Niki Neilon envisioned when she was younger. She wanted to be an attorney, then a teacher, and only found the profession by accident during a required class in college. On Episode 18 of Common Threads, she tells Heath Alloway that accident turned into a career built …
Macy Smetzler learned the numbers before she learned the industry, entering QuickBooks for her parents' small business in southeast Idaho years before she ever sat in an accounting class. That early apprenticeship in hard work carried her through college soccer and into public accounting, but it al…
Julie Cummings didn't set out to build a career in public accounting, instead stumbling into it while helping her husband find work after a restructuring. What followed was two decades of leading HR functions inside some of the profession's most complex firms, navigating mergers, culture clashes, a…
Cheryl Guiddy has a world baton twirling championship title to her name, which turns out to be a surprisingly apt lens for her three-decade career in public accounting. On Episode 15 of Common Threads, she tells Heath Alloway that the same self-driven quality that had her practicing in the street e…
Heath Alloway is joined by Maynard Maduli and Ariel Orio from Sorren PH in the Philippines, who bring decades of experience to their roles overseas. The conversation on Episode 14 of Common Threads ranges from burnout and the importance of recharging—with Ariel's Japan trip getting a mention—to wha…
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