Sponsored By: Griplock With Adam Chetakian 11/3/25 – Lighting Episode 425 – Own the Fixture Location Adam Chetakian, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Apprime Lighting, has over 30 years in the game. He, Michael and Greg address the dirty secret behind the LED retrofit world: fixtures that die young and end up in landfills. … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Tony Lawrence 7/7/25 – Lighting Episode 409 – Quantum Light and Other Dimensions In this mind-bending episode of Get a Grip on Lighting, tech visionary Tony Lawrence dives deep into the future of light, AI, quantum computing—and even interdimensional data transfer. From mining Bitcoin with a lightbulb, to using quantum entropy … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Elizabeth Chamberlain 5/19/25 – Lighting Episode 403 – Lighting is the Original Right-to-Repair Industry The podcast features Elizabeth Chamberlain, Director of Sustainability at iFixit, discussing the Right to Repair movement and its impact on the lighting industry. Traditionally, lighting was designed with standardized, replaceable components, ensuring easy repairs. However, modern LED … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Michael & Greg 1/20/25 – Lighting Episode 387 (Full Version) – Michael & Greg 15:16 Retrofitting a troffer? Impossible! Or is it? Greg presents a case where maybe, just maybe, it’s possible to save the old fixture. Even Michael thinks this one has a chance to not end up in a … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Philip Gotthelf 12/9/24 – Lighting Episode 381 (Full Version) – Philip Gotthelf 39:03 If Nikola Tesla only knew… Philip Gotthelf has run with Tesla’s invention and made it “the most advanced sustainable commercial lighting on the planet.” In this episode, you’ll learn about induction lighting, but Philip is also pretty knowledgeable … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Jake Watters 9/3/24 – Lighting Episode 369 (Full Version) – Jake Watters 20:31 Jake Watters reached out to us after listening to episode #356 with Paolo Cordovado and how difficult it has become, as a building manager, to simply replace light bulbs. Even as Jake’s company attempts to mitigate the waste … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Alejandro Romano & Paulina Vazquez 7/22/24 – Lighting Episode 364 (Full Version) – Alejandro Romano & Paulina Vazquez 32:16 Alex and Paulina are our first guests from Mexico. And they seem to have many of the same challenges as in the rest of North America – problems with Chinese products and … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Paolo Cordovado 5/28/24 – Lighting Episode 356 (Full Version) – Paolo Cordovado 33:20 Paolo is your typical customer for a lighting distributor or a contractor. The misinformation on LED lifecycles, the difficulty in replacing drivers, and the sheer waste that has been created prompts Paolo to label the whole system as … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Omar A. Rivera 4/1/24 – Lighting Episode 348 (Full Version) – Omar A. Rivera 34:17 Omar is so knowledgeable about the Internet of Things that he’s written a book about it. He talks to Michael and Greg about the future of smart sensors and cloud data. Imagine a smart sensor that … Read more
Sponsored By: Griplock With Michael & Greg 1/22/24 – Lighting Episode 341 (Full Version) – Michael & Greg 31:33 Another short one with Michael and Greg. In this episode, our hosts discuss the phases of a career in lighting distribution. The first phase had Greg going everywhere looking for dead light bulbs or broken lenses … Read more