359: Building on Ashes with Tim Albright

359: Building on Ashes with Tim Albright

From Higher Ed AV Podcast with Joe Way by Joe Way

June 9, 2026 · 45 min · Episode 358

About this episode

Joe Way and Tim Albright discuss failure, resilience, and the lessons learned from personal and professional setbacks.

In this episode of the Higher Ed AV Podcast, Joe Way welcomes longtime friend, industry leader, AVNation President, and now author Tim Albright for a deeply honest conversation about failure, resilience, and what it takes to build again. Tim’s new book, Building on Ashes, is not a technology manual or another AV industry playbook. It is a practical and personal framework for understanding failure, walking through the emotions that come with it, and finding what remains strong enough to become the foundation for the next chapter. Joe and Tim explore the vulnerability behind writing a book, the discipline it took to finish it, and the emotional weight of finally completing something that had been decades in the making. Tim shares how the process forced him to revisit personal and professional failures, confront unfinished grief, and discover lessons that could help others move forward with honesty instead of shame. The conversation also dives into the stages of failure, including anger, blame, reflection, and acceptance, and why failure often mirrors grief. Tim explains that when something fails, whether it is a business, relationship, career goal, or personal dream, we are…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Way

Guest: Tim Albright

Topics covered

  • failure
  • resilience
  • personal growth
  • mentorship
  • emotional health

Keywords

  • failure
  • resilience
  • Building on Ashes
  • mentorship
  • emotional weight

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AVNation

Books & works: Building on Ashes

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