The Happy Engineer | Career Success for Engineering Leadership
Jun 16, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
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Anton GunnGuestZach WhiteHostI am with my new friend, Anton Gunn, who has a bio that you just heard that could read all day in terms of his achievements and accomplishments and the diversity of your experience.
And Anton, I can't thank you enough for just making time for us to be here to share your leadership, your wisdom, and insights with me and the engineers listening.
I've got a few in the family, and I thought this was gonna be my career path one day, but I realized that I'm not good at math, and so I chose a totally different path because of it.
[laughs] It, it would be an uphill climb to land your engineering degree if math isn't something you get along with.
Well, Anton, it, it really is almost impossible for me to set the stage fairly, even in a, in a bio, in what you've done.
And so I thought what would be kind of fun is for you to take us back to a moment, a, a really cool picture of you standing, looking incredibly sharp, live on TV on MSNBC during, you know, one of the most heated times in politics with Obamacare and supporting the Obama administration, and I think even the headline reads, "The Healthcare Fight."
But can you help us kind of go back to that moment and tell me, what is a former SEC offensive lineman football player who's now live on MSNBC thinking at that moment? Like, what's going on in your head, man?
man?You know, to be honest with you, Zach, what was going on in my head is the same thing that goes on in my head every day, and that is, how do I use everything that I've been through to help somebody else? And being on MSNBC talking about a difficult subject to me is no different than lining up across from Alabama in the SEC during a football game.
Their whole goal is to dominate you at every level, and your goal is to not get embarrassed in front of TV where your mom is, is watching you.
I am with my new friend, Anton Gunn, who has a bio that you just heard that could read all day in terms of his achievements and accomplishments and the diversity of your experience.
And Anton, I can't thank you enough for just making time for us to be here to share your leadership, your wisdom, and insights with me and the engineers listening.
I've got a few in the family, and I thought this was gonna be my career path one day, but I realized that I'm not good at math, and so I chose a totally different path because of it.
[laughs] It, it would be an uphill climb to land your engineering degree if math isn't something you get along with.
Well, Anton, it, it really is almost impossible for me to set the stage fairly, even in a, in a bio, in what you've done.
And so I thought what would be kind of fun is for you to take us back to a moment, a, a really cool picture of you standing, looking incredibly sharp, live on TV on MSNBC during, you know, one of the most heated times in politics with Obamacare and supporting the Obama administration, and I think even the headline reads, "The Healthcare Fight."
But can you help us kind of go back to that moment and tell me, what is a former SEC offensive lineman football player who's now live on MSNBC thinking at that moment? Like, what's going on in your head, man?
man?You know, to be honest with you, Zach, what was going on in my head is the same thing that goes on in my head every day, and that is, how do I use everything that I've been through to help somebody else? And being on MSNBC talking about a difficult subject to me is no different than lining up across from Alabama in the SEC during a football game.
Their whole goal is to dominate you at every level, and your goal is to not get embarrassed in front of TV where your mom is, is watching you.
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