Michael Palomar
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Michael Palomar is a technology operator, founder, and principal consultant based in the New York City area. He spent nearly 17 years at A+E Networks, rising from digital media management to senior technical product management for global content distribution, where he led the MovieLabs standards migration for Amazon and the company's move to a cloud-based media supply chain on AWS, including enterprise programs valued at more than $190 million. He holds a BFA in Film Production from the University of Colorado Boulder.
In 2024 he left big media, rebuilt his life in recovery, and founded Michael Palomar Consulting, where he serves as a fractional CTO and AI delivery operations lead for media, content, and e-commerce companies. That rebuilding became a product: MIA, an AI operating partner that runs the outreach, content, and day-to-day operations of a small business with a human approving every meaningful action, and the first of a planned family of Personas that configure themselves to how each person works. Michael's message is simple: no matter how far you feel you have fallen, you can rebuild, and the systems that keep you well can also run your business.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- How Michael transformed a life-threatening addiction and CPTSD into a recovery-driven mission and AI product.
- That you can rebuild your life no matter how far you have fallen or how lost you feel.
- How seventeen years at A+E Networks prepared him to lead enterprise media technology and cloud migrations.
- Why he left big media in 2024 to found Michael Palomar Consulting and serve fractional CTO clients.
- How MIA, his AI operating partner, runs outreach, content, and day-to-day operations with human approval.
- That operational efficiency, automation, and performance-based outcomes can simplify and streamline complex business processes.
- Why approaching business from a neurodivergent and intuitive position helps anticipate upcoming and unknown challenges.
- How leading with kindness and compassion creates stronger consulting outcomes and opens different perspectives.
- That the systems that keep you well can also run and grow your business.
- Why a new life full of possibility can emerge from adversity and cutting-edge product creation.
about the show
Overcoming addiction requires discipline, clarity, and resilience — the exact qualities needed to build a successful commercial business. Clean and Thriving TV reveals how business owners in recovery translate their personal transformation into building and running real commercial enterprises.
Clean and Thriving TV is a premium television docuseries spotlighting business owners who refused to let their past define them. Honoring the grit required to overcome addiction and build a business, the series focuses on operational growth, daily execution, and commercial success beyond recovery.
The series takes viewers inside the authentic stories of business owners who turned their lives around and built thriving companies. Clean and Thriving TV serves as the definitive national stage for these entrepreneurs to share their business insights and inspire others.
