This week Sift's Brittany Allen and Alexander Hall discuss the difficult balancing act of being a full-time employee with frequent travel for events while also pursuing higher education. And that's not to mention the time needed for friends, family, and marathon training. Do they feel like they can be as successful in learning as they were back in high school and college? How does their professional experience frame their studies?

Speaking of travel, they also take a look at executive travel tips from the 1980's in "The Book of Secrets," which Brittany literally found on the sidewalk in NYC and brought home because why not.

This flashback episode was recorded a few weeks before Episode 1 . At that time we didn't yet know what our podcast would be about, so we decided to start with our origin stories.

If you aren't familiar with Brittany and Alex's back stories, tune in to hear about where they got started professionally, how they got into fraud prevention, and even see a few photos of Brittany from her time as a teacher.

The fraud prevention industry has two big conference seasons: spring and fall. What are our resident experts Brittany Allen and Alexander Hall looking forward to in Fall 2025? Tune in to find out how they navigate conference agendas and hear what they hope to take home from this year's events.

In their first episode, Brittany and Alex address one of their biggest apprehensions about starting this show; how do you openly talk about fraud prevention when the fraudsters might be listening? They also cover how they and other fraud fighters explain their job to friends and family.