{"podcast":{"title":"Inevitable","slug":"inevitable-16764","podcast_index_feed_id":16764,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/XFfCG1w8","website_url":"https://www.mcj.vc/media/podcast","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3ed8b08f-1a64-4843-8269-ab7f8b889e30/597bb585-5f6c-4b40-bc9e-acdf0f248ed9/3000x3000/inevitable_thematic_art_8.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"MCJ","episode_count":600,"summary":"Join Cody Simms each week as he engages with experts across disciplines to explore innovations driving the transition of energy and industry. Inevitable is an MCJ podcast. This show was formerly known as 'My Climate Journey.'","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T16:17:38.991021+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764"},"episode":{"title":"How Overstory Cuts Outages and Wildfire Risk for Utilities","slug":"how-overstory-cuts-outages-and-wildfire-risk-for-utilities","published_at":"2026-08-11T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764/how-overstory-cuts-outages-and-wildfire-risk-for-utilities","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764","url":"https://www.mcj.vc/media/podcast","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/78a97c6c-cb51-46aa-a214-65daa2554af6/a40ab607-6c05-44d6-b237-5cd4abd47ac6/episodes/audio/group/1691ca6a-1ada-4c79-83fc-8dc41611db07/group-item/7202a564-2fae-4cf8-a8cd-e230d47426e7/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=XFfCG1w8","summary":"Fiona Spruill is CEO of Overstory, a company helping electric utilities reduce power outages and wildfire risk using satellite imagery, aerial data, and AI-powered vegetation intelligence. Since joining as employee number 10 and later stepping into the CEO role, Spruill has helped Overstory evolve from a vegetation mapping startup into a resilience platform serving many of North America's largest utilities. In this episode of Inevitable, Spruill explains why vegetation management is one of the largest operating expenses for utilities and how improving grid resilience starts with better risk prioritization—not simply collecting more data. The conversation explores how Overstory combines satellite imagery, computer vision, and customer data to help utilities identify vegetation threats, wildfire fuels, and infrastructure risks before disasters occur. Spruill also discusses selling into the utility industry, the growing importance of resilience as climate risks expand beyond the western U.S., and how the company navigated an extraordinary leadership transition following the loss of co-founder and CEO Indra den Bakker. Note: Overstory is an MCJ portfolio company","meta_description":"Fiona Spruill is CEO of Overstory, a company helping electric utilities reduce power outages and wildfire risk using satellite imagery, aerial data, and A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2759,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inevitable-16764/episodes/how-overstory-cuts-outages-and-wildfire-risk-for-utilities/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764/how-overstory-cuts-outages-and-wildfire-risk-for-utilities.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}