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Bart Jackson's Podcast - Get informed, Get entertained, and Seize the Wisdom

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Get ready for fun. Business folks from all over challenge Host Bart Jackson with some of business’ stickiest situations and frustrating inter-personal dilemmas. Tackling them head on with his witty wordsmithery, Bart will craft the response that is most likely to ease the tension or extract the speaker from a potential fist fight. The world belongs to the talkers – those people whose words convince others that they are trustworthy, their products beneficial, and their ideas wise. So tune in and learn a little chat savvy and a gentle way to boost your esteem in others’ eyes.

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What Truths were Hillary and Donald revealing with their gestures that their words obscured?

November 14, 2016 05:00 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MB

Their lips were moving and the language might have sounded uncertain. But body language is a no spin zone where truth gets revealed. Host Bart Jackson invites body language and negotiating Master Greg Williams to analyze the real messages behind the verbiage of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. When were the two Presidential candidates feeling uncertain or strongly self assured?When were they being cagey? Did they display trustworthiness, sincere concern, fear? Tune in and learn what la...

Learn how Master Sharon Mahn distinguishes herself and stays at the top of the executive recruitment heap.

November 07, 2016 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

Nobody does it Like Sharon Mahn. When the Fortune 500 seeks new leaders, they enlist Sharon Mahn. All the top executive and legal talent strive to be on her call list. Meanwhile, she hits all the most exciting high life in the globe’s most vibrant city (Manhattan, of course) and draws all the most sought-after business luminaries into the fun. Host Bart Jackson invites Sharon on to reveal how she distinguishes herself and remains at the pinnacle of the talent recruitment heap. Want to make ...

Fashion Forecasting: Dictatorship or Democracy?

October 31, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MB

What will you wear next year? Do you know Why? Is it really your choice? Fashion Forecaster Emily Liu unravels this mysterious industry. What will you be wearing next year? Would you like to know who determines that and why and how? Host Bart Jackson invites noted fashion forecaster Ms. Emily Liu to give you a peep into the fascinating, absolutely vital, statistically laden, and oh-so-marvelous realm of fashion trend prognistication. Tune in and learn what styles designers determine to p...

Fair Standard Labor Act Changes Dec 1st!

October 25, 2016 04:00 - 32 minutes - 15 MB

The FLSA doubles salary threshold for formerly 4.2 million American employees. How will Your job - Your Payroll change? Will your salaried workers be claiming overtime before the first snowfall? Will you, Mr./Ms. Employee be counting your hours and demanding increased wages? As dramatic a change as the upcoming election, the new FLSA’s Final Rule could, in a December twinkle, bring that about. Host Bart Jackson invites noted employment law expert, attorney Amy Vazquez to explain how the ...

Offbeat Tricks of Leadership

October 17, 2016 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MB

Learn how the best leaders have solved their worst nightmares – and get paid if your write-in solution is better. This episode is YOUR opportunity to let your managerial expertise win you some straight Cash from The Art of the CEO. When you lead/manage a team or a company, every day presents a problem that is out of the norm. Host Bart Jackson has invited corporate leaders to present some of their more offbeat challenges – some of their real stumpers. Bart will present the challenge – invi...

Your First Hires: Care & Grooming of Top Talent

October 10, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB

Once you have brought that new top talent on board – how do you pamper him/her into optimum productivity? In this second of a two-part series about entrepreneurial hiring, Host Bart Jackson discusses those best and proven methods for encouraging and planting those seeds of energized dedication. How do you physically set the workplace stage? What atmosphere needs be conveyed? What emotional and verbal adjustments do you, Mr. Employer, need to make? How do you nurture, credit, reprimand, a...

Your First Hires: The Talent Hunt

October 04, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

People are your business’ greatest growth engines. For entrepreneurs who are new to the talent hiring process and for those veterans who would like to improve their vital hiring skills, Host Bart Jackson has gathered an audio hiring manual. Employing the practices of leaders who have successfully garnered top achievers and contributors, Bart gives you tactics on where to search, how to present your offer attractively, how to interview, and what winning attitude adjustments you need to make....

Accomplishing Your Dream – Tales of Solopreneurs

September 27, 2016 04:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MB

It just takes one person to launch a revolution and/or a business. Why not You? Hear the tales of how many entrepreneurs are launching single-person businesses that are thriving, and contributing to the owner’s income and to the community. Whether you have the art of singing, programming computers, painting, or deftly handling tax forms, you will want to gather the tools for a successfully starting up your firm, from those who’ve achieved it. And even if you have no Horatio Alger plans y...

When Your Product Flops

September 19, 2016 04:00 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB

Bart Jackson rolls out proven scrap and salvage strategies that save cash, the firm, and reputation when customers just aren’t buying. You love it, but apparently no one else does. ‘Tis one of the oldest disasters in business. You’ve poured your sweat, dreams, and all your cash into creating the perfect service or product that customers just won’t touch. Host Bart Jackson rolls out fascinating proven damage repair strategies that prevent one product failure from sinking the entire ship of ...

Fiscal Fitness for Non-Profits

September 15, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MB

CFO Eileen Xethalis tells how non-profits can achieve more bang with well managed bucks. It’s not how much money you have, it how competently you manage it. As organizations so passionately focus on their missions, too many charities and foundations are letting their fiscal sides slide – to the detriment of programs and donor base. Host Bart Jackson invites Eileen Xethalis, director of CFO Consulting partners to lay out strategies for nonprofits that will make them more effectively manage r...

Attitudes that Breed Success

September 06, 2016 04:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MB

What attitudes are holding you back and which ones you need to foster? What feelings seethe through your heart as you roll up your selves and get down to work? Attitudes serve as the vital foundation for business success and satisfaction. And No – you cannot fake an attitude. But you can cultivate those attitudes that literally will inspire you onto achievement. Host Bart Jackson, CEO of Prometheus Publishing in a series of fascinating tales lays out how you may develop those attitudes t...

Entrepreneurs Guide: Profiting from Law & Lawyers

August 30, 2016 04:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MB

Yes Mr/Ms Entrepreneur you need an attorney from the outset to cultivate profits. Host Bart Jackson brings on renowned corporate attorney Phil Crowley to explain to entrepreneus exactly why they require legal counsel and how to best employ your attorney profitably.

New Hands on the Helm – Boardrooms’ Changing Course

August 23, 2016 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB

Guest Thomas Bakewell reveals how boards of directors adapt to the revolutionary upheavals facing corporate governance. Forget your grandfather’s boardroom with a posse of aging duffers deciding corporate fate in wise and masterful inactivity. Board members have gone shirtsleeves - governance has morphed to an intensely more involved process. Gender quotas, mandated Qualified Financial Advisors, specialized authority members, and scores of others pressures are rampaging across the directori...

Real Estate CEO Don Slaght how he seized opportunity from Hurricane Sandy’s devastation with a vital home restoration service.

August 08, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MB

Opportunity – Rising From the Ruins - What do you do if you’re in real estate and Hurricane Sandy suddenly blows into your state and devastates 350,000 of the homes and businesses in your area? Well, if you are Hollston Realty Group principal Don Slaght you see the need and seize the opportunity to literally get those buildings (and your community) back on their feet. Host Bart Jackson invites Don on to tell how he swiftly expanded his firm into Northeast Home Elevation to salvage and resto...

Top CEOs' 10 Best Career Boosters

August 01, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB

How well is your career serving you? Ever wonder what tools the top business leaders employ to forge their own fulfilling careers? Host Bart Jackson has interviewed in depth scores of Chief Executive Officers, their mentors, and their C-suite executives. In this show he distills down the top ten most effective and applicable actions you can take to bring not just achievement, but satisfaction to your working life. If you are one of the energized elite – one of those individuals who is will...

Six Generations at Sea - Oysterman John Maxwell of Maxwell Shellfish tells how his family has brought shellfish in from the tides to your table for over 170 years

July 25, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MB

What does it take to bring luscious oysters up from the seabed and onto the platter placed appetizingly on the half shell before you? Host Bart Jackson and The Art of the CEO radio crew make pilgrimage to Maxwell Shellfish to discover how it’s done. John Maxwell, his wife Kim and their daughter Bridgette tell how their family has been bringing oysters, clams, crabs, and all the seas bounty for over 170 years. These are fisher folks who literally sleep in rhythm with the tide, and began the...

Making Yourself Memorable – Positively

July 19, 2016 04:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MB

What does it take to make your words stick fast in people’s minds? How can you inspire action and influence others’ decisions? To answer these vital questions, Host Bart Jackson invites cognitive scientist Carmen Simon to push aside all trite maxims and delve deep into the human brain’s inner workings and pathways. Author of “Impossible to Ignore” and cofounder of Rexi Media, Dr. Simon outlines scientifically tested methods for making other folks’ grey matter sit up and take notice. Tune i...

Best Business Comebacks – Words You Wish You’d Said

July 12, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MB

Get ready for fun. Business folks from all over challenge Host Bart Jackson with some of business’ stickiest situations and frustrating inter-personal dilemmas. Tackling them head on with his witty wordsmithery, Bart will craft the response that is most likely to ease the tension or extract the speaker from a potential fist fight. The world belongs to the talkers – those people whose words convince others that they are trustworthy, their products beneficial, and their ideas wise. So tune...

You & Other Influential Leaders

June 28, 2016 04:00 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MB

'Tis not your rank or title, but the raw material within that holds your ability to generate influence beyond what you might imagine. Host Bart Jackson invites guest Dale Caldwell, serial CEO, business and social entrepreneur, educator, renowned consultant, and author of "Intelligent Influence" to discuss how to cultivate your influential self. Whether you seek to boost sales, your career, or just make your ideas strike home with a greater force, this show is laden with applicable tools.

Join the Crowd Funds - Myths & Pitfalls

June 21, 2016 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MB

Crowdfunding is no longer an adventurous backing of the bizarre project. Various venues now accomodate venture capitalists, angel investors, equity investors, as well as the entire gamut of entrepreneurial enterprises. Noted Financial Mentor Jaime Raskulinecz joins host Bart Jackson gives the real low down on the ever-expanding arena of Crowdfunding. Tune in and discover the potential thrill and profit of this alternative funding source.

From Farm to Fork – Food’s Business End Broadcast in Business 1 week ago

June 21, 2016 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MB

You grab it off the supermarket shelf and take it to your table with very little idea of what it takes to get it there. Who are the commercial and manufacturing links in this $1.6 trillion food chain? How do they bring food to an entire nation? What problems do they face? What are the new FDA food labeling laws going to mean to them – and you? Brian Todd President of The Food Institute joins host Bart Jackson to reveal the unknown machinery behind our food industry. Tune in and gain a f...

Your Powerful Pen – Better Business Writing

June 06, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MB

Do you know the exact right words to move, cajole, traduce, and seduce people to the action you desire of them? Most folks scribble and key-tap scores of messages every day that don’t move readers to anything except tears. Host Bart Jackson, a 30-year journalist, author, and CEO of Prometheus Publishing reveals how to make your coworkers read what you write – feel inspired to act – and even look forward to the next missive from you. Forget all the protocols and style traditions. There’s no...

Your First Job – Workplace Do’s and Don’t’s

May 31, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MB

Beware: you are entering Terra Incognita. Whether fresh out of school or returning after a long hiatus, crossing the workplace threshold brings you into a dark pool of strange people, new rules, new demands and unspoken codes of conduct. As a life raft for these first days of your career, Host Bart Jackson passes on a gentle, friendly guide of attitudes and practices to adopt. He also shares some blunders to avoid and the humorous regrets from many workplace veterans. Tune in and gain some...

Trenton365 founder Jacque Howard reveals the magic of creating a community juggernaut behind your event.

May 24, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MB

How do you entice the community’s enthusiasm to juggernaut your idea into a popular event? Host Bart Jackson brings on the master of community involvement, Jacque Howard, who has founded and transformed Trenton365 from a radio show to a major non-profit organization, to a powerful progressive force in New Jersey’s capitol city. Using Trenton 365’s latest citywide Library Box Project, Bart and Jacque discuss how to rally those hidden-but-willing resources. Tune in an learn how to roll out t...

Trenton365 founder Jacque Howard reveals the magic of creating a community juggernaut behind your event.

May 23, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MB

Engineering Community Momentum How do you entice the community’s enthusiasm to juggernaut your idea into a popular event? Host Bart Jackson brings on the master of community involvement, Jacque Howard, who has founded and transformed Trenton365 from a radio show to a major non-profit organization, to a powerful progressive force in New Jersey’s capitol city. Using Trenton 365’s latest citywide Library Box Project, Bart and Jacque discuss how to rally those hidden-but-willing resources. Tun...

Growing Rich Over Spilt Milk – An Entrepreneur’s Tale

May 18, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 16 MB

Entrepreneurs see life through a unique lens. When devoted mom Nadine Savino was faced with a poorly designed drink bottle for her toddler, she saw a basic need – and a solution. This inventive mother went out and designed a spill-proof, stretchable bottle cap that allows bottles to tip over without the milk or drink spilling or pouring through a straw. Thus the “GCap” was born and the welcoming response has been staggering. Host Bart Jackson converses with GCap inventor, Nadine, and her im...

The Deal Jungle – Life on the Trading Floor - What it's like now.

May 10, 2016 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB

The magic that makes and breaks fortunes bubbles madly on the cauldron of the stock exchange trading floor. Host Bart Jackson invites veteran direct access trader Kevin Menture to lay bare the mystique and describe how the traders come out fighting after the opening bell. Kevin details this exceptionally high-skill and ultra-high-pressure profession – what it takes to enter this elite crew – and the camaraderie that bonds them together. Ever wonder what really unfolds when you place a trad...

Business Meets Art – Life of a Top Sculptor

May 08, 2016 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MB

Joseph Petrovics has created the 9/11 World Trade Center firefighters’ memorial, monumental pieces for St. John the Divine cathedral, well known governmental commissions, as well as highly popular abstract pieces in wood, bronze, and stone. When not instructing Americas young, up-and-coming elite, he labors in his studio, transforming his dreams and visions into the tangible. All the while, Joseph is an independent businessman. His art must not only meet his own idealized standards – it mu...

Trampling out the Vintages at Hopewell Valley Vineyard

April 25, 2016 04:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MB

Wine is a tough business. Host Bart Jackson takes you on a remote broadcast to Pennington, N.J.’s Hopewell Valley Vineyards where owners Sergio and Violetta Neri lovingly grow a wide range of fine varietals and magically transform their juice into true Dionysian nectar. In addition to creating a tasteful offering of award-winning wines, Sergio and Violetta have developed their winery into a tourist destination, which has become the hub for local jazz top talents, all enjoyed with full-bod...

The Internet: The Most Dangerous Source of Financial Advice

April 22, 2016 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MB

Data is not wisdom. Today’s internet allows us to get more fiscal data, accompanied by a truly overwhelming amount of advice. But is this “news” based on agendas that bear no relation to wisely investing your hard-earned dollars? Host Bart Jackson invites internationally noted financial commentator Mr. Ken Kamen as guest to help us separate the fiscal chaff from those rare kernels of profitable advice. Tune in and learn how to master the net and other investment resources, and avoid being...

Shark Fin Management - how to nix human leftovers

April 11, 2016 04:00 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MB

and employ the whole individual many talents to everyone’s most profitable advantage. Can you imagine the tragic waste of slaughtering an entire beautiful shark to use only the tip of its fin in a soup? A waste equal and analogous occurs every day in businesses worldwide where beautiful human beings are employed only for one little fragmentary skill and the remainder of that human potential is tossed aside as leftovers. Host Bart Jackson discusses how increasingly, good managers are taking...

Investing: A Fresh Breath of Common Sense

April 06, 2016 04:00 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MB

Isn’t it about time that you stopped letting your investment decisions be guided by automatic texts alerts and frenzied financial newscasters with 24/7 panic attacks? Host Bart Jackson brings on financial sage Dan Goldman, Managing Director of Princeton Global Asset Management, whose forty-year perspective will help make you a wiser investor. Dan and Bart scrutinize the traditional markets, give the benefits and caveats of crowdfunding and other social investment avenues, and help you custo...

Negotiation - What you Dont Know with the Master Negotiator

March 29, 2016 04:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MB

How do you size up a person in a fingersnap? What is her body language telling you? What should you have studied before the negotiation? What’s your optimum attitude adjustment? Host Bart Jackson brings on The Master Negotiator Greg Williams to Help you get more out your formal and informal negotiations with others. Internationally renowned speaker, mentor to Fortune 500 C-suites, and author of 19 books on negotiation, Greg distills the art of negotiating into a set of useable strategies ...

Laughing Your Way to Success – and Fun

March 22, 2016 04:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MB

You heard about the attorney with no sense of humor didn’t you? He lost his appeal. Host Bart Jackson (master of Business Quips) joins forces with guest Sherri Waryasz, the Queen of Laughter for a rollicking, riotous feast. Isn’t it time you learned to laugh at the world of business? Ever since ole Aristophanes cracked up ancient Athens audiences with “Oh Democracy, whither art thou leading us?” folks have known that the greatest wisdom flies most agreeably on the wings of laughter. Would...

Tales of Estate Planning – Lessons from Experience Martin Shenkman reveals amazing true stories about estate planning that will entertain and inspire you to get preparing.

March 13, 2016 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

Hear the one about the guy who left his business to his brother-in-law’s niece, without knowing it? The difference between the overwhelming complexities of estate law and astrophysics is that you truly do hold the opportunity to take control of your estate. Host Bart Jackson invites Martin Shenkman, one of the nation’s foremost estate planning authors and practitioners to share some of his most bizarre and most poignant stories. Can you really reach out from the grave and save your busine...

Gary Douglas, best-selling author, busts gender myths and jovially reveals the benefits of both men’s & women’s workplace contributions.

March 01, 2016 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB

Since Man and Woman first set up shelter in a cave, they have been force-fit into separate working roles. Today, carrying millennia of baggage and marvelously distinct abilities, ladies and gentlemen blend their energies into the realm of business. Host Bart Jackson, author of Behind Every Successful Woman Is Herself, and guest Gary Douglas, noted speaker and author of Salon Des Femmes & The Gentlemen’s Club, insight and joviality tackle the quest of how men and women may play together a li...

Tackling Tough Talks – Stresslessly - Matt Abrahams and Bart Jackson

February 28, 2016 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MB

Telling the boss she’s incorrect – Selling the skeptical client – Presenting that all-important project to the board of directors. Whether formal or “casual,” business is richly laden with difficult and tricky conversations. Host Bart Jackson joins with guest Matt Abrahams, author of best-selling How to Speak Up Without Freaking Out, to help you stand up, undertake, and breezily overcome these gnarly presentations. From physical posture, to precise words, to mindset, getting the details ri...

Best Business Comebacks – Words You Wish You’d Said

February 22, 2016 05:00 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MB

Get ready for fun. Business folks from all over challenge Host Bart Jackson with some of business’ stickiest situations and frustrating inter-personal dilemmas. Tackling them head on with his witty wordsmithery, Bart will craft the response that is most likely to ease the tension or extract the speaker from a potential fist fight. The world belongs to the talkers – those people whose words convince others that they are trustworthy, their products beneficial, and their ideas wise. So tune...

Percussion’s Brightest Pioneer – The Amazing Lisa Pegher

February 16, 2016 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MB

Some innovations are so powerful they require a separate business to present them. Host Bart Jackson’s guest, musician Lisa Pegher has shattered the old symphonic mold of drummers and percussionists languishing in the orchestra’s back row, like accompanying wallpaper. Noted as one of the top six performers of her generation, the inventive Ms. Pegher has taken her virtuoso percussionist talents out to stage front, in concert of with the nation’s top symphonic orchestras. Yet even these supe...

Ms GPS The Most Obeyed Voice in Media

November 29, 2015 05:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MB

When over 400 million GPS owners and 50 million smartphone holders hear the warm, mellifluous, yet firm tones of Ms. Karen Jacobsen telling them what to do, they listen and drive exactly as her voiceover directs. Even when the dreaded “Recalculating” issues from their magical global positioning machines, Karen is able to break the news with an almost kindly gentility

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