Monday Morning Radio
610 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsA regular audio podcast that features some of the country's most innovative business owners and experts - men and women who are putting into practice the profitable lessons that can be gleaned by reading Roy H. William's Monday Morning Memo
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Special Edition: Unveiling the Untold Story of Bernie Madoff, History’s Greatest Fraudster
July 19, 2024 22:50 - 1 hour - 129 MBOur guest this week is Richard Behar, an award-winning investigative reporter who spent 15 years chronicling the life of Bernie Madoff, the mastermind behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Behar is the author of the newly released blockbuster book Madoff: The Final Word. Before Madoff died in prison, Behar and Madoff had more than 50 phone conversations, exchanged more than 300 emails, and met face-to-face three times. When Madoff was arrested in December 2008, his decades-long sc...
Dean Guida Bootstrapped His Way to Building a Multinational Enterprise Software Company
July 14, 2024 18:50 - 44 minutes - 81 MBThis week’s guest, Dean Guida, founder and CEO of Infragistics, has plenty of grit. But as he’s discovered on his way to bootstrapping a company that today serves 100% of the S&P 500, including Bank of America, Exxon, Fidelity, Intuit, and Morgan Stanley — to win in business, you also need: Strategic planning A positive and collaborative company culture Reliable data that informs your decision-making And non-stop learning Dean launched his business in 1989 when he was only 23 years o...
Before You Invest in or Start a Franchise, You Have to Hear What Nick-Anthony Zamucen Has to Say
July 07, 2024 22:52 - 42 minutes - 77.6 MBNick-Anthony Zamucen has the Midas touch when it comes to starting and growing franchises. As founder and president of BOR Franchising, his successful concepts include a pizza chain, a home care business, a crime scene cleaner, and, most recently, a burgeoning water and fire damage repair company. Nick-Anthony has a proven formula for running a successful enterprise that will be of interest whether you buy into someone else’s concept or decide to franchise one of your own businesses. This...
Creating a Culture of Excellence is Game, Set, and Match
June 29, 2024 22:28 - 54 minutes - 100 MBRusty Komori was the varsity boys’ tennis coach at the Punahou School in Honolulu from 1994 until 2015. During his tenure, the school won the state championship each and every year. That’s a record unmatched by any other coach in any other sport. But Rusty is not just excellent at taking a diverse group of teenagers and turning them into champions — he masterfully coaches employers on how to adapt his methods for the workplace, transforming typical office environments into ones that enjoy a...
Is Your Website Anemic, Failing to Deliver the Results You Need?
June 23, 2024 20:22 - 46 minutes - 85.2 MBBusiness and brand websites have existed for almost three decades. Yet most companies still don’t know how to design them so that their messaging aligns with and supports their advertising, social media, and point-of-sale communication. Moreover, most present-day websites fail to incorporate language that appeals to each of the four major personality types, relying on so-called persuasion architecture. Vi Wickam, an exceptional digital and ad strategist, optimizes websites to deliver mor...
It’s Not Too Late To Push Limits and Tackle New Challenges
June 15, 2024 23:20 - 43 minutes - 79 MBIn his award-winning 2021 book about the aftermath of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, September Twelfth, Monday Morning Radio co-host Dean Rotbart described Gwendolyn “Wendy” Bounds, an eyewitness and award-winning journalist. She was, he wrote, telegenically attractive, with big chocolate-brown eyes, a sparkly broad smile, and shoulder-length buttery blond hair blended with honey highlights. That was then. Today, as evidenced by the cover photo on her new book — Not Too Lat...
Cyber Pirates Can Hold Your Company’s Databases Hostage Unless You Pay a King’s Ransom
June 10, 2024 01:31 - 48 minutes - 87.9 MBPop quiz, hotshot. Hackers have frozen you out of your own databases. They tell you that if you want back in, you have to pay them a ransom in the next 24 hours. Oh, and if you don’t want them to sell your clients’ data on the black market, that’s another hefty fee, too. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO? That’s the question that keeps Terry Ziemniak, TechCXO’s fractional chief information security offer, working around the clock, advising businesses on how to build systems and protocols t...
Steve McCready is a ‘Magic Eraser’ for Business Problems
June 03, 2024 00:01 - 41 minutes - 75.1 MBWhen business owners and entrepreneurs struggle to resolve an intractable problem, they often blame everyone and everything but the true culprit. Themselves. Often, what they should be thinking, says Steve McCready — who spent more than 15 years as a psychotherapist before becoming a business coach — is, “It’s not you, it’s me.” Steve is a “magic eraser” for the root causes of many business problems, including owner self-doubt, lack of focus, and feeling overwhelmed. You don’t have to l...
Why Be ‘Skilled’ or Even an ‘Expert’ When You Can Be ‘Brilliant?’
May 26, 2024 23:28 - 45 minutes - 84 MBWhen it comes to talented business people, there is a hierarchy of ability: skilled, expert, masterful, and brilliant. Brilliant is the realm where Simon T. Bailey operates and teaches others how to elevate their performance from proficient to awesome. A former Disney sales executive, Simon has written multiple books on the topic and has been invited to be a keynote speaker at more than 2,400 events over the past two decades. He has been recognized among Success magazine’s Top 25 alongsid...
The Business Wisdom of Michelle D. Gladieux, Author, Communications Specialist, and Keynote Speaker
May 19, 2024 19:15 - 42 minutes - 78.3 MBMichelle D. Gladieux will celebrate 20 years of running her company, Gladieux Consulting, this year. Michelle and her colleagues have advised hundreds of companies, including Best Buy, General Dynamics, Lincoln Financial, and Medtronic, on ways their executives and employees can communicate more effectively to improve their performance and satisfaction. Michelle is one of 21 previous Monday Morning Radio guests showcased in All You Can Eat Business Wisdom, the new anthology authored by de...
Bryan Clayton Knows How to Landscape Beautiful Lawns and Grow Well-Manicured Businesses
May 11, 2024 23:21 - 53 minutes - 98.3 MBBryan Clayton, CEO and co-founder of Your Green Pal, uses a proprietary app to match homeowners who need lawn care with small businesses - many of them solo operators - that provide those services. His numbers are impressive: more than 55,000 entrepreneurs serving over half a million customers. Bryan began mowing lawns in high school and essentially never quit. Today, he runs a $30 million company that stands out in the so-called “two-sided marketplace,” which brings buyers and sellers to...
The Inspiring and Frightening Advance of Artificial Intelligence and What It Portends for Your Business
May 04, 2024 17:50 - 47 minutes - 86.7 MBForbes magazine describes Sol Rashidi as one of the nine brightest minds when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. She was part of the first generation of leaders who helped IBM launch Watson, the powerful machine-learning suite of AI services, applications, and tools. In addition to IBM, Sol has worked for EY, Sony Music, Merck, and Estee Lauder. Sol is the author of the new book Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned from Real-World AI Deployments...
Peacocks, Drill Sergeants, and Chess Masters: Types of ‘Toxic’ Leaders
April 27, 2024 22:24 - 50 minutes - 91.7 MBOver the course of his career, including stints at PayPal, Cisco, and Nike, Sean Lemson has encountered all varieties of leaders — good, bad, and toxic. Toxic leaders are a special breed of “bad,” capable, often without even realizing it, of chasing off the best employees and slowly killing their companies. Sean is the founder of Motivated Outcomes, which coaches corporate leaders on rooting toxic traits out of their company culture and training destructive leaders to stop hurting their s...
Our Favorite Martian: Featuring Chris Carberry, CEO of Explore Mars, Inc.
April 20, 2024 23:20 - 53 minutes - 97.5 MBOn May 7th and 8th, experts from government, industry, small business, and academia will come together in Washington, D.C., for the 2024 Humans to Mars Summit focused on sending humans to Mars. The event, the largest such gathering on earth, is being organized by Chris Carberry, the CEO and Co-Founder of Explore Mars Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to fostering a permanent human presence on the Red Planet no later than 2033. Once the province of science fiction, Chris says a Martian colony i...
'Bench Presses' to Build the Mental Muscles of Leaders and Owners
April 15, 2024 17:00 - 40 minutes - 73.9 MBScott Mautz is a former senior executive with Procter & Gamble, whose free leadership classes on LinkedIn have attracted more than two million registrants. Scott, who ran four of P&G’s multi-billion dollar businesses, knows what it takes to be an effective leader. That’s why he advises all owners and entrepreneurs to work out daily. But Scott doesn’t mean bench pressing or squats. He’s a champion of rigorous mental workouts designed to build fortitude, confidence, boldness, and decision-m...
Rethinking Common Myths About Innovation and What Leads to It
April 07, 2024 23:07 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBWhether you are a solo entrepreneur, a small business owner, or the head of a FORTUNE 500 company, innovation is within your grasp — if you understand what it is and isn’t. This week’s guest, Steve Wunker, managing director of New Markets Advisors, is widely acknowledged as one of the country’s foremost masters of innovation. He pioneered the mobile marketing and commerce industries, and is responsible for one of the world’s first smartphones. In his latest book, The Innovative Leader: St...
Are Your Customers and Clients Likely To Wear Your ‘Team Colors’ As They Clap and Stomp for Your Success?
April 01, 2024 02:56 - 48 minutes - 87.9 MBDoes your business have a mascot, a team jersey, and team-related merchandise for sale? Probably not. Fredrick “Freddy D” Dudek has spent more than three decades studying how companies can turn their employees, customers, and business affiliates into the kind of raging fans that sports teams enjoy. He is the author of Creating Business Superfans: The Time-Tested Playbook That Converts Your Customers, Employees, and Business Partners into Superfans for Bigger Sales, Broader Awareness, an...
Diners, Drive-Ins, Dives, and the Show’s Creator, David Page
March 25, 2024 01:39 - 58 minutes - 107 MBThis week’s guest, David Page, is a well-known expert on American cuisine, culture, and entrepreneurship. The two-time Emmy-award winner and veteran broadcast journalist is best known for creating the Food Network hit Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and serving as its executive producer for eleven seasons. David, president and executive producer of Page Productions, understands why some restaurants succeed while many don’t. Every owner, executive, and entrepreneur, regardless of their busines...
Got Leadership Headaches? This Physician Has Just the Prescription for What Ails You.
March 18, 2024 03:00 - 48 minutes - 87.9 MBAs a physician, Hanah Polotsky is an expert in treating diabetes, thyroid disorders, and serious hormonal abnormalities. As a leadership expert, Dr. Polotsky excels at showing executives — both in and outside the medical field — how best to run teams and apply the tenets of lean management to their organizations. A native of Belarus who fled to the United States at 17 to escape rampant anti-Semitism, Dr. Polotsky earned her Master of Business Operational Excellence at The Ohio State Unive...
Skill, Passion, Persistence, and Luck Fueled Bob Moog’s Ascendency to Game and Puzzle Grandmaster
March 11, 2024 03:35 - 51 minutes - 94 MBWhen it comes to running a competitive company, Bob Moog doesn’t play games. Well, actually, he does. Daily. Bob is co-founder and president of University Games, the largest independent game company in the world. For almost four decades, Bob has gone up against the biggest players — including Hasbro and Mattel — and found a way to beat them at their own game. Pun intended. In fact, University Games distributes more products in more outlets and more markets than any other company focused...
What History Can Teach Today’s Business Owners and Entrepreneurs About What’s To Come
March 04, 2024 02:23 - 48 minutes - 87.9 MBHe’d be the oldest man ever to run for president, even as calls grow louder and louder for him to step aside. Joe Biden? No, William Henry Harrison, the successful 67-year-old Whig Party candidate back in 1840. Tying yesteryear to current events is Ron Shafer’s specialty. His contributions to The Washington Post’s Retropolis history column form the basis of two of his engaging books, Breaking News All Over Again and the forthcoming A Half-Naked George Washington. Now retired, Ron sp...
What’s In a Name?: When You’re Speaking Publicly, It’s Likely More Than You Think
February 26, 2024 02:49 - 48 minutes - 88.2 MBMost people fail to say their own name correctly. Odd as that may sound, Laura Sicola explains her assertion in a YouTube video that is approaching 7 million views. Dr. Sicola earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in educational linguistics and taught there from 2001-2013. She has more than two decades of experience teaching good vocal habits to executives at companies including Comcast, IBM, and Vanguard. She is the author of Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadersh...
Andrei Mincov Helps Keep Owners and Entrepreneurs From Missing the Mark - The Trademark
February 19, 2024 01:45 - 56 minutes - 104 MBEach year, roughly 700,000 American businesses or individuals submit a trademark application. That may sound like a considerable number, but Andrei Mincov — a superstar trademark lawyer based in Dubai, says it's far less than it should be. Before starting The Trademark Factory, his global consultancy that provides start-to-finish trademark registration services, Andrei worked for Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's largest international law firms. His clients there included Apple, Microsof...
Enter the Inner Sanctum of Microsoft’s Executive Suite
February 12, 2024 04:31 - 47 minutes - 86.6 MBThis week, enter the inner sanctums of Microsoft Corp.’s executive suite and discover the tech wizards and vipers who worked there. \ Our guest is Jane Boulware, author of Worthy: From Cornfield to Corner Office of Microsoft. Over the course of her career, Jane launched three billion dollar businesses, was VP of the largest merger in U.S. history, and became one of the ten highest-ranking women at Microsoft by the time she turned 40. On her climb up the corporate ladder, Jane was hit o...
Rebecca Davison, Once a Successful Private Banker, Now Teaches How to Obtain a Different Type of Wealth
February 04, 2024 03:01 - 56 minutes - 103 MBFrom her base in far-off Christchurch, New Zealand, Rebecca Davison — who spent 13 years in banking, five as a financial advisor to multimillionaires — has built a global, cult-like following among female entrepreneurs, including top business leaders. Rebecca, founder of The Intuitive Life Academy, has the knowledge to advise her followers on ways to earn more money and leverage their investments. But that’s not her proprietary system. Instead, Rebecca — ...
Before You Quit When You’re At Wit’s End, Listen to This Episode
January 28, 2024 20:16 - 40 minutes - 73.7 MBPhebe Trotman knows the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat in both the sports and business arenas. A former MVP Canadian college soccer star and member of the championship Vancouver Whitecaps professional soccer club, Phebe has had plenty of bad days and opportunities to bow out. She’s never taken them. Phebe is the author of Never Quit on a Bad Day, a compendium of inspiring stories of resilience relayed by Phebe and a dozen contributors, including business leaders, entrepreneurs,...
Dousing the Many Firestorms CEOs and Entrepreneurs Face
January 22, 2024 03:02 - 37 minutes - 69.4 MBLeading business schools and best-selling leadership authors seldom compare the skills required of for-profit CEOs and non-profit fire chiefs. Yet, the two professions share a lot in common. Indeed, battling blazes is excellent preparation for dousing the many firestorms business owners, executives, and entrepreneurs face. This week’s guest, Clive Savacool, devoted 25 years as a Northern California firefighter before retiring his chief’s helmet and stepping into the boots of a full-time s...
Ryan Erickson is a Talented, Fine-Art Photographer and Entrepreneur
January 14, 2024 18:10 - 37 minutes - 68.4 MBAfter 16 years as a wedding photographer, Ryan Erickson concluded he was barking up the wrong tree. He was making decent money but didn’t have a passion for his work. It was risky, but Ryan decided to try his hand at fine art photography, and he’s been so successful early on that he’s thinking of expanding his fledgling enterprise nationwide. Ryan’s discerning clients are willing to pay up for his portraits that accentuate the eyes and subtleties of his subjects’ faces. Rather than ask...
If You Had a Chance to Visit With the Late Charlie Munger, What Would You Ask Him?
January 07, 2024 23:55 - 37 minutes - 68 MBCan you imagine what it would have been like to have an exclusive four-hour audience with the late Charlie Munger? The billionaire businessman, who died in late November at age 99, never got as much press as his close friend and partner Warren Buffett. But many people credited Munger with helping secure Berkshire Hathaway’s decades-long stellar investment performance. Just weeks before Munger passed, The Wall Street Journal veteran reporter Gregory Zuckerman visited Munger in the investo...
A Buffet of Business Insights From Ten Top ‘Monday Morning Radio’ Guests
January 01, 2024 03:02 - 36 minutes - 66.4 MBA New Year’s Quiz: What do the following have in common: Leadership, Economics, Side Hustles, Online Retailing, Business Exit Strategies, Military Contracts, Bras, Walt Disney, Firefighters, and Worms? Answer: Each was featured on one of Monday Morning Radio’s ten most popular 2023 episodes. This week, the podcast revisits the highlights of the year past and shares an audio preview of our first Monday Morning Radio book, All You Can Eat Business Wisdom — an anthology featuring 25 of...
A Christmas Day Miracle
December 25, 2023 06:42 - 1 hour - 166 MBA Christmas Day Miracle, by Dean and Talya Rotbart, is adapted from their 2020 biography of Margaret and Riyaz Adat, titled Improbable Lives: A Scot, A Tanzanian, and Their Canadian Love Story. A true-life, inspirational adult yuletide tale, A Christmas Day Miracle offers a universal message — regardless of readers' religious beliefs — about the wonder and power of life’s unexpected blessings. Since the book was first published two years ago, it has become a perennial holiday favorite. ...
Independent Off-Site Contractors Are Helping Companies Save Time and Boost Profits
December 18, 2023 01:24 - 40 minutes - 73.3 MBChris McShanag has enjoyed a long and productive career in the healthcare field, working alongside two physician entrepreneurs to build a thriving business providing off-site virtual assistants to doctors, dentists, and even veterinarians. Their company, MedVA, founded in 2020, provides medical and dental virtual assistants and has done an admirable job of helping their clients improve quality of care while simultaneously boosting the bottom line of their practices. In fact, MedVA has pro...
Time to Revisit That Entrepreneurial Idea You Abandoned Because It Was Too Complex and Expensive
December 10, 2023 02:30 - 37 minutes - 68.7 MBMany innovative business concepts fall through because the cost and logistics of pulling them off just wouldn’t work. Uzair Ahmed, a Canadian chemical engineer, recognized all the missed opportunities and figured he could design technology and automation to make unworkable business models workable. Uzair, founder of Cottonwood Automation, tested his high-tech, low-overhead system by launching a service that sends car mechanics to the homes or offices of customers. Guess what? It succeeded...
UX is the Most Powerful Differentiator in Today’s Highly Competitive Business World
December 03, 2023 23:48 - 43 minutes - 79.9 MBIf you truly could experience your website or bricks-and-mortar store through the eyes of your customers and prospects, you could do a great deal to increase sales and customer satisfaction. Satyam Kantamneni is the founder of UXReactor, a company whose entire focus is on user experience, referred to as UX. His mission: to design or transform businesses to prioritize — above all other considerations — how customers interact with them. With more than 60 employees spread across three conti...
Nine Out of Ten New Online Retailers Never Make Their First Sale
November 27, 2023 00:44 - 35 minutes - 64.9 MBEvery day, 3,000 eager entrepreneurs jump into the online sales arena. Ninety percent of them will never make a single sale. Matthew Stafford, co-founder and CEO of Build•Grow•Scale, knows what goes wrong and how to fix it. He and his team use sophisticated analytics to help business owners and entrepreneurs achieve online sales success. Matthew’s passion lies in empowering others to achieve their goals - whether scaling an existing business or starting from scratch with a new venture al...
He Followed the Advice of Warren Buffett and It Worked
November 19, 2023 23:41 - 41 minutes - 76 MBBronson Hill took it to heart when Warren Buffet warned investors that they will work the rest of their lives if they don’t find a way to make money while they sleep. Bronson became a zealous student of passive investing and, in 2018, with zero prior experience, raised a comparatively tiny $200,000 to form his first real estate syndicate. Today, Bronson, founder and CEO of Bronson Equity, is a general partner in more than $200 million worth of real estate. He is also the author of the rec...
Will the Day Come When You Can Work for Pleasure, Not Out of Necessity?
November 13, 2023 00:58 - 39 minutes - 72.7 MBJeff Kikel helps business owners and entrepreneurs attain what he dubs their “Freedom Day,” that juncture in their lives when work becomes optional, not a financial necessity. Jeff has helped many people who believed they’d have to work until retirement, and perhaps beyond, get their finances and investments under control, freeing them from financial worries. His formula for reaching “Freedom Day” begins with a mindset shift in relationship to money: It should work for you, not vice versa...
Remember the Rush and Anxiety of Starting Your First Business?
November 06, 2023 03:25 - 40 minutes - 74 MBThree years ago, Nick Barrett had an idea — and little else. He envisioned a new, weighted, portable gadget that could keep cords and wires from getting entangled. Nick’s CordBrick is only a tad longer than a large paperclip and about as thick as a quarter. At this year’s National Retail Federation trade show in New York, one of the largest consumer products showcases in the nation, CordBrick was named “coolest product,” nabbing a $10,000 prize. Nick’s experience launching CordBrick mirro...
Zeynep Ekemen is Out to Prove That What Comes Down Can Always Go Back Up
October 30, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 63.6 MBZeynep Ekemen has ridden the rollercoaster of COVID-19 and its impact on small businesses. She is the founder of Silver Defender, a company that sells antimicrobial-protected film for high-touch areas — such as door bars and handles, elevator buttons, and guide rails. She launched her business in 2018. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit less than two years later, her sales took off like a rocket, stretching her company’s production and distribution capabilities to the max. But now, as deman...
Carina Ramirez Cahan Has Built a Better Bra:
October 22, 2023 22:28 - 44 minutes - 82.1 MBIn 1855, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his journal: “If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.” In time, his words were somehow conflated as the oft-cited quote: "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." Carina Ramirez Cahan, co-founder of Cobalt Rose Company, is testing Emer...
Join in the Celebration of The Walt Disney Company’s 100th Anniversary
October 16, 2023 06:29 - 47 minutes - 87.3 MBOn October 16, 1923 — precisely 100 years ago today — Walt Disney and his older brother Roy launched Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. In time, their business would morph into one of the world’s best-known and most beloved companies. To mark this milestone anniversary, co-hosts Dean and Maxwell Rotbart review the history of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland, paying special attention to the many practical lessons that executives and entrepreneurs can glean from the Disney successes and fa...
Meet Curt Tueffert, the “ChatGPT” of Sales Tactics and Motivation
October 07, 2023 20:04 - 44 minutes - 81.7 MBCurt Tueffert describes himself as “America’s Master Sales Motivator.” That he is. But as he demonstrates in this week’s episode, Curt is also gifted with NI — Natural Intelligence. He has spot-on answers to some of the most vexing questions confronting business owners and sales professionals. How can I best qualify customer prospects? What can I do about a prospect who says, “let me think about it?” How can I remain positive in the face of rejection? Curt acquired his expertise workin...
More and More Companies Are Outsourcing Their HR Headaches
October 01, 2023 21:49 - 46 minutes - 85.5 MBWhen Vicky Brown launched her HR consultancy — Idomeneo Enterprises — in 2001, she knew she was wading into shark-infested waters dominated by giants, including Accenture, ADP, Deloitte, and KPMG. By focusing on emerging and mid-size companies and providing concierge services to her clients, Vicky’s West Hollywood firm has won an impressive roster of clients from coast to coast. Trying to cope with ever-changing state and federal employment regulations, the work-from-home migration, and ...
It’s Likely You’d Never Hire Someone Like Gregory Shepard, And You’d Be Mistaken
September 24, 2023 19:17 - 50 minutes - 92.1 MBThe universities Gregory Shepard sought to attend wouldn’t admit him. When he volunteered for the U.S. Navy, the recruiters said, “no thanks.” Admittedly, Greg is not your textbook job candidate: He is autistic, dyslexic, and has a sensory condition known as synesthesia, which is commonly described as having the brain’s wires crossed. Greg could have allowed his neurodivergent struggles — and there are plenty of them — to defeat him. Instead, he’s leveraged his atypical mind to build and...
A Proven Formula Anyone Can Use to Obtain Power and Wield Influence
September 17, 2023 17:27 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBTo obtain power and influence, you don’t need wealth or privilege. Better yet, anyone can become widely known and respected if they can generate a compelling idea and communicate it effectively. That is the conclusion of Robert L. “Bob” Dilenschneider, an author, historian, and legendary strategic communication advisor who has been studying and dissecting the elements of power and influence for more than four decades. Bob, who is best known as the founder of the acclaimed consultancy, T...
Giving Meaning to Life’s Misfortunes
September 11, 2023 02:50 - 44 minutes - 82.4 MBForty years ago, when Lori Poland was only three years old, she was kidnapped from her front yard, molested, and left for dead at the bottom of a remote mountain outhouse. By chance, after three days, a bird watcher answering the call of nature heard the little girl whimpering 12 feet below. “What are you doing there?” he called down. “I live here,” the confused child answered. Today, married with children of her own, Lori is co-founder and chief executive officer of the National Foundati...
Management Strategies That For-Profit Businesses Can Glean from a Volunteer Fire Company’s Enduring Success
September 02, 2023 22:37 - 44 minutes - 80.6 MBThis week’s edition of Monday Morning Radio tells the remarkable story of Genesee Fire Rescue (GFR), a little volunteer engine company that could, and has, for five decades. Located in the majestic foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 20 miles west of downtown Denver, the unincorporated community of Genesee is home to approximately 4,000 residents and 1,500 homes. Monday Morning Radio host Dean Rotbart spent 18 months chronicling GFR’s half-century evolution, growing from a three-person com...
Ken Paskins Watched His Father and Grandfather Struggle as Entrepreneurs
August 06, 2023 23:06 - 43 minutes - 79.8 MBKen Paskins, a third-generation entrepreneur, witnessed his father and grandfather struggle to run a successful business. He was determined to find a better way. So Ken went to work for giant companies, including Oracle and BEA Systems, until he could deconstruct the leadership, HR, sales, and finance formulas for success. Today, Ken is the co-founder of The Shift Spot, a CEO coaching and peer advisory community that shows owners and CEOs of companies with 100 or fewer employees how to ac...
The Speaker’s Podium is One of the Most Overlooked Business Tools
July 31, 2023 00:49 - 41 minutes - 76 MBIf you want your talent and brilliance to be recognized, SPEAK UP! Take it from Bret Ridgway, author of The Spotlight on Speaking Newsletter. Bret is an evangelist for the many benefits that accrue to owners and entrepreneurs who take to the podium. Among the clients he has worked with are Ryan Deiss, Alex Mandossian, Joe Polish, and Wendy Lipton-Dibner. During his 25-plus-year career, Bret has witnessed a couple of thousand speakers. He knows what works and what doesn’t. You needn’t ...
From Dungeon to King of the Castle: Change Your Thinking and Change Your Life
July 24, 2023 02:25 - 44 minutes - 82 MBBack by popular demand, Dr. Noah St. John returns to Monday Morning Radio for the third time to share insights from his new book, The 7-Figure Life: How to Leverage the 4 FOCUS FACTORS for Wealth and Happiness. Success has been kind to Dr. St. John, the self-described “nerdiest nerd.” When he started out 25-plus years ago, he was living in a 300-square-foot apartment with no money, no girlfriend, and very little hope. The core idea for how to turn his life around — and that of the more th...