Monday Morning Radio
595 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 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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Don’t Be Fooled, James Bailey’s Humorous, Quirky Book Offers Some Serious Life Coaching
February 13, 2022 20:09 - 39 minutes - 72.3 MBTo sell his first book, Man Interrupted, James Bailey — a sufferer of severe obsessive-compulsive behavior who was living out of his car at the time — staked out bookstores and celebrity haunts in Malibu, Santa Monica, and other well-to-do Southern California towns. When he spotted stars, he unashamedly pressed them to buy his book or at the very least accept a free copy. Bob Dylan bought one. So did James Woods. Simon Cowell promised to buy the book. And Mel Brooks was so impressed with...
Lift the Hood of Rapidly Growing DermatologistOnCall, and You’ll Discover An Engine Powered By Best-in-Class Technology
February 07, 2022 02:27 - 45 minutes - 82.7 MBDouglas Holmes is a veteran investment banker who sees massive potential in telemedicine. His latest venture is DermatologistOnCall features a network of board-certified dermatologists who provide telemedicine services in all 50 states, and can even offer an in-home melanoma test. The secret of DermatologistOnCall’s success, Douglas tells award-winning author and journalist Dean Rotbart, is the advanced technology that is the foundation of the service. Douglas shares insights that could...
Melissa Joseph Dreamed of Starting a Notecard Company, So She Did
January 31, 2022 03:32 - 32 minutes - 59.7 MBA California entrepreneur, Melissa Joseph, has combined her love poetry and her life-long habit of writing personal Thank You notes to launch a new business, Lotus Cards: Notecards with Heart. The cards offer mix-and-match whimsical original poetic sentiments — each composed by Melissa — with a variety of unique, stylistic cover art. With Valentine's Day only two weeks off, Melissa’s cards make for highly original greetings. Host and award-winning author Dean Rotbart says that Melissa, a ...
The Legacies of Dead CEOs Can Inform Today’s Business Leaders
January 24, 2022 00:29 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MBThis week, in Part Two of host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart’s conversation with business historian Gary Hoover, the two turn their attention to women and minorities who overcame long odds to build or lead successful companies. They’ll also reveal the failures and rebounds of some great American companies and share the story of one executive whose business failed, and afterward, he went home to his parents’ house and locked himself in the bedroom for a month. True story. Gary ...
Alfred Sloan, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Olive Beech and Madame C.J. Walker
January 17, 2022 02:04 - 43 minutes - 79.9 MBBack in November, when General Electric announced its plan to break itself into three different companies, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart invited business historian Gary Hoover to share the lessons of GE’s fall from grace. Hoover is the executive director of the American Business History Center and the author of Bedtime Business Stories: Short Sagas of Business Creation, Success, and Failure. A serial entrepreneur, one company Hoover founded was acquired by Barnes & Noble, w...
Two Mystery Guests on This Week’s Podcast Will Try to Persuade You To Buy Their “How-To” Business Book
January 10, 2022 02:05 - 44 minutes - 82.1 MBHost Dean Rotbart is being mysterious about his guests this week on Monday Morning Radio. All he’ll say is that their names are Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis and between the two of them, their clients have included Apple, Dell Computers, Boeing, Toyota, and Honda. Peter and Jeffrey have a "how-to" business book coming out next month that the authors promise will have entertaining, actionable advice for all owners and entrepreneurs, regardless of the nature of their businesses. The two a...
The Creative Artistry of Clay Stafford, Entrepreneur and Founder of “Killer Nashville”
January 03, 2022 03:12 - 49 minutes - 91.4 MBIf Clay Stafford were to put all of his titles on a single business card, it would be one mammoth ID. Clay is, among other things, an award-winning author — having sold nearly four million copies of his books, a poet, a screenwriter and playwright, film and television producer, director, showrunner, actor, educator, reviewer, and public speaker. Oh yes, he is also the founder of The Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference - now in its 16th year - that has become the premier for...
A Monday Morning Radio Mastermind Group Offering Best Business and Life Practices
December 26, 2021 01:53 - 56 minutes - 103 MBImagine learning best business practices from the former vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton, Chairman of Chiquita Brands International, publisher and CEO of the Chicago Sun Times, and directors at Virgin America and Allegheny Energy. You wouldn’t actually need a very big room, since Cyrus Freidheim filled everyone of those roles during his 55-year business career, as well as stints at Union Carbide, Ford Motor, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Cyrus has summed up all he’s learned about busin...
The One Defining Trait Shared Early in Adulthood By 25 of History’s Role Models
December 20, 2021 02:38 - 45 minutes - 84.1 MBUntil they turn 25 years old, most individuals are really only life “interns.” Full life begins once we enter our mid-20s. At its core, that is what Robert L. Dilenscneider’s latest book, Nailing It: How History’s Awesome Twentysomethings Got It Together, is about. Dilenschneider, an accomplished author and communications consultant, tells the story of 25 well-known personalities when they were 25 years olds — from Mozart to Edith Paif, Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs — and the one defining...
Is Your Entire Workforce Male, Christian, Straight, and Able-Bodied? Probably Not.
December 13, 2021 02:34 - 47 minutes - 87 MBTreating all of your employees equally may seem like an ideal approach. But it's not. The one-size-fits-all approach, says Minal Bopaiah, an expert in diversity, equity and inclusion, often holds back employees who don’t fit the prototypical characteristics of today’s workforce. The better approach, Minal tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, is to design a human-centered organization that offers “equity” to everyone — making room for those who are different and then lever...
How to Apply the Strategies Used By Billionaires to Enrich Your Entire Life
December 06, 2021 02:42 - 1 hour - 123 MBSome of the world’s most successful investors are also some of the happiest people on earth. It’s not because they are rich — money still won’t buy happiness — but because they are able to think more rationally, rigorously, and objectively when it comes to every aspect of their lives. In his book, Richer, Wiser, Happier: How The World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life, author William Green shares insights he’s gleaned conducting dozens of interviews over the years with financial...
The Only Constant in Life is Change, and Most Individuals and Organizations Resist It
November 28, 2021 23:41 - 48 minutes - 88 MBChange has changed. That is the premise of bestselling author Erika Andersen’s latest book, Change from the Inside Out, a primer for businesses and individuals on how to rethink change — typically viewed as difficult, costly, and uncomfortable — and instead embrace it as doable, rewarding, and routine. Erika, founder of Proteus International, is a consultant and advisor to top executives at organizations including Amazon, Spotify, and the Yale School of Public Health. She has made a caree...
Daniel Sax’s Entrepreneurial Philosophy is “Shoot for the Moon” — Both Figuratively and Literally
November 22, 2021 03:12 - 38 minutes - 70.9 MBLast week’s partial lunar eclipse attracted millions of people to gaze at our nearest celestial neighbor. One of them, Daniel Sax, has designs on more than just staring at the moon. He intends to mine the crusty orb for water and oxygen, essentials that future planetary travelers will need to sustain them on lunar bases and fuel their voyages to Mars and beyond. Daniel is the co-founder of Toronto-based Canadian Space Mining Corporation, launched in August 2020. He aims to propel Canada ...
The Rise and Fall of General Electric and Its Lessons for Today’s Leaders
November 15, 2021 02:50 - 26 minutes - 48.2 MBFor more than a century, General Electric stood as a beacon of American manufacturing and ingenuity. The 129-year-old company was once the most valuable U.S. corporation; its brand emblazoned on tens of thousands of products from light bulbs to nuclear power plants. On November 8th, GE, which has been in decline for years, announced that it would spin out its remaining operations into three separate companies, in effect, heralding the end of General Electric as the world knew it. What wen...
How Transforming Into an ‘Unfear’ Business Can Lead to Breakthrough Performance and Improve Employee Satisfaction
November 07, 2021 21:07 - 42 minutes - 78 MBFear is a stick that many bosses use to squeeze extra productivity out of their employees: Fear of job loss, fear of career stagnation, and even fear of humiliation in front of their colleagues. There remains a place for fear in the workplace — when well-managed — but two former McKinsey and Company consultants have helped more than 1,000 business leaders and hundreds of organizations embrace the “Unfear” methods of leadership, leading to breakthrough success and elevated levels of employe...
Got Something Important to Say or Need to Bolster Your Stature in the Public Eye?
November 01, 2021 04:05 - 1 hour - 110 MBThe Op-Ed pages of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today are among the hardest journalism forums for outsiders to crack. Bob Brody has spent the past 40 years as an Op-Ed “safecracker,” having written or ghost-written roughly 1,000 Op-Ed essays. If you are passionate about a topic of public interest or are looking for a way to bolster your stature in the public eye, Op-Eds can be a uniquely valuable tool. This week Bob shares with host and award...
Grab a Seat Alongside Jeff Bezos and William Shatner Aboard This Marketing Rocketship
October 25, 2021 00:49 - 43 minutes - 78.8 MBBy now, nearly everyone knows that William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, flew into space aboard the Blue Origin spacecraft on October 13th. Why would Jeff Bezos, who owns the rocketship company, want to invite a 90-year-old actor whose turn in the original Star Trek series took place more than 50 years ago on board when Bezos could have sold that seat for tens of millions of dollars? Longtime Wizard of Ads Partner Jeff ‘The Professor’ Sexton tells host and award-winning journalist ...
Comeback Wisdom Delivered Via a McDonald’s Drive-Thru Window
October 17, 2021 20:34 - 40 minutes - 73.2 MBDavid Cowan had a skilled career in geographic information systems — linking data to maps, when he thought he’d try his hand at financial services. Instead of making more money, he made none. Hard times quickly followed. In his early fifties, David found himself without a car, renting a single room to live in, and walking to a nearby McDonald’s where he worked the drive-thru window overnight. “You just can’t give up on yourself,” David tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart...
These ‘Master Mentors’ Can Transform Your Life and Career With Their Nuggets of Wisdom
October 10, 2021 20:24 - 50 minutes - 92.4 MBMore than six million listeners worldwide tune in each week to hear Scott Jeffrey Miller’s On Leadership podcast, produced by Franklin Covey. In his newest book, Master Mentors, Scott draws on interviews he’s conducted with his podcast guests — including Daniel Pink, Seth Godin, and Susan Cain — to offer tightly focused, transformative insights aimed at current and would-be leaders. What overarching trait do the 30 mentors share? Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart asked S...
Go Behind the Scenes of “The Last Trial of T. Boone Pickens”
October 04, 2021 01:26 - 41 minutes - 76.5 MBChrysta Castañeda was a solo legal practitioner in Dallas when the legendary oil magnate T. Boone Pickens asked her to represent him in a decade-old business dispute involving investments he made in the three-billion barrel Red Bull region of West Texas. After about three hours of deliberation, the jury awarded Pickens $146 million. Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart says he doesn’t know who is more impressive, Chrysta Castañeda for winning the case so convincingly or the la...
Huddle Up. Head Coach Rob Cornilles is About To Share the Secrets of His Sales Playbook
September 26, 2021 18:00 - 49 minutes - 91.3 MBWhen he was starting out, Rob Cornilles founder of Game Face, Inc., had the unenviable task of selling season tickets to the Los Angeles Clippers, which at the time was the most forlorn franchise in the NBA. Who wanted to go to a Clippers game, when Los Angeles had the Lakers? Yet, Rob soon figured out the secret to attracting sports fans and has gone on to train the sales forces of more than 300 other sports teams and a whopping total of 50,000+ sales executives and leaders. Rob, author ...
A Master Class in the Tenacity of the Human Spirit and Effective Leadership
September 19, 2021 23:32 - 1 hour - 152 MBThis week, our host, Dean Rotbart generated a lot of media attention over the past two weeks, including coverage in The Wall Street Journal, FORTUNE, and on NPR, among more than a dozen other news outlets. Dean, a faculty member at Wizard Academy who coaches business owners and entrepreneurs on how to attract free publicity, took his own “Reputation Tool Chest” advice to produce an avalanche of coverage for his new book, “September Twelfth: An American Comeback Story.” Of all his guest a...
Three Words and Two Pieces of Advice That Will Make You a Much Better Speaker
September 13, 2021 01:54 - 46 minutes - 84.7 MB[Listeners to Monday Morning Radio can now purchase a copy of Dean Rotbart’s new book, September Twelfth: An American Comeback Story. Visit Gutenberg’s Store.] Joel Schwartzberg has two crucial pieces of advice for anyone tasked with making a presentation or giving a speech: 1. Have a point. 2. Get to it. Surprisingly, many business executives, politicians, and non-profit leaders fail to heed those simple rules for effective speaking. Joel knows what he’s talking about. A communicati...
True or False? Having Fun at Work is a Serious Business
September 05, 2021 23:56 - 54 minutes - 100 MBLet’s play a game. We’ll call it Two Business Truths and a Lie. Which one of these three statements is false? Thomas Alva Edison said: “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.” Owners and CEOs who “let loose” in the office often lose the respect of their employees. One element of Google’s success as a company has been office Nerf-gun battles. Playing games and encouraging others to have a great time at work is a passion for Dr. Bob Nelson, co-author of the new book, “Wo...
Using Artificial Intelligence to Supercharge Your Marketing is Quickly Becoming the Norm
August 30, 2021 02:23 - 38 minutes - 69.9 MB[Listeners to Monday Morning Radio can now purchase a copy of Dean Rotbart’s new book, September Twelfth: An American Comeback Story. Visit Gutenberg’s Store.] Many companies don’t realize they are sitting on a mother lode of extremely valuable assets that they underutilize or don’t use at all. The assets are customer purchase data and preferences, and unless companies use artificial intelligence — AI — to effectively mine that data, they are missing out on an undeveloped vein of mark...
This Radical Business Thinker Has Some Straightforward Advice for Owners and Leaders
August 23, 2021 02:20 - 39 minutes - 72.8 MBWith all due respect to Facebook and other so-called business change agents, the methods they use to innovate are really outmoded. That’s the premise of Radhika Dutt, a teacher of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University. Dutt is a critic of the prevalent method used by most companies of rapidly launching a new product into the marketplace and then tweaking it time and again until they get it right. In her forthcoming book, Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for I...
If You Could Choose Between More Money and More Energy, Which Would You Select?
August 16, 2021 04:56 - 35 minutes - 64.6 MBHost Dean Rotbart recently conducted an informal poll of business owners and his social network friends. What, he asked, is the one thing they would most desire more of? About 40% of those who responded answered “money.” Another 40%, however, replied that they wish they had more energy. Dr. Amy Novotny, founder of the PABR Institute, which stands for Pain Awareness Breathing and Relief, says that over the past dozen years she’s helped countless clients — without caffeine, medication or su...
Teaching a Person to Fish is Okay; Training Others to Teach Fishing is Sublime
August 09, 2021 01:09 - 37 minutes - 69.3 MBJeff Seckendorf, educator, author, and filmmaker, draws a clear distinction between experts and experts who can teach. Very often, he believes, they are not one and the same. Jeff’s specialty is teaching and training. Whether it’s scuba diving, aerial acrobatics, brain surgery, or auto repair, Jeff’s company, The Training Cycle, can not only teach the subject but can train others to teach it as well. His secret is allowing business owners, inventors, and other specialists to be the subjec...
Meet Sean Dowdell, Disruptor, Author, and the Self-Anointed “Tattoo Millionaire”
August 02, 2021 02:21 - 43 minutes - 78.8 MBSean Dowdell and his wife Thora are the founders of Club Tattoo, which currently has six locations, including a booming studio at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Over the years, the artists at Club Tattoo have inked or pierced hundreds of celebrities, including musicians Blake Shelton and Miley Cryrus, actors Ewan McGregor and Chrissy Metz, and athletes Héctor Sanchez, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Frank Trigg. [Listeners to Monday Morning Radio can now pre-order a copy of Dea...
Has Anyone Ever Told You That You’re Too Old to Chase Your Dream?
July 26, 2021 01:50 - 39 minutes - 72 MBWith the Tokyo Olympics underway and the Beijing Olympics slated for early next February, this week host, author, and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart has a timely conversation with four-time Olympian Ruben Gonzalez, who aims to be the only Olympian ever to compete in five Olympics in five different decades. Not only that, but if Ruben, who competes in the luge, makes it to Beijing, at age 59, he’ll be the oldest Olympic competitor on record. Has anyone ever told you that you’re too ...
Helen Yu is a Business Sherpa, Helping Companies Ascend to Their Peak
July 11, 2021 00:20 - 39 minutes - 71.5 MBWe’ve all heard tales of the perplexed man or woman who climbs a mountain, sits with a guru, and returns all the wiser. In 2007, Helen Yu, a technology leader with clients including IBM, AT&T, and Cisco, spent 14 days on an expedition to reach Mount Everest’s base camp. There was no guru, but Helen came away with an increased awareness of how to identify and surmount hurdles. Yu, author of “Ascend Your Start-Up,” tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart about the five most pr...
Stuck in the Middle (Manager’s Role): How to Influence Up, Down, Sideways, and Out
July 05, 2021 01:52 - 41 minutes - 76.5 MBThey are the middle children of Corporate America. They have a boss and they are a boss. Mid-level executives, be they in large companies or small, need help learning how to satisfy all the demands put upon them. That’s the premise of Scott Mautz’s latest book, Leading from the Middle. Scott is a former senior executive at Procter & Gamble, who in his consultancy has surveyed well over 3,000 “caught-in-the-middle” managers to discover the problems they face and offer real-world solutions. ...
A Special Edition of Monday Morning Radio: “September Twelfth - An American Comeback Story”
June 27, 2021 19:04 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBOn September 11, 2001, The Wall Street Journal's main newsroom, located just across the street from the World Trade Center - was obliterated by falling debris and flaming smoke. Ahead of the 20th anniversary of that fateful day, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart has written a richly detailed book revealing the never-before-told story of the traumatized men and women of the Journal and how they overcame their personal anguish and confusion to publish a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Keep and Inspire Good Employees
June 20, 2021 00:54 - 42 minutes - 78.1 MBEarlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the percentage of Americans leaving their current employers for new opportunities is at its highest level in two decades. Pamela Hackett knows why, and she regularly advises CEOs and business owners on how to stem the exodus. Hackett is the Global CEO of Proudfoot, a consultancy that has worked with more than one million leaders — Wow! — helping them retain and engage their best employees. Hackett has written a just-published boo...
Mark Nation on Sharing Your Internal ‘Song’ with the World
June 13, 2021 23:08 - 36 minutes - 66.2 MBMark Nation is a global technology expert who has spent more than two decades laser-focused on inspiring people and organizations to work with more vision, purpose, and passion in all they do. Mark, author of “Made for Amazing,” is founder & CEO of Nation Leadership, which advises executives at companies large and small how to unleash their full creative potential. As Mark told host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart back in September 2017, each of us has a voice — an internal song...
How You Say It May Be More Important Than What You Say
June 07, 2021 02:21 - 37 minutes - 69.4 MBIta Olsen, founder of Convey Clearly, is one of the world’s leading speech coaches, training CEOs, politicians, actors, and even podcasters, how to communicate most effectively. Over Ita’s 25-plus year career, she’s proven that the manner in which you deliver your message, regardless of the audience, can actually be more important than what you say. This week, on a Best of Monday Morning Radio encore, Ita not only shares with host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart her tips on how ...
Climb into the Cockpit of Your Life and Soar with Advice
May 31, 2021 04:19 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MBPiloting an F-16 fighter jet at speeds exceeding 1,500 miles-per-hour can surely steel the mind on what’s most important. Before becoming a corporate leadership trainer, Rob Shallenberger spent 11 years as a fighter pilot in the United States Airforce, where he came to understand the enormous leverage of strategic, operational, and tactical focus. Now Rob and his father, Steve, are helping executives at companies including Pepsi, Dell, Charles Schwab, and the Dallas Cowboys soar, taking t...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: You Can “Manufacture” Influence and Authority
May 21, 2021 17:02 - 48 minutes - 89.3 MBAfter publishing her book, Carla Moore quit her job as an executive at HBO and launched her own successful business consultancy. Charlie Epstein wrote “Paychecks for Life” and soon earned the moniker, “The Betty Crocker of 401 (K) Advisors.” Shelly Henderson used her book to promote her and her husband’s Charlotte, North Carolina real estate firm. It worked. What Carla, Charlie, and Shelly have in common is that they are three of the well over 1,300 authors who Adam Witty and his companies ...
The Truth About Motivation: Where to Find It and How to Inspire Others
May 17, 2021 02:01 - 36 minutes - 66.1 MBMany people get the concept of motivation all wrong. They think it involves willpower and sacrifice. They either offer themselves a reward to achieve their goals or they threaten themselves with penalties if they don’t. Susan Fowler says that science and practice proves otherwise. Fowler, whose book on the topic is titled — Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work...and What Does — previously co-authored three books with none other than management guru Ken Blanchard. As she told host and award-...
Creatives Can Get a Head Start on the Competition If They Don’t Get Cold Feet
May 10, 2021 00:22 - 25 minutes - 46.1 MBFor those of us who make our livings relying on effective communications, the correct choice of words is essential. Dr. Per-Olof Hasselgren, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, has studied the relationship between human anatomy and English-language phraseology. It’s extensive. In his book, “Body Language — From Head to Toe,” Dr. Hasselgren dissects 2,000 idioms, words, and expressions containing body parts. Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, who interviewed Dr...
A Best of Monday Morning Radio Small Business All-Stars Doubleheader
May 03, 2021 03:02 - 29 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart features a Best of Monday Morning Radio doubleheader dating back to April 2012, when in separate interviews, he spoke with two small business all-stars, Tom Ziglar and Brad Kriser. Tom, the son of the incomparable Zig Ziglar, discusses his book, Born to Win: Find Your Success Code, co-written with his father just months before the legendary motivational speaker passed at age 86. Brad was the founder and CEO of Kriser’s, an all-natur...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: Frank Armbruster Invented or Created 96 Products
April 26, 2021 03:44 - 37 minutes - 68.3 MBFranz Owen “Frank” Armbruster was the most colorful guest that host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart ever interviewed. Literally. Joining Dean in his Denver radio studio in 2013, Armbruster, an extraordinary inventor, came dressed in a furry pimp hat braided with a floral lei, tie-dyed suit, matching rainbow-colored shoes, candy-striped socks, and a bushy, all-white Santa Claus beard. 83-years-young, Frank invented or created 96 products, including the Guiness record-holding bes...
Get Rid of Those Extra Coronavirus Pounds at Home, at the Office, Even on the International Space Station
April 19, 2021 01:46 - 35 minutes - 64.2 MBSome people call it the “Quarantine 15,” others the “Covid 19.” Regardless of how they refer to it, they’re talking about the weight gain that 61% of Americans say they put on since the coronavirus pandemic began. Well before coronavirus, inventor Paul Francis figured out a way that anyone, anywhere can easily get fit, even on the International Space Station. Paul’s OYO Personal Gym uses resistance — not weights — to build muscle and shed those pesky pounds. Not every talented inventor...
Some Say Sholem Aleichem — Progenitor of “Fiddler on the Roof” — Was the “Jewish Mark Twain”
April 11, 2021 21:51 - 23 minutes - 42.6 MBLovers of great literature will love this week’s reminiscence with Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, best known for his many stories about life in the shtetl, including one that was adapted as the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem died in 1916 and Bel died in 2014. But Monday Morning Radio Host Dean Rotbart and his son, Maxwell, interviewed Bel, then 102 years old, in late 2013 for a Jewish-oriented radio show the father-son duo hosted. Bel not only sh...
‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Was Fiction, But the Power of Chess to Help Entrepreneurs is Real
April 05, 2021 02:14 - 50 minutes - 92.1 MBDoes the name Beth Harmon sound familiar? The fictional Beth, an orphan, is a chess prodigy who captures the hearts of viewers and earns the world chess championship crown in the incredibly popular 2020 Netflix miniseries, “The Queen’s Gambit.” Elliott Neff is a real-life Chess Federation National Master, who helps others, especially young and disadvantaged people, discover valuable life lessons through the game of chess. In October 2018, two years before America fell in love with Beth Ha...
You Don’t Need an MBA or a Business Plan to Become a Successful Entrepreneur
March 28, 2021 22:32 - 35 minutes - 64.7 MBDid you know that older entrepreneurs are more successful than younger ones? Or that many of the best entrepreneurs never set out to launch independent businesses? Syracuse University Professor Carl J. Schramm knows both from personal experience, and because he has spent a lifetime as an evangelist for entrepreneurship, including heading a $2 billion private foundation dedicated to helping business owners succeed. When host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart interviewed Professor S...
Daniel Burrus Helps Companies Obtain Certainty in an Uncertain World
March 22, 2021 01:09 - 32 minutes - 59.1 MBDaniel Burrus has 1.2 million followers on LinkedIn, which named the technology futurist one of the world’s Top 10 influencers. Burrus is the originator of the Anticipatory Organization model, which allows business owners and entrepreneurs to accurately foresee new opportunities, spot growing problems, and understand ever-changing customer needs. Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart asked Burrus to forecast some future trends when he interviewed him in October 2017. This week, d...
Black Rifle Coffee Hit the Bullseye in 2020, Nearly Doubling Its Revenues
March 15, 2021 01:26 - 39 minutes - 73 MBIf you happened to read the March 12, 2021, edition of The Wall Street Journal, you no doubt spotted the profile of Black Rifle Coffee Company, which reported that sales of its weapons-themed roasts and blends almost doubled in 2020 to $163 million. That came as no surprise to host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, who first profiled Black Rifle Coffee and its former Green Beret founder, Evan Hafer in 2017. Evan’s vision, then and now, is to appeal to fellow military veterans and 2...
The Day the Music Died: Barry Fey Was the Ultimate ‘Unconventional’ Entrepreneur
March 08, 2021 04:40 - 1 hour - 135 MBIn his classic hit, American Pie, released in 1971, songwriter Don McLean intones: “I went down to the sacred store where I’d heard the music years before but the man there said the music wouldn’t play.” Every time host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart hears that verse, he’s reminded of rock ‘n roll concert promoter Barry Fey, who over the course of his three-decade career organized mega-shows featuring Jimi Hendrix, The Who, U2, Rolling Stones, Three Dog Night, and many other mus...
Hang Out Your Shingle on the Moon or Even Mars?
March 01, 2021 03:14 - 34 minutes - 62.6 MBThe landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars has reignited the public’s interest in space exploration and possible associated commercial opportunities. Christine Nobbe, an educator, space enthusiast, and past president of St. Louis Space Frontier, has been dreaming about conducting classes on the moon — or perhaps Mars — her whole life. When host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart caught up with Christine in September 2018, the two of them discussed the coming age of entrepreneurs...