Monday Morning Radio
595 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 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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Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer Are Not Far Off. Really.
February 21, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 82.3 MBAzi Hendi and her husband, Dr. Ali Hendi, now in their fourth year of operations, are the founders of Luminora, a stylish clothing line designed to protect women from the sun’s harmful rays. When they were featured on Monday Morning Radio in August 2018, they were still feeling their way as entrepreneurs, aware of the great potential but also struggling with the realities of being small business owners. Monday Morning Radio host Dean Rotbart forecast they would be a success, and by all ou...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: ‘Priceless’ Axioms That Will Cost You a Fortune
February 15, 2021 02:29 - 43 minutes - 80.3 MBWhich of the following sentences do you think conveys costly, erroneous “business think”? This is the way we’ve always done it; no reason to change now. You get what you pay for. We can probably do that ourselves. The customer is always right. The correct answer is “E” – all of the above. As business consultant Jack Quarles first explained to host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart in March 2017, American companies pay a massive penalty for buying into outdated thinking. Jack...
Lip-Syncing to Donald Trump Vaulted Sarah Cooper to Global Prominence
February 08, 2021 01:35 - 30 minutes - 55.1 MBSarah Cooper has become a TikTok superstar. Her hilarious video lip-syncs to the voice of former President Donald Trump made her a national celebrity, even serving as a substitute host for Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night ABC talk show. Host Dean Rotbart knew Sarah was special when he interviewed her four years ago about her half-serious, half-humorous book, “100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings.” Sarah was inspired to write the book after sitting through boring meetings at her previous emp...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: Ontraport Offers Entrepreneurs All-in-One CRM Software
January 31, 2021 01:04 - 23 minutes - 42.3 MBFifteen years ago, three college friends holed up in a yurt in Santa Barbara, California, and set about engineering a new sales and marketing software platform designed specifically to help small businesses succeed. Today, Ontraport and its 120-plus employees power thousands of global businesses, and serve as a role model for how any size business can attract and retain high-quality, fulfilled employees. Ontraport founder and CEO, Landon Ray, first shared his blueprint for building a prof...
This Ex-Disney Real Estate Executive is Reimagining the Post-Covid-19 Workplace
January 25, 2021 00:48 - 53 minutes - 98.2 MBThe global office real estate market – both for tenants and landlords – is in total chaos. Even after the Covid-19 pandemic has passed, America’s workplaces will never return to the old normal. Chris Kane, a former senior real estate executive with The Walt Disney Company and the BBC, has reimagined tomorrow’s workplace. In his new book, Where is My Office? Chris spells out what it will take to make the office an attractive place to work and serve as a means of invigorating employee produc...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: Growing a Niche Business by ‘Scaling the Smallness’
January 18, 2021 00:10 - 26 minutes - 48.9 MBPeet’s Coffee & Tea, which will celebrate its 55th anniversary this year, has more than 200 retail outlets and is sold in more than 14,000 grocery stores across the United States. The Boston Beer Company, whose best-known brew is Samuel Adams, was founded in 1984 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The company produces which produces beers, hard ciders, hard iced tea, spiked sparkling water, and high alcohol kombucha. Peet’s and Boston Brewing share a lot in common. Both compa...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: A Lifeboat for Anyone Overwhelmed with “To-Dos”
January 10, 2021 21:23 - 26 minutes - 48.9 MBHow do you say “One Thing” in Chinese? Or Spanish. Or Russian? Since Jay Papasan first spoke with host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart in April 2013, Jay’s mega-bestseller, The One Thing, co-authored with Gary Keller, has been translated into 40 foreign languages. The wisdom contained in their book, obviously, is universal. Jay’s premise is that everyone should decide on what matters most in their personal and work lives, and then focus their energy on one thing at a time. Vot...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: Ten Years On, This Solopreneur Continues to Inspire Others
January 04, 2021 00:29 - 30 minutes - 55.7 MBThe lucky children in Mrs. Hassenger’s 4th grade class at Brown Elementary in St. Joseph, Michigan, have no idea what a superstar entrepreneur their teacher is. Sarah Hassenger launched her home-based business, Four Black Paws, in 2010, working after school and on weekends to hand-sew the doggie bow ties and related accessories. Since host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart first spoke with Sarah in April 2016, her line has expanded dramatically to include an organic collection; do...
Best of Monday Morning Radio: Author and “Badass” Author Jen Sincero
December 28, 2020 01:50 - 26 minutes - 48.3 MBAuthor Jen Sincero has turned being a “Badass” into a mini-industry, incorporating books, audiobooks, notecards, calendars, refrigerator magnets, even a “Badass” talking button. She is also a success coach who helps people transform their personal and professional lives at seminars, speaking engagements, and in newsletters. When host and award-winning reporter Dean Rotbart first interviewed Jen in June 2013 for his Business Unconventional radio program, few people had heard of her fresh-o...
Take Full Command of Your Life by Harnessing the “Power of Agency”
December 20, 2020 21:37 - 51 minutes - 93.9 MBAfter a year in which all of our lives have been turned topsy-turvy, the notion that we can be in full command of our lives going forward may seem fanciful. But Dr. Paul Napper, a renowned psychology expert and business consultant, has developed a science-based approach to living life on our own terms. In his latest book, “The Power of Agency,” co-authored with Dr. Anthony Rao, Dr. Napper outlines seven empowering steps that anyone can use to take charge of their life. Of the seven prin...
Bill Fox is Designing the Workplaces of Tomorrow, From Estonia
December 13, 2020 18:42 - 44 minutes - 82.2 MBBill Fox is helping businesses in the United States design the workplaces of the future, from, of all places, his base in Estonia. American-born and educated, Fox is co-founder of Forward-Thinking Workplaces and the author of The Future of the Workplace. With more than three decades of experience in project management and leading successful transformations, he’s now focused on helping organizations get more done with fewer people. In addition to his own leadership experience, Fox tells ho...
Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life
December 07, 2020 02:14 - 44 minutes - 82.1 MBMatt Murray, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, describes Joann S. Lublin as relentless, blunt, persistent, honest, collegial, exhaustive, and exhausting. Joann, arguably the nation’s top authority on careers and management, is the author of the forthcoming book, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life. For the book, she interviewed 86 executive moms and 25 of their grown daughters to document the rapidly changing landscape facing women in the “C-Suite.” Power ...
Two Conversations, Eight Years Apart, with Bestselling Author Charles Duhigg
November 30, 2020 03:09 - 43 minutes - 79 MBCharles Duhigg is the mega-bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. His books use masterful storytelling and real-life examples to help readers be more productive, and improve all aspects of their lives. Shortly after The Power of Habit was first published in 2012, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart interviewed him for this podcast. Earlier this month, Dean caught up with Charles again to discuss both books and how he applies the lessons of his writing...
How to Engage, Motivate, and Develop Employees Using Unconventional Thinking
November 22, 2020 23:12 - 42 minutes - 77.1 MBTim Ringo has some unconventional ideas about how owners and CEOs can inspire greater productivity from their employees and turbocharge their companies’ profitability. Among these: hire people on the Autism spectrum, forget about requiring a college degree for job candidates, and use robots to replace employees who hold repetitive, mundane jobs — retraining the displaced workers for better, higher-paying positions. Tim, with more than 30 years in the Human Resources field, is the author o...
Think of Ruben Gonzalez’s New Facebook Group as a Team of Business Olympians
November 16, 2020 03:14 - 44 minutes - 81.9 MBFour-time Olympic athlete Ruben Gonzalez likes to recite the Proverb “Iron sharpens iron,” in explaining the philosophy of his new Facebook group, the Goal Achievers Club. Launched earlier this month, the group not only relies on Ruben himself for success and leadership tips, it draws on its growing roster of accomplished owners and entrepreneurs to share the wisdom of their experiences. Host Dean Rotbart first interviewed Ruben — a much-in-demand corporate speaker and author — four year...
Kanye West, Forbes, and How a 103-Year-Old Brand Stays Cutting Edge
November 09, 2020 03:32 - 46 minutes - 84.5 MBThe first interview that Kanye West granted after his July 4th announcement that he would run for president was to Randall Lane, editor and chief content officer of Forbes. It was no coincidence that Kayne chose Randall and Forbes. Randall’s story, posted four days later, quickly attracted more than 3.1 million page views. These days, Forbes.com is an internet juggernaut, attracting a larger daily U.S. page view count than The New York Times, The Washington Post, or Wikipedia. It is #1 am...
Fast Company is a Magnet for Young, Progressive, Forward-Thinking Business People
November 01, 2020 21:56 - 1 hour - 125 MBMore than 30,000 global makers and innovators registered for the recently concluded Fast Company Innovation Festival, a virtual cornucopia of influential speakers ranging from the CEOs of Verizon and Novartis to celebrities including Robert Downey Jr. and Michelle Pfeiffer. Credit Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Mehta and her team at Fast Company for attracting a young, progressive, business-centric audience, much like the readers of the 25-year-old trendy magazine. This week, in Part Two of hi...
Part One of the “Editors-in-Chief” Series: Adi Ignatius, Harvard Business Review
October 24, 2020 19:03 - 1 hour - 116 MBHost Dean Rotbart, an award-winning journalist, has been peeling back the curtain of the nation’s most influential business newsrooms for more than two decades. This week he begins a three-part series of oral histories that he’s recently conducted with three powerful editors-in-chief. Adi Ignatius His guest this week is Adi Ignatius, who has overseen the influential Harvard Business Review since 2009. Adi shares with Dean HBR’s updated approach to helping owners and managers create healt...
“Leadership Through Trust & Collaboration,” a Thin Volume, Will Surprise You With Its Powerful Insights
October 19, 2020 00:54 - 50 minutes - 92.6 MBWhen McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-A, and the Green Bay Packers were searching for ways to turn their managers into leaders who employees would want to follow, they turned to Jill Ratliff, an executive coach with more than 25 years of Fortune 100 human resources management experience. By making surprisingly few and modest changes, as Jill outlines in her new book — Leadership Through Trust and Collaboration — owners and managers can become results-driven leaders who not only inspire thei...
Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur: The Missing Manual
October 12, 2020 00:16 - 54 minutes - 99.5 MBIn the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the massive number of people who’ve lost their jobs, it should come as no surprise that America is in the midst of a small business startup boom. The Wall Street Journal reports that applications for new employer identification numbers — an indicator of new business launches — are up by 18.5% over 2019, and growing at the fastest rate since 2007. Which is perfect timing for authors Jonathan Littman and Susana Camp, whose recently released book, ...
A Business Book “Allegory” That Happens to Be a True Tale of Small-Town Baseball
October 04, 2020 18:37 - 51 minutes - 94.7 MBImagine a professional baseball league with teams located in Small Town America, such as Garden City, Kansas; Roswell, New Mexico; Trinidad, Colorado; and Tucson, Arizona. Now imagine you’re tapped to manage one of these independent league teams — featuring a squad of not-ready-for-prime-time players — and trying to win a national championship. Finally, ask yourself, if such a challenge existed in real life (it does), what lessons might you discover about competing, recruiting, and marke...
When Your Job, Unexpectedly, Becomes Founder, CEO, and Caregiver
September 27, 2020 01:55 - 36 minutes - 66.9 MBIn 1996, Dave Nassaney’s wife, Charlene, suffered a massive stroke that left her severely speech impaired and paralyzed on her right side. Dave, a USC graduate, entrepreneur, and service station owner, had no one to turn to and few resources to help him handle the tricky navigation he faced. Like that of thousands of other entrepreneurs who each year find themselves in similar situations, Dave’s challenge was not merely how to manage for a couple of weeks or even months. That’s hard enou...
Despite Their Rapidly Growing Ranks, Women Entrepreneurs Face Unique Hurdles
September 20, 2020 20:53 - 39 minutes - 71.4 MBWomen entrepreneurs are starting and running businesses in record numbers. Today, the number of women-owned firms in the United States is more than double what it was in 2000. Yet, as Madeline Pratt knows from first-hand experience, women in business face unique obstacles on the path to success. So Madeline, founder of the “female-forward” consultancy, Fearless in Training, specializes in helping other women level the playing field when it comes to technology, accounting, and business in ge...
Start This Week, and You Can Have Your First (or Next) Book Out By Christmas
September 14, 2020 01:14 - 53 minutes - 97.3 MBSandi Masori is a small business alchemist, turning doctors, real estate agents, insurance salespeople, financial planners, and all variety of entrepreneurs into authors. Sandi, owner of ExpertBook4U.com, has leveraged her experience writing books about decorating with balloons into a lucrative business and a platform for coaching others on how to follow in her footsteps. Not to burst your balloon, but as Sandi tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, her method is more likel...
The Strong Correlation Between a Healthy Love Life and a Healthy Bank Account
September 06, 2020 20:30 - 56 minutes - 104 MBBlack Enterprise magazine is marking its 50th Anniversary in 2020, dedicated to educating, inspiring, and uplifting readers. The magazine’s founder, Earl G. Graves Sr., who passed away earlier this year, was already a successful entrepreneur when he began the magazine in 1970, and headed multiple businesses in his lifetime. Unlike most other business magazines, the editorial staff at Black Enterprise often practice what they preach, simultaneously reporting for the publication and runni...
The United States is Rapidly Going to Pot and There is a Fortune to Be Made
August 30, 2020 23:09 - 47 minutes - 87.7 MBAs CEO of Maui Wowi Hawaiian Coffees & Smoothies, Mike Weinberger helped build the chain to 500-plus franchises, and then oversaw the 2015 sale of the brand to a global leader in the quick-service restaurant industry. Mike is back, this time as COO of Unity Rd., a Denver-based cannabis dispensary franchiser that is a leader in the rapidly expanding $30 billion legal marijuana industry. As Mike tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, today’s cannabis marketplace is teaming wit...
Understanding ‘Brand Communities’ and Their Ability to Transform Your Business
August 24, 2020 01:23 - 49 minutes - 90.4 MBCarrie Melissa Jones is a master-builder of so-called “Brand Communities,” which go way beyond common social networking and online forums to cement a life-long sense of belonging among core customers, employees, and even vendors. Done right, brand communities can dramatically enrich the success of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The devil, of course, is in the details. Carrie is co-author of “Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging.” As i...
Proper Business Etiquette is Even More Important in the Age of COVID-19
August 16, 2020 22:24 - 1 hour - 113 MBYou're sitting at an outdoor café and an important client of yours spots you. He comes over and extends his hand in greeting. Do you shake it or do you risk offending him by saying that you’re adhering to social distancing rules? Likewise, you’ve scheduled a video conference with a prospective customer. You’re both working from home. What do you wear? Business casual? Business dress? Shorts and a t-shirt? The rules of business etiquette in the coronavirus era have had to be rewritten, w...
By Invitation Only: An Executive Briefing on TikTok and Why Its Ultimate Fate Matters
August 10, 2020 02:09 - 1 hour - 126 MBTikTok is the seventh most popular social-media app worldwide, with 100 million users in the U.S. alone. TikTok celebrities, such as Chef Vivian Aronson – with 20 million-plus likes on TikTok – have used the short-video platform to become highly successful internet entrepreneurs. But Chinese-owned TikTok is facing political headwinds, with India already banning the service and the United States threatening to do likewise. The future of TikTok is unclear. It might be acquired. It might b...
Same Products, Same Company, Same Employees, But Much Great Profitability
August 03, 2020 02:29 - 50 minutes - 92.1 MBINTRODUCTION A: On this week’s podcast, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart interviews the co-founders of surefoot, a boutique agency offering an experienced, nimble team of strategists, designers, developers, and data analysts obsessed with growing companies like yours. INTRODUCTION B: On this week’s podcast, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart and his guests, the co-founders of surefoot, a boutique agency that has run more than 4,200 strategic A/B tests resulting in...
Capitalism is About Much More Than Profits, Or At Least it Can Be
July 26, 2020 20:06 - 46 minutes - 85.4 MB“I believe that capitalism is the most significant man-made invention ever.” So declares this week’s guest Dan Bruder, a respected author, business strategist, and educator. Dan is fully aware that his viewpoint isn’t politically correct. Indeed, it conflicts with millions of dissatisfied Americans and protestors who blame the economic and political system that vests our country’s trade and industry in private hands society’s many ills. But rather than turn to socialism, or even Marxi...
This is Your Fastpass to Landing a Guest Spot on Network News and Talk Shows
July 19, 2020 19:52 - 1 hour - 115 MBWhy be an ordinary entrepreneur when you can become a “Celebrity Entrepreneur” and watch your bottom line grow along with your reputation? Clint Arthur, a Wizard Academy alumnus, trains business owners on his “scientific formula” to land TV interviews, paid speaking engagements, VIP invitations, and book contracts. As their visibility grows, so do their bank balances. Join Clint and host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart as they pull back the curtain on how reputations are manufac...
When COVID-19 Cut Off Edwin Dearborn’s Flow of Income, He Started Over
July 13, 2020 01:11 - 41 minutes - 76.6 MBWhen the COVID-19 shutdowns hit, entrepreneur Edwin Dearborn, an author and veteran advisor to small businesses, faced a double whammy: His Las Vegas-based consulting group helped clients grow their brands and sales by relying heavily on live, face-to-face conferences, exhibitions, and speaking engagements, the kind that Vegas is famous for hosting. But since the social distancing quarantines began in March, the in-person conference and workshop industry has imploded, and with it, the oppor...
When the Stakes Are High and the Choices Difficult, Here’s a Framework for Deciding What to Do
July 06, 2020 00:10 - 54 minutes - 99.6 MBFormer British Prime Minister and global diplomat Tony Blair credits Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, founder of CSE Consulting, with developing “the science of decision-making” and helping him resolve tough choices. Einhorn, a master problem-solver, business consultant, author, and public speaker, is the developer behind the AREA Method, an increasingly popular framework that allows executives, politicians, and even investors to make better choices, especially when the stakes are high. When you...
Starting Today, You Can Profit by Running Your Business Like It’s “Day One”
June 29, 2020 01:16 - 49 minutes - 90.1 MBAfter scrutinizing Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon daily for more than five years, Alex Kantrowitz decoded the single secret they all share: No matter how large these and other successful tech giants grow or how established they become, they still run their companies with the mentality and risk-taking attitudes of a startup. Alex, who earlier this month launched his own independent newsletter and podcast called "Big Technology," recently published “Always Day One: How the Te...
When Your Employees Work Remotely and Steal from You
June 21, 2020 17:21 - 1 hour - 112 MBWorking from home? Stealing from your employers at home? In the new COVID-19 era, ripping off employers is easier and more common than you might imagine. The coronavirus outbreak has been a boon to employees who are willing to steal from their companies, as fraud and embezzlement are harder to prevent and detect when a company’s workforce is able to cheat remotely. In addition, when employees must rely on video teleconferences and personal email accounts and cell phones, it increases ...
The Emerging Cold War Between the United States and China Explained
June 15, 2020 01:44 - 59 minutes - 109 MBU.S.-China trade relations has been bumped off the front pages of American newspapers lately, as the toll of COVID-19 and race-related protests take center stage. But over the long-term, the U.S.-China trade conflict will have consequences for all American businesses – spreading from the political arena to every nook and cranny of our economy. Two of the most astute observers of this global financial story are Bob Davis and Lingling Wei, distinguished reporters for The Wall Street Journal...
What Can Savvy Owners and Entrepreneurs Read into the Bestsellers List?
June 07, 2020 22:13 - 1 hour - 124 MBTodd Sattersten is an author, literary agent, editor, blogger, and since January 2019, deputy publisher at Bard Press, the boutique house responsible for the success of The Little Red Book of Selling, The Gift of Struggle, The One Thing, and, of course, the incomparable Wizard of Ads Trilogy by Roy H. Williams. Todd makes his living, in part, by trying to forecast where consumer taste in reading — specifically in business books — will be a year or two down the road. He is an acute observer ...
You’ll Definitely Want Membership in This Elite Business Club
May 31, 2020 17:08 - 54 minutes - 99.4 MB[Monday Morning Radio listeners are eligible to register for “Understanding TikTok and How It Can Turbocharge Your Sales,” an invitation-only live video conference on June 18th. Sign up here.] Zero to $1 Billion in a relatively short time is the stuff that entrepreneurial dreams are made of. Yet, a number of recent starts ups have done just that. In his new book, Billion Dollar Brand Club, veteran journalist Lawrence Ingrassia takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the secret sauce us...
What’s Harder, Owning a Business or Crossing the Canadian High Artic on Foot in Winter?
May 24, 2020 20:15 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MBWhen Kevin Vallely isn’t working his “day job” as an architect, he can be found on one of many adventures, such as breaking the world record for the fastest unsupported trek to the geographic South Pole. When Amy Posey, a management consultant and former leadership expert with Deloitte, isn’t at her desk, she’s might be found paragliding, or joining Kevin in crossing Baffin Island in the Canadian High Arctic in winter, on foot. Both Kevin and Amy describe themselves as extreme adventures,...
You Can’t Touch This: Doors That Won’t Expose Employees or Guests to Coronavirus
May 16, 2020 20:29 - 37 minutes - 69.3 MBIt if wasn’t so serious, it would almost be laughable, the contortions that people employ to open public doors without using their hands in the current coronavirus culture. The most common methods involve elbows, knees, and feet. For those who aren’t contortionists, Dave Jabbas, a small business owner for the past four decades, and proud Wizard Academy alumnus, suggests a better solution. Touch-free doors that make each workplace and public facility safer and less threatening. Dave, found...
When Civil Liberties and Commerce Collide: A Cautionary Tale from the State of Maine
May 10, 2020 17:20 - 57 minutes - 105 MBWhen the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it is certain to include many examples of government overreach and outright stupidity. The State of Maine will be a prime exhibit. With a total population of fewer than 1.5 million citizens, and only a fraction of New York’s coronavirus deaths, the governor of Maine has imposed some of the most draconian lockdown rules in the nation. For residents of Maine, particularly those requiring regular dental treatments for ailments such as...
Meet the Unheralded and Often Unnoticed Entrepreneurs Who Form the Fabric of Our Economy
May 04, 2020 03:13 - 47 minutes - 87.1 MBWhen you think of today’s entrepreneurs, who comes to mind: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, or Jeff Bezos? Wrong. Today’s entrepreneurs are the owners of hair salons, restaurants, car washes, jewelry stories, and tens of thousands of other small businesses and professional practices that comprise the modern economy. In his new book, “The Soul of an Entrepreneur,” author David Sax debunks just about every stereotype people have about founders, including their backgrounds, motivat...
The World Needs More People Like Margaret and Riyaz Adat
April 23, 2020 15:16 - 57 minutes - 104 MBHost and award-winning journalist, Dean Rotbart, and his multi-talented wife, Talya, recently co-authored a book about two Canadian entrepreneurs, Margaret and Riyaz Adat, who have become global role models for do-it-yourself charitable projects. The book, Perfectly Ordinary, Yet Extraordinary, recounts how the Adats, an upper-middle-class couple, used determination, focus, love, and limited personal resources to rescue a woebegone school in faraway Arusha, Tanzania, from the brink of col...
Be Careful or You May Overlook Key Provisions of the CARES Act
April 20, 2020 01:29 - 37 minutes - 68.1 MBWayne B. Titus III, a CPA whose Plymouth, Michigan, financial advisory firm, AMDG Financial, has assets of more than $150 million, digested all 800-plus pages of the $2 trillion CARES Act legislation to help his clients take full advantage of the various government programs aimed at helping employers and employees weather the COVID-19 shutdown tsunami. CARES is complex, and without a guide such as Titus, many owners and entrepreneurs stand to overlook aspects of the mammoth government progr...
How to Rekindle the Passion That Propelled Your Career in the First Place
April 10, 2020 16:35 - 41 minutes - 75.6 MBToo often entrepreneurs and business owners burn out, giving up on the dreams that propelled them in the first place. It happened to Dr. Dravon James, a pharmacist, and successful movie and stage actress. Having grown up in poverty on the South Side of Chicago, she eventually overcame multiple personal and professional hardships and formulated an approach that all of us can use to rekindle the fire within. Today, Dr. James is a successful author, consultant, and motivational speaker. Re...
How You Can Attract and Keep Customers and Clients Forever
April 06, 2020 03:08 - 47 minutes - 88.5 MBMore than a decade ago, Robbie Kellman Baxter – a graduate of both Harvard University and the Stanford Graduate School of Business who worked as a strategy consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton – coined the phrase “The Membership Economy” to describe the trend of consumers to embrace subscription-based products and services. Popular examples include: Stitch Fix, Dollar Shave Club, Netflix, BarkBox, and Freshly. Now, in her just published book, The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscri...
Everything Was Going According to Plan for Michael Craig’s Creature Coffee, Until Coronavirus Arrived
March 29, 2020 19:54 - 21 minutes - 40 MBIn October 2019, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, invited Michael Craig on Monday Morning Radio to detail his quixotic quest to build a three-headed company, Creature Coffee, selling specialty blends at pop-up expresso bars, online, and at his bricks-and-mortar coffeehouse in Austin, Texas. Everything was going according to plan for Craig until a few week’s ago when Austin’s South by Southwest mega-event was cancelled due to coronavirus, and rapidly thereafter the city’s may...
Talk About Chasing Windmills: This Journalist Launched His Own Business Newspaper 20 Years Ago
March 22, 2020 19:41 - 59 minutes - 108 MBTwenty years ago this month, Henry Dubroff threw caution and reason to the wind and – after quitting his safe job as editor of the Denver Business Journal – headed west to California to launch his own, independent, weekly business newspaper. Dubroff’s Pacific Coast Business Times defied the long odds, and today, with the largest full-time team devoted to business and financial news on the central coast, serves readers in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties, including, of co...
The Peril and the Opportunity of Coronavirus
March 16, 2020 01:52 - 50 minutes - 93.3 MBThe coronavirus is wreaking havoc on businesses large and small, curtailing travel, sporting events, and gatherings of all manner; even weddings. For many owners and entrepreneurs, it portends financial disaster. But this week’s guest this week, Evan Morgenstein, a veteran talent agent who specializes in representing social media mega-stars, sees a path for companies to not only survive coronavirus but to thrive. As Evan points, all the people who are confined to their homes, working fr...