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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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...
When You Want to Get the Media’s Attention, Be a Source, Not a Salesperson
March 08, 2020 19:15 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBWhen some of America’s most successful blue chip investors and securities analysts want to increase their exposure on CNBC, Fox Business Network, Bloomberg TV, and other financial broadcast networks, Zach Leibowitz is their go-to PR guru. Zach is executive vice president and head of broadcast operations at Dukas Linden Public Relations. In the past year alone, Zach and his colleagues have landed their clients on more than 600 broadcast segments. That’s an incredible track record. Zach’s...
How One Journalist Helped Michael Bloomberg Amass His Fortune and Revolutionize Financial News
March 01, 2020 16:26 - 1 hour - 150 MBGrowing a business from one employee to more than 3,000 in three decades is a notable achievement, regardless of what field you’re in. Journalist and entrepreneur Matthew Winkler did just that at Bloomberg News. When billionaire businessman and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg had the idea of starting a financial news organization back in 1989, his first hire was Winkler, who at the time was a reporter with The Wall Street Journal. Winkler signed on as editor-in-chief in Fe...
Why You Should Be Barefoot Before You Listen to This Week’s Podcast
February 22, 2020 22:18 - 55 minutes - 101 MBEver attend a large conference, with 10,000-plus registrants, and have one of the presenters blow your mind – and knock your socks off? Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart did just that in January, and Dean came back raving about speaker Ramon Ray, an effervescent small business evangelist, entrepreneur, public speaker, and author of The Celebrity CEO – a book that spells out in detail how any owner or entrepreneur can effectively build a strong, profitable, personal brand and in...
Tens of Millions of Americans Are Working Remotely, But Often Ineffectively
February 17, 2020 03:08 - 34 minutes - 64.7 MBNearly two-thirds of all employers now offer a work-from-home option, at least for some of their employees. But few employers provide their staff instructions on how to be most productive and satisfied working remotely, and most employers don’t know how best to manage their far-flung team members. Teresa Douglas, who has worked from home since 2010, recently co-wrote a book, “Working Remotely,” to help employees and employers alike navigate the shoals of off-site workers. She shares her b...
Steve Sansweet is a Star Wars Memorabilia Jedi
February 09, 2020 02:44 - 43 minutes - 60 MBStar Wars fans and collectors are legion, but among them “The Force” is undoubtedly strongest with Steve Sansweet, who spent more than 27 years as a reporter and bureau chief with The Wall Street Journal. Steve is, as certified by Guinness World Records, the owner of the world’s largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia, and President and CEO of Rancho Obi-Wan, an independent non-profit museum in Petaluma, California that houses part of his cache. (He loans his collection to the ...
CEO Kevin Hancock Lost His Voice, But Gained a New, Wildly Successful Management Style
February 03, 2020 01:49 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBWhat if employers spoke less and listened more? In the case of Kevin Hancock, Chairman and CEO of his family’s sixth-generation Maine lumber business, there was little choice after he was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological speaking disorder that made verbal communications difficult. So he let his employees do most of the talking. Eight years on, Kevin says that the employee-centric model that he instituted at Hancock Lumber, founded in 1848, has generated more profita...
Struggling with Intractable Business Problems? Blame it on Mom
January 27, 2020 05:40 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBSome of the most entrenched business problems that owners face have nothing to do with sales, marketing, employees, venders, or regulations. They have to do with “Mom.” Unresolved childhood issues often creep, surreptitiously, into adult decision-making and can be a huge hindrance to successful goal-setting. Dr. Patti Ashley, a psychotherapist, international speaker, and author calls her approach to resolving lingering childhood and adolescent problems, Authenticity Architecture. Only by ...
Jackie Jenkins-Scott is a Turn Around Expert With an Impressive Track Record
January 20, 2020 03:20 - 33 minutes - 61.8 MBWhen Jackie Jenkins-Scott was appointed president of the historic Dimock Community Health Center, whose roots in Boston date to 1857, the bankrupt institution was shopping its architecturally magnificent campus to real estate investors for redevelopment. Instead, Jackie revived Dimock, as she did 21 years later when she stepped in as president of failing Wheelock College. Jackie believes that many dying businesses and nonprofits can turn their fortunes around if their leaders will embrace...
Who’s in Your Wallet? An Expert Panel on Employee Fraud and Embezzlement
January 12, 2020 22:35 - 1 hour - 146 MBEmployee fraud and embezzlement cost American companies $50 billion annually, much of that coming out of the pockets of small business owners. It’s often an employee who you trust the most who turns out to be the most untrustworthy. This week on Monday Morning Radio, three experts on employee theft – an investigator, a litigation attorney, and a prosecutor – join host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart for a panel discussion on how to prevent, detect, and respond to dishonest emp...
New Year’s Resolution #1: “I Will Make Better Decisions”
January 05, 2020 19:57 - 58 minutes - 107 MBSome of the most important decisions in history, from President Abraham Lincoln’s bold move to publish the Emancipation Proclamation to Harry Truman’s order to drop the atomic bomb, offer all of us lessons about how to make the tough choices that inevitably face us. In his new book, Decisions, historian, author, and strategic public relations counselor Robert L. Dilenschneider gleans practical advice on how to make the best decisions from 23 men and women who shaped the world, including Hen...
Business Magic to Launch the New Year
December 30, 2019 04:00 - 54 minutes - 101 MBFor the third consecutive year, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart turns the microphone over to his son, Maxwell, who reviews the top business lessons of the past year, gleaned from ten of the weekly guests appearing on Monday Morning Radio. Among the priceless business insights and actionable tips for success included this week are the gift of struggle; the simple truths of great customer service; the proper care and feeding of bosses; how to build an ironclad brand; and the Be...
An Audio ‘Stocking Stuffer’ Featuring Jeffrey Gitomer, The King of Sales
December 23, 2019 07:30 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBJeffrey Gitomer is the all-time, best-selling author of sales books; better even than Dale Carnegie, Zig Ziglar, and Napoleon Hill. Gitomer’s “Little Red Book of Selling” is a classic, not only for dedicated salespeople, but for anyone seeking to sell a product, service, idea, or even to market themselves. Dean Rotbart, host of Monday Morning Radio, previously hosted a live weekly radio show - Newsroom Confidential - on KRLA 870 AM radio in Los Angeles. Back in 2006, when Gitomer had jus...
Take it from a Man Who Rowed Across the Atlantic Ocean, You Can Achieve “Impossible” Goals
December 16, 2019 06:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBWhether in business or your personal life, if you have a dream, don’t let anyone tell you that it’s impossible. In fact, Jason Caldwell, this week’s guest on Monday Morning Radio, makes his living by teaching people how to move beyond the normal bounds of possibility and shatter all expectations. Jason – an adventure racer who set a world record in 2017 for rowing across the Atlantic in 35 days, 14 hours, and 3 minutes – is the founder of Latitude 35 Racing, a global leadership training f...
When Life Feels Like a Roller Coaster, It’s Time to Change Everything
December 09, 2019 02:27 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBOn the rollercoaster of life, Ken D. Foster has seen the peaks and the valleys, working his way up from gas station attendant to head of a $200 million securities business, and back to the very bottom. Ken finally found stability, and success, when he cleaned his slate of beliefs and behaviors and began anew. Now a best-selling author of five books, a podcaster, and an empowerment coach, Ken has released his newest book, The Courage to Change Everything, which provides daily strategies to o...
Successful and Charitable Small Business Owners
December 01, 2019 21:47 - 48 minutes - 66.1 MBIn the spirit of the 7th Annual GivingTuesday, this week’s podcast examines the growing number of small business owners who are creating 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundations to buttress their philanthropic efforts. In the spotlight is Ryan McFarland, a sterling example of CEOs who are giving back in gratitude for their own success. Ryan is the founder of Strider Sports International and its nonprofit sibling, the Strider Education Foundation, or SEF. Ryan worked closely with Monday Morning R...
Building a Valuable Professional and Personal Network is Easy Than You Think
November 25, 2019 01:39 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBKaren Wickre has worked in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years, including stints as the editorial director of Twitter and a senior global communicator at Google, which she joined when there were only 500 employees. By the time she left, there were 50,000 people on the payroll. During that time she became globally recognized as an über networker - connecting with the world’s elite and harnessing the power of her contacts. A self-described introvert, Karen shares with host and award-win...
Building a Valuable Professional and Personal Network is Easier Than You Think
November 25, 2019 01:39 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBKaren Wickre has worked in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years, including stints as the editorial director of Twitter and a senior global communicator at Google, which she joined when there were only 500 employees. By the time she left, there were 50,000 people on the payroll. During that time she became globally recognized as an über networker - connecting with the world’s elite and harnessing the power of her contacts. A self-described introvert, Karen shares with host and award-win...
Rob Kessler Is Asking Men to Cut All Ties to Their Business-Casual Shirts
November 18, 2019 02:14 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MBRob Kessler is on a mission – a mission to eradicate men’s ties. Aware that 100% of business-casual shirts are designed for ties – yet 90% of the time men don’t wear neckties – he’s invented an entirely new category of shirts – goTIELESS. Rob comes from good entrepreneurial stock. His pop, Richard Kessler, the Diamond Engagement Ring ‘King’ of Wisconsin, taught him a thing or two about sales and marketing. And it shows. This week Rob tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart...
Give Mary Fran Bontempo 15 Minutes and She Just Might Save Your Backside
November 11, 2019 03:14 - 22 minutes - 31 MBMary Fran Bontempo, an award-winning speaker, author, and humorist, just came out with a crisis management book called, “The 15 Minute Master.” The book promises to teach readers “how to make everything better 15 minutes at a time.” With no advance warning, host Dean Rotbart decided to test the premise on Mary Fran, herself, using his stopwatch to give her exactly 15 minutes to explain her method, why it works, and how business people can apply her lessons both at work and in their persona...
Breaking into the U.S. Marketplace from Istanbul is No Easy Task
November 04, 2019 03:17 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBIt’s hard enough for American entrepreneurs to launch a new business and gain traction with American consumers. Doing it from Istanbul, Turkey, primarily in Turkish, as Rasim Cin is doing, complicates the task exponentially. Rasim is the visionary behind Woppy, a new subscription game-box company that aims to teach kindergarten-age kids STEM skills, without using digital technology. Woppy was recently a participant in the WSJ Tech Live global conference held in Laguna Beach, where Rasim a...
What’s My Small Business Secret? – Try to Guess Their Special Story!
October 28, 2019 01:51 - 1 hour - 155 MBBert and Tracy Gervis are two successful California entrepreneurs and philanthropic superheroes who own and operate one of the nation’s fastest growing pet food companies. Their proprietary Gentle Giants Dog and Puppy Foods is helping canines to live twice, even three times longer than average, with many dogs behaving like puppies well into their twenties. No wonder their wholesome dog food is flying off the shelves of Walmart Supercenters and hundreds of major supermarket outlets nationw...
If You’re an Entrepreneur, You’ll Relate to the Promise and Perils Faced by Creature Coffee
October 20, 2019 22:37 - 41 minutes - 76.4 MBOn paper, at least, Creature Coffee looks like a bad idea. Founded two years back by Michael Craig, a barista, it is aiming to carve a niche for itself in the crowded and competitive coffee marketplace. To make the task all the more difficult, Creature Coffee is spreading itself between three sales channels: walk-in retailing, online sales, and pop-up coffee bars. But Michael – like the best entrepreneurs – believes in himself, believes in his concept, and does not believe all the naysaye...
The Lessons Every Entrepreneur Can Take from the Bottled Water Industry
October 13, 2019 17:09 - 39 minutes - 73.1 MBLast week, more than 45 international companies competed in the annual Global Bottled Water Awards competition, presented in Dubai. Water is big business, with more people in the U.S. drinking bottled water than soft drinks, and new packaged-water entrants continuing to flood the market. Duane Stanford, executive editor of Beverage Digest, was one of the judges for this year’s water competition, and he joins host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart to talk about the innovators and e...
FORTUNE’s Alan Murray Offers a Master Class in Business Strategy and Financial Journalism
October 06, 2019 19:30 - 41 minutes - 76.7 MBOn a special edition of Monday Morning Radio, Alan Murray, president and CEO of FORTUNE magazine, shares the business and journalism insights that he’s gleaned during the course of his 40-plus year career. In particular, Alan talks about how FORTUNE, under his leadership and new ownership, is positioning itself to be the preeminent global business media brand. Take notes. Because the strategy that Alan describes can just as effectively be utilized by any business – large or small – that see...
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Fortune Magazine's Alan Murray on Choosing the Magazine’s Cover
October 04, 2019 16:23 - 1 minute - 2.46 MBIn this one-minute preview of next week's podcast, featuring Fortune Magazine CEO Alan Murray, he explains how Fortune selects it covers and who get to grace them. Alan is interviewed by host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart. You can stream of download the full interview on Monday, October 7, 2019 from MondayMorningRadio.com. You can also subscribe to every episode of Monday Morning Radio for free from the iTunes store: http://tinyurl.com/mmr-iTunes.
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Fortune Magazine's Alan Murray
October 03, 2019 19:07 - 1 minute - 2.47 MBIn this one-minute preview of next week's podcast, featuring Fortune Magazine CEO Alan Murray, he describes the ingredients of building a preeminent brand. Alan is interviewed by host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart. You can stream of download the full interview on Monday, October 7, 2019 from MondayMorningRadio.com. You can also subscribe to every episode of Monday Morning Radio for free from the iTunes store: http://tinyurl.com/mmr-iTunes.
The Bezos Method of Business Growth and Risk-Taking
September 30, 2019 02:03 - 51 minutes - 94.6 MBEveryone knows the unprecedented journey that propelled Jeff Bezos from the owner of a tiny online bookstore that he launched in July 1994, to the head of Amazon, the fastest company ever to surpass $100 billion in annual sales; making him the richest man in the world. What few people know are the 14 principles that Bezos followed to accomplish the unimaginable feat. In The Bezos Letters, author Steve Anderson dissects the 21 annual letters that the Amazon founder has written to shareholde...
Go Behind the Scenes at Inc. Magazine with Editor-in-Chief James Ledbetter
September 22, 2019 02:25 - 47 minutes - 87.2 MBExposure in Inc. magazine or its annual Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest growing companies assuredly will bolster the reputations and prospects of any small business. But what kind of stories are the journalists at Inc. interested in – and is there a backdoor shortcut to landing on the Inc. 5000? Those are just a few of the questions that host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart puts to Inc.’s Editor-in-Chief James Ledbetter on this week’s episode of Monday Morning Radio. James...
The 5 Secret Pathways to Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment
September 16, 2019 02:37 - 39 minutes - 73.1 MBFollowing a serious ski accident and two failed spinal surgeries, Gina Gardiner had to relearn to walk. Not once, but twice. The experience led Gina to segue from her role as a school principal in the UK to a motivation coach, helping a large and growing flock of international followers find greater happiness, success, and fulfillment. From Colchester, England, Gina shares with host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart her five secret pathways to “thriving, not simply surviving.” Gin...
The Garage Sales Millionaire Returns with Fresh Ideas for Finding Hidden Treasures
September 08, 2019 21:33 - 44 minutes - 82.1 MBAaron LaPedis owns a fine art gallery in one of the swankiest retail areas of Colorado. But paintings, sculptures, and limited edition prints are not all that fascinate Aaron, who is best known nationally as The Garage Sale Millionaire. For more than three decades, Aaron has hunted hidden treasure at garage and estate sales, as well as online auctions. Whether you’re a treasure-hunting hobbyist or simply looking to offload some business, household, or collectible items you no longer want,...
More Than 50 Years After His Death, Walt Disney Continues to Inspire Entrepreneurs
September 01, 2019 20:36 - 42 minutes - 78.2 MBIt’s been more than 50 years since Walter Elias Disney departed for the great amusement park in the sky, yet his legacy consistently inspires new generations of business owners and creators. Michael Goldsby and Rob Mathews, two professors of entrepreneurship at Ball Street University, have encapsulated Disney’s magic rules of success into a must-read book, Entrepreneurship the Disney Way. As Goldsby tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart, two traits that Disney embodied that...
Genecia Alluora is a Business Rockstar in Southeast Asia
August 25, 2019 15:54 - 49 minutes - 68 MBIn the eyes of more than 200,000 women entrepreneurs in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia, Genecia Alluora is already a business rock star. The former Miss Singapore – who founded and leads Soul Rich Woman – the #1 network of female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, now wants to spread her message of empowerment and financial independence to the women of North America. Genecia specializes in teaching woman the secrets of successful online marketing and digital br...
Whether You’re Caring for Aging Parents, or You Have Employees Who Are, the Struggle Can Be Enormous
August 19, 2019 02:29 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBOwning a business while raising a family is challenging enough. Mix in caring for one or both aging parents, and the complexities of life expand exponentially. That’s especially true for women, who comprise a majority of the 44 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States. Liz O’Donnell, who enjoyed a fast-paced career in marketing, can speak from experience. She was already juggling her job and two children when both her parents were diagnosed with terminal illnesses on the sa...
Mastering LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram with Andrea Stenberg
August 12, 2019 00:09 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBThere are strategies of when, how, and why to use LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, and Andrea Stenberg is an expert at helping small business owners and entrepreneurs harness them. Good content – including the use of self-produced videos – Andrea explains to host Dean Rotbart, is only part of the equation. More importantly, knowing exactly how to target prospective customers and clients, and how to buy paid messaging, will determine whether even the best content ever gets noticed, much l...
Rudy Schmid Became a First-Time Author at 86 Years Old
August 05, 2019 01:50 - 24 minutes - 34 MBRudy Schmid is a veteran accountant and first-time author who’s written a book – America’s Guide to Starting Your Own Company – that’s helping large numbers of young adults launch their own side hustles free of the flaws that too often hobble new businesses. The concise book is also helpful for established businesses, especially when it comes to hiring and managing people, and sizing up banking relationships. Rudy seems a bit embarrassed that he waited so long to share the lessons he lear...