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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Your Savings and Investments: A Conversation with ‘America’s Money Answers Man’
July 28, 2019 21:49 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBJordan Goodman is one of the country’s best-known personal finance journalists and authors, appearing frequently on national radio and television call-in shows to answer consumer questions on how to save and invest wisely. With 13 books under his belt, including the encyclopedic 992-page Everyone’s Money Book, he joins host Dean Rotbart this week to dispense insightful personal finance recommendations with a special emphasis on the finances of small business owners and entrepreneurs. If ...
Meet the Amazing Founder of FSB Associates, Successfully Promoting More Than 2,000 Books
July 22, 2019 04:14 - 1 hour - 98 MBFauzia Burke and her team at FSB Associates specialize in creating online awareness for books and authors. Since Fauzia launched her specialty marketing and publicity firm in 1995, FSB has orchestrated more than 2,000 successful book publicity campaigns, including those for award-winning actor Alan Alda; mega-authors Ken Blanchard and Brian Tracy, South Beach Diet guru Dr. Arthur Agaston, entrepreneur and publisher Arianna Huffington; broadcaster Mika Brzesinski; former U.S. Senator Bill B...
The ‘Sound’ of Your Company or Product Merits Close Attention
July 14, 2019 15:08 - 44 minutes - 81 MBWhat your company or product “sounds” like is an essential component of its success. When companies including Microsoft, Cisco, GoDaddy, and Shopify need to hire talent to be the voice of their commercials and other scripts, they look to Voices.com – the world’s largest online marketplace for voice over products and talents. Since David Ciccarelli and his wife Stephanie wrote their business plan for Voices.com on a napkin back in 2005, they have expanded into 160 countries, bringing talen...
The Japanese Art of ‘Making Peace with Your Money’ Arrives in the U.S.
July 07, 2019 14:43 - 29 minutes - 54.5 MBCan a Zen-like philosophy of money translate into greater success and happiness for American business owners and entrepreneurs? Ken Honda, a bestselling author in Japan who is known there as the “Zen Millionaire” believes it can, which is why he just published his first English-language book: Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money. Honda, no relation to the automotive family, tells host Dean Rotbart in an interview from Tokyo that how we think and feel about money i...
‘Target Funding’ Hits a Bulls-eye for Those with Small Business Dreams, But No Cash
June 29, 2019 23:35 - 49 minutes - 90.4 MBWhen seemingly every path to funding is closed to business owners, entrepreneurs, and inventors, Kedma Ough – a national award-winning small business champion – helps them find the money and resources they seek. Kedma, a fifth generation entrepreneur, learned the secrets of business funding the hard way – by having countless doors slammed in her face. Now, after helping more than 10,000 individuals to get the funding they thought they could never qualify for, she’s written a book – Target F...
Two Living Legends of Marketing Offer You Actionable Tips for Success
June 23, 2019 14:44 - 1 hour - 139 MBOn a special edition of Monday Morning Radio, to mark the launch of its 8th season, host Dean Rotbart flew to Austin, Texas, and, in the inner sanctums of The Tower at Wizard Academy, brought together two of the world’s marketing legends: The Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams, and The Digital Marketer, Ryan Deiss. It’s no exaggeration to say that a one-hour private consultation with either Roy or Ryan would easily command a king’s ransom from their legions of fans. Put Roy and Ryan together, c...
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Richard Kessler, Flawless Entrepreneurial Advice From Wisconsin’s Diamond Engagement Ring King
June 16, 2019 04:25 - 4 minutes - 6.68 MBThe June 9th episode of Monday Morning Radio features a full-length interview with Richard Kessler, co-founder of Kessler’s Diamonds. This is an excerpt featuring Host Dean Rotbart.
Special Guest Joanne Lipman on Making Your Company More Successful by Fostering Gender Parity
June 15, 2019 21:41 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBJoanne Lipman has had a storied journalism career, serving as the first woman to become a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal; founding editor-in-chief of Condé Nast’s Portfolio magazine; and most recently as editor-in-chief of USA Today and Chief Content Officer of its parent company, Gannett. Yet during her 35-plus-year career, Joanne never felt that the professional playing field between her and her male colleagues was level. And, as she found out, millions of women in the ...
Entrepreneurial Gems from Richard Kessler, the Diamond Engagement Ring 'King' of Wisconsin
June 09, 2019 22:03 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBRichard Kessler was the diamond engagement ring “King” in the state of Wisconsin for 35 years. His ubiquitous radio commercials, created in conjunction with Roy H. Williams Marketing, were legendary in the state, and not only were his Kessler’s Diamonds’ stores extraordinarily successful, Richard also became a well-known local personality and philanthropist. One of the first and most popular guests ever on Monday Morning Radio, Richard recently retired from the jewelry business and is now o...
It Is Our Struggles, More Than Our Successes, That Forge Great Leaders and Entrepreneurs
June 03, 2019 01:00 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBIn his new book, The Gift of Struggle – out today from Bard Press, Bobby Herrera tells the true-life story of how the hardships he faced as one of 13 children in a Mexican migrant family, provided him the drive and backbone to make possible the impossible. More importantly, Bobby shares specific life-changing lessons about leadership that turns conventional wisdom on its head. It is the formula that Bobby used to launch Populus Group in 2002 and build it into a $500-million-a-year HR servic...
Before You Ever Contemplate Selling Your Business is the Perfect Time to Discover ‘Selling with Certainty’
May 20, 2019 00:46 - 39 minutes - 71.5 MBTerry H. Monroe has been the owner of more than 40 businesses, and helped to facilitate the sale of more than 500 other companies. So when he offers no-nonsense advice on how owners can be certain to get the full value for their businesses or professional practices, he knows what he’s talking about. Terry who condensed all the wisdom he’s gained over more than 30 years establishing, operating, and selling businesses into a new book, Selling with Certainty, tells host Dean Rotbart that the...
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Fusion Leadership with Dudley R. Slater
May 13, 2019 23:44 - 1 minute - 4.61 MBQuestion: Can a business ‘tiger’ change its stripes? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.
Off They Go into the Wild Blue Entrepreneurial Yonder
May 13, 2019 03:59 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBBrett Vance is a veteran combat and military test pilot who has flown F-16s and commanded the 514th Flight Test Squadron. But he admits that no battle has tested his mettle like working to produce and distribute Jet Jockeys, his educational and inspirational docu-reality video series that showcases aviators and aviation feats, and targets the large potential audience of aviation enthusiasts. He and his wife, Sherri, the program's creator and executive producer, join host and award-winning...
The Modern Business Applications of History: How Highly-Effective People Deal with Disruptions
May 06, 2019 03:31 - 32 minutes - 45 MBMonday Morning Radio Host Dean Rotbart confesses that he doesn’t know who his guest is on this week’s podcast. It’s not that Dean doesn’t have a fascinating guest, or that the guest’s book – “Undistrupted: How Highly-Effective People Deal with Disruptions” – isn’t a valuable business read; it’s just that Dean literally does not know who wrote the book. The author, who lives in The Netherlands [Dean phoned him there], uses the pseudonym John Vespasian and has written ten books. What Dea...
Fusion Leadership: Unleashing the Movement of Monday Morning Enthusiasts
April 29, 2019 01:56 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBWhen business owners and leaders align their personal interests with the best interests of their companies and employees, the resulting “Fusion” becomes a powerful force for success. Too often, says Dudley R. Slater, former CEO of Integra Telecom - with more than 2,500 employees - leaders put their egos and self-interest ahead of what’s best for their organizations. Dudley, author of Fusion Leadership, tells host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart how leaders and team members who ...
Host Dean Rotbart and Author Lindsay Pedersen on Clorox’s ‘Secret’ Formula for Success - A One Minute Podcast
April 22, 2019 01:43 - 42 seconds - 2.88 MBAlthough Clorox Beach is virtually the same formula as most generic and store brands, it enjoys a consistent 65% market share. Learn its secret in this edition of The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring Lindsay Pedersen, author of ‘Forging an Ironclad Brand.’
Big or Small: How to Build an Ironclad Brand for Your Business
April 22, 2019 00:46 - 45 minutes - 62.2 MBClorox Bleach is 6% sodium hypochlorite and 94% water, the exact formulation of most generic store brands. Yet Clorox consistently commands 65% of U.S. bleach sales. Why? Because, says Lindsay Pedersen, who oversaw the hygienic cleaner for The Clorox Company, Clorox Bleach is an “ironclad” brand, one of many she showcases in her new book, “Forging an Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide.” Lindsay, whose Ironclad Brand Strategy consulting firm has also helped build ironclad brands for Starbu...
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Dean Rotbart, host, and Lindsay Pedersen, author of ‘Forging an Ironclad Brand’
April 21, 2019 01:30 - 1 minute - 4.45 MBThe Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Dean Rotbart, host, and Lindsay Pedersen, author of ‘Forging an Ironclad Brand.’ “When people buy Clorox, they’re not buying bleach at all.” What are they buying? Listen and Learn in less than 60 seconds. An excerpt from the April 22, 2019 edition of Monday Morning Radio.
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Bed Sheet Entrepreneur Maxwell Cohen
April 16, 2019 03:11 - 1 minute - 2.53 MBQuestion: You didn't go to business school and yet you launched a successful business right out of college. How? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.
You’ll Be Very Impressed By the Business Savvy of This 28-Year-Old Entrepreneur
April 15, 2019 02:48 - 43 minutes - 60 MBEntrepreneurial magic often results when education meets opportunity. In the case of Maxwell Cohen, the education was in environmental and water resource economics, and the opportunity was to save millions of gallons of water annually by finding a way for hospitals, nursing homes, and even parents of newborns to avoid having to wash so many bed sheets. His company, Peel Away Labs, developed the first multilayered, disposable, waterproof, fitted sheet designed for the home, industrial, and...
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Solopreneur Expert Christina DeBusk
April 08, 2019 23:05 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBQuestion: What does it take to be a successful one-person business? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart.
Anyone Can Be a Successful Writer – No Journalism Training Required
April 07, 2019 20:17 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBChristina DeBusk spent 15 years working in law enforcement before, in 2012, she caught the writing bug. Without formal journalism training, she took anything and everything that she could get, grinding out content 16 hours a day. Well, it paid off. Today Christina is an Olympic-caliber writer, having completed six books – including How to Earn a Comfortable Living as a Freelance Writer and I’ve Always Wanted to Write a Book! – 10 Easy-to-Follow Steps to Becoming a First Time Author; ghost...
The Monday Morning Radio Minute Featuring: Skip Prichard and The Book of Mistakes
April 01, 2019 18:38 - 1 minute - 2.43 MBQuestion: Why is it so hard to recognize our purpose in life? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart
Learn the Mistakes – Yes, Mistakes – Made By Some of the World’s Most Successful People
April 01, 2019 00:32 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBIf you want to learn how to do it right, a great place tobegin is by studying what not to do. Skip Prichard, a successful CEO and former head of publishing giant, Ingram Content Group, is a leading scholar of missteps and miscalculations. For his Wall Street Journal bestseller – The Book of Mistakes – he’s condensed the hard-earned lessons he gleaned from interviewing more than 1,000 successful people – from Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Ric...
ONE MINUTE with the ONE-MINUTE MANAGER: DR. KEN BLANCHARD
March 29, 2019 03:39 - 1 minute - 1.54 MBAre your customer service representatives ducks or eagles? An excerpt from Monday Morning Radio with Host Dean Rotbart @Nordstrom @Disney @SouthwestAir
Up on the Roof with Beth Kendall, Co-Owner of All Out Chimney Sweep
March 25, 2019 02:07 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBYou might say (or even sing) that Beth Kendall and her husband Bill are as lucky as lucky can be. The couple, after all, have co-owned All Out Chimney Sweep in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past 35-plus years. With all due respect to Mary Poppins and her friend Bert, successfully running and maintaining a 21st Century chimney sweep business in the face of advancing technologies and changing consumer tastes is no song and dance. This week Beth, who earlier this year was elected as th...
Ken Blanchard, Author of ‘The One Minute Manager’ Ministers the Simple Truths of Great Customer Service
March 18, 2019 02:40 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBSince he co-wrote The One Minute Manager in 1982, Ken Blanchard has rarely been off the bestsellers list, having authored or co-authored 60 books and landed a spot in Amazon.com’s Hall of Fame, as one of the 25 top revenue generators of all time. One of Dr. Blanchard’s favorite topics over the years has been customer service and how businesses can excel at it. He recently reissued his 2005 book, The Simple Truths of Service, which has sold more than 5 million copies. This week he joins hos...
Wizard Academy Alumnus Matt Mason is the New Nebraska State Poet
March 11, 2019 02:04 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThis week’s special guest, Matt Mason, was recently appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts to be the state’s official poet. It’s a position whose roots date back to 1921 and highlights the fact that the Cornhusker state is quite fertile ground for literary creativity. For almost ten years, Matt has served as executive director of the Nebraska Writers Collective, a nonprofit group that promotes poets in the schools and organizes quality poetry programs for adults. As the Nebraska S...
The Proper Care and Feeding of Bosses, With Andy Singer
March 04, 2019 03:32 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBFor a business to be truly successful, it requires executives who excel at managing their employees and, according to Andy Singer, employees who excel at managing their executives. Andy is the founder and CEO of Singer Executive Development, a Florida consultancy that trains both executives and employees on ways to maximize their performance, including managing each other well. As Andy tells host and reputation coach Dean Rotbart, employees who “manage up” are not suck ups – they’re savvy...
Travel Vacations for Dogs and Their People. Honestly.
February 24, 2019 15:26 - 40 minutes - 56 MBWith roughly 90 million dogs in America and tens of millions of dog-lovers, it probably was inevitable that Happy Tails Canine Adventure Tours would emerge – offering eco-tours designed especially for dog lovers and their companions. David Blank, who along with his wife Claudia co-founded the company in 2018, is a veteran of the travel tour industry as well as a professional dog trainer. He’s decoded the labyrinth of logistics necessary to safely and happily take a couple dozen dogs and the...
More Than 150 Million Americans Watch Streaming TV – But Very Little Local Programming
February 17, 2019 04:35 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBDespite all of the television viewing options open to today’s consumers – broadcast, cable, satellite, and streaming – surprising little of the available programming is local, much less hyperlocal, in nature. Simon Bray, a veteran Fort Wayne entrepreneur, is on a mission to change that. Simon is the founder and CEO of Streaming Television, which is rolling out laser-focused local programming channels in more than 190 markets nationally. STV programs are available on major streaming platform...
Can You Remember the Days When Men Used Safety Razors (Like This Morning)?
January 28, 2019 01:42 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBThe days when men shaved with safety razors – where the user inserts a single double-edge blade into a shaving implement – are long gone, made obsolete by cartridge blades and electronic razors. Or are they? Since 2012, Douglas Smythe, founder of Phoenix Shaving, has seen demand for his safety razors, blades, and other related grooming products for men boom. Douglas attributes the success of his business to three main factors: 1.) safety razors provide a more comfortable shave, despite a...
Reputation Tool Chest Insights: Dumb and Dumber Ways to Promote Yourself
January 14, 2019 02:54 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MBNot for the first time, or even the second, or the tenth: Dean Rotbart’s scheduled guest on this week’s edition of Monday Morning Radio was a no-show. You absentee guests know exactly who you are. Shame on you! The good news is that without a guest, Dean is able to reach into his Reputation Tool Chest and share three self-marketing gems for companies and individuals who seek the attention of journalists and other influencers. Dean has taught at The Wizard Academy since the early 2000s...
Our Annual Top 10 Countdown of the Year’s Most Popular Episodes
January 07, 2019 02:51 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBIf the most popular episodes of Monday Morning Radio in 2018 are an accurate barometer, then last year was one filled with both hopes and anxieties for America’s entrepreneurs. Listeners by the thousands tuned to the weekly podcast, hosted by Wizard Academy alumnus and faculty member, Dean Rotbart, to learn how fellow entrepreneurs were succeeding, overcoming their mistakes, and discovering means to avoid making those errors in the first place. Join guest host Maxwell Rotbart as he count...
Sunrise, Sunset: Passing Along the Family Business to the Next Generation
December 16, 2018 19:34 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MBAfter almost 30 years in business, Roland “Buddy” and Dixie Huthmaker, owners of Huthmaker Violins – one of the finest violin and string instrument stores in the country – faced a choice that many owners do after pouring their hearts and souls into a business: sell it, close it, or pass it on to a willing heir. Fortunately for the Huthmakers, their daughter Anna (photo), a gifted musician and entrepreneur, stepped up, and in January 2019 will officially become the new owner of their beloved...
ATLAS CHOKED: A Call for Purpose-Driven Workplaces
December 10, 2018 03:35 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBIn her 1957 classic, Atlas Shrugged, author Ayn Rand argued that the business of business is to make money – nothing more. In her new book, The Conscious Professional: Transform Your Life at Work, due out next month, Jennifer Hartung pointedly disagrees. There is much more to business than pursuing profits and earning a paycheck, Jessica argues. Founder and CEO of Integrated Work, a Boulder, Colorado-based consulting firm, Jessica is an evangelist for purpose-driven workplaces, where owne...
Sid Vicious He’s Not, But Ex-Microsoft Executive Jeremy Dale Maintains a Punk Rock Attitude in Business
December 03, 2018 00:55 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBIf Jeremy Dale hadn’t spent the last eight years as a vice president of Microsoft Corp., people might dismiss his new book, The Punk Rock of Business: Applying a Punk Rock Attitude in the Modern Business Era, as a flight of fancy. But Punk Rock and successful businesses have much more in common than you might imagine, starting with authenticity and a refusal to conform. Coincidentally, Jeremy’s interview from London with host and reputation coach Dean Rotbart comes on the very day that J...
Forget About Email and Social Networking Marketing: Text Messaging Is Where It’s At
November 26, 2018 03:31 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBImagine if 95 percent of your marketing messages were opened, and not merely opened, but read within three minutes of you hitting the ‘send’ button. What would you call that kind of turbocharged email? Jim Koch calls it text message marketing – and he built a budding global empire on the fact that while email and social network marketing are now saturated and largely ignored – few people ever ignore their text messages. Jim launched Mobit, his text-marketing platform almost five years ...
The Long-Shot Bid of XYZBuys to Grab a Meaningful Share of Online Retailing
November 19, 2018 01:14 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBCan two entrepreneurs with limited previous online retail experience take a meaningful chunk of business away from Amazon? The concept of XYZBuys is a good one: to serve as an “online mall” with Amazon, Best Buy, and dozens of other leading retailers as so-called tenants. While consumers may be drawn to the mall by one anchor store, in theory they’ll buy from other retailers – big and small, while they are already there. Will it work? The odds are against it. But after interviewing Dan...
Talking Trash with Patty Penke, An Expert of the Hidden Treasures Many People Consider Junk
November 12, 2018 03:40 - 38 minutes - 88.7 MBHost and reputation coach Dean Rotbart is talking trash this week, but even those with delicate ears will want to listen in. His guest is Patty Penke, the CEO of an Omaha estate sales company who has been selling collectibles and antiques for more than 20 years. Patty is the author of “Stop Throwing Cash in the Trash,” a book that shines a spot light on the hidden treasures that so many people, literally, dump in the trash – especially when disposing of the estate assets of a loved one who ...
The Time to Call in the ‘Swat Team’ is Before You Ever Need Them
November 05, 2018 01:23 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBMost people hope the day will never come when the SWAT team arrives at the door of their business, school, or house of worship. But calling in the Calvary – before they are actually needed – could very well prevent, or at the very least mitigate, the kind of massacre of innocent lives that occurred on October 27th at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and just last Friday at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida. Tom Czyz is a SWAT team operator and former homicide detective who launched his comp...
Sears Once Resembled the Amazon Juggernaut – What Happened?
October 22, 2018 01:04 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBThere are plenty of lessons to be gleaned from the bankruptcy filing of Sears last week, and Steven D. Goldstein is just the expert to articulate them. Steve, a one-time chairman of Sears Financial and member of the company’s executive committee, is an expert on management disengagement and the problems that ensue. He is currently president of Engaged Leadership Advisors, advising corporate leaders on ways to drive change, accelerate innovation, and assemble highly effective teams. Y...
This Chess Master Knows All the Right Moves to Help Make Kids Winners in Life
October 15, 2018 02:43 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBElliott Neff, a United States Chess Federation National Master, is passionate about helping others – especially young people – discover valuable life lessons through the game of chess. Elliott is the author of the just-released novel, A Pawn’s Journey, a motivational speaker, and the founder and CEO of Chess4Life, which teaches sportsmanship, good decision-making, patience, planning, and how to learn from mistakes. Would you like to gain greater insight into your colleagues or rivals? Why...
Peeling Back the (Owyhee) Onion to Discover How One Third-Generation Farm is Innovating
October 08, 2018 01:51 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBShay Myers is general manager of his third-generation, family-owned business – Froerer Farms – winning national acclaim for the innovation he’s brought to his company. Just about any entrepreneur can profit from hearing Shay’s story of breathing fresh life into a long-established business. In Shay’s case, the business is produce - onions, asparagus, sweet potatoes and yams. Do you think you could find a way to make onions sexy – more than a simple commodity? Shay did. Hear how this...
The Beagle Has Landed: The Metaphorical, Metaphysical Indiana Beagle Steps Up to the Mic as Guest Host
October 01, 2018 00:29 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBReaders of Roy H. Williams’ Monday Morning Memo are well-acquainted with Indiana Beagle, the legendary curator and editor-in-chief of the Rabbit Hole. Although “Indy” is a metaphorical, metaphysical canine – the twin brother of Intuition, a leading character in the Destinae trilogy – he embodies spontaneous, impulsive, reckless curiosity. Which is exactly why Monday Morning Radio host and reputation coach Dean Rotbart asked Indy to serve as the guest host of this week’s episode. Don’...
This Battle-Hardened Corporate Executive Knows What It Takes to Lead and Innovate
September 24, 2018 02:12 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBMichael Diamond is an expert when it comes to building, motivating, and growing business teams. He honed his skills in war zones – first fighting Iraq in Operation Desert Storm – and more recently, battling the fierce competition in the highly competitive mobile products marketplace. Michael is currently general manager of payments for Mitek Systems. If you’ve ever deposited a check by taking a picture of it with your mobile phone, then you’ve probably used the technology that Michael and...
A First-Hand Report From the Moon (Conference)
September 17, 2018 02:30 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBWhat was once science fiction, is rapidly becoming reality – especially when it comes to the prospects of small businesses operating in space, or at the very least, feeding commercial space operations. Earlier this month, a group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and space futurists gathered in St. Louis for Gateway to Space 2018: Destination Moon – a one-day conference about working and living on the moon. Christine Nobbe, an educator and president of St. Louis Space Frontier, was the openi...
Drew French, Founder of Your Pie, is the ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ of the Fast Casual Pizza Industry
September 09, 2018 17:39 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBIn a very, very crowded market for pizza restaurants, Drew French discovered the recipe to stand out from the crowd – offering made-to-order pies, baked in brick ovens, using a wide variety of fresh ingredients, hand-tossed doughs, and served in just four minutes. Drew’s Athens, GA-based Your Pie, launched a decade ago, now has 58 locations in 19 states, with nearly 60 additional locations in development. Drew is widely credited with pioneering the now-popular and highly competitive “fast...
The New Tax Code Will Save Most Listeners to This Podcast Thousands of Dollars
September 02, 2018 19:10 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBMillions of small business owners stand to realize big savings on their 2018 taxes, thanks to revisions of the federal tax code that were signed into law in late 2017. Only in the past few weeks, however, has the IRS fully explained who stands to profit from the so-called Section 199A deduction for qualified business income – and who will be left out. Rachel Sawyer, a partner in Denver-based TaxOps, a respected business tax specialty and advisory firm, joins host and reputation coach Dean...
Like the Wheels on Your Car, Your Business Can Get Out of Alignment
August 26, 2018 19:55 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MB[Note: Our guest on last week’s podcast, was Dr. Nate Regier, who discussed harvesting conflicts in your life, rather than fearing them. However, due to a mix up, some listeners instead were treated to an advance airing of this week’s podcast, featuring Alex Vorobieff.] If you already heard what Alex had to say last week, we encourage you this week to go back and hear our conversation with Dr. Regier. In both instances, you’ll profit from priceless business insights.] When the wheels on ...