Positive Enterprise Value
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPersonal, unscripted interviews with high-performing Entrepreneurs from both for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises.
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Unlocking The Potential In Others...Meet Kyle Reagan
March 18, 2024 16:41 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBFor over 30 years, I've had the fun of meeting with thousands of seasoned, successful private business owners and working closely with hundreds of them. In this podcast, I interview some of the most high-performing successful EOMs from both the for profit, and the not-for-profit domains. On this episode I interviewed Kyle Reagan who is the Chairman and CEO of DECCO, Inc., a mechanical contractor that specializes in the most complex capital projects for the pharmaceutical industry. Kyle came f...
Entrepreneur Owner-Managers Are Creatives
February 15, 2023 17:52 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBThis is Pete Worrell from Bigelow, and I'm happy to bring you another episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast. Today my interview guest is Flora Bowley. Flora is a world-known artist, entrepreneur, teacher, retreat center owner, who makes her principal headquarters on the west coast. She's an example of an entrepreneur as a creative, and if you've listened to Positive Enterprise Value or read our blog posts at Bigelow, we believe that entrepreneurs are creatives and Flora's just a gr...
The Atlas Society Asks Pete Worrell
February 15, 2023 17:19 - 1 hour - 34.9 MBHi everyone, last week I had the fun of being a guest on the 137th episode of The Atlas Society Asks (TASA) podcast [maybe give a link to the podcast page here]. The Atlas Society Asks is hosted by Jennifer A Grossman, the President & CEO of The Atlas Society. The Atlas Society celebrates the remarkable potential and power of the individual and promotes learning about the capitalist system juxtaposed against the other kinds of systems in the world, so that young people in particular can ma...
The Hero's Journey
November 30, 2022 16:10 - 1 hour - 55 MBOn this episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast, I am thrilled to have as my guests, my friends and clients, Dave and Cindy Francis, who have kind of a hero's journey to tell you about. Dave and Cindy have had many chapters in their journey as entrepreneurs. They started out with Cindy growing up in the family business, Fowler High Precision, which was run by her dad, Fred Fowler, who himself was a second-generation owner. Cindy tells us a little bit of the story about what that was...
Food Is Life, Art, & Love… the Hearth Food Garden
November 16, 2022 18:09 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBToday’s interviewee on this episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast is Heidi Feinstein. Heidi is the CEO of Hearth Food Garden, a startup business in formation which will open its European style food market on the street level of 60 Penhallow Street in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire sometime in late 2022. Heidi, whose warmth and charisma oozes through in this podcast, previously was a super successful restaurateur as the Founder and CEO of Life Alive Cafes, which she called the...
Private, Not-For-Profit Leadership
October 26, 2022 15:34 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBOn today’s episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast I am interviewing, Jennifer A. Grossman who goes by the nickname JAG. JAG is the President and CEO of The Atlas Society. JAG lives in Malibu and travels so extensively, I'm not sure that she would say they have a headquarters every- anywhere. As you might have guessed from the name, The Atlas Society, which is, drawn from the book Atlas Shrugged, the fantastic novel by Ayn Rand. The Atlas Society celebrates the remarkable potential ...
Living Longer, Healthier, Happier
October 05, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBMy guest today on the Positive Enterprise Value podcast is Dr. George Shapiro. George is the Chief Medical Innovation Officer of Fountain Life. Fountain was formed about three years ago, with the mission to revolutionize the current healthcare system (actually I would call it the sick care system), by switching the primary focus from a sick care reactive system to a pro-active and preventative healthcare system. All the advancements that have been made in technology and AI, now allow us to de...
Don Oakes & Fran Philip of Sea Bags
August 31, 2022 13:40 - 1 hour - 27.4 MBToday, my guests are Don Oakes and Fran Philip, who came to be entrepreneurs in the second chapter of their professional lives. Both Don and Fran were very successful senior executives with L.L. Bean. Fran, ultimately, was the chief merchandising officer, and Don worked in senior positions in creative and brand. Fran has a great deal of professional governance experience not only with private companies where she's very active, but also with public companies with firms including Vista Outdoor,...
Literacy For All - Barbara & Ed Wilson of Wilson Language Training
June 29, 2022 15:58 - 1 hour - 54 MBIn the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast, we have the fun of interviewing and listening to some of the most seasoned, successful Entrepreneur Owner-Managers on the planet. The journey through their lives and through their enterprises, through their communities, through their families, and in their successes they leave behind breadcrumbs for us to see and to examine. This week, I have the fun of interviewing my friends Barbara and Ed Wilson, the founders of Wilson Language Training. Wilson La...
The Amazing Case
April 25, 2022 12:58 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBToday, I had the fun of interviewing Jason and Amy Case. Founded by Jason Case in 2009 and headquartered in southern Massachusetts, Case Facilities Management Solutions has grown rapidly to become a leading tech-enabled service provider for snow and ice management, landscaping, sweeping, and janitorial services for over 10,000 customer sites. Case FMS utilizes a proprietary technology platform and a hybrid service delivery model to provide services for the healthcare, financial services, supe...
Combining Entrepreneurship and Health Span
January 05, 2022 16:38 - 51 minutes - 48.2 MBMost of our podcast interviews have been with CEO’s of mature, highly successful enterprises. Today, we have the fun of interviewing Bill Kapp, MD who is the CEO of a two year old startup—Fountain Life. Fountain, originally conceived by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis is bringing together state of the art therapies with world class practitioners to address health span—not merely lifespan, but health span. If you are accustomed to thinking about your personal or family’s health in a “sick ca...
Tip Of The Iceberg
December 14, 2021 14:15 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBToday we have done something different, and to make it easy for Positive Enterprise Value podcast listeners, we are recording this blog post as an audio only. Hope you enjoy it. This week I am speaking to you about the private transaction market. We are in a time of abundance Superabundance of capital. Private company enterprise values are approaching all-time highs. And with good reason. Entrepreneur Owner-Managers create the most pro-social and pro-economic enterprises on the planet, and t...
Is This What You Mean? Transitioning To Private Equity Ownership
December 01, 2021 16:03 - 1 hour - 94 MBToday, my guest is Chet Jordan. Chet is one of the co-founders and co-owners of Digital Architecture, a business that he and his partner Ken Blais began. I think it's accurate to say they began it in Maine before they moved it to Florida. Their mission was to digitize and make it easy to use college and university course catalogs. They've expanded into way more than that, but that was the initial opportunity for them. And they began to digitize course catalogs so the students and professors i...
Bigelow Connectors 2021 - Are You Practicing Essentialism?
November 22, 2021 17:56 - 35 minutes - 29.9 MBLast month we held our first Bigelow Connectors event live at The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth, NH. We gathered 80 of the best expert advisors to Entrepreneur Owner-Managers to focus on unlocking our collaborative energy, build relationships, engage in scholarly discussion, and hear from our keynote speaker, Greg McKeown, the New York Times Best Selling Author of Essentialism (2018) and Effortless (2021). During our evening together I had the fun of interviewing Greg after his incredibl...
M&A = Mood Altering
October 26, 2021 19:35 - 53 minutes - 45.7 MBOn this latest episode of the Positive Enterprise Value podcast our guest is Ken Johnson from MAS Medical Staffing. Ken, and his partner Jay Hamel, owned and ran MAS Medical for the last 20 years, building it into a very well-known and respected medical staffing business, serving the Northeast and the middle Atlantic states. Jay and Ken built the business basically from scratch. Twenty years later or so, they engaged Bigelow and we helped them with architecting, the recapitalization of MAS Me...
From Intern to President
October 04, 2021 14:42 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBOn the latest episode of the Positive Enterprise Podcast my guest is Adeline Druart. Adeline is the president and CEO of Vermont Creamery, which is a part of the Land O'Lakes group of companies. Adeline has a fascinating story! After graduating from university in France, she came to Vermont Creamery as an intern, met the love of her life—both in her personal life and, actually I would say, in her professional life as well—and over time went from an employee at Vermont Creamery in the plant, t...
Does Planning For The Next Chapter Bring A Smile?
July 21, 2021 14:01 - 52 minutes - 44.4 MBDo Entrepreneur Owner-Managers fundamentally operate at the level of data and analysis, or do EOMs fundamentally operate at the level of feelings and emotions? That’s the question that Jim Collins famously posed to Brené Brown and I loved it so much I posed it to Lisa Allen, the Principal Stockholder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the third generation family business Ziegenfelder Corporation. Ziegenfelder, headquartered in the hills of Wheeling, West Virginia, is one of the leading ma...
Against All Odds
May 05, 2021 17:46 - 54 minutes - 46.4 MBGrowing up with her family in Bolivia, do you think Jan Herschkowitz ever dreamed she’d become a successful entrepreneur business owner in America? I don’t. Having already gotten her professional start, Jan got the call from her Dad that he needed temporary help in the business that he acquired called PRL. She left a promising career with an electronics manufacturer in Chicago and traveled home for a short-term assignment to help her Dad. Tragically, his sudden death soon after her arrival, ...
When the Second Generation Hits It Out of the Park
March 24, 2021 14:59 - 46 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this hour-long podcast, Cary and I talk about family businesses and the different roles that you play in them, the challenge of following big footsteps, the crisis that turned into a positive transformation, keeping his feet on the ground all the way. Lots of insightful learnings and unlearnings from this unpretentious entrepreneur.
Insights About “The Next Chapter”: From One Who Transacted 10+ Years Ago
January 27, 2021 15:03 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBIn this candid, fast-paced, fun and funny interview, Ford Reiche and I visit how things have gone in his latest chapter. Ford divested Safe Handling, Inc. 10+ years ago, and exited the day to day management of it immediately.
Quarantine Learnings with Maxx Bricklin of BOLD Capital Partners
August 19, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 33.4 MBToday’s Quarantine Learnings podcast is with Maxx Bricklin, Principal at BOLD Capital Partners based in Los Angeles, California. BOLD Capital Partners manages a family of funds targeting investments in early stage and growth technology companies. They have a particular interest in entrepreneurial leaders who leverage exponential technologies to transform the world and create innovative solutions to humanity’s grand challenges. Listen here as Maxx describes some of his learnings, both perso...
Quarantine Learnings with Cam Brensinger of NEMO Equipment
August 12, 2020 13:39 - 35 minutes - 24.9 MBToday’s Quarantine Learnings podcast is with Cam Brensinger, Founder of NEMO Equipment based in Dover, New Hampshire. NEMO is an award-wining designer of innovative outdoor gear, including tents, sleeping bags, camp showers, and shelters. NEMO is founded on a commitment to adventure – to the fearless pursuit of uncharted paths, in everything from the equipment they build to the way they run the business. Listen here as Cam describes some of his learnings, both personal and professional, du...
Quarantine Learnings with Pete Hopkins of Planet Fitness Michigan
July 29, 2020 13:55 - 32 minutes - 25.1 MBToday’s Quarantine Learnings podcast is with Pete Hopkins, Co-Owner / Founder of Planet Fitness Michigan Group. Planet Fitness Michigan is one of the largest franchise groups in the Planet Fitness chain with over 50 gyms. Planet Fitness is one of the fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the US with a mission to enhance people’s lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment. Listen here as Pete describes some of ...
Quarantine Learnings with Jim Lampman of Lake Champlain Chocolates
July 22, 2020 14:29 - 19 minutes - 15.4 MBToday’s Quarantine Learnings podcast is with Jim Lampman, Founder of Lake Champlain Chocolates based in Burlington, Vermont. Lake Champlain Chocolates makes gourmet chocolate truffles, bars, gift baskets, wedding favors, hot chocolate and more. They ship nationwide from their headquarters in Vermont. Listen here as Jim describes some of his learnings, both personal and professional, during the quarantine.
Quarantine Learnings with Jen Borislow of Borislow Insurance
July 16, 2020 14:07 - 28 minutes - 21.7 MBToday’s Quarantine Learnings podcast is with Jen Borislow, Founding Principal and President of Borislow Insurance based in Methuen, Massachusetts. Borislow Insurance is a benefits solutions firm building employee benefits strategies that save time and money. They provide world-class benefits that attract and retain employees while taking advantage of innovations in the marketplace. Listen here as Jen describes some of her learnings, both personal and professional, during the quarantine.
Quarantine Learnings with Joe Boghos of Joseph's Bakery
July 08, 2020 14:50 - 21 minutes - 17.1 MBToday’s Quarantine Learnings podcast is with Joseph Boghos, 3rd generation owner of Joseph’s Bakery based in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Joseph’s Bakery is a majority women-owned business, led by the third generation of the Boghos family. With the help of more than 300 employees, they manufacture and distribute a wide range of top quality, affordable breads, including pita, lavash and wraps. Listen here as Joe describes some of his learnings, both personal and professional, during the quarantine.
50 Years Of Giving Positive Energy To Entrepreneurs
June 22, 2020 18:33 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBIn this hour-long podcast interview, Dick Kimball and Pete Worrell talk about the changes in the private transaction market over the course of Dick's career, some learnings and unlearnings along the way, and some of their very personal fun and funny experiences after 40 years of working together.
In It Together: When Your Life Partner is Also Your Business Partner
May 20, 2020 12:25 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBIn this candid Sunday morning conversation, Chad and Kim speak very openly and generously sharing their experiences, including their views of working together, the unexploited industry opportunity, some company and individual strengths, and what their hopes and dreams are for the next chapter personally.
Thirty Years of Family Dinners (or are they Board Meetings)?
April 23, 2020 13:58 - 1 hour - 54 MBGeorge and Carrie Mock generously spend an hour or so with Pete, thinking aloud about the challenges of governing a family business, the work-life balance that accompanies that, the insights about the Company and industry that led to decision to find Fuchs, and a few glimpses of what might be in the next chapter.
Digging Into a New Chapter
March 19, 2020 14:04 - 50 minutes - 38.2 MBGary Wilt and Pete have an entertaining and rapid fire 45 minutes in Chattanooga talking about how Gary and his brother Terry’s journey resulted in the recapitalization of TAG Equipment by CenterRock Capital Partners.
Thatcher Wine, Juniper Books
December 05, 2019 14:59 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThatcher Wine grew up in an entrepreneurial household (upstairs from the business in fact). He tried a stint in a large consulting firm before he got fired (just kidding, before he was “called”) and became a founding entrepreneur in the tech sector of a startup that didn’t gain traction. He paid the tuition on that education, then moved to Boulder and slowly, the idea for Juniper Books began to germinate. Juniper is now a leading provider of curated libraries for both residential and institut...
Bigelow Forum 2019 Panel
November 07, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBAt The Annual Bigelow Forum in September 2019 we experienced a…well let’s just say… an energetic group discussion among and between four seasoned, successful high performing Entrepreneur Owner-Managers (EOMs). Friends/Clients learning, growing and generously sharing their experiences with their EOM peers.
Woods Hole Recording
October 28, 2019 13:32 - 38 minutes - 18.5 MBHere’s a little home made recording (my iPhone on the dining table) of an Entrepreneur in the US Navy. Admiral John M. Richardson is retiring as Chief of Naval Operations https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/621885/admiral-john-m-richardson/, and gave a little after dinner talk at a meeting at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI.edu) where he is a member of the Board of Trustees. I really enjoyed John’s insightful and refreshingly entrepreneurial view of...
David Laibson, Harvard Professor
October 24, 2019 13:00 - 57 minutes - 58 MBFind out what David's passions are, his thoughts on what is (and what is your) "unlearning" as we think about cognitive biases that negatively affect Owner- Manager good decision making. We also discuss why, as a senior professor, he lives in an undergraduate residence hall, and what his professional life may look like ten years from now.
Maxx Bricklin, BOLD Capital Partners
September 26, 2019 13:09 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBHere’s a live interview we recorded in Santa Monica, CA this July that will blow away any worries or apprehensions you have about the Millennial Generation—or venture capital—or Millennials in venture capital.
Mark Taylor, Reading Plus LLC
August 13, 2019 17:30 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBLike many EOMs, Mark Taylor joined his family’s business “in the breach” to solve a business problem on what he thought was a temporary tour of duty (a year or two). Fifteen years later he has just successfully completed the renewal of ReadingPlus’ management team for its next chapter, and it’s stockholder recapitalization bringing in a great fit new majority owner who is energized and capable of supporting the management team’s view of the next stage of growth for the company. He candidly ex...
Todd McAlister of Fountain Therapeutics
July 25, 2019 12:49 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBMany of us are learning from both scientific breakthroughs and the popular media about the promise of stem cells, and what they might do for our health, from anti-aging to therapeutic applications. In this podcast I have an eye-opening conversation with Todd McAlister, PhD, the CEO of Fountain Therapeutics discussing the reality of stem cell therapy, some regenerative realities, and why it makes sense to keep our expectations realistic
Chris Pierce The Dingley Press
June 20, 2019 12:59 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBChris Pierce The Dingley Press by Pete Worrell
Positive Enterprise Value Podcast with George Antoniadis (5.8.19)
May 23, 2019 13:30 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBPositive Enterprise Value Podcast with George Antoniadis (5.8.19) by Pete Worrell
Howard Energy Creation Final
March 21, 2019 13:59 - 2 minutes - 2.56 MBHoward Energy Creation Final by Pete Worrell
Energy Creation - Meryl Levin
March 14, 2019 19:08 - 2 minutes - 2.72 MBEnergy Creation - Meryl Levin by Pete Worrell
Meryl Levin of Mills Falls Charter School Podcast Interview with Pete Worrell
February 21, 2019 13:30 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBMeryl Levin of Mills Falls Charter School Podcast Interview with Pete Worrell by Pete Worrell
Complete John Ready Positive Enterprise Value Blog
January 17, 2019 14:11 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBComplete John Ready Positive Enterprise Value Blog by Pete Worrell
A Cooperative Builder and Innovator with Heart
December 20, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBA Cooperative Builder and Innovator with Heart by Pete Worrell
Complete 2018 Forum Panel Podcast
November 15, 2018 14:36 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB2018 Bigelow Panel with Entrepreneur Owner-Managers Allison Hooper of Vermont Creamery, Chet Jordan of DigArc, Jay Jacobs of Rapid Manufacturing and Mike Trigilio of Associated Home Care.
Interview with Stephen Pinker
October 10, 2018 00:32 - 48 minutes - 45.4 MBPete Worrell's interview with Stephen Pinker at the 2018 Bigelow Forum
Interview with Stephen Pinker.mp3
October 10, 2018 00:32 - 48 minutes - 45.4 MBPete Worrell's interview with Stephen Pinker at the 2018 Bigelow Forum
Podcast Mike Trigilio
September 24, 2018 17:56 - 45 minutes - 40.2 MBPodcast Mike Trigilio by Pete Worrell
Interview with Jay Jacobs of RAPID Manufacturing
May 29, 2018 10:18 - 1 hour - 50 MBOur Private Enterprise Podcast interview this month features Jay Jacobs, parallel entrepreneur and Founder of many companies, the most well-known of which is RAPID Manufacturing. I had the fun of getting to know Jay over the past year as we at Bigelow worked with Jay and his senior team to architect its acquisition by ProtoLabs, a public company that most people would say is the global leader in digital manufacturing.