BizMode Podcast

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Welcome back BizMode Family. Alex Bruno here. This week I want to introduce you to Erin Beck. Erin is the founder and CEO of Wana Family Network. Wana is an online platform that assists families with sharing babysitting duties. Prior to launching her startup, Erin was the Mission Director for the Dragon Team at Space X. Social entrepreneurship is at the core of Wana's mission. Erin was inspired to...

Reflect Before You Return

3 Things I Learned In Quarantine

Working From Home with Noelia Sanchez

Time to Reflect and Create

An architect turned studio painter, Ramon Ramirez is a native Angeleno inspired by urban design and cityscapes. He studied architecture at UC Berkeley receiving his Bachelors and Masters' degrees. According to Ramon, he's lived three lives building careers as a seasoned architect, later as an assistant professor, and now as a fine artist. After his son survived a serious illness, Ramon rediscovere...

Have you ever wanted to learn how to build something? Well, Matt Jones has been welding for the last 20 years, learning and sculpture classes that he took in college, as well as working as a professional artist for 10 years with having soul shows throughout the nation as well as group shows internationally along the way. He's had day jobs doing custom fabrication, building furniture, building sets...

Family, I want to introduce you to Steve Koszis. Steve is a co-founder of DoorJamm. DoorJamm is a product for first responders to control doors for safety. Think about it. If you're someone in the fire department, you need to get into a space that you're not familiar with, DoorJamm helps you keep that door open so it doesn't lock behind you. For many years, Steve worked in city government. While h...

Have you ever wanted to write your own book? Well, our next guest on BizMode did. Karla Monterrosa is the author of Unbraided: Transform Your Pain to Power and Purpose. With Unbraided, Karla shares her own childhood trauma and steps she took toward healing. We all have experienced trauma. This book provides a framework to work through that trauma so you can free yourself. Prior to being an author,...

Welcome to season two of biz mode. If you caught last week's trailer, you learned that this season we'll be focusing on the makers. As I mentioned, entrepreneurs are all creators in some way and we'll be hearing from these creators. Have you ever turned on the radio and heard a new segment with music in the background or maybe a traffic report with music in the background? Maybe you heard a progra...

Welcome to Season 2

Season One Wrap-Up

Key Elements for Effective Partnerships

The Value of Industry Associations with Arcelia Gallardo

Crafting Strong Partnerships with Sherwin Antonio and Kirk Nishikawa

Driving Your Business With Purpose

Once you start dashboarding your financials, you'll feel a lot better about your business. You won't have that constant worrying of "Am I hitting my number," because you'll know what your number is, and you'll know what you need to do to hit that number. Alex Bruno,  Founder ,  Bruno Group Inc.

"Make sure that you're ready to pivot when you need to pivot. Otherwise, you can get kind of stuck trying to do something that you thought you absolutely needed to do, when in fact, the business is saying, no that's not the direction you need to go. You need to turn. You need to do something different to get to your end goal."     Katherine Hunter-Blyden, Hello Cheffy

"I think that's the most important thing. When you're building a business, don't forget to think about what kind of a life you're building too."   Memo Torres, Memo & Co.

Get our three biggest takeaways from the first half of season one in a single episode. As we transition into the second half of season one, we've selected three big ideas from our conversations with innovative leaders of food-based businesses that with help you along your entrepreneurial journey.

"I realized that one person's effort, through grassroots, can really make impact. So that led the chain reaction of us doing policy work. We ended up getting the bill passed in the state legislature and the governor signed it into law. This is AB 636 The California Homemade Food Act, which allows each home food kitchen operator to generate up to $50,000 of revenue cooking out of their home kitchen...

"It's not about copying. It's about doing you, because you're unique and there are so many people that can relate to you [and] are looking for what your interests are. So with Xelas, it was a lot of staying true to ourselves. I think what happened was we became confident bar owners. We were confident enough to say, 'You know what? We know what we're doing.' And I think that this concept about refl...

"So, I'm the son of immigrants. When my parents came to this country there was no Plan B. They came here and they had to find a way to make it work. They had to will it to succeed. That quickly was a mindset that I developed at a very young age. Through work, hustle, effort, and with grit, we'll get through this and we'll find a way to make this succeed." Arnold Ventura, Beanfields

"Our goal is to try to help people understand that they can empower themselves through business and entrepreneurship and invest back into the communities that they live in." Barney Santos, Founder, BLVDMRKT