Impact OC

Check out our newest show, THE GRIEF GIRL, hosted by Kristi Hugsted which tries to pull back the curtain and remove the stigma attached to one of our final taboo topics, grief and the grieving process.  Having been there herself after her husband's dramatic suicide, Kristi transformed herself into a survivor and grief counselor to help others understand and learn how to deal with grief and keep it...

Morgan Wright, a leading expert on cybercrime  and cybersecurity whose executive leadership for CISCO and Alcatel-Lucent and work for the Departments of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security have made him a featured guest on national media outlets like Fox News (where, in fact, he was appearing on Greta Van Susteren's show right after his turn today on OC Talk Radio) was a guest on this week's ed...

OK all you public policy wonks.  See if you can match our resident "boy genius" who got all five questions right today in our regular IS IT A LAW segment on our weekly public policy show (THE CITY SQUARE, Wednesdays at 9am) including such queries as "Is it against the law in Hawaii to insert pennies in your ears" and "in Conyers, Georgia, is is against the law to shout 'two fried eggs and a fritte...

Hear our two city managers from Buena Park and Stanton, Jim Vanderpool and Jim Box try their luck at our favorite public policy guessing game IS IT A LAW on our weekly public policy show THE CITY SQUARE, Wednesdays at 9am PST on Orange County's only community radio station,  www. OCTalkRadio.net ., hosted by The Association of California Cities-OC and sponsored by Rutan and Tucker Law Firm.s  Hint...

Listen as Kerim Balci, Editor of the Turkish Review, and a leading dissident in that country discusses Turkey's important role in the Middle East and the various historical, ethnic and religious forces that often pull them in conflicting directions. Take for example, President Erdogan's sudden turn towards becoming a "demo-crator" (or democratically elected dictator) like his former friend and now...

Listen as we talk with Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu Heinecke about his new book HOW TO GET A MEETING WITH ANYONE and how he uses his cartoons to break thru to people of great importance.  He also talks about this whole new world of "contact marketing" (a term he created and popularized) as a way of meeting anyone you want to meet with creative marketing tools, tips, tricks and techniques lik...

Charles Weaver, CEO of the MSP ALLIANCE (the trade group for over 25,000 "managed service providers" who help clients like Hillary Clinton move their email, websites and data to servers "in the cloud") joined myself and host Aaron Mangal on our weekly show THE CLOUD to try and clear up the issues involved in Hillary's ongoing "email server scandal" and what this means for the industry as a whole....

We invite eveyone to pause and reflect on the true meaning of our upcoming 4th of July holiday (beyond the fun, food and fireworks we usually asociate with this weekend) as our public policy show, THE CITY SQUARE, explores the true spirit of this American holdiay, starting with a complete and moving recitation of our original Declaration of Independence (performed by a group of actors ranging from...

Join host Jerry Amante on THE CITY SQUARE as he moderates a debate between Eric Spitz, the President of Freedom News Group (owner of the OC REGISTER) and Lacy Kelly from the Association of California Cities-OC on his controversial idea to turn Orange County into one big city like New York with different "boroughs" instead of 34 individual, independant municipalities.

Hear this fascinating, freewheeling talk with former CNN anchor and ShowBiz Tonight host Bella Shaw as she talks about her life since CNN and the clever "deal breaker rules" she put in place before she'd allow herself to start dating again (after her long and happy marriage and the death of her husband). From our show THE RAAD LIFE with "age explorer" Raad Ghantous.

Don't miss this episode of LUXURY LIVING w/high end commercial and home designer Raad Ghantous as he talks with Scott Cross of SC HOMES about the redesigns he's done for several high end health spas at hotels like The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills and the work he's doing now re-imagining high end homes for aging baby boomer customers for "multi-generational living" (as it's being called) as the ba...

Listen to our newest show, CULTIVATING DYNASTIES, hosted by Mark Burton of Genrich Family Offices as they talk about the world of affluent families and the family offices that run those family fortunes, Wednesdays at 1pm PDT, on www. OCTALKRADIO.net .

Listen as host Chris Dyer talks with Marty Nowlin, VP of HR for SEARS, about the changes and challenges going on with that iconic brand, on this week's TALENT TALK radio show, on Orange County's only community radio station, www. OCTalkRadio.net .

So your prospect never called back.  Is that because they weren't interested or didn't find you interesting? Listen to this week's LEADSPACE RADIO as they interview, Tim Wackel, one of the world's leading sales trainers, on The Biggest Sins Salespeople Commit.  A fast half hour filled with fun stories and proven techniques to cut thru the noise and win more business.  On Orange County's only busin...

There are over 8 million trees planted throughout the "urban forests" that dot our cities here in California and half of those municipally owned trees are cared for by just one company, WEST COAST ARBORISTS. Learn about what they do and how they do it and why we (as responsible citizens) should learn more about the trees we plant and the enormous task of keeping them all healthy and safe, particul...

Don't miss this great interview with the OC Sheriff extraordinaire, Sandra Hutchens, who oversees one of the largest and most diverse sheriff's organizations in the country encompassing the OC Jail (5th largest in the nation), the OC Coroner's office, the only Crime Lab in the County and the thousands of "sworn" personnel that patrol our streets and protect our harbors, jails, courthouses and airp...

This week, the CITY SQUARE talks with Craig Young, Councilman from the City of Yorba Linda about how he just achieved something no one in Cailfornia has done in 24 years by beating  a recall that had qualified for the ballot.  And then we explore California's HERO program which allows homeowners to finance their solar home projects through their property tax assessments. The CITY SQUARE is Orange...