Impact OC

Don't miss OC's first big eSports Fast Pitch, Conference and Tournament TODAY (Friday, Feb. 28th) from 10am-5pm at the Garden Grove Community Center.  Or listen to this week's OC SPOTLIGHT where we talk with Scott Kelly from Black Dog Venture Partners about how and why they started this event (and what comes next!)  Here on Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

Toby Corey, former President of TESLA, is on our OC SPOTLIGHT discussing his upcoming TEDx IVC talk for Irvine Valley College, March 6 at Yost Theatre (in Santa Ana) and the lessons he learned as a long time entrepreneur working with Elon Musk. On Orange County's only community radio station and live podcasting channel, www. OCTalKRadio.biz .

Check out our interview with Stephen Silver from SoCal Startup Day, Orange County's first big startup event being held at Hangar 244 at The Great Park this Wednesday, Feb 26 from noon-8pm.  Sponsored by everyone from the Tech Coast Angels to Tech Coast Venture Network, OCTANe, WeWork, Gigasavvy, the OC Startup Council and many, many more, this is the event for you if you're interested in the growi...

If you think that politics is just too polarized and tribal to even talk anymore (much less tackle the real issues facing us today), then you'll be encouraged by the quiet work of the Citizen's Climate Lobby, a non-partisan group with chapters across the country that is designed to bring all sides together around constructive climate change legislation (like their innovative carbon tax and dividen...

Why just cover up or mask smells when you can actually kill them completely?  That's what serial entrepreneur JC Baselli asked himself when he stumbled into the smelly world of "odor control".  He'd seen the cheap "christmas trees" people hung in their cars or the heavy sprays they used to mask cigarette smells or other innumerable odors that just wouldn't go away. And what he discovered was the s...

Listen as NBA Star Rick Darnell Discusses Cannabis and Building Businesses After Basketball brought to you Women in Electroics as heard on OC TALK RADIO. Rick talks about:   HOw to overcome regulations licensing.]   GREAT BOOK        

Listen to 3 Time Cancer Survivor Ali Becher talk about how cannabis helped her. Courtesy of MY JANE and OC TALK RADIO.

Welcome to this special edition of HIRE POWER RADIO.  Where we got the special opportunity to interview Sarah Goggins, the Chief People Officer for all of Staples US Retail stores at one of their new in-store, SPOTLIGHT SPACES . Part of a pilot program being tested here in Orange County that hopes to dramatically retool and rethink their 1000+ stores and turn them into more of a  "community space"...

Check out this amazing, inspirational story about a new school that's just opened here in OC (modeled on the first successful program of its kind in the country in LA) that teaches autistic and other special needs kids STEM.  That's right.  The most rigorous curriculum for a class of kids most other people give up on, proving that there is potential in all of us to excel (if only someone believes...

Freelance Car Designer Bryan S. Thompson (formerly w/Nissan) talks about growing up a gay kid in rural Arizona and dreaming of being a car designer. How everyone told him he "didn't fit" and could never get into this industry. And how he persevered and literally knocked on doors of major car design studios in Europe until someone finally came out, took a look and told him how to do it. Which is wh...

We catch up with 80s Superstar Gino Vannelli as he returns to LA for a special concert Saturday, Oct. 12 at the incredible Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. We hear again how he crashed the gates at A&M studios back in the 70s to personally meet Herb Albert (who signed him the next week). And how he went on to record numerous Gold and Platinum records with them into the 90s.  Then how he drifted to...

Ahoy all ye pirate lovers (be ye big or small).  There's a new show at the long running PIRATE'S DINNER ADVENTURE here in Buena Park called "Secrets of the Deep". Set aboard an 18th-century Spanish galleon, anchored in a 250,000-gallon indoor lagoon, Pirate’s dinner theater combines fantasy, fun, and a first-class restaurant along with lots of swashbuckling action, treasure hunting and swordplay p...

Too many men my age don't get themselves tested for prostate cancer given their fear of the usual surgery and its side affects for impotency and pain.  No reason any longer here in OC with the Pacific Coast Urology Center's breakthru UltraSound treatment which Dr. Robert Pugash has been pioneering overseas with his patients for years and now offers locally thru his clinics in Huntington Beach and...

We produce a show for West Virginia University's DATA MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS program. An online Masters Program that looks at "the intersection of data driven decision making and modern marketing practices" taught by actual marketing practitioners around the country.   In it, they talk about topics in marketing today (often involving data) and today's topic centered around making sense of all th...

Listen as Attorney Michael Brette (founder of Small Cap Equity Advisors and author of Raising Capital for Your Business) talks with former NBA Star Rick Darnell (who once played back in the day with the legendary Dr. J...Julius Erving) about his transition from basketball into being a successful businessman with liquor brands like Comisario (the world's most awarded tequila) and his current passio...

Celebrate the 100 Year anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the FIRST World War exactly a century ago...TODAY! Enter the concert through an open-air French café, and step into the revelry and bacchanalia that broke out in the CITY OF LIGHTS, as peace was restored back in 1919 as ROUGE, a Seattle based "chanteuse singer" and band combines humor, music, artistry, and fun into a spectac...

It's time for the 41st Annual IRISH FAIR and MUSIC FESTIVAL.  A great event at our own GREAT PARK right here in Irvine that takes place June 15th and 16th from 10am-7pm. Join us as we chat with the man behind this Celtic showcase about their dazzling displays of Irish dancing, Irish Music, Irish Wolfhounds and Irish Whiskey (literally "the breath of life" in Gaelic).  Brought to you by the good fo...

Join us for the inaugural episode of our new series BUSINESS PULSE RADIO, measuring the heartbeat of business today with real entrepreneurs discussing the many methods to start and grow their businesses today. Starting with Luis Cota, President and CEO of Elite Beverage discussing their ultra premium tequila, Comisario Tequila (the most awarded tequila brand in the world).  Only on Orange County's...

Pleased to have Farrell Hirsch, the Chief Executive Officer of Fullerton's beloved Muckenthaler Cultural Museum (affectionately known as "The Muck") in to discuss all that's going on in at one of Orange County's overlooked treasures. Commissioned at an original cost of $35,000, the Muckenthaler home was built by Walter and Adella Muckenthaler in 1924 atop a hill in Fullerton. The 18-room, 8.5-acre...

Don't miss OC's LARGEST MIXER this Thursday, March 28 from 4-8pm at the OC Fairgrounds. With 15+ local chambers of commerce and 130+ other business booths to visit and learn from. Plus full networking area and free business seminars (including one from OC TALK RADIO on "The Power of Podcasting").  Stop by and say "hi" as we'll be live streaming from there as well. Visit LARGEST MIXER.com to learn...

Learn more about the upcoming Junior Hack-A-Thon put together by TECHNOSSUS at their HQ (corner of Main and Von Karman) from 10am-4pm, sponsored by HYUNDAI CAPITAL and UCI Center for Digital Transformation for the Boys and Girls Club of Central OC this Saturday, March 16. And meet the future "coders" of Orange County. See you there! 

Pick up some amazing tips from Master Networker, John Dade (founder of THE CIGAR NIGHT-BUSINESS MIXER GROUP-OC ) on THE RAAD LIFE as he talks about the phenomenal growth of this group and how important it is to still "meet people", physically "press the flesh" and share a low key/high engagement experience with local business owners and executives (like you). So whether you crave cigars or just wa...

The massive music industry show known as NAMM (for "National Association of Music Merchandisers) returns to take over the entire Anaheim Convention Center this week, Thursday, Jan. 24-Sunday, Jan. 27 as all the leading manufacturers of guitars, drums and other musical instruments make their way to Orange County for this annual gathering of  the clan. More than just another trade show, it's a music...

If you're wealthy enough, you can hire a financial or investment adviser. But what if you just need someone to help you along in your own financial planning?  Then you need a financial coach.  Similar to a fitness coach, they help improve the fitness of your finances by showing you better moves, teaching you how to execute them properly and then holding you accountable for getting it down.  Listen...

Listen as wealth manager Tyrone French talks with United Success Network about their unique "help those in need" crowdfunding platform. Here on Orange County's only community radio station, www. OCTalKradio.net .