Monday Morning Radio

It if wasn't so serious, it would almost be laughable, the contortions that people employ to open public doors without using their hands in the current coronavirus culture. The most common methods involve elbows, knees, and feet. For those who aren't contortionists, Dave Jabbas , a small business owner for the past four decades, and proud Wizard Academy alumnus, suggests a better solution. Touch-f...

When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it is certain to include many examples of government overreach and outright stupidity. The State of Maine will be a prime exhibit. With a total population of fewer than 1.5 million citizens, and only a fraction of New York's coronavirus deaths, the governor of Maine has imposed some of the most draconian lockdown rules in the nation. For reside...

When you think of today's entrepreneurs, who comes to mind: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban, or Jeff Bezos? Wrong. Today's entrepreneurs are the owners of hair salons, restaurants, car washes, jewelry stories, and tens of thousands of other small businesses and professional practices that comprise the modern economy. In his new book, " The Soul of an Entrepreneur ," author David Sax debunks...

Host and award-winning journalist, Dean Rotbart , and his multi-talented wife, Talya , recently co-authored a book about two Canadian entrepreneurs, Margaret and Riyaz Adat , who have become global role models for do-it-yourself charitable projects. The book, Perfectly Ordinary, Yet Extraordinary , recounts how the Adats, an upper-middle-class couple, used determination, focus, love, and limited p...

Wayne B. Titus III , a CPA whose Plymouth, Michigan, financial advisory firm, AMDG Financial , has assets of more than $150 million, digested all 800-plus pages of the $2 trillion CARES Act legislation to help his clients take full advantage of the various government programs aimed at helping employers and employees weather the COVID-19 shutdown tsunami. CARES is complex, and without a guide such...

Too often entrepreneurs and business owners burn out, giving up on the dreams that propelled them in the first place. It happened to Dr. Dravon James , a pharmacist, and successful movie and stage actress. Having grown up in poverty on the South Side of Chicago, she eventually overcame multiple personal and professional hardships and formulated an approach that all of us can use to rekindle the fi...

More than a decade ago, Robbie Kellman Baxter – a graduate of both Harvard Univ ersity and the Stanford Graduate School of Business who worked as a strategy consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton – coined the phrase " The Membership Economy " to describe the trend of consumers to embrace subscription-based products and services. Popular examples include: Stitch Fix, Dollar Shave Club, Netflix, BarkBo...

In October 2019 , host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart , invited Michael Craig on Monday Morning Radio to detail his quixotic quest to build a three-headed company, Creature Coffee , selling specialty blends at pop-up expresso bars, online, and at his bricks-and-mortar coffeehouse in Austin, Texas. Everything was going according to plan for Craig until a few week's ago when Austin's Sout...

Twenty years ago this month, Henry Dubroff threw caution and reason to the wind and – after quitting his safe job as editor of the Denver Business Journal – headed west to California to launch his own, independent, weekly business newspaper. Dubroff's Pacific Coast Business Times defied the long odds, and today, with the largest full-time team devoted to business and financial news on the central...

The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on businesses large and small, curtailing travel, sporting events, and gatherings of all manner; even weddings. For many owners and entrepreneurs, it portends financial disaster. But this week's guest this week, Evan Morgenstein , a veteran talent agent who specializes in representing social media mega-stars, sees a path for companies to not only survive coronavir...

When some of America's most successful blue chip investors and securities analysts want to increase their exposure on CNBC , Fox Business Network , Bloomberg TV , and other financial broadcast networks, Zach Leibowitz is their go-to PR guru. Zach is executive vice president and head of broadcast operations at Dukas Linden Public Relations . In the past year alone, Zach and his colleagues have land...

Growing a business from one employee to more than 3,000 in three decades is a notable achievement, regardless of what field you're in. Journalist and entrepreneur Matthew Winkler did just that at Bloomberg News . When billionaire businessman and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg had the idea of starting a financial news organization back in 1989, his first hire was Winkler, who at the...

Ever attend a large conference, with 10,000-plus registrants, and have one of the presenters blow your mind – and knock your socks off? Host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart did just that in January, and Dean came back raving about speaker Ramon Ray , an effervescent small business evangelist, entrepreneur, public speaker, and author of The Celebrity CEO – a book that spells out in detail...

Nearly two-thirds of all employers now offer a work-from-home option, at least for some of their employees. But few employers provide their staff instructions on how to be most productive and satisfied working remotely, and most employers don't know how best to manage their far-flung team members. Teresa Douglas , who has worked from home since 2010, recently co-wrote a book, " Working Remotely ,"...

Star Wars fans and collectors are legion, but among them "The Force" is undoubtedly strongest with Steve Sansweet , who spent more than 27 years as a reporter and bureau chief with The Wall Street Journal . Steve is, as certified by Guinness World Records , the owner of the world's largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia, and President and CEO of Rancho Obi-Wan , an independent non-pro...

What if employers spoke less and listened more? In the case of Kevin Hancock , Chairman and CEO of his family's sixth-generation Maine lumber business, there was little choice after he was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia , a rare neurological speaking disorder that made verbal communications difficult. So he let his employees do most of the talking. Eight years on, Kevin says that the employee-...

Some of the most entrenched business problems that owners face have nothing to do with sales, marketing, employees, venders, or regulations. They have to do with "Mom." Unresolved childhood issues often creep, surreptitiously, into adult decision-making and can be a huge hindrance to successful goal-setting. Dr. Patti Ashley , a psychotherapist, international speaker, and author calls her approach...

When Jackie Jenkins-Scott was appointed president of the historic Dimock Community Health Center , whose roots in Boston date to 1857, the bankrupt institution was shopping its architecturally magnificent campus to real estate investors for redevelopment. Instead, Jackie revived Dimock, as she did 21 years later when she stepped in as president of failing Wheelock College . Jackie believes that ma...

Employee fraud and embezzlement cost American companies $50 billion annually, much of that coming out of the pockets of small business owners. It's often an employee who you trust the most who turns out to be the most untrustworthy. This week on Monday Morning Radio , three experts on employee theft – an investigator, a litigation attorney, and a prosecutor – join host and award-winning journalist...

Some of the most important decisions in history, from President Abraham Lincoln's bold move to publish the Emancipation Proclamation to Harry Truman's order to drop the atomic bomb, offer all of us lessons about how to make the tough choices that inevitably face us. In his new book, Decisions , historian, author, and strategic public relations counselor Robert L. Dilenschneider gleans practical ad...

For the third consecutive year, host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart turns the microphone over to his son, Maxwell, who reviews the top business lessons of the past year, gleaned from ten of the weekly guests appearing on Monday Morning Radio . Among the priceless business insights and actionable tips for success included this week are the gift of struggle; the simple truths of great cus...

Jeffrey Gitomer is the all-time, best-selling author of sales books; better even than Dale Carnegie, Zig Ziglar, and Napoleon Hill . Gitomer's " Little Red Book of Selling " is a classic, not only for dedicated salespeople, but for anyone seeking to sell a product, service, idea, or even to market themselves. Dean Rotbart, host of Monday Morning Radio , previously hosted a live weekly radio show -...

Whether in business or your personal life, if you have a dream, don't let anyone tell you that it's impossible. In fact, Jason Caldwell , this week's guest on Monday Morning Radio , makes his living by teaching people how to move beyond the normal bounds of possibility and shatter all expectations. Jason – an adventure racer who set a world record in 2017 for rowing across the Atlantic in 35 days,...

On the rollercoaster of life, Ken D. Foster has seen the peaks and the valleys, working his way up from gas station attendant to head of a $200 million securities business, and back to the very bottom. Ken finally found stability, and success, when he cleaned his slate of beliefs and behaviors and began anew. Now a best-selling author of five books, a podcaster, and an empowerment coach, Ken has r...

In the spirit of the 7th Annual GivingTuesday , this week's podcast examines the growing number of small business owners who are creating 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundations to buttress their philanthropic efforts. In the spotlight is Ryan McFarland , a sterling example of CEOs who are giving back in gratitude for their own success. Ryan is the founder of Strider Sports International and its nonprofit...