Monday Morning Radio

Karen Wickre has worked in Silicon Valley for more than 30 years, including stints as the editorial director of Twitter and a senior global communicator at Google, which she joined when there were only 500 employees. By the time she left, there were 50,000 people on the payroll. During that time she became globally recognized as an über networker - connecting with the world's elite and harnessing...

Rob Kessler is on a mission – a mission to eradicate men's ties. Aware that 100% of business-casual shirts are designed for ties – yet 90% of the time men don't wear neckties – he's invented an entirely new category of shirts – goTIELESS . Rob comes from good entrepreneurial stock. His pop, Richard Kessler , the Diamond Engagement Ring 'King' of Wisconsin, taught him a thing or two about sales and...

Mary Fran Bontempo , an award-winning speaker, author, and humorist, just came out with a crisis management book called, " The 15 Minute Master ." The book promises to teach readers "how to make everything better 15 minutes at a time." With no advance warning, host Dean Rotbart decided to test the premise on Mary Fran, herself, using his stopwatch to give her exactly 15 minutes to explain her meth...

It's hard enough for American entrepreneurs to launch a new business and gain traction with American consumers. Doing it from Istanbul, Turkey, primarily in Turkish, as  Rasim   Cin  is doing, complicates the task exponentially. Rasim is the visionary behind Woppy , a new subscription game-box company that aims to teach kindergarten-age kids STEM skills, without using digital technology. Woppy was...

Bert and Tracy Gervis are two successful California entrepreneurs and philanthropic superheroes who own and operate one of the nation's fastest growing pet food companies. Their proprietary Gentle Giants Dog and Puppy Foods is helping canines to live twice, even three times longer than average, with many dogs behaving like puppies well into their twenties. No wonder their wholesome dog food is fly...

On paper, at least, Creature Coffee looks like a bad idea. Founded two years back by Michael Craig, a barista, it is aiming to carve a niche for itself in the crowded and competitive coffee marketplace. To make the task all the more difficult, Creature Coffee is spreading itself between three sales channels: walk-in retailing, online sales, and pop-up coffee bars. But Michael – like the best entre...

Last week, more than 45 international companies competed in the annual Global Bottled Water Awards competition, presented in Dubai. Water is big business, with more people in the U.S. drinking bottled water than soft drinks, and new packaged-water entrants continuing to flood the market. Duane Stanford , executive editor of Beverage Digest , was one of the judges for this year's water competition,...

On a special edition of Monday Morning Radio, Alan Murray , president and CEO of FORTUNE magazine, shares the business and journalism insights that he's gleaned during the course of his 40-plus year career. In particular, Alan talks about how FORTUNE, under his leadership and new ownership, is positioning itself to be the preeminent global business media brand. Take notes. Because the strategy tha...

In this one-minute preview of next week's podcast, featuring Fortune Magazine CEO Alan Murray, he explains how Fortune selects it covers and who get to grace them. Alan is interviewed by host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart. You can stream of download the full interview on Monday, October 7, 2019 from  MondayMorningRadio.com . You can also subscribe to every episode of Monday Morning Rad...

In this one-minute preview of next week's podcast, featuring Fortune Magazine CEO Alan Murray, he describes the ingredients of building a preeminent brand. Alan is interviewed by host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart. You can stream of download the full interview on Monday, October 7, 2019 from MondayMorningRadio.com . You can also subscribe to every episode of Monday Morning Radio for fr...

Everyone knows the unprecedented journey that propelled Jeff Bezos from the owner of a tiny online bookstore that he launched in July 1994, to the head of Amazon, the fastest company ever to surpass $100 billion in annual sales; making him the richest man in the world. What few people know are the 14 principles that Bezos followed to accomplish the unimaginable feat. In The Bezos Letters , author...

Exposure in Inc. magazine or its annual Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest growing companies assuredly will bolster the reputations and prospects of any small business.  But what kind of stories are the journalists at Inc. interested in – and is there a backdoor shortcut to landing on the Inc. 5000? Those are just a few of the questions that host and award-winning journalist Dean Rotbart puts...

Following a serious ski accident and two failed spinal surgeries, Gina Gardiner had to relearn to walk. Not once, but twice. The experience led Gina to segue from her role as a school principal in the UK to a motivation coach, helping a large and growing flock of international followers find greater happiness, success, and fulfillment. From Colchester, England, Gina shares with host and award-winn...

Aaron LaPedis owns a fine art gallery in one of the swankiest retail areas of Colorado. But paintings, sculptures, and limited edition prints are not all that fascinate Aaron, who is best known nationally as The Garage Sale Millionaire . For more than three decades, Aaron has hunted hidden treasure at garage and estate sales, as well as online auctions. Whether you're a treasure-hunting hobbyist o...

It's been more than 50 years since Walter Elias Disney departed for the great amusement park in the sky, yet his legacy consistently inspires new generations of business owners and creators. Michael Goldsby and Rob Mathews , two professors of entrepreneurship at Ball Street University, have encapsulated Disney's magic rules of success into a must-read book, Entrepreneurship the Disney Way . As Gol...

In the eyes of more than 200,000 women entrepreneurs in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia, Genecia Alluora is already a business rock star. The former Miss Singapore – who founded and leads Soul Rich Woman – the #1 network of female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, now wants to spread her message of empowerment and financial independence to the women of North America. Ge...

Owning a business while raising a family is challenging enough. Mix in caring for one or both aging parents, and the complexities of life expand exponentially. That's especially true for women, who comprise a majority of the 44 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States. Liz O'Donnell , who enjoyed a fast-paced career in marketing, can speak from experience. She was already juggling h...

There are strategies of when, how, and why to use LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram, and Andrea Stenberg is an expert at helping small business owners and entrepreneurs harness them. Good content – including the use of self-produced videos –  Andrea explains to host Dean Rotbart , is only part of the equation. More importantly, knowing exactly how to target prospective customers and clients, and h...

Rudy Schmid is a veteran accountant and first-time author who's written a book – America's Guide to Starting Your Own Company – that's helping large numbers of young adults launch their own side hustles free of the flaws that too often hobble new businesses. The concise book is also helpful for established businesses, especially when it comes to hiring and managing people, and sizing up banking re...

Jordan Goodman is one of the country's best-known personal finance journalists and authors, appearing frequently on national radio and television call-in shows to answer consumer questions on how to save and invest wisely.  With 13 books under his belt, including the encyclopedic 992-page Everyone's Money Book , he joins host Dean Rotbart this week to dispense insightful personal finance recommend...

Fauzia Burke and her team at FSB Associates specialize in creating online awareness for books and authors.  Since Fauzia launched her specialty marketing and publicity firm in 1995, FSB has orchestrated more than 2,000 successful book publicity campaigns, including those for award-winning actor Alan Alda ; mega-authors Ken Blanchard and Brian Tracy , South Beach Diet guru Dr. Arthur Agaston , entr...

What your company or product "sounds" like is an essential component of its success. When companies including Microsoft, Cisco, GoDaddy , and Shopify need to hire talent to be the voice of their commercials and other scripts, they look to Voice s.com – the world's largest online marketplace for voice over products and talents. Since David Ciccarelli and his wife Stephanie wrote their business plan...

Can a Zen-like philosophy of money translate into greater success and happiness for American business owners and entrepreneurs? Ken Honda , a bestselling author in Japan who is known there as the " Zen Millionaire " believes it can, which is why he just published his first English-language book: Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Mone y. Honda, no relation to the automotive fa...

When seemingly every path to funding is closed to business owners, entrepreneurs, and inventors, Kedma Ough – a national award-winning small business champion – helps them find the money and resources they seek. Kedma, a fifth generation entrepreneur, learned the secrets of business funding the hard way – by having countless doors slammed in her face. Now, after helping more than 10,000 individual...

On a special edition of Monday Morning Radio , to mark the launch of its 8 th season, host Dean Rotbart flew to Austin, Texas, and, in the inner sanctums of The Tower at Wizard Academy, brought together two of the world's marketing legends: The Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams , and The Digital Marketer, Ryan Deiss . It's no exaggeration to say that a one-hour private consultation with either Roy or...