Monday Morning Radio

A few days after Lara Spear Riley and Rob Bouley were guests on Monday Morning Radio this past October, they appeared on ABC-TV’s Shark Tank , asking $55,000 for a 25% equity stake in their company, Switch Witch . Instead of funding, Lara and Rob got ridicule and left empty-handed. Shark Kevin O’Leary was blunt: “ If I were you, I’d take this behind the barn and burn it. Because I think it sucks ....

Wes Schaeffer has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and salespeople sell more goods and services, and amazingly, actually come to enjoy the sales process that so many people dread. Wes, a Wizard Academy alumnus who is known as The Sales Whisperer , not only teaches others how to electrify their sales, he demonstrates the process – (walks the talk) - daily on his website, in his sales newsl...

On important decisions, do you have a difficult time making up your mind? Do you engage in endless, “ on the one hand, but on the other hand ” thinking? Shelley Row , a self-described “recovering over-thinker,” coaches executives and entrepreneurs on ways to make better, smarter, more insightful decisions. In her new book, Think Less, Live More , Shelley promotes a Cognition-Intuition Balance Mode...

Dr. Cheryl Bauman is a global evangelist for face-to-face communications. In this increasingly digital age, Dr. Bauman, author of Just Say It , is reintroducing the world to the many benefits of holding face-to-face meetings – and sharing her insights on how to make those interactions even more successful. To demonstrate her point, this week Dr. Bauman joins reputation coach and Monday Morning Rad...

The Fired Up Selling Project is a nationwide campaign to identify and showcase the top 300 statements ever made for brightening the spirits and focusing the minds of sales professionals and entrepreneurs. Would you like to be one of the judges who gets to decide which quotes make that list? Ray Bard , the owner of Bard Press (and the first-ever chairman of the board of Wizard Academy) is inviting...

The human foot contains 26 bones, 33 joints, and more than 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Perfect for walking. But when many people tuck their tootsies under their bed covers – to read or sleep - they wind up with leg and foot pain, and cramps. Hal Mintz was one such sufferer. So the seasoned entrepreneur and venture capitalist set out to invent better bedding. The result: Kangapoda , a line...

Can a free phone and desktop application reduce the incidents of distracted teenage driving? Las Vegas entrepreneurs Leon Wilde and Phil Randazzo believe it can, and they are betting their ample experience as successful business owners and investors on DriveSafe Mode , a patented application they designed to save lives – and parental anxiety. Think of DriveSafe Mode as a 24/7 tattletale. If your t...

Business partners Lara Spear Riley and Rob Bouley are the co-creators of Switch Witch , a Halloween-themed plush doll, cauldron, and accompanying storybook. Come Halloween, children dress up and still go trick-or-treating. Only when the kids get home, they deposit a portion of their candy stash with their Switch Witch, and in the morning – Presto , Change-o – the candy has been transformed into a...

Author, entrepreneur, and business coach Barbara Wittmann gives new meaning to the term, “Chief Executive Officer.” Because the chiefs Barbara models her management advice after are those historic leaders of Native American tribes who led their people drawing upon ancient wisdom and a respect for the natural world. Barbara, who is based in Munich, Germany, and runs an IT consulting business, is th...

Groucho Marx famously used to warble, “Hello, I must be going.” Most business owners don’t pay nearly enough attention to their eventual exits, nor are they prepared to answer the soul-searching question, “Who am I, if not my company.” Enter Dr. Pamela Dennis , author of Exit Signs – The Expressway to Selling Your Company with Pride and Profit . She successfully sold her own multi-million consulti...

On October 8 th , in Ogden, Utah, Janelle Page and Matt Misbach will seal their love by exchanging wedding vows in front of a large gathering of family, friends, neighbors and colleagues. Theirs is not only a story of romance, it’s also a valuable lesson in personal branding and video marketing. Divorced and the mother of four, Janelle was having no luck attracting eligible suitors last year when...

You don’t have to be Mark Zuckerberg, Noah Glass, Biz Stone or any of the other social media moguls to own and operate your own successful online community.   Which is great news, because custom online communities – where customers, clients, or members talk to and support one another - are rapidly surpassing blogs and the major social networking platforms as the very best vehicle for fostering bra...

Larry Jacobson walked away from a lucrative business and well-established life to spend six years sailing around the world.   Why? Because he dreamed of doing it since he was a boy. Now Larry has set sail on a new voyage – teaching others how to follow in his wake.  Larry’s “ Sail Into Retirement ” program is NOT about 401ks, pension plans or reverse mortgages. It is about finding the courage and...

Hiring the wrong person to go to work in your company can be a very expensive mistake. But don’t feel bad.  Four out of five new hires nationwide never see their 18th month.   Jeff Wilson knew there had to be a better way. A graduate of the Wharton School, Jeff designed the Ultimate Hiring System , a simple-to-follow method that allows every business – no matter how large or small – to attract, hi...

Heidi Ganahl has lived a dog’s life.   And a lucky dog at that.   She is the founder of Camp Bow Wow , which she grew from one doggy day care center into the largest pet-care franchiser in North America. When Heidi sold her company in 2014 (she remains CEO), it had about 3,500 employees and generated system-wide sales of $71 million. Want to know how you can follow in her paw-steps?   Heidi shares...

Procrastinators and self-doubters forewarned.   This week on Monday Morning Radio , Wizard Academy graduate Julie Anne Eason  will kick to the curb all your best excuses for not writing a book to help promote yourself and your business. Julie, a professional writer and coach, has heard every excuse in the book – for not writing one.   She’s not buying any of them.   Julie’s own book, The Profitabl...

It’s Back-to-School week at Monday Morning Radio .   Only your role is as teacher of your own powerful online course. Online education is a booming industry and Rich Carr , founder of The Education Engine and a Wizard Academy alumnus, is here to explain how business owners and managers can easily become online professors.     Whether your students are employees, customers, or paying registrants, T...

You've read this week's Monday Morning Memo , now hear all about the Whisk(e)y Marketing School from Professors Daniel Whittington and Tom Fischer . Daniel, in Austin, and Tom, in London, will orate on exactly why storytelling, showmanship, and Single Malt Scotch make for an ideal blend. As Daniel and Tom instruct the always sober Dean Rotbart , the Whisk(e)y Marketing School is only partly about...

Claire Dorotik-Nana has experienced adversity of a severity few of us will ever know.  The day before Valentines Day in 2001, Claire's mother murdered her father, who was bludgeoned and strangled. Only days earlier, Claire's family seemed about as normal as they come. If that wasn’t awful enough, the lawyer defending Claire’s mother subsequently suggested that Claire, who was 24 at the time, had b...

To kickoff our 4 th year of weekly podcasts, Monday Morning Radio is honored to welcome Dr. Bill Dorfman , television personality, best-selling author, inventor, entrepreneur, and world-class philanthropist.   Dr. Dorfman, whose dental patients include a who’s who of Hollywood’s brightest stars, has previously been a guest on Oprah , The Tonight Show , The Today Show , Dr. Phil , and many other na...

Did you hear the story about the two guys from Europe who moved to Salt Lake City, bought a street food cart, and began peddling fresh hand-made Belgium waffles and fries? One day, if Pierre Vandamme and   Philippe Wyffels   have their way, their tale will the the stuff of legends, much like Ray Kroc and McDonalds , and Dave Thomas and Wendy's . Pierre and Philippe are the co-founders of Bruges Wa...

Little mermaids are big business. Spurred, in part, by the hit Australian TV show, “ H2O: Just Add Water ”  - which airs in more than 120 countries - we are in the midst of a bona fide mermaid feeding frenzy. Among the more popular items making waves are mermaid tails, such as the children and adult swimming fins being marketed nationally by Swimtails , a company that recently surfaced to meet the...

Are today’s young adults ready to succeed in business and life? Most, in honesty, aren’t.   The reason, observes Dr. Joanie Connell , is that too many members of the so-called millennial generation have been (silver) spoon fed for too long.   This week on Monday Morning Radio Dr. Connell, author of Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life , explains how she inspir...

Would you be more inclined to listen to this week’s edition of Monday Morning Radio if you knew that one lucky listener would win a Silver Aluminum Apple Watch? Perhaps. But this week’s guest, Susan Fowler , thinks such prize incentives are an awful way to win customers or to encourage employees to perform better on the job. In the long run, they don’t work. Susan, who has worked alongside managem...

Wine dispensed from stainless steel kegs has begun to flow from some of the nation's top vineyards and restaurants.  At the forefront of this liquid revolution are Napa-based Free Flow Wines and its CEO and co-founder, Jordan Kivelstadt .   Free Flow Wines  is defying convention in asking fine restaurants and other venues to shift from bottles to kegs. It's a business challenge worthy of Dionysus,...