Monday Morning Radio

With nearly 1.3 million followers on TikTok and a global fan base for his gospel music, David Griffiths ' success story is a testament to the power of authenticity, consistency, audience engagement, and strategic planning.  Founder of Content Creating Academy , David is a powerhouse in the world of digital creation. His free webinars help business owners and entrepreneurs simplify the complexities...

Douglas Katz is a West Point graduate, a disabled Army veteran, and a culinary enthusiast.  The problem for Doug was that, like millions of those who suffer from limited mobility, he struggled to use kitchen utensils that require upper extremity strength.  Aided by friends and other veterans, Doug took to his workshop to invent a new type of kitchen knife — the NULU knife — the first product in a...

You can follow your heart, discover how life works, be happy, and bounce back from hard times. It's easier than you might imagine. Author and illustrator Andrew Matthews breaks it all down in his cheerful and insightful books, which have sold more than 8 million copies and inspired audiences at more than 1,000 international companies. Andrew's forte is presenting timeless wisdom in fresh, engaging...

Renita Wolf is an expert on Exit Strategies. Renita and her firm, Poe Wolf Partners , are renowned for helping founders and mid-market CEOs build better businesses and exit on their terms. Before founding her firm, Renita spent 25 years holding senior financial and operation positions for companies including Wells Fargo , Hewlett-Packard , Agilent Technologies , and Cray Research . Whether busines...

David Sauers is a successful entrepreneur from Savannah, Georgia, where he runs a service business with 50 nationwide branches. Formerly an executive in commercial banking and business lending, the company David co-founded is marking its 20th anniversary this year. David is the first to admit that his business is not the type that most people dream about owning — at first.  However, his emphasis o...

This week, founding host Dean Rotbart , a Wizard Academy graduate who served many years on the Academy's faculty, shares the story of how a self-published children's book author garnered global media coverage, reaching more than 2 million potential customers in a single day and zooming more than 1 million spots to the top of the Amazon charts. The lessons to be gleaned by her success, Rotbart prom...

Duane Scott Cerny is an expert on dead people. Or, more precisely, marketing and selling their possessions after they've passed to the afterlife. He is the author of the bestselling book Selling Dead People's Things: Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails & Objects of Objectionable Estates and Vintage Confidential: Retro Rattled, Tales Tattled—Confessions of the World's Third Oldest Profession . D...

Mo Bunnell and his colleagues at Bunnell Idea Group have trained more than 50,000 high-end professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs on the remarkable effectiveness of gifting their expertise to create and maximize client relationships. Mo's new book, Give to Grow: Invest in Relationships to Build Your Business and Your Career, from elite business book publisher Bard Press , is the bible o...

Peter H. Spitz is an MIT-trained chemical engineer and renowned petrochemical industry expert with seven patents. He is also an author and entrepreneur, having started a company that grew to $20 million in annual sales before being acquired by IBM . This past June, Peter published his most recent book, Reflecting on History: How The Industrial Revolution Created Our Way of Life .  When we turn on...

As a Walt Disney Imagineer, Brian Collins , helped create the stories and magic for some of the world's most beloved theme park attractions. While Walt died in late 1966, the company he founded and many of his disciples continue to practice the gospel of Disney. Brian is one the most successful and sought-after adherents. Brian is the founder of The Brainstorm Institute . Working from Orlando, and...

There may be observers who know the technology industry better than veteran journalist Eric Savitz , but there aren't many. Eric worked at Barron's Magazine as an investment and technology reporter for 24 years — spread over three stints. He began there in October 1988, honing his craft under the direction of the legendary editor and columnist Alan Abelson . In this wide-ranging conversation, you'...

Approximately one in five Americans is neurodiverse, which includes conditions such as Autism, ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, and Tourette's syndrome. Chances are excellent that some of your colleagues are neurodiverse and face challenges that are not immediately visible. Dr. Matthew Zakreski , co-founder and lead psychologist at The Neurodiversity Initiative , is an internationally recognized expert on neu...

More than half of all customers and clients are willing to pay more for the exact same product or service if the seller also provides a single intangible: trust. Natalie Doyle Oldfield , president of Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Success Through Trust , has spent years evaluating the dynamics that drive customer loyalty and business growth. Trust, she finds, is the critical value that top companies r...

Michael Hershman is the CEO of Soloviev Group , a privately held, multi-billion-dollar enterprise with investments spanning real estate, agribusiness, logistics, and renewable energy. He is also president and CEO of Fairfax Group , a top choice for governments, corporations, and international institutions that need complex problem-solving for governance and compliance challenges. The  Soloviev Gro...

The client is reclining on a plush leather couch in a softly lit office, the wall adorned with framed degrees and certificates of expertise in psychology. "Tell me what's troubling you?" the therapist inquires. "Profits are down. Our employees are unhappy. And I don't know where I should be going." This imaginary client is not a person but a business. However, the therapist is real. Dr. Nikki Blac...

Margot Machol Bisnow spent 20 years in government, including as an FTC Commissioner and staff director of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers . In her post-government career, Margot has become an evangelist for entrepreneurism, serving as a sherpa for parents on how to raise their children to grow into successful business owners and achieve their dreams. She is the author of Rai...

While many business owners and entrepreneurs possess intelligence and ability, wisdom is far rarer and more precious. You needn't journey to a mountaintop in India to commune with a Swami to accrue the benefits and peace of mind that wisdom affords. Dr. Laura Gabayan , a veteran emergency medicine physician and associate professor at the UCLA School of Medicine , has made a study of wisdom, includ...

David Page is a veteran broadcast journalist and two-time Emmy award winner who is best known for creating the Food Network mega-hit Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and serving as its executive producer for eleven seasons. His newest multimedia project, Culinary Characters Unlocked , is a twice-weekly podcast featuring fascinating stories from some of the food world's most intriguing people. The prog...

Being a children's book publisher is anything but child's play. Georgia Lininger is a full-time elementary school teacher and children's book author who launched her own book imprint,  Salus Publishing , on the side in January 2020. As she quickly discovered, success is about much more than sweet stories and colorful illustrations. Georgia's struggles and achievements are a parable for what many e...

Angie Hyche is an organization and clutter expert. Whether the mess swamps your storage room, a self-storage unit, your garage, your basement, or even your email inbox and to-do lists, she knows precisely how to sort out your possessions and calendar. The owner of  Shipshape Solutions , based in Kingsport, Tennessee, she is a writer, podcaster, and much-in-demand speaker who helps her audiences fr...

Our guest this week is Richard Behar , an award-winning investigative reporter who spent 15 years chronicling the life of Bernie Madoff , the mastermind behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Behar is the author of the newly released blockbuster book  Madoff: The Final Word . Before Madoff died in prison, Behar and Madoff had more than 50 phone conversations, exchanged more than 300 emails, a...

This week's guest, Dean Guida , founder and CEO of Infragistics , has plenty of grit.  But as he's discovered on his way to bootstrapping a company that today serves 100% of the S&P 500, including Bank of America , Exxon , Fidelity , Intuit , and Morgan Stanley — to win in business, you also need: Strategic planning A positive and collaborative company culture Reliable data that informs your decis...

Nick-Anthony Zamucen has the Midas touch when it comes to starting and growing franchises. As founder and president of BOR Franchising , his successful concepts include a pizza chain, a home care business, a crime scene cleaner, and, most recently, a burgeoning water and fire damage repair company. Nick-Anthony has a proven formula for running a successful enterprise that will be of interest wheth...

Rusty Komori was the varsity boys' tennis coach at the Punahou School in Honolulu from 1994 until 2015. During his tenure, the school won the state championship each and every year. That's a record unmatched by any other coach in any other sport. But Rusty is not just excellent at taking a diverse group of teenagers and turning them into champions — he masterfully coaches employers on how to adapt...

Business and brand websites have existed for almost three decades. Yet most companies still don't know how to design them so that their messaging aligns with and supports their advertising, social media, and point-of-sale communication.  Moreover, most present-day websites fail to incorporate language that appeals to each of the four major personality types, relying on so-called persuasion archite...