Sarah Westall - Business Game Changers

In this episode we are mixing it up and airing a round table discussion, “Terror on Wall Street”, that originally aired on Threshold Radio with host Johnny Blue Star, Best Selling Author Kenneth Eade, and Sarah Westall, your Business Game Changers host. The round table discussion focuses around Kenneth Eade’s new book “Terror on Wall […]

How ready is your company or city if a crisis occurs? As a society, we are dependent on others for providing our basic needs. Food, gasoline, electricity, water, and even garbage collecting is done by others. Our electrical grids supply power to our cities that enables companies to conduct business and to serve their customers. […]

World War III is building up in the Middle East as 20 countries participate in a military “exercise” dubbed “Northern Thunder”. The exercise includes 350,000 soldiers, 20 thousand tanks, 2450 warplanes, and 460 military helicopters supplied by Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Senegal, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Kuwait, the Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Chad, Tunisia, […]

“The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quite and subdued amendment or right.”  Naomi Wolf   Freedom of speech is a right that we must be vigilant to maintain. This right is the cornerstone to maintaining a free society and must be protected. It is no doubt hard to defend when individuals spread hatred, fear, and other social ills. But, this is t...

The stars have always been fascinating to humans. We imagine a time when we can travel the solar system and beyond looking for life and worlds like our own. This level of progress would not only captivate our imaginations, it would undoubtedly bring advances in everything from alternative forms of energy to advanced communications. Perhaps the most significant contribution would be new habitats fo...

The FDA has been scrutinized for blocking promising treatments and research for many chronic diseases and conditions. It has also been accused of being significantly behind the rest of the developed world at allowing new treatments into the U.S. market. On the other hand, they claim that their work is to protect the American people and any delays are to protect people. But who to believe? The trut...

Global markets have lost 20% of World Wide Wealth or 16 trillion since last June and markets around the world continue to fall. Investors are very nervous about their portfolios and the concern is justified. There are many uncertainties in the world and the market is reflecting the current realities. The Royal Bank of Scotland went as far as telling its clients that 2016 will be a “cataclysmic yea...

The markets are dropping all over the world. Countries are in recession and even some entering into depression territory. Companies and employees alike have little loyalty to each other and the world of politics seems to be entering a new low. We are being bombarded with good information, bad information and made up information on a constant basis. On top of this, the world is getting smaller and...

The second amendment has been a controversial issue for many decades in our country. Recently however, many people believe that the right to bear arms is being purposely restricted by imposing so many laws and restrictions that essentially the 2nd amendment no longer exists. Advocates of strict gun laws claim that the violence and murder rate in our country is excessively high and is due to a soci...

With military conflicts, drug wars, and terrorist activities seeming to be constant and growing around the world, where is it safe to travel? Is the world really as dangerous as the media makes us feel it is? One company, GeoSure Global, is on a mission to provide answers to all of these questions about every city and every neighborhood in the world in real time. They are literally gathering, orga...

To start 2016, this episode of Business Game Changers features an innovative and inspirational leader in the world of philanthropy, Joey Perry, the co-founder of Latitude. Joey, along with other founders, Krista Carroll and Jeremy Carroll, donate 50% o...

The financial services industry is facing a wave of digital disruption that is starting to reshape the sector. In general, this industry is facing the same upheaval that most other industries are facing, that is massive automation and data integration resulting in fundamental changes in how customers are served and how business is conducted. Being that the financial sector needs special attention,...

Are your company’s management practices outdated, negative, and ineffective? Are the world’s nonstop negative messages affecting your productivity and happiness? If yes, you are not alone. We have plenty of issues at work, in our communities, and at home. To solve these issues, humans need an environment that helps everyone meet their full potential. Of course, this is not a new idea. Back in the...

There is a cry all over the Internet that Americans are incredibly misinformed and ignorant. This may be correct if research company Ipsos Mori’s ignorance index is to be believed; the United States is only second to Italy as the most ignorant out of the 14 developed countries they studied. This could be funny, especially on display by comedy shows like the historical Jay Walking episodes, but it...

Cyber espionage and cyber warfare has unfortunately become a way of life for governments, businesses, and everyday citizens. Our lives are increasingly being integrated into various data driven technologies in everything that we do. Whether we are banking, booking airline tickets for vacation, or communicating with our college kids across the country, it will likely include the internet and privat...

Perception management has been alive in well throughout the world for ages. Governments use it all the time to manage public perception regarding policies and use it repeatedly to gain the upper hand in warfare and politics. Businesses also use it to build brands, sell products, and to mitigate losses. Leaders know the importance of perception management to grow and maintain a healthy business. In...

Military drones are what we typically think about when we discuss drones. But, recreational and commercial drone use has risen incredibly fast and are becoming much more prevalent then most people realize. Many of these are used to significantly provide benefits to humanity. Using drones to deliver medicine to otherwise unreachable areas or fighting out of control forest fires are among the many e...

Reporters Without Borders publishes the World Press Freedom Index each year to determine the status of freedom of the press (i.e. the right to print and distribute information freely) inside 180 countries that it researches. The 2015 index shows some disturbing trends developing as the entire world dropped as a whole in press freedom. The United States currently sits at 49th out of 180 nations. No...

Irvin Goldman, founder of Validity Holdings, joins Business Game Changers for an in-depth discussion about the United States and global economy. His past experience as head of strategy at JPMorgan Chase (one of the Worlds largest banks) and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald (one of a very small list of primary dealers with the Federal Reserve Bank) gives him unique insight into the inner workings of the U....

After the hugely popular show with Dr. Bill Andrews on Telomeres, Business Game Changers is diving even deeper into the cure for aging topic. This episode welcomes Dr. Aubrey de Grey who is widely considered the foremost expert in the field of aging by his peers. De Grey joins us to discuss his controversial views on the subject. He challenges the most basic assumption underlying the human conditi...

Scott Shields, a businessman looking to join the Presidential race as a Libertarian Democrat joins the program. He calls himself a Demtarian, a term he coined. We explore whether a libertarian can run in the Democratic Party: Will they let him run? Could he win? We also explore how he plans on getting the word out about his campaign. He shares with us his opinion on many issues in politics facing...

Jack Kelley, CEO of B & A Global Energy, joins us to discuss the companies mission to eliminate gas flaring occurring at well sites. Gas flaring is the source of 5% of the World’s atmospheric pollution. Kelley’s company’s mobile refinery is 1/30th the size of a traditional refinery and can refine natural gas flaring from oil wells in hard to reach locations all over the world. Their goal is...

In the last few decades, there has been trillions of dollars missing from the U.S. budget. Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense under Ford and Bush Junior, identified $2.3 trillion missing dollars (which was actually confirmed to be $2.7 trillion) in 2001 and recently Catherine Austin Fitts, the assistant department of Housing secretary under George Bush senior claimed that over the past few deca...

Krista Morgan, CEO and co-founder of P2Binvestor, joins us to explain how she has been able to grow her company so quickly. She explains why the market timing is just right and how investors are looking for alternative investments outside of the Wallstreet stock market game. Her company has a zero default rate and has consistently brought solid returns to her investors which has greatly outperform...

William Camilleri is joining the program to discuss how his new project and motion picture, “The Composer”, is taking Hollywood by storm and changing the rules of the game. Hollywood has settled into a focused money making system that has lost much of it’s creativity, risk taking, and many of the great traits that originally catapulted it to lead the world in great movie making. “The Compo...