Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett

All small businesses need an edge! Join me with my guest Pete Romano, Founder and Chief Solutions Architect of Segwik (segwik.com), the revolutionary new Customer Journey Management platform that makes running a small business easier. The average business today operates with no less than 12 different pieces of software. No small business owner should ever be expected to find scalability for their...

Our future is truly in the hands of our youth - who's preparing them! Join me and my guest Asheesh Advani, CEO of Junior Achievement Worldwide, one of the largest NGOs in the world dedicated to preparing youth for employment and entrepreneurship. Asheesh is a lifelong innovator with a passion for entrepreneurship in all of its forms and that passion fueled our conversation as we explored how Junio...

The future is NOT in plastic! Join me and my guest David Katz, founder and CEO of the Plastic Bank, an internationally recognized solution to the existential threat that is ocean plastic. David has been named one of the world's most compassionate entrepreneurs and is the recipient of the United Nations Lighthouse award for Planetary Health. His humanitarian work has earned him international recogn...

Fishing is is not the same as catching and leaders need to know this difference! Join me with my guest John Childress, co-founder and Chairman of Pyxis Culture Technologies, Ltd., a London based consultancy providing cultural assessment and development tools for the workplace. John also co-founded the groundbreaking leadership and culture consultancy Senn-Delany in 1978 and built it into an intern...

Knowing is NOT the same as doing! Meredith Bell is co-founder and President of Performance Support Systems, a global software company providing assessment and development tools for the workplace. Their award-winning software and books guide leaders and team members to make the shift from KNOWING to DOING. The result is permanent improvements in the way people interact with each other at work. Expe...

Making a difference matters! Join me with my guest and good friend Simon Mainwaring, CEO of We First, Inc., the creative consultancy that strategizes, integrates and activates the growth, productivity and impact of the world’s most successful brands. As a global keynote speaker, New York Times bestselling author, and highly-awarded brand futurist, Simon works with leading CEO’s, CMOs, and entrepre...

Imposter syndrome - who, me!? You have to catch this episode with my guest Michael Zipursky, CEO and co-founder of Consulting Success. Michael is the international bestselling author of three consulting books that cover the mindset, strategies and principles required to be a successful consultant. Michael's built 6 companies, sold 2 and worked with clients all over the world. Over 35,000 consultan...

Lots of stuff won't work! Join me with my guest Scott Miller, Wall Street Journal best selling author and senior advisor on thought leadership at FranklinCovey. Scott hosts the FranklinCovey sponsored On Leadership with Scott Miller, the world’s largest and fastest-growing leadership podcast, reaching more than six million people weekly. Our spirited and wide ranging conversation pulls from the se...

WE"VE BEEN HACKED!! Join me with my guest Mark Sangster, VP and Industry Security Strategist at eSentire, the world’s largest Managed Detection and Response (MDR) company. Mark is the author of No Safe Harbor: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime and How to Protect Your Business and an award-winning speaker who has spoken at the Harvard Law School and RSAConference. His thought provoking work and per...

I'll drink with that!! Join me with my guest Kris Dehnert, a wildly passionate entrepreneur and the founder of the Dehnert Media Group. Our conversation is all about finding, building and successfully promoting products and, as an aside, the meaning of life. Their flagship product is the patented DUGOUT MUG® which is the barrel of a baseball bat hollowed out to form a drinking mug! They round out ...

WildFit...I think I love you! Eric Edmeades is the founder of The Business Freedom Academy and WildFit. He’s an internationally recognized business speaker and has spoken in over 25 countries and shared the stage with Tony Robbins, President Bill Clinton, Sir Richard Branson, and Jack Canfield. A prolific entrepreneur, Eric’s owned companies in sectors as diverse as mobile computing, military R&D,...

What would you do with $68.4 TRILLION? Richard Steel, CEO of Parsec Ventures says you'd better be prepared to answer that question. One of Inc Magazine's fastest-growing company CEOs, Richard has run both private and public companies and been an advisor to the White House Business Council. Richard chairs a philanthropic fund and is the author of the best-selling book, Elevated Economics. He is als...

Wake Up with No Strings Attached! My guest on this episode is Mark Goulston, a psychiatrist, executive coach and consultant to major organizations. On his two shows Wake Up and No Strings attached Mark has interviewed some truly legendary individuals including the late Larry King twice. Beginning in late 2016, Goulston began performing a one-man show, entitled "Steve Jobs Returns - How to Think Li...

Jeff Holzman is COO of RREAF and CEO of their I.R.M subsidiary and President of Asset Management. Jeff oversees the entire RealtyShares portfolio of assets, including thousands of customers and hundreds of real estate assets across the country, with a combined asset value of over $1.5 Billion. In addition to his corporate responsibilities Jeff also serves as an airline pilot for a major US carrier...

Moving beyond the "starvation cycle"...what does the future of social impact fundraising look like? Join me with my guest Eric Ressler, the Founder and Creative Director at Cosmic, a Social Impact Creative Agency. Cosmic empowers social impact organizations to catalyze real world change by helping them nail their impact story, build brand awareness, and inspire action. Cosmic helps future thinking...

Business taking responsibility for the whole through the power of community! Lan Phan is founder and CEO of community of SEVEN, an invite-only membership community that brings leading executives, thought-leaders, and change makers together to tackle and solve business and societal problems. As an award-winning marketer and strategist with over twenty years of marketing, advertising, membership, an...

What can the son of a black pimp father and a white orphan mother teach us about life and business? Join me with my guest JeVon McCormick, the President and CEO of Scribe Media, a multi-million dollar publishing company that was recently ranked the #1 Top Company Culture in America by Entrepreneur Magazine. Scribe Media helps individuals from a variety of backgrounds write, publish, and market the...

Interestingly, having it all can include actually having a life! Join me with author, international speaker, and transformational coach Shelley Paxton. Shelley was formerly VP, Global Marketing + Brand (CMO) of Harley-Davidson and her work has been featured in media outlets such as NBC, CBS, Thrive Global, Forbes, Inc., and PBS. Her first book, Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Yo...

Success is never yours alone...who are your mentors? Dr. Ravishankar Gundlapalli is Founder and CEO of MentorcCloud, a human-powered growth engine for organizations to rapidly grow capabilities and performance of people through guided and curated mentorship connections at scale. Dr. Ravi is a globally recognized thought leader on mentoring and learning and is the author of The Art of Mentoring. Dr...

Stillness is the key! Michael Hess, founder of Discovering Mind, offers a unique perspective to international business leadership. His background combines three decades of successful entrepreneurial experience where he founded and managed a private investment firm that acquired numerous financial services companies resulting in two publicly traded exit transactions with a dedicated long-term medit...

Who wouldn't want time/money freedom? Join me and my guest Ray Higdon, founder and CEO of the Higdon Group, voted one of Inc. 5000's fastest growing companies in America and an award winning leader in the sales training and coaching arena. Ray is a best-selling author, coach, high energy speaker, and philanthropist. We explore how he went from foreclosure to multimillion dollar success in a few sh...

I’d rather die than get in front of a group! Fear of speaking actually leads fear of death as the #1 fear people deal with. Join me and my guest Mike Acker as we unbundle his bestselling Speak With No Fear, a book Forbes.com designated as the #1 book on overcoming fear of speaking. Mike is is an executive and communication coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of four other books and provides e...

What could go right!? Join me and my guest David Taylor-Klaus, a speaker, author, and leadership coach who is on a mission to unearth and unleash the personal mastery of entrepreneurs and senior executives. Beginning with a conversation about his best-selling book Mindset Mondays with DTK we explore what compelled Marshall Goldsmith to say “If you want to develop a growth mindset and you’re ready...

Who's the Boss??? Join me and my guests Jacqueline Snyder and Minna Khounlo-Sithep, the combined force behind The Product Boss Podcast. They have grown a community of high-achieving product-based small business owners and have helped them scale their physical product businesses through masterminds, group coaching and digital courses designed specifically for product-based business owners ranging f...

Culture WILL AND DOES eat strategy for breakfast! Join me and my guest Marissa Levin, co-founder of Successful Culture International and a globally known leadership and corporate culture expert as we explore the power of culture and explore its intentional development. Marissa is a syndicated columnist for Inc., Forbes, and Smart CEO magazines as well as American Express OPEN. She is the author of...