The Authority Business Show

Public safety technology is moving faster than most communities realize, and the gap between what agencies are equipped with today and what is already available is costing lives. Non-lethal restraint is only the beginning. Drones, counter-drone systems, virtual reality training, and federal defense contracts are now part of the same ecosystem. Scot Cohen, Founder and CEO of Wrap Technologies (NASD...

Women in business are hitting revenue goals, filling calendars, and landing the clients they worked for. And most of them still don't feel like they've arrived. That's not a personal failure. It's the vanishing finish line, the pattern where every win immediately converts into the next responsibility before the founder gets to feel what she built. Beverly Cornell, founder of Wickedly Branded, brea...

Authentic leadership is the asset most credentialed experts never fully use, and it is the reason talented people lose trust, clients, and teams they should already have. Expertise earns attention. Authenticity earns loyalty. Rich Lyons, entrepreneur, former CEO, and author of Life Is Sales, built his entire philosophy on the idea that real influence is created through self-awareness, relationship...

Most family offices investing millions in private deals are flying blind — and it's costing them years of regret. Private equity expert Susan Lindeque — with over $1 billion invested — reveals the due diligence steps most family offices skip and how to pressure-test projections and verify competitive moats before you're locked in. She shares her proven framework for building a focused investment t...

Adversity is the thing most people are trying to escape — but for Darius Ross, it became the foundation for everything. Growing up in hardship and facing homelessness in Chicago didn't stop him. It launched him. Today he advises wealthy clients, invests in real estate, writes for Forbes, and mentors those rebuilding their lives from nothing. Darius shares the mindset and the method that turn your...

Discover how rewarding high performers can damage organizational culture. Leadership expert David Cohen reveals why confidence and results can be misleading, masking toxic behaviors that erode trust. Learn strategies to align actions with core values for sustainable success. Tune in to protect your organization's future. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 CONNECT WITH DAVID COHEN 🌐 Website: https:/...

Mission-driven founders don't usually come from hedge funds — but the ones who do tend to build differently. Most entrepreneurs chase a market. Scot Cohen walked away from co-founding a $300M New York hedge fund because he saw a broken system and had the capital markets expertise to fix it. He founded Wrap Technologies (NASDAQ: WRAP), led $90M in financing, and built a non-lethal public safety dev...

People problems are costing hardworking leaders more than any bad strategy ever could — and most never realize it until the damage is done. When the same walls keep appearing despite better systems and smarter plans, the root cause is almost always human. It is not your fault. It is the missing framework. April Elias brings 25 years of talent acquisition and workforce transformation experience to...

Most women were never given the playbook on how to make money work while they sleep. The wealth gap between men and women is not a talent gap or a discipline gap. It is an access and education gap. Susan Lindique, founder and CEO of Avestics Group, chartered accountant, and private equity expert with over $1 billion in transactions, breaks down her five-bucket portfolio framework for women startin...

Disruptive thinking is the difference between founders who keep scaling and the ones who quietly stall while doing everything right. You changed the strategy, the team, the offer, yet the same ceiling returns. The block is not your effort. It is an invisible thinking pattern shaping every decision you make. Ted Santos, CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners and creator of the Disruptive Leadership...

High performers learn to split themselves in two: the sharp professional who delivers and the real person underneath who wonders if any of it still feeds them. Most leaders wall those two off and call it discipline, but the divide is what drains them and fuels burnout. Rich Strilowich spent over forty years in global corporations and thirty on the spiritual path, and as a bestselling author of The...

Being right in a leadership role feels like strength until your team stops challenging you and starts waiting for orders. The gap is not your intelligence. It is a quiet reflex that reads every disagreement as a threat to your standing. Paul Crick, creator of the GRACE Framework, spent decades studying leadership, human behavior, and Aikido, and he explains why the need to be right erodes trust fa...

Retirement income is the piece almost no plan accounts for. You saved for decades, invested with care, and still wonder if the money lasts as long as you do. It signals a missing system, because building wealth and turning it into income that never runs dry are two different skills. Mark Kollar, a retirement income specialist with thirty-five years of guiding retirees, explains the guaranteed inco...

Women and retirement savings reveal one of the most overlooked gaps in personal finance. You have worked hard, lived carefully, and still the numbers do not add up. The wealth gap is not a discipline problem. It is an access problem. Susan Lindeque, Founder of Avestix Technology Holdings and a former Global CFO who has structured over a billion dollars across real estate, venture capital, and priv...

Your family office named AI a priority this year, and months later, nothing has actually changed. It still runs on spreadsheets and the same public tech stocks everyone else owns. The gap is not ambition; it is that no one can tell real AI tools from vendor hype. Susan Lindeque, Chartered Accountant and CIO of her own family office, breaks down the two AI gaps quietly making families vulnerable. L...

You are staring at a shop you built that still has not become the income you pictured, wondering if the people who made it big online simply got lucky. They did not. They ran a playbook you were never handed. Dylan Jahraus built her own shop past a million dollars in profit and taught thousands of sellers the steps that turn a stalled shop into a real business. Listen before you quit on yours. ───...

You walk through your own company and realize the standards you set early on have quietly eroded, and no single decision caused it. The cultures that actually hold are built by leaders who hire for values, reward how people get results, and refuse to trade long-term identity for short-term numbers. David Cohen, founder of DS Cohen and Associates and bestselling author of Selecting the Best, has gu...

You did everything right, so why does burnout still find the people who look like they have it all together? If you are successful on the outside and exhausted on the inside, this episode names exactly what's happening and how to fix it. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Kenyokee Crowell, founder of Prodigy Advisors and a leadership coach who spent 20-plus years in corporate healthcare before st...

It is not an accident. The stories that get covered. The ones that don't. The framing feels just a little too convenient. Media consolidation has quietly put the majority of what you read, watch, and hear into the hands of a shrinking number of owners — and those owners have advertisers, agendas, and bottom lines that have nothing to do with telling you the truth. Steven Abramowicz left Wall Stree...

Three million dollars a year. That is what a family office can quietly cost, and most families cannot tell you what it actually buys. The worst losses never appear on a single statement. They are buried inside the structure, draining a fortune one invisible cost at a time, while everyone assumes the money is safe. Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with Susan Lindeque, Founder and CEO of Avestix Group...

From the outside, you look like you have it all figured out. So why do you quietly wonder where the real you went? That feeling isn't burnout. You've evolved, but your brand and the way you show up still speak for a version of you that no longer exists. Co-Host Lisa Urbanski sits down with Beverly Cornell, founder and growth visionary of Wickedly Branded, a branding agency that helps purpose-drive...

Every leader has a decision they replay. The hire that blew up the team. The pivot that cost six months of runway. The moment they said yes when every instinct said wait. Most leaders chalk it up to bad judgment and carry it as evidence they're not as sharp as they should be. They're wrong. Jason Turner scaled PowerShades from two people to over 50 employees and a successful 2025 acquisition — and...

One percent. It sounds like nothing — a rounding error, a cost of doing business. But that single percentage point, compounded over 20 years, can quietly consume more than your entire starting investment while your wealth manager sends you quarterly reports that make everything look fine. Most investors never do this math. Most wealth managers are counting on that. Andrew Parrillo spent years insi...

Your calendar is full. Your resume looks impressive. By every external measure you are succeeding — and you wake up most mornings wondering why none of it feels like enough. That gap isn't a motivation problem. It isn't burnout. It's what happens when you've spent years executing someone else's definition of a good life without ever stopping to design your own. Ted Kopecko is an architect and entr...

In 2026 a criminal doesn't need to break into your home or hack your accounts. They need 30 seconds of your voice from a podcast and your face from LinkedIn — and they can call your family office, impersonate you perfectly, and wire your wealth out before anyone realizes what happened. This isn't a hypothetical. It's happening to high-net-worth families right now and most of them never see it comi...