The Bizgnus Podcast

•  Marilyn Jenkins offers advice you can use today •  “Your customers are digital”   (Total Recorded Time is 12:12)    HOUSTON, Texas -- Google. It’s been in business for just a quarter of a century but it has in that time wriggled its way into almost every aspect of daily life, especially business.  Is it now too complex for a small business to tap into?  Marilyn Jenkins, a digital marketing expe...

•  Leadership coach says it just means you’re human •  Where did you put your electric pen?   (Total Recorded Time is 14:50)    You’ve heard of the electric pen, of course.  No?  It was invented by that guy Thomas Edison.  And it was one of his many failures.   The great inventor, who had more than 1,000 patents in his name, also had failures.  Failure is being embraced by Steve McCready, a psycho...

  •  Executive recruiter offers tips for both job seeker and those looking to hire •  From Down Under to the United States (Total recorded time is 22:00)   BRISBANE, Australia — Richard Triggs has written books for both ends of your bookshelf.  His "Uncover the Hidden Job Market - How to find and win your next senior executive role" was a best seller and is now in its second edition.  Mr...

•  Chris Moe coaches companies toward that goal •  What’s Ozempic got to do with it?  (Total Recorded Time is 22:45)    AUSTIN, Texas -- So you’ve been making your own maple syrup for years and now you think you could sell it on Amazon.  You and ten-thousand other people with an affinity for boiling tree sap.  Enter Chris Moe, chief executive officer of Austin, Texas-based Cartograph, an e-commerc...

•  Memphis firm says progress can be seen quickly •  “I have fallen in love with the process itself”   (Total Recorded Time is 11:46)    She may look young, but Kaylee Johnson says she has been digging into the details of social media since er parents let her get her first social media platform at the age of 13.   Now she is chief executive officer of Memphis-based Digital Journey, a company that...

•  Colette Phillips says cultural IQ bridges culture gaps •  Discovering what’s often invisible to white leaders   (Total Recorded Time is 18:35)   Businesses and nonprofits are faced daily with how to best meet goals of diversity, equity and inclusion.  DEI expert Colette Phillips says cultural IQ bridges culture gaps among the Black, brown, and white experiences that whites often don’t even real...

•  The your list of kung fu icons, add Craig Cooke •  “Showing up every single day and grinding it out”   (Total Recorded Time is 24:00) (LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.) — Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and many others made careers in television and movies thanks to their skills in kung fu.  Craig Cooke is taking the martial art in a different direction: into business leadership.  Mr. Cooke, an entrepreneur who sta...

•  Businessman Chris Lautenslager says companies should prioritize purpose as much as profits •  “Allowing all Americans to be justly rewarded for their contributions to their work”   (Total Recorded Time is 14:35)    In this audio-only episode of Bizgnus Interviews, we talk with Chicago businessman Chris Lautenslager. He stresses that he’s a through and through capitalist but one who sees better...

•  Sam Adeyemi has a different approach •  “The moment I went on radio – from the first broadcast – it was ‘boom’”  (Total Recorded Time is 11:59)   As a leadership coach, Sam Adeyemi has a different approach.  “The measure of a leader’s success is in contribution, not acquisition,” Mr. Adeyemi says.  He explains it in this episode of Bizgnus Interviews  Born in Nigeria, Mr. Adeyemi started his ad...

Psychologist and professor Tom Norris says an answer to the divisiveness that is rupturing society can be as simple – and as difficult – as a “cup of tolerance.”  That’s also the title of his recent book.  He joins us for a cup of tolerance in this edition of Bizgnus Interviews. (Poor internet connections required extensive editing of the content.)  Mr. Norris has taught in the Religious Studies D...

•  The “franchise maven” has some advice •  “You want them to take you through the process”   (Total Recorded Time is 23:33)  (LICKING, MISSOURI) -- Thinking about getting into business through a franchise?  There are literally thousands to choose from, ranging from giants like a McDonalds tothose folks who scoop up dog doo-doo.  Yes, that’s a franchise.   The guy who know it is Gregory Mohr, a se...

•  A childhood of anger and blame blossoms into love and harmony •  “Highly effective leaders that lead with love will retain their personnel”   (Total Recorded Time is 26:24)  (St. GEORGE, UTAH) -- Paul Zolman says he has a new way to use what he calls “the love languages” to improve customer service and create a more effective sales team.  Love?  Sales?  Really?  Mr. Zolman explains his ideas in...

•  Tips on getting from operator to owner •  “Basically, I was an employee who owned 100 percent of the business”  (Total Recorded Time is 25:10)    (SCOTTSDALE, Arizona) -- It’s great to start a business but many entrepreneurs then find that they are stuck in that business, running it with little or no time to plan its future or even to take a real vacation without checking emails and calling the...

•  Author suggests ways the divide between the U.S. and Iran can be bridged •  “One of my great-grandfathers had 25 wives and concubines”   (Total Recorded Time is 24:54)    Can technology bridge the divides between the United States and Iran?  In this episode of Bizgnus Interviews, we hear from Afarin Bellisario, an American who grew up in Iran and got her doctorate from the Massachusetts Institu...

•  This executive coach says it’s time to change •  “Shockingly, we took some approaches to leader development … right out of OSHA training”  (Total Record Time is 22:42)   (LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.) -- Stop wasting your money on traditional executive coaching.  That radical thought is expressed by a veteran executive coach, Lori Mazan, who has coached some of the nation’s top business leaders over th...

•  Ben Owen says it could be your inner saboteur •  “In doing the work that was required to see it in myself, I started seeing it in my clients”   (Total Recorded Time is 15:59)    (Dubai, UAE) -- Benjamin Owen says many people are letting an inner enemy hold them back from full success in life and business.    A professional high-performance coach with over 15 years of experience in long-term res...

•  Professor finds the source •  “The problem with the court is that it has become too political”   (Total Recorded Time is 26:19)   (Chandler, Arizona) -- Americans’ approval of the U.S. Supreme Court and their trust in it are near their lowest points ever, according to a September survey by the polling firm Gallup.   It says the public is divided over whether the court’s ideology is about right...

•  Brian Childrerss taps AI for full solutions to each fraction •  “I see it as a multiplier for the work we are doing”   (Total Recorded Time is 17:30)    Brian Childress loves fractions, perhaps because he is one.   Mr. Childress is a “fractional” chief technology officer.   He joins us for this episode of Bizgnus Interviews to tell us what that really means and why he makes more money with his...

•  Adrienne Simmons explains how to find new energy as you age •  “I started to become more aware of people all around me suffering from … chronic fatigue and or brain fog”   (Total Recorded Time is 22:54)   It happens to a lot of people.  After about age 50, one’s energy level seems to drop, pounds are easier to add and the work-work-work and play-play-play days seem unattainable.   That happened...

•  The key is to also empower  •  “The 9th stratum is the operating level of high performers”   (Total Recorded Time is 20:01)    It’s customary for managers to delegate tasks to their staffs.  But that often backfires, with managers having to get into the nitty-gritty to save the task and wondering why they bothered to delegate in the first place.   Sales management expert Aaron Salko says stoppi...

•  Expert calls for creation of soulful work cultures •  “There is a dramatic difference between people who are love-driven and people who are duty-driven”   (Total Recorded Time is 26:05)    The percentage of employees who are engaged with their work recently hit an all-time high: 23 percent.  The others – nearly eight out of ten – do the bare minimum to keep their jobs – or less.   “Employees wh...

•  Your managers are spending on-the-job time looking for a new job •  “More people need to give a damn at work”   (Total Recorded Time is 19:58)    In a recent report, Gallup says managers are more likely than non-managers to be: •  Disengaged at work •  Burned out •  Looking for a new job •  Feeling like their organization does not care about their wellbeing.   Now there’s a short list of change...

•  In buying coaching for your team, don’t overlook the mid-levels •  “I'm trying to shift focus to the benefits of coaching”   (Total Recorded Time is 22:59)    A retired U.S. Navy commander and former university professor, Walt Morgan knows about management training.  But too often, he says, companies buy professional coaching for so-called senior leadership, overlooking middle level positio...

•  Something was missing in Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell’s life •  “People want more out of life than to just be happy”  (Total Recorded Time is 19:46)    Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell had accomplished a lot: She was an attorney, an author, an entrepreneur.  Most people would be happy with that success. But she says she realized that the accolades and achievements did not create lasting happiness.    The...

•  The secret to a thriving team and culture lies in one skill •  “Ask more questions. That’s a leadership behavior”   (Total Recorded Time is 23:13)   Think your staff is really into their jobs, ready to help push the organization to new heights?  Think again.   Nearly 1 in 5 workers say their workplaces are unbearably toxic, according to the American Psychological Association’s just-released  20...