The Mentors Radio Show

In today’s episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Dr. Natali Edmonds , a board-certified geropsychologist and the founder of Dementia Careblazers. Did you know that right now, one in four adults in the United States is providing care for someone else? That represents 63 million Americans—a silent army navigating complex medical needs, crushing financial pressures, and heavy...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with former U.S. Senator Jack Danforth about Senator Danforth’s book,  The Relevance of Religion , and why and how religious congregations of all faiths should endeavor to heal the political divide in America. An ordained Episcopal priest and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Senator Danforth explains religion’...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Jim Loehr , a world-renown human performance psychologist, about how to ensure you are leading with character and purposely pursuing what matters most. Loehr knows what he’s talking about. He has literally transformed hundreds of lives, including the most elite tennis competitors in the world, as well as business executives at...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Yale Ph. D. J. Budziszewski , professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of more than 20 books, including The Revenge of Conscience , What We Can’t Not Know and his most recent work, Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy . A former radical athe...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Dr. Eswar Prasad , a Professor of Economics at Cornell, a senior fellow at Brookings, and the former head of the IMF’s China division, to discuss his book The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance , which was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign A...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Michael Collopy , one of the preeminent portrait photographers of our time — a man whose camera has revealed the inner soul of saints, world leaders, Nobel Peace laureates, and some of the most recognizable entertainers on the planet. Over 45 years , he has photographed six U.S. presidents , 37 Nobel Peace Prize laureates , and hundr...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Jerome Bettis (also known as “The Bus”), who is a Hall of Fame running back and Walter Peyton NFL Man of the Year. Jerome describes how he “broke the cycle” of shunning rookies in the locker room and instead focused on encouraging and mentoring them. He also talks about how the generosity of one pro football player he met as a kid dro...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Rusty Gaillard , a man who built one of the quintessential “A-student” careers of our time: Princeton engineering, GE under Jack Welch, an MBA from Stanford, and ultimately 14 years at Apple, where he served as Worldwide Director of Finance. By any external measure, he had “made it”. But internally, Rusty hit a wall — a w...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio , Host Dan Hesse talks with Sahil Bloom , author of The 5 Types of Wealth—A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life to describe how important Time, Social, Mental, Physical, and Financial wealth are to leading one’s dream life, and how important it is not to sacrifice one kind of wealth in pursuit of another.  In addition to his debut book , Sahill...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Thom Weisel, a guest whose influence has not only shaped companies, but also culture. A financier and sports leader, Weisel is both Senior Managing Director and a Director of Stifel, a diversified global wealth management and investment banking company. Previously Thom was Chairman and CEO of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. and Mo...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Dan Hesse discusses the AI spectrum with Nick Thompson , who is the host of “The Most Interesting Thing in AI” podcast and CEO of The Atlantic magazine. Thompson also discusses his just-released book The Running Ground , where Nick, the #1 long distance runner in the world at his age, tells the story of how running both bonded him with, but al...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Daniel Levintin, PhD , a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, musician and best-selling author whose newest book, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine , explores how music changes the brain, strengthens memory and restores joy. Dr. Levitin’s research explains why that happens. He’s a Founding Dean of Arts and Humani...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Dan Hesse talks with Robert L. Dilenschneider , who has been called “the Dean of American Public Relations Executives,” to discuss his just-released book, his nineteenth,  Respect: How to Change the World One Interaction at a Time .   In 1991, Bob formed The Dilenschneider Group, providing strategic advice and counsel to Fortune 500 co...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Cathy Lanier, whose amazing story continues to inspire. At age 14, Lanier got pregnant, ran away from home, dropped out of high school. But by age 39, this single mother became Washington D.C.’s Chief of Police, earned two master’s degrees, and now serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer for the National Football Le...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Carmen Policy , former President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns. But Policy is best known for his years as President and CEO of the San Francisco 49ers where he played a key role in all five of the 49ers’ Super Bowl winning teams — helping shape an organization that became widely viewed as the hallmark sports franchise of the &...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio , Host Tom Loarie talks with Ed Kopetsky , retired and award-winning Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Stanford Health’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford’s Children’s Health. Kopetsky now focuses on mentoring families whose lives have been turned upside down due to drug addiction. In 2017, Kopetsky tragically lost his 31-year-old son to a...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio , Host Tom Loarie t alks with Dana Gower , Vice President of Talent and Client Services at CareerPro, and co-author of Job Hunting in the AI Era , to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the job hunt. Gower is also the founder of JobWorks Career Ministry and co-author of Careering . He has personally lived through three periods of unemployment, each...

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Dan Hesse talks with former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen about leadership during a crisis. Whether it’s a business crisis, family crisis, natural disaster, supply chain nightmare, government-mandated pandemic shutdown or something else, ethical leadership can make all the difference in ultimately navigating to “safe shores.” Our guest me...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Randy Hain, founder of Serviam Partners, a nationally respected executive coach, and the author of 16 books—including Essential Wisdom , Becoming a More Thoughtful Leader, and most recently, Practical Virtue An Actionable Guide to Help You Become a Leader Worth Following . In this latest work, Randy makes the case that mastering virt...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse is joined by Lt. General Robert Caslen Jr. (Ret.) and Michael Matthews, Ph. D. to discuss  The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity , a unique book in the way it combines lessons from extensive leadership research—strengthened by experience and real-life examples of leadership in action, and shares practical tools th...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Forbes Magazine publisher and author Rich Karlgaard on the power of “late bloomers.” We live in a world obsessed with early achievement, but you may be surprised and inspired by what older individuals launch and achieve. Not only is Karlgaard and expert on the intersection of business and innovation, he is also a best-selling author...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Michael MacCambridge , the award-winning journalist and author featured on the acclaimed ESPN documentary series about the Kansas City Chiefs entitled “The Kingdom.” Today’s discussion will focus on MacCambridge’s biography, Lamar Hunt – A Life in Sports , about the man who started it all. Lamar Hunt did...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Gerald Nosich, PhD , who is among the most distinguished experts in critical thinking alive today. He authored such foundational works as Reasons and Arguments (Wadsworth, 1982) and Learning to Think Things Through , a book that has been translated into multiple languages and is used in classrooms globally. His latest book, Critical...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Ursula Burns , Chairwoman of Teneo and founding partner of private equity company Integrum Holdings. But Ursula is best known for serving as Chairwoman and CEO of Xerox during a 36-year-career there, where she became the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In addition, Ursula serves on several private company boards, whil...

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Mai Nguyen , PhD, the remarkable 36-year-old neuroscientist who is the co-founder and CEO of OptoCeutics and the inventor of EVY LIGHT®, a breakthrough light-based therapy aimed at slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s and other memory disorders. Her journey is anything but ordinary. Born in Vietnam, raised in California as the youn...