The Small Business Radio Show

Segment 1 with Lisa Greene-Lewis at 0.00. It’s the scariest time of year for small business owners- no not Halloween, its tax time- March 15th for businesses and April 15th for everyone personally. Why is it so scary for so many small businesses owners and what we all need to know. Lisa Greene-Lewis is a CPA and tax expert for TurboTax. Lisa has over 20 years of experience in tax preparation and b...

Segment 1 with Mark Hickman starts at 0:00. What does the future look like for small business in 2025 with the economy still relatively solid, but the "on again off again" tariffs looming? Mark Hickman serves as Managing Director for Sage in North America. Sage serves small and midsized businesses, providing them with finance, HR, and payroll software to make work and money flow. With more than 20...

Segment 1 with Mike Colias starts at 0:00. We are moving to electric vehicles no matter what the current president thinks. My first guest is Mike Colias who is a Wall Street Journal reporter and veteran of the US automotive beat. He is based in Detroit, where he has covered General Motors for fourteen years and, five years ago, added Ford to his duties. With access to all the key players in the au...

Segment 1 with Josh Drean starts at 0:00. Since COVID 19, we have seen a drastic redefinition of how people define work and employment - and a redefinition of how they want to make a living.  As my first guest says in the title of his book – Is employment dead? Josh Drean is cofounder of the Work3 Institute. He is also a Web3 and Workforce Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs and cofounder of Dr...

This episode's guest is James Sweeney. Most entrepreneurs see insecurity as a bad thing. They tell themselves that they have to be overly confident in everything they do. But what if insecurity actually feeds success? I love the title of the book from this guest- “Creative Insecurity: Lean into the Unknown and Unleash Your Inner Misfit.” James M. Sweeney is a serial entrepreneur who started 14 hea...

Segment 1 with Karla Trotman starts at 0:00. As Baby Boomers prepare to retire, family-owned businesses across the nation are at a pivotal crossroads. Transitioning leadership and ownership is a complex process, often more challenging in family-run businesses, especially for Black-owned enterprises that face unique obstacles in succession planning and recognition. Karla Trotman, who CEO of Electro...

As I grow older, I have realized one thing for my business and professional life- Friends matter . For men, making and keeping friends at the later part of your career and life is more difficult for us than women. My guest is esteemed professor and research psychologist, Dr. Kimberly Horn has worked with top-tier academic institutions, including West Virginia University, The George Washington Univ...

One of the most successful companies that helps small business is Zen Business. Ross Buhrdorf is the CEO & Founder of ZenBusiness®, a company that provides an easy, all-in-one platform and trusted guidance for small business owners. In his current role at ZenBusiness, Buhrdorf empowers the new generation of entrepreneurs through the delivery of innovative tools, fintech, and educational resour...

The idea of masculinity has come into focus with this past election of Donald Trump – it was one of the biggest gender divides with Trump emphasizing his brand of masculinity and the idea that men had to take care of women. When the votes were counted, men overwhelming voted for Trump and woman for Harris.  So what's going on here? Is this something new or a throwback to the past? My guest is Dr....

Can we improve our business brain by participating in art? My guest did the research to confirm this;  it's called neuroaesthetics. Ivy Ross is the Vice President, Design for Hardware at Google. She was trained at Harvard Business School for general management with outstanding record of achievement with Fortune 500 companies in retail, direct mail, and manufacturing environments. One of nine execu...

Segment 1 are 2 are with Brian Solis.  Brian Solis is Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow. He designs and delivers strategic engagements with important customers to advise on digital and business innovation strategies. Brian has been called “one of the greatest digital analysts of our time.” He is an award-winning author of 9 best-selling books including In his latest book called "Mindshift: T...

Segment 1 with Kenneth Davis starts at 0:00. What are the greatest non fiction books of all time? Kenneth C. Davis called "The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Non Fiction" – the best and most important short nonfiction works of all time, chosen by This historian. Kenneth’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian magazine, among other publications. He h...

It seems if one thing is for sure, is that we are living in “the age of outrage”. Social media and politics certainly has turned up the heat and people seem to be outraged and angry almost everywhere about almost everything. How can we still lead in such a highly charged environment? My guest is Karthik Ramanna who is a professor of business and public policy at University of Oxford’s Blavatnik Sc...

Segment 1 with Tobias Sturesson starts at 0:00. Having grown up in a religious cult and later confronted its toxic culture, Tobias Sturesson evolved into a prominent advocate for the vital importance of cultural health for organizational success and human flourishing. He  is the author of "You Can Culture: Transformative Leadership Habits for a Thriving Workplace, Positive Impact and Lasting Succe...

Segment 1 with Barry Conchie begins at 0:00. What talents does it take to be a great leader? My first guest is Barry Conchie who is the founder and president of Conchie Associates and author of " The Five Talents That Really Matter: How Great Leaders Drive Extraordinary Performance", with his business partner Sarah Dalton. He is an expert in psycho- metric talent assessments, leadership research a...

Segment 1 with Spencer Carroll starts at 0:00 Taxes…there isn’t another word that sends shivers up the spine of a small business owner or gives them such a feeling of dread- but it really doesn’t have to be that way. There is help to put together sound strategies so you don’t dread April 15th and get to keep more of your money. My first guest is Spencer Carroll who is an experienced CPA with a bac...

Segment 1 with Ed Hajim starts at 0:00. I am always amazed about the resiliency of people in their lives and their companies. At the age of 3, Ed Hajim is kidnapped by his father, driven cross-country, and told his mother is dead. He presses his face against the car window, watches the miles pass and wonders where life will take him. In a memoir filled with human drama, wisdom and timeless life le...

Segment 1 with Anton Gunn starts at 0.00. A lot of people quit their job as a result of workplace injustice. My first guest has just released a study on this. Anton Gunn, MSW, CDM, CSP, commissioned this scientific study on workplace injustice. Anton began his career in the non-profit sector to improve the outcomes and experiences of low-income people who consumed financial, government, educationa...

Segment 1 with Zac Larsen starts at 0.00. Lately, I keep talking about retirement to my friends and family. I keep saying 2 more years because there are other things I want to do with my life. For most of us, retiring is complicated. Zachary Larson is a CFP®, ChFC®, FIC and Founding Partner & Wealth Advisor for IntentGen Financial Partners in Naperville, Illinois. He is also the author of the...

Segment 1 with Adam Wallace starts at 0:00. As inflation finally continues to fall, customers are still holding on tight to every last dollar—while some businesses get nervous and slash prices in a scramble to the bottom. But price wars are nothing but a race to the bottom- warns acclaimed pricing strategist Adam Wallace. There’s a smarter, more sustainable approach: tapping into human nature to r...

Segment 1 with Lisa O'Masta at 0.00. We have talked on the show, the effects that social media is having on our world. But where does it intersect with educational technology and teaching our children? What is happening here? My first guest is Lisa O’Masta is the CEO of Learning.com, which provides educators with solutions to prepare students for success in a digital world. She is a dynamic leader...

Segment 1 starts at 0:00 AI will fundamentally change the landscape of various industries But how and when? My guest is KP Reddy who is the author of "Creating the Intangible Enterprise", an AI expert, founder and CEO of Shadow Ventures. With a background in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Reddy has become a global authority in AEC environments, AI, robotics, automation...

Segment 1 with Ricardo Jimenez starts at 0:00. Some people say that failure, if you can survive it, if you can move on from it, is the best teacher in small business. My first guest is Ricardo Jimenez is a Puerto Rico- and Barcelona-based writer, entrepreneur and active angel investor. Since 2014, he has performed direct investments in over 30 tech projects, including the Ethereum token. He talks...

Segment 1 with Dr. John Dyben starts at 0:00. The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has recently called for warning labels on social media platforms, and there have been a number of research and consumer articles recently about the dangers of social media, particularly to our youth. I wrote a blog post on this but there were few comments. So here we are talking about it again In his role as...

Segment 1 with Kat DeLorean starts at 0:00. Kat DeLorean's father John created the iconic DeLorean sports car, best known as the time machine from ‘Back to the Future.’ Her Mom, model Christine Ferrare wanted her to get into modeling but she quit to give her child what she never had—a chance to grow up not famous. Decades later, years after taking her husband’s last name, Kat asked her daughter’s...