The Small Business Radio Show

Segment 1 with Dafna Michaelson Jenet starts at 0:00 What if you traveled around the country to each state for a week all in one year and met people just like you and people that weren’t at all like you. Dafna Michaelson Jenet did just that and was featured on "Sunday Morning" as a result. The question "What would you do if you won the lottery?" was the catalyst that caused Dafna to jump off her 1...

Segment 1 with Dr. Thom Mayers starts at 0:00 In a calm sea, every person is a pilot. But what happens when there is a crisis? What happens when your leadership is really tested? Dr. Thom Mayer has been a leader in times of crisis for over 25 years, navigating some of the most significant challenges imaginable. On top of being the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association, he served as the...

unmoved by the new Nazi regime's anti-Jewish doctrines, leads the fight to participate in the 1936  Segment 1 with Regina Bonds starts at 0:00 When small business owners start a business, they have to have a lot of confidence; but as they come up against the market, customer acceptance, employees leaving, their confidence gets shaken. What is the best formula to get and keep your confidence? Regin...

Segment 1 with Bill Eddy starts at 0:00 When we all went to grade school and high school there always were bullies – when we entered college, they were there too as they are in every business in America. But since Donald Trump became president in 2016, bullies again seem to be on the rise and in many organizations and parts of our society, and it may be a preferred method to get what you want. Wha...

Segment 1 with Gary Kusin starting at 0:00. I remember when my kids were growing up, my youngest son Daniel visited Gamestop the day it opened up near our home. He said that now since we were so close to Gamestop, our home would be more valuable. I am not sure about that but certainly GameStop has had a big effect on the gaming industry and the stock market. Gary Kusin, co-founded two companies, B...

Segment 1 with Lisa Ealy starting at 0:00 Here is the hard truth; at the core of every thriving business are its people. But managing and leading people are also the hardest part of the business…and quite honestly one of the top reasons entrepreneurs sell their companies- the people wear them out! Lisa Ealy is the CEO and Founder of Purple Squirrel Group and HR For Profit.  Segment 2 with Matt Gar...

Segment 1 with former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy starts at 0:00 I have many times talked and written about my struggle with depression and anxiety over the past 40 years. How it affected me, my family and my businesses- and we have featured other people over the last 15 who have had the courage to combat a similar struggle which is all too common among entrepreneurs and small business owners....

Let me be upfront. This show has nothing to do with small business but everything to do with my other love: cycling.  The Pandemic Bike Boom led to over 54 million American bike riders pushed cities across the country to focus on new bike lanes and bike safety! The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in human history. It can literally transport you to places you want to go—to your school or...

Segment 1 with Liz Elting starting at 0:00. Do you have to invent something entirely new to become a successful entrepreneur? Liz Elting, is an entrepreneur, business leader, and bestselling author. She founded TransPerfect out of an NYU dorm room in 1992 and served as Co-CEO until 2018. TransPerfect is the world's largest language solutions company, with over $1.2 billion in revenue and offices i...

Segment 1 starting at 0:00 with Justin Jones-Fosu. Let’s face it, we live in a divided world. This happens in business and our personal life.  Staying in our own bubble isn’t the solution. So how do you have these difficult conversations. When Justin Jones-Fosu is not summiting life's metaphorical mountains, he's literally trekking around world, whether on Mt Kilimanjaro, Patagonia, camping out in...

Segment 1 with   Alphonsus Obayuwana starting at 00:29. If there is a happiness formula, I know that every Small biz owner would want to have that, In this segment I interview Alphonsus Obayuwana, MD, PhD, CPC, is a physician-scientist, a happiness coach, and the founder and CEO of Triple-H Project LLC. He is the author of The Happiness Formula: Using Science to Understand Personal Satisfaction, H...

We’re living in frenetic times. Amid all the busyness and the FOMO, you may also feel directionless and overwhelmed. Maybe you know there’s more to life, but you have no idea what that “more” is. Maybe you sense there’s a message you need to hear, but the noise of everyday life is drowning it out. My guest is coach and healer Elaine Glass, who is the author of "Get Quiet: 7 Simple Paths to Finding...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Chloe Valdary‌ ‌‌starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:18‌. Diversity, equity and inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI. You would think that all of these things would be good for American business and society at large. But ni longer; more and more companies are coming under attack for having a DEI policy. Chloé Valdary who is the founder of the Theory of Enchantment, a New York-based DEI organizati...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Shawn D. Nelson ,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ What would you do in your business differently if you could do it all over again? Shawn D. Nelson is the author of Let Me Save You 25 Years: Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story. He is the founder and CEO of the Lovesac Company, which designs, manufactures, and sells such furniture as modular couches and bean bag...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Josh Greene,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ Its lonely at the top, especially as a solopreneur. Where and to whom does a business owner turn? Josh Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Groove where he builds on his passion for community, helping solopreneurs find the support and human connection they need to accomplish great things. Prior to co-founding Groove, Josh served as part...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Elliot Holland,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ I spend a lot of my time these days helping business owners buy and sell companies. Almost always, buyers and sellers are never prepared for the process. Elliott Holland is a Harvard Business School alum & expert in the small business acquisition space.  Elliott helps entrepreneurs do two very important things:  (1) execute grea...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Guy Kawasaki,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ As we get more experienced in our careers, some of us give up on truly making a difference in our work and other people’s lives. That has never happened to my next guest. He’s here to help us transform our lives and make a difference. Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People pod...

When Elon Musk first announced his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, the billionaire tech mogul believed that his ownership of the company would restore free speech to the masses and even help to preserve humanity. Then, almost immediately, everything went sideways. Kurt Wagner is a Bloomberg journalist who used his years of knowledge and experience covering social media to write the ul...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Akeem Shannon,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ I love to share comeback from failure stories since we can all relate to that… Akeem Shannon has had more than his fair share of failures, fall downs, setbacks, and hurdles. But through failing again and again, he found himself inching his way toward success. From college dropout to CEO of an Inc Magazine Top 50 Fastest Growing Consume...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Mike Michalowicz ,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ It has never been harder to build successful teams. With the challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-scheduling, and generational divides, business leaders bend over backward searching for solutions that work. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and training—but nothing...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Alexandra Watkins,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ What is the key to picking the right brand name for your company and the products inside your company? Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. If you have ever eaten a Wendy’s Baconator, you have literally eaten her words. For nearly 20 years, she and her naming firm, Eat My Words, have cr...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Robert J. Khoury ,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ With few professional job opportunities, lots of job seekers and employers are now turning to “the internship.” As a small business owner, how do you make sure the internship benefits your company, and as an intern, how do you make sure you can do meaningful work? SEGMENT‌ ‌2 with Jacqueline Snyder,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ 17:00 :‌ ‌...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ A lot of people in small business don't really like to get together with their team members on a one-on-one basis. Is it necessary? What can be gained from it? SEGMENT‌ ‌2 with Katie Desiderio and Michael Frino,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ 21:10 :‌ ‌ ‌ For most small business owners, it is hard to be the leader in the organization. It...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Bill Raduchel,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ ‌ What is it like to be “in the room where it happened” for some of the big moments in tech history like the launch of iTunes or a bid to buy Apple? Over more than half a century at the forefront of the technology revolution, Bill Raduchel encountered them all as a pioneering executive for McGraw-Hill, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, and AOL—...

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Amy Padnani,‌ ‌‌ starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌ :‌ ‌ Let’s kick off the new year with an interesting story about being first. What drives some people always want to be first? Here's the untold story of Mr. First himself. Amy Padnani , a journalist for the NY Times, works on a series that tells the stories of remarkable people whose deaths were not originally reported on by The New York Tim...