Synopsis
Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck. He has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years. Barry knows the formula for taking your company to the next level!This is a business radio show where we talk about all the craziness of small business. Its that craziness that actually makes it exciting, interesting and totally unpredictable.
Episodes
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#480 Josh Stanton Shares How to Run a Business with Your Spouse... And a Newborn
04/05/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1:Josh Stanton is the co-founder of Screw The Nine To Five—him and his wife, Jill’s slice of the internet where they help entrepreneurs build more attention to their brands, make more money in their business and get more out of their life through simple strategies.Segment 2: Alexandra Franzen is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Alexandra’s latest book is called You’re Going to Survive. It's a book about stressful, discouraging experiences—things like unhappy customers, projects that flop, negative reviews, financial panic—and how to get through those tough moments. Segment 3: Lara Alexiou has been helping people transform their lives through the Eastern Healing Arts for nearly two decades. She has trained extensively in yoga, qigong, meditation, and Taoist philosophy. She is the author of the book Become the Architect of Your Body, Mind, and Soul.Segment 4: Marcy Keckler is Vice President of Financial Strategy at Ameriprise Financial. Segment 5: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.S
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#479 Nigel Bennett Shares How to Leap and Risk it All for What Really Matters
27/04/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Nigel Bennett is the author of Take that Leap – Risking it all for what really matters. In this action-oriented autobiography, he shares the many leaps he took on the way to becoming a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, spouse and parent.Segment 2: Oliver Cooke joined Selby Jennings in 2011 in their London office and quickly established himself as one of the top recruitment consultants specializing in the Quantitative analytics space.Segment 3: Jon Ellenthal has 25 years of experience building and leading early stage companies with transformational business models to positions of industry leadership and large-scale customer bases. Jon serves as a Board Member and Sr. Advisor to The Upside Travel Company, the latest travel innovation from well-known entrepreneur and Priceline founder Jay Walker. Segment 4: John Scola is global vice president of Cloud Channels & Strategy at SAP. In his role, he leads SAP’s go-to-market strategy with partners selling the entire SAP Cloud portfolio, specif
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#478 Guillaume Vidal Shares His Unique Co-CEO Arrangement with Business Partner
20/04/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Guillaume Vidal is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of GREEN CREATIVE, an LED lighting manufacturer. Vidal started the business with Cole Zucker in 2010 following their chance encounter in Shanghai.Segment 2: Dr. Jamie Reynolds is recognized on an annual basis as one of the top orthodontists in metro Detroit. He is the author of the book World Class Smiles Made in Detroit.Segment 3: Dr. Christopher Croner is a Principal with SalesDrive, LLC, a firm that specializes in the selection and deployment of high-performing salespeople. Dr. Croner is co-author of the book, Never Hire a Bad Salesperson Again, detailing his research and practice in identifying the non-teachable personality traits common to top producers.Segment 4: Joey Coleman helps organizations retain their best customers and turn them into raving fans. He is the author of the new book “Never Lose a Customer Again”.Segment 5:Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Sponsored by Nextiva.
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#477 Marion McGovern Shares How to Thrive as a Freelancer in the Gig Economy
13/04/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1:Marion McGovern, author of Thriving in the Gig Economy, is the co-founder and former CEO of M Squared Consulting, one of the first Gig Economy talent intermediaries to thrive before the term was even coined. She is also the founder of Collabrus, a company focused on independent contractor compliance.Segment 2: Melissa Davies shakes up the movers and the shakers and those sitting in the back row playing on their smart phones through her executive coaching and facilitation. Her signature topic covering workplace communication is based on her business book, How Not to Act Like a Bleep at Work.Segment 3: Kit Pangis a Communication Expert, TEDx Speaker Coach, TEDx, Inbound and Keynote speaker and the founder of BostonSpeaks.Segment 4: Kit Pang continued.Segment 5: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Sponsored by Nextiva.
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#476 Scott Gerber Shares How to Stop Thinking Like a Networker
06/04/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Scott Gerber is CEO of The Community Company, an organization that builds and manages professional communities for media companies and global brands. He is also an internationally syndicated columnist, and the co-author of the new book, Superconnector.Segment 2: Soon Yu is the author of the Amazon best seller Iconic Advantage: Don’t Chase the New, Innovate the Old. Yu most recently served as Global VP of Innovation at VF Corporation, parent organization to over 30 global apparel companies, including The North Face, Vans, Timberland, Nautica and Wrangler.Segment 3:Jamie Izaks launched All Points Public Relations in September 2011 to realize his entrepreneurial dream – and to advance the dreams of other entrepreneurially spirited individuals and companies.Segment 4: Rebecca Palmer studied Marketing and Advertising at Georgetown University and went on to sharpen her skills at Leo Burnett. For over 20 years she has served as Creative Director at Leo Burnett, implementing successful advertising campaig
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#475 Tanya Hall Shares How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your First Book
30/03/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1:Tanya Hall has been empowering authors to tell their stories since she joined Greenleaf Book Group in 2004. As the company’s Chief Executive, Tanya fosters a culture of innovation centered on creating new opportunities to better serve authors.Segment 2: Bryan Falchuk, is a life and executive coach, public speaker, Inc. Magazine contributor, C-level executive and the best-selling author of Do a Day, in which he teaches how to overcome challenges and achieve goals. Bryan spent the most of his life obese and overcome by anxiety until he discovered the approach to change all that – Do a Day.Segment 3: Marilyn McEntyre is a dedicated list-maker and the award-winning author of books on language and faith, including “Make a List”.Segment 4: Dr. Alok Trivedi is a psychological performance expert. He is the author of the book “Chasing Success: Lessons in Aligned Performance”. After building one of the largest healthcare clinics in the world and seeing over 1200 patient visits a week, he went on to become th
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#474 Debbie Rosas Shares How to Thrive When Your Business is Healing
23/03/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1: Debbie Rosas is the co-founder of the global fitness and lifestyle practice, Nia, which is based upon The Body’s Way: a system used to live, move and feel great at any age. She is the author of “The Nia Technique” and “Non-Impact Aerobics”. Segment 2: B.J. Mendelson is the author of the cult favorite book, “Social Media Is Bullshit”. He is also the author of the new book, “Privacy: And How We Can Get It Back” from Curious Reads.Segment 3: Mamie Kanfer Stewart learned about organizational culture and management from her family business--GOJO Industries, inventors of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer--before launching Meeteor. She is co-author of the new book “Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging, and Enjoyable Meetings.”Segment 4: Matt Baker is VP Strategic Planning at FreshBooks, a cloud accounting software solution for small business owners and self-employed professionals. Segment 5: Josh Katt is the founder of Kitchfix. He started his culinary career slinging pizzas at a local tavern in Michigan, and has
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#473 Neel Grover Shares How Consumers Can Make Money From Online Reviews
16/03/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1: Neel Grover is the Founder and CEO of Indi.com, an engagement video platform for Brands. Neel was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Rakuten.com, Buy.com and Bluefly.com where he led great teams and sold over $5 Billion of products.Segment 2: Donald Lee Sheppard emerged from humble beginnings in a Northern Ontario mining town to become a leader in employee benefits consulting and communications. He is currently CEO of Sheppard Properties, LLC and author of “The Dividends of Decency”.Segment 3: Marti Konstant is a workplace futurist with an agile mindset. She is a career growth analyst, author, speaker, and founder of the Agile Careerist Project™. Her career path includes: artist, designer, entrepreneur, technology marketing executive, business advisor, and investor.Segment 4: Guy Israeli is an experienced entrepreneur who financed, built and managed several international ventures in the last decade. Guy is now the COO and Co-Founder of SOLOMOTO, a platform which is all about helping Small an
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#472 Lloyd Shefsky Shares Why Visionaries Are Made, Not Born
16/03/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Lloyd Shefsky is a recently retired professor at the Kellogg School of Management. He also is a popular and entertaining speaker, lecturer and teacher in numerous countries. He has authored 3 books: “Entrepreneurs Are Made, Not Born”, “Invent Reinvent Thrive”, and the new “Visionarie$ Are Made, Not Born”. He is a lawyer and is a CPA.Segment 2: Jessica Zweig is the CEO of The SimplyBe Agency, a premiere personal branding firm based in Chicago and serving clients nationally. She was named one of the Top Digital Marketers to Watch in 2017 by INC, and is a serial entrepreneur, founding CheekyChicago.com.Segment 3: Rodney D. Bullard has spent his prolific career serving others. A U.S. Air Force veteran, Rodney currently serves as the vice president of community affairs at Chick-fil-A Inc. and as the executive director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation. His first book is “HEROES WANTED: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out”.Segment 4: Thelma Reese, Ed. D., is a retired professor of English and of E
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#471 B2B Advertising Expert AJ Wilcox Shares How to Advertise on LinkedIn
02/03/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1: AJ Wilcox founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency, in 2014. As official LinkedIn partners, they manage among the world’s most sophisticated advertising accounts worldwide.Segment 2: Fabian Geyrhalter is a renowned brand strategist and the founder and Principal of FINIEN, a Los Angeles-based consultancy specializing in turning ventures into brands. A frequent speaker and mentor to entrepreneurs worldwide, he is a “Global 100” mentor at the Founder Institute, and his book “How to Launch a Brand” is a #1 Amazon Bestseller. His newest book is “Bigger Than This.”Segment 3: Nicole Hardin is the Director of Product Management at Sage. She is an industry thought leader for businesses leveraging next-generation technologies. Nicole is presently leading innovation for one of Sage’s global accounting cloud products: Sage Live. Segment 4: Mark Howley is the CEO and majority owner of Pacific Bag, Inc. which manufactures their patented one-way degassing valve (i.e. the little belly button in cof
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#470 Adam Lyons Shares How A Cold Email to Mark Cuban Got Him to Invest
23/02/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Adam Lyons is the founder of TheZebra.com. In 2012, Adam (while on unemployment) founded TheZebra.com in his friend’s basement and set out to create the “KAYAK for Auto Insurance”. Segment 2: Lior Rachmany, an Israeli by birth, first arrived in New York in 1998, with the hopes and dreams of making it in the music industry. Upon his arrival, though, to make some money, he began serving as a moving man for one of his now competitors during the day and rehearsing his music at night. After eight years of this grind, Rachmany saw an opportunity to channel his creativity from music into his “day job” and decided to build out his own moving company launching Dumbo Moving + Storage in January 2007.Segment 3: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Segment 4: Dr. Rajan Sharma has been in the dental industry for over 20 years working as an endodontist. He launched EON Clinics nine years ago and it has grown to become the leading dental implant center in Chicago. EON Clinics has six locations span
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#469 Chief Tax Officer Mark Steber Shares How Tax Reform Impacts 2018 Taxes
16/02/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Mark Steber is the Chief Tax Officer at Jackson Hewitt Tax Service. He is responsible for key initiatives that support overall tax service delivery and quality assurance.Segment 2: Courtney Reum is the co-founder of M13, a brand development and investment company accelerating businesses at the nexus of consumer products, technology, and media. Segment 3: Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. He started his first eCommerce business out of his college dorm room and has sold over $25 million online. He is now the co-founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, and much more.Segment 4: Ben Cort’s passion for recovery, prevention and harm reduction comes from his own struggle with substance abuse. His first book, Weed INC. published by HCI, was released in September 2017.Segment 5: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Sponsored by Nextiva.
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#468 Nathan Kontny Shares Why a CRM Tool is Critical for Small Business Succes
09/02/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1:Nathan Kontny is the CEO of Highrise, a simple and easy to use CRM for entrepreneurs.Segment 2: Jim McCormick has shaped capital campaigns, sales strategies, and major donor programs for clients from the National World War II Museum to multiple international companies. Jim is the author of the new book “Body Language Sales Secrets”.Segment 3: Michael Gale is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, The Digital Helix: Transforming Your Organization's DNA to Thrive in the Digital Age. Segment 4:Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Segment 5: Jason Sehorn is a former NFL Cornerback, who spent nine years as a member of the New York Giants (’94-’02) and one with the St. Louis Rams (’03). Most recently he has been a college football analyst for ESPNU in Charlotte, NC.Sponsored by Nextiva.
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#467 Susan Fennema Helps Small Business Owners Gain Control of Their Lives
02/02/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1: Susan Fennema is the Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, a consultancy helping small business owners gain control of their lives through better processes, organization, and structure of their business operations and projects. Segment 2: Jenny Kassan has been an attorney for social enterprises for 22 years, and is a certified transformational coach, social entrepreneur, investor and finance innovator. Her new book is Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business Without Selling Your Soul.Segment 3: Aaron Levy is the Founder and CEO of Raise The Bar, a firm focused on helping companies address the problem of millennial turnover. Segment 4: Morgan Simon is the author of REAL IMPACT: THE NEW ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE. She is a widely recognized leader in impact investment who builds bridges between finance and social justice. Segment 5: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Sponsored by Nextiva.
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#466 NASA Director Shares How Leadership & Team Performance Are Mission Critical
24/01/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1: Paul Sean Hill was NASA’s Director of Mission Operations from 2007 through 2014. He was responsible for all aspects of human spaceflight mission planning, training, and Mission Control. Segment 2: Barry Kaplan is an expert in organizational development and leadership of people and teams. Segment 3: Brian Sloan graduated from law school in 2005 but chose not to practice law. He moved to Beijing, China where he lived for 10 years while building his current company: a leading manufacturer, wholesaler, and online retailer of his own brands of sex toys. Segment 4: Damon Burton founded SEO National in the Salt Lake City area in 2007 to manage industry leading SEO campaigns and online reputation, after nearly a decade launching internet marketing agencies.Segment 5: Stefan Pretty is a Scottish Entrepreneur and passionate bootstrapper. He has bootstrapped over 5 businesses and side projects since he was 18, with his current business being Subbly, the all-in-one subscription box platform. Sponsored by Next
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#465 American Idol’s William Hung Shares How to Deal with Rejection
19/01/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1: William Hung is best known for his audition on American Idol. It all started when he saw a poster for a school's talent show at the Clark Kerr dormitories. He decided to sing the song, "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin for fun but to his great surprise, he won! That gave him the confidence to audition for American Idol. He never made it to Hollywood but somehow, he was able to achieve accidental fame and success anyway. Why? Segment 2:Jesse Draper is founding partner of Halogen Ventures as well as creator and host of 2015 Emmy nominated television series, “The Valley Girl Show”. She is a 4th generation venture capitalist focused on early stage investing in female founded consumer technology.Segment 3:Ami Kassar is the founder and chief executive officer of Multifunding LLC, a Philadelphia-based consulting firm that specializes in helping business owners across the United States develop creative, cost-saving alternatives for their business debt needs and structure. Ami is the author of the new book “The G
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#464 The 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies Guide to Growth
12/01/2018 Duration: 54minSegment 1:Dr. Marsha Firestone is President and Founder of the Women Presidents’ Organization, a peer advisory group for women who own and lead multimillion dollar businesses. She is also the co-author of “Women Presidents’ Organization 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies Guide to Growth”.Segment 2: Bri Seeley is the author of “Permission to Leap”. She has been featured on NBC’s The TODAY Show, Forbes, Inc, Medium, PBS, and Free Enterprise. Segment 3:Krista Morgan started P2Binvestor over 5 years ago with a mission to help growing businesses succeed. In addition to running P2Binvestor, she is the cohost of Women Who Startup Radio.Segment 4:Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He is the best-selling author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power. Segment 5: Susie Moore who is the author of “What If It Does Work Out? How A Side Hustle Can Change
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#463 The 50 Metro Areas With the Most Economic Opportunity for Small Business
05/01/2018 Duration: 53minSegment 1:Carl Bialik is the data science editor for Yelp. Previously he wrote for FiveThirtyEight and, before that, for the Wall Street Journal, where he wrote the Numbers Guy column from 2005 to 2013.Segment 2:Johann Van Tonder is theauthor of E-COMMERCE WEBSITE OPTIMIZATION, and is COO at AWA digital. He has used the principles and techniques in this book to deliver massive sale improvements for big and small e-commerce businesses. Segment 3:Chris Douglas is building a global network of top-tier training companies and Authorized Providers who share the philosophies of Fierce. Chris is a visionary who believes that Fierce offers 21st century solutions to leadership challengesSegment 4:Bruce Bowler began his forty year career in mortgage banking when he was 17, culminating as the CEO and half owner of Universal Lending Corporation, which he and his partner built into one of Denver’s largest privately held mortgage companies.Segment 5:Judith Humphrey founded Toronto-based leadership communications firm, The H
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#462 Dragons’ Den Coach Sean Wise Shares When to Quit Your Day Job
29/12/2017 Duration: 53minSegment 1: Sean Wise helps emerging and high growth potential organizations jump on the trajectory and turn a profit. He has been involved in venture capital and entrepreneurship professionally for 19 years. First, as a Director of the Venture Capital Advisory Group at Ernst & Young, next, as a partner in Spenser Trask’s seed program, and most recently spending five seasons with CBC’s DRAGONS’ DEN, Canada’s version of Shark Tank. His latest book with co-author Brad Feld is called Startup Opportunities – Know When to Quit Your Day Job.Segment 2: Lorenzo Gomez III is the CEO of Geekdom, the Executive Director of the 80/20 Foundation, and a former executive at Rackspace. He is the author of the book The Cilantro Diaries: Business Lessons from the Most Unlikely Places.Segment 3: Todd Minor is the senior small business lead for Microsoft Store, covering the United States, Canada and Australia. Segment 4: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Segment 5: Over the last three decades of Greg Centineo
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#461 Stacey Hanke Shares Why It’s Your Fault People Interrupt You All The Time
21/12/2017 Duration: 54minSegment 1:Stacey Hanke is the author of Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday and Yes You Can! Everything You Need From A to Z to Influence Others to Take Action. Stacey and her team have delivered thousands of presentations and workshops for leaders of Fortune 500 companies, including Coca-Cola, Nationwide, FedEx, Kohl’s and AbbVie.Segment 2: Dudley Slater is the author of Fusion Leadership: Unleashing the Movement of Monday Morning. He was the co-founder and CEO of Integra Telecom where he grew the company from nine to over two thousand employees, transitioning it from a start-up to national prominence as one of the ten largest fiber-based telecommunications companies in the United States.Segment 3: Nancy Harris is Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Sage North America. She is responsible for driving the strategy and growth ambitions for Sage in the U.S and Canada.Segment 4:Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Segment 5: Sarah Thompson knows a