Business Insanity Talk Radio

Segment 1: John Dietrich leads corporate messaging and thought leadership for Dell globally. Prior to this role, John was executive director of executive communications at Dell, where he was responsible for executive communications and PR for chairman and CEO Michael Dell and other C-suite executives.Segment 2: John Livesay helps CEOs craft a compelling pitch that engages investors in a way that inspires them to join a startup’s team. He hosts The Successful Pitch podcast with investors from around the world. He and Judy Robinett are partners in Crack The Funding Code that get startup founders funded fast. After a successful 20 year career in media sales with Conde Nast, John won salesperson of the year in 2012 across the entire company. Segment 3: Zach Kaplan is the founder and CEO of Inventables, the leader in 3D carving. Segment 4: Cameka Smith is the founder of The BOSS Network, the fastest-growing women business communities.Segment 5: Cathy Salit is the CEO and co-founder of Performance of a Lifetime. Ca

Segment 1: Bob Berg is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. He was named by the American Management Association as one of the Top 30 Most Influential Thought Leaders in Business for 2014. His new book is titled “The Go Giver Leader”. Segment 2: Steve Case is one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs. Under his leadership AOL drove the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. His new book is called “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to the Future”. Segment 3: Monica Swope is the founder and principal consultant of Learning Dimensions, an educational consultant company. PJ McGuire is the inventor or Wrapperoo. They are the winners of the American Small Business Championship hosted by SCORE, mentors to America’s small businesses, and sponsored by Sam’s Club.Segment 4: Fred Hoch is the Chief Executive Officer of the Illinois Technology Association (ITA). For 18 years, Fred Hoch has worked

Segment 1: Tony Little has been a television and fitness icon for more than 25 years.  Inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2006, Tony is instantly recognizable everywhere he goes, with a legendary reputation for being able to turn adversity into victory.  He is known as “America’s Personal Trainer”.Segment 2: Shama Hyder is a visionary strategist for the digital age. A web and TV personality, a bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group—a global online marketing and digital PR company.Segment 3: Merrick Rosenberg is the CEO of Take Flight Learning. He is the author of two books, “The Chameleon: Life-Changing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has a Personality or Knows Someone Who Does” and co-author of “Taking Flight!” Segment 4: Bill Walsh is the CEO/Founder of Business Coaching/Venture Capital Firm Powerteam International. Bill hosts and speaks at events all over the world! He is an accomplished author, speaker, radio personality and movie celebrity.  Segment 5: Peter Bolin

Segment 1:Harry Hutson is the author of “Navigating an Organizational Crisis: When Leadership Matters Most” (Praeger, 2016).  Segment 2: Bill Rancic is teaming up with AT&T to discuss how the digital revolution has put business into motion. From running a multi-million-dollar company and working for Donald Trump to developing real estate in Chicago, Bill is the definition of a true entrepreneur. Segment 3: Mario Moussa teaches in the Executive Programs at Wharton School of Executive Education.  Dr. Moussa co-wrote (with G. Richard Shell) The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. His new book is called “Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and Performance”.Segment 4: Marshall Makstein, Founder and President of eSlide, believes that their greatest distinction is that they specialize in the art and technology of effective PowerPoint presentations. When big corporations have critical presentation on their horizon and know that they need to get results, they hire eSlide. Their

Segment 1: Vijay Tirathrai, EO’s CEO, has made an indelible mark in a variety of businesses, spanning numerous industries in Southeast Asia, for more than 30 years. As a business owner, Tirathrai has led numerous multinational ventures, ranging from manufacturing, distribution and retailing of fashion.Segment 2: Robert Herjavec who is one of North America’s most recognizable business leaders. A dynamic entrepreneur, Robert has built and sold several IT companies to major players such as AT&T. And of course he appears on Shark Tank. Amanda Brinkman is the Chief Brand & Communications Officer of Deluxe Corp. She has a lot of experience in internal marketing, brand management and interactive development.Segment 3: Peter Wen is a director at Xero, a software company that develops cloud-based accounting software for small and medium-sized businesses. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, is a seasoned CPA with more than 10 years of Audit & Tax experience, small business accounting & corpor

Segment 1: Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Influential Marketing Group, and an expert in helping brands and leaders be more influential. His new book is called “Non-Obvious Trends for 2016: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas, and Predict the Future”.Segment 2: The UPS Store is launching its annual Small Biz Salute Campaign and joining us to share more is Marcus Lemonis, entrepreneur, investor, and the host of CNBC’s The Profit and Tim Davis, The UPS Store President.Segment 3: Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies by his 35th birthday. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor... and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Mike is the author of the business books Surge (May 2016), Profit First (July 2014), The Pumpkin Plan (July 2012) and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.Segment 4: Ira Chaleff is the author of “The Courageous Follower: Standing Up To and For Our Leaders”, now in its third edition, and coeditor of “The Art of Foll

Segment 1: Susan Drumm is a leadership coach and advisor for C-level executives and their teams, as well as growth stage entrepreneurs. Susan has spent over two decades teaching high profile organizations and companies like Viacom, Cisco, L’Oreal and KPMG how to harness the power of leadership to launch their teams towards multi-million dollar growth. Segment 2: Dr. Willie Jolley is the author of several international best-selling books including It Only Takes A Minute To Change Your Life, A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback, Turn Setbacks Into Greenbacks. He has gone on to be named "One of the 5 Outstanding Speakers in the World" by the 175,000 members of Toastmasters International. He has also been inducted into the prestigious Speaker Hall of Fame as well as achieving the distinction of Certified Speaker Professional by the National Speakers Association.Segment 3: Jill Gonzalez is consumer finance expert and spokesperson for WalletHub. Her appearances include NBC Nightly News, Fox Business Network, Wall St

Segment 1: Jay Baer is the world’s most retweeted person among digital marketers. His Convince & Convert Media division owns the world’s #1 content marketing blog and the world’s top marketing podcast. His new book is “Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers Focused on These Themes”.Segment 2: Shel Horowitz has been showing business owners how to be more profitable by being green and ethical. Shel is an international speaker, transformational business consultant, and the multiple-award-winning author of ten books, including the long-running category bestseller Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green and the brand new Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (both co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson, Father of Guerrilla Marketing. Segment 3: Lourdes Martin-Rosa is the American Express OPEN Advisor on Government Contracting. In this role, she uses her more than 20 years of experience in the federal space to coach small business owners on how to get contract-ready and find contract success. L

Segment 1: Tim Sanders is the former Yahoo! Chief Solutions officer and the author of four books including one of my favorites, “Love is the Killer App”. His new book is called “Dealstorming: The Secret Weapon That Can Solve Your Toughest Sales Challenges”.Segment 2: Mindy MacKenzie is an accomplished corporate executive, a highly acclaimed speaker, and CEO advisor. Before starting her advisory practice, Mindy served as Chief Performance Officer of Beam, Inc. She is the author of “The Courage Solution: The Power of Truth Telling with Your Boss, Peers, and Team”.Segment 3: Dan Rust is the author of “Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game or Just Getting Played?”, and founder of Frontline Learning, an international publisher of corporate training resources. Segment 4: Sonny Chatrath is travel industry veteran with 24 years of experience in almost every aspect of travel, having worked in Airline Consolidation, Leisure, as well as Corporate Travel. He is also an actor and an amateur chef. Segment 5: Justin Rof

Segment 1: Tom Nix is a pioneer of the check-cashing industry. Having built his company and traversed many challenges, he sold Nix Check Cashing for tens of millions of dollars. Recently, Tom has turned to public speaking and writing, including his memoir “Nixland: What Turned A Teen Street Fighter Into A Multimillionaire?”Segment 2: Lisa Hillenbrand is the founder of Lisa Hillenbrand & Associates. She previously served as Global Marketing Director at Procter & Gamble. She is the author of the new book “Stragility: Excelling At Strategic Changes”.Segment 3:Walter J. Scherr is 91 and the author of “WALTER’S WAY:  How A Relief Kid Survived TB, Corporate Betrayal, Bankruptcy, Made Millions, And Touched The Lives of Billions.” Segment 4: Colin Hewitt began working on Float after spending a lot of his time working on spreadsheets to model cash flow for his digital agency. After selling his first business, Colin and his cofounder began building an initial prototype, and successfully completed a funding roun

Segment 1: Dave Kerpen is an entrepreneur, speaker, and bestselling author. He is the founder and CEO of Likeable Local, a social media software company, and the chairman and cofounder of Likeable Media, an award-winning content marketing firm for brands. He is the author of “The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills that Will Get You Everything You Want”.Segment 2: Meredith Redgrave is passionate about building better brands, one company at a time. She's the author of the new book, Double 0 Success: Seven Secrets to Success from James Bond.Segment 3: Keith Kreigler is the Chief Strategy Officer for White Space Marketing.  He’s a 25-year sales and marketing professional whose background includes being a partner in a marketing firm, working at various agencies and a background in broadcast sales. He is a contributing author to “Success Hackers”.Segment 4: Christina Harrison studied Marketing at UCLA and after graduating she created the popular blog, "Sassy and Social" where she shares clever insight on social

Segment 1: Brian Tracy has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 69 other countries worldwide. He is the top selling author of over 70 books that have been translated into dozens of languages. His new book is called “GET SMART! How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful And Highest Paid People in Every Field”.Segment 2: Shawn Murphy is the CEO and Founder of Switch & Shift, a consultancy and advisory firm dedicated to developing and advancing positive organizational business practices. Shawn’s debut book is titled “The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment that Energizes Everyone”. You can also read Shawn’s weekly column, “Positive Business,” on Inc.com.Segment 3: Donna Cutting is the founder and CEO of Red-Carpet Learning Systems, Inc., a consulting firm that provides tools and customer service. She is the author of “501 WAYS TO ROLLOUT THE RED CARPET FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS: Easy to Implement Ideas

Segment 1:Bruce Newman, author of THE MARKETING REVOLUTION IN POLITICS, is a professor of marketing and a Wicklander Fellow in Business Ethics in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University and founding editor of the Journal of Political Marketing.\Segment 2: Michael Perla is co-author of 7 STEPS TO SALES FORCE TRANSFORMATION:  Driving Sustainable Change in Your Organization.  He is a Principal at Symmetrics Group where he specializes in providing actionable insights to marketing and sales organizations to help them increase pipelines, win ratios, and productivity.  He has sold and led projects with the Global 50 to Fortune 1000 companies including:  Hewlett Packard, IBM, Qwest, and Express.Segment 3: Vernon Dutton is a recently-retired attorney and insurance company vice president who’s writing a book for Boomers who are making professional and personal transitions. He calls himself a “Time Travel Agent.”Segment 4: Wayne Taylor is chief operating officer at Bassett Salon Solutions. Segment

Chris Bailey is the author of “The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy”. Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity.Segment 2: Kathryn Kemp Guylay is an author, speaker, certified nutritional counselor and coach with a master's degree in business. She left management consulting with Fortune 500 companies to found Nurture, a national nonprofit that provides wellness education to tens of thousands of children and parents.  Segment 3: Beverly Jones, is a master of reinvention. She led university programs for women before trailblazing her career as a Washington lawyer and Fortune 500 energy executive. Based in Washington DC, Jones works with accomplished leaders in Congress, at major federal agencies, NGOs, universities, and large corporations. Segment 4: Barry Moltz shares how to get your business unstuck.Segment 5: Lisa Nichols is the Founder and Chie

Segment 1: Joanna L. Krotz is the author of “BEING EQUAL DOESN’T MEAN BEING THE SAME”, because when men make the rules, women don’t advance. Host of The Woman's Playbook podcasts and Web radio show, she has been investigating the payoffs and challenges of small business owners, particularly women-led firms, for years. Segment 2: “Ray” Zinn is an inventor, entrepreneur, and the longest serving CEO of a publicly traded company in Silicon Valley. He is best known for creating and selling the first Wafer Stepper (an industry standard piece of semiconductor manufacturing equipment). He is also the author of the book “Tough Things First”.Segment 3: Parviz Firouzgar started a mortgage company and employed over 500 loan officers. He wrote business plans for startup companies that helped them raise many millions in startup capital. Parviz was a radio talk show host and a long time instructor for Income Builders International (IBI), now called CEO Space. He is also the author of the book “How To Trade Your 9-To-5 Miser

Segment 1: Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace and one of the leading experts on leadership and management. Bruce is a best-selling author, an adviser to business leaders all over the world, and a sought-after keynote speaker and management trainer. Bruce’s most recent book is Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to Today’s Young Talent (Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2015). Segment 2: Melissa Gonzalez has become the go-to pop-up architect for brands looking to either launch their brand, test new markets or insert their brand into strategic conversations. She and her team have produced over 100 pop-up stores since 2009. Gonzalez is also the co-founder of THE MARKET at the Roger Smith Hotel, a renovated and innovative space for pop-up retail, which has grown from one to four storefronts since inception in 2010. Segment 3: Vishnu Swami is known as “The Maverick Monk”. He was made the worlds’ youngest Swami, has lived and studied full tim

Segment 1: Pete Gilfillan is a matchmaker for entrepreneurs who seek career independence via franchise ownership. He also is author of the book “HIRE YOURSELF”. As a young man, he worked 17 years at Ford Motor Company, rapidly advanced to general manager, where he guided 600 franchise dealerships generating $5 billion in revenue. Gilfillan became a franchise owner in 2010 when he purchased a multi-state master license to a junk removal franchise.Segment 2: Timo Rein is the co-founder and president of Pipedrive, a company that makes easy-to-use, activity-based sales management software for small businesses and their salespeople. Timo has 15 plus years of sales experience as a salesman, sales manager, and software entrepreneur. Segment 3: Amanda Brinkman is the Chief Brand and Communications Officer at Deluxe Corp. She is charged with helping turn around a 100-year-old brand, one rooted in a legacy payment solution but now forging its growth with a suite of marketing services for small businesses. Segment 4: Dr

Segment 1: Joe Calloway helps great companies get even better. He helps organizations and top-performing individuals focus on what is truly important, inspires constant improvement, and motivates people to immediate action. A business author, advisor, and speaker, Joe's corporate client list reads like a Who's Who in business, ranging from companies like Coca Cola and IBM to Cadillac and American Express.Segment 2: Jonathan Hinz is a 15-year veteran of helping businesses win new markets with engaging solutions and products that fit market needs. He has spent his career leading innovation and product change to maximize output in a variety of roles at Verizon and Trustpilot. Jonathan is accomplished in leading product innovation, expansions, and ability to build and sustain mutually beneficial relationships.Segment 3: Roy “Will” Wilhite is the president and CEO of TQM Inc. He has 30 years of sales experience and conducts TQM seminars for both small businesses and large multi-national corporations. A former Air

Segment 1: Joanne Domeniconi is Co-founder & Chief Discovery Officer of the product launch platform, The Grommet. The company’s Citizen Commerce™ movement is reshaping how consumer products are discovered, shared, and bought. Segment 2: Richard Krevolin is the author of THE HOOK: How to Share Your Brand’s Unique Story to Engage Customers, Boost Sales, and Achieve Heartfelt Success. Segment 3: Ray Barlow is Vice President of Accountant Solutions for Sage in North America. He previously worked in the Accountant & Advisor Group at Intuit. Ray has over 20 years of experience with the accountant market with roles including Vice President of Sales and Marketing at CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, and sales leadership roles at Thomson Reuters.Segment 4:Lindsay McGregor is the co-author of New York Times bestselling book, Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation, as well as the CEO and co-founder of Vega Factor, a startup building technology to hel

Segment 1: Chris Litster has been a member of the Constant Contact team since 2006. He has played a pivotal role in the company’s growth and product expansion and now oversees Constant Contact’s global sales and marketing strategy.  Segment 2: Ron D. Miller is the CEO of StartEngine, one of the nation’s only crowdfunding platforms. His success has been publicly recognized as a four-time Inc. 500/5000 Award recipient and as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award Finalist. As a Venture Partner, Miller brings his deep expertise as a leader and operator at many companies, which he has taken to exit. He is especially passionate about cause-based entrepreneurship and holds the trademark for "Doing Well by Doing Good."Segment 3: Sarah Burrows is the founder of Modern Sprout. In April of 2013, Modern Sprout launched its first product – an indoor windowsill 3-Pot Wood Planter with an internal hydroponics system hidden inside – on Kickstarter. Receiving both national and international interest, Modern Spro