Business for Breakfast

Today the founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Frank Shankwitz on the show talking about the movie about his life being filmed in Prescott.  

Today on B4B, Ken and Mark, heard from Jerry Gehrke, of McDonald's regarding the hiring of 2,000 workers in AZ on Wednesday.

Author Andy Gause talked with Ken and Mark today about the President's threat of a Government shutdown and the dangers that this includes.  Also Andrew Blachman of Tophatter.com discussed mobile shopping.

With a total of 7 special guests on Business for Breakfast this morning, Ken and Mark, covered everything from how Baby Boomers are staying connected to how to protect your property in the event of another wildfire to the topic of dethroning dollar bills.  In the Biz of Sports section, vividseats.com spokeswoman Jeanenne Tornatore, revealed interesting data on the teams that are commanding the highest ticket prices this season.

Ken and Mark today were schooled on the 7 most reliable stocks to invest in now by Kiplinger's Daren Fonda.  Also on the show faithful listener Dan won $50.00 to Dave & Busters during the Stump the Chumps contest.  In the Biz Leaders Spotlight today was Brian North of North & Co. Real Estate.

Matt Johnson of Mariposa Point Communities was our Business Leaders Spotlight today and Ken and Mark gave away the final four tickets we had to Marvel Universe Live.

Today in the Biz Leaders Spotlight was Gregg Ostro, Founder, CEO and Owner of GO Media talking about an upcoming big annual event for Integrity Summit.

Today was a full slate of guests including this week's Stump the Chumps featured restaurant, Dave & Busters, Assistant GM Trent Averhoff.  Averhoff covered all the special deals taking place for the big fight on Saturday as well as other weekly features.

American Cancer Society's Coleen McKinstry also talked about this Thursday's big Making Strides Kickoff Breakfast and invited anyone touched by cancer to sign up to attend.

On B4B today, five guests visited Mark and Ken to talk about anything from the best places to Retire which by the way Scottsdale was in the top five and the best and worst place to retire again some AZ cities are listed.  Also a spokeswoman from Compassion in World Farming talked about a new report on pollution caused by meat production in the US and the urgent need to take action.  Greg Post from Sprint talked about a great program Sprint is doing that's giving thousands of equipment to SW students including right here in the Valley.

Today Ken and Mark talked about the Solar Eclipse with Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, Jay Richards.  They also talked with the owner of Pedder's Son, Ted Palmisano.