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Chef Fernando Ruiz who recently beat Bobby Flay on the popular Food Network show Beat Bobby Flay joins Enterprise Radio.  

This culinary genius overcame the odds by leaving a life of gangs, drugs, arms trafficking and prison to becoming a highly sought after chef and media darling. He is now the Executive Chef at The Lodge and Ranch at Chama Land & Cattle Company.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Chef Fernando Ruiz discuss the following:

* Tell us a little bit about your cooking style and your Chiles en Nogada, the dish that ultimately tipped you over the scale to beat Bobby Flay on the Food Network’s hit series Beat Bobby Flay?* Where did you learn to cook besides culinary school?  Did you always show an interest in cooking when you were younger?* You are very open about your past.  You were involved with a gang, drugs, weapons trafficking and you went to prison.  Can you tell us a little bit about that experience and what changed to make you the success story that you are today?* You are not stranger to cooking shows. Besides Beat Bobby Flay, you also won on the uber-popular show Chopped and Guys Grocery Games.  Can you tell us about those experiences?* Tell us what you are doing today in terms of your career and what we can expect next from you?  

Summary: Chef Fernando Ruiz is living proof that no matter what your circumstances are in life, everyone has the ability to change.  Better choices, hard work and finding a passion in life can ultimately lead to success and happiness no matter what the odds.

Chef Fernando Ruiz now holds the distinction of “beating Bobby Flay”.  Ruiz recently competed against the legendary chef on the popular Food Network show BEAT BOBBY FLAY and to the delight of culinary fans everywhere, took home the top honor with his chiles en nogada dish.  The New Mexico based chef gives all the credit to his wife, Michelle Romero who encourages him and pushes him to be his very best everyday.  Ruiz says of his wife, “It is true that behind every great man is an even greater woman.”    

No stranger to the Food Network, Ruiz first gained notoriety by winning the competition show GUYS GROCERY GAMES.  A year later, with more support and encouragement from his amazing wife, he returned to the popular cable network to compete on yet another show, CHOPPED.  Once again, he did not disappoint by winning this contest too.   

Ruiz was born in Phoenix, Arizona. His early years were spent in Phoenix and on the family ranch in Mexico.  At the age of 13, he started running with a gang, trafficking weapons and drugs. At the age of 16 he got his first taste of “reality” when he was arrested for possession of weapons and drugs.  At eighteen he got “busted” again. Ruiz spent his 20th and 21st birthdays in jail. It was while incarcerated that he earned his G.E.D.  Upon release, he went straight into culinary school, graduating in 1999. 

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Alonzo Cahoon, a master in human development works as a private coach with individuals, business owners and executives all around the world joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Alonzo Cahoon discuss the following:

* Tell us a little about your company, what service you offer, and why you decided to go into coaching as a business.* The coaching industry as a whole is growing, as more and more business owners are seeing the value of having a coach.  Yet, there are still some business owners or executives that might not be aware of the benefits of having a coach. Can you share with our listeners why having a coach is not just a worthwhile investment, but nowadays, is almost a necessity?* You state that you primarily work with Entrepreneurs/business owners or C- Level executives.  What are some of the common challenges business owners or executives face?* In addition to executive level coaching, you also have a very successful marriage relationship program that you offer with your wife.  Can you tell us a little about this program and why it has been so impactful specifically for entrepreneurs and executives?* If you were to pick three things that almost every business owner or executive could focus on to improve, that if they did would also improve every other area of their life, what would they be? 

To many, Alonzo Cahoon is considered a Master the field of personal development and human relationships.  He is a highly sought after executive coach and marriage relationship turnaround expert.  He has worked privately with some of our nations most elite influential leaders and celebrities and he works with individuals, business owners, and executives all around the world to help them achieve results in their lives, businesses and in their marriages.   

His 30/50 Day Personal and Business Intensive programs as well as his 46 Day Relationship Turn around a program have been highly acclaimed for changing the lives and relationships of countless individuals Internationally.

Websites: lifeschoicescoaching.com | creatingspectacular.com

Social Media Links:Facebook: facebook.com/CreatingSpectacularTwitter: @creatingSpectac

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George Petrides joins Enterprise Radio to discuss how he has built a dual career as both a private equity investor and figurative sculptor. When he’s not focused on banking, he creates sculptures from live models and his imagination to convey the beauty and imperfection of the human body and soul.”

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest George Petrides discuss the following:

* How do you combine your business life with your artistic life?* What are your goals when you make art?* Who are some of the artists who inspire you – historical and current?* As to galleries and upcoming shows, where is your work displayed currently and what is next?* What advice would you offer to entrepreneurs (or anyone) hoping to “follow their bliss”?

Collectors and critics have described his figurative sculptures as “beautiful”, “emotive”, and “lifelike” and unique to most figurative sculpture they have seen before. Working from life models, he uses mixed materials – clay, metals, acids, paint, wood – to convey the beauty and imperfection of the human body and soul.

As a child George was drawn to sketching and watercolors. He put the artistic path on hold as he earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard in Classics and his dual MBA and MA from Stanford. He worked as a successful investment banker for many years, occasionally attending classes at NY art schools. In recent years, he has been devoting more of this time to making figurative art, mostly sculpture but also drawing and painting.

His influences include Classical Greek (which he grew up with in his hometown of Athens), the later European sculptors who were influenced by it such as Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol, and currently working sculptor/painters such as Lupertz, Baselitz, Shutte, and Houseago.

His most recent exhibition at Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City was a success, including having his piece “Alex Withdrawn” lauded by Artcritical as well as by two sculptors represented in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Van Der Plas continues to offer that piece which is being issued as 7 unique variants + 2 artists proofs. His next show is scheduled for May 2020 at the Greek Consulate of New York.

Instagram: @geopetrides_art

George Troy, author of the “The Five Laws of Retail – How the Most Successful Businesses have mastered them and How you Should to” joins Enterprise Radio.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in conjunction with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest George Troy discuss the following:

* Please tell us: why did you write this book?* But retail stores, bricks and mortar, are in decline so why is it relevant?* Who else needs this book?*  Business book are usually dull, is this  any different different?*  Any other books on the way?

George Troy is widely read blogger, author, and consultant focused on retail business communities, including online and brick-and-mortar stores. He has enjoyed decades of real-life experience as a senior executive for some of the best-known and most successful retail companies in the US and globally. A specialist in apparel, footwear, sporting goods, cookware, and home furnishings, Troy has led the retail divisions of Deckers Outdoor (UGG Boots) and outlet divisions of Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn. 

When he joined UGG Australia to create the brand’s retail channel, Troy directed all aspects of the business (merchandising, marketing, operations, real estate, store construction, and management), taking retail sales from $0 to $400 million in the US, Europe, and Asia in just eight years. Similarly, Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn brought Troy in to create and build the outlet channels for those brands. Here, too, he directed all aspects of store operations, including HR, marketing, real estate and construction, and merchandising. 

Troy is currently a consultant with The Grayson Company based in New York, which offers a full range of consulting services to retail, e-commerce, wholesale, and omnichannel businesses as well as investment firms focused on the consumer sector. The Grayson Company’s CEO Kevin Mullaney says of Troy, “He has extraordinary expertise in field management, site selection, and lease negotiation, and equal capabilities in merchandising, particularly product development and assortment planning.” 

Troy serves on the boards of directors of two nonprofit organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area. When not writing about the retail world, Troy spends his time in garden-to-table cooking and also tends a small Pinot Noir vineyard. An avid hiker, he recently summited Mount Kilimanjaro with his family. He and his dog Farley are currently enrolled in the Canine Circus School of Emeryville learning to perform amazing dog tricks.

Troy earned a BA with honors from the University of California, Berkeley in Anthropology. He also holds a California State Teaching Credential.

Website: GeorgeTroy.com

Social Media Links:Facebook: facebook.com/GeorgeTroyAuthorTwitter: 

Marshall Rowe, Jim Fitts, and John Weeks, owners of Harvest Capital, a wealth management firm and family office that helps families through the transition of selling a business joins Enterprise Radio. They are co-authors of the new book, Your Next Adventure: Planning For Life After the Sale of Your Business.

This episode of Enterprise Radio is working in conjunction with the Author Channel.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guests Marshall Rowe, Jim Fitts, and John Weeks discuss the following:

* Your new book, Your Next Adventure, is a guide to help entrepreneurs through the transition of selling a business. Why do business owners need a specific guide like this?* What common challenges do entrepreneurs face when trying to sell a business, and how can they solve for them?* You point out in the book that many business owners don’t prepare for what life will look like after the sale, which can be crushing. What specific tips do you have for making sure you’re emotionally prepared for what’s next?* If someone is considering selling a business, when should they start planning, and why?* What is your number one piece of advice for entrepreneurs who are selling their business?

Summary/Tip: To take on a business transition happily, successfully, and securely, you need a holistic plan that incorporates personal, family, and financial concerns. You need to do some prep work to create a future filled with potential, purpose, and satisfaction for you and those you care about.

Marshall Rowe, President, CEO, and founder of Harvest Capital, has over thirty years’ experience developing portfolio strategies and analyzing investment opportunities.

James Fitts, CFP, Managing Director, and Chief Planning Officer, has been assessing personal and business financial positions and advising family-owned businesses on ownership and succession for more than forty years. 

John Weeks, CExP, Managing Director of Family Wealth and Business Transition Planning, is a financial service professional who has been working in wealth management, commercial banking, and family business for over thirty years. 

Together at Harvest Capital, they help clients attain life goals, as well as financial objectives.

Website: www.harvestcap.com

Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/harvest-capital-management-inc 

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Armen Saghatelian, 10Web’s Co-founder and Vice President of Product Development joins Enterprise Radio to discuss building WordPress websites in just minutes.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Armen Saghatelian discuss the following:

* How did the idea of the 10Web platform come to be?* What’s your favorite feature of your product?* What’s your customers’ favorite feature of 10Web? * What are the main business pain points that 10Web solves? * You said that I can build my website using just your hosting, website builder and plugins. What if I already have a website and I use plugins and a theme from other companies? Can I move to 10Web? Will I be able to keep my custom WordPress themes and custom plugins?

Tip: Never stop improving, even if you think you’ve created a complete product, there is always place for improvement. At 10Web, we take this tip as a rule and try to come up with new updates, features and constantly improving the overall product. And this brought us to a point where we are about to launch another product: an AI automation tool for making website creation even easier.

Armen Saghatelian is the Co-founder and Vice President of Product Development at 10Web, an All-In-One WordPress Website Builder. Armen takes care of 10Web becoming the platform people need. A new feature must be added? A tool doesn’t work properly? Armen knows how to have it fixed. Using creativity in managerial work helps him find the best solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems. 

Armen also holds a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics.

Website: https://10web.io

Social Media Links:Facebook: facebook.com/10Web.ioTwitter: @10Web_io

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Michael Contento, the CEO of My Blue Umbrella, a company with over $10 million in revenue joins Enterprise Radio. Today, Contento delivers simplicity in the form of tech management and consulting services to some of Canada’s highest-performing companies.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guests Michael Contento discuss the following:

* Please explain what you mean that there is no such thing as a “Dead-End” job.* What would you advise someone who wants to change their career?* You speak a lot about the need for people to find their “why” — can you elaborate on what that means?* Do you have a checklist before one takes the Leap and leaves their 9-to-5 job?* Why is your biggest ambition firing yourself?

Michael Contento is the entrepreneur whom other entrepreneurs consult for advice, in part because he achieved his success the old-fashioned way. The youngest boy in an Italian family of six children, Contento did not have the benefit of an MBA, or any post-secondary degrees. Instead, he worked his way up as an hourly worker making minimum wage to his current role as the CEO of My Blue Umbrella, a 30+-employee IT-services company with $10 million in revenue and a 15% compound annual growth rate.

Today, Contento delivers simplicity in the form of tech management and consulting services to some of Canada’s highest-performing companies. His leadership of the Maple Leaf chapter of the Trust X Alliance, Ingram Micro’s elite association of IT firms, won the group its first-ever chapter of the year award in 2014. Also the CEO of a chain of pharmacies located across the Greater Toronto Area, Contento owns and manages a large portfolio of real estate. His registered charity, Do Amazing Things, empowers the disadvantaged to fulfill their career ambitions. He was a EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist.

Websites: www.mbu.ca

Social Media Links:Facebook: facebook.com/My-Blue-UmbrellaLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/neverquitmc

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David Payette, Founder of UpPhone, a website that just launched to help people find and compare cell phones, plans and coverage maps from every US carrier joins Enterprise Radio. The new go-to site to help people fix technical issues and navigate the cell phone world with ease. 

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest David Payette discuss the following:

* Please tell the listeners what UpPhone.com is and when you decided to create the website. * Did you feel a website like UpPhone is needed in today’s market? How does this website compare to competitors with similar content? What makes UpPhone different?* Can you explain to the listeners a little bit about the content and advice UpPhone has to offer? Tell us more about the coverage map. * How do you stay on top of the breaking news and all the data in the cellular phone industry? * Tell us more about your YouTube channel and what people can expect from the videos? * How can readers/visitors stay up to date with UpPhone’s latest announcements and content?

UpPhone creates engaging content and offers expert guidance that makes buying, owning, and fixing cell phones easy and enjoyable for people at all levels.

At the end of the day, our primary goal has always stayed the same: to help regular people find solutions to problems with their technology.

That’s why we created UpPhone. We’ve always helped people fix problems with phones, but we wanted to do more. UpPhone is a resource that helps people navigate the entire cell phone lifecycle. We’ll help you find the perfect phone, show you how to use it, and help you fix it if it breaks.

After all, sometimes the best way to fix a broken cell phone is to get a new phone or a new plan.

Website: www.UpPhone.com 

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Darren Woolley, the Mr. Wolf of Marketing Communication & Global CEO of global marketing consulting firm, TrinityP3 joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Darren Woolley discuss the following:

* Darren, can you explain the mandate of TrinityP3 and how the company helps the marketing and advertising industry around the world?* TrinityP3 have a huge following – with marketing and advertising professionals following your blog and your podcast. Can you tell us what is the key area they consistently want to read about?* What is your biggest frustration with the current digital space when it comes to marketers? * How do you see technology companies leading a more transparent relationship with marketers and platforms? * What would your advice be a CMO who is grappling with a fragmented media and marketing climate? 

Considered the Mr Wolf of Marketing Communication, Darren Woolley has been solving performance problems for marketers and their agencies since 2000.

With his background as analytical scientist, creative problem solver and a Certified Practising Marketer, Darren brings unique insights and learnings to the marketing process. He is considered a thought leader in the marketing management discipline and a regular industry commentator to trade and industry magazine and forums around the world. He has also authored and published more than 1,000 posts on the TrinityP3 blog and published the business book “Top 50 Marketing Management Posts of the Year” annually since 2013.

Darren started his working life as a scientist at the Royal Children’s Hospital Neuropathology Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, undertaking research in myopathies, neuropathies, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury. He established a chemical recycling company called Resolve before falling into advertising in the mid eighties.

During his 15 years as a writer and Creative Director, Darren developed brand and business communication strategies for a broad range of global and local brands. He was Creative Director at J Walter Thompson and President of the Melbourne Art Directors’ Club for two consecutive terms.

In 2000, Darren founded TrinityP3, Asia Pacific’s leading strategic marketing management consultancy with an international network of more than 30 industry professionals helping people to achieve commercial purpose through creative process. What that means is he leverages his extensive knowledge of the marketing and advertising industry, to solve advertisers problems and achieve maximum value from their budget.

Now a decade on, TrinityP3 is at the leading edge of decision making in the marketing, media and advertising industry that spent nearly $600 billion in 2015 and their client base includes more than 50 of the world’s top 100 advertisers, with offices in Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and London.

More recently he was elected to the board of the Australian Marketing Institute in 2014 and was Chair of the Board from 2015 to 2016.

TrinityP3 is a unique name for a unique company. Trinity is our clients being marketers, procurement and agencies.

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Josh Walter, the Co-Founder and CEO of BrandJump, a Los Angeles-based ecommerce sales and marketing company, focused on bringing customized online strategies to manufacturers in the home furnishings space joins eCommerce Radio. Founded in 2011, BrandJump’s team brings a rare blend of seasoned home furnishings experience with deep ecommerce knowledge to its client base. 

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Josh Walter discuss the following:

* Tell us a little about BrandJump, and the unique services you provide to the home furnishings category.* You were 29 years old when you co-founded BrandJump. Tell us about your journey that led you to that point. * Most companies are started by executives who have been in the professional realm for 5-10 years. Tell us what was challenging about being a young entrepreneur?* What did you see was missing in the ecommerce space for home furnishings companies that made you want to start BrandJump?* You talked about building a team with category expertise. Tell us how this has been critical to BrandJump’s success?

Josh Walter is the CEO of BrandJump. Josh’s role is to create and execute the vision and strategy of the company.  He is charged with driving the business of BrandJump’s clients, leading on the development of new client acquisition and ensuring the strength of the BrandJump team continues to thrive.

In 2000, Josh attended the University of Iowa for his undergraduate degree.  After four cold winters in Iowa City, he returned to his roots in Southern California in 2004 to pursue his JD/MBA at Pepperdine University.  During his four years at Pepperdine, he decided that rather than practicing law, he very much wanted to find an owner/operated business to learn and grow with.  After becoming a member of the California Bar in 2008, he worked with his now business partner for a year and a half in his partner’s 30-year old decorative lighting agency, and ultimately discovered BrandJump together.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Josh takes great pleasure in the beach living his hometown has to offer, residing in Marina Del Rey, CA.  During the winter, he very much enjoys driving up to the mountains for snowboarding and R & R.

Website: www.brand-jump.com

Social Media Links:Facebook: BrandJumpEcomTwitter: @Brand_Jump

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