Enterprise Podcast Network

Dr. Lee J. Colan, Ph.D., Co-founder of The L Group, Inc., a leadership and organizational development consulting firm since 1999 & co-author of The Power of Positive Coaching joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Lee J. Colan discuss the following:

* How is this topic relevant today?* Why is it important for businesses?* So, how is this book different?* How does a leader/coach inspire winning results and relationships?* What’s the connection between a coaching mindset and coaching habits?* How do you build a positive coaching mindset?

Lee J. Colan, Ph.D., co-founded The L Group, Inc., a leadership and organizational development consulting firm, in 1999. Lee’s passion for serving leaders enables him to deliver cut-through-the-clutter tools that elevate leaders and their teams. He was nominated for Top Management Thinker globally by Thinkers50.

Lee possesses an in-depth understanding of business, people and organizations. He blends this understanding with his corporate leadership experience to help leaders and companies grow. As a result, Lee brings order where there is chaos and clarity where there is ambiguity.

Lee has authored 15 popular books that have been translated into 10 languages, including the bestselling Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees and Stick with It: Mastering the Art of Adherence. He has also created over 50 products that equip and inspire leaders at every level.

Website: thelgroup.com

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Mary Critelli and Todd Boutte of EVAN, the world’s first on-demand IT support platform that allows for outsourcing quickly, and can be accessed immediately and on a subscription basis joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Mary Critelli and Todd Boutte discuss the following:

* Tell us how EVAN came to be? From my understanding it’s a story we can all relate to.* So let’s say I’m leading a business — small or medium — and I have some technology issues. How does EVAN work? Share how the platform works.* EVAN’s platform — it’s my understanding — is not just a few IT support issues though. Your team solves all sorts of problems, and lots of preventative measures. What kind of services you provide for businesses?* Cybersecurity has become a bigger concern, more than ever. Recently, EVAN released a cybersecurity handbook. Free, correct?* Explain why the handbook is unique. What are you hoping businesses can learn from your cybersecurity handbook? Any key takeaways?

TODD BOUTTE, CEO at EVAN

Todd Boutte joined EVAN after 15 years of academic and professional experience related to operations and logistics, primarily in privatized housing and higher-education. These experiences drove him to look for a better and more efficient way of completing tasks and achieving goals; EVAN is exactly that for IT support. As the go-to, de facto “tech guy” his whole life, earning his “Master Certification” before there was such a thing, he enjoys combining his lifetime passion for technology with his career interests in operations and project management. Todd was drawn to EVAN’s commitment to maintaining a secure and transparent platform, as well as the priority to educate and inform EVAN’s customers. He now supports these values by overseeing the development of EVAN’s application, web presence, recruitment, screening, and training of EVAN’s IT Professionals.

MARY CRITELLI, President of Strategy and Partnerships at EVAN

Mary Critelli spent 6 years as a management consultant and truly enjoyed helping companies streamline processes and implement new technologies to make their business run better. When the founders told her about their initial ideas for EVAN and the concept of making IT support easier, faster and more affordable for companies – She knew she wanted to be a part of the movement. Mary now works with thought leaders across industries to find proactive solutions to meet their growing IT needs. She also cultivates exclusive, strategic partnerships to help equip EVAN’s customers with other trusted service providers that can address customers’ non-IT needs. She says, “If you have an IT need, I’m your ‘guy’.”

Website: EVANYourITGuy.com

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

Amanda Belluso, an entrepreneur, coach and facilitator for Joy of Business, a special program from Access Consciousness joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Amanda Belluso discuss the following:

* Tell us about what you currently do in business? * You also are a Joy o business facilitator, what is the Joy of business?* What is your favourite tool?* What do you want people to know about Joy of business? How has it changed your life?* You work alot with under 30 market.  What do you want them to know?

Amanda Anderson Belluso is a business and communication mentor, entrepreneur and facilitator of several Access Consciousness® special programs including Joy of Business, Right Voice for You and Access Bars®. After earning her degree in International Relations at Södertörns University in Stockholm, Amanda turned her energies and attention to business. At 24, she was running part of the family enterprise – a dynamic and demanding disabilities services business – at times, overseeing more than 100 employees.

After several years, she left to launch House of Belluso with her husband and her brother. Currently, Amanda travels the world, facilitating educational workshops, hosting events and coordinating photography and videography shoots. She recently launched her own brand, Blonde Girl Business, and is the publisher of several upcoming books. 

Amanda is renowned and respected for her unconventional and refreshing approach to business and her ability to see the big picture and find patterns within chaos. Amanda’s teachings are based on the simple insistence that a question is the most potent business tool of all, and that entrepreneurism can, and should, be a constant source of fun.

Website: www.blondegirlbusiness.com

Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/blondegirlbusiness
Instagram: @blondegirlbusiness

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Lowey Bundy Sichol, the author of the children’s book series, From an Idea to…,the world’s only business and entrepreneurship biographies for kids joins Enterprise Radio. Her first two books in the series, From an Idea to Nike and From an Idea to Disney have recently been released.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Lowey Bundy Sichol discuss the following:

* What is your background and how did you come up with the idea for a children’s book series about entrepreneurship and business?* Please tell us about your book series, From an Idea to…,and how it teaches kids about business and entrepreneurship?* When you talk with kids either at school visits and book events, what messages are you telling them?* Have there been any challenges with writing entrepreneurship and business books for kids?   * What’s next? Do you have more books coming out and will you be touring the country?* What tips do you have for parents who are listening and may be raising the next Larry Page or Phil Knight?  

Lowey Bundy Sichol is the author of From an Idea to…, the world’s first business and entrepreneurship biographies for kids.

Named one of UpJourney’s “Education Experts to Follow in 2019“, Lowey is also a renown MBA case writer. Her MBA case studies have been read by business school students across the globe and are included in the internationally best-selling marketing book, Marketing Management by Philip Kotler & Kevin Lane Keller.

Lowey received her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and her BA from Hamilton College where she played varsity softball and rugby. She lives in Chicago with her husband, three kids, and two crazy dogs.

Website: www.loweybundysichol.com

Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/fromanideato
Instagram:  @loweybundysichol

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Benjamin R. Case, the CEO of Focused on Fundraising, Inc. a company that provides consulting services and online training for fundraising and nonprofit management joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Benjamin R. Case discuss the following:

* What does it take to become a highly successful fundraiser?* Why do people make charitable donations?* How do you change a “no” to a “yes” from customers and donors? * How do you deal with unhappy customers and donors?* How can you apply the advice you share in your book to business and life? 

Benjamin R. Case is a professional fundraising consultant who has served in the nonprofit sector for 41 years as an advancement professional, senior manager and leader. He has personally been involved in the successful solicitation of over $1.1 billion in gifts and worked for and been engaged by organizations that have raised $4.8 billion. 

His fundraising experience includes working with The Metropolitan Opera in NY, Duke University and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, among others. He recently launched an online learning 12 series webinar “The Daily Dozen: Habits of Highly Successful Fundraisers.” Case is also the author of 21 Tips for Highly Successful Fundraisers, an international best-seller in nine business categories in six countries.

Website: www.focusedonfundraising.com

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Bestselling author D.J. Chang tells an inspiring true story about her journey with accepting her ethnicity and sexual orientation, finding love and miracles with her partner who has lived for over 32 years after being diagnosed with AIDS joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest D.J. Chang discuss the following:

* How were you and your wife able to survive your wife’s AIDS diagnosis from 32 years ago?* How has faith shaped your life?* How did you choose to love and commitment in the face of your wife’s severe disability and AIDS diagnosis?* What was it that helped you navigate your challenges in life?* How were you able to make so many leaps of faith in your life?

D.J. Chang is a memoirist writer and social purpose entrepreneur. D.J. received a Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology from Columbia University and earned a master degree in Urban planning/public administration from NYU. 

D.J. now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her spouse Carla and their dogs. D.J. was raised in a white, upper-middle-class suburb of New York City, where, as a child, she witnessed her caregiver die suddenly and, as a young adult, grappled with issues of sexuality, class, and ethnicity.

Throughout her life, D.J. has searched for the meaning of identity, love, life, and death, and she explores these big questions and the events that shaped her life in her debut memoir, First Mistake.

Website: www.equityincites.com

@Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/AuthorDJChang
Twitter: @author_djchang

The views, ideas, thoughts and opinions expressed on any program are those of the persons appearing on the program and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Enterprise Podcast Network – EPN. 

People also listened to this: A conversation with Dr. Jason Gordon: Finding balance in your work life

Dr. Jason Gordon, an expert in Chinese medicine, a culinary educator and founder of Florida’s #1 plant-based restaurant Soul Tavern joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Dr. Jason Gordon discuss the following:

* Explain to our listeners a little bit about your background and how Alchemical Courtyard came to be?* What is your inspiration behind Soul Tavern?* Between your medical practice, elixirs, and restaurant, how do you juggle running three successful businesses in three different industries?* What are some lessons you’ve learned since starting your companies? What do you attribute your success to?* How do you recommend young entrepreneurs find balance when they are so often spread thin?

What makes Dr. Jason Gordon unique as the mindful alchemist behind Soul Tavern is his ability to seek guidance from within. It has allowed him to draw on a distinct set of skills that are required in order for an innovative restaurant concept, centered on the five elements, to succeed: Demonstrated success as a restauranteur and businessperson. Check. A breadth of knowledge about ancient medicinal arts and Eastern thought. Check. A profound passion for healing and a desire to nourish all those he encounters. Check. Check. 

Soul Tavern is the manifestation of a lifelong vision. From his time at business school, his entrepreneurial endeavors, to his current alchemic healing practice, Dr. Gordon has dedicated himself to promoting health and wellness by asking tough questions about life and meeting its lessons with compassion and dedication.  Yoga, acupuncture, ancient studies, education, and meditation are all as much at the center of Gordon’s business concept as are the conventions of hospitality that make Soul Tavern a must-visit culinary retreat. 

The healing property of food is well documented from ancient texts through modern journals of medicine. It forms a distinct and intimate relationship with the person who eats it that propels a life in one direction or another. The role of an alchemist is to transform one thing into another by a seemingly magical process. Through Soul Tavern, Dr. Gordon has taken vegan cuisine and ancient elixirs and transformed them into a welcoming hangout that elevates the spirit in a casual and inviting setting. He has integrated the valuable lessons he’s learned through his career and self-reflection and dared to impact the restaurant world by making the ancient new again. He kindly invites us all to join him on this journey. 

Websites: alchemicalcourtyard.com | SoulTavern.com

@Social Media Links:Facebook: facebook.com/SoulTavernRestaurantInstagram: @soultavern 

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Rabbi Mendel Kastel, who is leading the Sydney-based crisis centre, Jewish House, into the digital age igniting technology solutions joins Enterprise Radio. 

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Rabbi Mendel Kastel discuss the following:

* Please tell the audience a bit about your background and how you came to become the CEO of Jewish House?* In your experience, what have been some innovations globally that you feel could possibly solve the issue of homelessness?* Many large tech companies are putting funding towards solving homelessness, particularly in Silicon Valley, what do you see as the biggest barriers that they face?* What excites you about the future of technology in the not for profit space?* Can you tell us a bit about your upcoming project in Australia where an app is being rolled out to connect the general public to their local communities?

Rabbi Kastel joined the Jewish House at the beginning of 2008. He has been providing Rabbinic expertise to the Sydney community for over 20 years. His deep community and social welfare experience, passion for the cause and collaborative approach has seen Jewish House grow and continue to develop. Both he and Jewish House are well recognised for applying innovative best practices to the provision of expert crisis services in the Sydney community.J

Jewish House is like the community ambulance, because it is also a service where clients are picked up and directed on to services that can help to heal a client or resolve his or her crisis. Whether it is through providing 2 weeks of crisis accommodation and then locating long term accommodation for clients; or by taking a call from a client in distress and directing them to the institutions that can assist them financially and medically, the Jewish House is there to take a person from crisis to stability.

Each service provided by Jewish House and as described in this section is unique because it is interlinked with the other services. In no other crisis accommodation are psychologists located on site and ready to help anyone who requires it. No other crisis call line will take such a wide range of problems on their call lines.

For this reason the Jewish House services are attracting academic attention and fast becoming a leader in the field of crisis care.

Our services include: 24/7 Crisis Line, Crisis Accommodation, Counselling, Pastoral Care, Chaplaincy, Financial Counselling, Mediation and Resource Centre for Homeless.

Website: www.jewishhouse.org.au

Social Media Links:
Facebook:  facebook.com/jewishhouse
Youtube:  youtube.com/user/TheJewishHouse

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Tom Hubler the author of “THE SOUL OF FAMILY BUSINESS: A Practical Guide to Family Business Success and a Loving Family” (2018) and a family business advisor and President of Hubler for Business Families joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Tom Hubler discuss the following:

* What is the “soul” of family business?* What do you find to be the most important aspect of running a family owned business? How can families best implement this?* In the book, you talk about forgiveness as intervention. What do you mean by this?* How can family run businesses best prepare for succession planning? What if the children don’t want the business?* You talk about the “last challenge of entrepreneurship” — what is this? what’s your advice for the generation stepping away right now?

When Thomas M. Hubler began his family business consulting practice in 1980, he was one of the few professionals addressing family-owned businesses in the United States. Hubler has over 35 years of experience of working with families. While a good portion of that experience has been in working with business families, at the same time he is noted for his ability for peacemaking within families.

In his early career, he was a marriage and family therapist and, after receiving a Bush Fellowship in 1977, he pioneered the concept of succession planning in family owned businesses.

Since that time, Hubler has played a major role in shaping this field, from helping colleges and universities establish family business institutes to his work with countless families and their business enterprises. As the acknowledged “dean” of family business consulting, Hubler continues to shape this important field, helping families strengthen connections and eliminate barriers to healthy, productive family and business relationships. 

Has Hubler made a difference?  Don Hermes, President of Hermes Floral, a successful third-generation family-owned business and early Hubler client says: “He helped us unravel the family issues, setting the foundation for us to be successful today.”  

Today, the Hubler firm continues its long-standing dedication to helping families of wealth and family-owned businesses succeed. The firm helps families develop a shared vision for the family and for the business; identify individual talents; tackle any unspoken issues; and create individual and organizational strategies to ensure a personally and financially rewarding business. In addition, the firm assists families of wealth with the creation of a wealth preparation plan that ensures family values continue to emphasize a family culture of gratitude, philanthropy and living purposeful lives.

Hubler is a founding member of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in Boston, a professional organization serving the needs of family-owned businesses. He is a Fellow in FFI, an honor bestowed on only a very few members. In addition, he served as a professional in residence at the Uni...

Maddie Parker, a CFP® at Parker Financial Group, a leader in providing retirement planning services to individuals and families based in Overland Park, Kansas joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Maddie Parker discuss the following:

* What is “Total Client Engagement” and what does it mean to small business owners?* What are three core processes to focus on to achieve “Total Client Engagement”?* What is the biggest challenge when striving for “Total Client Engagement”?* How to overcome commoditization to reach “Total Client Engagement”?* What are the benefits of “Total Client Engagement” and how can I set this as a long-term goal for my business?

Maddie Parker started her professional career by studying Mathematics at the University of Kansas, where she obtained both her bachelor and master’s degrees, to pursue a career teaching high school math. After 4 years of teaching Algebra 2 and Geometry at Olathe East High School, she decided to follow in her father’s footsteps and join the family business, Parker Financial Group (PFG).  

Maddie quickly learned that the passion she had for education and teaching Math translated seamlessly to her role as a financial planner. As a math teacher, Maddie always enjoyed breaking down the subject’s complex content and delivering it to her students in a simple and easy to understand manner.

As a financial planner, she found that each client’s financial situation is uniquely complex and often difficult for the clients to understand or be able to piece together on their own. Thus, she was still breaking down something complex and teaching it, just to working and retired adults now, instead of 15 and 16-year-old students. 

Committed to providing the highest standard of financial planning, Maddie fulfilled the CFP Board’s rigorous requirements to become a Certified Financial Planner™ professional. 

Website: www.pfgkc.com

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