Pope tells the story of founding Work Shield, a company revolutionizing workplace harassment and discrimination management. In the last year his company has earned over $1 million in annualized revenue and is currently on-boarding over 40,000 employees on top of the 13,000 already covered under the plan. The company eliminates the employer from the intake and investigation process of harassment and discrimination claims and is centralizing data in an unprecedented way.

We welcome Russell Layton of Sparx Hockey to the show. Layton has created a skate sharpener that uses interchangeable sharpening discs to customize how skates are sharpened. His product has come to be used by the majority of NHL teams and was the official sharpener of the Wayne Gretzky Fantasy Camp. In a short period of time Layton has found worldwide distribution and sold over 20,000 sharpeners.

Our third guest, David Taylor, founded DizziBrands in 2018. The company has found a way to freeze alcohol into decadent desserts and has come to be found throughout restaurants, bars, and hotels in the state of Texas. The company plans expansions throughout markets on each coast and currently has 28 different flavors available. Taylor walks us through his past business ventures and how the mistakes he had previously made have helped him to success with DizziBrands.

We are joined today by our second entrepreneur Helen Du. In 2006 Du founded JD Rig & Supplies, Inc. on the premise that significant cost savings could be accrued by manufacturing oil drilling products in China and then importing them to markets in the United States and Canada. After the economic collapse of 2008 Du shifted the product focus to oil production equipment and saw company profits triple on a yearly basis until selling the company to Schlumberger Ltd. in 2014.

Today we sit down with Joseph Boskovich Jr. and discuss how his family's 100-year history in the greater Los Angeles area allowed for them to successfully start Old West Investment Management LLC. He lets us in what it is like to work alongside his father, some early successes and struggles, and what it is like to be an active manager in a industry seemingly dominated by passive strategists.

Jerome Dodson runs San Francisco's Parnassus Funds, where he has blazed past the S&P 500 while investing in socially responsible companies. In this podcast with GuruFocus, he discusses his style of value investing and what investors should do in the return of volatility as higher interest rates and trade battles strike. Dodson also covers some of his favorite sectors and companies, including Google, Micron and Starbucks.

John Dorfman, founder of Massachusetts-based Dorfman Value Investments, joined GuruFocus to talk about his style of value investing. John's approach has led to market-beating returns of 9.79% annually since inception versus 5.4% for the S&P 500. In this episode, our guest tells where he is still finding obscure opportunities in a crowded market, what effect tariffs will have on small caps and why value investing is set to stage a comeback. The investor, who was mentored by the legendary David Dreman, also explains the findings of his studies of low-P/E stocks and analysts' most-loved and most-hated stocks.

Jim O'Shaughnessy wrote the wildly popular investing book, "What Works on Wall Street," in which he documents the strategies that sank or soared during over long periods, with some surprising results. In the podcast, Jim expounds on the follies of predicting markets and how a composite approach outperforms. It's only possible, he says, if you can eliminate those pesky emotions. Jim will also give a presentation at the 2018 GuruFocus Value Investing Conference.

Joel Tillinghast, who runs the $38 billion Fidelity Low-Priced Fund, joined GuruFocus for a podcast interview about how he thinks about investing and selects equities. The most distinctive characteristics of Tillinghast's portfolio are its size -- it has 889 positions -- and its requirement that its stocks have a price under $35 per share. It also has uncommon returns. Since inception, he returned 13.76% versus 9.78% for its benchmark Russell 2000 index.

In the extensive interview, Weitz elucidates his investing process and answers questions ranging from rising markets and geopolitics to individual stocks and what he thinks is inexpensive right now. He issues caution about "raw materials" in place for a correction, and explains why his flagship fund, Partners III, is shorting indexes following the S&P 500 and major market indices.