Know and build on strengths – The Mentors Radio

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Guest Mentor Anthony Walton, award-winning author and poet, professor and senior writer-in-residence at prestigious Bowdoin College, about the importance and power of good mentors, the art of writing and storytelling, and the importance of education in shaping our future and our role as a citizen.

Born the grandson of a Mississippi share-cropper, who grew up in Illinois, Anthony was greatly influenced by a teacher, a nun, who was determined to get him into the University of Notre Dame (UND). Not only did he attend UND, after graduation he continued studies at Brown University, went on to receive the Whiting Writer’s Award for his poems and essays, and became a respected college professor and writer. He is best known as author of a chapbook of poems, Cricket Weather, for his non-fiction work, Mississippi: An American Journey, and as co-editor of The Vintage Book of African American Poetry: 1750-2000. His poems and essays have appeared regularly in The New York Times, Harper’s and The Atlantic, to name a few publications. FASCINATING interview!!

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Anthony E. Walton

• BIO:
  • Bowdoin College Bio
  • Wikipedia
• BOOKS:
  • Mississippi: An American Journey — by Anthony Walton
  • Cricket Weather — poems by Anthony Walton, woodcuts by O.K-Pastuchiv
  • The Vintage Book of African American Poetry: 1750-2000 — co-edited by Anthony Walton

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with best-selling author and Harvard Career Advisor Gorick Ng about what he wishes he had known when starting college and before his last year in college. This is a show for students and also for their parents, grandparents and for school counselors. Gorick specializes in coaching first-generation, low-income students. His best-seller book is titled Unspoken Rules: Secrets in Starting Your Career Off Right. Gorick’s advice is well-worth a listen!!!

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GORICK NG is the Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, a book published by Harvard Business Review Press named by Thinkers50 as one of the top 10 management books of 2022.

It is a guide to help early career professionals, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, navigate the school-to-work transition and ascend to positions of leadership, based on 500+ interviews with professionals across geographies, industries, and job types.

The Unspoken Rules has been endorsed by Arianna Huffington, Cal Newport (Author of Deep Work), David Carey (Former Global President of Hearst Magazines), Edith Cooper (Board Director of Slack and Etsy and Former Global Head of Human Capital Management of Goldman Sachs), Ginni Rometty (Former Executive Chairman of IBM), Julie Zhuo (Former VP of Product Design of Facebook), Rich Lesser (CEO of BCG), and Ratan Tata (Former Chairman of Tata Group).

The Unspoken Rules is now used for employee and manager training and diversity and inclusion at companies such as Aon, GE, IBM, Kirkland & Ellis, Charles River Associates, Abiomed, Invesco, and others. It is also used by programs such as Questbridge, Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, Rewriting the Code, ACE Women’s Collective, SEO, Africa.com, and others. Harvard Business School has also given Gorick’s book to every MBA student to give them an edge in the labor market.

Gorick is a career adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He is also on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches the unspoken rules of career navigation.

Gorick has worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), investment banking at Credit Suisse, and research with the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard Business School.

He has been featured in Forbes, The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, New York Post, Fast Company, Fortune Magazine, and CNBC. He was named by Thinkers50 as one of 30 thinkers to watch in 2022.

Gorick, a first-generation college student, is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Find him at www.gorick.com.

In this episode, host Tom Loarie delivers an insider-view, candid conversation with former Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, the man whose intense, clearly defined focus on ethical principles and putting others first resulted in one of the biggest corporate turn-arounds in history. Named one of the Top Ten most inspirational turnaround leaders of all time, in this episode, Hesse shares the hard-earned insights he gained as he led Sprint from the edge of the abyss to being ranked #1 in shareholder return for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.  If you’re looking for inspiration for your life, your business or your start-up… This is it! Find show notes below.  Listen to show episode below (after Saturday’s broadcast) and subscribe to The Mentors Radio free podcast—available on all podcast platforms—so you’ll never miss another episode!!!

Dan Hesse:

• Bio
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In this episode of THE Mentors Radio, host Tom Loarie talks with Billy F. Wroe, Jr., founder of 1stWroe and author of Fire Your Job, Hire Your Passion (see link in Show Notes below). Wroe is a career professional in retail, recruiting, sales and management who has learned how to conquer the impossible by creating a life focused on following his passion. Even more, Wrote has mentored thousands with his insights and method for helping individuals to discover life solutions that work for them. On the show, Billy shows us how to discover, and then align, our passion with our day-to-day life.

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BILLY F. WROE, JR.:

• Bio: https://www.1stwroe.com/origin
• Book: Fire Your Job, Hire Your Passion — by Billy R. Wroe, Jr.
• Website: 1stWroe.com

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Jeff Nemeth, former CEO of the Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa, talks with Host Tom Loarie about the innovative and very human way he led Ford Southern Africa from being the lowest performing operation to the Top. It is often said that if you don’t have challenges in your business, you’re doing something wrong! It’s par for the course.

Jeff shows us how to tackle problems head-on, with a genuine appreciation for the humanity of the people involved, knowing how to foster a strong sense of shared vision and teamwork, clear focus on the goals, and a sense of humor. In the episode, Jeff also shares his career journey, his unique, intrapreneurship style, the risks he has taken, and the innovative strategies he developed to transform Ford Southern Africa. Nemeth’s positions with Ford also include past CEO of Ford Lio Ho Motors in Taiwan and executive director of Global Ownership Life Cycle Management. There are lots of take-away gems in this episode!!

Find out how Jeff Nemeth led a team and culture from disjointed, flagging operations and sales to turn-around and achieve enduring success, sustainable economic performance, sound risk management and high integrity decisions. Find Show Notes here. Listen below (after airing on Saturday) and listen any time, on ANY podcast device here. Don’t miss an episode and sign up for FREE podcasts of the radio show here.

In this episode, executive producer Karen Walker interviews the original three hosts of The Mentors Radio—Tom Loarie, Ric Brutocao and John Phillips. Each is a highly sought-after, successful CEO of their own companies, in three very different industries. That said, they each share a passion and history of highest ethics throughout their careers and a passion for helping others succeed.

Tom Loarie began work as a brick layer to earn money while in school but he is most known for a stellar career in the life sciences field, as a start-up CEO for a number of companies, some of whose medical devices have saved lives and reversed the course of serious disease. He is currently the start-up CEO of Silicon Valley-based Bryologyx, developing a new class of drugs to enhance the response rates and treatment durability of cancer immunotherapies.

Ric Brutocao hails primarily from the tech arena, ultimately launching and eventually selling his own company. He also has served as a remarkable CEO, President and Executive leader in a number of other companies including the international luxury appliance company DACOR, at least one winery, an Italy-based yacht company and too many others to list. The founder of DACOR once noted that “Ric is the best operational manager I’ve ever seen.” Ric currently serves as managing partner of Laguna Hills, CA-based Venture Financial Partners.

John Phillips, Jr. co-founded with his wife, Mary, what has become one of the largest stained glass companies in the world, Associated Crafts® & Willet Hauser® Stained Glass Studio. He grew up in the industry, often accompanying his father on stained glass sales or follow-up visits. Then he worked in the industry, learning all aspects of the craft and business. By the time he and his wife launched their own stained glass company, John was already a sought-after industry expert. But he added a fresh, new level of technology and automation that enabled them to deliver superior customer experience and a superior satisfaction guarantee. People noticed. The quality of their craftsmanship, the superb customer communications, employee training and efficient problem-solving quickly set their company apart from others. And, John remained a go-to friend, helper and advisor in the facility management, stained glass and related industries when peers sought help. His drive for excellence paid off. Within 15 short years of launching their business, one of the largest legacy stained glass firms in the country—over 100 years old—invited John to consider acquiring their company. The rest is history. Now John and Mary own and run Associated Crafts® & Willet Hauser® Stained Glass Studio.

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, you’ll get first-hand, real-world insights into how to run a successful business, regardless of industry or experience. It’s raw and real and a lot of fun to learn from these three Master Mentors!

In this episode of The Mentors Radio show, Host Tom Loarie talks with Neil Hoyne, the Chief Measurement Strategist at Google. Hoyne is also a Senior Fellow at Wharton and author of Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts.

Those who succeed in acquiring new customers, growing business relationships and ultimately succeeding in business use data, not guessing. Neil Hoyne is an internationally renown master at identifying and evaulating the right data for any given business and goal, for evaluating that data in the right way, in the right context, and for knowing how best to adjust as needed in order to achieve record-breaking results and improved growth. He knows the long vision, how to prioritize and understand the lifetime value of a customer or client, how to build strong relationships using digital media. He is the undisputed, go-to person when some of the biggest companies in the world seek digital marketing advice. This interview is invaluable for anyone interested in seriously growing their business.

NEIL HOYNE has served as an analyst, researcher, inventor, lecturer and, in his words, considers himself to be the father of “many forgettable slides and Venn diagrams”. A witness to, and participant in, both billion-dollar successes and instructive failures, all in the pursuit of building indestructible customer relationships through digital media.

As Google’s Chief Measurement Strategist, Neil has had the privilege to lead more than 2,500 engagements with the world’s biggest advertisers. His efforts have helped these companies acquire millions of customers, improve conversion rates by more than 400 percent and generate billions in incremental revenue. He is also the author of the new book, Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers Hearts.

NEIL HOYNE:

BIO: https://wikitia.com/wiki/Neil_Hoyne

BOOK: Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts , by Neil Hoyne

You might think you can’t learn life-changing business success principles from a seasoned teacher who spent much of his life helping at-risk youth succeed in every way—from school to happiness to forging their own strong families to careers—but you’d be wrong! You can learn a TON from this award-winning changemaker, Dr. Joseph Marshall, and The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie in today’s engaging and inspiring episode. “Doc” Marshall delivers down-to-earth, first-hand, real-world tips and advice for success in life and work.

MacArthur Genius Award-winner Joseph Marshall, Ph.D., is an author, lecturer, radio talk show host and most importantly, a former math teacher and administrator with the San Francisco Unified School District and a long-time community anti-violence activist.

As a public school teacher, he grew sick and tired of watching his most promising students fall prey to the lure of gangs, drugs, and crime, and end up either dead or in prison.  Finding that neither the justice nor school system seemed willing even to try to address the underlying problems–to give the kids the kind of information and assistance they really needed–he leapfrogged right over the system and co-founded the Omega Boys Club, based upon the belief that young people of the inner city want a way out of the life they’re in, but just don’t know how to get out.  Since the club’s inception in 1987, with a handful of kids in a community center basement, he and his small army of street soldiers have already helped 600 kids out of gang-banging and drug-dealing, and pushed, tutored, driven and even funded 140 inner-city kids into colleges around the country.

He’s the co-founder and executive director of Stay Alive and Free, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping at-risk youth alive and free, unharmed by violence and free from incarceration. Dr. Marshall has won MANY MANY awards for his successful leadership and results, and he continues to win awards. He also founded the Street Soldiers National Consortium, a group of activists dedicated to preventing violence nationwide, and co-founded the Omega Boys Club.

Dr. Marshall’s life-transforming, proven principles of success lie in treating violence as any doctor would treat a disease. And these principles transfer to anyone’s life and business, no matter what age, and no matter where you are in the growth and learning curve!

BIO: https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/sfchangemakers/2020/07/02/dr-joseph-marshall/

BOOK: Street Soldier: One Man’s struggle to save a generation, one life at a time, by Joseph Marshall

WEBSITE: Stayaliveandfree.org

RADIO SHOW: https://stayaliveandfree.org/programs/street-soldiers-radio/

VIDEO on Dr. Marshall: https://vimeo.com/209971873/b6856b832c

AWARDS (partial list):

• MacArthur Genius Award
• 2012 “Best Community-oriented Radio Program Award” from SF Weekly for Street Soldiers
• 2004 Ashoka Fellow
• 2001 “Use Your Life Award” from Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network
• 1996 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award from the National Educational Association
• Essence Award honoring outstanding contributions by African American men
• Leadership Award from the Children’s Defense Fund
• 1994 MacArthur Fellows Program

This Memorial Day weekend on The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie honors Vets in an in-depth interview with two remarkable veterans, George Randle and Mike Sarraille, on their outstanding success helping veterans transition into civilian jobs that are well-suited to their military and leadership training, adaptability and individual strengths and passions. Mike Sarraille is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer, founder and board director for VETTED Foundation and the co-founder, managing partner and CEO of EF Overwatch. George Randle is retired U.S. Army, whose assignments included Berlin Brigade, US CENTCOM, III Corps, deployments to Africa, Central America and Guantanamo Bay, and key leadership assignments as Platoon Leader (twice), Exec Officer for the largest company in Berlin and Company Commander at Ft. Hood, TX. He has 20+ years of Fortune 100 and 1000 human resources and talent acquisition executive experience AND he created one of the largest, most successful Veteran Hiring Programs for a Global Fortune 50 firm…Mike and George continue to help transition vets into civilian jobs successfully

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This weekend on The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie interviewed James Sutcliffe, the entrepreneurial, London-based founder and CEO of The Founding Network, a free international collaboration platform for entrepreneurs who are founders of companies. In this episode, you’ll hear Tom and James discuss first-hand experiences in business and start-ups of any size, including challenges, discoveries and the “why” behind The Founding Network, as well as its impact on entrepreneurial achievements. Pretty awesome stuff!!!

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