Make a Difference! – 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

Going outside your comfort zone is a key to growth and success in career and life. In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Samuel D. Lyles, a former Texas Assistant District Attorney, a felony prosecutor with special interest in stopping child trafficking, who quit his job to help children and orphans in battle-worn Ukraine. Against the advice of many family members and friends, Lyles flew to the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa as a boots-on-the-ground volunteer in the Ukraine relief efforts. Clips of his journey have been featured on local, San Antonio television and other news outlets. But in today’s interview, you’ll gain a first-hand understanding of what motivated Samuel, what he’s learned, inspiration and insights for your own life and career journey, and how the decision has changed him in ways he could not have imagined.

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SAMUEL D. LYLES:

• LinkedIN
• BackroadsFoundation.org
• News Reports & Video Clips:
  • CHANNEL 4 – NEWS4SA— SAN ANTONIO – As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its sixth month, San Antonio attorney Samuel Lyles is…””I ended up moving to Odessa. I’d meet my team in Kiev. and I’d go to the front lines just east of Kiev and bascially start delivering supplies all down the front lines,” he says. “End up in the Donbas and get home as fast as possible and then refill and do it over again.”…(see news clip)
  • KENS5 – SAN ANTONIO — Samuel Lyles couldn’t stand simply watching the carnage of war unfold in Ukraine without feeling the strong desire to make a positive difference. So he quit his job as a Bexar County felony prosecutor, booked a plane ticket to Poland and… (see news clip)

In today’s episode of The Mentors Radio, host Tom Loarie talks with former Sprint turn-around CEO Dan Hesse “Just Capital” and why “doing good” matters in any company, of any size. They also discuss a new values-based metric system aimed at motivating and improving corporate ethics and, in turn, positively impacting customers, clients, shareholders, employees and communities. The truth is that even facing challenging economic headwinds, companies performing well in ethics and in doing good—who really follow through on values—do not sacrifice returns. Just Capital’s rankings prove that reality.

DAN HESSE:

• BIO: DanHesse.com/dan-hesse-bio
• WEBSITE: danhesse.com
• WEBSITE: JustCapital.com
• ARTICLES:
  • ‘Great To Good’ New Business Model Affirmed By Dan Hesse – Forbes
  • Just Capital’s Dan Hesse: Companies that do good things have higher returns – Yahoo!

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
• DanHesse.com/

In today’s show Host Tom Loarie talks with best-selling author and speaker Dan Heath about how we get “stuck” — in business, in life, in relationships — and how to get “unstuck” and moving forward, no matter what. Dan offers real, down-to-earth solutions to help get ourselves out of a rut. He shows us how to solve problems BEFORE they happen so that instead of always putting out “fires” in life, business and even health.. a little at a time. Yes, you can prevent these overwhelming obstacles from happening in the first place… Dan shows you how easy it is to make “moving forward” a habit in your life!

Dan is a a senior fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports social entrepreneurs. He and his brother, Chip, who is a professor at Stanford Grad School of Business, have together co-authored four books that have sold more than three million copies. Not only do his books fly off shelves, Dan is also an extremely popular speaker. Listen to this episode to find out why!

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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, host Tom Loarie and mentor Howard Root, former CEO of Vascular Solutions and author of “Cardiac Arrest: Five heart-stopping years on the Fed’s Hit List” , deliver a riveting interview. Hang on to your seat as you learns about Root’s harrowing fight—and win—against Federal Department of Justice prosecutors who abused their power beyond all imagining…. and based on, literally, nothing. No evidence. No case based in facts. No nothing! The Feds used bully tactics, threats and more, frustrated and trying to “justify” what became a massive, costly “hunt” for something that did not exist. The Feds trampled over individual liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. Five years after $30 million in legal costs and a UNANIMOUS acquital, jurors said they were concerned that these charges were ever filed. This is a modern day David beats Goliath story, and it could affect you! Learn what you can do to protect yourself and your company. Find Show Notes here. Never miss an episode of THE Mentors Radio –available on EVERY podcast platform — by subscribing here to podcast (free).

In this episode, The Mentors Radio Host Tom Loarie talks with guest mentor Ram Charan, the world’s premier business advisor to the top companies, about the secret of Amazon’s success. Charan exposes the behind-the-scenes management system that has catapulted Amazon.com to become a major disruptor in many industries around the world, amass a jaw-dropping number of customers and valuable datasets, become a source of constant innovation, and ultimately create a trillion-dollar, high-cash generating corporation in less than 25 years. They also discuss how the secret of Amazon’s success can be applied to any business, including YOURS!  Find Show Notes here.  Find The Mentors Radio FREE Podcast available on all podcast apps, such as Spotify, iTunes, Android, Stitcher, etc.—after the episode’s first airing Saturday morning. Sign up for FREE podcasts on any device here.

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.