Make a Difference! – The Mentors Radio

On this show guest mentor Howard Root, healthcare founder and CEO of Vascular Solutions and author of “Cardiac Arrest: Five heart-stopping years on the Fed’s Hit List” , shares with host Tom Loarie an insider’s view of his harrowing fight—and win—against Federal Department of Justice prosecutors. Root faced Department of Justice prosecutors who abused their power in their unsuccessful attempt to put him behind bars and destroy his company. They used the justice system to distort justice and abuse 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. Episode link will be posted after its airing Saturday morning. Never miss an episode by subscribing here to podcast (free).

Top McDonalds franchise owner and author of “Invest Yourself,” John Abbate, talks with The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie to give us a peek behind successfully owning and managing more than 20 McDonalds franchises. Known for creating a cutting-edge employee development program that helps employees gain the skills and education needed to reach their potential in life—not just work, but life—Abbate delivers a wealth of mentoring wisdom. Find Show Notes here. Listen to podcast below, or don’t miss an episode and subscribe (free) to The Mentors Radio podcast (on any device) here.

The Mentors Radio Show Host Ric Brutocao interviews noted author, Board Chair of one of the largest healthcare organizations in the world, CHI Health Services — now Common Spirit Health, and a former JP Morgan director, on the unassuming yet life-transforming principles laid out—in bite-sized, easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement mini-chapters—in his latest, best-selling and small book, Make Today Matter. Engaging and fast-paced, this episode models how small, simple steps and refreshed daily habits — one at a time — can literally transform your life and business in ways you could never imagine! Find Show Notes here. Listen to episode below. Be sure not to miss this — or any episode — by subscribing (FREE) to the Podcast here (on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn and every other possible platform) .

This weekend guest mentor Clint Severson shares hard-earned secrets gained from radically transforming a publicly traded company that was in a death spiral, bleeding cash and failing fast, into a $2 billion acquision. Host Tom Loarie ferrets out how Clint built a high-performance team in the rough and tumble healthcare diagnostics field. Clint joined a young, publicly-held Abaxis Inc. when it was losing money on $6 million in sales. His focus on company culture and well-crafted compensation programs transformed the failing company into an empowered team that — over the next 22 years — radically grew to become a major success story. Abaxis was acquired in 2018 for $2 billion by Zoetis.  Hear the inside transformation story first-hand… Find Show Notes here. Listen below or by podcast on any device here.

What do John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Mick Jagger, Bono, Ella Fitzgerald, and U.S. Presidents Ronald Regan, Bush and Clinton have in common? The answer is: Michael Collopy, one of the nation’s pre-eminent portrait photographers. Host Tom Loarie talks with Mr. Collopy about lessons learned, business success, humility, and the power of listening and observing in any walk of life. Find Show Notes here. Listen below, or by podcast here.

“After more than 45 years in TV news, I still wouldn’t trade jobs with anyone in the world,” says Spencer Christian of ABC. “I’ve been a news reporter, sportscaster, talk show host and weather forecaster.” Assignments and travels have taken him to all 50 states and five continents. He’s interviewed five U.S. presidents and the most prominent figures in sports, world affairs, the arts, and for him the most memorable, what he calls “ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.” That brilliant journey in broadcasting, taking him from New York and Good Morning America for much of his career, is just part of the story. In a recent book, Spencer reveals what it took to overcome a nearly devastating addiction to gambling, an addiction no one suspected and few knew. He hopes the frank, open and refreshing little book will help others in similar situations. In this interview, host Tom Loarie (whose grandfather was founded what is now the Chicago Sun-Times) interviews guest mentor Spencer Christian for invaluable nuggets of learning and insights into the fast-paced world of TV broadcast news. Find Show Notes here. Listen to radio show below, or anywhere with the podcast here.

This weekend guest mentor Clint Severson shares hard-earned secrets gained from radically transforming a publicly traded company that was in a death spiral, bleeding cash and failing fast, into a $2 billion acquision. Host Tom Loarie ferrets out how Clint built a high-performance team in the rough and tumble healthcare diagnostics field. Clint joined a young, publicly-held Abaxis Inc. when it was losing money on $6 million in sales. His focus on company culture and well-crafted compensation programs transformed the failing company into an empowered team that — over the next 22 years — radically grew to become a major success story. Abaxis was acquired in 2018 for $2 billion by Zoetis.  Hear the inside transformation story first-hand… Find Show Notes here. Listen below or by podcast on any device here.

Two well-respected healthcare leaders—Ed Kopetsky, CIO at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (Stanford) who lost a son to an opioid overdose 18 months ago, and Dr. Dave Gustafson, Director of the National Program to Improve Addiction Treatment based at the University of Wisconsin—talk with host Tom Loarie about the severity of the drug addition crisis, and why and how they are making a difference in their fight against it. In case you didn’t know, addiction costs us more the $740 billion a year, with a human life lost every ten minutes. Opioid overdoses alone are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 55, with a staggering death toll exceeding that of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq combined. See Show Notes here. Listen to this episode below or by podcast on any device (here).

Ethical Leadership and putting people first makes all the difference, and no one knows that better than Dan Hesse, the former Sprint CEO who was brought in to turn the company around. He succeeded, radically turning Sprint from a headlong downward spiral to being ranked #1 in shareholder return. It was not easy. But he hit the ground running through amazing focus and ethical leadership. Named one of the Top Ten most inspirational turnaround leaders of all time, former SPRINT CEO Dan Hesse shares his hard-earned insights with you in a candid, down-to-earth conversation with host Tom Loarie. Find Show Notes here. Listen to radio episode below, or by podcast – on any device or app – here.

Dr. Rick Brinkman knows how facilitate big changes smoothly, after all he’s a well-respected organizational change expert. He’s developed training programs on the Art of Change for NASA, the Department of Defense, Starbucks and SONY. But on this episode, The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie talks with Dr. Brinkman about the very real dilemma: How to deal with people you just can’t stand. As co-author of an international best-selling book on the topic, there’s plenty we can learn. Is it possible to actually bring out the best when people are at their worst?! Think about the possibilities! Find Show Notes here. Listen below or subscribe to podcast here.