Make a Difference! – The Mentors Radio

Is it true that career and life success is just a byproduct of a life well-lived? In this episode of The Mentors Radio Show, host Tom Loarie talks with guest mentor August Turak, a highly successful entrepreneur and author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. Topics of discussion include self-sufficiency, transformation and authenticity.  Find Show Notes here.  Listen to episode below or by podcast here.

Tom Dooley delivers life lessons and learnings few have the privilege to experience, let alone hear. Host Ric Brutocao brings out these lessons in this episode. As a double Olympiad Dooley earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team in 1968 in Mexico City and again, in 1972, in Munich, Germany: Two especially historic Olympics, for very different reasons. Racewalking is an endurance sport. Interestingly, the self-discipline, humility, insights and lessons one gains from training for any athletic adventure—especially for elite-level endurance racing—spills over into every aspect of one’s life, even business and work. Few athletes are also good teachers.  Tom Dooley is both great athlete and great teacher, as many of his students will attest. Not only was he a high school history teacher and record-breaking racewalker athlete, he also served for 25 years as National Coach for the Leukemia and Lymphoma’s Team in Training program. Talk about mentoring! Why not learn from the best?! Listen below or by podcast here.

Guest Dan McClory, president and head of China equity investments for Boustead Securities, talks with The Mentors Radio Show Host Ric Brutocao about China from an extensive and fascinating, first-hand business and investment perspective. He delivers lessons learned and insights gleaned from his own business journey and talks about a new opportunity, a new system, that can help smaller companies achieve IPO faster than previously thought possible. Find Show Notes here. Listen below, or sign up for Podcast here.

If you’ve ever wondered how entrepreneurs secure super-star investor funding, or how to secure any funding for your business or idea, today’s episode is for you. One thing everyone knows: It all begins with crafting a strong “pitch.” But you’ll learn more from the show. Host Tom Loarie digs deep with guest Dave Mosby, author of The Paradox of Excellence, a well-known, well-respected figure among Kieretsu and other Angel Investment groups, and the founder of E2i Academy, an entity dedicated to coaching and helping entrepreneurs perform at their highest level and, if desired, to secure investor funding through crafting and delivering winning pitches. It is truly fascinating, and you’ll learn a lot about pursuing your own business and dreams as well.  Find Show Notes here.  Listen below or Sign up for podcast – FREE!

Home-based business owners Catherine Moran and Kent Mast—who live in different parts of the country but work for the same company, Hope In a Can—talk with host John Phillips about their first-hand experiences owning and running home-based businesses. They deliver candid insights into their challenges, the adjustments, the benefits, the pros and cons. And they describe what it takes to be successful, all of which is helpful information if you are considering launching a home-based business for a full time or encore source of income.  Show Notes here.  Listen below or by podcast here.

It may not immediately seem like elections make a difference in our daily lives, but we couldn’t be more wrong about that! Sharp lawyer and real estate developer and investor Tim Strader talks with Host Ric Brutocao about why and how elections—Every. Single. Election.— has consequences for you and me. Tim and Ric do not agree on all points, but they do agree that every election has consequences and their lively discussion includes real-world examples and perspective.  Find Show Notes here. Listen below, or subscribe to The Mentors Radio podcast here.

Most family companies don’t last beyond three generations, instead they sell out or die off. So when a family-owned company endures through the Great Depression, other recessessions, ups and downs, through more than five generations, it’s a rare and beautiful thing!  Guest Bob Verdin of The Verdin Company—an East Coast company that has been and repairing bells and tower clocks for a very long time—talks with Host John Phillips about his passion for the business after all these years, and for what his role is. Bob reveals some of the secret sauce that will likely keep this five-generation (going on six-generation) business alive and thriving. You’ll also learn about some of his most interesting projects, including restoring a bell originally cast by Paul Revere!  Find Show Notes here, including fascinating short videos. Listen to episode below or sign up for podcast on any media.

How do you find happiness amid pain and chaos? Megan Metcalfe, a vibrant young sales and development professional, has some answers. She should know.  Just 10 years ago she was struck down with Stage 3 cancer, lymphoma, during her junior year of high school. It turned her life upside down. But that life-threatening journey of ups and downs made her strong and wise beyond her years, and she continues to apply the lessons she’s learned—lessons she will share with us—to her daily life and professional career.  Once we recognize that limited time is remaining, Megan says, we are less driven by ego or by what other people think of us. Instead, we are driven by what our hearts really want. It frees us to abandon fear and to instead find greater purpose and satisfaction in the time we have remaining.  Find Show Notes here.  Listen to radio podcast below or sign up for podcasts – any platform or device!

Timothy “Tim” Strader, the founder and Chairman of a robust real estate development and investment firm, Starpointe Ventures, talks with The Mentors Radio Show host Ric Brutocao on real estate, core economic principles and real-world success.  With more than 43 years of real estate and development expertise, Mr. Strader has seen just about everything possible in the market and he has plenty to say about what he sees looking forward. In addition to serving on several boards and foundations, Mr. Strader is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, teaching a graduate course entitled Management of the Real Estate Enterprise.  Find Show Notes here.  Listen to the radio podcast below.

Former SPRINT CEO Dan Hesse discusses a new value-based metrics that will improve your career and life, with The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie. This new way to value and rate companies aims to make work and life better for everyone—not just the educated, skilled and lucky, and not just the “C-suite.” This  new approach is already impacting companies, their customers, shareholders, employees and communities. Find Show Notes here.  Listen to the show podcast below.