Meet First 5 of Orange County, a county agency (funded by Prop 10...the tobacco tax initiative) that funds programs for early access to childcare for PreNatal thru Age 5. Including a FREE Training Program (in partnership with the OCIE SBDC) that will train you to start your own childcare business.  A way for some moms to actually get paid to stay home and watch their own young children by also watching other kids as well in a new business they own and operate.

Check out their FREE four week class that shows you how to start your own childcare business.  Helps you secure the necessary permits and licenses to use our own home or apartment to operate this business.  Plus mentorship and support to help you succeed.

For anyone with young kids in our county, you won't want to miss this one!

On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

Meet Norma Mora, a Mortgage Loan Officer for PRMG.  An Ambassador for the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.  And a Mentor for the Hispanic100 Foundation as well.

Today three franchisees from CHIP Cookies join us to discuss their separate stores in Huntington Beach, San Clemente and right here in Irvine.  Sample some of their incredible cookies and talk about their different paths to being a "cookie entrepreneur". Who knew cookies could be so much fun (and profitable)?

Meet from Cassie Pestana, Co-Owner of CLICKSTART DOG TRAINING ACADEMY in Lake Forest. And here her story about growing her business into a real "brick and mortar" location. And how the OC IE Small Business Development Center (SBDC) helped her to do that.

On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

Shaun Sanders, the Senior Associate Director of LaunchPad SBDC joins us to discuss their unique virtual accelerator.  Hosted by Octane and run by the Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC) in Newport Beach, CA.  

As he talks about his work helping startups and other small businesses craft their "pitch decks" (and specifically their "business stories".)  At no cost (whatsoever!).  As part of this special SBDC program.  On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

Meet Sergio Contreras, Executive Director of UNITED FOR STUDENT SUCCESS, Orange County United Way and President and Founder of MADE IN ORANGE COUNTY.  A former school board President and City Council Member in Westminster. And a current Estrella Award winner from the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

As we begin a New Year, we bring in Rachel Daly, a psychotherapist from the Newport Beach Trauma Therapy Center to discuss the all too common "post Holiday blues".  Including their causes (from stress and financial worries to past traumas and current health challenges) and some tips on how to combat this all-too-common mental health problem which so many of us face this time of year.  Including not making it even worse by overloading yourself with too many overambitious "New Year's Resolutions".  And the realization that you're not alone (nor helpless in this struggle).

Using this "turn of the page" to create a new chapter in our life (instead of a repeat of past mistakes and negative patterns). Filled with what most people truly want (from Rachel's experience):  Love Connection and Being Heard.  

Hear more here on Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO, Streaming live from our studio here at the University of California's Beall Applied Innovation Center.

Brian Castles, Founder of Castles Confections in Fullerton joins us to share how he became Orange County's very own Willy Wonka. And using his mom's family recipe, has brought back hand crafted toffee again to So Cal.

Hayden Ruiz, owner of Partee Golf Simulators joins us to discuss renting  a golf simulator for high end corporate events and/or personal parties.  The enormous leap in realism in these simulators today (where you are actually hitting a ball into a screen and then tracking that ball visually on some virtual course).  How PARTEE is actually starting to install these high end golf simulators into high end homes as well. And how a young man with a Bio Medical  Engineering Degree goes from that...to this!

On this week's OC SPOTLIGHT. On Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO, streaming live from our studio here at the University of California Irvine's BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER.

Learn about LENDISTRY and their work helping deploy capital for government programs like the PPP Loans (Paycheck Protection Program) initiated under COIVD). As well as being a direct small business lender for small businesses that may not qualify under traditional banking requirement.

On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.