OC Talk Radio

Mary Kay Chess, PhD. Chair of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program and Penny Li, MBA and AVP of Strategic Enrollment join us from SOFIA University to discuss their newest campus here in Costa Mesa, CA and the many innovative programs they offer like a Doctorate in Business Administration (more than an MBA!) and a Degree in Transpersonal Psychology (a field they've pioneered since the inception of the "human potential movement" back in the 1970s and 80s.)

Maria Gomez, CEO Orange County Escrow and 2022 OCHCC Estrella Awardee Member of the Year. Talking about the Orange County Hispanic Chamber's Residential REAL ESTATE COMMITTEE.

Salvador Ramirez, Director, Corporate Affairs, KROGER/FOOD 4 LESS joins us to discuss all the good work they do in Our Community.

Reuben Franco, President of the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, gets the rare privilege (and pleasure) to interview the legendary jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.  Including how he fled his childhood home in Communist Cuba, how he met and was helped by the great Dizzy Gillespie and the many Grammy Awards he's won thru the years, starting with Irakere (an influential jazz group that brought Afro-Cuban music to the US, winning a Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording in 1980).

All in preparation for his rare, upcoming appearance here in Orange County Feb. 16 and 17 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra as part of their new Pop Series LATIN FIRE.

Joaquin Tijerina, Director of the Coachella Valley Small Business Development Center (SBDC) joins us to discuss his work there helping small businesses thrive and grow (and get started). And with the overall Riverside County Office of Economic Development that helps fund this center and so many other programs like Riverside County's Small Business Thrive Program, Business Assistance NOW Program, International Trade, and Innovation Programs, partnered with the University of California Riverside, the State of California and the US Small Business Administration (among others).

Hear all that's happening in Riverside County today from warehouse logistics to more tech savvy agriculture (that's pioneering how to grow more with less). Along with thriving tourism in the Coachella Valley to continued wine growth in Temecula.  And the promise of turning the abandoned area around the Salton Sea into the "Lithium Valley": of the future,   Staring a new "gold rush" for more mineral extraction and the processing needed to drive the booming EV market.

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.

SBDC Business Consultant Troy Small on his extensive work with Veterans and Government Contracting. Following his own extensive career in the Marines (including procurement) and later military contracting.  And how he now helps veterans start small businesses and take advantage of all the special programs that the government  has put in place to help vets get certified for (and secure) government contracts.

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.

Mihai Pătru (Executive Director of the Caravanserai Project) and Carolina Rosas-Saavedra (Director of the Small Business Development Center's new CARAVAN CENTER opening Feb. 15 in Palm Springs).  Talking about this new partnership between the CARAVANSERAI PROJECT and the SBDC (funded in part by the US Small Business Administration and the State of California). Designed to foster and grow more Hispanic Entrepreneurs and startups within this community. 

"Circling the wagons" (as it were) and helping each other along the way (in true "caravan" fashion).  Training these startups and "wannabe Entrepreneurs" thru each stage of this journey.  And protecting them from making the type of mistakes so many "solo entrepreneurs" make along the way. 

Providing a special place for Hispanic entrepreneurs to gather and grow  TOGETHER. With education, mentorship and access to financing and capital as well for this very specific group of entrepreneurs.  A group not often targeted by other Entrepreneurial Centers. 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.

Manal Richa, Director of the OC IE SBDC Global Trade Center discusses their upcoming Trade Mission to South Korea March15-24, 2024. Where participants pay for the cost of the trip and the SBDC will prepare them with research into specific opportunities that might match their product or service. And then actually set up meetings with prospective partners in Korea. As well as government officials who might help make this partnership a reality.

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.

Restaurant expert Jay Allis talks about his 25 years working both "in the front of the house" and the "back of the house" and the work he does with restaurant clients here at the Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Centers (SBDC).

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 SBDC Media Consultant Pam Coleman.  Who discusses the work of the special MARKETING CENTER (the only one of its kind in the whole national Small Business Development Network).  Hosted at the Santa Ana College Digital Media Center.

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.