OC Talk Radio

Meet Monique Claudio, founder of OC LUXURY BAGS and hear all about her business reselling luxury handbags LIVE on TikTok. How she turned a passion into a business and what happens during  her live shows featuring these rare, hard-to-find and collectible high-end handbags.

Roy Osorio, OSORIO GROUP, Coldwell Banker, Global Luxury joins us to discuss their unique PRESALE RENOVATION STRATEGY that allows you to create more profit in less time than the traditional real estate model. By having them provide the capital needed to fix up your home. Leading to quicker sales and higher profits. 

Craig Russom, Finance Consultant for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) joins us to discuss the murky world of small business finances and sourcing capital.  And his own background from studying aeronautical engineering to opening his own chain of sporting goods stores in Colorado.  And then onto California where he  earned all his financial licenses and began his own consulting practice specializing in Strategic financial planning,  cash flow analysis, projections, project management, QuickBooks, P&L, Balance sheet analysis, debt financing and securing loans.

As we continue to highlight the many skills and backgrounds of our extensive network of SBDC consultants. Here on The 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 this week's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) consultant Lisa Napolitano.  And hear her amazing story of being hired as the only employee of a failing trade association at 23.  How 15 years later, she turned it around and grew it into a global organization with lots of other employees. Leaving to start her own high powered, sales strategy firm working with big companies  she'd met from her years with this sales association like UPS and Pfizer  And how she now spends part of her time mentoring and guiding small startups and SMBs (ie-small-to-midsize businesses) thru her work with the SBDC.  As she continues to grow her own "small business".

You'll particularly enjoy how she answer some age old sales questions we put to her like "is raising sales the only goal that matters for most sales organization?"   And "when might it actually do more harm than good?"  As we continue to highlight the many skills and backgrounds of our extensive network of SBDC consultants.  Here on The 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.

Join SBDC Leasing Consultant Karie Armstrong as she looks back at her 25 year career in major mall management (including her last stint overseeing the huge Brea Mall). And her recent 13 year career as a Small Business Development Center consultant (working out of their Cal State Fullerton center). Helping small businesses and retail startups from restaurants to stores navigate the difficult world of commercial leasing. From finding the right location to negotiating the best lease and all that follows from securing financing to securing all the needed permits and licenses needed to open your business (and everything in between). Taking you through the countless obstacles and hurdles to opening a "brick and mortar" business on THE PROFIT TALKS today.

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 Dr. George Ujkic, a Chiropractor in Orange, CA and hear the amazing story of what led him into this field.  Thru the healing it brought him. And how he's shared that gift with so many others thru the years thru his work at the Chiropractic Center of Orange.  On OUR COMMUNITY podcast. Powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

Follow along as Michael and Caitlyn Doehmner wander the world in search of their forever home (with three small kids in tow).  This episode finds them in Turkey at a moment of reflection for that country as they celebrate the 100th anniversary of their secular republic.  While  forces within and outside the country pull it back into more and more of a Muslim state.  On this week's ALL OVER THE MAP FAMILY podcast.  #travel #internationaltravel #family #familytravel #digitalnomads #octalkradio #ucicove

 Socially responsible investing (SRI) is an investing strategy that aims to generate both social change and financial returns for an investor.  Meet Time Shaw, Founding Partner of RevHubOC who seeks to do just that.  And learn the art of "doing well by doing good".  And building a "social enterprise ecosystem" here in Orange County, CA.  On this week's OUR COMMUNITY podcast. Powered by the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Meet Katarina Fillippelli, CEO of the new VICTORIA COMMUNITY COUNSELING center in Riverside, CA. Hear about her love of helping people through these troubled, turbulent times. And her amazing journey from her native country of Slovakia to her adopted home here in Riverside, CA. How she promptly got a 2nd Masters Degree upon her arrival here in the US. And how she and her partner, Paul Baum, took a big leap of faith to open their new business.

Working with the OCIE Small Business Development Center to create a full business plan and secure a lease. Participating in their free THRIVE startup program that allowed them to qualify for a grant. And everything else needed to bring their dream to reality.

Hear how they then proceeded to find and hire a team of 8 culturally diverse Clinical Therapists. As well as develop new partnerships with 8 Major Insurance Providers and dozens of sub-providers. And promptly secure several government contracts to kickstart their thriving new counseling center in Downtown Riverside.

And what it meant to them to find a free, professional resource like the OCIE SBDC to counsel them and guide them on their first entrepreneurial journey. All that (and more) on THE PROFIT TALKS this week. 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.

Chef Brandon Hall and his wife Angela on their entrepreneurial journey combining her event management business with his catering company (a joint venture they call Thyme Well Spent Catering and Events) And their newest venture opening a commercial kitchen in Costa Mesa, CA. Working with the Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Corporation (OCIESBDC) to get it done.  Their "miracle workers" as they describe the SBDC.