Seasoned business advisors Daven Morrison and John Dallas join us to discuss how important it is to have a trusted mentor in your business ventures. They also discuss potential leadership pitfalls and out to navigate them. Whether you have been in the business for years or you're in the beginning stages of an entrepreneurial adventure, mentors can be seen as essential to success.

Tom Walter of Tasty Catering and Junto’s Raman Chadha shine light on the major economical and social shifts that have impacted entrepreneurship. They touch on failure and the need to educate entrepreneurs on how to grow a business.

How should business leaders adapt when their companies are too small to be big and too big to be small? Established business owner Tom Walter joins us again along with Andre Janus, CEO of Cristaux International, whose business is currently transitioning from small to big, to discuss what it feels like to have a business in the midst of an uncomfortable but thrilling stage of growth.

Bill Merchantz, manufacturing instructor at Elk Grove High School, and Deb Lawrence of Illinois workNet Center discuss the many resources available to help manufacturers connect with new talent, despite the skills gap.

Bill Merchantz of Elk Grove High School joins us again along with CEO of Diemasters Paul Rimington. Paul talks about how the industry has changed over the last 10 years and shines light on how the skills gap evolved.