Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

August 26, 2016 Value As a Service, with Rob Bernshteyn
Rob Bernshteyn, CEO and President of Coupa, brings over two decades experience in the business software industry to this episode of Smart Companies Radio. He and host Kelly Scanlon discuss his new book, "Value as a Service”. Making predictions about the future is always tricky. But there is one prediction that author Rob Bernshteyn is quite confident in making: Across a host of industries, we will move to a model that he calls value as a service. Discover what that means and how to be prepared for the coming disruption.
Rob is a guest lecturer at Harvard and Stanford business schools, and a frequent contributor to Forbes and Fortune magazines. He can often be heard providing commentary on major news programs including Bloomberg's Money Moves and NPR Morning Edition.
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21 min
August 19, 2016 PointWorks Academy Expanding Opportunities Tech Careers in Kansas City
Contrary to popular belief, tech jobs are not just for people crunching code, enter, PointWorks Academy.
Co-founder Chrys Sullivan the founder of user experience (UX) firm,Useagility visits with host Mary McKenna on this episode of Smart Companies KC.
Discover why Sullivan who already runs one of KC's fastest-growing companies decided to open her second business and how PointWorks Academy will help fill the increasing need for employees with UX skills. Great software is dependent on great design and there is a void of digital product designers in Kansas City. Sullivan hopes to fill that void.
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21 min
August 19, 2016 There's Money in Maggots: Grubbly Farms Sees Sustainable Future In Bug Farming
On this episode of Smart Companies Radio with host Kelly Scanlon discover what food scraps, fly larvae and pet chickens have in common. Meet Patrick Pittaluga and Sean Warner, Georgia Tech graduates and cousins who have founded Grubbly Farms, which is breeding and selling larvae as a more sustainable protein and fat source for chickens, pigs and farmed seafood
The entrepreneurs are also hoping to help stem America’s billion-dollar problem with food waste – produce and leftover foods being tossed away by businesses and homes and clogging up landfills at the rate of 52m tons per year. Learn how the business started just a year and a half ago and their plans going forward.
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22 min
August 12, 2016 NFL Hall of Famer Will Shields Finds Success As An Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Chief's legend Will Shields talks with Smart Companies KC host Kelly Scanlon.
Find out what drives this man who never missed an NFL game in 14 seasons and propelled him to 12 consecutive Pro Bowl games between 1995 and 2006 and ultimately landed him in the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton.
Learn how and why wellness is so important to him and how he tries to make it available to everyone through philanthropic efforts.
Discover how he has grown his business, 68 Inside Sports, which he bought in 2007 and how "good enough" has never been good enough for this Oklahoma turned Kansas City native.
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27 min
August 12, 2016 Be The Disrupter By Getting Ahead of The Curve With Author Pamela S. Harper
On this week’s Smart Companies Radio, with host Kelly Scanlon, meet Pamela S. Harper, internationally known business performance expert, author, and professional speaker. She is the founding partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc. (BAI), based in Glen Rock, NJ.
Pam is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, Preventing Strategic Gridlock®: Leading Over, Under & Around Organizational Jams to Achieve High-Performance Results.
On this episode, gain insights into the common but mistaken assumptions business leaders often make about their organizations and discover what to do in order to be the disrupter and not the one being disrupted. Is there a different way to look at things? What can you do about being a game changer?
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25 min
August 05, 2016 No Mold, No Odors, No Nasty Chemicals - No Kidding, With Green Home Solutions
Mold can be a messy, toxic and expensive problem. Most mold remedies start with tearing out the walls and flooring of your home or office. Meet Terry Amerine, Owner and President of Green Home Solutions when he joins host Kelly Scanlon on Smart Companies-KC. Find out how Terry started his business and after learning about a green and safer alternative, why he decided to buy a Green Home Solutions franchise.

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27 min
August 05, 2016 Time To Make the Jump to Entrepreneur With Award-Winning Author, Pamela Slim
On this week’s Smart Companies Radio with host Kelly Scanlon, you’ll meet Pamela Slim, an award-winning author, speaker and business consultant who has been an entrepreneur for twenty years. In the last ten years, she helped hundreds of people to start successful businesses. She built a powerful online presence at Escape from Cubicle Nation, a site designed for corporate employees who wanted to make the shift to entrepreneur. On this episode, they’ll discuss Pam’s most recent book, “Body of Work: Finding the Thread that Ties Your Story Together”.
Slim is frequently quoted as a business expert in the press such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Information Week, Money Magazine and Psychology Today.
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29 min
July 29, 2016 Big Wheels & High Heels: IXT Trucking Keeps Things Moving Around the Globe.
Karen Duff, President, and CEO of International Express Trucking or IXT sees a need, meets it and then exceeds it. As the head of IXT since 1993, she continues to explore ways to make the company bigger and better. Today, IXT continues to be the largest women-owned intermodal drayage business within the six-state Midwest region.
Duff and IXT's Vice President of Operations, Martha Schmidt on this episode of Smart Companies - KC, visit with host Kelly Scanlon to talk about the business that physically encompasses 13 acres in the Fairfax district in Kansas City, Kansas with more than 70 drivers. IXT has long-term committed partnerships with Hallmark Cards, Harley Davidson, Brookstone Stores, Expeditors International and Russell Stover Candies
Discover how it all started more than 16 years ago, and find out what Duff credits to her continued growth and success.
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25 min
July 29, 2016 The State of Small Business in America 2016: Babson Professor Donna Kelly Guests
If you're starting a business, where do you go to finance it?
Donna Kelly, Professor of Entrepreneurship with Babson College talks with host Kelly Scanlon on Smart Companies Radio this week to discuss new and diverse sources of capital available to entrepreneurs, plus tried and true old school methods that are more popular than you might think. Who’s leading the way with business startups and find out why women more often than not start their new companies with half the cash on hand than their male counterparts. Besides financing discover the other most common obstacles small business faces.
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24 min
July 22, 2016 Weave Gotcha Covered Uncovering New Opportunities In Kansas City
Meet the women behind Kansas City Company, Weave Gotcha Covered, afull-service custom soft furnishings company. Owners Lonnie Vanderslice and Kelly Wilson join Smart Companies – KC host Kelly Scanlon to talk about their business success as well as their mission as social entrepreneurs. Weave Got You Covered was recently honored as a member of the 2016 Class of 25 Under 25 by Thinking Bigger Business. Find out what's next for this 10-year old overnight success.
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26 min

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