Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

May 09, 2014 Investment Wisdom from Belinda Savage - One of the First 10 Women Traders on WS
Our guest, Belinda Savage, developed her roots as one of the first 10 women traders on Wall Street back in the 1960s. Savage has extensive experience and expertise within the financial markets and alternative assets—RE, private equity/debt, intellectual property—permitting her to network with professionals and associations throughout the United States. Tune in as Belinda discusses the current leading growth sector, Alternative Assets, for American investment portfolios, more specifically retirement accounts.

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30 min
May 02, 2014 Headphones in Knots? ThreadBuds Inventors Untangle Them
Kansas City entrepreneurs Nick and Maddie Paradise talk about their budding business ThreadBuds. Playing around one day, Maddie wrapped her headphones with some friendship bracelet thread and discovered they no longer tangled. Soon after, the couple discovered they had a full-fledged business on their hands, with product orders rolling in.
Tune in to discover how, at a time when function and functionality get lost in bright colors and hype, ThreadBuds is changing the way we listen to our world.

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28 min
May 02, 2014 How to Make Generations X, Y, and Zoomers Happy at Work, with Cheryl Cran
How many of you are working with multiple generations of employees within your companies? How’s that going? Is everyone getting along? Understanding what they can learn from each other?
At no other time in history have we had so many generations of workers active in the workforce. That brings challenges, and it also bring opportunities.
Our guest today, Cheryl Cran, the CEO of Evolutionary Business Solutions, teaches how to leverage the talents, skills and experiences of all those generations, working together, to move companies forward.
Cheryl is the author of four books, including the best selling 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work. She also has an ebook called Leadership Mastery In a Digital Age.” And her articles have been featured in a variety of national business magazines.
Cheryl talks with us about what leaders can do to engage, motivate and lead the multiple generations in the workplace.

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30 min
April 25, 2014 Our Experience Testing Google Glass
Kelly talks tech with Matthew Barksdale, the president of Engage Mobile, a company that has seen significant growth in its business of mobile apps and software applications. Engage Mobile was one of the first in the world to beta-test and build software for Google Glass. The company is considered to be one of the most promising enterprise mobility companies in the United States.

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29 min
April 25, 2014 The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success
Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard joins us to discuss his new book The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success. Rich stresses that although shrewd strategy and execution are crucial to success, companies can't achieve sustainable success unless they embrace what he calls the "soft edge" on the Triangle of Lasting Success.
As the publisher of Forbes, Rich also writes a column called "Innovation Rules," known for its witty assessment of business and leadership issues. He has been a regular panelist on Forbes on FOX since the show's inception in 2001. Rich is also a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Upside magazine, Garage Technology Partners and Silicon Valley's premier public business forum, the 7,500-member Churchill Club. He is a past winner of Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year" award. Rich's book Life 2.0 was a Wall Street Journal best-seller.

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30 min
April 18, 2014 When Disaster Strikes, Are You Ready?
Storm season is upon us. Is your business ready? And are you prepared with an emergency plan for other disasters, natural or otherwise, when they strike? Kelly interviews Sara Croke, founder and CEO of Weather or Not. The Shawnee-based company provides business owners with precise weather forecasts and severe weather alerts 24/7.

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31 min
April 18, 2014 Are Co-Working Spaces the Wave of the Future?
Shared work spaces—what are they exactly and why are they popping up across the country? Liz Elam is the founder of Link Coworking, a coworking space located in Austin, Texas. Besides her day-to-day duties at Link Coworking, Elam is the president and founder of coworking network group The League of Extraordinary Coworking Spaces and producer of the Global Coworking Unconference Conference, which will be held May 1 – 3 in Kansas City.

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26 min
April 11, 2014 Kill the Company to Innovate Your Business
Host Kelly Scanlon talks with Lisa Bodell, the founder and CEO of futurethink, an award-winning innovation firm that helps businesses embrace change and become world-class innovators. Lisa is the author of Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution, awarded the 2012 Best Business Book of the Year by Booz & Company’s strategy+business magazine.
Bodell will be the afternoon keynote speaker at the Central Exchange's Leadership Lyceum in Kansas City on April 23. She will introduce attendees to her Innovation Toolkit, and lead them through exercises to think differently, drive change, innovate and grow. You'll also meet CiCi Rojas, President and CEO of the Kansas City Central Exchange, who will provide an overview of this year's annual event April 23rd.

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31 min
April 11, 2014 The Barefoot Spirit
The co-founders of Barefoot Wines, Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, stop by to talk about how hardship, hustle and heart built American's #1 wine brand, plus they'll talk about the entrepreneurial lessons in their NY Times best-selling book, The Barefoot Spirit.

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26 min
April 04, 2014 Does "Cracker Jack" Run Your Customer Experience?
What can you do to create a Cracker Jack experience for your customers? One that offers them an unexpected free prize inside?
In this episode, host Kelly Scanlon sits down with customer loyalty expert Chip Bell to talk about his new book, The 9 1/2 Principles of Innovative Service and ways to heighten your customers' astonishment and amazement with every encounter with you.
A keynote speaker and senior partner with The Chip Bell Group, Chip is the author or co-author of 20 best-selling books, and a consultant to several major corporations such as GE, Microsoft, State Farm, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, KeyBank, Ritz-Carlton Hotels, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, USAA, Merrill Lynch, Allstate, Caterpillar, Hertz, Accenture, Verizon Wireless, Home Depot, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret.
He has appeared live on CNBC, CNN, Fox Business Network, ABC and his work has been featured in Fortune, Business Week, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine and Fast Company.

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30 min

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