Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

April 04, 2014 Entrepreneur Gets a Shot at Final Four
When most people think of the NCAA’s Final Four, they think basketball players, not entrepreneurs. Well, at this weekend’s tournament, two entrepreneurs from Kansas City, Davyeon Ross and Bruce Ianni, will be at center court. Or at least their latest invention – ShotTracker – will be, as fans get a chance to try out the innovative new product.
Kelly sits down with Davyeon Ross, the co-founder and COO of ShotTracker, the first piece of wearable tech for basketball players of all ages who want to improve their shooting – it automatically tracks shot attempts, makes and misses.
A former college basketball star himself, Davyeon is a serial entreprener who has more than 13 years of experience in the technology space. He’s using his basketball knowledge, technology experience and previous business success to merge the worlds of sports and technology.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 min
March 28, 2014 Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone: An Entrepreneur's Advice to Her Kids
Kansas City writer, artist, business strategist and philosopher of creative, adventurous living, Becky Blades Phillips, joins Kelly to talk about her new book: Do Your Laundry or You’ll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You Were Listening. Since selling her award-winning public relations firm, Becky has served on corporate boards, as a civic advocate for the arts and entrepreneurship, and as a consultant and mentor to businesses.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 min
March 28, 2014 Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive
Our guest today is best-selling author Paul Brown, who joins us to discuss his latest book, due out in June 2014, Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy. Paul is a former writer and editor at Business Week, Inc. and Financial World, in addition to Forbes. He's written, co-written and ghosted numerous books, including Customers for Life with Carl Sewell. His books have sold more than 3 million copies and made nearly every best-seller list. Paul is also a contributing editor to both The Conference Board Review and M.I.T.'s Sloan Management Review.
He created and wrote the What’s offline column every Saturday in the business section of The New York Times, and he's currently the “Off-the-Shelf” columnist for Sunday Times business section. He just finished doing a column on small business every other week for nytimes.com. Paul and his wife also created and wrote the Dream Home Diaries blog on nytimes.com, one of the most popular in the history of the paper.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28 min
March 21, 2014 Entrepreneur LeAnn Carlson on Saving Lives - Fashionably!
Entrepreneur LeAnn Carlson, founder of Lauren's Hope Medical ID, joins us today to talk about the inspiration for her company, which is famous for its stylish medical IDs — and is saving lives too. Among Lauren's Hope's 400,000 customers is Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, who wears the stylish bracelets on national talk shows, to media events, and even during a Vogue magazine shoot.
The company has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Family Circle, People, Woman's World, InStyle magazine and more. Join us to hear LeAnn's amazing story of growth as well as how her products are changing attitudes about medical IDs — and saving lives as a result

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 min
March 21, 2014 The Power of Your Business Name
Nellie Akalp, the founder and CEO of CorpNet.com, helps entrepreneurs start businesses, incorporate, form LLCs, set up sole proprietorships (DBAs) and maintain businesses in compliance with state filing requirements. Today she joins host Kelly Scanlon to discuss the power of naming your business, beyond the brand considerations.
Nellie has contributed to or appeared in a host of national media, including Entrepreneur, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Mashable and Inc.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 min
March 07, 2014 All in Startup: Learning Entrepreneurship by Living It
There are more than 10,000 entrepreneurship classrooms in the U.S., reaching more than half a million students, but the vast majority of educators are teaching entrepreneurship from a textbook rather than letting students experience it for themselves. Diana Kander, an entrepreneur and senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, hopes to change that.
Diana joins us today to talk about "All In Startup," her new novel about the trials and tribulations of starting a business, and accompanying curriculum that gets students out of the classroom to experience launching a venture themselves. With the book receiving acclaim from the likes of Tony Hsieh of Zappos and Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, this is an interview you won't want to miss!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 min
March 07, 2014 10,000 Small Businesses: An Investment in America's Entrepreneurs
This week’s guest is Patricia Greene, professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College. As a founder of the Diana Project, she is one of the world's foremost experts on women's entrepreneurship. She’s also the national academic director of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses initiative. The half-billion-dollar investment aims to help small entrepreneurs by improving access to education, capital and business support services. She talks with us today about the findings of the organization's recently released progress report, including some startling statistics about participants' revenue and job growth, and the implications for the America's entrepreneurs.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 min
February 28, 2014 The Roasterie's Still Brewing Up Big After 20 Years, with Danny O'Neill
On November 22, 1978, Danny O’Neill picked his first batch of coffee beans in the mountainous coffee-growing region around the Poás volcano while studying abroad in Costa Rica. Right then and there, he fell in love with the country, the people and the coffee — especially the coffee. Fifteen years later, Danny founded The Roasterie in his basement in Kansas City and to this day partners directly with farmers and pays above-market values to get the best of the best coffee beans.
Danny "The Bean Baron" O'Neill joins host Kelly Scanlon today, fresh off The Roasterie's 20th anniversary, to chat about the past 20 years, the company's growth, including its commitment to the communities The Roasterie serves. Just recently, for example, The Roasterie donated more than $22,000 to its college and university partners.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
31 min
February 28, 2014 For Better or for Work, with Meg Hirshberg
Joining host Kelly Scanlon is noted author and speaker Meg Hirshberg. Meg talks about her latest book, For Better or For Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families.
Hirshberg is a contributing editor and former columnist for Inc. magazine. Meg’s column, Balancing Acts, explored the intersection of family and business and work-life balance issues in an entrepreneurial setting.
Entrepreneur magazine selected Meg’s book as one of the five best business books of 2012, and Axiom Business Book Awards selected “For Better or For Work” as the 2013 Gold winner for books about entrepreneurship. Meg is not an entrepreneur, but has been married to one for 30 years. Her husband is owner of Stonyfield Yogurt, the largest organic yogurt company in the world.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 min
February 21, 2014 The Minority Supplier Development Council: Important THEN Important NOW
Joing Host Kelly Scanlon is the first president of the Kansas City Minority Supplier Development Council, now known as the Mid-American Minority Supplier Council. Baker explains why the council was so important for Kansa City at that time and why it remains relative today.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 min

About Talking Business Now

From the publisher's feed

Get the inside scoop on how America’s most successful entrepreneurs are transforming their industries. On each episode of Talking Business Now, you'll meet one of your fellow business owners, founders…