Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

February 21, 2014 Entrepreneurship Goes to School . . . And Turns Up in Some Surprising Classes
Kathleen Allen, professor of entrepreneurship at the USC Marshall School of Business and recent recipient of the Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, joins Smart Companies host Kelly Scanlon for a lively discussion on why entrepreneurship shouldn't just be taught in business school, what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, and trends in entrepreneurship.
Dr. Allen is also the founding director of the Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization, where she works with scientists and engineers to identify markets and applications for their technologies, develop commercialization teams, and prepare them to launch ventures and seek funding.
She has written more than 15 books on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, has owned four successful companies, served as entrepreneur-in-residence to a major aerospace firm, currently serves as advisor to several private companies, and is director of a NYSE company.
In addition, Dr. Allen has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Associated Press, and Bloomberg, among other publications.

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26 min
February 14, 2014 Busting the Myths About Thinking Bigger - with Denise Mills of LeaderFuelNow
Our guest today is Denise Mills, the co-founder and Chief Mindset Officer of LeaderFuelNow, a company that provides leadership training, business consulting and executive coaching. Today she joins us to bust the three biggest myths about why business owners can't Think Bigger: time, money and people.
A speaker, facilitator, coach, consultant and trainer, Denise has founded 26 companies with gross revenues of more than $60 million, and she’s coached hundreds of startups throughout the world. Denise also facilitates leadership workshops for the U.S. Dept. of State for the highest ranking female parliamentarians and entrepreneurial business leaders in underdeveloped countries.
Among her many achievements, Denise has served as project director for The Pacific Institute since 1993, she’s created a nationwide call center concept for the real estate industry, and she’s developed customized prospecting and networking programs for thousands of organizations.

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23 min
February 14, 2014 Up Close With Melissa Thompson, founder of TalkSession
Our guest today is Melissa Thompson, the founder and CEO of TalkSession, Inc., a healthcare technology company that develops web-based platforms for therapy sessions between mental healthcare providers and patients.
In 2013, Melissa was selected as a “Healthcare Transformer” for the StartUp Health Academy Entrepreneurship Program, in partnership with GE and is also a part of Springboard Enterprises’ Life Sciences Accelerator. TalkSession was featured at the White House in September 2013 as a technology that would change the future of mental healthcare.
Prior to founding TalkSession, Melissa was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, where she worked in digital marketing and technology strategy for clients, including the United Nations, G2 Investments, Forbes Magazine, The Weinstein Company, Publicis, and the New York Stock Exchange. Melissa is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, and she and her company were profiled for healthcare innovation in publications including The Financial Times, Mashable, CBS SmarterPlanet, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Business Week, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, and Wired
Melissa is a member of 37Angels, a community of women angel investors; a Board Advisor to the Flawless Foundation, an organization committed to enhancing education about neurodevelopment and behavioral challenges; a Technology Advisor to Newport Academy, a treatment program for teens suffering from mental health, behavioral health, and substance abuse issues; and is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Health Innovation, Women in Healthcare & Life Sciences.

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18 min
February 07, 2014 Betsy Johnson of SwimZip Takes a Swim With the Sharks
Betsy Johnson, co-founder of beach apparel line SwimZip, recently landed an appearance on ABC's Shark Tank and swam away with an investment from shark Lori Greiner of QVC. The apparel offers built-in UV protection.
Betsy talks about the inspiration behind SwimZip, what she and her co-founder brother did to launch the idea, what it's like behind the scenes at Shark Tank, and where the investment from Greiner will take the company.

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27 min
February 07, 2014 Sales Shift: Why the Age of the Customer Has Dawned
Small business expert Jim Blasingame joins us to discuss his recently released third book “The Age of the Customer – Prepare for the Moment of Relevance.” Jim share his thoughts on how The Age of the Customer has changed the rules of selling—and the strategies small businesses can use to stay relevant and profitable.
Jim is a radio talk show host, author, syndicated columnist, keynote speaker and president of Small Business Network Inc.

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30 min
January 31, 2014 Lessons for Small Business in Target Data Breach
Recent data breaches involving Target and other major corporations have attracted national attention. Attracting less attention are small and mid-size businesses that could be even more vulnerable.
Joining us today is Jeff Lanza, an FBI Special Agent who investigated corruption, fraud, organized crime, cybercrime, human trafficking and terrorism for more than 20 years. Today he discusses with us why smaller organizations are more vulnerable to cybercrime, how they can protect themselves and their customers from threats, and the steps a company should take in the aftermath of a cyber-attack.
Jeff travels widely as a keynote speaker and appears regularly on Fox News, CNBC as well as The Today Show, Good Morning America, Dateline and NPR’s Marketplace.

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25 min
January 31, 2014 The Genius of STUFF
Doing things a little differently has helped turn STUFF, a Brookside shop, into a neighborhood institution and landed them on NICHE magazine's list of top stores in America that feature fine American crafts. Co-owners, sisters and entrepreneurs Sloane and Casey Simmons talk about their pursuit of good stuff—both in business and in life.

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29 min
January 24, 2014 Anton's Taproom - A Restaurant That Delivers More Than a Full Plate
Anton’s Taproom, which opened in October in Kansas City’s Crossroads District, is not your typical KC restaurant. How many restaurants do you know that have a butcher's shop (complete with homemade sausages and lard), a tilapia farm, an aquaponic herb garden and an art gallery on the premises? Host Kelly Scanlon sits down with owner and restaurateur Anton Kotar and talks about the eatery’s distinctive approach.

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29 min
January 24, 2014 The Secret Behind the Hottest Business in Fort Mill, South Carolina
Meet Smokin' Ed Currie, who proudly holds the Guinness World Record for hottest chili on Earth. On the Scoville heat scale, where zero is bland and a regular jalapeno pepper registers close to 5,000 units, Currie's world-record batch of "Carolina Reapers" comes in at a tongue-tingling 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units. Currie worked more than four years to produce a true scorcher of a pepper - and he regularly eats five of them a day! Join host Kelly Scanlon as she discusses peppers with the owner and proprietor of the PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, S.C.

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26 min
January 17, 2014 KC Women Business Organizations Get Collaborative
Sherry Turner, founder of OneKC for Women, joins host Kelly Scanlon to discuss resources for women business owners in Kanas City, the OneKC for Women initiative, and unique sources of funding for KC women business owners.

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28 min

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