Talking Business Now

By Kelly Scanlon & C-Suite RadioBusiness Entrepreneurship

Talking Business Now episodes

July 12, 2013 Coffee Lunch Coffee: Successful Networking with Alana Muller
Our guest Alana Muller provides a practical process for networking your way to business success. Alana is the President of Kauffman FastTrac and the author of the book Coffee Lunch Coffee: A Practical Field Guide for Master Networking and a companion blog CoffeeLunchCoffee.com. She is also a frequent lecturer and workshop facilitator on topics such as networking, entrepreneurship, and women in business. She is a contributor to Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, CNBC and other publications.

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31 min
June 28, 2013 Brian Biro - America's Breakthrough Coach
We welcome Brian Biro, America’s Breakthrough Coach! Brian is known internationally as a speaker and coach who engages his audiences on Leadership, Possibility Thinking, Thriving on Change, andTeam-Building. He has delivered more than 1,350 presentations around the world during the last 21 years.
A major client described Brian best when he said, “Brian Biro has the energy of a ten-year-old, the enthusiasm of a twenty-year-old, and the wisdom of a seventy-five-year-old.”
A former vice-president of a major transportation corporation and the author of 9 books including bestseller, Beyond Success!, Brian was rated #1 from over 40 Speakers at 4 consecutive INC. Magazine International Conferences. With degrees from Stanford University and UCLA, Brian has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN's Business Unusual, and the Fox News Network and as a featured speaker at the Disney Institute in Orlando.
Brian was recently named one of the top 100 most inspirational graduates of the UCLA Graduate School of Business in honor of their 75 Anniversary.

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31 min
June 21, 2013 Creating "SmartTribes" at Work with Christine Comaford
Bill Gates calls her “super high bandwidth.” Bill Clinton has thanked her for “fostering American entrepreneurship.” Newsweek says, “By reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.”
Our guest today Christine Comaford is a global thought leader who helps companies navigate growth and change, an expert in human behavior and applied neuroscience, and the bestselling author of Rules for Renegades. Her latest book, New York Times best seller SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together, was released in June 2013. She is a leadership columnist for Forbes.com and is frequently quoted in the business and technology media.
Christine is with us today to help us understand how to get our employess from the "Critter" state to the "Smart" state, where they are super creative and super innovative. When this is achieved, companies enjoy higher revenue, deeply engaged and passionate teams, and highly profitable growth. Christine's clients often see their revenues increase by 30-110 percent annually, profits increase by 17-200 percent annually, and sales close 50 percent faster.
Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), built and sold five of her own businesses, and helped more than 50 clients exit their businesses for between $12 and $425 million.

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32 min
June 07, 2013 Up Close & Personal Chat with Small Biz Banker Josh Rowland
Josh Rowland, Vice Chairman of Lead Bank in Kansas City, and Executive Director of the Lead Business Advisors, talks about the business model that allows his bank to be a growth partner to business owners from concept to sale. We'll also be discussing tips for small businesses seeking a loan, red flags lenders look for after a loan has been extended, and what small businesses owners can be doing to improve their situation as the economy starts to turn. Josh has been with Lead Bank since 2008. Prior to joining the bank, Josh practiced law at Bryan Cave, LLP.

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35 min
May 10, 2013 Creating Business Stories That Sell - Danielle Berg
Businesses of all sizes have a story to tell--and it goes beyond branding. The story of every company is ingrained in its corporate culture, be it IBM or Apple or the smallest of companies. Yet many companies fail to define their stories, and many companies suffer with consumers as a result of it.
Joining us is Danielle Berg, owner of Telling Media, a company that helps business leaders create business stories that sell. She’ll discuss how the right stories can help a business attract and motivate employees, close deals and create a loyal fan base of customers and key influencers. Tune in to find out how to use your company’s story as the one thing that can differentiate it from the competition.
Prior to forming Telling Media, Danielle Berg held several senior marketing positions at IBM, including Director of Marketing for IBM Interactive. She later served as Chief Marketing and Corporate Communications Officer for a global business and technology consultancy. Danielle is the co-author of an upcoming book Use the S Word in Business.

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29 min
April 19, 2013 Bulletproof Employees! with Cy Wakeman
Join me and my guest Cy Wakeman. Cy advocates a revolutionary new approach to leadership: Reality-Based Leadership. Instead of working to perfect the circumstances of employees, she advocates a reality-based mindset in which employees can become bulletproof to anything that might happen, and they succeed and deliver results in spite of their circumstances.
Cy’s groundbreaking ideas are featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post and SHRM.com. Her podcasts and blogs are favorites and featured on FastCompany.com and Forbes.com. Cy was honored in Mumbai, India, with the prestigious World HRD Congress Outstanding Leadership Award for her achievements as a global thought leader in 2012. Her book, Reality Based Leadership – Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, & Turn Excuses Into Results is receiving rave reviews throughout the nation. Her new book The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace is due Spring 2013.

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30 min
April 17, 2013 Crowdfunding, VCs and Angels - Can't We All Just Get Along?
Thanks to last year's JOBS Act, crowdfunding is creating new opportunities not only for small businesses, but angel investors, venture capitalists and others interested in raising money for new companies.
Join Kelly as she talks with Judd Hollas, the founder and chief inventor of EquityNet, a firm that has helped raise more than $200 million through crowdfunding.They'll talk about how crowdfunding could shake up the traditional rules of small business capital.
Judd Hollas is a pioneer in the field of crowdfunding with multiple patents granted for web-based capital marketplace systems.
Mr. Hollas is a pioneer in the field of crowdfunding with multiple patents granted for web-based capital marketplace systems. He has 20 years of experience as an independent technology analyst and investment manager in the private and public domains. He has personally invested in over 30 emerging technology companies in a wide range of industry sectors, including various software sectors, semiconductors, biometrics, networking, wireless communications, and conventional and alternative energy.
Prior to founding EquityNet in 2005, Mr. Hollas served as Division Manager for Beta-Rubicon, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in technology assessment and business due diligence services.

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30 min
March 29, 2013 Be Your Own Boss with The Small Biz Lady Melinda Emerson
“The Small Biz Lady” Melinda Emerson joins us to talk to us about how she built a national reputation using social media, her book Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, and her role in the new CNBC show “Crowd Rules,” debuting on April 30.
Melinda is one of America’s leading small business experts. She is a seasoned entrepreneur, professional speaker, and social media strategist whose mission is to end small business failure. Her blog Succeed As Your Own Boss is syndicated by the Huffington Post. She also hosts #Smallbizchat, a weekly live talk show on Twitter. She also writes a regular column on social media for the New York Times You’re The Boss Blog.
Melinda is the author of the bestselling book Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months; A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works, a workbook and curriculum Are You Ready To Become Your Own Boss? and an audio CD 10 Things You Must Never Forget in Business.
Melinda has been featured on MSNBC, Fox News, NBC Nightly News and in The Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Black Enterprise and Essence Magazines.

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41 min
March 22, 2013 Turn Every Customer Into a Fan - Ruby Newell Legner
In today’s competitive landscape, you don’t want customers. You want fans. You want people who are almost as crazy in love with your company as you are. Consistently delivering a valuable customer experience is important—it drives and sustains business growth.
Our guest today, Ruby Newell-Legner shares the elements of service that create a seamless customer experience . . . and will improve customer loyalty and retention for any business. Find out how your business can join the ranks of companies that can charge more, enjoy greater profits and increase market share an average of 6 percent a year.
Ruby's 7 Star Service is in a class all by itself. As an award-winning international speaker, Ruby works with organizations to build better relationships between front-line employees and customers, co-workers and their peers, and managers and the employees they supervise. With clients ranging from the only 7 Star Hotel in the world to Apple, from Ferrari World to the largest indoor amusement park in the world, Ruby brings unprecedented expertise and insight on how to create a service culture that motivates employees and promotes customer loyalty and retention. No other speaker can boast working with 25 professional sports teams, more than 60 sports and entertainment venues, and 250 municipal agencies. She has presented more than 2,200 programs in 22 countries and trained guest relations staff to enhance the visitor experience for venues hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention, Super Bowl XLI, the 2006 Grey Cup, the 2008 US Open (tennis) and the 2010 Olympics.

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31 min
March 15, 2013 Helping Business People Unlock Their Inner Genius
Most people agree that for businesses to compete globally in the 21st century, we must be innovative. We must be creative. Yet, most of today’s workers continue to be trapped by left brain thinking, or logical thinking, that fails to get the results they want.
Our guest is thought leader, strategist and author Bill Donius. Bill’s first book, Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius, debuted last year by making all the major best-seller lists, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and Nielsen. Bill has an extensive social media network, writes for the Huffington Post and is also working on a second book.
Thought Revolution begins where other books in the field end, offering a proven, easy method for finding your creativity by tapping into your right brain. Still not convinced that you work in an industry where right brain thinking could make a difference? The former CEO and chair of a midwestern bank, Bill was able to engage his creative mind and expand the bank into new geographic markets after devising and implenting this process. And in 2008, he was appointed to a two-year term on the Banker Council that advised the Federal Reserve Board and Ben Bernanke in the midst of the financial crisis.
Bill is here today to talk about how following his process can disrupt complacency and conventional thinking in the business world.

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28 min

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