Tell Your Story – The Mentors Radio

Feeling exhausted, feeling negative or cynical about your job and career (not to mention COVID-19 shutdowns)? Working well below your potential? Host Tom Loarie talks with “Fired Up or Burned Out” author Michael Stallard and his wife, Katie, who share their practical insights, hard-earned, first-hand experience and life-improving solutions on burn out and the critical importance of connection.

Mike is a sought-after speaker and teacher, with a background in Financial Services as Chief Marketing Officer for the private wealth businesses of Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab. He is the co-founder of Connection Culture

Katie, Mike’s wife, is an investment professional for a large family entity, with a background in marketing, administration, business and non-profit leadership, and a passion for TV and film work. She is also a three-time cancer survivor!

If you’re looking for a way to increase your happiness and success in life and business, you’re sure to find some real gems of mentoring advice in this episode! Find Show Notes here. Listen to Radio podcast below. Sign up for FREE Podcast here, on ANY platform, including Spotify, iTunes, Apple podcast, Google Play etc etc etc!

Most family companies don’t last beyond three generations, instead they sell out or die off. So when a family-owned company endures through the Great Depression, Economic downturns, ups and downs, through six generations, it’s a rare and beautiful thing!  In today’s show, Host John Phillips talks with Guest Bob Verdin of The Verdin Company—an East Coast company that has been making and repairing bells and tower clocks for more than 175 years. You’ll learn Bob’s passion for the business after all these years, and his passion for his role in the company. He shares some of the “secret sauce” that will keep this business alive and thriving far into the future. Why nimble innovation and a strong team are important, always. You’ll also learn about some of their most unusual projects, including restoring a bell originally cast by Paul Revere!  Find Show Notes here, including fascinating short videos of the company at work. Listen to episode below (posted after Saturday’s first airing) and Sign up for our FREE podcast to listen ANYtime on ANY media platform and ANY device!!

In today’s episode, Host Tom Loarie talks with job search experts and sisters Sue and Kelly Connelly regarding how to find a job in challenging times. In 1997, marketing communications consultant and founder of Connelly Communications, Sue Connelly, launched a simple email list to Keep In Touch with friends and clients. But soon after, as friends began experiencing layoffs, the list transitioned into a job opportunity lifeline for the friends. As job opportunities were shared with others, the list rapidly grew and Sue engaged her sister, Kelly, to transition the email list into a job board. Kelly is the principal and creative director of a San Francisco design and branding firm. Today the KIT List, named for it’s origins as a Keep In Touch list, boasts 67,000 free subscribers and is well-ranked among employeers seeking quality employees. Here are Show Notes. Radio podcast below. Listen to our radio podcast any time—on any platform—here.

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In today’s show Host Tom Loarie talks with best-selling author Dan Heath about how we get “stuck” — in business, in life, in relationships — and how to get “unstuck” and moving forward. Even more, Heath shows us how to develop what he calls an “upstream” thinking mindset. He shows us how to solve problems BEFORE they happen so that instead of always putting out “fires” in life, business and even health, you’ll be preventing them from happening in the first place!

Dan is a a senior fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports social entrepreneurs. He and his brother, Chip, who is a professor at Stanford Grad School of Business, have together co-authored four books that have sold more than three million copies. Dan’s newest book is hot off the press. More than a writer, however, Dan is an extremely popular speaker.

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Business growth and branding expert Chris Smith talks with host John Phillips Jr. on how to transform your business or enterprise. He exposes the simple things that many businesses and entrepreneurs overlook or just assume. But these seemingly simple things can radically transform your business, and quickly. He covers storytelling, productive networking, taking time to understand “who” your business is and what sets you apart, and how to achieve success. Find Show Notes here. Listen to Radio podcast below AFTER IT AIRS SATURDAY MORNING. Sign up for The Mentors Radio FREE podcast here.

In this episode, NCAA and Tennis Hall of Fame athlete Roger Crawford talks with Host Tom Loarie about his remarkable journey in tennis and the wisdom he gained — and now shares with others daily — from achieving what most people thought was impossible. Born without hands, and only two fingers at the end of his left arm and one on his right, with three toes on his right foot and losing his left leg at age five, NO ONE imagined Roger Crawford would become the only person in U.S. history to become a U.S. Professional Tennis Association athlete, compete in a Division 1 College Sport with a disability, become a certified tennis professional, win the prestigious International Tennis Association’s prestigious achievement award and earn awards in tennis at the very highest level, including NCAA Division Hall of Fame and Hall of Fame for People with Disabilities, the last distinction which he shares with fellow honorees such as Christopher Reeves, Helen Keller and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now he dedicates his career to helping others — you and me — achieve success. Find Show Notes here. Listen below. Sign up for FREE podcasts here–Listen on ANY platform, ANY time, ANYwhere!!

Today, The Mentors Radio show host Tom Loarie talks with guest Joe Cavanaugh, III, president of Equip2Equip, on how to identify your strengths and why it matters to your happiness and success in life. Not only that, it matters in how you relate to others, in leadership, and in helping others to reach their highest potential as well. Cavanaugh has coached more than 5,000 individuals, with remarkable success. Take performance and a sense of personal fulfillment to the next level. Find Show Notes here on Saturday. Show episode will be posted after first airing Saturday morning. Sign-up for FREE podcasts on ANY device or program here.

Host Tom Loarie talks with Jerry Feitelson, pioneering CEO of Agribody, Inc., about his passion and creative journey into the agritech field. Feitelson shares his transitions from classroom, to innovative discoveries, to eventually entrepreneur and CEO. He’ll talk about how he applies science to solving the enormous, under-reported food waste problem, and the interesting challenges, twists and turns along the way. Fun, fast-paced and a boatload of lessons learned in sound business practices, pursuing your passions, and in keeping ethics and doing the right thing top-of-mind in any business. Show Notes and podcast will appear here after first aired Saturday broadcast. Get the FREE podcast here – available on ANY platform!

You could say The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie’s guest mentor, renown WSJ Obit writer James R. Hagerty, brings dead people back to life—capturing the extraordinary lives of both the successful and the obscure and the significant lives of optimism, resilience, audacity, generosity, and humor that they led.

But the truth is, Hagerty does much more.

The 30-year veteran reporter, editor and bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune in Hong Kong, London, Brussels, Paris, Atlanta and New York, and author of “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae,” is no stranger to award-winning writing. He’s written about everything from real estate, economics, bond markets, furniture, Belgian beer, English plumbing and even Hong Kong criminals, but for Hagerty, none of it compares to his Obituary writing.

In this episode, Hagerty talks about invaluable lessons he’s learned from those on whose shoulders we stand, how reading Obits can help us live our own best lives, and why he loves what he does today. Find Show Notes here. Listen to show below or, even better, subscribe to The Mentors Radio podcast — it’s FREE! — here.

Anyone who’s taken a long break from their career — for any reason — knows it isn’t always easy to pick up where they were when they’re ready to re-enter the work force. This weekend’s guest mentor, Carol Fishman Cohen, knows the challenge first-hand and decided to do something about it. Now the founder and CEO of iRelaunch, Cohen talks with Host Tom Loarie about her experience, her unique company, and how best to re-enter the workforce successfully regardless of how long you’ve been away. Listen below. or…Don’t miss an episode and get free podcasts here (on ANY device, any platform!).