
Episodes

Tuesday Mar 21, 2017
82 - From Dead Broke to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Two Years
Tuesday Mar 21, 2017
Tuesday Mar 21, 2017
From Dead Broke to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Two Years
Ft. Allen Brouwer, Co-Founder Best Self.Co
About This Episode:
Meet Allen Brouwer, a recent Forbes Top 30 Under 30 (Retail) winner who went from dead broke to the life of his dreams in just a year! In this episode, he'll share tips on raising money on Kickstarter, staying focused and motivated under pressure, and what it takes to flip a temporary negative situation into a positive grind.
Here's a link to the Best Self journal that was so successful on Kickstarter:
About Allen:
Cofounder, BestSelf Co.
Connect with him on his website, LinkedIn, YouTube, and of course - the Best Self shop

Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
81 - The Four Personality Types That Dominate The C-Suite
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
Wednesday Mar 15, 2017
About this episode:
Deloitte Greenhouse has created a system called Business Chemistry, a data-driven approach to recognizing and responding to differences in people’s business styles (Recently featured in the Harvard Business Review). Every Business Chemistry type is represented in the C-suite. Whether you like the big picture, crave details, value diplomacy, or prioritize directness, the degrees to which varying characteristics are represented in the C-suite may surprise you.
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On this episode of the Business, Life, and Coffee show, Kim Christfort, the national managing director of The Deloitte Greenhouse Experience group, will take us inside findings of the study so we can all learn how to forge stronger working relationships, tap into team strengths and accomplish more together.
Which Business Chemistry type do you identify with:
- Drivers: Value challenge and generate momentum
- Guardians: Value stability and bring order and rigor
- Integrators: Value connection and draw teams together
- Pioneers: Value possibilities and spark creativity
About Business Chemistry and Deloitte Greenhouse:
About Business Chemistry
Since its inception, Business Chemistry has been shared with more than 200,000 professionals in more than 160 countries. Deloitte offers several tools to help teams and organizations learn about Business Chemistry, including Biz Chem 20 Questions, a tool that helps one create a hunch about someone else’s type. The Business Chemistry Blog, written by the Business Chemistry team, showcases how teams and relationships fuel our work with timely topics and unique insights.
About Deloitte’s Greenhouse Experience Group
Deloitte’s Greenhouse experience group specializes in experiential problem-solving, and continues to advance this focus through tailored research, tools and designed experiences. Its physical spaces, the U.S. Deloitte Greenhouse™ facilities, are part of a growing global network of flexible environments designed to help clients and Deloitte professionals cultivate and nurture new ideas and solutions. In addition to the U.S., Deloitte Greenhouse™ spaces are located in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firms in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa, Southeast Asia (Singapore) and the U.K., as well as at Deloitte University Europe, the Middle East and Africa (DU EMEA). Several additional Greenhouses are set to open in the coming months.

Monday Mar 06, 2017
79 - Tighten the Lug Nuts: The Principles of Balanced Leadership
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Monday Mar 06, 2017
Each and every day, leaders face choices.
It’s how we make those choices that determines the kind of leader we can be. In Tighten the Lug Nuts: The Principles of Balanced Leadership, Rocky Romanella uses his over forty years of experience in supply chain, logistics and transportation, retail, sales and operational management at UPS, and his CEO and Director roles, to explore the ways a true leader can add value as a trusted advisor, mentor, and visionary who uses a process approach to lead the organization and its people to new levels of success.
This Episode is Brought to You By Jumpstart:HR
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About Rocky:
CEO, Founder and Director. Experienced Keynote Speaker and Trainer focused on Culture, Values, Leadership, Improvement
A respected business leader willing to take risks and new challenges. More than 38 years of executive level experience including: development and implementation of high-level strategies, merger and acquisition integration, operations management, profit and loss (P&L) responsibility, and liaison between the board of directors and corporate operations. Extensive experience in national and global transportation, industrial engineering, inside operations and supply chain management. Growth, expansion and innovative thinking have led to these positions of increasing responsibility in all facets of business. Recognized as a perceptive leader who navigates and guides cross-functional business ventures to define, prioritize and deliver strategic initiatives for maximum value and profitable results.
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Monday Feb 27, 2017
78: Snubbed Again?!: Ageism and The Oscars
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Everyone loves to get into the Oscars debate. Who will win, what films got snubbed, who looked great on the red carpet?
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This year, ahead of the Oscars, the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Humana did research on a different Hollywood debate – its portrayal of seniors. Is ageism on the big screen affecting the way we view and talk to seniors every day?
Check out the study: http://humananews.com/2017/02/studies-show-aging-americans-snubbed-in-best-picture-films/
Joining us is Dr. Yolangel Hernandez Suarez, Chief Medical Officer at Humana, Inc. and Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Director of the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at USC.
Dr. Yolangel Hernandez Suarez, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the Care Delivery Organization at Humana, Inc.: In this role, Dr. Yogi has oversight of over 200 physicians nationwide who provide care to Humana patients. Her areas of focus include quality and patient safety, integrated health care, and care to special populations.
Stacy L. Smith, Associate Professor, University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications: Stacy joined the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg faculty in the fall of 2003. Her research focuses on content patterns pertaining to gender and race on screen in film and TV; employment patterns behind-the-camera in entertainment; barriers and opportunities facing women on screen and behind-the-camera in studio and independent films; and children’s responses to mass media portrayals (television, film, video games) of violence, gender and hypersexuality.
Tags: Humana, USC Annenberg School of Communications, Oscars, Ageism, Seniors

Thursday Feb 16, 2017
77 - Cash Can't Save Your Startup
Thursday Feb 16, 2017
Thursday Feb 16, 2017
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Christopher Bell III
Chief Operating Officer, StealthEnomics™
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Email: cbell@firstbeststeps.com
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Have you heard?! We're giving away a pair of Snapchat Spectacles! - https://gum.co/spectacles
About this Episode:
Ahhh, love is always in the air this time of year! Couples celebrate having it, while singletons deepen their commitment to finding it. In fact, the fear of being single is real, as a new study finds more than half of respondents admitted to staying in unhappy relationships because they’re afraid of being alone.
If you’re single and tired of mingling or looking for a new love, eHarmony has a Valentine’s Day gift for you!
Grant Langston, eHarmony’s newly appointed and charismatic CEO, isn’t wasting any time taking love “made in cyber heaven,” to the next level. At the helm of Langston’s new leadership, eHarmony is bringing humor to the forefront of online dating, for the first time in history.
After years of scientific research, eHarmony has identified nine core dimensions of humor at the root of millions of successful first dates “and” happily ever afters. On this episode, we discuss:
- How humor plays a major roles in “finding the one” and the nine types of humor from “wit and word-play” to “self-deprecating”
- Men vs. Women “By the numbers:” new data looking at how the two groups stack up in their views on Valentine's Day, love and money.
About Grant:
Grant Langston has been with eHarmony since its inception in August, 2000. He has influenced almost every aspect of the brand – from his early days as a writer to later years managing marketing, customer care, content, social media, and the trust and safety departments. A passionate advocate of eHarmony’s mission, Grant never misses an opportunity to speak about compatibility and its importance in a successful, long-term relationship.
Prior to life at eHarmony, Grant enjoyed his time as a writer in the TV and radio advertising arena, and as an operations manager for a music industry marketing firm. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Auburn University.
Courtesy: eHarmony

Saturday Feb 11, 2017
75 - Mothers as Entrepreneurs
Saturday Feb 11, 2017
Saturday Feb 11, 2017
About this Episode:
The Juggling Act of Success: How one MAE (Mom's as Entrepreneurs) is balancing home, business, school, and helping others along the way. Our guest is Tammira Lucas - a thriving Mompreneur here in Baltimore!
This episode is brought to you by Jumpstart:HR, LLC
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About Tammira Lucas:

Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
71 - Resolutions You Can Keep: Don't Go After Your Goals Alone
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Everybody's got goals, but not everyone gets results. If you're in the latter category then this is the episode for you. Whether it's a weight-loss goal, savings goal, relationship goal, or professional goal, there's a unique approach that will help you move the needle and make improvements. On this episode of the Business, Life, and Coffee show, hear from Keith Daw, an expert on the topic of goal setting and sales who trains some of the top minds in business on how to succeed under pressure.
This episode is brought to you by Jumpstart:HR, LLC
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About Keith:
Keith is the Vice President, Business Development & Trainer at McDonell Consulting Group and he works with leaders and top producers who are ready to work smarter and commit their time, money and energy to attract new clients, grow themselves and their team, and generate more profits.
Specialties: Maximize LinkedIn training, Public Speaker, Executive Coaching, Business Development, Prospecting, Sales Training, Sales Management, Business Strategy, Employee Benchmarking, Employee Assessments, Team Building, Seminars, Workshops, Social Media.
Social and Web:
www.mcdonell.sandler.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/keithdaw
https://twitter.com/KeithDaw
https://www.facebook.com/SandlerTrainingMD

Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
About this Episode:
Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night will keep the U.S Postal Service from doing what it does best — delivering billions of pieces of mail and packages during its busiest holiday season to date!!
Predicting another double-digit increase in package volume this year, the Postal Service expects to deliver about 750 million packages for a total of 16 billion pieces of mail and packages (that’s billion with a B) — processing more than 611 million pieces of mail on December 19, the busiest mailing day of the year and delivering more than 30 million packages on December 22, the busiest delivery day
So what does that mean for us this holiday? How can we be sure our packages will make it where they need to go on time? What is the Postal Service doing to make it easy to ship gifts and fun to send holiday greetings?
About Megan J. Brennan:
Megan J. Brennan is the 74th and the first female Postmaster General of the United States and the Chief Executive Officer of the world’s largest postal organization.
Appointed by the Governors of the Postal Service, Brennan began her tenure as Postmaster General in February 2015. In the prior four years, Brennan served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Postal Service, and held prior roles as Vice President of both the Eastern Area and Northeast Area Operations. Brennan began her 29-year Postal Service career as a Letter Carrier in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Brennan earned a master of business administration degree as a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also an alumna of Immaculata College in Pennsylvania.

Saturday Dec 17, 2016
Saturday Dec 17, 2016
About This Episode:
Fostering “spark moments” of innovation can be one of the most significant challenges for large corporations, and a common impediment to long-term success.
Corporate intrapreneurship has spurred some of the most innovative companies and products, but is still considered more of a fancy term than realized innovation. Of late, many leading companies are jumping into a new wave of intrapreneurship in the form of internal startup models, with a goal to unearth existing IP that have potential for market success.
On this episode, K.P. Reddy, Co-Founder and Partner of The Combine shares:
o The process behind corporate intrapreneurship
o Who and what The Combine is
o How a “Go Team” approach to corporate innovation inspires
o The 5 new companies created by corporate intrapreneurship
About K.P.:
K.P. Reddy is a venture capitalist, angel investor, and AEC expert with over 20 years of experience in disruptive innovation. He serves as Partner at The Combine. The Combine partners with enterprise organizations and technical founders to convert their promising intellectual property into viable, scalable businesses. He is a globally-recognized expert on advanced technologies including Building Information Modeling (BIM), Collaborative Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Applications and Cloud computing. Currently K.P. is the CEO of SoftWear Automation Inc, a leading developer of robotic sewing automation that promises to drive down the cost of apparel and textile manufacturing while increasing quality and speed to market for retailers.