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Episode Directory
May 2012
- 5/22/2012: COME ON AMERICA – TAKE ON AN INTERN Listen Now
- 5/15/2012: ENTREPRENEURS….ITS NOT EASY, BUT YOU CAN AVOID THE PITFALLS Listen Now
- 5/8/2012: DISASTER IN NEW ZEALAND – THE CASE FOR STRONG LEADERSHIP Listen Now
- 5/1/2012: ENTREPRENEURS – THE SAVIOR OF AMERICA Listen Now
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John Adair
Professor John Adair, says there is no such thing as a born leader. He is the world’s foremost thinker on Leadership and the current Chair of United Nations Strategic Leadership. Adair developed a ‘three circles’ approach to leadership during his ‘colourful and varied career’. A platoon commander in the Scots Guard in Egypt, a deckhand in Hull, and adviser in leadership training at Sandhurst Military Academy and the world’s first professor of leadership studies at the University of Surry. View Guest page
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Elise Angell
Today, I thought we would find out what it is really like to become an actor. Elise Angell who despite her experience with a professional Shakespeare company in plays such as ‘Twelfth night’ and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, a Rock Opera, theatre productions including ‘West Side Story’, lead roles in a number of independent films and television shows, still describes herself as an aspiring actress. View Guest page
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Jason Baudendistel
Jason Baudendistel – grew up on welfare, joined the Navy, is an Amazon #1 Best Selling author and a serial entrepreneur. He has been a senior marketing executive at two technology startups, and has launched 3 companies of his own. He also provides coaching in marketing, life, success and business. He is also a technology, IT and marketing consultant. Author of “The Complete Idiots Guide to LinkedIn Marketing” www.jasonbaudendistel.com View Guest page
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Michael Bell
In our “The Business Behind Show Business” segment I’ll speak to one of the world’s great ‘voice’ actors, with a pedigree of over 75 major animated movies, and more recently a host of games, the extraordinary Michael Bell. View Guest page
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Mary Bird
What a career - A fashion design business off the Portobello Road in London, was at the John and Yoko recording of Apocrypha, sang with superstars, managed a hot recording studio, worked daily with Gene Simmons from Kiss, sang backing vocals on the Roger Vadim film 'And God Created Women' and for songs used in Miami Vice. A prolific writer of lyrics and is hot news for her new product Car Masutra. View Guest page
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Jon Briggs
Jon Briggs’ work spans radio, TV, voice-over, training and conferences. He started in radio in 1981 as tea boy and progressed to the breakfast show with BBC Radio Oxford aged 19. Briggs is the station voice of BBC Radio 2, and was the voice of the BBC quiz show, The Weakest Link. In 1996, he founded London based talent agency, The Excellent Voice Company – marketing and representing vocal talents. Jon worked as a reporter for BBC Radio 4 current affairs programmes, and went on to anchor the breakfast news programme for BBC Radio 5. In the mid-1990s, he refereed the weekly political debate Sunday mornings on ITN, and spent three years working on a weekly review of London's entertainment scene. Jon is a superstar conference moderator working with many of the world's largest companies. He has also provided his voice for text-to-speech software, including Siri, the personal assistant application for Apple's iPhone 4S. View Guest page
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Donald Cooper
Donald began his career sweeping floors at 5 years old for 5 cents per day. Long days, low pay….. perfect training for an entrepreneur. He went on to win 7 awards for excellence in Marketing, Service and Business Innovation. Now he travels the world as a speaker. adding to customers bottom lines. www.donaldcooper.com A quote from the Editor of Profit Magazine: "A compelling, bottom-line business message...brilliantly delivered." View Guest page
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Ron Creevey
Ron Creevey MY first guest today is a guy I have known for a number of years who has been hugely successful in the internet space and now has the balls to take on Facebook. For those of you who watch the business news channels you would have seen some of their media conferences over the last few weeks. Ron Creevy was responsible for many of Australia's first commercial internet links in the 1990's. He became Managing Director for Magna Data, then owned by NTT Japan with over 4000 corporate clients in Australia. In 2007, Ron teamed up with mobile pioneer Thomas Ziliacus who started Nokia Asia as together they formed Yoo Zoo, the leading global and payments company based out of Singapore. The first shot across the bow of Facebook is "The Break", a worldwide 'Battle of the Bands ' and over 1000 bands have registered and uploaded their video chip. Today Yuu Zoo has 2 million registered users in 164 countries. View Guest page
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Bernie Dohrmann
Bernie Dohrmann known as the millionair maker, the Chairman of CEOSpace, is a best selling author, and a radio talk show host. He developed the Sovereign Nation program with Tony Robbins, Dr Jeff Magee, Publisher of The Performance Magazine, Ed Bogle and others. Bernie is the coach of the coaches, working with some of the world’s top CEO’s. Most important is his work on the crowd funding legislation coming into effect beginning in July, that is expected to release up to $1 trillion to entrepreneurs. View Guest page
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Tim Draper
Tim Draper is the creator of "viral marketing." His use of "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product was instrumental to the success of Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. Draper invested in and contributed to the development of Skype (acquired by eBay then by Microsoft), Baidu, Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), Parametric Technology, Hotmail (acquired by Microsoft), Tumbleweed Communications, PLX Technologies, Digidesign (acquired by Avid), Preview Travel (acquired by Travelocity), Four11 (acquired by Yahoo!), Combinet (acquired by Cisco), and Redgate (acquired by AOL), among others. Draper launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of venture capital funds in more than thirty cities around the globe. Draper is Founder and Chair Emeritus for The BizWorld Foundation that teach children about business, entrepreneurship and finance in the US and around the world. View Guest page
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Les Hall
Les Hall - who has won 32 International Awards for Marketing with a background in media – newspapers, radio and television. Les tells a few biting truths about advertising. View Guest page
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Lynton V. Harris
Lynton V. Harris, based in New York for over a decade, has taken his live entertainment vision to every corner of the globe, producing and directing shows in the USA. Europe, Asia, the UK and Australia Harris and Sudden Impact! have created and produced live spectaculars and interactive adventures beginning with the ground breaking 'Madison Scare Garden' at New York's Madison Square Garden, which enjoyed sold-out seasons from 1996-1999. Sudden Impact's expertise in staging large-scale live productions led to his partnership with Universal Studios. Harris created the successful tour of Interactive Adventures based on the mega-hit movies, including The Mummy Live!; The Mummy Returns Live!; The Scorpion King Live!; Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Live!; The Van Helsing Experience Live and most recently -- "Prison Break Live!" -- based on the hit Fox TV series. Harris also produced live entertainment for Madame Tussaud's attractions in London, Amsterdam, New York, and Las Vegas. View Guest page
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Diane Helbig
Diane Helbig The president of “Seize This Day Coaching” an expert in the subject of Added Value. Internationally recognized business and leadership development coach and consultant, author, speaker, radio show host, and workshop facilitator. “As a certified, professional coach and president of Seize This Day Coaching, I help businesses and organizations operate more constructively and profitably. I evaluate, encourage, and guide my clients”. View Guest page
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Bernado Herzer
Bernado Herzer, an entrepreneur and inventor with a deep passion for helping the environment. Bernado is the founder and CEO of LEHR Incorporated which is dedicated to developing environmentally friendly technology. Bernado discovered that gasoline powered lawn mowers, blowers and other garden tools produce up to 3 times more hydrocarbons than a motor vehicle does in an hour. He has become a leader in the production of non polluting gardening and marine equipment. He has won numerous awards for his work. View Guest page
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DAVID HOOKER
DAVID HOOKER - A down to earth, let’s get to it guy. He has the rare ability to simplify challenging issues. David established his personal gold standard in sales by walking the war torn streets of Ireland selling door to door – and as a “Brit” that was a tough call. He learned the disciplines for success the hard way, took the knocks, fell into the gutter and climbed back to the top. David is an author, broadcaster and originator of ‘The New Gold Standard” (the definitive path to success in Sales and Marketing). In other words, the old ways of doing things are not good enough any longer. As I have said many time on the program, we all face the same challenge – Taking full advantage of the capacity to excel that we were born with, that somehow gets lost as we get involved in the world of business. View Guest page
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Monte Huebsch
Google expert Monte Huebsch. Monte holds the Google Analytics Individual Qualification and he completed the first Google Apps training at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA in 2008. If it has anything to do with Google, Monte knows it! View Guest page
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Linda Blum Huntington
Linda Blum Huntington is President of Emerald Forest Music representing the catalogs of superstars such as Macy Gray and Sophie B Hawkins and executive produced records for the likes of Alison Krause and John Waite. For the past few years, Linda has also been building a global business with Arbonne, a multilevel health and wellness range of products and has been extremely successful, Arbonne’s 600 products are described as botanically based, pure, safe, vegan, not tested on animals and green. Linda describes a new model MLM system. View Guest page
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Simon Jordan
Simon Jordan Went from a 20s death wish, weighing 320 pounds ( 146 kgs) binge eating, drinking and drugs. 18 months later weighing 182 pounds (82 kgs) he finished the London Marathon in 3 hrs 45 minutes, clean from drink and drugs. He puts that same dedication into his business. One year into setting up his Marketing company he set up his own highly acclaimed online TV channel sharing marketing tips to a global audience. He has put his success down to the power of social media. Author of “ How to Sky Rocket Your Business (without burning your fingers)” which has received 5 stars on Amazon View Guest page
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Tina Jordan
My second is Tina Jordan who was Hugh Heffner’s partner in the Playboy Mansion and now has a multitude of strings to her bow. View Guest page
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Rick Kellard
Rick Kellard is an Emmy Award winning, executive producer/writer. . He began his career writing in variety television, and then transitioned to the half-hour comedy genre where his credits include: "The Redd Foxx Show", "Room For Two", "Hooperman" and more. He also has a strong foothold in television drama with a long list of credits including: "The Monroes", "The Closer" , "Opposite Sex" , "Maximum Bob". He has worked with such stars as Bill Crosby, Cher, Andy Williams and Richard Prior View Guest page
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Jackie Lapin
PR person extraordinaire Jackie Lapin. Jackie is a master publicist at Jackie Lapin Media Relations. She was one of the pioneer women sport writers in America writing for the Washington Post, New York Times and Sports Illustrated among many. View Guest page
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Scott McKain
Scott McKain - teaches businesses how to deliver the “Ultimate Customer Experience”. Scott is one of about 150 living members of the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame. Recognised by Social Media Marketing Magazine as one of the 50 most influential marketing authors on Twitter and GlenJuice. Chosen by Arnold Schwarzenegger to be the emcee and speaker for The Great American Workout, held on the White House lawn with the President, and carried live on CNN and NBC’S “Today” show. Author of “Collapse and Distinction” How to create differentiation in the marketplace. No 1 spot on Amazon.com’s list of business bestsellers. View Guest page
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Brooke McKenzie
Brooke McKenzie A man who calls a spade a spade. He calls himself a “Free Enterprise Socialist”. For over 40 years he has been self employed within the Entrepreneurial spheres from shipping, property development and gold mining to fighting oil well fires in Kuwait to hunting for sunken treasures in sub Antarctic waters. He has been involved in politics at a grass roots level and co-founded the New Zealand First Political Party in 1993 In this interview Brooke talks candidly in his own ‘nothing barred’ style about the recovery effort after the devastation of the massive New Zealand Earthquakes in 2011. View Guest page
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Frank Miles
Frank Miles - Speaker, entertainer using comedy, juggling, music and magic. Blew away the judges just recently on America's Got Talent.
He began his career by busking at Fisherman's Wharf, After a major hang gliding accident, Frank died and was revived in the emergency room. …. And now works with the love of his life Jackie rehabilitating orphaned and injured animals at the Valley Wildlife Care.
As some of you may know Frank Miles was also suspected of being Jack the Ripper. Frank is a very versatile guy but I respect that that might have been a namesake.
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Stephen Monaco
Stephen Monaco - A great guy with more degrees than a thermometer. He was UP sales and Marketing at Datastorm Technologies and the driving force behind the most successful PC Date Communications Software of all time. He has worked with the Who’s Who of Silicon Valley corporations, a company director, magazine columnist and has appeared on numerous TV shows. But what I like most about Stephen View Guest page
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Scott Mullin
Scott Mullin, a lunatic professional bike racer who hurtles around the track at 200 miles an hour….. bloody hell that’s fast! View Guest page
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KIRK PENGILLY
KIRK PENGILLY A few weeks ago I had a chat on this program with a long time friend of mine, 7 times world surfing champion Layne Beachley, which received a great response from our listeners. At the time I mentioned that Layne was married to Kirk Pengilly, quitarist, saxophonist and back up vocalist for the legendary Rock Band INXS. INXS have been into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, have sold in excess of 30 million records, have 3 Grammy nominations and Kirk has been with the band for 32 years. He is just back from a European tour. The legendary rock star has cooked for legendary chef Matt Moran, but how did he feel about going up in front of the MasterChef judges? The INXS lynchpin, may have stood on stage with the faces of 100,000 fans staring back at him, but it's Celebrity MasterChef that had the rockstar quivering in his boots. Kirk won the Master Chef challenge in 2009. View Guest page
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Kerri Pottharst
Kerri Pottharst is a triple Olympian with two Olympic medals, Kerri spent 22 years competing in indoor and beach volleyball . Since retiring in 2005, Kerri divides her time between her three passions – her family, coaching elite-level volleyball, and inspiring people from all walks of life to achieve excellence through her keynote presentations and motivational workshops. Kerri is the Author of “The Business of being an Athlete”. View Guest page
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Phil Poulson
Phil Poulson of our time:- Ziglar, Rohn, Peal, Waitley, Chopra, Dyer and more. He was an innovator of the Public Seminar and has developed a world recognized systemized sales process used by many of the world’s top sales people. Poulson is simply a master at his game. His book ‘Sales Drive’ sets the industry standard. View Guest page
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Rick Price
Rick Price - a singer/songwriter in Nashville, collaborating and recording on the way to becoming a major recording star. Learn how today’s music market has changed, and what you need to do to make it. View Guest page
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Jay Rankin
After careers such as a police officer and a professional counselor, Jay became a doorman at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas. Jay wrote “Under The Neon Sky” and expose of the horror behaviors of Casino employees, guests and management. It is a sad expose of the underbelly of one of the most glamorous cities in the world. Las Vegas is a city of temptation — anyone can fall prey to it…even the guy who greets you at the door - Jay Rankin jayslasvegas.com View Guest page
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Siimon Reynolds
Siimon Reynolds who built a business to a staff of 6000 in his 20’s, made $500million dollars and has won almost every advertising award in the world for creative excellence. View Guest page
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Dayna Steele
Serial entrepreneur, author and business speaker, Dayna Steele travels the world to improve performance, create strong teams, increase company sales and grow businesses with her Rock Star Principles of Success. Dayna is the author of Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World's Greatest Rock Stars and her forthcoming book is 101 Ways to Rock Your World: Everyday Activities for Success Every Day. View Guest page
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Jay Turo
Jay Turo has led Growthink's emergence as one of the nation's largest strategic advisory and investment banking firms focused on the entrepreneurial marketplace. He has advised dozens of emerging, middle market, and corporate clients regarding their growth and capital formation strategies. His corporate clients have included Deutsche Bank, McKesson, Infospace, Samsung, Porsche, & Paramount Pictures. Jay is an active Angel investor, and speaker and writer regarding private equity, entrepreneurship, and technology. His column appears on the Growthink blog on Mondays View Guest page
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Tod Whipple
Tod Whipple is a serial entrepreneur. Commercial Real Estate Expert. Technology Ninja and lover of all things Business. He continues to fuel his passion for startups through StartupAddict.com founded in 2007. In a former life, Tod produced feature films, television and new media projects. He was a partner at Scout Productions a film/television and new media production company in Boston Massachusetts. Some of his credits include Queer Eye for the Straight Guy for Bravo/NBC, Session 9 for USA Films, and Deadman’s Curve for Trimark pictures to name a few. View Guest page
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Anne Wilson
Anne Wilson, graduate of the Stanford Executive Program for Non-Profit Leaders - past secretary of the International Federation of Kidney Foundations, and an expert in Cause Related Marketing. View Guest page
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Tay Zonday
Tay Zonday People’s Choice Award-Nominated, YouTube Award-Winning, Webby Award-Winning singer-songwriter with more than 130 million video views on YouTube. He blasted into the worldwide spotlight with his viral hit “Chocolate Rain” and has been interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America, America’s Got Talent, CNN, MTV, The BBC, Comedy Central, Rachel Ray, Maury Povich, and a list to long to recite. He has been referenced in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, The Huffington Post, Mashable, Gawker, and by pop-culture touchstones such as "South Park," “Saturday Night Live,” "Robot Chicken," "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia," "Girlfriends" and "Guitar Hero World Tour" and by such luminaries as Kobe Bryant, John Mayer and Tre Cool. The twenty-nine-year-old continues to release original music and race toward a future filled with possibility. View Guest page
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COME ON AMERICA – TAKE ON AN INTERN
May 22, 2012
Hosted by Bob Pritchard
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Internships are an excellent way for college students to get an understanding of the work force, and get an appreciation of specific industries and companies. Today we talk about paid and unpaid internships, the benefits and the pitfalls. We discuss the power of word of mouth, not only by our customers but also by our staff. A passionate dedicated staff stay longer, work harder, use more initiative, and go the extra mile. This makes for happier customers, more repeat business, higher margins and reduced costs. Also discussed is the importance of location, location, location and whether or not now is a good time to start a new business.
The Bob Pritchard Radio Show
Tuesday at 5 PM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
95 percent of all businesses fail within 10 years. Most small to medium businesses struggle to make wages. Bob Pritchard is a highly regarded expert with a track record of identifying the issues facing businesses and determining simple solutions to make them highly profitable.
Despite the glitz and glamor, Entertainment operates in the same way as any other business and as we live in a Celebrity obsessed society, people will enjoy this segment. Some of the best Business and marketing screw ups illustrate in a funny and impactful way some of the pitfalls that can be encountered in business, what went wrong and why.
Every business discipline from leadership to corporate culture, marketing to customer service, seeking investment to using social media, sponsorship, hospitality and many others. Straight talking, nothing is off the table and nothing is taboo. The Bob Pritchard Show is broadcast live every Tuesday at 5 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.
Bob Pritchard
Bob Pritchard has over 30 years’ experience as a straight talking business and marketing troubleshooter and consultant with many of the world’s leading companies on 5 continents. Bob is the recipient of the highly coveted International Marketer of the Year Award, a distinction he shares with some of the world’s top business leaders.
Bob sits on the Board of Directors of six companies and is Chairman of AdvisorCorp Limited, a leading international business development company which holds a financial services license.
Bobs newest book, Kick Ass Business and Marketing Secrets. How To Blitz Your Competition, the 100,000 word business bible, was released globally by Wiley and Sons, the world's largest business book publisher, in August 2011.
Bob has been a Business speaker and trainer at over 1,500 conferences, including 91 Fortune 500 companies. He has presented to major corporations in 53 countries. Bob was also Joint winner of a Clio award and joint winner of 4 Silver Telly awards for work with Citibank.
Bob was a television and live performer for 15 years, appearing in some 400 television shows as a singer and actor with several recordings including one top 10 hit. He is the Author of 5 internationally best-selling books, including ‘Complex Marketing Made Simple,’ with sales exceeding 100,000 copies. Bob has a wide knowledge of business, has business interests around the world and understands global business and opportunities.
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