Talking Business and LIfe (formerly Italian Impact Podcast)

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Doland White.  Doland is a highly sought after speaker and leadership coach whose journey started more than 40 years ago in the trenches — fixing help-desk problems, engineering networks, and leading a boutique technology services firm as its President. From there, he stepped into sales leadership and carried a $200M quota, then into building thriving global services teams in ...

This week, Steve Mancini interviews Gianluca Cinelli and Patrizia Piredda.  In this episode we have an absolutely enthralling conversation on the importance of people's stories.  Gianluca and Patrizia are leading an effort to continue capturing the stories of the post-world war generation and the effects of the war on them.  Remember, history has a ripple effect, even to today!  Learn more about their work here:  https://memogeneng...

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview one of the greatest basketball players to come out of western Pennsylvania, Baron "B.B." Flenory.  B.B. had an amazing career at Duquesne University in the Pittsburgh area and although his basketball career speaks for itself, it's the work he did after basketball that truly makes him one of the greats!  You're gonna love this episode and in the end, you're going to see what th...

This week, Steve Mancini and Claudio Reilsono interview Jodi Velazquez.  Jodi is an award winning author and her recent book, Know the Enemy: Preventing Weight Gain, Diabetes and Disease is a collection of 16 years of documenting her journey of helping her young daughter with diabetes management.  This is a powerful episode which shows how small decisions can have very important impacts!  Learn more about Jodi here:  https://jodive...

This week we interview Richard Martini.  Rich is a highly successful American film director, producer, screenwriter and freelance journalist.  Rich has directed numerous films and documentaries such as You Can't Hurry Love, which featured the debut of Bridget Fonda, and his most recent  documentary, Hacking the Afterlife.  In this episode, we talk everything from film to culture and  hear some of Rich's incredible advice on everyth...

This week you get two incredible guests!  We are very lucky to have 2x Super Bowl winning champion, former Pittsburgh Steeler, Robin Cole Sr. and his son, the great Dr. Robin Cole Jr. who recently published, "Lessons From Behind the Steel Curtain: From Steel to Strategy to Sentience".  This episode will teach you a lot about leadership and truly motivate you to be a better person, you'll absolutely love it!  To get a copy of the bo...

This week we meet an absolutely wonderful person, a proud Italian-American, family man, successful businessman and just a great guest for us, Mike Embrescia.  Mike represents all of the 1.2 million residents of Allegheny County and embodies what we all want from our leaders.  In this episode, we talk about what those early influences were that made him who he is today.  Learn more about Mike here but tune in as this is just a fanta...

This week's guest, Mike Battalini, is the President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Wealth Management Group.  We talk to Mike about the impact his Italian upbringing had on his success as a businessman.  Mike also offers some very good advice on what to look for when it comes to deciding on how to choose a good financial consultant.  There is a lot of good wisdom you can takeaway from this episode.  You can learn more about Mike here:  h...

This week we interview a very wonderful guest, Suzie Jackson.  Suzie is a few generations removed from her family in Italy but that doesn't stop her from being passionate about the Italian culture.  In fact, Suzie's sister currently lives in Rome and sings opera!  Suzie is also passionate about helping others and in this episode we are going to talk about an upcoming fundraiser wherein her sister will come from Rome to do a special...