The Small Business Radio Show
Barry Moltz gets small businesses unstuck. He has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 25 years. Barry knows the formula for taking your company to the next level! This is a business radio show where we talk about all the craziness of small business. It’s that craziness that actually makes it exciting, interesting and totally unpredictable.
Episodes
April 8, 2024 • 33 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Chloe Valdary starting at 0:18.
Diversity, equity and inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI. You would think that all of these things would be good for American business and society at large. But ni longer; more and more companies are coming under attack for having a DEI policy.
Chloé Valdary who is the founder of the Theory of Enchantment, a New York-based DEI organization that fights against racism and big...
Diversity, equity and inclusion, commonly referred to as DEI. You would think that all of these things would be good for American business and society at large. But ni longer; more and more companies are coming under attack for having a DEI policy.
Chloé Valdary who is the founder of the Theory of Enchantment, a New York-based DEI organization that fights against racism and big...
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March 28, 2024 • 33 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Shawn D. Nelson, starting at 0:00: What would you do in your business differently if you could do it all over again?
Shawn D. Nelson is the author of Let Me Save You 25 Years: Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story. He is the founder and CEO of the Lovesac Company, which designs, manufactures, and sells such furniture as modular couches and bean bag chairs. Nelson holds a BA in Mandarin C...
Shawn D. Nelson is the author of Let Me Save You 25 Years: Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story. He is the founder and CEO of the Lovesac Company, which designs, manufactures, and sells such furniture as modular couches and bean bag chairs. Nelson holds a BA in Mandarin C...
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March 25, 2024 • 25 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Josh Greene, starting at 0:00: Its lonely at the top, especially as a solopreneur. Where and to whom does a business owner turn?
Josh Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Groove where he builds on his passion for community, helping solopreneurs find the support and human connection they need to accomplish great things. Prior to co-founding Groove, Josh served as part of the leadership team at WeWork and ...
Josh Greene is the co-founder and CEO of Groove where he builds on his passion for community, helping solopreneurs find the support and human connection they need to accomplish great things. Prior to co-founding Groove, Josh served as part of the leadership team at WeWork and ...
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March 15, 2024 • 26 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Elliot Holland, starting at 0:00: I spend a lot of my time these days helping business owners buy and sell companies. Almost always, buyers and sellers are never prepared for the process.
Elliott Holland is a Harvard Business School alum & expert in the small business acquisition space. Elliott helps entrepreneurs do two very important things: (1) execute great small business acquisitions and (2) ...
Elliott Holland is a Harvard Business School alum & expert in the small business acquisition space. Elliott helps entrepreneurs do two very important things: (1) execute great small business acquisitions and (2) ...
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March 8, 2024 • 35 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Guy Kawasaki, starting at 0:00: As we get more experienced in our careers, some of us give up on truly making a difference in our work and other people’s lives. That has never happened to my next guest. He’s here to help us transform our lives and make a difference.
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. He was the chief evangelist of Ap...
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast. He was the chief evangelist of Ap...
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March 4, 2024 • 25 mins
When Elon Musk first announced his deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, the billionaire tech mogul believed that his ownership of the company would restore free speech to the masses and even help to preserve humanity. Then, almost immediately, everything went sideways.
Kurt Wagner is a Bloomberg journalist who used his years of knowledge and experience covering social media to write the ultimate book on the story of Twitter:...
Kurt Wagner is a Bloomberg journalist who used his years of knowledge and experience covering social media to write the ultimate book on the story of Twitter:...
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February 29, 2024 • 32 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Akeem Shannon, starting at 0:00: I love to share comeback from failure stories since we can all relate to that…
Akeem Shannon has had more than his fair share of failures, fall downs, setbacks, and hurdles. But through failing again and again, he found himself inching his way toward success. From college dropout to CEO of an Inc Magazine Top 50 Fastest Growing Consumer Brand, Akeem has shared his story on...
Akeem Shannon has had more than his fair share of failures, fall downs, setbacks, and hurdles. But through failing again and again, he found himself inching his way toward success. From college dropout to CEO of an Inc Magazine Top 50 Fastest Growing Consumer Brand, Akeem has shared his story on...
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February 27, 2024 • 36 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Mike Michalowicz, starting at 0:00: It has never been harder to build successful teams. With the challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-scheduling, and generational divides, business leaders bend over backward searching for solutions that work. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and training—but nothing sticks.
Mike Michalowicz leads two new...
Mike Michalowicz leads two new...
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February 19, 2024 • 33 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Alexandra Watkins, starting at 0:00: What is the key to picking the right brand name for your company and the products inside your company?
Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. If you have ever eaten a Wendy’s Baconator, you have literally eaten her words. For nearly 20 years, she and her naming firm, Eat My Words, have created love-at-first sight brand names ...
Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names with buzz. If you have ever eaten a Wendy’s Baconator, you have literally eaten her words. For nearly 20 years, she and her naming firm, Eat My Words, have created love-at-first sight brand names ...
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February 9, 2024 • 36 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Robert J. Khoury, starting at 0:00: With few professional job opportunities, lots of job seekers and employers are now turning to “the internship.” As a small business owner, how do you make sure the internship benefits your company, and as an intern, how do you make sure you can do meaningful work?
SEGMENT 2 with Jacqueline Snyder, starting at 17:00: Product-based small businesses have spec...
SEGMENT 2 with Jacqueline Snyder, starting at 17:00: Product-based small businesses have spec...
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January 30, 2024 • 33 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, starting at 0:00: A lot of people in small business don't really like to get together with their team members on a one-on-one basis. Is it necessary? What can be gained from it?
SEGMENT 2 with Katie Desiderio and Michael Frino, starting at 21:10: For most small business owners, it is hard to be the leader in the organization. It’s even harder to train others to be lea...
SEGMENT 2 with Katie Desiderio and Michael Frino, starting at 21:10: For most small business owners, it is hard to be the leader in the organization. It’s even harder to train others to be lea...
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January 23, 2024 • 36 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Bill Raduchel, starting at 0:00: What is it like to be “in the room where it happened” for some of the big moments in tech history like the launch of iTunes or a bid to buy Apple?
Over more than half a century at the forefront of the technology revolution, Bill Raduchel encountered them all as a pioneering executive for McGraw-Hill, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, and AOL—where he was behind the scenes for the...
Over more than half a century at the forefront of the technology revolution, Bill Raduchel encountered them all as a pioneering executive for McGraw-Hill, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, and AOL—where he was behind the scenes for the...
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January 15, 2024 • 30 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Amy Padnani, starting at 0:00: Let’s kick off the new year with an interesting story about being first. What drives some people always want to be first? Here's the untold story of Mr. First himself.
Amy Padnani, a journalist for the NY Times, works on a series that tells the stories of remarkable people whose deaths were not originally reported on by The New York Times. One featured article is about Brook...
Amy Padnani, a journalist for the NY Times, works on a series that tells the stories of remarkable people whose deaths were not originally reported on by The New York Times. One featured article is about Brook...
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January 10, 2024 • 44 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Morgan Housel, starting at 0:00: Many people say that the only constant in life is change. In fact, I wrote an entire book called Changemasters to help people make the changes they want. Our next guest says that some things don’t change and that’s what we should focus on.
SEGMENT 2 with Sabrina Starling, PhD, starting at 23:45: I have to tell you – I hate the hustle culture. It tells us tha...
SEGMENT 2 with Sabrina Starling, PhD, starting at 23:45: I have to tell you – I hate the hustle culture. It tells us tha...
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December 27, 2023 • 32 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Adam Ireland, starting at 0:00: Many entrepreneurs and startups make the same mistake. They believe that if they build it, people will come. Well, I am here to tell you, it doesn’t happen that way. You need a go-to-market strategy to figure out how you are going to get in front of your prospects. Marketplaces can help you do that.
SEGMENT 2 with Mischa Zveginzov, starting at 15:15: How are you...
SEGMENT 2 with Mischa Zveginzov, starting at 15:15: How are you...
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December 22, 2023 • 29 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Lindsey Day and Mark Williamson, starting at 0:00: Transactions within the small business sector have been prevalent in 2023. According to the latest BizBuySell’s Insight Report, small business acquisitions increased by 2% in Q3 2023 compared to last year. What other small business acquisition trends took shape in 2023, and what should small business owners looking to sell their business think about in ...
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December 16, 2023 • 47 mins
SEGMENT 1 with Steve Strauss, starting at 0:00: For many years now, the barrier to starting a business has been much lower than it used to be. Some entrepreneurs do it while they are still working at their full-time jobs and call it a side hustle. What are the keys to getting a side hustle off the ground? Steve Strauss has some great ideas.
SEGMENT 2 with Mary Beth Simon, starting at 17:45: I am reading an ap...
SEGMENT 2 with Mary Beth Simon, starting at 17:45: I am reading an ap...
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December 10, 2023 • 33 mins
SEGMENT 1, starting at 0:00: Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or have you tried to reason with your partner, employee or customer with disastrous results? Do certain people just rub you the wrong way? Did you ever feel in business that you were “surrounded by idiots”? Knowing how to communicate with your customers, employees, and vendors will be one of your keys to success.
Thomas Erikson is a mo...
Thomas Erikson is a mo...
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December 4, 2023 • 21 mins
Now for something completely different. I can honestly say that in the 15 years of doing this show, we have never covered this topic. Can Psychedelic mushrooms help the performance of entrepreneurs and small business owners?
Rob Grover and Gary Logan are the founders of The Journeymen Collective, the company creating luxury guided magic mushroom retreats in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. They believe when psychedelics ar...
Rob Grover and Gary Logan are the founders of The Journeymen Collective, the company creating luxury guided magic mushroom retreats in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. They believe when psychedelics ar...
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November 21, 2023 • 24 mins
What do orgasms, business, and cults have in common? I’m sure not many of us thought about that until a new documentary on Netflix aired called “Orgasm, Inc: The Story of OneTaste.” When does a business become a cult and can a cult be a business?
Ellen Huet is an award-winning journalist who currently writes for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is writing a book about OneTaste, a sexual wellness company that’s alleged ...
Ellen Huet is an award-winning journalist who currently writes for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. She is writing a book about OneTaste, a sexual wellness company that’s alleged ...
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