Business Leaders Podcast

There are 16.2 million solopreneurs in the US right now. Only 20% will find success at their first go of their business. Jim Sugarman and 4GenNow helps these solopreneurs by finding their intergenerational business partners to get a higher probability of success and funding. He shares that his biggest challenge is to find the key characteristics of these four generations of entrepreneurs and the unique skill sets they bring to the table. In doing this, Jim also addresses the issue of creating too many startups with too many failures. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Bringing Four Generations of Entrepreneurs Together with Jim Sugarman We have Jim Sugarman. He’s the Co- Founder of the nonprofit https://4gennow.com/ (4 Gen Now). Jim, thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to come by and visit. Bob, great to be with you. Jim, tell us a little bit about 4 Gen Now and who you serve. 4 Gen Now, we’re an international and intergenerational community of entrepreneurs, 1,6

http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/052blpbanner.jpg () Most people have common misconceptions about what ADA is. ADA is a disability rights law, not an accessibility law. Kent Kelly of Meeting the Challenge discusses how his company helps institutions and communities be ADA-compliant. He talks about some of the projects they’ve made and how they can teach you to comply and negotiate with the DOJ if you have to, and get a reasonable implementation plan to achieve the objectives of the law and make your community more accessible. It all boils down to being compassionate, caring about people, and doing what’s right. He says if you can’t do it for that, then at least mitigate the risk and try to avoid a law suit. Listen to the podcast: Kent Kelley Meeting the Challenge CEO, demystifying ADA accessibility with consulting initiatives for both public and private entities. We’re here with Kent Kelly in http://www.mtc-inc.com/ (Meeting The Challenge)’s office in Colorado Springs

http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/051blpbanner.jpg () Partners not projects. That’s what Matthew Barnes of Momenta Media and his company is looking for. Learn how they figure out a solution to your marketing site problem, which is not a website problem, through the different phases they’ve developed. He provides insight on their processes to find out your pain point so you can communicate your idea and make your business run more effectively. He also shares the different tools they use to orchestrate, manage, and communicate different projects across the team. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Matthew Barnes Partner & Chief Solutions Officer at SeeSaw Labs | Owner of Momenta Media | From side hustle to digital production agency and partnering We’re here with Matthew Barnes. He’s the owner of http://www.momentamedia.com/ (Momenta Media) and Partner and Chief Solutions Officer and Virtual Reality Lead at https://www.seesawlabs.com/ (SeeSaw Labs). We’r

http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/050blpbanner.jpg () Jessica Mehring of Horizon Peak Consulting focuses on marketing content and shares her wisdom and insight from working as a copywriter for small and medium businesses and enterprise. She explains that relationship building upfront is an integral part of the profession. She talks about how it helps create a message that’s aligned with the brand and their goal and connects emotionally with the audience. Watch the Episode Here: Listen to the podcast: Jessica Mehring CEO Horizon Peak Consulting, proprietary copywriting methodology helping IT, software and tech companies get measurable results from their marketing content. We’re incredibly fortunate. We have https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicamehring (Jessica Mehring). She’s the CEO and Senior Copywriter of https://www.horizonpeakconsulting.com/ (Horizon Peak Consulting). Thanks so much for taking time. Jessica, thanks for coming on the show. Tell us a little bit abou

For Laura Love of GroundFloor Media, transforming a business starts with strategic communication. She likes to think of her and her team as storytellers, and how they tell a company or an organization’s story depends on the audiences they want to reach and the tools that they have in their arsenal.  They can tell that story through video, by talking to the media, or by putting that CEO on a panel and having them tell the rest of the world what they do. The point is to make the impact and create brand awareness for the company. On the flip side of that, a big part of their agency is focused on crisis and issues management, which means keeping a company out of the news, or minimizing the impact of something that could be perceived as something negative that they have to face. Laura shares her thoughts on how they handle everything, from media relations to thought leadership to crisis and issues management. Listen to the podcast: Laura Love GroundFloor Media Founder, Synthesizing Strategic Communications

  Forensic Accounting is primarily just delving into the details, going to sources of the transactions, and making sure those are what has been recorded and/or used in business transactions or in a divorce arena, that those particular assets are existing or are there other assets. So we do a lot of tracing of transactions to hopefully get all the transactions put together in a format or a summary that makes sense for whatever the project covers. In one case, it’s really interesting and certainly eye-opening, as I went through it and, many times, led me in some directions that were uncomfortable, dealing with personalities, but this was an employee benefit client that had a significant investments. Digging into this estate issue? A situation where two beneficiaries, equal beneficiaries of an estate, and parents passed. The one child of the parents was a trustee, and so this trustee made numerous withdrawals to her benefit. It was a woman in this case. To her benefit and to the detriment of her sibling. S

Have you ever sat on a chair and wished it was more comfortable? Comfortable furniture is really important because we spend lots of hours of our day in them. For Cliff Levin and his company, Furniture for Life, their mission is to make the world a more comfortable place through a variety of well-designed, well-made furniture products with health, wellness, and comfort-related twists on them. He guarantees that everything they do and touch is going to have an underlying health message, and that there’s real value to buying the luxury and high-quality brands that they make and represent. He says the passion and the way they care about their customers is core to their success. Listen to the podcast: Cliff Levin CEO Furniture For Life, transforming the business while delivering lasting profound health and comfort benefits We have with us the Founder, CEO and President, Cliff Levin, of http://www.furnitureforlife.com/ (Furniture For Life). Happy you joined us here, Bob. Cliff, thanks so much for taking t

James Britt, founder and owner of Britt Films, a freelance cinematography and filmmaking business, identifies himself as a cinematographer. More than just capturing a video, he tries to add an element of cinematic technique and look to it, and he tries to give everything he does an artistic appeal. James has a great deal of passion for teaching anything that he learns, and he loves to share whatever he feels is good information. The advice he gives any budding videographer as to using this skill set to gain money is you absolutely can. You just have to really work at it. You have to market yourself, brand yourself, put your name out there, be producing good work consistently, and let people know that this is something that you do. Watch the epsiode: Listen to the podcast: James Britt, Owner Of Britt Films, A Freelance Cinematography And Filmmaking Business (Creating Videos With Cinematic Technique And Look) We have James Britt, the owner at https://www.brittfilms.com/ (Britt Films). Incredibly fortunate h

Charlie Weidman is president of Buddha Logic, an enterprise content management solutions provider that helps companies streamline digital document capture and management. Charlie shares how their process starts is they typically go in, analyze the process, and then take a look at the solution set or tools that will help clients get to their goal. That culturally can be a challenge because people like to do things a certain way. Charlie shares they may sometimes have to convince their vendors and customers to take advantage of this new process they’re implementing. Buddha Logic specializes in the accounts payable world, but has also gotten into digital signatures as well, and shares that there’s a whole industry waiting out there to enjoy more of this automated processing. Listen to the podcast: " data-artist="Business Leaders Podcast" data-paid="true" data-social="true" data-social_twitter="true" data-social_facebook="true" data-social_gplus="true" data-speedcontrol="true" data-uid="Dg85VFb0" data

Since 2009, CommonSenseHealth.org has been helping clients to establish an online presence, grow their business, and increase sales using social media and online marketing. Founder and CEO Kim Peterson-Stone was already creating a community prior to the ability to do it online. When the power of that gained momentum, she used that as a perfect segue to build the new enterprise. She has since built a network of 180,000 plus highly engaged subscribers and fans for herself and hundreds of thousands more for clients. She speaks, consults, and trains on inspired leadership and how to build quality business relationships and acquire new clients through LinkedIn and social media. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Kim Peterson-Stone, CEO CommonSenseHealth.org – Helping Clients Grow Their Business And Increase Sales Using Social Media And Online Marketing We’re fortunate to have as our guest Kim Peterson-Stone. She’s the Founder and CEO of http://www.commonsensehealth.org/ (CommonSenseHea

When it comes to decision-making, RiderFlex Recruiting Firm takes it beyond apps and algorithms – and meets candidates in person. Is the Denver-based company’s model still feasible in the age of virtual testing? Founder and CEO Steve Urban is changing the business landscape in Denver and beyond with a recruitment process so old, it’s redefining the future: assessing potential candidates face-to-face. Not through Skype, or live-streaming, but in the same room – physically! RiderFlex Recruiting Firm is focused on matching cultures and personalities perfectly with the job description: something that can only be done through tangible interaction. Watch the episode:   Listen to the podcast here: Steve Urban Founder CEO of Riderflex, Recruiting, Process, Success and Video Interviews We’re incredibly fortunate to have Steve Urban, Founder and CEO of https://www.riderflex.com/ (Riderflex), as our guest. Steve, welcome to the show.  Hello, Bob. Thank you. Glad to be here. First, tell us a little

In the face of paralysis and adversity, how does Breakaway Sports’ Phil McCarthy keep up the fight? As founder of the Denver-based company, McCarthy now helps professional teams conquer the world with top-notch coaching and assembly services. Breakaway Sports’ business model is similar to being in a locker room and trying to achieve success on the field through a team. Drive and passion is important. You can be sure that the guys at Breakaway Sports love those sports, coached those sports, gave back and involve themselves in the community in a positive way. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Lacrosse and Hockey, Collegiate Success, Personal Adversity and Building a Business with CEO Phil McCarthy Former Owner of Breakaway Sports We’re here with Phil McCarthy. He’s the Founder of http://www.breakawaylacrosse.com (Breakaway Sports) in Denver, Colorado. We interview some of the best and brightest business owners and entrepreneurs in and around the state of Colorado. We talk about the ins a

Ben Maxwell founder of HCM Capital Group, is a third generation entrepreneur and has been going at it ever since entering the workforce in 1999. He started HCM Capital in 2002 as an infill real estate development firm that focuses on the Denver Metro area. HCM Capital has experience in both residential and commercial development. Ben talks about his journey and shares that he wants to be proud to drive through the communities in ten to twenty years from now and point to the long-standing projects they helped create and are still involved in. Listen to the podcast: Infill Development, Private Capital, Providing Value, And Avoiding Denver Fugly with Ben Maxwell On the show now, we’re fortunate to have as our guest, Ben Maxwell. He’s the founder of http://hmcapitalgroup.com/ (HM Capital Group). He’s a third generation entrepreneur and has been going at it ever since entering the workforce in 1999. He started HM Capital in 2002 as an infill real estate development firm that focuses on the Denv

Working in a very small office supply retail store in high school back in the mid ‘80s, Mark Newhall, founder and CEO of Execution Specialists Group, ESG, learned early on how businesses operate and how you could, as a partner to them, bring value to the products and services. Now, as CEO of a management consulting firm, he shares the day deals closed, they were the ones rationalizing the distribution footprint, putting the distribution systems, warehouse systems and order management systems in place, and training the workforce on new things. He says they’re driving not so much on the strategy of the company, but on how to execute in line of the company worldwide the tenets of the strategy. Watch the episode:   Listen to the podcast: Mark Newhall, CEO ESG, One Of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms (2nd Year In A Row) We’re fortunate to have https://esgimpact.com/leadership/mark-newhall/ (Mark Newhall). He’s the Founder and CEO of https://esgimpact.com/ (Execution Specialists Group)

Going to courses and seminars and reading books by so-called gurus, Catherine Bell discovered that all these gurus have a few things that are very similar. While there’s never really a cardboard cutout of them, they all have this similar three-step sales process which starts with a weekend or day training, upgrading to boot camps, and then a full-blown mentoring program. Catherine is VP of Operations for Flipping Females, a group of successful investors that mentor and train people on how to become successful real estate investors in the world of fixing and flipping properties. The company was founded to prevent people from getting ripped off by these enterprising gurus who’ve actually never done a fix and flip ever in their life and yet they were claiming to teach it. Catherine says if you’re going to learn fix and flipping, you can’t learn it through a book, a webinar, videos, or a phone conference. You actually need to have your boots on the ground learning exactly how to manage everything that

Jay Arthur, President of KnowWare International, has 21 years of experience helping companies solve problems of delays, defects, and deviation using Lean Six Sigma. Jay shares it’s a journey of learning how to make improvements. To take your business to the next level, you’re going to need some data about defects, delays and deviation, which are the silent killers of productivity and profitability. Once you start to analyze and start to be able to pinpoint exactly what’s broken and where to fix it, your business smooths out and gets better. Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Using Lean Six Sigma To Solve Problems Of Delays, Defects And Deviation with “The KnowWare Man” Jay Arthur   We’re here with Jay Arthur known as the KnowWare Man in Denver, Colorado. He’s the President of https://www.qimacros.com (KnowWare), a Denver, Colorado-based company with 21 years of experience helping companies solve problems of delays, defects, and deviation using Lean Six Sigma. He&#

There’s a movement in the radiology community to become more quantitative. When you think about radiology, it’s a picture of what’s going on in your body, and those pictures very as you go from one MRI scanner to another, and they can vary from day to day but still gives you a reasonably good picture of your body. If you really want to do something quantitative, like watch how much a tumor is growing or reducing in size when you’re taking treatment, it doesn’t do very well unless you implement some standards or ground value. Elizabeth Mirowski, CEO of QalibreMD, shares that their MRI medical imaging standards provide a ground truth baseline for measuring quantitative imaging biomarkers. They developed this technology jointly with the ISMRM, QIBA/RSNA, and NIST to deliver rigor and relevance to medical research and patient care. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Elizabeth Mirowski, CEO QalibreMD transforming MRI medical imaging standards helping reduce diagnoses variab

The firm’s job is to go out and find the right answer to, the best answer. Kurtz Fargo serves emerging growth businesses, with the common thread between those companies being that they are growing rapidly and they need a firm that’s helping them plan and strategize throughout their growth process. Matt Fargo’s firm also serves high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individual clients. It turns out that the planning and the strategy work that is done for a business is very similar to that required to properly serve high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Unfortunately, most individuals, whether ultra-high-net-worth or not, have never experienced true planning and strategy services with their accounting firm, as most firms, solo practitioner to the Big 4, have not trained their teams to think this way. Kurtz Fargo trains their people to think strategically rather than being purely compliance focused, which is unfortunately where most accounting firms focus all of their time and efforts

“If you know you want to start a business or have a business one day, don’t wait until that demarcation point in your career.” Anthony McDaniels is the founder of RARE PETRO. RARE PETRO is engaged in creating oil and gas, mobile and cloud-based app technologies, along with providing petroleum engineering and consulting services. Founded in 2015, RARE PETRO is designed to be the future of oil and gas technical firms. Its main mission is to work towards modernizing the industry by using and leveraging technology to drive efficiency and improvement. They also offer traditional technical consulting services, with a focus on being more cost-effective. From a Senior production and completions engineer, he decided to try and do things on his own, leverage his technical knowledge and experience to start with a consulting approach. He soon rolled out his first oil and gas app. Anthony talks about his thought process and is rolling out a number of additional oil & gas industry mobile apps in the coming months

Chuck Blakeman, founder of the Crankset Group, a counter-intuitive and no-nonsense approach to life and business; focus on purpose. Chuck is a successful entrepreneur, #1 best-selling business author and world-renowned business advisor who built ten businesses in seven industries on four continents, and now uses his experience to advise others. His company, Crankset Group, provides outcome-based mentoring and practical strategies. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Chuck Blakeman, Founder Of The Crankset Group, A Counter-Intuitive And No-Nonsense Approach To Life And Business; Focus On Purpose We’re here with http://chuckblakeman.com/ (Chuck Blakeman) in Crankset Group’s office in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Chuck’s a successful entrepreneur, number one bestselling business author, and world-renowned business advisor. He built ten businesses in seven industries on four continents and now uses his experience to advise others. His company, http://www.cranksetgroup.com/ (Crankset Group), pr