All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett

Serial entrepreneur, digital media innovator, CEO & author of the new book Disrupt You!, Jay Samit shows how everyone’s career is going to be disrupted, shares lessons for entrepreneurs, explains why his dyslexia is anything but a disability, tells how his early career in magic influenced his later career in business and shows All Business host Jeffrey Hayzlett why you should try to kill start-ups if you want to find the winning “zombie idea” that can’t be killed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Wuhl takes Jeffrey Hayzlett on a stream of consciousness rap on stand-up comedy, the showbiz one percent, the success of “Arliss,” how “The Soprano’s” changed everything, the “Seinfeld” snafu that cost someone $3 million, the biggest lesson he ever learned, the downside to loyalty, and a story you never heard about the last scene John Belushi ever shot. To hear more from Robert Wuhl, be sure to tune-in to his Play.it podcast “Ipso Facto.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He’s the Chief Content Strategist of global PR giant Edelman and the ultimate early adopter–Steve Rubel joins Jeffrey Hayzlett to talk about all things social: content, strategy, platforms, advertising, apps, mobile and more. He shares insights from high above the digital front lines, reveals his favorite apps, preaches the power of preparation and tells about his dumbest tweet ever. To hear more from Steve, be sure to tune-in to his Play.it podcast “Content Convergence.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the world’s biggest sports on the eve of its biggest event…time for tennis at the US Open. Hayzlett volleys with the United States Tennis Association Exec. Director Gordon Smith who talks about the global growth of the sport, how the US men are about to make headlines and how Serena Williams is rewriting the history books as she goes for a calendar Grand Slam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He ran a concrete business at age 15, worked in an amusement park in college, gave Steve Jobs one of his first jobs, and became a legend in gaming, founding Atari and launching the family fun center Chuck E. Cheese. Nolan Bushnell reveals why the pioneer video game Pong had a square ball, how a rat came to represent his restaurant chain, his costly foray into robotics, the times he got too cocky, getting into the state of flow, his biggest regret in business and his call for equal opportunity in education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Vila is not only America’s home restoration & renovation expert, he’s also a reality TV pioneer starting with his runaway PBS hit “This Old House.” He talks about how that program started, how his media presence grew, and how the Bob Vila brand evolved. Vila tells Jeffrey Hayzlett about his Cuban heritage, his volunteer work to restore Ernest Hemmingway’s house in Havana, his thoughts on alternative energy, the Internet of Things, Habitat for Humanity, and the growing world of www.bobvila.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visionary, controversial and completely original, Greg Glassman traces the origins of his unusual exercise regimen that spawned the global CrossFit phenomenon and the CrossFit Games. Hayzlett looks into the controversies and mystique that surrounds CrossFit, Glassman’s unique business approach, and finds our why athletes worldwide each day await the WOD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He called it Sellivision but world knows it as the Infomericial and Kevin Harrington made millions putting TV’s dead airtime to work selling wild, wacky and can’t-live -without-it products to in-home shoppers… but he never had any luck selling a fitness product named for a guy named Chubby. A veteran of “Shark Tank,” Harrington shares the secrets shared by successful entrepreneurs with fellow entrepreneur Jeffrey Hayzlett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Personal success and Brian Tracy are synonymous and Jeffrey Hayzlett finds out why in a free-flowing conversation about the simple, basic, key factors and practices that lead to fulfillment. The author of over 45 books who gives speeches to a quarter million people a year, Tracy shares his philosophy on focus, goals, service, accomplishment, the holy grail of task completion… all that and eating the frog on All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Financial educator and motivator, David Bach talks-up why teaching is a turn-on, the surprising source of his passion, the power of cash and the enduring inspiration of his hard-working Grandmother Bach who convinced him to buy McDonald’s stock at age seven–though his own young son is buying Shake Shack! Known for his bestselling “Finish Rich” and “Automatic Millionaire” books and his appearances on Oprah and other TV programs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An internationally-known leader in a very serious business, General Wesley Clark went from being the top student at West Point to the rank of four-star general as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. He’s also a best-selling author, successful business leader, noted news commentator and one-time presidential candidate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christie Hefner tells of taking control of her father Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire and taking it in new digital directions in her 20 year term as its pioneering female CEO. And though she tells All Business host Jeffrey Hayzlett it was the best job she ever had, she admits that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has her dream job. The two talk business innovation, digital disruption, the family business, the way boards work, women in the C-Suite, and why Chicago is her kind of town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, Steve Forbes talks about “the goodness of entrepreneurial capitalism” with serial entrepreneur Jeffrey Hayzlett. The two-time presidential candidate explains why he’ll be an “agitator” this election cycle, talks about the inspirations behind the family business, discusses tax policy and Obamacare, reveals his weakness for old-fashioned donuts and ask people to sign the petition to have the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Yogi Berra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New York Times dubbed Nely Galan the “Tropical Tycoon.” Youngest ever guest editor at  Seventeen magazine, first Latina to be named president of a major TV network, Galan dueled with the likes of Gene Simmons, Piers Morgan and Omarosa on the inaugural Celebrity Apprentice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bestselling author of Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind, Drive and To Sell is Human, Daniel Pink joins All Business host Jeffrey Hayzlett for a wide-ranging conversation on some of the most compelling business ideas today. From his days writing speeches for VP Al Gore, to his memorable interview by Oprah Winfrey, Pink provides the context for his innovative thinking and shares the research that supports his provocative theories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drawing on her marketing and branding playbook, WNBA president Laurel Richie tells Jeffrey Hayzlett of the rewards and challenges of leading the nation’s top women’s professional sports league. Richie shares her journey from Madison Avenue, to the C-Suite of the Girl Scouts of the USA, to a speaking engagement that attracted the attention of the WNBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Mangiamele tells the tale of the brands that created the casual dining category decades ago, Steak and Ale and Bennigan’s, tracing their rise, fall, and rebirth. And he’s not just leading the effort as CEO, he’s got skin in the game as the owner. He pulls back the curtain on the the turn-around and tells how they course-corrected from “brand drift” to get two icons of casual dining back on track.  It helps when the whole team “bleeds green” and is trying to win his ABCD Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GJ Hart traces his route from his birth in the Netherlands to his new life with California Pizza Kitchen, the global restaurant chain that’s redefining casual dining. Hart shares his “secret sauce” for success, and offers host Jeffrey Hayzlett and listeners an insider look at how fine food can be big business. He shares all of this and more on All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creativity in art and in business is the focus of this episode of “All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett.” With over 45 years of start-up, management, IPO and turn-around experience Howard Tullman was a seasoned entrepreneur by age 10 having built both a candy racket and a magic performance business in his free time. He’s gone on to start 12 companies and now runs the Chicago tech incubator 1871, named not so much for the year of the Chicago Fire but for the rebuilding that began right after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WinStar Farm President, CEO and Racing Manager Elliott Walden talks horses with Jeffrey Hayzlett, especially the big money in the high stakes world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. A former top trainer who won the ’98 Belmont Stakes with Victory Gallop, Walden will be back in the Triple Crown spotlight in 2015 with WinStar Farm’s Carpe Diem, one of the favorites in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices