Business Matters » podcast http://businessmatters.net The inside story of how business is shaping our world! Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Copyright © 2009 PS Media LLCbusiness,government,non,profit,technology,philosophy,entrepreneurs,economy,culture,environment,public,policy,international,relationsBusiness/Business Newsthomas@profoundlysimple.comThomas WhiteThomas Whitenobusiness,government,non,profit,technology,philosophy,entrepreneurs,economy,culture,environment,public,policy,international,relationsThe inside story of how business is shaping our world. Business Matters is a weekly radio program that offers its listeners admission into the inner circle of thought-leaders, entrepreneurs and executives from the worlds of business, government and non-profit. Through unbiased dialogue we explore the decisions and actions of their organizations and the impact they have on the economy, culture, the environment, public policy and international relations. We bring our listeners a portal into the future. We feature guests who are breaking down old paradigms and creating new models for success through innovations in the areas of science, technology, philosophy and management. BusinessMattersNethttp://feedburner.google.com One Person Makes a Difference http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusinessMattersNet/~3/s-ZRALa19cY/ http://businessmatters.net/2009/11/one-person-makes-a-difference/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:30:45 +0000 thomas@profoundlysimple.com (Thomas White) http://businessmatters.net/?p=1608 This week: Banksters and Bailout Bandits. Do individuals have a chance against the mighty banking dragons? We’ll talk people who have taken on the banks and learn how community organizations are networking nationwide to fight for economic justice. We’ll meet an organizer on Chicago’s North Side who’s pushing back against the banks who are pushing people out of their homes. Also, we’ll hear about how thousands of people converged in Chicago last week from across the country to protest the American Bankers’ Association’s national meeting.

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Catherine Austin Fitts, President, Solari; Former Assistant Secretary of Housing
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Catherine Austin Fitts has an unparalleled perspective on the current banking crisis, having witnessed the corruption in the market during the first Bush and Clinton administrations. Since then, she’s become the founder and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC.; and President of Solari, Inc. an online media company focused on ethical investment. She’s also been president of The Hamilton Securities Group, investment bank and financial software developer and an Managing Director and member of the board of Wall Street investment banking firm Dillon Read & Co. Inc. (She writes about her experience there in Dillon Read and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.)

Jordan Estevao, Director, Save the American Dream Campaign
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Save the American Dream is a campaign of National People’s Action (NPA), a network of metropolitan, regional, and statewide organizations that build grassroots power. Since its founding in 1972, NPA has worked nationally to build and strengthen people’s organizations, to develop indigenous leadership, and to advance campaigns for a more just, equitable, and sustainable society. NPA works to build the field of organizing, create permanent alliances, run national campaigns that strengthen organizations and develop grassroots leadership; and utilize technology and communications to take organizing and alliance building to a new scale.

Holly Krig, Lead Organizer, Northside Action for Justice
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Northside Action for Justice (NA4J) is a grassroots, member-controlled organization that builds power for low and moderate income people in order to advance the cause of economic and social justice on the north side of Chicago and across the globe. Holly explains some of the amazing successes that her organization has achieved without a lot of money but with a lot of community organizing.

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Steven Pressman, Professor of Economics and Finance, Monmouth University
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Steven Pressman also serves as co-editor of the Review of Political Economy, as Associate Editor and Book Review Editor of the Eastern Economic Journal, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Basic Income Studies. He has published around 120 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored or edited 13 books, including “Women in the Age of Economic Transformation”, “Economics and Its Discontents”, “A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics”, “Alternative Theories of the State”, “50 Major Economists”, and “Leading Contemporary Economists”. His main areas of research are poverty and income distribution, and government tax and spending policies.

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Maria Cancian, Co-editor, “Changing Poverty, Changing Policy“; Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work; Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Maria Cancian is Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. Her research is in the area of domestic social policy, with recent focus on the impact of married women’s growing employment and earnings on marriage patterns and the inter- and intra-household distribution of income, the work and income of women who have received welfare, and the implications of child support and custody for the well-being of divorced and never-married families. She and Sheldon Danziger edited the 2009 book “Changing Poverty, Changing Policies” published by Russell Sage. Her articles have appeared in journals including Demography, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Review of Economics and Statistics and Social Service Review.

Doug Schenkelberg, Associate Director of Policy & Advocacy at Heartland Alliance; Campaign Coordinator, From Poverty to Opportunity
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The “From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Human Rights in Illinois” is a grassroots, human rights campaign to develop the political will and substantive plans to end poverty in our state. The Campaign was established to create a comprehensive vision and a workable plan grounded in human rights standards that will halve extreme poverty in Illinois by the year 2015. The Campaign contextualizes poverty within the human rights framework, facilitates conversations across parties and interests in order to build shared understanding and urgency, uses our collective knowledge to identify solutions, and leverages our collective commitment to human rights to press for real change.

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If you, or someone close to you has just graduated college and is having trouble finding work, or maybe heading into college and not sure how it would be possible to pay for it you will definitely want to listen to this weeks show. In the first half we’ll be talking to two people who are working to improve the financial literacy of young people about how to handle their money, then in the second half of the show we’ll find out about an organization that’s teaching entrepreneurship to low-income students around the country.

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Bill Pratt, Author, The Graduate’s Guide to Life and Money
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Bill Pratt is a former credit card executive turned student-advocate. Bill is a former economist for the U.S. federal government and a former Vice President for one of the largest financial institutions in the world. He holds an MBA in finance. He left the financial industry to focus his efforts on helping others understand money. He is the author of “Extra Credit: The 7 Things Every College Student Needs to Know About Credit Debt & Ca$h” and “The Graduate’s Guide to Life and Money”. Bill speaks at colleges to educate and entertain students about real-life issues in money, leadership and success.

Farnoosh Torabi, Author, “You’re So Money- Live Rich Even When You’re Not”; Bank of America’s ambassador for financial literacy
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Farnoosh Torabi is an accomplished television, print and web journalist focusing on a spectrum of money matters, from personal finance and small business to investing and the financial markets. She is best known for her business reports that air on TheStreet.com TV, where she hosts Wall Street Confidential featuring the site’s founder Jim Cramer. She’s also a business contributor to AM New York, and she writes a monthly investing column in Entrepreneur Magazine. Farnoosh began her broadcasting career as a business reporter and producer for NY1 News, Time Warner’s 24-hour news channel in New York City.

Christine Poorman, Executive Director, NFTE Chicago
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The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE or “nifty”) provides an entrepreneurship education program to youth in low-income communities. Starting in 2003, NFTE opened the Chicago office and successfully launched a partnership with the Chicago Public Schools, currently in 39 schools. Looking ahead, NFTE Chicago has developed an aggressive growth plan, and aims to reach 10,000 in the coming year.

Zoe Damacela, Founder, Zoe Damacela Apparel; 2nd Place Winner, zoe_obama2009 OppenheimerFunds/NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge
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Zoe Damacela is a 17-year-old senior at Whitney Young High School, she’s an entrepreneur and a fashion designer, She’s made everything from wedding dresses to handbags and the business she founded, Zoe Damacela Apparel, has sold more than 300 dresses over the past four years.

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Tim Duy, Director of Oregon Economic Forum, University of Oregon
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Following graduate school, Tim worked in Washington, D.C. for the United States Department of Treasury as an economist in the International Affairs division and later with the G7 Group, a political and economic consultancy for clients in the financial industry. In the latter position, he was responsible for monitoring the activities of the Federal Reserve and currency markets. Tim returned to the University of Oregon in 2002. He is the Director of the Oregon Economic Forum and the author of the University of Oregon Index of Economic Indicators and the Central Oregon Business Index.

Ken Goldstein, Economist, The Conference Board
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Ken Goldstein has been an economist at The Conference Board since 1971. His principal responsibilities include analyzing current trends in labor market activity and forecasting near-term economic development. Specifically, he has maintained The Conference Boards Help-Wanted Index—a proxy measure for changes in labor demand. Since 1989, Goldstein has managed the monthly update of the The Conference Board economic forecasting process and has frequently been quoted in both print and electronic media as to where employment, inflation, interest rates, and the economy are headed.

Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, BusinessWeek
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Michael Mandel is chief economist at BusinessWeek, responsible for formulating BusinessWeek’s coverage of economic policy. Prior to this, Mandel was economics editor. In 1998, Mandel won the Gerald R. Loeb Award for his coverage of the New Economy. Mandel is the author of several books, including Rational Exuberance, The Coming Internet Depression, and The High Risk Society. Prior to joining BusinessWeek in 1989, Mandel was an assistant economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Mandel holds a PhD in economics from Harvard. He writes the World Economy Blog for BusinessWeek.

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Mark Bowden, an Atlantic Monthly national correspondent; Writer, The Story Behind the Story, October 2009 Atlantic
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Mark Bowden, is an author, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher. He spent 25 years as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. His book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999)—an international bestseller that spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list—was a finalist for the National Book Award. Bowden also worked on the screenplay for Black Hawk Down, a film adaptation of the book, directed by Ridley Scott. Bowden is also the author of the international bestseller Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw (2001), which tells the story of the hunt for Colombian cocaine billionaire Pablo Escobar. Killing Pablo is currently being adapted for film, with Bowden again writing the screenplay. Bowden contributes regularly to major American magazines, and he’s an adjunct professor at Loyola College of Maryland, where he teaches creative writing and journalism.

Timothy Karr, Campaign Director, FreePress
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Timothy Karr manages all online initiatives for Free Press — including SavetheInternet.com, StopBigMedia.com and InternetforEveryone.org. Tim speaks and writes about the state of journalism and the future of the Internet. Before joining Free Press, Tim was executive director of MediaChannel.org and vice president of the Globalvision News Network. He has also worked extensively as an editor, reporter and photojournalist for the Associated Press, Time Inc., the New York Times and Australia Consolidated Press. Tim has been quoted in publications across the country and has been featured as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR and ABC News Radio, among other places. He blogs for The Huffington Post and at MediaCitizen.

Valarie Davis, CEO Enviromedia
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Valerie Davis is cofounder of EnviroMedia Social Marketing — America’s first full-service advertising and public relations firm dedicated solely to improving the environment and public health. Davis, along with business partner Kevin Tuerff, launched www.greenwashingindex.com to fight the forces of misleading advertising. They also provided observations and perspective for Environmental Leader from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia. Among Davis’ key client and project accomplishments: leading the Don’t Mess with Texas campaign to victory in the America’s Favorite Slogan Competition, beating Nike’s “Just Do It” and “Got Milk?”; spearheading research and brand creation for the Governor’s Water Conservation Implementation Task Force and Texas Water Development Board; and overseeing a water-saving education campaign which cut daily peak water-use within one region by 200 million gallons a day.

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Mark Hyman
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Mark Hyman is a contributing editor at BusinessWeek and the author of the new book Until It Hurts: America’s Obsession With Youth Sports. Prior to joining BusinessWeek, he spent nearly 20 years as a reporter for newspapers including the Baltimore Sun where he was an enterprise and investigative reporter in the sports department. During his time at the Sun, earned his law degree from the University of Maryland. He blogs at youthsportsparents.blogspot.com and also contributes to BusinessWeek’s Working Parents blog.

Jim Thompson
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Jim Thompson is the founder and director of Positive Coaching Alliance, a national nonprofit organization of parents, coaches and youth sports organizations dedicated to improving youth sports by developing a positive character building approach. Jim has more than 20 years of teaching, coaching and management experience working with a variety of individuals and groups. He was formerly Director of Stanford Business School’s Public Management Program and his experiences as a youth coach led him to write two books on the subject: “Positive Coaching: Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports” and “Shooting in the Dark: Tales of Coaching and Leadership“.

Frank Fiume
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Frank Fiume is founder and CEO of i9 Sports Corporation. Noticing from his own experience that the amateur sports industry was poorly organized on the local level, Frank applied the marketing and business skills he acquired with medical device companies to create ABA Sports in 1995. Over time, it grew at an astonishing rate, becoming i9 Sports corporation, the nation‘s first complete amateur sports franchise business allowing individuals to organize leagues, tournaments, camps, clinics, train officials, and sell sporting goods and custom uniforms while working with the local amateur organizations and parks and recreation departments.

(this program was originally broadcast on July 3rd, 2009)

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Alexander Muse - Co-Founder, SpringStage, Author, Texas Startup Blog
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Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with more than a decade of startup experience. Alexander’s day job is with Big in Japan, where his team builds cool applications for mobile devices, including ShopSavvy built for Google’s open source Android platform. The Texas Startup Blog has been published by Alexander Muse since 2005. With more than 2000 articles on startups, entrepreneurship and venture capital; the blog has garnered international attention with more than 70,000 monthly readers around the globe. The Texas Startup Blog is part of the SpringStage Startup Community.

Neil Ducoff - Founder of Strategies; Author, “No-Compromise Leadership: A Higher Standard of Leadership Thinking & Behavior“
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Ducoff is the CEO of Strategies, a training and coaching company for small to medium size businesses that he founded in 1993. During the last 38 years, Neil Ducoff has coached over 3,500 businesses, including giants like Aveda, Gillette, Proctor & Gamble, and L’Oreal, on how to achieve the highest levels of success and profitability, while creating a positive, rewarding workplace.

Susan Wilson Solovic - CEO, SBTV.com
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Susan is CEO of SBTV.com is the first and only video news and information destination site for America’s small businesses. Solovic began her professional career as a television news anchor and reporter for NBC and CBS affiliates. Subsequently, she joined a Fortune 100 company where she was named vice president, director of corporate marketing. Solovic is the author of “The Girls’ Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business” which is consistently ranked among the top 25 books for women in business on Amazon and was listed as a “must read” in Entrepreneur magazine. Solovic made her debut as an author with “The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success,” which was originally released in June 2001 and was re-released in paperback in 2003.

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Chris Anderson - Editor, Wired Magazine; Author, Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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Chris Anderson is the author of the international bestseller The Long Tail. He is the editor in chief of Wired magazine and was a U.S. business editor at The Economist. He began his career at the two premier science journals Science and Nature. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Washington University and studied Quantum Mechanics and Science Journalism at the University of California.
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Judy Brown - Co-founder, The ReUseIt Network
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The ReUseIt Network was launched on July 18, 2007. It serves as a directory of and support system for affiliated community recycling groups around the world. It offers forums for group owners and moderators and people concerned about the 3 R’s — reduce, reuse, and recycle. People join an online group (usually hosted by Yahoo!Groups) near where they live or work. Group members then post an OFFER or WANTED request following guidelines they receive upon joining. There are two main guidelines to follow … offers and requests made must be free, legal and family friendly.

Dan Hoffner - Co-founder, Couch-Surfing
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Three of the four co-founders, Casey Fenton, Daniel Hoffer, and Sebastien LeTuan, became close friends while working together at a dot com Daniel founded in 1999. Several years later, the idea for CouchSurfing solidified when Casey bought a cheap ticket to Iceland for a long weekend one April. He came up with the ‘brilliant’ idea of e-mailing over 1500 Icelandic students in Reykjavik and asking them if he could crash on one of their couches. Exchanging emails with many of the students, he then had several groups of friends offer to show him ‘their’ Reykjavik. After spending an amazing, crazy weekend just south of the Arctic Circle, Casey decided he would never again get trapped in a hotel and tourist marathon while traveling. Casey then invited Dan, Seb, and another friend and colleague of his, Leonardo Silveira, to co-found CouchSurfing.org with him.

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Hedy Ratner - Co-President and Founder of the Women’s Business Development Center
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Hedy Ratner brings over 30 years of leadership in the women’s community including many national and local awards for her visionary approach to women’s economic development. In addition to serving s on the boards of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and many other organizations, she is a presidential appointee to the National Women’s Business Council; a gubernatorial appointee to the Illinois Women’s Business Ownership Council and the newly formed Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Shelley Stern - Midwest Community Affairs Director, Microsoft
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Shelley Stern is community affairs director for the Midwest District, responsible for building community awareness through Microsoft’s Citizenship programs, including grants and software allocations and investing in programs that assist in providing technology education for the disadvantaged. She manages all non profit board relationships, diversity outreach and employee engagement programs for Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and is responsible for Microsoft’s thought leadership programs on Innovation.

Sharon Castillo - Principal, SB Services Inc.
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Sharon Castillo is the founder and principal of SB Services, Inc. Early on in her career Ms. Castillo spent 10 years with a Fortune 500 corporation, entering the world of consulting in the early 80’s. With tenure in several boutique consulting firms, Ms. Castillo founded SB Services, Inc. Ms. Castillo has published numerous articles in industry and trade publications, and has served on both local and national Boards for various non-profit organizations.

Kim Holstein - Founder, Kim and Scott’s Gourmet Pretzels
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Kim Holstein co-founded the her pretzel company with her husband Scott in 1995. She appears regularly on QVC, serves as co-spokesperson for the Company in press and television appearances, creates new products and marketing strategies and serves as a coach and mentor to the employees. Kim has participated in the Women’s Business Development Center workshops in Chicago, which helped form the Company.

]]> http://businessmatters.net/2009/09/women-entrepreneur-award-winners/feed/ noThis week on Business Matters, we’ll speak with some of the award winners from this years Entrepreneurial Women’s conference. The 23rd annual conference is held Wednesday, September 16th at Navy Pier in Chicago, and we spoke with the founder aThomas WhiteThis week on Business Matters, we’ll speak with some of the award winners from this years Entrepreneurial Women’s conference. The 23rd annual conference is held Wednesday, September 16th at Navy Pier in Chicago, and we spoke with the founder and three of their honorees ahead of the conference to learn their stories about being [...]business,government,non,profit,technology,philosophy,entrepreneurs,economy,culture,environment,public,policy,international,relationshttp://businessmatters.net/2009/09/women-entrepreneur-award-winners/ The Music Show: Smaller is Better http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BusinessMattersNet/~3/paxTeC0WPuY/ http://businessmatters.net/2009/09/the-music-show-smaller-is-better-2/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:00:04 +0000 thomas@profoundlysimple.com (Thomas White) http://businessmatters.net/?p=1456 With big box music stores closing down left and right, the independent music scene has found a way to thrive and succeed in its market. We’ll speak with “the suits” at Drag City Records about their experiences as a successful indie label and also hear the artist’s perspective with indie rock band, MahJongg.

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]]> http://businessmatters.net/2009/09/the-music-show-smaller-is-better-2/feed/ noWith big box music stores closing down left and right, the independent music scene has found a way to thrive and succeed in its market. We’ll speak with “the suits” at Drag City Records about their experiences as a successful indie label and also hear theThomas WhiteWith big box music stores closing down left and right, the independent music scene has found a way to thrive and succeed in its market. We’ll speak with “the suits” at Drag City Records about their experiences as a successful indie label and also hear the artist’s perspective with indie rock band, MahJongg. Listen to the [...]business,government,non,profit,technology,philosophy,entrepreneurs,economy,culture,environment,public,policy,international,relationshttp://businessmatters.net/2009/09/the-music-show-smaller-is-better-2/ Copyright © 2009 PS Media LLCThomas WhitenonadultThe inside story of how business is shaping our world.