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The Bizgnus Podcast

Douglas Caldwell

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00:16:23

Sometimes opportunity doesn’t knock, it flushes

The Bizgnus Podcast ·

2025/03/12

•. David Sauers’ ah-ha moment was in a portable toilet•. “My story touches on … the lessons learned from creating a niche brand”It’s every parent’s worry: At a festival with your very young children when one of them announces they need the bathroom. Yet the only toilets to be seen are those smelly, wobbly, fiberglass, one-person-if-you’r-skinny portable outhouses. David Sauers had that moment more than 20 years ago and out of it came a career change from local banking executive to entrepreneur

00:11:19

He’s the guide for the digital marketing jungle

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2025/03/04

•. John Chan helps avoid digital campaign pitfalls •. “Fundamentally, marketing is sales at scale”(Total Recorded Time is 11:18)Owners and operators of small businesses who are thinking of digital ad campaigns, ought to check first with experts.That’s what John Chan does — helping businesses market via platforms like YouTu8be and Meta.Mr. Chan joins us for this Bizgnus Interview to explain how to avoid pitfalls in digital campaigns.“Fundamentally, marketing is sales at scale,” Mr. Chan says. John

00:23:14

He’s got the pool guy’s back

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2025/03/01

•. Serial entrepreneur Peter Wasmer shoulders the hassle•. “A revolutionary business process automation platform”(Total Recorded Time is 23:13)Scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, payments, and just plain old customer communication — it can almost drown the pool guy — unless.That’s where Peter Wasmer, a serial entrepreneur, spotted a unique niche — automating so much of the non-pool stuff.Peter Wasmer joins us for this Bizgnus Interview. Calling himself a “passionate innovator,” Mr. Wasmer says his

00:21:03

It’s time for the solopreneur to come in from the cold

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2025/02/23

•. Sue Pats says going it alone has many rewards•. “I am passionate about sharing knowledge”(Total Recorded Time is 21:00)Woody Allen could have been speaking for many solopreneurs when he said, “Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”Freelancers, contractors, consultants, temps — all one-man-bands of one type or another — add up. In the U.S. alone, there are an estimated 41 million of them.Sue Pats, herself a solopreneir, says it doesn’t have to

00:10:33

He replaced a drive for wealth with something more...

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2025/02/11

• The drawer of Rolexes no longer cut it• “This feeling of being alive transforms you”(TRT is 10:32)When a drawer of Rolex watches doesn’t make you feel whole, something ought to be done.And Mo Issa says he did it by making small changes to rediscover himself, embrace simplicity, and focus on a sense of deep fulfillment.What were those steps and why does he think they can help others?Mo Issa joins us for this episode of Bizgnus Interviews to explain.“While I haven’t found all the answers, I do feel

00:16:50

Are you overlooking a multi-Trillion dollar market?

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2025/02/03

* Angela Fowler helps businesses tap that marketPlus tips for grilling tri-tip (Total Recorded Time is 16:49_ Like thousands upon thousands of Californians, Angela Fowler loves to cook the beef known as tri-tip on her backyard barbecue. “I love getting out there and barbequing,” she says. “People don’t realize that a blind person can do that.” Ms. Fowler is a blind accessibility consultant who says that “an accessible business is a prosperous business.” Her Yuba City-based

00:19:48

The optometrist who sees the solution that others don’t

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2025/01/29

•. Fixing the entry-level jobsturnover problem •. “The results have been amazing” (Total recorded time is 19:48) HONESDALE, Pa. — When Michael Neal set up his optometry practice in rural Pennsylvania, he was focused on his patients even as a problem was growing out of sight. The problem is one that many small businesses of all types face: employee turnover, especially in entry-level jobs. Finally, something had to be done. “I have changed the way I hire for my practice and the results have been

00:12:36

The science behind bravery

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2025/01/24

•. It’s not only battlefield bravery•. “Embrace discomfort and try to be brave” (Total Recorded Time is 12:34) Jill Schulman - a former Marine Corps officer and expert in positive psychology — says there’s a science to bravery. And it’s not just bravery on a remote battlefield but can be the bravery to leave a safe and comfortable job for the toil and uncertainty of striking out on your own in business. “Embrace discomfort and try to be brave,” she says. “I know it is scary but anything great

00:19:12

Something not quite right? Check your culture says...

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2025/01/11

•. Many leaders overlook a basic part of the foundation(Total Recorded Time is 19:11) For some leaders, arriving at work leaves them feeling that something’s a bit off. Could it be the culture? And not something that’s been growing for months in the break room’s fridge. But more like the essence of the organization. According to our guest, many leaders just don’t know if their organization’s culture is helping or hindering achievement of goals. Laura Hamill, a leadership consultant based near

00:16:17

Winning the inner grapple

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2025/01/03

•How to break the blockages to success•Eight stories to ponder (Total Recorded Time is 16:16) NEW YORK CITY -- It’s called “faction” and entrepreneur and author Bob Kaplan uses the writing style that combines fiction with facts for a new approach to leading and evolving. Change is hard, Mr. Kaplan notes. The challenge is to get whatever is blocking change out of the way, first by identifying the inside-your-head blockages. To raise their game, leaders cannot just work on form or technique,

00:15:40

Scientist pinpoints the roots of wisdom

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2024/12/23

• Wisdom boils down to eight things • “Is wisdom life’s goal?” What is wisdom? Is is common? Or rare? Through interviews with 60 wise individuals across North America, Dr. Laura Gabayan says she has uncovered eight essential elements that define wisdom. Ms. Gabayan outlines her research in this episode of Bizgnus Interviews. Ms. Gabayan has distilled the interviews into a book that she calls “Common Wisdom.” “Is wisdom life’s goal? Or is wisdom something you should incorporate into your

00:11:00

Your money just wants to have fun — if you let it

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2024/12/17

Maybe it’s time to re-think your relationship “I found myself burnt out, frustrated” (TRT is 11:00) Everyone knows the old saying that “money cannot buy happiness.” But what about having fun with your money? Financial wellbeing coach Erin Gray helps people come to terms with where they are financially. In this edition of Bizgnus Interviews, Ms. Gray says she’s teaching others, especially women, what she learned the hard way. Ms. Gray says she spent 40 years thinking that “chasing money

00:14:48

Mastering the mass media monster with AI

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2024/12/10

•. Here are tips for small businesses•. “Boy are you exposed” Why haven’t you enlisted artificial intelligence in your marketing efforts? Las Vegas marketing master Mitch Carson has been at the tip of the spear when it comes to AI and marketing. In this episode of Bizgnus Interviews, he offers examples from his experience of marketing in the 21st Century with AI. But the first hurdle he has to cross is far more basic than artificial intelligence. “Marketing is not transaction one time,

00:17:51

The mentoring rewards

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2024/12/05

• Nonprofit takes mentoring to a new, international level• “Most of us are mentoring all the time, we just don’t realize it” (Total Recorded Time is 17:42) When an organization’s leaders give informal but special attention to those with potential but less experience, it’s often called mentoring. But can something so informal be organized? Yes, says Deborah Heiser, who leads just such an organization. The Mentor Project began casually when Ms. Heiser, an applied developmental

00:15:29

How Trump’s tariffs may impact world trade — and your...

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2024/11/30

• Supply chain expert Art Koch offers tips to be prepared• “We have to do a lot more education and training” (Total Recorded Time is 16:15) Assuming President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in imposing massive tariffs on goods imported from other countries, some manufacturing may move back to the U.S., or at least closer to the nation, says Art Koch, an expert in supply chain management. But don’t look for any sudden significant increase in domestic manufacturing simply because the trained workers

00:18:01

When AI is tap, tapping at your door

The Bizgnus Podcast ·

2024/11/22

• AI shows the need for leadership• “Some people are truly afraid of it” (Total Recorded Time is 18:00) Edgar Allan Poe missed out on artificial intelligence, dying in 1849. Had he written his poem “The Raven” nowadays, it might have gone like this: “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some AI,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more.” But for many business leaders today,

00:20:01

He speaks what the trees cannot (AUDIO ONLY)

The Bizgnus Podcast ·

2024/11/21

• Dan Handel explains the kinship that exists between forests and spatial design • “We have a good chance of actually being in a better place” (Total Recorded Time is 20:00) HAIFA, Israel -- They stand there for 50, 100, even 500 years until felled by chainsaw, fire, disease or storm. These are the trees of our forests, which cover fully one-third of the land of the United States. And while you think you know your local woody areas or even forests, Dan Handel really knows forests and how

00:21:52

40 Years a Cop, Now He Plots Their Days

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2024/11/18

• Brian Brady is creating a multi-part detective series • “As a native San Franciscan, I enjoy writing about my favorite city” Remember Nash Bridges? How about the Continental Op? Sam Spade? Or, surely, Dirty Harry. All were — or are — fictional detectives working the crime beats of San Francisco. They were created by authors who set new standards for the genre, including Dashiell Hammett who could be considered the foundational author of detectives and the “city by the bay.” It might be time

00:14:54

Stressed? Really, really stressed?

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2024/11/03

• A “life of thrive” is possible instead• “We facilitate learning pocket-sized techniques” (Total Recorded Time is 14:51) Feeling stressed out at work or at home. Or both? Sara Thornhill hears you. As a rape survivor who is divorced twice and having come out of the closet later in life, Ms. Thornhill says she understands the upheaval that’s possible through big life changes. But flip the coin. She says healing is a birthright, that a “life of thrive” is possible for everyone,

00:20:22

Solving the rainmaker’s dilemma

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2024/10/27

• Why the business owner might be the biggest problem • How to get out of the way of success (Total Recorded Time is 21:00) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Bradley Hamner says he’s seen it again and again – entrepreneurs who’ve built their companies into firms generating a six-figure top line, but which seem stuck, unable to grow much larger. A serial entrepreneur and founder of the BlueprintOS program, Mr. Hamner coaches other small business owners to develop systems that “run like a well-oiled machine

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