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Bouncing Back from Failure with Barry Moltz

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

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In This Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Barry Moltz, entrepreneur, angel investor and author of the book Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success.

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Barry Moltz’s Bio

Barry MoltzBarry Moltz has founded and run small businesses with a great deal of success and failure for more than 15 years.

After successfully selling his last operating business, Barry has branched out into a number of entrepreneurship-related activities. He founded an angel investor group, an angel fund, and is a former advisory member of the board of the Angel Capital Education Foundation.

His first book, You Need to Be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a business. It is in its fourth reprint and has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean and Thai. His second book, “Bounce! Failure, Resiliency and the Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success”, is published by Wiley.

BounceBarry is a nationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship who has given over 100 speeches to audiences ranging from 20 to 20,000. He was appointed by the Illinois Governor in 2005 to serve on the board of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE). He has taught entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at IIT( Illinois Institute of Technology). He was elected to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2004.

Moltz has written articles for many national publications. Moltz also wrote a chapter in the book, “State of the Art: American Angel Investing”, (The Darden School, The Batten Institute). Moltz wrote the foreword for Penguin Books’ new The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Business Plans.

TV and Entrepreneurship with Talk Show Host Letitia Wright

Monday, August 11th, 2008

In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Dr. Letitia S. Wright, host of The Wright Place TV Show, about entrepreneurship, how she got her start, and the techniques she’s used to build her audience.

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Dr. Letitia Wright’s Bio

Dr. Letitia S. Wright, D.C., is an international speaker, talk show host, author and movie producer. As the host of the Wright Place TV Show, now in it’s 8th season, she has hosted over 250 shows broadcast on television to over 3.8 million homes each week in Southern California.

The Wright Place TV Show is the fastest growing show about business on air today. Each week, guests such as Mark Victor Hansen, Stedman Graham, Robert G. Allen, T. Harv Eker, Marie Diamond, Rieva Lesonsky, John Assaraf, D.C. Cordova, Teri Hatcher, Marla Gibbs, and Christina Ferrari, discuss information, strategies and new technology that women can use to grow their businesses.

Dr. Wright is the Co-Author of the The Power of Mentorship for Creating Wealth, The Power of Mentorship for the Woman Entrepreneur and The Power of Mentorship Finding Your Passion. She is also the Producer of the new film – The Power of Mentorship Movie. The signature event of the year, the 2008 Wright Place High Tea, featured gift bags valued at over $500 and awards for non-profit organizations.

In 2009, Dr. Wright will be featured in the Women’s Advantage Page-a-Day Calendar. In March of 2007, Dr. Wright was mentioned in Fast Company Magazine. She was also part of the all female faculty for Wonder Women of the Web in February 2007.

Custom Bath Products, Inventing & More with Elissa and Jerèll Klaver

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Elissa and Jerèll Klaver, owners of SALUS® Customizable Bath & Body Care, and inventors of Muscle Relief Gel, about their business.

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Elissa and Jerèll Klaver’s Bio

Elissa and Jerell KlaverElissa and Jerèll Klaver are successful young entrepreneurs and inventors. Previously Elissa earned a degree in Internet Marketing and choose the same career as so many women today, to be a a full time stay at home mom. Jerèll is a US Marine who went the uber corporate MBA route to keep a roof over their heads. Following the loss of their second son, they realized that their family and healthy living was more import than climbing the corporate ladder, and decided to follow Elissa’s dreams.

As an incredible team they have successfully launched a retail store SALUS® Customizable Bath & Body Care. The SALUS® concept is different than anything on the market today. Customers can 1) choose their unscented, premium bath and body care products that are made with natural and organic ingredients and then 2) customize it with their choice of over 300 fragrances and essential oils.

After one year in development they are also excited about the launch of ‘Muscle Relief Gel’ which is FDA approved for use as a topical Over The Counter pain relief product. Different from any product on the market today they designed it to, “Get back into the action of life!” while emphasizing their belief in a natural and organic product that is good for you.

Muscle Relief Gel

Still not being content, they are always thinking of new ideas. They even have a patent pending invention that is so cool they are currently in final consideration for the Emmy & Telly award winning PBS invention show Everyday Edisons.