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TiE-Rockies and Colorado Entrepreneurship with President Melodie Reagan

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Melodie Reagan, CEO of AuromiraTM Executive Advantage and President of TiE-Rockies, about what the Rockies chapter of TiE is doing to foster entrepreneurship in Colorado.

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Melodie Reagan’s Bio

Melodie ReaganMelodie Reagan, CEO of AuromiraTM Executive Advantage, a national  recruitment, staffing and workforce management firm, is an international business leader and entrepreneur, having led teams throughout the US, Europe and Asia. Her 20+ years of Communications and Information industry experience includes line of business management with profit and loss accountability, product management and development, marketing, eCRM, and systems development. Previously, she was Sr. Vice President of Global Marketing and Sales Operations and Sr. Vice President of Transport Services for Level(3) Communications; a global practice leader and industry analyst with Telechoice; and she held marketing leadership positions with Wiltel, Sprint, and US West.

Her business achievements span starting and leading a successful staffing and recruitment firm, having up to $1 billion product line responsibility serving consumers, all size businesses and government, and leading a top performing international consultancy. Melodie has managed operating budgets of up to $35 million, directed technical and non-technical staffs of more than 130 throughout the globe (US, EU and Asia). She has consistently won performance awards including President’s Club, Women Legislator’s Outstanding Women of Colorado, and NAFE’s Women of Excellence for Outstanding Entrepreneur Achievement.

TiE Rockies LogoMelodie has a passion for serving her community.  In addition to regularly speaking on leadership, workforce trends and career development, she founded WBE (Women Business Executives), served as a judge in both 2005 and 2006 for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards – Rocky Mountain Region, was Board Director for ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Denver and is currently President of TiE-Rockies.  Melodie graduated magna cum laude with a BSBA in Marketing, Management Information Systems and Management Science from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has two wonderful sons, Aaron and Bryce.
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Blog Action Day: Entrepreneurship Bringing People out of Poverty

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Last week, my daughter and I were reading a fairy tale about a town where everyone was about to to lose their job because the mill owner was very old, and no one had enough money to buy the mill when he retired. The towns people in the story became very sad and angry when they heard the news, and things in town got a little out of control.

At that point, I stopped, and asked my daughter, “What could the people in the town do to get more money.” She made me proud when she answered “sell things and start a business.”

We’ve all heard stories about amazingly successful entrepreneurs who used their last dollar to turn their lives around and ended up making it big. Real estate investor Armando Montelongo of Flip This House fame is one example that comes to mind.  Sometimes the success stories are smaller, but no less awe inspiring, like the people who have brought themselves out of poverty by starting businesses with microloans from places like Kiva.

Entrepreneurship is amazing.  It can allow people in the worst circumstances to overcome the odds in a way that a minimum wage retail job never will, allowing them to bring THEMSELVES out of poverty.

50 Entrepreneurs with Brian Schwartz

Friday, July 18th, 2008

In this Podcast Episode

Rob McNealy interviews Brian Schwartz about his 50 Entrepreneurs interview project, which has served to inspire him towards a goal of entrepreneurship himself.

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Brian Schwartz’s Bio

Brian SchwartzBrian Schwartz has been a loyal, dedicated employee for 15 years, never taking more than 2 weeks off since the day he left college, raised with a strong work ethic and always striving to be a people pleaser.

According to Brian:

“I’ve always been a good employee, evidenced by surviving every layoff and merger I’ve been through over the years. Circumstances never arose where I had a needed to create employment for myself. But, shortly after I turned 37, I started to feel that something was missing. Two questions that really caused me to think were, ‘where do you see yourself in 10 years?’ and ‘if you could know the exact moment when you were going to die, would you want to know?’ My answer to those questions: If you had asked me that 10 years ago, I would have said ‘not here’ and yes, because there are a lot of things he still wants to do!”

In searching for his passion, he asked himself what he enjoys doing most when he’s not getting paid to do it. Writing and meeting with others were the answers, and thus the idea of 50 interviews was born.