The Unconventional Path: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Stories and Ideas Bela Musits

In this podcast episode, Bela Musits interviews Joe Connelly, a former New York City paramedic who wrote the book "Bringing Out the Dead." The book was later adapted into a movie starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Martin Scorsese. Joe has since moved to a small town in upstate New York and became president of the local rescue squad.

The conversation focuses on Joe's experience transforming a 100% volunteer Not For Profit (NFP) organization into one with full-time paid paramedics, serving two communities. We discuss the challenges of organizational transformation and working in a volunteer NFP where everyone in the community knows each other.

The episode is a great example of entrepreneurship and can be inspiring to many. Be sure to give it a listen to learn more about Joe's journey and the transformation of the rescue squad.

You can find more info about about Joe’s book here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_Out_the_Dead

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If you know of someone who would be a good guest for the show, let us know and we will try to get them as a guest.  We also love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at bela.and.mike@gmail.com - we will answer your questions in a future episode.

Thanks for listening,

Bela and Mike


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In this episode of the podcast, Bela Musits interviews Steve Ovitt.  Steve founded Wilderness Property Management after a 30  year career as a New York State Forest Ranger.  His company works with municipalities and private organizations to provide recreational access to public and private lands properties preserving the wilderness character of the land.  This is a great example of a 2nd career that brings together Steve's expertise and passion.

I found our conversation inspiring and a great example of entrepreneurship. So please give the episode a listen!

You can find more info about Wilderness Property Management here:

https://www.wildernesspropertymanagement.com/

Our podcast is now also available on YouTube and your favorite podcasting app.  Just search for The Unconventional Path.

If you know of someone who would be a good guest for the show, let us know and we will try to get them as a guest.  We also love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at bela.and.mike@gmail.com - we will answer your questions in a future episode.

Thanks for listening,

Bela and Mike


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In this episode of the podcast, Bela Musits interviews Robert Khoury.  Robert has held leadership positions in the financial industry as an equity derivatives trader, portfolio manager, corporate strategist, chief operating officer, and private equity investor.  He is co-founder and CEO of Agile Rainmakers, a high-impact business development consulting and advisory firm based in Chicago.  He also recently wrote a book titled, How to Intern Successfully.  In my interview with him, we focused on internships and how to make them successful for both the intern and the company.

I found our conversation inspiring and a great example of entrepreneurship. So please give the episode a listen!

You can find more info about Robert’s book here:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Intern-Successfully-Insights-Experience-ebook/dp/B09F743KSG

Our podcast is now also available on YouTube and your favorite podcasting app.  Just search for The Unconventional Path.

If you know of someone who would be a good guest for the show, let us know and we will try to get them as a guest.  We also love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at bela.and.mike@gmail.com - we will answer your questions in a future episode.

Thanks for listening,

Bela and Mike




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Welcome to The Unconventional Path: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Stories and Ideas. Today we are doing something a bit different.  As our long time listeners know, Mike and I like to change things up once in a while.

Today, Mike and I interview Chris Kubisiak.  Chris is an organizational psychologist and avid sailor.

We interviewed him for the sailing podcast Mike and I do.  We discussed how psychology and human behavior plays a large role in sailing.  Many aspects of our conversation also apply to business and leadership.  So, we decided to broadcast the episode on the Unconventional Path podcast.




You can reach Chris at CKYachting@gmail.com

We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

So please give the episode a listen!

Our podcast is now also available on YouTube and your favorite podcasting app.  Just search for The Unconventional Path.

If you know of someone who would be a good guest for the show, let us know and we will try to get them as a guest.  We also love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at bela.and.mike@gmail.com - we will answer your questions in a future episode.

Thanks for listening,

Bela and Mike




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Before Mike I record the intros to the podcast, we usually start chatting about something we are both interested in. On this occasion, I decided to hit the record button during our conversation.  As usual, we had a great conversation and we decided to turn it into an episode. 

Here is a summary of what we discussed:


What’s going on with Bela and Mike.


Mike comes back to Michigan for a visit.  Some culture shock.


Bela’s summer job working for a small commuter airline.


The challenges of air travel


Mike’s teaching at University of Muenster


College education in Germany and the USA


A little political comment.



We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

If you liked this episode, let us know and we will hit the record button again.

Our podcast is now also available on YouTube and your favorite podcasting app.  Just search for The Unconventional Path.

If you know of someone who would be a good guest for the show, let us know and we will try to get them as a guest.  We also love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at bela.and.mike@gmail.com - we will answer your questions in a future episode.

Thanks for listening,

Bela and Mike


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In this episode of the podcast, Bela Musits interviews David Kruczlincki, the retired CEO of a large community hospital.  Bela and David discuss decision-making with limited information, culture, and the complexities of leading an organization in a highly regulated environment. This is one of our short video series podcasts where I converse with C-level business leaders about building great organizations. These interviews were originally taped several years ago when I was Dean of the Business School at Union Graduate College. I believe they deserve to be re-edited and presented to a broader audience. So, here is one of them. More to follow.

Hope you enjoy our conversation

We hope you found this episode interesting and thought provoking.

We also appreciate if you would subscribe or follow the show.  

Our podcast is now also available on YouTube and your favorite podcasting app.  Just search for The Unconventional Path.

If you know of someone who would be a good guest for the show, let us know and we will try to get them as a guest.  We also love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at bela.and.mike@gmail.com - we will answer your questions in a future episode.

Thanks for listening,

Bela and Mike


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