School for Startups Radio

Jim Beach
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School for Startups Radio

On 60 AmFm stations around the US, the show argues that anyone can be a successful entrepreneur when they forget creativity, risk, and passion! Join host Jim Beach, bestselling McGraw-Hill Author for his SBA award winning nationally syndicated radio show. Copy an idea, execute it better, start with less than $5,000 and reserve passion for family & religion.

  1. 14 HR. AGO

    January 27, 2025 – SuperLoop Susan Vibe Leger Ferraro and 5-Time Survivor Bill C. Potts

    Susan Leger Ferraro – #1 Best Selling Author of SuperLoop: How Understanding Beliefs, Biology & Behavior Creates A Business That Works For Every One, CEO & Founder of G3 Works, Public Speaker, and Executive Coach Susan Leger Ferraro is author of SuperLoop: How Understanding Beliefs, Biology, and Behavior Creates A Business That Works For Everyone, is an entrepreneur and sought-after business innovator. She’s the founder and CEO of six multi-million-dollar ventures. Ferraro and her team provide transformational leadership and wellbeing training built around socially conscious cultures, behavioral economics, and employee engagement, designed in collaboration with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, and Gallup science, among others. A leading business and early-education expert, she has held positions on numerous boards, is a popular speaker and has been published in the Harvard Family Research Project. Ferraro also has been featured in such major publications as Fortune; Inc.; The New York Times; The Boston Globe; and Entrepreneur.Bill C. Potts – Co-founder of Remedy 365 and Author of Up for the Fight: How to Advocate for Yourself as You Battle Cancer—from a Five-Time Survivor Bill C. Potts is a motivational speaker, creative business leader, energetic community builder, and dedicated father and husband. A five-time cancer survivor, he pursues life with the utmost passion and drive. While his kids say he’s “sometimes slightly embarrassing,” they also admit he’s the “toughest man we have ever met.” He loves his job and wakes up each morning expecting an A+ day—because every day is an A+ day, no matter the circumstances. An Ironman triathlete and the co-founder of marketing agency Remedy 365, Bill lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his wife, Kim, and their dog Pippa.

    54 min

  2. 3 DAYS AGO

    January 24, 2025 – Free Will Roy F. Baumeister and Homelessness Advocate Glen Dunzweiler

    Dr. Roy F. Baumeister – New York Times bestselling Author of Willpower and The Science of Free Will: Bridging Theory and Positive Psychology Roy F. Baumeister is one of the world’s most prolific and influential psychologists. He has published over 700 scientific works, including over 40 books. In 2013, he received the highest award given by the Association for Psychological Science, the William James Fellow award, in recognition of his lifetime achievements. As of 2023, He holds affiliations with Harvard University (USA), Constructor University Bremen (Germany), Florida State University (USA), BetterUp, Inc. (USA), and the University of Bamberg (Germany). Additionally, Baumeister serves as the president-elect of the International Positive Psychology Association. Although Roy made his name with laboratory research, his recognition extends beyond the narrow confines of academia. His 2011 book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (with John Tierney) was a New York Times bestseller. He has appeared on television shows such as Dateline NBC and ABC’s 20/20, as well as on PBS, National Public Radio, and countless local news shows. His work has been covered or quoted in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, TIME, Psychology Today, Self, Men’s Health, Businessweek, and many other outlets.Glen Dunzweiler – Filmmaker/producer, Public Speaker and Homelessness Advocate Glen Dunzweiler is a filmmaker/producer, public speaker, and video coach. His documentary yHomeless? is available on Amazon Prime and his new book, A Degree In Homelessness? Entrepreneurial Skills For Students can be found on Amazon Books! glendunzweiler.com  Glen wrote the book for students who only know how to be successful in school. He currently lives in Los Angeles and works to make his creative projects sustainable. In 2015, he moved from a professorship at CSU San Bernardino to Los Angeles to focus on the business side of entertainment. He found distribution for yHomeless? and began work on his second film, a biopic titled Deuce -about a former student getting himself out of The South Side of Chicago.In addition to filmmaking and book authoring, Dunzweiler speaks publicly about insights gained from working with the homeless and with community leaders; strategies for navigating the differences between academic and business success for students; and tips for smoother presentations for corporate audiences.

    54 min

  3. 5 DAYS AGO

    January 22, 2025 – Challenge of Growth Philippe Bouissou and Mental Health at Work Genevieve Hawkins

    Philippe Bouissou – Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. has spent three decades in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a venture capitalist and a management consultant. He is Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a management consulting firm he co-founded, focused on top-line acceleration. He started his career as the Founder and CEO of G2i, Inc., a Unix software company that was acquired by Matra. Later, Philippe joined Apple as Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce group, where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350 million. After Apple, Bouissou became a venture capitalist and successfully invested tens of millions and generated double-digit cash-on-cash IRR. Philippe’s latest book, Aligning the Dots: The New Paradigm to Grow Any Business, is an Amazon Best Seller in Business and Amazon #1 New Release in Business. This Growth Playbook reveals the blueprint that will guide any business to align the dots to outperform its target market and fly past its competitors.Genevieve Hawkins – Author of Mentally at Work: Optimising health and business performance through connection Genevieve Harkins is a health professional turned transformation executive, Non-Executive Director and business advisor with over 25 years of experience of leadership experience from professional services, to start up, to large corporate organisations.She has developed and executed strategies that have solved highly complicated problems end-to-end, helping transform and deliver sustainable commercial results in two of Australia’s largest businesses, Wesfarmers and Coles and the global companies of WSP and Allianz. She is experienced in and has a deep understanding of how to influence a business across strategy, operations, finance, people and risk, landing material change in supply chain, capital investment programs (digital and property), demergers, strategic risk management, new business and captive insurance. She has a unique combination of commercial and cultural transformation experience, speaking the ‘language’ of multiple departments. With exposure to a range of industries, a clinical health background, and spending a significant amount of her time working in the personal injury arena, she has a deep understanding of mental health in the workplace and expertise in influencing behaviour across and between organisations. Her commitment to helping organisations create the right environment to unlock value at an individual, team and business level, has led her to write ‘Mentally at Work: Optimising health and business performance through connection’ in 2020, and ‘Shrinking Elephants: Untangling workplace conflict to unlock value for all’ in 2024. In a complex world, where collaboration will be needed more than ever to solve strategic problems, Genevieve helps organisations have the conversations they need to have, shrinking the elephant in the room, to improve commercial collaboration and the mental health of teams. Genevieve believes in the value of simplicity, pragmatism, acceptance of clunkiness, finding the right way to talk about the elephants in the room and the importance of sticking to your ‘true north’ to get the right long-term outcome for a business and its people.

    57 min

  4. JAN 20

    January 20, 2025 – Masterpreneur Andrew Frazier and Fractional Legal Jeff Holman

    Andrew Frazier – Small Business Advisor and Author of The Masterpreneur Playbook: How To Master Business Growth From Startup To Scaling Andrew Frazier is known as the “The Masterpreneur™” founded the Small Business Pro University (www.SBProU.com) to help business owners sell more, maximize profit, and finance Growth faster and easier. He provides expert coaching, consulting, and training services so they will have greater knowledge and enhanced skills to lead their companies more effectively. He has also authored two books “Running Your Small Business Like A Pro” and “The Masterpreneur Playbook. Over the past 15 years he has worked 1-on-1 with 1,000+ business owners and taught tens of thousands of people about business. His experience includes serving as a Navy Supply Corps Officer, Operations Manager, corporate executive, COO, organizational leader, Board Member, Adjunct Professor, investor, and serial entrepreneur. Andrew’s educational background includes graduating from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, earning an MBA from NYU, and achieving the Chartered Financial Analysis (CFA) designation.Jeff Holman – Founder of Intellectual Strategies In 2018, he introduced the Fractional Legal Team model, enabling businesses to access the right legal expertise at a fraction of the cost, because who says legal advice has to be expensive? Jeff Holman, founder of Intellectual Strategies, is changing the way startups and scaling businesses access legal support. As the creator of the first Fractional Legal Team at Intellectual Strategies, he’s made it possible for companies to tap into expert legal advice at key points in their growth—without needing a full-time, in-house team. This innovative approach means businesses get exactly the help they need, when they need it, and without the hefty overhead, helping them navigate everything from early-stage challenges to high-stakes scaling decisions. But Jeff’s expertise doesn’t stop there. He’s a multifaceted entrepreneur with degrees in electrical engineering, law, and an MBA, blending technical savvy with a sharp legal mind. Admitted to practice in California, Utah, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he’s a true jack-of-all-trades—an inventor, a strategist, and an attorney who’s been tackling complex business and legal problems for over two decades. With a unique ability to translate between technical and legal frameworks, Jeff’s work at Intellectual Strategies spans intellectual property, business strategy, and technology law. His Fractional Legal Team model is revolutionizing how companies access the legal support they need, empowering them to focus on what they do best while he handles the complexities in the background. Jeff’s commitment to innovative solutions has positioned Intellectual Strategies as a go-to resource for ambitious companies looking to thrive in today’s fast-paced business world.

    54 min

  5. JAN 17

    January 17, 2024 – America’s Breakthrough Coach Brian Biro and Moving Past Shame Dr. Abbie Maroño

    Brian Biro – America’s Breakthrough Speaker America’s #1 Breakthrough Speaker, and best-selling author, Brian Biro helps companies, associations, and individuals to reach their maximum potential. Brian’s secret? Making every individual participant at his events feel like they are the stars of the presentation. Helping them to believe in themselves. Showing them how they can rise to their best level. And all in a package that is incredibly fun, dynamic, and entertaining, featuring real-life stories and practical examples to share the message. After graduating from Stanford, Brian’s first career was as a swimming coach. He received the prestigious United States Swimming National Coaching Excellence Award, in recognition of his team’s Top 10 National Performance. After gaining his MBA from UCLA, he subsequently rose rapidly to become the VP of Performance Planning for a major transportation company, helping to turn the business around, and quadrupling revenues in record time. It was this hands-on, transformational role in the transportation company that led to Brian finding his true vocation in life: working as a motivational speaker and team-builder. Brian applies this unique combination of the key learnings from his business experience, extraordinary coaching success, and unparalleled motivational events, to help individuals, businesses, and organizations to prosper and flourish – in fact, to transform. Each of Brian’s presentations is carefully customized to ensure it aligns exactly with the client’s requirements and wishes. Brian’s unrivaled client list includes many of America’s top corporations and organizations, such as Lockheed Martin, The US Army, The Naval Information Warfare Center, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, RE/MAX, Southwest Airlines, The University of Notre Dame, Starbucks, Microsoft, and Kaiser Permanente. He has also worked with many international clients, and has given presentations in over 15 countries across the globe. Virtually all of Brian’s business comes through word-of-mouth recommendations, and more of his clients invite him back again and again than any other speaker! Dr. Abbie Maroño – Behavioral Scientist • Director of Education at Social-Engineer, LLC and Author of Work in Progress: The Road to Empowerment, The Journey Through Shame Dr. Abbie Maroño is both a scientist and a practitioner in the field of human behavior. The United States Department of State has recognized her international acclaim and record of extraordinary achievements, placing her in the top 1% of her field. Underscoring her recognized expertise, Dr. Abbie has been invited to provide specialized behavior analysis training for elite units such as the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. This prestigious group includes agents from the US Secret Service, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and local law enforcement agencies. Having completed her PhD in Psychology, Dr. Abbie became a Professor of Psychology by the age of 23. She is now the Director of Education at Social-Engineer, LLC, and specializes in behavior analysis. A regular contributor to Forbes and Apple News, Abbie has also been featured in WIRED and Forbes Breaking News. She is an active member of several internationally recognized research groups and was awarded Reviewer of the Year in 2020 for her significant contribution to the academic community. Additionally, she is an author, expert consultant, coach, and a TEDx speaker.

    54 min

  6. JAN 15

    January 15, 2025 – Brain Powered Rich Carr and MSG BAD Dr. Katherine Reid

    Rich Carr – CEO & Co-Founder of Brain-Centric Rich Carr is a Learning Scientist and the CEO of Brain-centric, a company revolutionizing communication and education by leveraging neuroscience to unlock the brain’s potential for deeper understanding and strategic influence. Carr consults, ideates, and facilitates private cohorts for professional Communicators, Coaches, and Educators, helping them master Brain-centric Design (BcD) to drive transformative communication results. An Army veteran and decorated graduate of the Department of Defense Information and Electronic Journalism Schools, Carr also holds a distinguished degree in Mass Media and Mass Communications. His career spans ownership of radio stations, management of Telemundo television, and serving as Director of Digital Media for Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft), where he integrated radio, online, and NBA communications to achieve market dominance. Carr co-authors Brain-centric Design: The Surprising Neuroscience Behind Learning with Deep Understanding and authored SURPRISED: The Science & Art of Engagement. Through his award-winning BcD model, he aligns communication with how the brain naturally processes information, producing measurable, impactful results across industries, including saving a Fortune 500 company $5.9 million from a single Brain-centric course.Katherine Reid, Phd – Chairperson of Unblind My Mind, Inc and Author of Fat, Stressed, and Sick: MSG, Processed Food, and America’s Health Crisis Katie Reid, PhD, is the founder of Unblind My Mind, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the health of individuals and families through informed food choices. Since earning a PhD in biochemistry, Katie has held scientific leadership positions in numerous Silicon Valley biotechnology companies. Her research has focused primarily on protein chemistry in the development of cancer pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Today, Katie works closely with people suffering from a wide variety of chronic inflammatory conditions. She collaborates with the various communities (medical, education, special needs programs, farming, biotechnology) to create data-driven food solutions through the design and development of diagnostic tests and interpretation of laboratory results.

    54 min

  7. JAN 15

    January 13, 2025 – Forbes Books Adam Witty and Human-Powered Leadership Christie Smith

    Adam Witty – Founder and CEO of Advantage Media, now Forbes Books and Author of The Authority Advantage: Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact Not Ego Adam Witty is the founder and CEO of Advantage Media, which assists CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders around the globe in building their authority through consulting, media, marketing, and publishing services. Advantage’s publishing group comprises namesake Advantage Books and Forbes Books. Witty is the author or co-author of eight books, including his latest, The Authority Advantage: Building Thought Leadership Focused on Impact Not Ego. He has appeared in USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, and on ABC and FOX. Witty was named to the prestigious Inc. 30 Under 30 list of America’s Coolest Entrepreneurs in 2011. Witty also operates a hospitality business, Trouvaille Collection, which owns and operates boutique hotels in the southeastern U.S. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Clemson University’s IPTAY, one of the largest collegiate athletic fundraising organizations in the world.Christie Smith – Founder of The Humanity Studio™ and Author of Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI, and Global Shifts Are Creating a New Human-Powered Leadership Dr. Christie Smith has over 35 years of experience advising the C-Suite of Fortune 500 companies. She has held global leadership positions at Deloitte, Apple, and Accenture as a highly respected expert in leadership, talent management, organizational design, workforce management, change management, and executive team performance. She is the founder of The Humanity Studio™, a research and advisory institute dedicated to improving the way we live by revolutionizing the way we work. Christie led the Global Talent & Organization consulting practice at Accenture. As Managing Principle of Deloitte Consulting, she was responsible for the West Region Consulting practice and the development of the Deloitte University Centers for Inclusion and Community Impact. Her leadership in Inclusion and Diversity at Apple was integral to the growth, development, and representation of female and underrepresented groups internally as well as in product and retail solutions. She is a highly sought-after speaker on business strategy, leadership and culture, DEI, people analytics, and the impact of workforce technologies and AI. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Forbes, and CNN. Christie has been recognized as a Top 50 Diversity Leader and in Fast Company’s Queer 50 list. Christie received her doctorate in Clinical Social Work with a focus on leadership and culture from New York University.

    57 min

  8. JAN 10

    January 10, 2025 – Fantasy Sports Pioneer Larry Schechter and Neurodiversity at Work Ludmila Praslova

    Larry Schechter – Fantasy Sports Expert and Author of The History of Fantasy Sports: And the Stories of the People Who Made It Happen Larry Schechter is the author of the 2014 Amazon bestseller Winning Fantasy Baseball. He is regarded as one of the best fantasy baseball players in the world. Larry was a two-time winner of the CDM Sports national salary cap contest, defeating 7,500 teams in 2002 and 6,000 teams in 2005. He has competed in the two most prestigious experts leagues, winning the USA Today-sponsored LABR league three times and the Tout Wars experts league six times. One of his keys to success in fantasy baseball is attention to detail. He used that ability in researching, conducting interviews, and writing The History of Fantasy Sports. Larry is now retired and lives in Florida.Dr. Ludmila Praslova – Professor of Graduate Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Vanguard University and Author of The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work Ludmila N. Praslova, Ph.D. is named a member of Thinkers 50 2024 Radar, a global group of 30 management thinkers leaders whose ideas are most likely to shape the future of work. She is a Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the Vanguard University of Southern California and regularly writes for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and Forbes. She is the first person to have published in Harvard Business Review from an autistic perspective. Dr. Praslova is a talent strategy expert with extensive experience in global diversity and neurodiversity. Her early experience in global diversity taught her the importance of creating culture-add work environments. However, the same experience and her continued career have shown that focusing on one aspect of diversity is not enough. Globally aware organizations are not always gender-inclusive, gender-focused advancement programs can exclude based on disability or socioeconomic origin, and neurodivergent people are often forgotten or segregated even in organizations considered champions of inclusion. As a first-generation academic and a neurodivergent woman, Dr. Praslova knows first-hand that single-focus “inclusion initiatives” leave people behind. However, the principles of creating culture-add organizations can be applied to building systems for intersectional and holistic inclusion. Her consulting is focused on creating organizational systems for supporting human dignity and well-being, and providing neuroinclusion training to organizations such as Amazon, Bank of America, and MIT. She has a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Akron and is a Senior Certified Human Resources Practitioner (SHRM-SCP). Dr. Praslova is an avid open-water swimmer, a gardener, and a poet.

    54 min
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On 60 AmFm stations around the US, the show argues that anyone can be a successful entrepreneur when they forget creativity, risk, and passion! Join host Jim Beach, bestselling McGraw-Hill Author for his SBA award winning nationally syndicated radio show. Copy an idea, execute it better, start with less than $5,000 and reserve passion for family & religion.

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  • Creator
    Jim Beach
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    101
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    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
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    School for Startups Radio

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