School for Startups Radio

Jim Beach

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. 3H AGO

    April 24, 2026 – Horatio Outsourcing Jose Herrera and Entity Choice Autumn Visser

    Jose Herrera – Co-Founder & CEO of Horatio If AI handles 80% of tickets, you need 80% fewer people… the math makes sense in the boardroom, but it doesn’t really survive contact with reality. Jose Herrera is the Co-Founder and CEO of Horatio, the modern outsourcing company revolutionizing CX services and the BPO industry. Under his leadership, the company has been recognized for its innovative approach to customer service. Jose is committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences and leveraging technology to drive business growth. Horatio is the trusted partner for some of the fastest-growing startups and enterprises in the world. Their on-brand customer support teams help them leverage CX as a revenue generator through personalized customer experience support. Horatio is headquartered in New York City with main offshore offices located in Santo Domingo and Santiago, Dominican Republic.​ Prior to founding Horatio, Jose spent seven years at Morgan Stanley as VP, covering Latin America and US Offshore markets, and began his career at Goldman Sachs. He attended Columbia Business School for his MBA in Entrepreneurship and Bentley University for his Bachelor’s of Science. Autumn Visser – Principal and Co-chair of the Corporate & Business Transactions Practice at Woods Rogers Your idea of what your business does in your head is very clear, but people on the outside have no idea because they speak a different language. Autumn R. Visser is a Principal and Co-Chair of the Corporate and Business Transactions Practice at Woods Rogers, where she works closely with entrepreneurs, founders, and growing companies on the legal strategies that shape how businesses are built and scaled. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, and emerging growth and venture capital, with a strong emphasis on helping businesses make smart decisions early so they can avoid costly problems later. Autumn is known for translating complex legal concepts into practical, real-world guidance that founders can actually use. She regularly helps entrepreneurs navigate entity formation, ownership structures, and investment readiness, often stepping in to correct issues that arise from rushed or misunderstood early decisions. Her approach centers on asking the right questions before action is taken, identifying risks in advance, and building structures that support long-term growth rather than short-term convenience. Recognized for both her professional excellence and leadership, Autumn has been named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Women in Leadership and is part of multiple “Legal Elite” recognitions. She is actively involved in the legal and broader business community through organizations such as the American Bar Association, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, and the Virginia Women Attorneys Association. She also serves as Treasurer and Board Member for Goodwill of the Valleys and as a Board Member for Virginia Navigator. Autumn earned her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa, and she is admitted to practice in Virginia and California.

    54 min
  2. 1D AGO

    April 23, 2026 - Unchained Bobby Mascia and Portal AI Volodymyr Panchenko

    Bobby Mascia – CEO of Green Ridge Wealth Planning and Author of Unchained: The Raw Truth About Entrepreneurship, Family Business and Life Balance We’re trying to unchain business owners from feeling like they bought themselves a really expensive job. Robert Mascia, known as “Bobby” to loved ones and clients alike, is a seasoned entrepreneur with a unique background working both on Wall Street and as an owner of several successful businesses. His story begins after graduating from Lehigh University with degrees in finance and marketing, which positioned him to launch his career in downtown New York as a hedge fund and assets management consultant. In 2003, Bobby took an unplanned hiatus from the Street to do something he had sworn off completely – working in the family franchise business. He saw no other choice when 9/11 and his parents’ personal health scares forced him to step away from his dream career. For nine years, Bobby learned every aspect of the Dunkin’ business and played a key role in expanding it. During his time there, Bobby helped grow his family’s ownership from 20 to 40 locations and $50m in revenue by developing a strong team and leveraging strategic partnerships. While this venture had forced him to abandon finance, it was, unbeknownst to him at the time, preparing him for much bigger things to come. Working with family can come with consequences, and by 2011, Bobby found his relationship with his father deteriorating. At the same time, his love of finance had never waned. Bobby knew that he had reached a fork in the road—continue his current journey or pivot into the unknown. He took a hard right and risked it all to do what he loved. Bobby spent several years preparing to take the giant step of starting his own firm. His vision was to create a financial planning and investment management experience that differed from what he had seen firsthand. He also knew that he had a unique proposition for business owners and entrepreneurs—a wealth of knowledge from his years of firsthand experience in the family business. Among the most valuable lessons he had learned about achieving financial success was the importance of quality relationships with smart, capable professionals. By 2016, he was ready and launched Green Ridge Wealth Planning. Fast forward to the present day. Bobby has built a firm true to his vision, offering business owners, individuals and families a boutique, highly personalized financial planning and investment management experience. He continues to stay true to his promise to be transparent, accessible and reliable, giving his firm what clients call “a family feel.” Bobby has built a team that shares his vision and passion for excellence. The result? A growing business where clients trust our team to guide them through life’s financial complexities so that they can live their best lives. Volodymyr Panchenko – CEO and Co-Founder of Portal AI Everyone has a personal AI agent, which can remember, care and do anything you want for you, about you and with you. Volodymyr Panchenko, CEO and co-founder of Portal.ai, He recently launched Portal One+, a platform built around persistent AI agents that remember context, understand users over time, and help execute tasks and workflows continuously rather than resetting each session. Previously, he founded DMarket, a digital asset marketplace acquired by Mythical Games, giving him firsthand experience with scaling, fundraising, and exiting in fast-moving markets. He can speak to why most founder–investor conversations fail in the first 10 minutes, how continuity and context change decision-making, what founders misunderstand about investor psychology, and how AI is shifting from reactive tools to systems that support ongoing execution.

    54 min
  3. 2D AGO

    April 22, 2026 – Monday Confidence Project Geoffrey Howard and Mondays Amy Leneker

    Geoffrey Howard – CEO of Money Confidence Project  It’s estimated that employers are losing two hundred and fifty billion, that’s with a B, billion dollars a year in productivity due to employees and their financial stress, their financial anxiety. Geoffrey Howard is the CEO of Money Confidence Project. I’ve got extensive experience in the digital space with both ad-supported and subscription-based business models. I understand the value of creating recurring revenue streams, bundling product offerings, and maintaining long-lasting customer relationships. Over the course of my career, I’ve amassed and honed a vast arsenal of finance and administrative skills: Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Investor relations, M&A analysis, Controllership, Treasury / Cash Management, Financial Systems Implementation, Strategic Analysis, Business Modeling, Cost Analysis, Audit, Legal Compliance, Contract Negotiation and Drafting, Business Dissolution, People Management (HR), and Benefits Analysis. I’m especially skilled at building cross-functional relationships within the organization to improve and financial and operational performance. I am an effective presenter with the ability to translate and summarize accounting and financial data into something simple that everyone can understand. I’m not afraid to roll up my sleeves and be an individual contributor when necessary and my greatest satisfaction is knowing that I have helped others succeed. Amy Leneker – Author of Cheers to Monday: The Surprisingly Simple Method to Lead and Live with Less Stress and More Joy  So for everyone who hates Mondays, we’re hating 2,109 days of our lives, which is just not what we wanna do. Amy Leneker is an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering workaholic. She’s also a leadership consultant with over 25 years of leadership experience, including a decade in the C-suite, who has helped over 100,000 leaders, teams, and organizations (from Fortune 100 companies to the public sector) thrive at work through keynotes, coaching, and training, centered on less stress and more joy. A first-generation college student, Amy earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees while working full-time and later raising a family. She has studied leadership at Yale, neuroscience at the NeuroLeadership Institute, and stress resilience at Harvard Medical School. Amy has appeared in Forbes, Katie Couric Media, Inc., CEOWORLD Magazine, and other prestigious outlets. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company and the author of the national research study, The State of Stress and Joy at Work 2026. Cheers to Monday is her first book and was an instant national bestseller, debuting as the #1 bestselling business book on the USA Today bestseller list and in the top 10 on the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller list. She and her family make their home in the Pacific Northwest.

    54 min
  4. APR 16

    April 16, 2026 – Lateral Thinking Paul Sloane and AD “The Kingmaker” Dunbar

    Paul Sloane – Speaker on Lateral Thinking and Innovation and Author of The Art of Unexpected Solutions: Using Lateral Thinking to Find Breakthroughs If real people don’t have a pain which you’re solving, “then chances are your business not going to work. Paul Sloane writes and speaks on lateral thinking and the leadership of innovation. He gained a master’s degree in Engineering at Cambridge University. He joined IBM where he came top of Sales School. He was Marketing Director and then Managing Director of the database leaders, Ashton-Tate. He was appointed VP International for MathSoft and became CEO of software start up, Monactive. He is the author of 25 books which have sold over two 2 million copies in all. Titles include The Art of Unexpected Solutions, The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, and Lateral Thinking for Every Day. He speaks at conferences and facilitates workshops for corporate clients. He has over 25,000 students for his online courses on Udemy. He is a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Lancaster Business School, Henley Business School and the Mumbai Institute of Technology. He is a recognized thought leader on innovation topics and has 38,000 followers on X. He lives near Windsor in England and is married with three daughters. Corporate clients include: Airbus, AKQA, Bayer, Bertelsmann, Liverpool University Business School, Microsoft, Reckitt Benckiser, Glaxo Smith Kline, Nike, Novartis, SABIC, Swarovski and Unilever. AD “The Kingmaker” Dunbar – CEO of Dunbar Consulting Your number one job as a man in a relationship with a woman is not to provide, is not to protect… it is to keep her attraction to you high. AD “The Kingmaker” Dunbar is a Relationship Performance Strategist who helps high-achieving married men become desired leaders again by restoring masculine leadership, polarity, and presence inside their marriages without therapy, emotional negotiations, or choreplay. He works with CEOs, founders, and executives earning $200K–$2M+ who dominate professionally but feel their authority and attraction quietly eroding at home. AD reframes marriage as a leadership arena, not a compromise, and teaches men how to lead with certainty, calm authority, and internal gravity.

    54 min
  5. APR 15

    April 15, 2026 – EY Entrepreneur of the Year Tracy Holland and Too Smart to be an Umpire Jack Oujo

    Tracy Holland – Co-Founder of HATCHBEAUTY Brands, Founder of InnerFifth and Host of Potential to Powerhouse Podcast The mission in life, if you’re an entrepreneur, is to surprise and delight your customer, no matter what it is you do, and if you can under promise and over deliver on experience, you are going to be successful no matter what the category is. Tracy Holland is a founder, investor, and serial entrepreneur best known as the Co Founder of HATCHBEAUTY, where she helped build one of the most successful brand incubators in the beauty industry, generating more than $750 million in cumulative wholesale revenue. With a proven track record of identifying trends, launching products, and scaling consumer brands, she has become a trusted voice in both the operational and human side of entrepreneurship. She is the Founder of InnerFifth, an ecosystem designed to help entrepreneurs and creators build high growth businesses while maintaining alignment, clarity, and personal well being. Through initiatives such as the InnerFifth Accelerator, Goodwill Brands, and her podcast Potential to Powerhouse, Tracy focuses on guiding founders through both the tactical execution of scaling and the internal work required to sustain success over time. An EY Entrepreneur of the Year award recipient and Fashion and Beauty Award honoree, Tracy is also a member of The Committee of 200, a global organization of leading women entrepreneurs and executives. Known for her ability to connect strategy with mindset, she brings a unique perspective that blends business performance with personal transformation. She is scheduled to deliver a TED Talk in April 2026, where she will expand on her work around identity, resilience, and building success without burnout. Jack Oujo – Founder of Oujo Wealth Strategies and Author of Too Smart to be an Umpire If they spend $80,000 a year, the interest and dividends need to be greater than that to make sure that they’re okay and survive bear markets. Jack Oujo CPA/PFS, CFP(*), MS (Taxation) is the author of Too Smart to be an Umpire and founder of Oujo Wealth Strategies , one of the nations largest tax-focused wealth management firms. Before finance, he spent eight years as a professional baseball umpire, advancing to AAA and winning the Joe Ryan Award. Though denied a MLB spot, Jack turned the setback into motivation , leveraging his offseason accounting work into a thriving career. He earned the Avantax Top Producer Award for over 25 years and was the #1 producer for over ten consecutive years in the last decade. A graduate of Middlesex County College, Seton Hall University, and Fairleigh Dickinson University, Jack was inducted into the Old Bridge High School Wall of Fame in 2013. His community service includes coaching at St Rose High School and running a FREE youth umpire clinic in Brick, NJ. An avid golfer, he is a member of Coral Ridge Country Club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Spring Lake Golf Club in New Jersey. Jack Oujo is a Financial Advisor. Securities offered through Cetera Wealth Services LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Cetera Investment Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.

    54 min
  6. APR 14

    April 14, 2026 – Land Geek Mark Podolsky and Zero-Friction Doctor Noah St. John

    Mark Podolsky – Managing Director at Land Geek and Host of The Art of Passive Income Podcast The fundamental way of you know, when you do marketing, a good headline, having strong urgency, scarcity, a clear call to action, like these fundamentals haven’t changed in eight years. Mark Podolsky, known as “The Land Geek,” is the Managing Director of Land Geek and a leading expert in raw land investing. Since 2001, he has built a highly successful career buying and selling undeveloped land, completing more than 5,500 transactions and creating a proven system for generating passive income through land deals. He is also the author of Dirt Rich, a practical guide that teaches investors how to build a scalable and efficient land investing business. Through his company, Frontier Equity Properties, which holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, Mark has established a reputation for integrity, consistency, and results. Beyond his own investing success, he is deeply committed to helping others achieve financial independence using the same methods that transformed his own life. Mark is also the host of The Art of Passive Income Podcast, where he shares actionable strategies, insights, and real-world lessons on creating passive income streams. As a coach, teacher, and mentor, he has built a strong community of entrepreneurs who are focused on building wealth in a practical, systematic way. His approach combines disciplined investing with simple, repeatable processes, empowering others to create freedom through land ownership. Noah St. John, PhD – Founder of St. John Executive Coaching and the Author of the Book The 7-Figure Life: How to Leverage The 4 Focus Factors for More Wealth and Happiness If you think about it, it’s like driving a car trying to reach your goals. Is like driving a car. In your car, there’s two forces at work, the driving force of the foot on the gas, restraining force of the foot on the brake. Noah St John is a communication expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of ten books. He is famous for inventing Afformations®, a positive self-talk tool that helps busy people remove mental barriers, build confidence, and make more money. Noah St. John, PhD is recognized as “The Mental Health Coach to the Stars.” Working with Hollywood celebrities, seven- and eight-figure company CEOs, professional athletes, top executives, and elite entrepreneurs, Noah is famous for helping his coaching clients make more in twelve weeks than they did in the previous twelve months, while winning back 1–3 hours per day and 4–8 weeks a year. Noah’s clients are the 0.1% rock stars who love to take action and get amazing results! Noah is also the only author in history to have works published by HarperCollins, Hay House, Simon & Schuster, Mindvalley, Nightingale-Conant, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher. Noah’s mission is to eliminate not-enoughness from the world and he is internationally recognized for his signature coaching services; facilitating workshops at companies and institutions across the globe; and appearing on over 1,000 media outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, The Hallmark Channel, NPR, Entrepreneur, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Selling Power and SUCCESS Magazine.

    54 min
  7. APR 10

    April 10, 2026 – Moments that Matter Chris Dyer and Enneagram Expert Dr. Karl Hebenstreit

    Chris Dyer – Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Former 5x Inc. 5000 CEO, and Author of Moments That Matter: See, Shape, and Scale What Count I just don’t want the grass to be greener on the other side. I don’t want it to be any better. I’m going to create the best place you’re ever going to work. Chris Dyer is Inc. Magazine’s #1 Leadership Speaker on Culture, a 5x Inc. 5000 CEO, and 3x bestselling author of The Power of Company Culture, Remote Work, and Moments That Matter. Ranked #15 on Global Gurus Top 30 Organizational Culture Professionals for 2026 and named a Top 101 Global Employee Engagement Influencer five consecutive years (2022–2026), Chris is among the most in-demand keynote speakers on leadership, company culture, remote work, and the future of work. He has delivered 300+ keynotes in 20+ countries for organizations including NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, IKEA, and Southwest Airlines. A former CEO who built and led companies repeatedly named Best Places to Work, his 7 Pillars of Amazing Culture framework and Moments That Matter approach help leaders unlock productivity, performance, and profits with actionable strategies, insightful candor, and engaging humor. R. Karl Hebenstreit, Ph.D., PCC, PHR – Certified Executive Coach, Multi-Award-Winning Author, International Speaker and Author of Explicit Expectations: The Essential Guide & Toolkit of Management Fundamentals You won’t change your core motivation, your core motivation stays your core motivation for life, but you can change your behaviors, and you can change the way you look at things, and all it takes is pause and focus. Dr. Karl Hebenstreit is a certified executive coach, leadership and organization development consultant, author, and international speaker. His 25+ year career spans the areas of HR and OD in the biotechnology, clinical diagnostics, life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, professional services, high-tech, and real estate services industries, having worked at Merck, Bellcore, AT&T, Lee Hecht Harrison, Cushman & Wakefield, Kaiser Permanente, EMC², Bio-Rad Laboratories, and Genentech/Roche. He holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University/CSPP (where his dissertation focused on “Helping Organizations Attract, Retain, and Motivate employees with the Enneagram”), a MS in HR Management from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management and Labor Relations, an Evidence-Based Coaching Certificate from Fielding Graduate University (that led to his PCC), and is an IEA Accredited Professional with Distinction as well as an IEA Accredited Professional/Provider/Teacher. He is the author of The How & Why: Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram (now in its second edition) and the children’s book Nina and the Really, Really Tough Decision.

    54 min
4.9
out of 5
42 Ratings

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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.