Bart Jackson's Podcast - Get informed, Get entertained, and seize the wisdom

How would you form an enterprise to combat gun violence in your home city? John Thompson, witnessing 26 shootings in 27 days in Yonkers, formed the SNUG program (guns in reverse) that reduced shooting crimes by 86 percent in his town. Host Bart Jackson invites John to tell his astonishing story, and provide insightful strategies for all aspiring social entrepreneurs. Going straight to the source, John forged relationships with gang leaders and shooters, working with them to set up alternative pathways. He engaged the entire community. John’s courageous tale is not to be missed. Honored by the 2020 Prometheus Social Enterprise Awards, John is an inspiring organizational leader, providing an example and advice worth following. Tune in and discover how practical idealism works effectively.

Tosha Anderson, founder of The Charity CFO, lays out for charities & non-profits the mandatory adaptations, where new funding sources lie, how to woo and maintain business sponsorships, and an array of new, vital fiscal tools.With 20 percent of America’s work force now jobless, and one in five businesses wondering if they’ll see 2021, donation-based charities have fallen on rocky times. And further, they are squeezed against the hard fact that the number people desperately seeking charitable aid are exploding exponentially. To shed a ray of practical hope, host Bart Jackson calls on guest Tosha Anderson, founder of The Charity CFO who expertly guides all-size non-profit enterprises toward organizational and financial health.

What it takes to make it in competitive stand-up comedy, and how the entertainment/performing arts industry will emerge from this complete Covid shutdown.Today we blend some revealing truth with a lot of laughter. On the Ides of last March the lights Broadway went dark. Swiftly across this Covid-stricken nation, shows did not go on and the entertainment/performing arts industry vanished from our culture.How long can show biz and its performers endure the shut down? What are the creative solutions? How will the performing arts re-emerge? Host Bart Jackson brings into the spotlight renowned standup comedian Eddie Brill. For 17 years, Eddie was the warmup comic for the David Letterman’s Late Show, and for more than a decade served as the show’s talent coordinator. And while we have Eddie shackled to our studio, he will pull back the curtain and share what it takes to make it as a professional comedian, how to deal with agents, and what kind of laughter we need in our lives. Tune in and hear intriguing personal tales of comedy’s kings, past and present.

Brian Todd, food industry’s top consultant and former President of The Food Institute, lays bare the full picture of our food chain – what the fascinating solutions are/will be – and what consumers should expect. A dramatic revelation. Tune in and learn how you will be food shopping and dining in the future. Have you dined out lately? When it comes to the slamming blow dealt by the Covid pandemic, the food industry stands in the top three hardest hit. Restaurants completely shutdown indefinitely; farmers forced to dump unsold crops while charities scrabble to erect food chains to the hungry; meat packing plants turned into infectious hotspots, and on and on. Host Bart Jackson brings the nation’s top food industry expert and former CEO/President of the Food Institute, Mr. Brian Todd to lay out the entire spectrum of the challenge. Honestly - how bad is it now? Is America ever going to be able to feed itself again? Will we get back – or if not back – what will be the new forward? Brian Todd shares the with us the current paving steps on the road toward food industry recovery, and what adaptations will be required to make this breadbasket nation meet the global food needs.

Are there profitable investments to be made during our unprecedented Covid-19 era? Life Science and High Tech industries’ noted expert Steven Katz gives you investment opportunities and strategies for surviving today and handsomely profiting tomorrow. Is the time to invest when blood is running in the streets, as the legendary Nathan Rothschild claimed? Certainly, the Coronavirus assault has bled white our physical and financial portfolios, and set us all in unprecedented times. In response, host Bart Jackson brings aboard Life Science and High Tech industries’ noted expert Steven Katz with a ray of very pragmatic hope.

Welcome to the Art of the CEO’s 300th Anniversary show. Would you like to hear the wisdom of a seventh-generation oyster fisherman – how the archeologist of the world’s most successful pirate’s sunken ship is amassing another fortune – how to emulate the entrepreneur who exploded with a thousand sales in one day – before he even had a product – the funniest repartee ever made by an IP attorney? Host Bart Jackson has culled the most hilarious and helpful moments, along with wisest counsel from the hundreds of guests gracing our studios. This tri-centennial episode distills the essence of our best, and fondly recalls the fun. Tune in and learn from the nation’s top negotiator how President Donald Trump reveals his fears by inadvertent bits of body language.

Do your personal investments reflect your personal values? Can you put your money into socially conscious enterprises without sacrificing profits? Alfred Berkeley, former NASDAQ CEO and Director of the World Economic Forum USA says resoundingly, “Yes you can” – and proves it. Host Bart Jackson invites Al Berkeley back on the show to detail how he artfully launched the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund (the “do-gooder” fund which backs companies dedicated to the U.N’s 17 sustainability goals.) Al explains the power and planning of how socially conscious investing can work for you. And – don’t miss this – Al Berkeley also reveals the selection strategies and approaches you need to take as you enter the market with your own hard-won cash. Tune in and learn how you can do well by doing good.

First the good news: The Nonviolent Peaceforce for 18 years has successfully protected civilians in conflict zones by sending unarmed peace keepers to square off against heavily armed opponents. Now the better news: increasingly they are gathering allies in every corner of the globe. Host Bart Jackson invites Nonviolent Peaceforce founder Mel Duncan to describe the many newly burgeoning organizations that are responding to violent conflict with unarmed strategies. Mel examines the reason for these new groups coming into existence, their achievements, and the why their specific tactics are so effective. Further, Mel talks about his Unarmed Civilian Good Practices Project and the collaborative conventions of global peacekeepers. Tune in and discover the forces that are positively halting destructive violence.

Can you imagine the worst possible business environment for a team of top technological talent? Well, veteran CTO and novelist Gene Kim has embraced this vision in his blunder-laden “The Unicorn Project” in which every business SANFU and stumbling block heaps upon our heroine Maxine. Host Bart Jackson brings Gene aboard to discuss the real life wall that so destructively separates managers from technological professionals, to the detriment of all. With wit and insight, Gene poses solid solutions for removing the barriers of suspicion, communication gaps and faulty structures. And the outcome of Gene’s allegorical tale? Fear not. The unsinkable Maxine, with the aid of a shadowy guru brings the Five Comppany-Saving Ideals into play, that – no surprise – hold true equally in the tech room and the C-suite. Tune in and learn ‘em.

Under the guidance of PeaceTech Lab’s team, young peace builders worldwide are learning how to create cell phone alert systems warning people about incoming bombs, invading terrorist recruiters, and possible hate crimes. In its brief five years, PeaceTech Lab has trained 1,300 organizations in 16 countries how to use tech tools to reduce violent conflict, and helped 36 startups disrupt the cycle of violence. Host Bart Jackson invites PeaceTech’s founding CEO Sheldon Himelfarb to roll out his multi-faceted campaign for sustainable peacebuilding. How can AI halt hate speech that leads to hate crimes? How can community-launched media make life-saving impacts? Tune in and learn what a peace engineering Masters degree might mean to your life – and the lives of others.

Megan McNealy insists that doing well in your career does not magically produce well-being, but the reverse can indeed be true: a personal state of well-being can drive your career joyfully forward. To prove her point, Megan goes straight to the achievement-envy list, from the CEO of Starbucks to the board chair of Tesla, to discover and share the well-being attitudes and disciplines of the successful. Host Bart Jackson invites Megan to discuss the 18 spokes depicted in her just-released book Reinvent the Wheel – How Top Leaders Leverage Well-Being for Success. Get set for a few arguments and challenges as Bart hurls doubts at several of Megan’s cherished suppositions. Tune in for a fascinating dialectic guaranteed to help you better craft your own well-being.

Immediately following the September 11th devastation in Manhattan, private citizen Lisa Orloff displayed the desperately needed ability to organize all the volunteers into a life-saving, recovery force. From this platform, Lisa launched the World Cares Center, training and coordinating volunteers into a Ready Responders Network that effectively reacts in the face of disaster to reduce suffering and restore communities. Host Bart Jackson invites Lisa to share her tales about resurrection campaigns waged in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, Superstorm Sandy and catastrophes worldwide. Lisa details the management strategies of empowering volunteers, the art of forging working connections with other non-profits and private businesses, and helping communities save them selves in mid-crisis. Tune in and learn how a master unites individuals and organizations with coordinated tasks, all feeding a common goal.

Business is the pillar of our economy. The family stands strong as the backbone of our society. Together, they form the institution of family business - the old reliable that keeps us all afloat. In the U.S., family firms provide nearly two thirds of the jobs, 57 percent of the GDP, and the majority of our community leaders. Dr. Dale Caldwell, Executive Director of the Rothman Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, joins host Bart Jackson to show how government and investors neglect them, and other corporations see them only as merger fodder. Dale explains the specific advantages that major family-held companies, (Oracle, Berkshire Hathaway, Volkswagen, Koch Industries) possess over other comparatively sized firms. Further, Dale details both the challenges and profitable perspectives of the small family-held firms. Tune in and learn the perks and problems of working all in the family.

When celebrity fitness trainer Ramona Braganza visited her ancestral city of Mumbai India, she witnessed the horror of human trafficking and was compassionately determined to aid its victims. She began training young rescued girls as fitness instructors and encouraged them toward independent careers as trainers in India’s burgeoning fitness industry. Recently awarded with the Prometheus Social Enterprise Award, Ramona joins host Bart Jackson to tell the story of how she created her 3-2-1 Empower charitable foundation to continue defeating human trafficking at home and abroad. Tune in and discover some solid takeaways on founding your own social enterprise.

No clear, inspiring message ever comes out of a disorganized presentation. All audiences instinctively look for a speaker’s train of thought – that logical pathway leading to the ah-ha moment of the comprehensible conclusion. Yet it is in the organization that so many presenters fall down, leaving listeners lost in a muddle of details. To help you keep your presentations on track, host Bart Jackson brings on board Stephanie Scotti, CEO of Professionally Speaking, coach to scores of Fortune 100 C-suiters, and author of Talk on Water – Attaining the Mindset for Powerhouse Presentations.Stephanie guides you through the crafting of a talk that captures listeners’ attention and crescendos to a message that moves people to action. She shares techniques that funnel in details as amplifiers, rather than distractions. Tune in and learn the secret to the simple brilliance that makes so many TedTalks hit home.

It’s a tsunami of selections. Books, podcasts, webinars, seminars, speeches, formal courses - business learning offers flood your desktop and mailbox daily. You know you’ve got to keep on training to survive, but how do you sift through it all and find those precise nuggets of advice that are worth the investment of your precious time, and cash? Host Bart Jackson lays out a strategy for finding the exact training you require. Medium by medium he goes through each way of learning – from experience to the formal MBA – telling you how to evaluate each offering, and how to prepare yourself to glean the very best from each one. Tune in and learn how to judge the value of a podcast and how to seize optimum value from a business book.

How did NASDAQ soar from the new kid on the exchange floor to the premier giant that put stock trading a common occurrence in American homes? What new invention actually achieves the market’s holy grail of cyber security? Are the big players ruining the trading floor’s level playing field – does it matter? Host Bart Jackson talks with the one man who can authoritatively answer all these questions and many more, former NASDAQ CEO Al Berkeley.

Today’s marketing has shifted from massive, one-pitch-fits-all campaigns to customized marketing based on your individual behavior. In a previous episode “Hidden Persuaders of A.I. Marketing,” top digital marketing authority William Ammerman told how the drivers of psychotechnology and big data were engineering this more personalized approach. Now host Bart Jackson invites William back to reveal how You and your business can do it. Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman lays out how this persuasive process is being employed by companies of all sizes. Carrying it further, he details how it may be adopted by religions and nations to wrench our minds and allegiance. Will machine engendered persuasions be more effective? Do we still need the human touch? Will there be a Homo sapiensbacklash? Tune in and learn how cyber-seduction may ethically serve your business and your customer.

Today, we buy-to-own less and rent-to-use more. Autos, entertainment, meals, transportation, dwellings, and laundry soap are being purchased via subscription. Host Bart Jackson invites back marketing visionary Robbie Baxter, author of The Membership Economy and The Forever Transaction to discuss how business of all types and sizes can get in on this new action. As consumers shift from the age of personal acquisition to the age of subscription, businesses face a truly disruptive way to new profits. Robbie guides you through the labyrinth of subscription pricing, marketing, and the whole new realm of customer relationships. Tune in and discover this futuristic way to build customer loyalty.

Can you as entrepreneur defend your invention against mega-competitor encroachment? Can you accidentally infringe your own trademark? When you purchase a masterwork of art, what rights do you own? Host Bart Jackson brings on board intellectual property super attorney Randy Friedberg to make plain Gordian snarl of IP, copyrights, trademarks, and all those legalities in place protecting those precious expressions of your fertile mind. Randy, whose wise counsel and litigation abilities are highly prized by both music and book major publishers, brings to light those little known legal truths concerning ghostwriters, book authorship, neglected music royalties, and more. Tune in and learn just what money does – and does not buy.

Somewhere out there a connected network of very, albeit artificially, intelligent machines is gathering vast amounts of data about you, your activities, your preferences, even your personal health. All the better for some company to more effectively customize its marketing pitch to you. Host Bart Jackson invites top digital marketing-and-A.I. authority William Ammerman to explain how machines are tracking, sensitively interacting, and nudging the decisions of we humans who created them. Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman explains the psychotechnology revolution that brings billions of marketing messages into play, and how machines literally transform these messages into learning experiences to improve their goals. Tune in and discover how the digital realm of cyber-seduction is changing our society and ourselves.

You’re a solid speaker, fairly adept presenter, but now you are moving up into the big leagues. You are called before CEOs, Boards of Directors, and Congressional committees – an impatient, sophisticated audience that doesn’t tolerate mediocrity even slightly. Host Bart Jackson invites to the microphone C-suite presentation coach, speech pathologist, and author Eileen Sinett, CEO of Speaking that Connects. Together Eileen and Bart discuss the more technical points of honing your personal style, intonation, dynamics, pace, the value of theme repetition, and the power of silence, and much more. Tune in an learn when to employ audio visual aids and when it distracts from your presentation.

Both the enjoyment and business of wine have exploded across the U.S. Every state in the Union boasts several wineries and for most, it is their fastest expanding form of agriculture. America’s consumption and its appreciative sophistication continue to hit all time highs. Host Bart Jackson sits and sips with American Wine Society director Dr. Gary Pavlis as they discuss the reasons and the trends behind this industry’s growth. Taking us out into the vineyard, Gary explains how the finest vintages are crafted in the field, what distinguishes a winery of renown, what high tech implements are boosting yields, bettering blends, and saving arduous labor. Stepping up to the tasting table, Gary lays out ways to more enjoyably savor and broaden your wine horizons. And for the would-be winepreneur, here is your opportunity to learn the optimum plan, pitfalls, and potential profits of winery launching. Tune in and see if a wine tour of Tuscany is the vacation you truly deserve.

Real estate boasts the highest return with the least understanding that investors ever make. It is the largest single purchase for families (more costly than divorce.) It’s the toughest of trades in hot-spot cities worldwide, and it’s tougher still when buying & selling for the wealthiest elite. Yet New York real estate master Luciane Serifovic handles it all with deceptively easy-seeming grace. Luciane joins host Bart Jackson to share her tale of how she rose from trainee to founding CEO of Luxian International Realty, supplier of high-end luxury to the highest end clients. What are the best tech tools employed by top realtors to showcase properties and unearth clients? What are the future, game-changing trends? Tune in and take a realtor’s view from the penthouse.

How do you think generations Y and Z should be educated and trained for entry into business? Host Bart Jackson invites educational changemaker Mark Perna who offers revolutionary ideas on how we should train our children – the purpose of colleges – and how better to fill business’s skills gap. What makes this episode such fun is that, while both Mark and Bart have a passionate concern for younger generations, they differ immensely on educational principles, strategies, and even goals. So tune in and watch them debate as the chalkdust flies. Mark, founding CEO of TFS Results (tools for schools) and author of Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations holds a more skills/career solution, while Bart, author of CEO of Yourselfand The Art of the CEO, concentrates on mind development and personal fulfillment. Here’s you chance to find some fodder to help you forge your own beliefs.

Your unique personality, just as you have it right now, is all you require to lead, expand your firm, and reach your own career goals. Forget all those success mongers who seek to transform you into some cookie-cutter image of previous high achievers. Under the banner of Grow – Don’t Change, psychologist Dr. George Watt and his fiscal wizard partner Laurie Blazek have founded Top Line Talent Coaching that sets you on the path to discovering your strengths and employing them most profitably. Host Bart Jackson invites on both George and Laurie to discuss their process for realizing your innate personality, how to brand yourself as a leader, and develop an action plan based on the powers you’ve probably been neglecting. Also, they lay out some tactics for maneuvering those downside-aspects of your person that could set your business off course.

When the big players: Amazon, Coca Cola, Facebook, Leggo, Ford Motors, face product trouble and they just cannot understand why – they call on Christian Madsbjerg. He and his company ReD Associates are totally transforming the old, flawed marketing models that are so popular and so inaccurate. Host Bart Jackson invites Madsbjerg on to discuss what’s wrong with the big-data and impersonal survey methods employed by most firms and why they simply do not reflect human reality. To find out how Leggo blocks can compete in the digital-screen-oriented age, and what Ford truck owners really want out of their vehicle, Madsbjerg insists that we need human contact, not algorithms. In his immensely well received books Sensemaking and Moment of Clarity he shows how business has been lured into false assumption by “weapons of math destruction” and how a more anthropological approach is need to get us back on track.

What does it take to fly with the Blue Angels – flying jets at Mach 1, wingtips inches apart, forming terrifying maneuvers with the world’s best aerial acrobatic team? John Foley, former Blue Angels lead solo pilot joins Host Bart Jackson to tell exactly what is the right stuff to reach this rarefied air. And, more important to you, John translates the art of cultivating those vital abilities into your own career. Whether you are leading yourself or an entire corporation, John lays out a pathway for your achieving, as his book titles it, “Fearless Success – Beyond High Performance.” John’s personal example and insightful strategies guide you in connecting to a purpose greater than yourself, battling petrifying fear, earning trust, gaining respect, and the resiliency to gain a Glad to Be Here mindset. Tune in and discover just how high you can take yourself.

Brian Todd, President of The Food Institute, reveals who’s feeding consumers best today and what food shopping will be like tomorrow. Supermarket checkout is changing. Will mobile checkout work? What will the new supermarkets look like? How will plant based foods fare? Smaller packaging for small families and food for one. Hungry to learn what the food consuming public is demanding in the future – or how stores will change to accommodate new buying habits? Host Bart Jackson brings you one of the planet’s greatest food experts, Brian Todd, President of The Food Institute to discuss the battle of plant-based vs. meat burgers, why women select differently from men, where the most nutritious food lies, and all the steps involved in that intricate dance between food retailer and food consumer. Brian’s insights and prognostications will truly amaze you. Tune in and learn what will happen to the checkout line.

When your career and/or company are pressed back to the wall, how brightly does your decision-making ability shine? Host Bart Jackson gives you a chance to find out. In this episode Bart lays before you a series of all-too-real business decisions, along with several considerations to take into account. Then he reveals the choice each business leader made, and the results that followed – for better or ill. Tune in and test your powers in ethical, financial, personal encounters – and even learn if you have the wisdom and backbone to match that of Mark Twain and a few modern luminaries. Great fun – great lessons.

Which is your better bet? Drawing your inspiration and role models from today’s latest, fleeting tweet – or from a mythic heroine/hero whose tales reach across the millennia and still fill millions with wisdom? Get set for some fun. Host Bart Jackson joins award-winning author Dr. Ayn Cates Sullivan, who has penned “Legends of the Grail – Stories of Celtic Goddesses” and “Heroines of Avalon,” to discover the truths which we still quest after today. Together, they examine specific business challenges and journey back to into the enchanting myths of eld to find solutions. Sharing the deep well of Celtic heroines and divinities, Ayn proffers guidance for businesswomen, while Bart, attempting some gender balance, turns to the lore of the ancient Greeks and their heroes for answers. What wisdom lies in the souls and stories

Isn’t it about time that technology started serving you better? Wouldn’t you like some understanding mentor who sorts through the avalanche of Apps and set to work those tools that boost production and profit? Host Bart Jackson brings you exactly that kind of IT master in his guest Darek Hahn, President & CEO of VelocIT. Taking a general contractor’s approach to an organization’s IT needs, Darek offers for your selection more effective technologies to help sales, operations management, accounting, marketing and communication. He also details a blend of hiring and contracting methods to make sure you have the best possible IT wizards working on your goals, at the ready, when you require them. Tune in and learn how to make yourself master of your technologies.

Isn’t about time people started listening to you? Time you got the influence you deserve and the reactions you require? Presentation coach to President Carter’s cabinet and major C-suiters, Ms. Stephanie Scotti lays out an incisive, masterful strategy that will have you taking command of the podium and speaking effectively. For the last 24 years Stephanie’s Professionally Speaking firm has provided individual and team mentoring for individuals facing the often fearful challenge of presenting their ideas in all business situations. You can catch the Scotti method by reading Stephanie’s recently published Talk on Water - Attaining the Mindset for Powerhouse Presentations– or you may tune in and listen to Coach Scotti dissect the verbal ramblings of host Bart Jackson, as he delivers them right on the air. If Stephanie can repair this host, there is great hope for you, my friend.

It’s not just for marijuana any more. AeroFarms has put the scientific concepts of aeroponic farming on steroids and today is producing tons of its Dream Greens - non-pesticided, wholly organic leafy vegetables that scale easily into urban centers. Host Bart Jackson invites AeroFarms cofounder Mark Oshima to tour us through his headquarters farm located in a resurrected factory in central Newark New Jersey. Marc explains the science that allows a 350-times-per-acre yield of his crops, and the benefit of placing the greatest nutrition right amongst the greatest density of consumers. Marc also details how AeroFarms is able to compete with the food giants; how he has turned the aeroponic gospel into a wildly successful community outreach; and why this farming revolution may be a major key to feeding our planet. Tune in and learn why the most popular gang to join in Newark is the aeroponic farmers group.

Nicholas Donofrio has spent the last two decades as a restlessly inventive board member of the Bank of New York Mellon and the last four decades as IBM’ most prized scientists, currently holding that firm’s top honor: IBM Fellow Emeritus. Host Bart Jackson sits down with Nick and discusses the new roles of corporate directors in today’s business climate, why and how the American work force needs to retrain, how financial institutions must/will shift in the forward march of technology, and how all of us, in every organization, must guard against the shackles of tradition. Tune in and gain the lofty perspective of one of businesses’ grand masters.

One of the most global and most aggressively expanding banking institutions worldwide has just launched its 90-day Belt and Road Relay Race involving thousands of runners through 63 nations, 44 separate markets in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. And Stephen Ward, Managing Director of Insite Risk Management has undertaken the ludicrously difficult task of providing security for each runner, press person, spectator and official involved. Host Bart Jackson invites Stephen to share the stories of how this planet-spanning race is being run and how he is handling this logistical Everest of setting up a secure environment for it all. ‘Tis an amazing tale which will help you comprehend the expansion and intricacy of today’s global commerce.

There’s a gold rush on, but everybody else is after that mother lode. You want to launch a stock exchange, but the big competing exchanges already have the major companies under contract. Publishers find themselves undercut by the great self-published book avalanche. In each case, one very clever individual stepped into these impossible situations and discovered a unique and wildly profitable solution. Host Bart Jackson sets up a series of real, crushingly challenging business climates and then introduces you to those inventive entrepreneurs who made the most out of what nobody else envisioned. This is the ultimate takeaway show. Tune in and learn how to explode the eyes out of a jack-o-lantern, and then transform such tricks into global fame and more companies than your magician father ever dreamed of.

What can climbing a Himalayan mountain teach you about yourself? What can exploring the vast polar snows or remote jungles teach you about leading your business team? Worldwide adventurer and expedition organizer, Ms. Julie Lewis takes leaders of self and corporations to those wild lands where exhilaration and self-discovery go hand in hand. Founder of MountainHighMe, Julie joins host Bart Jackson to discuss their own treks from Tibet to Tierra del Fuego, and exactly what new resources people learn to draw upon when they rise from the swivel chair and venture into the unknown corners of God’s Eden. As an added bonus, Julie, a certified resilience specialist will offer listeners the opportunity of testing, measuring, and growing their own personal resiliency. Want the ultimate business or personal retreat? Tune in and discover how aspirations and solutions are fueled by Nature’s voice.

Of America’s 260,000 professional fitness trainers, Ramona Braganza has muscled herself up to the pinnacle. As celebrity fitness guru to stars, Ramona and her lavish fitness trailer are regulars on the Hollywood sets for the likes of Anne Hathaway, Michael Weatherly and more. Her 3-2-1 Fitness, Nutrition, and “Loose the Baby Bulge” books and tapes are best sellers. Host Bart Jackson invites Ramona to discuss her climb up the physical fitness ladder, and to tell of her 3-2-1 Empower project in which Ramona rescues victims of human trafficking, giving them hope and training as fitness instructors. Tune in and learn the sad truth about how human trafficking is a global tragedy – and the inspiring story of how it may be defeated.

The Chief Financial Officer serves as dream-maker. He/she takes that audacious vision of the CEO, fuels ‘er up, and puts enough financial wind beneath its wings to ensure its taking off. Host Bart Jackson invites on board veteran CFO Wayne Ackerman, founder of Seaview CFO Solutions, to open his three-decade book of experiences and share some fascinating tales about the CFOs relations with CEOs, Directors, and those all-important investors. How does a wise CFO tether his directors to financial reality? Groom her CEO’s understanding of complex revenue deployment? And present numbers that set banks and investors salivating? Tune in and learn the delicate line the wise CFO must trod to play profitably with others.

How can kin keep company and turn a profit? Few folks have better solutions than family business’ sage master, Tom Hubler. Since 1980, Tom has guided family firms in forging both emotional and fiscal equity, planning succession, and juggling individual roles in this dual union. Tom Hubler joins Host Bart Jackson as they take a refreshingly human approach to the intricate challenges of building a common family value in which all may profitably participate. How does a family firm discover its soul? How do you manage family rank vs. business rank? How do you shift from an entrepreneurial shop into a professional company? Tune in and learn business success and family love may mutually feed each other.

The World Economic Forum is arguably our best hope for a sustainable future. Established in 1971, this global organization for public and private cooperation gathers the world’s foremost leaders in industry, business, academics, the political realm, and the arts to sustain and improve life on our planet. They hammer out and set new agendas for sustainable resource distribution, climate change devastation, investment security, technology management, and all major global challenges. Host Bart Jackson invites former Forum Board member Alfred Berkeley to guide us through the practical solutions the world’s elite minds are putting into practice. Tune in and learn the benefits of human ingenuity and creative sweat in forging our more livable world.

What happens when you blend your own business with your personal mission? Rob Woods, founder of Ethical Adventures, guides intimately small groups deep into Australia’s remote Northern Territories in a way that brings a whole new perspective to our human role as stewards of the land. Host Bart Jackson invites Rob Woods from way down under to explain why Ethical Adventures has been voted “unarguably the best tour experience in the Northern Territory” – what we need to learn from 60,000 years of Aboriginal history – and how we may best preserve this mysterious land. Tune in and learn how exciting fun and profit dwell amiably with Jaburu, crocs, and wallabies.

They are in your face all the time: those poisonous personalities who torpedo the team, undermine your achievement, and take the fun & profit out of your workday. How do you handle or just plain squash these toxic folks? Host Bart Jackson and a select team of consulting experts bring back a fresh crop of challenges and solutions in this year’s Impossible People show. Tune in, laugh, and learn the clever ploys for foiling The Artful Opposer, The Mood-swinging Boss, The Bean-counting, Bottom-liner, and other thorns on the wrong side of progress.

So who is winning the “negotiations” between the U.S. President – Congress – and the party leaders? Who committed the masterful blunders and who employed that subtly clever tactic which you need to be copying in your own business negotiations? Host Bart Jackson brings on The Master Negotiator Greg Williams to tease apart the political chess games employed by America’s leaders, to tell you what worked, why it worked, and what moves we might expect in the future. Globally renowned negotiator and body language guru Greg Williams is sought after to both instruct C-suite executives and to handle Fortune 100 corporate mergers. Tune in and get the expert’s take on the art of these political deals.

GPS Girl Karen Jacobsen’s ever-calculating voice guides over half a billion travelers over roadways, and, by her own life example, points the way toward making the most of each opportunity. Host Bart Jackson invites Karen on to tell her story and help you recognize a potential windfall – and discover new advantages. Since emigrating from Australia to the Big Apple, Karen has blossomed her singing and voice-over talents into an array of business speaking tours, popular albums, books, media appearances, lifestyle guidance, and a new venture to be announced on this show. Tune in and discover those hidden situations that can send out sturdy and profitable branches to your own career.

Marriage is a legal, emotional, occupational, religious, financial, child-rearing, home-owning, sexual, and union. And when that union falls apart, the divorcing woman requires help in all those areas. After her own divorce, attorney Karolina Dehnhard realized that her family law practice, offering only legal counsel was simply inadequate. Host Bart Jackson brings Karolina on board to discuss how she has developed her Divorce Dynasty that advises and aids all the clients areas of concern. Tune in and take this example of customer-based growth to heart. You too may transform and raise your business from green grocer to full-service supermarket.

So here you sit, having carved your way up to a hopefully secure middle management slot, chaffing. You’re eager to move on up to a major decision-maker position and really employ your expertise to best advantage. You know where you need to be. You just need guidance in choosing the route. This is your show. Host Bart Jackson brings to your aid executive developer Ron Carucci, founder of Navalent consultants and author of Rise to Power- The Journey of Exceptional Executives to yank you off that career plateau. Together, Bart and Ron discuss the specific problems challenging middle managers, scrutinizing those who rise and those who remain mired. Tune in and discover new avenues of advancement.

Maestro Roger Nierenberg knows the techniques, actions, and attitudes demanded to lift an orchestra – and each musician - to peak performance. They are the exact same leadership moves required by business executives to inspire their teams to the top. Host Bart Jackson discusses The Music Paradigm, Nierenberg’s inventive program in which C-suiters are mingled amongst the musicians at an actual rehearsal led by this Maestro, and biz folks observe leadership demonstrated in a tempo accelerando. The Paradigm holds up a stunning, if not always comfortable mirror to business leaders. And the top exec teams from YouTube, Bank of America, Kellogg, and BBC are praising and paying Nierenberg for the valuable enlightenment. Tune in and learn how artfully directed music makes Caesars of the savage biz execs.

Joe Kaplan for 30 years has sold everything from breakfast cereal to exotic financial instruments with astounding success. What’s more, Joe knows why he’s a master salesperson and what profitable selling really demands. And now, so will you. Host Bart Jackson challenges Kaplan with a series of real sales situations for which Joe will provide practical solutions and wise counsel. Kaplan was the expert Nabisco turned to when they needed to display their new products onto competitive shelves; that Post Foods brought on to handle its merchandising and sales operations; and that Western Union hired to develop innovational promo programs. He has designed sales teams and designed strategies for countless firms. Every person of business must be able to sell. Tune in and better your own skills with aid from the master.

Jerald O’ Kennard holds what many would call thedream job in the dream company. He and his firm, The Beverage Testing Institute, make a very tidy living sampling and competitively rating hundreds of the best wines, beers, and hard liquors from across the globe. Their clients send their latest vintages, praying for a high quality score and counting on the wise counsel offered by the BTI to help them improve and better sell their product. Host Bart Jackson sits and sips with Jerald as they discuss the latest trends in wines et al; why Scotch is making a comeback; exactly how drinks get scored; and the real value of this information to both public and manufacturer. Also, for your own entrepreneurial edification, tune in and learn exactly how this system of comparative, critical marketing works, and how you might apply it to your own industry.