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Episode 78: Small Businesses with Giant Vision, with Bo Burlingham

Release Date: 12/18/2019

Episode 99: Recognizing Patterns and Adapting to Crisis, with Dr. Sharon Spano

The Other Side Of Potential

Sharon Spano, Ph.D. helps thriving family business owners overcome challenges when life and business collide. As a business strategist, author, and Professional Integral Coach, she leads her clients through specific research-based practices that empower them to realign their business strategy with a life of meaning, accelerated performance, and increased profitability.

Episode 98: Developing a Healthier Relationship with Money, with Michelle Arpin Begina

The Other Side Of Potential

Michelle’s earliest memories from childhood all relate to money. And yet, the stories and lessons learned from different branches of her family tree couldn’t be more dichotomous!

Episode 97: Overcoming the Relationship Strains of Shelter-In-Place, with Ken Blackman

The Other Side Of Potential

Ken Blackman is a connection and intimacy expert who has coached couples from San Francisco to Paris to Sydney and trained thousands of students in his workshops on intimacy and relationships. His work has garnered mentions everywhere from Cosmopolitan to Business Insider to Playboy to Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour series. With nearly two decades of experience, Ken’s powerful, unapologetic break from conventional advice is shifting the global conversation around sex, love, and committed coupledom.

Episode 96: Stronger Relationships During Social Distancing, with Randy Parks

The Other Side Of Potential

Randy Parks is the founder, owner, and CEO of Parks Motor Group, a family of car dealerships with locations throughout Central Florida. Randy obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami School of Business and received his MBA in business management from Rollins College, before going on to purchase his first auto dealership, Longwood Lincoln Mercury, in 1979. Randy then began the hard work of growing his business, and now Parks Motor Group encompasses eleven dealerships within the region.

Episode 95: Managing Your Life and Health in Times of Stress, with Dr. Sangeeta Pati

The Other Side Of Potential

Sangeeta Pati graduated at the top of her medical class at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, Baltimore, and completed her residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. She has worked extensively internationally as Medical Director for a 350-employee non-profit organization, Engenderhealth, on maternal mortality reduction programs funded by the Gates Foundation.

Episode 94: Crisis Communications for Small Businesses, with Bill Coletti

The Other Side Of Potential

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications and professional development expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns.

Episode 93: Finding Inner Calm and Moving Forward, with Tricia Brouk and Rob Dube

The Other Side Of Potential

During the challenging times of today’s business reality, it can be difficult to find the calmness and clarity you need to lead. On this episode of the Other Side of Potential podcast, encore guests Tricia Brouk and Rob Dube explain why necessity truly is the mother of invention, and Rob Dube offers his thoughts on using meditation practice to help you find calm in the chaos.

Episode 92: Preparing Your Family-Owned Business to Survive the Crisis, with Craig Cody

The Other Side Of Potential

Craig Cody is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Tax Coach, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years of experience on the Force. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain certified.

Episode 91: Intergenerational Wealth and Transition Planning, with Thomasina Williams

The Other Side Of Potential

Thomasina H. Williams serves as a Strategic Thought Partner, Consultant, and Coach to Enterprising Families. She works with clients to advance generational success as their family legacy, by being as intentional in developing their family’s human capital as they are in growing their financial capital.

Episode 90: Survival Decoded for the Family Owned Business: How to Move Beyond Survival to Thriving in a Crisis, with Dr. Sharon Spano

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Bo Burlingham is the author of the renowned book Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. Bo has been writing about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship for almost 37 years, primarily for Inc. Magazine, where he served as Executive Editor and then Editor-At-Large. He is currently a contributing writer for Forbes, and the author of five books, the most recent being Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies On Top.

Bo has written three other books with co-authors, including two with Jack Stack, CEO of SRC Holdings Corporation and the pioneer of Open Book Management, called The Great Game of Business and A Stake In the Outcome. His book Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs was co-authored with serial entrepreneur and fellow Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky. Before joining Inc. Magazine, Bo freelanced for various publications including Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, Boston Magazine, and Mother Jones.

What you will learn in this episode:

How Bo initially became interested in researching and writing about the journeys of entrepreneurs after realizing that freelance writing wouldn’t support his family
How working at Inc. Magazine was a transformative experience that redefined Bo’s career as a writer
Bo shares the story of Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and how they built a powerful business community in the area, sparking the idea for his first book
How Bo’s research showed him the importance of clear vision, community connection, personal relationships with customers, putting employees first, and strong margins
Why Small Giants can still fail in spite of doing things right, if they don’t also focus on profitability and protecting their gross margins
How Bo’s Small Giants community works together to learn from each other and support each other’s success
What common traits, vision and values exist in businesses who have become a part of the Small Giants community
Why businesses like those in the Small Giants community are innovating new operational strategies and cultures, leading the way over the public sector and government
Why the optimism and the desire to improve the world shared by much of the millennial generation is a powerful driver for communities like Small Giants and others like it
Why Bo feels his life’s purpose is to amplify the message of business leaders who are rethinking the way business works and recognizing their ability to improve our society

Resources:

Small Giants Community: https://smallgiants.org/
Website: www.boburlingham.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bo-burlingham-50a583/
Twitter: @BoBurlingham
Bo Burlingham’s Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/37K87Jh

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