Everybody's Business

To finish off our season (and celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!) we are thrilled to be talking to Khaled Muneer, who serves as the President of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida, empowering and connecting the Asian owned businesses here in Central Florida. In addition to that role, Khaled has over three decades in the real-estate business here in Florida!

Our identity in the world doesn't just happen overnight. Sometimes we need to call it out and step up into what we want to be! This week, we were thrilled to talk to comedian and entertainer Brian Regan, and learn about show business and the entrepreneurial lessons that it takes to succeed in Hollywood.

If you spend all day swimming against the current, you end up... exhausted! While learning and growing is a life-long process as an entrepreneur (and human), identifying-- and accepting-- our strengths, and learning to lean into them is one of the fastest ways to get a leg up on your competition. Today, we are talking to attorney Davey Jay, whose focus in entertainment and IP law has seen her represent both Oscar and Grammy award-winning clients, as well as educate for over 12 years here locally at Full Sail University for entertainment and communication law. We are thrilled to have her on!

If you don't know your target... you cannot market! Whether your business is a product or service, whether you sell to consumers or businesses-- knowing your market is integral to being successful! This week, we're talking to long-term marketeer and research consultant Tom Marin from MarketCues.

When your business is going well enough to make a living, but not really thriving or growing, you may be finding yourself "stuck" but not sure why. This week, we were honored to talk with Barry Moltz about the top ways businesses stall, and how to drive that growth and change from the top down!

Entrepreneurship can feel incredibly isolating much of the time. Add in an on-going pandemic, social and political uncertainty, and constant pivoting and adjusting, and we have a perfect storm for an entrepreneur's mental health crisis. This week, we are honored to have friend and real estate entrepreneur John Crossman talking to us about how to stay sane, how to ask for help, and sharing his optimistic view for 2021.

Restaurants have always fulfilled a critical need for both food and human connection, and are a source of great pride in communities and Main Streets across the country! We are thrilled to talk to local restaurateur and entrepreneur Chef Michael, of Sanford's Corner Cafe fame, and hear his stories from being a hospitality-industry entrepreneur, especially navigating the craziness that has been the global pandemic.

The concept of leadership cannot exist merely as an idea or aspiration. Teams need real leadership, to cast real vision and help facilitate its delivery. Today we're talking to the Orlando PRIDE Chamber CEO Kellie Parkin, and are thrilled to have them with us!  

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The National Entrepreneur Center presents Jerry Ross in "Everybody's Business," now in its second season. We discuss entrepreneurship and startups, and the entrepreneur-mentality inside all of us! Get practical and tactical advice you can use in your business today, as well as hearing inspiring stories from founders and entrepreneurs who have done it all!

Entrepreneurs especially have ideas to spare, but which are good opportunities for someone, and which are good opportunities for you specifically! This week's guest is entrepreneur extraordinaire E. Mackey, with hands in advertising, content creation, music, fashion and more. With clients like Twitter, Google, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and more, and most recently bringing to life a photo book about the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, Mackey knows a thing or two about what works, and we're thrilled to hear from him today!

It's been said, "Success is getting up just one more time than you've been knocked down," and from the entrepreneurs and founders we've known over the years that is definitely the truth! Persistence is often the main difference between those who "make it" and those who do not. Our guest this week knows a thing about not giving up-- Michelle Rigby Assad, who spent over a decade in counter-terrorism for the CIA, as well as defending global human rights for refugees persecuted by ISIS and Al-Qaeda. We are thrilled to have her to speak with us today!