LIVELIHOOD

How do you make your Livelihood decisions? It’s a decision that affects everything in our future, not just how we spend 50 weeks a year, but often the neighborhood in which we choose to live, how much money we’ll get to make and who our friends are going to be. Career planning is often delegated […]

Vicente Fernandez loves sports: playing them, watching them, and writing about them. He’s also a young entrepreneur whose mastery of social media technology gives him an insight into an untapped opportunity for sports reporting: he created SportsManias, as a Twitter-based content aggregator that provides up-to-the-minute sports news and reporting . The concept was to create […]

Allen Bracket, CEO of House 2 Home, built the foundation for his successful company 30 years ago. On a bet that it required financial capital to build a business, he founded a housecleaning company by volunteering to clean houses as a research project while  studying business at George Washington University.  He learned to clean houses, […]

When most people think of sustainable or “green” design, we imagine solar energy and rain water harvesting. We usually don’t think of mega-yachts and Monte Carlo –yet there is a natural and unexplored opportunity. Victoria Cerrone is co-founder of Ports of Cause, a not-for-profit organization which leverages the power and reach of the yachting industry […]

Eighteen years ago, Michael Grimmé returned from Europe, where he had been working in the oil trading industry. He relocated his family to Ft. Lauderdale, where he bought and ran a chain of boutique hotels. With the dramatic freeze in the tourism industry after the events of September 11, 2001. Michael had to reassess his […]

When Roger Duarte (a former investment banker from Monterrey, Mexico) decided it was time to create his own Miami-based business at the age of 24, he did his research. He became interested in the South Florida stone crab market, which has been dominated by Joe’s Stone Crab for 100 years. Roger embraced the chance to […]

Where else but in Miami would a New England educational entrepreneur and a Liberian-American hip-hop artist create a perfect partnership? http://www.themotivationaledge.org/ PART 1: IAN WELCH, Educational Innovator Ian Welsh, educator and social entrepreneur, saw a need for a learning environment that embraced cultural expression. His innovative program Motivational Edge (ME)  uses music and spoken word […]

Diana Robinson,  lived in 8 places between the ages of 6 and 14  as she was growing up as a child in a military family.  She’s had 18 address, so far, she says.  “I am like the “Morton Salt of moving” she tells me.. “ when it rains, it pours!” Diana’s experience is not unusual […]

Our guest is PR expert MJ Rose, who left advertising to become a novelist– only to find that the key to her success as as a successful writer would draw upon the corporate skills she thought she was leaving behind. Have you ever been blown off with the criticism “That’s not how we do things […]

William “Willy” Walker is the chairman, president and CEO of Walker & Dunlop, a 76-year-old company that is the tenth largest commercial mortgage lender in the United States. The company was co-founded by his grandfather in 1937. For most people, joining the family business right after college would have been the automatic choice. But when […]

A role model is simply a person whose behavior or example is emulated by others. Everyone in life has a purpose,…even if it’s to serve as a bad example. In the burgeoning world of coaches, consultants and mentors, what should we look for when we assess the value of our role models? Today’s guest, author […]

This is the high season in South Beach Florida, and we revel in the festivals that take advantage of our sunshine and mild winter weather.  Last week’s event was the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  We attended the festival and met up there Dean Mike Hampton.  He’s the Dean of Florida International University’s Chaplin […]

“Integrity is what you do when no one is watching.” For Steve Smith, Chairman of Credential Check Corporation, that’s more than a saying. Integrity and a solid, values-driven character are at the core of his successful entrepreneurial experiences. In addition to his leadership role at Credential Check (a company that provides comprehensive pre-employment screening services), […]

Here’s how today’s guest Jody Johnson, caught my attention:  she sent me  a marketing email which reads: Have you planned your summer vacation yet? Why not? Is it because business is keeping you busy? Being a business owner is more than owning your own business. It’s having the freedom to go on vacation with your […]

Trisha Torrey identified a need for a new role in health care. Some call it a navigator; some call it a patient advocate. Tricia is a pathfinder in the emerging field of professional health care advocacy. When a medical crisis happens to us, to or to someone we love, we find ourselves literally in a […]