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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Yaro Starak, starting at 0:00: A lot of small business owners think they need to be at the center of everything in their company, but in reality, the best scenario is that you get out of the way so your company can grow without you! Yaro Starak is here to share why and how to make it happen.
SEGMENT 2 with Kerry Hatch, starting at 19:00: While financial payment systems have been going digital in the past 5 years and are now sped up by COVID, so many B2B transactions are behind and it’s hurting the growth of small businesses. Kerry Hatch is here to share a powerful solution that will give you more choices for how you handle business transactions.
SEGMENT 3 with Monique Golden, starting at 36:30: In this ever-changing world, we need innovation and evolving skillsets to adapt to it. That’s one of the reasons why XPRIZE was born. XPRIZE is a non-profit organization that designs and hosts public competitions intended to encourage technological development to benefit humanity. Monique Golden is here to tell us more about it.
Sponsored by NiceJob and Plastiq.
More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Yaro Starak is the co-founder of InboxDone.com, an email management Company. He is also an angel investor who has made over 30 investments.
2:00 – How to get out of the way so your company can grow without you.
4:00 – What would you do if you didn’t have to do day-to-day tasks that aren’t in your zone of genius?
7:45 – How to start delegating and creating systems to free up your time and get more done.
10:00 – Tips for delegating your email inbox.
12:00 – How can you free up your time if you don’t yet have the cashflow to hire and delegate tasks?
Segment 2: Kerry Hatch is President of Plastiq, the leading smart payments platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Her record of leadership success includes serving as president of American Express OPEN. She now brings to Plastiq more than 35 years of extensive strategy development, M&A, private equity, and global operating experience in the financial services, technology, media, and travel industries.
19:00 – What challenges do small business owners face in running a business?
22:00 – What has prevented B2B transactions from keeping pace with digital payment technology?
25:30 – How is Plastiq reshaping the B2B payment landscape?
27:00 – How does a business engage with Plastiq?
29:45 – How will leveraging credit cards positively affect the cash flow of a business?
34:00 – What can we expect in the digital payment industry over the next 10 years?
Segment 3: Monique Golden is the Social Science Lead for XPRIZE’ Rapid Reskilling, where she oversees the judging, field testing and data collection aspects of the competition.
36:30 – What is rapid reskilling and why do we need it?
39:00 – How does the XPRIZE competition help encourage solutions to strengthen the labor market and close the widening skills gap?
40:45 – What solutions are the semifinalists implementing?
42:00 – How do teams join the competition?
43:45 – Why is there such a big upheaval in what people want to do for work?
47:00 – How can employers create a human-centric workplace?
