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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Monica Parker, starting at 0:00: How do you lead your company and still live a wonderful life? This is a question small business owners have been trying to answer forever, but it is now even more important since the COVID pandemic.
SEGMENT 2 with Alan Roth, starting at 23:45: With the banking crisis, where can small businesses go to borrow money now?
SEGMENT 3 with Melissa Stephenson, starting at 39:45: What is the cost of a talkative coworker on others’ productivity and what can a business owner do about it?
Sponsored by Truly Financial.
More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Monica Parker is a world-renowned speaker, writer, and authority on the future of work and has spent decades helping people discover how to lead and live wonderfully. The founder of global human analytics and change consultancy HATCH, whose clients include blue-chip companies such as LinkedIn, Google, Prudential, and LEGO, Monica challenges corporate systems to advocate for more meaningful work lives. In addition to her extensive advocacy work, she has been an opera singer, a museum exhibition designer, and a homicide investigator defending death-row inmates.
- You can be in wonder and lead a business!
- Do more daydreaming – it’s a gateway to wonder.
- Let yourself be bored! By letting yourself experience boredom, you open your mind to what’s around you.
- Be curious! Learn because you want to, and keep exploring possibilities.
- Allow your expectations to be flexible. This is the first step in embracing a new solution.
- Stop chasing happiness. We should be chasing wonder. You’ll find happiness through the experiences wonder can bring.
Segment 2: Alan Roth has more than 30 years of experience in the private equity sphere, specializing in SBIC licensing, investment and compliance, fund formation, and corporate acquisitions. In 2021, Alan was recognized in Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Lawyers in America” guide to the nation’s top lawyers. Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, Alan served as the chair of the Investment Funds and SBIC Practice of a large international law firm.
- Introduce/talk about the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) a fund from the SBA.
- Traditional debt markets are drying up, loans through SBIC have increased (doubling over next few months)
- Particular targets include minority- and women-owned businesses in geographically diverse/underserved areas
- For investors & banks, SBIC funds are low-risk and high ESG score
- SBA initiatives to increase capital to small businesses through the expansion of the SBIC program
Segment 3: Melissa Stephenson is a Media Relations Associate with North Star Inbound.
- Nearly all respondents (95%) have had a coworker who talks too much. A talkative coworker has prevented 71% from getting work done.
- On average, chatty coworkers spend 90 minutes of the workday talking. What do they talk about?
- Americans say the worst time to encounter their talkative coworker is when they’re trying to finish up and go home.
- Ways Americans get chatty coworkers to stop talking.
