The Authority Company

In this episode, Joe chats with Janett Liriano, the Co-Founder & CEO of Inaru, a vertically-integrated cacao brand based in the Dominican Republic. At Inaru, Janett uses her expertise in supply chain and manufacturing to create a new, empathetic model of doing business in the cacao industry. Janett talks about her entrepreneurial journey and how Inaru is disrupting the cocoa industry.

Joe welcomes Tony DiSilvestro to the ForbesBooks Audio studios. Tony founded over 30 businesses and is an award-winning entrepreneur, a successful real estate investor, franchise owner, and an internationally renowned business and leadership trainer. Tony talks about his entrepreneurial journey and what it takes to be a successful serial entrepreneur.

For the final show of 2021, Joe speaks with Alison Cayne, the founder and CEO of Haven's Kitchen.  Alison is a female food entrepreneur who pre-Covid had a wildly successful cooking school and launched a line of globally-inspired sauces. Alison shares how she pivoted her cooking school from in person to online, and how her brand of sauces gained a cult following and found their way onto the shelves of Whole Foods and Target.

If you run a B2B or even a B2C, you’ve probably dipped your toe into marketing automation. Joe's guest this week became one of the pioneers of digital marketing when she purchased her first marketing automation system in 2004 (two years BEFORE Twitter was founded). Then in 2007, she moved from practitioner to trusted advisor for marketing leaders when she became a partner of the Pedowitz Group. Her name is Dr. Debbie Qaqish, and she is the author of From Backroom To Boardroom: Earn Your Seat With Strategic Marketing Operations.

Legendary motivational speaker Napoleon Hill once said, Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” You can easily add marketing to that list. This week, Joe welcomes Jeff Pedowitz to the ForbesBooks podcast. Jeff is the president and CEO of The Pedowitz Group, a consultancy that helps clients change the way they get revenue. Jeff is also the author of the book, F the Funnel: A New Way to Engage Customers & Grow Revenue.

One of the few positives to come out of the pandemic has been our focus on work-life balance. With millions of white-collar workers forced to work at home for over a year, the lines between work and life were incredibly blurred. Some might say that the phenomenon known as the great resignation was in response to employees seeking more of a work-life balance. So, how do we achieve that holy grail of work-life balance? This week Joe finds out more about achieving the holy grail of work-life balance with Donnie Hutchinson, an internationally recognized speaker, author, and researcher on implementing self-care strategies to promote work-life balance.

As we near the end of 2021, we will soon be inundated by ads for gym memberships, Pelotons, and of course weight loss supplements. But one sector of the vitamin and supplement industry that has exploded recently is brain health. The global brain health supplements market is expected to be worth $7.6 billion this year, and it’s on track to be a $13 billion dollar industry by 2028. And now big business is betting big on brain health. Earlier this year, Unilever acquired Onnit, a holistic wellness and lifestyle company that was founded in 2010. This week Joe is joined by the company's CEO, Jason Havey who discusses Onnit's mission, what Unilever's acquisition means for his company, and the importance of brain health supplements.

You’ve probably listened to a lot of conversations with venture capitalists and angel investors, but this week we’re looking into a unique firm that works primarily with large corporations, like Fortune 500 companies, and manage their venture capital investment funds. In this episode, Joe chats with David Horowitz, the Co-Founder & CEO of Touchdown Ventures. Dave talks about why he loves working in VC, what it takes to build a successful startup, and the inspiration for his interesting new side gig.

The tourism industry lost an estimated $1.3 trillion in export revenue in 2020. The pandemic forced airlines, restaurants, attractions, and even entire countries to shut down. How are things looking like for the holiday travel season, 2022, and beyond? This week Joe is joined by Ricardo Bethel, the Communication & Market Manager of the St. Martin Tourist Office and Nightlife & Hospitality Expert, Arthur Sutley. Ricardo and Arthur discuss what tourists can expect when visiting St. Martin and the culinary experiences the island offers.

This week, Joe welcomes Frank Dalene, the author of Decarbonizing the World. For over 40 years, his Long Island-based construction company has been known for embracing energy efficiency and green building. In 2008, Frank helped found the Hamptons Green Alliance, a team of industry professionals committed to sustainable building practices. Now he’s on a mission to promote green building through capitalism using the free market economy to reduce greenhouse gasses. On the podcast, Frank discusses his innovative climate change solution that applies established sciences and protocols to calculate and communicate a product's carbon footprint.