The Rundown with Ramon - Ramon Ray - small business podcast for entrepreneurs

As an entrepreneur, keeping track of your profits and losses and knowing where you stand are crucial factors for business success. Fortunately, you don’t have to go it alone when starting and growing a business. In chatting with Atiya Brown, owner of The Savvy Accountant — a CPA firm that works primarily with service-based and real estate professionals — Ramon Ray uncovered some valuable insights. Below, we’ve rounded up a few key takeaways from that conversation to help business owners improve their financial sense and money know-how.

The topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a hot one today, and for good reason. In some circles, DEI efforts face backlash. More than half of workers in one Pew Research survey said they support an increase in DEI, others are neutral, and still others say DEI is a bad thing. And some companies are even eliminating DEI roles altogether. In her recent interview with Ramon Ray, Hamilton passionately shared insights into operationalizing DEI goals, moving from short-term gains to a long-term commitment, and the transformative power of embracing our interconnectedness. “What I want people to do is replace these subordinate lesser goals with a bigger goal — to be indivisible,” says Hamilton. “And what does that mean? To me, it means that we have a deep, profound understanding of our interconnectedness.”  

No matter what kind of business you want to start, you have to be intentional with every step. That's a lesson Justin Konikow, a prominent real estate broker and media producer in southwestern Ontario, Canada, has learned through his ventures in the real estate industry. In a recent interview with Ramon Ray, Justin shared insights into his path, highlighting the role of being intentional in personal and professional aspects of life to get where he is today. Tune in to learn more about the interview.

What if we told you that building a significant level of trust begins within? In a recent interview with Ramon Ray, Glen Gould, a former golf professional turned entrepreneur, author, and speaker, shared valuable insights on this topic. Continue listening for key takeaways from the interview, lessons learned, and strategies for fostering internal trust and confidence.

Join us in this episode to learn about intellectual property and legal strategy for your businesses. Sivonnia DeBarros, attorney at law at SL DeBarros Law Firm, LLC shared with Ramon Ray, publisher of Zone of Genius, DeBarros shared some key messages on the importance of leveraging the power of contracts, trademarks, and litigation and business strategies — not only to “crush copycats” but also to ensure your bottom line increases instead of decreases.

Join Ramon Ray on this episode as he learn with Lisa Blackmon, Esquire — aka Lisa B, the Life Changer — about how crucial courage is for business leaders. Lisa, who helps individuals become more courageous leaders, has a background in law and over 25 years of experience in running her own business. In this article, we'll dig into Lisa's insights, giving straightforward tips for entrepreneurs to be brave leaders and enhance their skills.

If you are leading a team and want to know how to make them unstoppable, you came in the right place. Tune in, as Ramon Ray sat down with Mike Michalowicz, a passionate entrepreneur and the author of the acclaimed book All In. With 11 books under his belt, Michalowicz shares his insights on how great leaders can build unstoppable teams, a challenge many entrepreneurs grapple with. The interview provides valuable lessons for business leaders looking to establish and transform their teams into thriving, engaged, and empowered units.

Join Ramon Ray as Jeannine K. Brown, founder of Everyday Lead and author of Unstuck and Unstoppable shares the complexities of getting ahead in a corporate role. In this episode, Brown discussed ways to learn the art of self promotion. Beyond addressing the challenges in larger corporate settings, Brown's principles are relevant for small businesses aiming to foster a culture of success.

If you’ve got a book in you but aren’t sure how to transition from idea to published product — not to mention profit from your venture — this episode is for you. Join us in this episode as Ramon Ray sat down with book coach, author, and TEDx speaker Porsché Mysticque Steele, CEO of Mysticque Rose Publishing, for an informative conversation on book publishing. With her insights and some of our own, we’ve put together this comprehensive episode as your starting point for getting your book out of your head and out in the world.

One of the things that makes entrepreneurship journey a bit less rocky is leaning on fellow entrepreneurs like Brian Hess, who recently shared his top tips for business owners with Ramon Ray. Growing up in a blue-collar family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hess learned life lessons from his father, a steelworker who instilled in him the values of hard work and perseverance. He took those lessons to heart in 2018 when, at age 38, he made the leap to launch the Pavement Group. As the founder of the Pavement Group and Top Contractor School, Brian has a wealth of knowledge to offer. In this episode, join Ramon and Brian as we learn and understand Brian's journey, business principles, and advice for entrepreneurs.