All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett

Andrew Zimmern almost needs no introduction. He’s been a staple on TV for years, eating bizarre foods around the world, highlighting the commonality of food across cultures. Now, he has a new show coming to the Magnolia Network called “Family Dinner,” which is already streaming for Discovery+ subscribers. While the interview started with TV talk, it quickly turned to dinner, mainly what the pandemic is doing to the restaurant business, what its future might look like, and how hard it is for restaurateurs to get stimulus money. Andrew also opens up about his sobriety and why he’s such a deep thinker. His episode was one of most-listened-to of 2020 and he didn’t disappoint this time around either. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Starting a business is hard, but today’s guest wants to make the details a little easier. Ross Buhrdorf is the Founder and CEO of ZenBusiness, an online platform that helps entrepreneurs at all stages make it easier to start, run, and grow their businesses. Ross called it “Shopify for the service industry.” Ross knows something about starting a successful business from scratch, he was a founding CTO at the business that became the popular vacation rental site, VRBO. In fact, Jeffrey and Ross get into an insightful of whether it’s harder to be a CTO or CEO. They also talk about the importance of building a great team and what’s next for the business.Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All Business Blitz Week continues with one of our top guests from 2020. If you can guess from the title, we would all like to forget 2020, but that doesn’t mean Julie Roehm didn’t use it to her advantage. She is the Chief Marketing and Experience Officer at Party City and she talked about how the party must go on despite last year’s challenges and the opportunities they may have never taken advantage of if it wasn’t for the pandemic. Hear how Party City “made joy easy,” how the retailer uses non-traditional channels to get its message out, and what marketing might look like in a post-pandemic world.Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on “All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett” we’re revisiting some of our top guests of the last year and no one was more popular than Anthony Scaramucci. “The Mooch” is best known for his 11 days as White House Communications Director during the Trump Administration, but he’s a mover and shaker in the investment world as well. Anthony is a founder and managing partner at SkyBridge Capital and the conversation with Jeffrey ranged from Bitcoin’s rise, the state of the economy, and even a little politics. If you’re looking for a wide-ranging, opinionated conversation, don’t miss this episode!Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes you just need to reach out, either across the aisle or to someone else to get things done. From Harvard Business School to Capitol Hill, our first guest is a trailblazer. Barbara Franklin served five presidents, most notably as U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President George H.W. Bush. Barbara talked about arriving in Washington in the early 1970s and the women who helped reshape gender roles in government. She also talked about why promoting and championing women is a bipartisan issue and why measuring progress is more than just counting. Barbara also enlightened Jeffrey on an important equal-rights milestone coming up many of us may not know about.  Kimberly Roush joins Jeffrey in the second part of the show. She is the founder of All-Star Executive Coaching. While she is a coach herself, Kimberly admits she continues to lean on her coach for advice. In fact, she’s relied on her coach for nearly a quarter of her life. Kimberly is also a big believer in being BIG and explains what that means. Kimberly and Jeffrey also talk about the importance of networking. In fact, Kimberly calls it NETplaying, because she wants to take the work out of it!Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being dropped off in a strange city, with only $100, an old truck, and a smartphone during the peak of a global pandemic may sound like a strange plotline, but it was the reality for Elaine Culotti. She’s one of three stars of the new Discovery+ series, “Undercover Billionaire.” Elaine isn’t just a reality TV star, she’s an accomplished entrepreneur, interior designer, and is now delving into farming. During the conversation, Elaine and Jeffrey talked about her TV experience, what is ‘existential wealth’, and her biggest takeaway from being on the show. Hint: it has more to do with humanity than business.Become a member of the C-Suite Network:https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To become an agent of change, one has to be nimble and agile. Every industry has been disrupted or is being disrupted and in order to adapt to that, we have to think outside the box in order to solve everyday business problems. My guest today is Tony Hunter is the Chairman and CEO of McClatchy, a publishing company focused on delivering high-quality journalism. In 2008, he turned around the Chicago Tribune during one of the worst economic downturns in modern history. He’s an agitator, advocate for change, and a career-long business disruptor. Tony, welcome back to All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett.We captured this conversation during the C-Suite Network Digital Discussion. For more exclusive, business-building content like this, join the C-Suite Network:https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All businesses want momentum, but there’s more to it than luck. Mark Schaefer says there’s science behind it. That’s the idea behind his new book, “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds.” During today’s discussion, Jeffrey and Mark talk about how to use “MoMo” to gain a competitive edge, taking advantage of the certainty of business uncertainty, and how to put humanity back in marketing.Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett we revisit an episode from last summer. Racism, police brutality, and brutal honesty. This episode of “All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett” tackles the biggest issue right now with the help of co-host Rolonda Watts.  First, we get an inside glimpse of one of the largest policedepartments in the country. Retired LAPD Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, who worked allfour bureaus in Los Angeles, talks about how the culture inside policedepartments starts at the top. She added why minorities don’t want to call thepolice and how her philosophy “I care, but I don’t” helped her deal with thestress of the job. Sgt. Dorsey mentioned how every police department has a“Billy Bad Ass” and why she thinks the movement to ‘defund’ the police ismissing the mark. If you really want to change your community’s police department,Sgt. Dorsey says there’s one thing you can do that has nothing to do withmoney. Dr. Jeffrey Gardere joins us for the second half of the show.Known as “America’s Psychologist” for his numerous TV appearances, Dr. Jefftalked about what all this racial unrest is doing to the nation’s psyche. Dr.Jeff says while we need to be honest about how we feel, this time feelsdifferent. There’s a diversity to the protesters you don’t often see. Hebelieves the feelings on the streets might get uglier before it gets better,especially with the election coming up, but we must continue the forwardmomentum for equality. Dr. Jeff was honest himself, talking about thedifferences between white and black America and some of the things he doespersonally not to stand out. Become a C-Suite Network Member: https://www.c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many topics that are considered taboo -- sex, politics, and religion are the most notable. However, there is another topic that we're still not talking about: wealth! Many associate as a domain for only those with money, but that couldn't be further from the truth. On today's episode, Jeffrey speaks to Frank Cooper III, Chief Marketing Officer at BlackRock, and he's a believer that more people should experience financial well-being. With money being the #1 stressor, he believes people aren't being taught to talk about money and how to manage it, spend it, or save it. They also spoke about Frank's career trajectory -- from DefJam,Motown, PepsiCo, Buzzfeed, and now BlackRock. He talked about the nuggets hetook from each of these companies and how influential culture is to everythingfrom culture to branding. After all, culture eats strategy for lunch.Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices