All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett

Drawing on her marketing and branding playbook, WNBA president Laurel Richie tells Jeffrey Hayzlett of the rewards and challenges of leading the nation’s top women’s professional sports league. Richie shares her journey from Madison Avenue, to the C-Suite of the Girl Scouts of the USA, to a speaking engagement that attracted the attention of the WNBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Mangiamele tells the tale of the brands that created the casual dining category decades ago, Steak and Ale and Bennigan’s, tracing their rise, fall, and rebirth. And he’s not just leading the effort as CEO, he’s got skin in the game as the owner. He pulls back the curtain on the the turn-around and tells how they course-corrected from “brand drift” to get two icons of casual dining back on track.  It helps when the whole team “bleeds green” and is trying to win his ABCD Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GJ Hart traces his route from his birth in the Netherlands to his new life with California Pizza Kitchen, the global restaurant chain that’s redefining casual dining. Hart shares his “secret sauce” for success, and offers host Jeffrey Hayzlett and listeners an insider look at how fine food can be big business. He shares all of this and more on All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett on C-Suite Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creativity in art and in business is the focus of this episode of “All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett.” With over 45 years of start-up, management, IPO and turn-around experience Howard Tullman was a seasoned entrepreneur by age 10 having built both a candy racket and a magic performance business in his free time. He’s gone on to start 12 companies and now runs the Chicago tech incubator 1871, named not so much for the year of the Chicago Fire but for the rebuilding that began right after. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WinStar Farm President, CEO and Racing Manager Elliott Walden talks horses with Jeffrey Hayzlett, especially the big money in the high stakes world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. A former top trainer who won the ’98 Belmont Stakes with Victory Gallop, Walden will be back in the Triple Crown spotlight in 2015 with WinStar Farm’s Carpe Diem, one of the favorites in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chairman & CEO Jim Murren traces the growth of MGM Resorts International into a global gaming, hospitality, and entertainment giant with over 63K employees worldwide. He discusses the challenges of rebounding from the recession, how he built a winning team and shares insights with host Jeffrey Hayzlett on strategy and culture, saying “culture eats strategy for lunch.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though Jim Rogers spent a couple of decades in the casino business, it’s no surprise that this Eagle Scout would return to the company where he had his very first post-grad job, Kampgrounds of America, a.k.a. KOA. In conversation with host Jeffrey Hayzlett, Rogers tells how he brought casino-grade customer service into the great outdoors, what it was like to go incognito on “Undercover Boss,” why campers are opting for “soft rugged,” and explains how to make s’mores with a KOA Rolla Roaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The man behind the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” global phenomena, Jack Canfield joins All Business host Jeffrey Hayzlett to share the success tips and motivational insights that propelled a record seven of his books onto the New York Times best-seller list simultaneously. Canfield talks about education, transformation, self-esteem, and why the first principle of success is taking 100 percent responsibility for your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s one guy who likes taxes! John Hewitt went from part-time work in college for H&R Block, to the disrupt the tax business with the technology that propelled his Jackson Hewitt tax service to the forefront and an eventual sale price of $483 million, to his latest company Liberty Tax and his drive to make it number one. He offers tax tips and insights with Jeffrey Hayzlett on All Business, and explains why you may want to stay off the road on April 15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He’s an Oprah Winfrey regular, host of a weekly must-listen podcast and now Ric Edelman joins host Jeffrey Hayzlett to talk money and more on this episode of All Business with Jeffrey Hayzlett. Three times named the “Top Independent Financial Advisor” by Barrons, Edelman shares his uncommon investment advice, displays his unflagging passion his work, shares lessons learned through his backyard telescope and debates what is the hardest shot in bowling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices