Everyone Talks To Liz Claman

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Fox Business Network Senior Correspondent, Charlie Gasparino. Liz and Charlie walk through how Fox Business covered election night, the advantages each presidential candidate had going into Election Day and what the results of the 2020 Senate race mean for legislation in the next four years. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Liz is joined by the first woman of color CEO of AT&T Business, Anne Chow to discuss how her background of hard work and personal experiences of being discriminated against continue to bolster her leadership style of empathy and equity at AT&T. As a child, Anne learned the importance of discipline and grit as her immigrant Taiwanese parents encouraged her to audition for the Julliard school of music at just ten years old. Throughout her life, education would continue to prove paramount, as Anne pursued degrees from Cornell University in business and engineering. Today, after more than three decades at the company, Anne is the CEO of AT&T Business. She is also a contributor to "The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias," by Pamala Fuller & Mark Murphy. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the founder of Bai and Crook & Marker, Ben Weiss.  According to his mother, Ben Weiss has had a knack for creating products with a cult-following since he was a child. In 2009, Ben caught the entrepreneurial bug once again, and created the coffee fruit drink Bai out of his New Jersey basement. Today, Ben continues to innovate in the beverage space with his spiked beverage company Crook & Marker. Ben is also the author of "Basementality: How This Entrepreneur Drove His Fight Against Big Sugar and Rose from the Basement to a $1.7 Billion Brand." Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Founder and CEO of LivePerson, Robert P. Locascio.  In 2000, Locascio took his company, LivePerson, public at eight dollars a share. By 2001, the dotcom bubble had burst and LivePerson shares dropped as low as seven cents per share. In this conversation, Robert discusses how the challenges and pitfalls of his early career helped him as a leader and allowed his team to thrive through the COVID-19 pandemic.  Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Please note: there is explicit language in this episode.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Hollywood Executive Producer, Founder of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, and Founder and CEO of One Community Scott Budnick.  After 16 years of executive producing blockbuster Hollywood films like The Hangover, Due Date, Project X, and War Dogs, Scott Budnick left his contract at Green Hat Films to embark on a new venture. In 2013, Budnick instituted The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), a non-profit committed to "[empowering] formerly and currently incarcerated people." Today, Scott has melded his commitment to criminal justice with the power of film to return to the big screen with Just Mercy, featuring Michael B. Jordan. Liz and Scott discuss the work of the ARC, the power of impactful filmmaking, and his plans for future projects. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vishal Garg, CEO & Founder of Better.com, discusses transforming the mortgage industry through technology, prioritizing customers, scaling the company, and alleviating mortgage anxiety. He shares his personal journey and the inspiration behind Better.com, aiming to make homeownership simpler and more accessible for all Americans.

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Fox Business Network Senior Correspondent, Charlie Gasparino. In late July of 2020, President Trump announced his intention to "ban" the Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok within 24 hours. This week, Liz and Charlie discuss Microsoft, Oracle and other tech companies' bids to win the acquisition of TikTok and how the influence of Washington D.C. continues to impact the private sector and the stock market, as we head into the 2020 election. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Co-Founder and CEO of OKTA, Todd McKinnon. In 2008, as the United States spiraled into recession, Todd did the unthinkable and left his prominent post at Salesforce to create his own cloud security company, Okta. Todd discusses how he grew his company to its nearly $29 billion market cap, how he transitioned from "engineering genius" to CEO, and how he and his wife plan to pay their prosperity forward in the coming years. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the Chairman of VaynerX and the CEO of Vaynermedia, Gary Vaynerchuk. After emigrating from Belarus to the United States as a child, Gary bagged ice, flipped baseball cards, and managed his own chain of lemonade stands. By sixteen, Gary began working at his father's liquor store; a business he would grow into a 60-million-dollar wine company. Today, Gary is the Founder of VaynerX and CEO of VaynerMedia, where he and his team continues to trailblaze in brand consulting through social media strategy. Gary discusses how his intense resilience has served him in his life and career, and what he believes is next for the United States in this difficult time. Follow Liz on Twitter: @LizClaman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Host of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by the CEO of Feeding America, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot. In 2018, after spending more than a decade as an executive at Walmart, Claire left the private sector to work on fixing our hunger crisis in the United States. Today, Claire joins the podcast from the road, as she visits foodbanks across the Texas panhandle, to discuss the $100 Million Dollar gift her organization received from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. She also weighs in on the state of American hunger during COVID-19 and Claire's concerns about food insecurity as school districts and families return to school both in-person and virtually. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices