Bart Jackson's Podcast - Get Informed, Get Entertained, And Seize The Wisdom

What attitudes are holding you back and which ones you need to foster? What feelings seethe through your heart as you roll up your selves and get down to work? Attitudes serve as the vital foundation for business success and satisfaction. And No – you cannot fake an attitude. But you can cultivate those attitudes that literally will inspire you onto achievement. Host Bart Jackson, CEO of Prometheus Publishing in a series of fascinating tales lays out how you may develop those attitudes that will transform your work into an enjoyable career and fill your workday with more achievement.

Yes Mr/Ms Entrepreneur you need an attorney from the outset to cultivate profits. Host Bart Jackson brings on renowned corporate attorney Phil Crowley to explain to entrepreneus exactly why they require legal counsel and how to best employ your attorney profitably.

Guest Thomas Bakewell reveals how boards of directors adapt to the revolutionary upheavals facing corporate governance. Forget your grandfather’s boardroom with a posse of aging duffers deciding corporate fate in wise and masterful inactivity. Board members have gone shirtsleeves - governance has morphed to an intensely more involved process. Gender quotas, mandated Qualified Financial Advisors, specialized authority members, and scores of others pressures are rampaging across the directorial horizon and leaping through a very pierced corporate veil into boardrooms both domestic and global. To sort through these upheavals, major boards are calling upon host Bart Jackson’s guest, sought-after consultant Thomas Bakewell. Author if the definitive “Claiming your Place at the Boardroom Table” and veteran member of the leadership board and faculty for the National Institute of Corporate Directors, Thomas Bakewell knows firsthand how boardroom traditions are blending with today’s changing roles.

Opportunity – Rising From the Ruins - What do you do if you’re in real estate and Hurricane Sandy suddenly blows into your state and devastates 350,000 of the homes and businesses in your area? Well, if you are Hollston Realty Group principal Don Slaght you see the need and seize the opportunity to literally get those buildings (and your community) back on their feet. Host Bart Jackson invites Don on to tell how he swiftly expanded his firm into Northeast Home Elevation to salvage and restore, raise on stilts or move to higher ground homes and commercial structures damaged by Sandy. (How does one lift up a home from flooded shore and heft it to a high hill?)

How well is your career serving you? Ever wonder what tools the top business leaders employ to forge their own fulfilling careers? Host Bart Jackson has interviewed in depth scores of Chief Executive Officers, their mentors, and their C-suite executives. In this show he distills down the top ten most effective and applicable actions you can take to bring not just achievement, but satisfaction to your working life. If you are one of the energized elite – one of those individuals who is willing to invest the effort and adopt the advice of the masters, you need this show. Tune in and learn the proven methods to guide your career onto the path you want.

What does it take to bring luscious oysters up from the seabed and onto the platter placed appetizingly on the half shell before you? Host Bart Jackson and The Art of the CEO radio crew make pilgrimage to Maxwell Shellfish to discover how it’s done. John Maxwell, his wife Kim and their daughter Bridgette tell how their family has been bringing oysters, clams, crabs, and all the seas bounty for over 170 years. These are fisher folks who literally sleep in rhythm with the tide, and began their trade as toddlers tied to the mast. Tune in and learn how to handle a dredge, make a profit, and how the fishers like John Maxwell create a sustainable shellfish crop along New Jersey’s southern shores that will last into future generations.

What does it take to make your words stick fast in people’s minds? How can you inspire action and influence others’ decisions? To answer these vital questions, Host Bart Jackson invites cognitive scientist Carmen Simon to push aside all trite maxims and delve deep into the human brain’s inner workings and pathways. Author of “Impossible to Ignore” and cofounder of Rexi Media, Dr. Simon outlines scientifically tested methods for making other folks’ grey matter sit up and take notice. Tune in and learn how to make your words count among people who count

Get ready for fun. Business folks from all over challenge Host Bart Jackson with some of business’ stickiest situations and frustrating inter-personal dilemmas. Tackling them head on with his witty wordsmithery, Bart will craft the response that is most likely to ease the tension or extract the speaker from a potential fist fight. The world belongs to the talkers – those people whose words convince others that they are trustworthy, their products beneficial, and their ideas wise. So tune in and learn a little chat savvy and a gentle way to boost your esteem in others’ eyes.

'Tis not your rank or title, but the raw material within that holds your ability to generate influence beyond what you might imagine. Host Bart Jackson invites guest Dale Caldwell, serial CEO, business and social entrepreneur, educator, renowned consultant, and author of "Intelligent Influence" to discuss how to cultivate your influential self. Whether you seek to boost sales, your career, or just make your ideas strike home with a greater force, this show is laden with applicable tools.

You grab it off the supermarket shelf and take it to your table with very little idea of what it takes to get it there. Who are the commercial and manufacturing links in this $1.6 trillion food chain? How do they bring food to an entire nation? What problems do they face? What are the new FDA food labeling laws going to mean to them – and you? Brian Todd President of The Food Institute joins host Bart Jackson to reveal the unknown machinery behind our food industry. Tune in and gain a fuller appreciation of all the folks and efforts that give you that next delicious bite.

Crowdfunding is no longer an adventurous backing of the bizarre project. Various venues now accomodate venture capitalists, angel investors, equity investors, as well as the entire gamut of entrepreneurial enterprises. Noted Financial Mentor Jaime Raskulinecz joins host Bart Jackson gives the real low down on the ever-expanding arena of Crowdfunding. Tune in and discover the potential thrill and profit of this alternative funding source.

Do you know the exact right words to move, cajole, traduce, and seduce people to the action you desire of them? Most folks scribble and key-tap scores of messages every day that don’t move readers to anything except tears. Host Bart Jackson, a 30-year journalist, author, and CEO of Prometheus Publishing reveals how to make your coworkers read what you write – feel inspired to act – and even look forward to the next missive from you. Forget all the protocols and style traditions. There’s no sacred rules here. Tune in and let’s get some energy and understanding flowing from your pen into your readers’ minds.

Beware: you are entering Terra Incognita. Whether fresh out of school or returning after a long hiatus, crossing the workplace threshold brings you into a dark pool of strange people, new rules, new demands and unspoken codes of conduct. As a life raft for these first days of your career, Host Bart Jackson passes on a gentle, friendly guide of attitudes and practices to adopt. He also shares some blunders to avoid and the humorous regrets from many workplace veterans. Tune in and gain some wise and proper footing for your career launch.

How do you entice the community’s enthusiasm to juggernaut your idea into a popular event? Host Bart Jackson brings on the master of community involvement, Jacque Howard, who has founded and transformed Trenton365 from a radio show to a major non-profit organization, to a powerful progressive force in New Jersey’s capitol city. Using Trenton 365’s latest citywide Library Box Project, Bart and Jacque discuss how to rally those hidden-but-willing resources. Tune in an learn how to roll out the subtle details and promotion strategies that smoothly move an idea into an event, ever fanning the flames of public interest.

Engineering Community Momentum How do you entice the community’s enthusiasm to juggernaut your idea into a popular event? Host Bart Jackson brings on the master of community involvement, Jacque Howard, who has founded and transformed Trenton365 from a radio show to a major non-profit organization, to a powerful progressive force in New Jersey’s capitol city. Using Trenton 365’s latest citywide Library Box Project, Bart and Jacque discuss how to rally those hidden-but-willing resources. Tune in an learn how to roll out the subtle details and promotion strategies that smoothly move an idea into an event, ever fanning the flames of public interest.

Entrepreneurs see life through a unique lens. When devoted mom Nadine Savino was faced with a poorly designed drink bottle for her toddler, she saw a basic need – and a solution. This inventive mother went out and designed a spill-proof, stretchable bottle cap that allows bottles to tip over without the milk or drink spilling or pouring through a straw. Thus the “GCap” was born and the welcoming response has been staggering. Host Bart Jackson converses with GCap inventor, Nadine, and her impressively creative PR/marketer, Jeanne Murphy who prove that entrepreneurial success is no accident. Together Mses Murphy and Savino reveal the careful, wise steps in promotion, manufacturing, and marketing that has set major media panting to have GCap’s inventor on their shows and big box stores seeking the product for their shelves. Tune in and discover how to best engineer your product idea into a thriving business.

The magic that makes and breaks fortunes bubbles madly on the cauldron of the stock exchange trading floor. Host Bart Jackson invites veteran direct access trader Kevin Menture to lay bare the mystique and describe how the traders come out fighting after the opening bell. Kevin details this exceptionally high-skill and ultra-high-pressure profession – what it takes to enter this elite crew – and the camaraderie that bonds them together. Ever wonder what really unfolds when you place a trade order with your broker? How digitalization of trades is giving not only speed but an advantage to certain folks? Tune in and learn what’s the deal behind the deals. http://theartoftheceo.com

Joseph Petrovics has created the 9/11 World Trade Center firefighters’ memorial, monumental pieces for St. John the Divine cathedral, well known governmental commissions, as well as highly popular abstract pieces in wood, bronze, and stone. When not instructing Americas young, up-and-coming elite, he labors in his studio, transforming his dreams and visions into the tangible. All the while, Joseph is an independent businessman. His art must not only meet his own idealized standards – it must be salable. How does a sculptor, even a top sculptor, make his work known and purchased? How does one transform a 20-inch model of clay into a 16-foot bronze monument? Now, Joseph has brought to life a new life-size model of a very unusual, emotionally-gripping horse. Tune in and learn what tools and energy brought it from his mind to his studio, and what steps it must take to move from studio into the pubic view? http://www/theartoftheceo

Wine is a tough business. Host Bart Jackson takes you on a remote broadcast to Pennington, N.J.’s Hopewell Valley Vineyards where owners Sergio and Violetta Neri lovingly grow a wide range of fine varietals and magically transform their juice into true Dionysian nectar. In addition to creating a tasteful offering of award-winning wines, Sergio and Violetta have developed their winery into a tourist destination, which has become the hub for local jazz top talents, all enjoyed with full-bodied vintages and brick oven pizza served in Hopewell Valley’s elegant halls. Tune in and learn the continual cycle of labors demanded in the vineyard, and take note of a creative business model by which a farm has become a state-wide entertainment draw.

Data is not wisdom. Today’s internet allows us to get more fiscal data, accompanied by a truly overwhelming amount of advice. But is this “news” based on agendas that bear no relation to wisely investing your hard-earned dollars? Host Bart Jackson invites internationally noted financial commentator Mr. Ken Kamen as guest to help us separate the fiscal chaff from those rare kernels of profitable advice. Tune in and learn how to master the net and other investment resources, and avoid being led down some gilded, slippery path. It profiteth a person well.