I am British. OK, let me clarify. I am a dual citizen (British and American). It is debatable whether I can call myself British. In fact, my wife Nita, who was born in England and hence authentically British, argues I am decidedly NOT British. Even though I lived in Manchester, England for 10 years and have a British passport. My […]
I am a huge poker enthusiast. I like poker much more than I am good at it. That is not true of this episode’s guest, American poker player Scott Blumstein. Blumstein graduated from Temple University with an accounting degree before becoming a professional poker player. Last summer, he entered his first World Series of Poker Main Event, […]
Rich Middlemas won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing the high school football story UNDEFEATED. Rich began his career in Hollywood working in the office of the President at MGM Studios working on films such as Legally Blonde, Agent Cody Banks, Barbershop and James Bond film, Die Another Day. Rich Middlemas graduated […]
Nick Bayer has always been in the business of bringing people together, whether it’s as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs or as a consummate team captain since Little League. So when he created Saxbys in 2005, he never really considered it to be a coffee company — instead, it’s a hospitality company […]
Aaron Muderick, Owner of Crazy Aaron Enterprises https://puttyworld.com, is the inventor of Crazy Aaron’s thinking putty. Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty is available in more than 30 countries around the world and comes in over 30 colors and includes some that can be magnetized or are heat-sensitive. Crazy Aaron employs a labor force of over 500 […]
William C. Taubman is currently the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. The son of a New York Times journalist who learned the importance of working hard and thinking carefully as well as to accept challenges, but not possible ones. In this episode we learn how Professor Taubman entered Harvard at only […]
Chet Harding is the co-founder and owner of Improv Asylum – a nationally-acclaimed improvisation and sketch comedy theater based in Boston as well as stand-up sister theater Laugh Boston and Asylum Gaming and E-Sports production house. As well as acting, writing, directing and producing, Chet has developed Improv Asylum’s global corporate training program, and has […]
Judge Renée Cardwell Hughes is the outgoing CEO of the American Red Cross for the Eastern Pennsylvania region. Judge Hughes is also well known for her work with The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce as well as the contributions she has made towards the Beasly School of Law at Temple University. In this podcast Judge […]
Sharon Pinkenson has served as the Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office https://film.org/ (GPFO) for 25 years during the terms of four mayors and six governors. Sharon has been responsible for all aspects of the office since 1992. Under Sharon’s leadership, the GPFO has been responsible for $4 billion of economic impact to […]
Nick Garnett is a broadcast journalist at the BBC and has been for a journalist and news reporter for 30 years. Nick’s reports are broadcast on local and regional TV as well as the BBC world service. He has reported on a number of stories from around the world including Nepal, Tunisia, Paris, Malta, Jordan, […]
