Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that while our failure to dispose of plastic waste needs to be addressed, the gift of plastics, created from oil and natural gas, is a gift to humanity in the form of performance and health benefits.

Greg Kozera joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the rethinking that U.S. energy independence has caused toward supply chain origination and sourcing, including our dependence on China.

Amanda Elam joins Jim Blasingame to report on this new research enterprise that is focusing on the unique issues women have in acquiring capital for their business growth.

Amanda Elam joins Jim Blasingame to address the differences between how men and women acquire capital investment and what can be done to close this divide from both sides of the transaction.

Amanda Elam joins Jim Blasingame to report on research that shows there are still impediments to women entrepreneurs acquiring venture capital, which might be resolved with more women being part of those investment decisions.

Olalah Njenga joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what she was thinking and what was motivating her when she started her small business seventeen years ago.

Olalah Njenga joins Jim Blasingame to reveal three trends in customer expectations, including the experience, the humanity and the endorsement.

Gleb Tsipursky joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how we sometimes make very important business decisions based on our predisposition to see opportunity based on our own bias, and not facts.

Gleb Tsipursky joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how often we disregard or fail to acquire facts and figures in making decisions, in favor of our own cognitive bias.

Gleb Tsipursky joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that any cognitive bias we may have might be about things external to us, as well as the failure to recognize our own weaknesses, like not delegating enough.