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370. You Gotta Have Balls: A Conversation with Ground-breaking Sports Entrepreneur Brandon Steiner

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369. “Having it All”—Success in Career and Parenting with Ogilvy Chairman Emeritus Shelly Lazarus

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368. Legacy Interview with Harold Burson, the Godfather of Modern PR

In today’s legacy episode, THE MENTORS RADIO Host Tom Loarie talks with the late Harold Burson, a master communicator, highly ethical leader, and widely acclaimed as the godfather of modern public relations! At the time if this interview, Harold was in his 90s, but you’d never know it. His mind, memory, well-anchored moral compass and mastery of communication and strategy is sharp and clear. Learn from him, a true legacy mentor!

Listen to this episode below, or on ANY PODCAST PLATFORM here. BE SURE TO LEAVE US A GREAT REVIEW on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and share with friends and colleagues!

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Ursula Burns


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367. Where You Are is Not Who You Are, an Interview with CEO Ursula Burns

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with Ursula Burns, Chairwoman of Teneo and founding partner of private equity company Integrum Holdings. But Ursula is best known for serving as Chairwoman and CEO of Xerox during a 36-year-career there, where she became the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

In addition, Ursula serves on several private company boards, while also providing leadership counsel to several community, educational and non-profit organizations including the Ford Foundation, the MIT Corporation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Mayo Clinic, among others. President Obama appointed her to lead the White House national program on STEM and she served as Chair of the President’s Export Council. Since February 2022, Ursula Burns has served as Vice Chair of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Advisory Council on Supply Chain Competitiveness.

Ursula holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from NYU.  She’s a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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366. Brenda Wolf, Lessons Learned from a Lifetime Dedicated to Leading Nonprofits and Improving Healthcare for Children in Need

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365. How To Lead, with Guest Mentor David Rubenstein

In this episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Dan Hesse talks with David Rubenstein, the Co-Founder of one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms, the host of The David Rubenstein Show and other programs on Bloomberg TV and PBS, and the author of How to Lead. They discuss what Rubenstein has learned about leadership from interviewing the world’s greatest leaders. 

David Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s  largest and most successful private investment firms. In addition to hosting The David Rubenstein show and other programs on Bloomberg and PBS, David chairs the boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago. David is also a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum. He’s a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rubenstein’s memberships and awards are too lengthy to list. He is especially known for his philanthropy. He’s an original signer of The Giving Pledge, and a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of many of America’s most important monuments, and he’s provided long-term loans to the U.S. government of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S., and the first book printed in the U.S.  David recently bought the Baltimore Orioles. He is the author of four books and in this episode Dan and David discuss one of these books, namely, How to Lead.

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364. From Vision to Reality: Alan Mulally’s Blueprint for Transformative Leadership

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363. Kansas City Chiefs’ President Mark Donovan describes the Quest to Become the “World’s Team” and the “Taylor Swift Effect”

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George K. Simon, PhD


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362. Dr. George Simon on How to Recognize and Defeat Manipulators

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Greg Graves


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361. Greg Graves Lays Out Why Employee Ownership is Better for America

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Jim Loehr on The Mentors Radio show


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360. Today’s Crisis of Courage and What It Could Mean for Your Self-Respect, with Guest Mentor Jim Loehr

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John Stanton


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359. The Evolution of Wireless and How Fans are Changing our National Pastime, Baseball 

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Steve Case


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358. Tech Visionary Steve Case, founder of AOL, on how to deliver a compelling investor pitch and more

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357. Learn from Greg Harden: Mentor to seven-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, Olympiad Michael Phelps and More

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George Brett


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356. Meet George Brett: How a willingness to be coached and listen turned an average hitter into one of the greatest to ever swing a bat

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Ed Kopetsky


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355. Navigating Addiction’s Impact on Careers and Lives with Guest Mentor Ed Kopetsky of Stanford Health

In this episode of The Mentors Radio, Host Tom Loarie talks with Ed Kopetsky, retired CIO for Stanford Health, to discuss the critical issue of addiction, a major career and family derailer today. Ed, who lost his son to an opioid overdose, shares 17 years of frontline experience, sharing invaluable insights on addressing addiction within families and communities. There is no one I know who is better to provide guidance on dealing with addiction within a family. He has been on the front lines of the addiction battle for 17 years. He lost his 31 year old son, Tim, to an overdose in 2017. Before he retired, he served as the Chief Information Officer at Stanford Health’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford’s Children’s Health. He has served as the Board Chair for the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and he is the founder and serves today as the Co-Chair of the CHIME Opiod Task Force. He was awarded the John Gall “CIO of the Year Award” awarded by CHIME and HIMSS. CHIME CEO Russell Branzell has called Ed “one of the most courageous people I know.” Kopetsky is now focused on mentoring families whose lives have been turned upside down with drug addiction.

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354. The Working Genius: Patrick Lencioni Unveils the Six Types of Genius That Power Successful Organizations

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Andy Reid Head Coach of Kansas City Chiefs


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353. NFL Head Coach Andy Reid on Mentorship, Success in Life

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Joe Montana on The Mentors Radio


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352. Performing at our Best Under Pressure with Guest Joe Montana, on The Mentors Radio

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351. Cutting-Edge Technology and the Fascinating Future of Engineering with Guest Mentor Al Pisano and Host Tom Loarie

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