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

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Manfred Krankl


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350. Manfred Krankl: An Immigrant’s Self-Taught Journey to the American Dream on The Mentors Radio

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Stanley McChrystal


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348. Host Dan Hesse talks with General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal about Leadership, Building Teams and Risk Management

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Marc Andreessen with Dan Hesse on The Mentors Radio


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330. The Mentors Radio host Dan Hesse talks with Tech Pioneer Marc Andreessen about AI and what it means for your business

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Adam Alter


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329. NYU Professor of the Year Author Adam Alter on how to breakthrough when feeling trapped

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Michael Collopy on The Mentors Radio


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328. The Art and Business of Professional Photography with Renown Portrait Photographer Michael Collopy

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323. Find Out if You Have What It Takes to Be a “Principled Entrepreneur,” with Entrepreneur-turned-Professor Andreas Widmer

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318. Learn from Cindy McGovern: “The First Lady of Sales”

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315. An Interview with Paul Hobbs, the “Steve Jobs” of Wine

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314. What You Need to Know about Background Checks, Due Dilligence and Fraud Investigations, with guest Samantha McRoskey

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302. What she learned from her father—Stephen R. Covey—on Living Life with Hope and Purpose at ANY age: An Interview with Cynthia Covey Haller

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Dave Liu on The Mentors Radio


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Guest Dave Liu, former Jefferies Managing Director of Digital Media and Internet Banking, shares Tips, Tricks and Smartcuts that will help you thrive in life and career

In this episode, host Tom Loarie talks with today’s guest mentor Dave Liu, former Jefferies Managing Director of Digital Media and Internet Banking. Dave Liu shares his insights and the secrets he learned while becoming the first Asian-American to become a managing director at an investment bank…at the age of 32! Dave raised $16 billion for hundreds of companies—from start-ups to established corporations. He has worked with more than a thousand different individuals, including CEOs and entrepreneurs. David Liu’s top-selling book, The Way of the Wall Steet Warrior, is a MUST-READ (or listen, if you prefer audible!).

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DAVID LIU:

  • BIO: https://amzn.to/3fUHY3q
  • WEBSITE: Liucrative.co
  • BOOK:
    • The Way of the Wall Street Warrior: Conquer the Corporate Game Using Tips, Tricks, and Smartcuts, by Dave Liu
      • “Dave learned how to win in investment banking the hard way. Now he is able to share tools that make it easier for budding bankers and other professionals to succeed.” —Frank Baxter, Former CEO of Jefferies and U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay
      • “A must-read for anyone starting their career in Corporate America. Dave’s book shares witty and valuable insights that would take a lifetime to learn otherwise. I highly recommend that anyone interested in advancing their career read this book.”
        —Harry Nelis, Partner of Accel and former Goldman Sachs banker