The Mentors Radio

Where Remarkable CEOs Challenge Your Thinking about Life and Work


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385. David Rubenstein talks with Host Dan Hesse about How To Lead

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Joe Montana on The Mentors Radio


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384. “Always be prepared to start,” Joe Montana shares tips for success on the field and in life with Host Dan Hesse

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383. Renown Global Consultant Ram Charan talks with Tom Loarie about How to Manage and Thrive in Inflationary Times, and more

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15-Time Emmy Winner Jimmy Roberts joins Dan Hesse to share life lessons on how athletes break out of slumps

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381. Host Tom Loarie talks with 103-year-old trailblazer Gladys McGarey, MD, about Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at ANY Age

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380. Dan Hesse talks with renown wine critic Robert Parker about Changing Careers to Pursue a Passion

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379. World Champion Poker Player Annie Duke talks about Knowing When to Quit

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378. Catholic Charities CEO (ret) Sister Donna Markham joins Dan Hesse to discuss choosing a life of service to others

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377. Building a Restaurant Empire from Scratch with Filippo Silvestri and Enzo Rosano

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376. Best-selling author Gretchen Rubin joins Dan Hesse to discuss how we can be happier and make those around us happier

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Daniel Hawkins


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375. Daniel Hawkins, founder and founding CEO of Shockwave Medical, talks about selling to J&J for an historic $13B and about Doing Well by Doing Good

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David Foster on The Mentors Radio with Dan Hesse


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374. Learn from David Foster, famed composer, musician, 16-times-Grammy Award-winner and a Mentor to the Stars

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373. Dr. Travis Bradberry on Key Emotional Intelligence Habits to Enhance Success at Work and in Life

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372. Decorated Ambassador John Negroponte Joins Dan Hesse to Share Lessons from Four Decades of Diplomacy

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Horst Schulze on The Mentors Radio


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371. Horst Schulze, Legendary Founder of the Ritz Carlton, on Building a Brand, a Business, a Culture

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

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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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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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