Tom explains how he wrote his book Fortune's Path: How to Use the Principles of Recovery to Find Fortune and Happiness, why he wrote it, and how he feels now that it's done. Tom also reads the 12 Steps of Product Management (we all have to manage the products that are our lives), the Forward (written by his son Joe Noser, 23) and the Introduction.

Dan Hogan, successful founder, investor, and former entrepreneur in residence at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee talks about what it takes to start a business, why he's an entrepreneur, and his new venture of creating investment products that allow enthusiasts to invest in Kentucky bourbon. Dan also talks about what he wants to share with his daughter about his entrepreneurial journey despite her desire to go into public service instead of business, and how he makes himself rich by controlling how he spends his time.

Jonas Fridrichsen, music lover, long-time sales leader, and Chief Revenue Officer for VerityStream, a healthcare credentialing and verification Software-as-a-Service platform, talks about leading sales teams, rising above the noise in healthcare, and why the challenger sales model appeals to him. Jonas and his teams have grown revenue 250% for VerityStream in the last four years. Hear how on this episode.

What is performance marketing, and how do you incorporate data into your marketing? What are the jobs of marketing and sales? What’s it like to enter the workforce during an economic downturn? These are some of the questions we ask Joshua Oakes, Creator and Founder of the Who First Framework, an audience understanding, product development, and customer acquisition process for executives, investors and entrepreneurs.

In the spirit of renewal, we share favorite inspirations from our two mentors, Michel de Montaigne of 16th century France and Margret the 16 years old pug of Central Avenue. We hope these words of wisdom help you improve your business.

The 12 Steps of Product Management is a professional development program that helps you get more of what you want by helping others get what they want. Inspired by the recovery movement, the 12 steps will work for anyone who wants to understand how to use virtue to get ahead.

Tony award winning Broadway producer Bonnie Comley talks about founding BroadwayHD, a streaming service created to make live theater accessible to everyone. Bonnie talks about what it's like running a business with her husband, what it takes to build an on-demand digital streaming company from scratch, and how to get live theater to embrace technology. Bonnie was recorded from her home in NYC. Listen for the sirens!

Tom talks to Cyndee Sugra, driven serial entrepreneur, creator, musician, founder and now Customer Segment Director at Elsevier, the health sciences publishing company based in the Netherlands. Cyndee started, grew, and sold a successful digital agency in Los Angeles before following her dream to live in Amsterdam. Cyndee talks about work culture in the U.S. versus Europe, why values and brand are critical to product development, what's the right way to use data when creating a product or a brand, and more.

Brad Stinson, founder and CEO of the Collective Global, a culture consultancy in Nashville, talks about how failure has made him an expert on the culture required to support transformational success and how the Collective Global studied a diverse set of transformational leaders to identify the steps organizations need to take to build relationships that foster success.

Mark Tochtenhagen, Senior Vice President of Product at Quovant and business founder, talks about the sacrifices of being a founder, what it takes to build a business, how to build great products, how to keep innovating in a big company, and wisdom he’s gained from his children in the age of COVID-19.