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Listen to Alan Olsen's American Dreams: Keys to Life's Success radio show. Each week expert guests will join Alan as they discuss how to make businesses thrive during challenging economic times and overcoming adversity.
Alan Olsen's American Dreams: Keys to Life's Success airs every Wednesday Evening from 6:00-7:00pm. on KDOW 1220am. A rebroadcast is aired Saturday mornings from 8:00-9:00am.
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The American Dream
May 9, 2012 Olympic medalist, national celebrity and television show host- why would anyone with this status want to leave their homeland to immigrate to another country? Learn why Tanya Hadzhieva chose to leave her home land to come to the United States to live the American Dream.
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The Significance of CEO
May 5, 2012 How is it that a startup can break into the high tech industry and be on a rapid path during one of the worst recessions in history? "CEO makes it happen" says founder of Embedur Systems, Rajesh Subramaniam. "CEO makes it happen and I'm not talking about myself but it does represent three important things. Rajesh explains how customer satisfaction, an efficient and quality driven process, and close control of overhead is what drives the success of a company. Hear more on what Rajesh has to say on American Dreams.
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Citi's CTO Defines Success
April 25, 2012 How do you make the transition from employee to corporate management? "Flexibility, resilience and the ability to change," says Yobi Benjamin, Chief Technology Officer of Citi. "You can't stay on one job for forever... learn how to spot the next trend and be the first one there." Yobi started out his career developing the spreadsheet at Lotus and from there went on to be the Chief of Global Strategy at Ernst & Young. He is now Chief Technology Officer for Citi. Learn more as Yobi shares what has made him successful in his career.
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SEC Chief Accountant
April 17, 2012 Chief Accountant at the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) is about as high as you can get. Accepting the position in 2006, Conrad Hewitt's duty was to protect investors in an environment where white collar crime grows at rampant rates. Learn more as Conrad shares his journey to the top on Alan Olsen's American Dreams.
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To Sun Microsystems... and Beyond
April 11, 2012 The man that started it all speaks on the birth of Sun Microsystems and how it developed him as an entrepreneur. Now Scott McNealy is engaged in several new ventures to change the way we live such as Wayin and Curriki. Learn more about the keys that helped Scott find success.
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Your CFO and CEO's New Best Friend
April 4, 2012 How do you grow your company more than 100% annually? John is helping Adaptive Planning to become the new best friend of CFO's and CEO's everywhere. Leveraging off cloud technology, John's company has made it on the list of Silicon Valley's top ten fastest growing companies. Listen how the founder of Adaptive Planning's game changing idea can yield incredible benefits in terms of informed decisions, forecasting and better performance management.
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Google Landlord
March 28, 2012 Meet Google's Landlord, Tom Rees. He tells his story on how he transitioned from being an attorney to working in the commercial real estate market. Listen as he speaks on commercial real estate in the Bay Area, and tells why he turned down leasing his building to Google, when Google was an early start-up company. |
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Video Game Pioneer
March 24, 2012 The high octane life-like video games of today exist, in part, because of Gary Summers and Atari. Back in the 1980s, few engineers or gamers could foresee where technology would take us. From the early days at Atari to founding four high tech companies, Gary Summers has contributed significantly to the success of the industry. |
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Our Cost for Healthcare
March 14, 2012 How much are we willing to give up when it comes to the healthcare? How about our freedom? Dennis Wolfe has over 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry. In 1991 he authored a prophetic book forecasting the current dilemma the US faces today in regards to our healthcare cost delivery crisis- with a solution to solve our nation’s problems on a localized level. |
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Advice for New Entrepreneurs
March 7, 2012 How do you start a multimillion dollar company? Isaac Jacobson has been behind several multimillion dollar ventures- all before hitting the age of forty. Learn more about what Isaac Jacobson has to say as he shares advice to new and aspiring entrepreneurs. |
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Economic Outlook 2012
Feb 29, 2012 “We are a nation that lives pay check to pay check” says Rob Black, weekly radio host on KDOW 1220AM. How do you plan to retire? When will unemployment rates decrease? Listen to what Rob Black and Alan Olsen have to say about changes that could help our economy thrive in 2012. |
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The Man that Knew Ronald Reagan
Feb 26, 2012 What was it like to work with Reagan? Ty Cobb shares his personal experiences as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan for national security affairs and also as Executive Secretary for President Reagan's summits with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva (1985) and Reykjavik (1986). |
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Forecasting Business in the Cloud
February 15, 2012 This is “a golden age for entrepreneurs,” according to John Mathon, founder of billion-dollar software company TIBCO. Learn what he has to say about how cloud technology is transforming the way businesses are operated, and allowing companies to be started at much lower costs — and without large amounts of venture capital funding. |
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Former Goldman Sachs Executive shares insight on the US Economic Condition
February 4, 2012 Audrey McNiff, former Goldman Sachs Executive, shares her view of the economic state of the nation. She feel that the US is out of touch in terms of how economics actually works. Like other entrepreneurs and national leaders assisting with the Presidential campaign, Audrey is impressed with Mitts Romney’s integrity and business acumen, and feels strongly that; “He’s the real thing”. |
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Artist Turned Entrepreneur
February 4, 2012 Kristen Hubbs is a successful artist and now entrepreneur; she also just happens to be Mitt Romney’s Niece. In addition to her beloved art (oil paintings), recently in galleries in New York and Laguna Beach California, Kristen has also been the CEO and President of Goldline Holdings, LLC since 2009. Goldine’s flagship enterprise is www.YourBestChest.com, which holds a patent on a unique medical device popular amongst surgeons and cosmetic physicians. |
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New Health Technologies
January 28, 2012 What is being done to improve the health of our nation? While politicians are trying to find ways to pay for new healthcare legislation, companies are working on finding cures to improve the health of our nation. Kevin Thayer and Alan Olsen discuss new drug and medicine discoveries that could result in new breakthroughs in the healthcare. |
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IRS Amnesty and Enforcement
January 21, 2012 The IRS recently announced that they will be allowing amnesty for the voluntary offshore bank account disclosure. Ron Cohen, CPA and Partner at Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen and Co. joins Alan Olsen this week in discussing the effects of this new announcement. |
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Taxes: An Outlook for 2012
January 12, 2012 Will the presidential elections dramatically effect taxes this upcoming year? Only the future will tell. Alan L. Olsen, Managing Partner of Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen and Co. and Nadine Camara, discuss tax strategies and changes to focus on in order to reduce your tax burden this upcoming year. |
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Ten Commandments of Leadership
January 7, 2012 Richard King, Owner and Senior Partner of King, King and King Law Office discusses leadership principles that the rising generation of leaders needs to apply. Conviction, vision and commitment are vital principles that will lead to the success of a developing leader. |
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Creating Jobs for America
December 30, 2011 Dickson Buxton responds to the poor unemployment rate that is currently present in America. |
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Secondary Markets - Should you Invest?
December 19, 2011 Alan Olsen and Nadine Camara discuss secondary markets. The traditional markets continue to leave investorswith an unsettling feeling of uncertainty, secondary markets seem to be the big buzz in Silicon Valley. |
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The Current State of Venture Capital
December 10, 2011 Sanjay Subhedar, Founding Partner of Storm Ventures discusses current trends in Venture Capital with Alan Olsen and Nadine Camara. |
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The Future of Healthcare
December 3, 2011 Alan Olsen and Nadine Camara discuss new technologies in Healthcare as well as the effects of the new Healthcare law with D.O. of Heartland Women's Healthcare, Scott Joyner. |
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Protecting Your Rights
November 26, 2011 Alan Olsen and Kevin Snider, Chief Legal Counsel of the Pacific Justice Institute and Ron Cohen, Partner at Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co., discuss recent legal issues. |
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Choosing Your Path
November 19, 2011 Alan Olsen and Wally Hawley discuss how to leverage your time when it comes to operating your business. |
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The Relationship Factor
November 12, 2011 Alan Olsen and Joel Deceuster, of Relationship Factor, discuss effective ways to market your business. |
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Creating a Succession Plan
October 22, 2011 Alan Olsen and Steve Siner, Managing Shareholder of Hoge Fenton Jones and Appel, discuss the importance of creating a succession plan. |
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Becoming a Leader the World Needs
October 15, 2011 Alan Olsen and Liz Wiseman, President of The Wiseman Group and Author of the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller, Multipliers, discuss how to become an influential leader. |
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The State of Venture Capital
October 08, 2011 Alan Olsen and Lou Dinardo, Partner at Cross Link Capital, discuss the current trends in Venture Capital. |
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Creating the Life You Want
October 01, 2011 Alan Olsen and Randy Garn, Co-Founder of Prosper Inc. and Author of "Prosper: Create the Life You Really Want", discuss how to set goals and prosper in life. |
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Finding Money in a Broken Economy
September 24, 2011 Alan Olsen and JD Vaughn, Founder and Principal of JD Vaughn Consulting, discuss how entrepreneurs can find money in our economy. |
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Upcoming Guests
| Bill Shepard, CEO Business Forum of Northern California |
| May 16, 2012 Continuous since 2004, Bill has chaired CEO groups under the flagship of the Alliance of Chief Executives (www.allianceofceos.com ) based in Walnut Creek, California and the Chief Executive Council (www.chiefexecutivecouncil.com) based in San Francisco. During this time he also founded the COO Forum a national professional development association for the Second-in-Command. In 2012, he founded and is CEO for the CEO Business Forum of Northern California. |
| Russell Hancock, CEO Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network |
| May 24, 2012 Russell Hancock is President & CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a group of government and business leaders tackling regional problems. |
| John Kogan, President and CEO of Proformative, Inc. |
| May 30, 2012 John Kogan is the CEO and co-founder of Proformative and a four-time CFO. He has held senior positions in finance at Cisco Systems, Cardinal Health, AlliedSignal and other leading companies. He has extensive experience working with technology companies and has secured more than $100 million in equity capital and debt from banks, venture capitalists and private equity firms. He earned an economics degree from Connecticut College and a master’s in business administration from Duke University. |
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