The Answer is in the power of our Minds, says co-author of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Amazon best seller, The Answer; Murray Smith has served as owner, director and officer for 13 companies in the technology, hospitality, retail, franchising, media, consumer products, training, energy, e-commerce, software, consulting, and entertainment industries and has a long record of building businesses, and turning failing corporations around.
He’s also authored and developed a comprehensive business-growth system, Attract More Clients that has helped numerous businesses. Murrays’s passion for helping businesses grow has affected more than 50,000 businesses worldwide in growing their sales, revenues, profits and value.

In 1989, Christy Strauch, took a job as a sales representative for a small IT company with $50,000 a year in sales. Christy had an MBA in finance and marketing from UCLA and a dream of making a difference in business. Fifteen years and 3 mergers later, Strauch was a partner, took the company public and sold it.

Our guest on this segment has successfully launched, managed, and sold off several businesses. Ilya Bodner is the senior vice president of business development at GO BI Media and go.bignetwork.com-the company was founded in 2005 and is the largest online network that connects entrepreneurs with investors and lenders.

Our guest on this segment is a nationally recognized leader in the social investment industry and a leading expert on how families and businesses can “go green,” saving money and resources. Alisa Gravitz is the President of Green America—-. She authored Green America’s acclaimed Guide to Social Investing, with over a million copies in print and the popular Guide to Community Investing.

Gary Hirshberg is the Chairman, President, and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt producer and the author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World (Hyperion Books, 2008). Gary is a frequent speaker on topics including sustainability, climate change, the profitability of green and socially responsible business, organic agriculture, and sustainable economic development. He’s won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership…

Author Jeffrey J Fox returns to the Brain to discuss his latest book, which takes the idea of competing beyond where most small business owners call their comfort zone.

Michael Shuman is Director of Research and Public Policy for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. (BALLE) has more than 70 member communities in North America. Another 50 or so communities are affiliated with the American Independent Business Alliance. Internationally, more than a thousand communities are beginning to undertake similar work through organizations like Transition Towns and Post-Carbon Futures.

In this edition I’m joined by Woody Tasch—a remarkable man who is framing (and fueling) a whole new way of thinking about the relationship of money, economies and capital to the earth.

Our guest on this segment has experienced a range highs and lows, successes and challenges that few individuals experience in their own entrepreneurial journeys. Marc A Grant is a speaker, author, educator, radio show host, marketing expert and the CEO of his Company, The Success Connection Team The Seven Figure Authors Institute and his newest venture: AuthorsBusinessradio.com.

My quick discussion with John Assaraf right after speaking on the main stage at the event.