Episodes
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Teaching STEM to Special Needs Kids at STEM 3 Academy
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Check out this amazing, inspirational story about a new school that's just opened here in OC (modeled on the first successful program of its kind in the country in LA) that teaches autistic and other special needs kids STEM. That's right. The most rigorous curriculum for a class of kids most other people give up on, proving that there is potential in all of us to excel (if only someone believes and gives us the chance). It's the innovative STEM3 Academy here in Irvine now open to all parents with special needs kids with a qualified IEP (Independent Educational Plan) as determined by their school district. Or for private enrollment as well.
Having done this interview, I still can't believe it! This is an amazing story you'll want to share with others. Particularly those in our thriving tech community.
Friday Oct 11, 2019
OC Spotlight on 80s Superstar Gino Vannelli
Friday Oct 11, 2019
Friday Oct 11, 2019
We catch up with 80s Superstar Gino Vannelli as he returns to LA for a special concert Saturday, Oct. 12 at the incredible Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. We hear again how he crashed the gates at A&M studios back in the 70s to personally meet Herb Albert (who signed him the next week). And how he went on to record numerous Gold and Platinum records with them into the 90s. Then how he drifted to Europe and other styles when American music changed. And how he's touring again with continued passion and a catalog of new music covering a wider swath of material and sounds from his original romantic hits to his renewed interest in acoustic jazz and classical singing. As a long time fan of his music, I can honestly say he's never sounded better!
Tickets are going fast for Gino's return to LA this Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Don't miss it! We'll see you there...
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Don't miss OC's LARGEST MIXER Thursday, March 28
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Wednesday Mar 27, 2019
Don't miss OC's LARGEST MIXER this Thursday, March 28 from 4-8pm at the OC Fairgrounds. With 15+ local chambers of commerce and 130+ other business booths to visit and learn from. Plus full networking area and free business seminars (including one from OC TALK RADIO on "The Power of Podcasting"). Stop by and say "hi" as we'll be live streaming from there as well. Visit LARGEST MIXER.com to learn more...
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Junior Hack-a-Thon w/Boys and Girls Club of Central OC
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Thursday Mar 14, 2019
Learn more about the upcoming Junior Hack-A-Thon put together by TECHNOSSUS at their HQ (corner of Main and Von Karman) from 10am-4pm, sponsored by HYUNDAI CAPITAL and UCI Center for Digital Transformation for the Boys and Girls Club of Central OC this Saturday, March 16. And meet the future "coders" of Orange County. See you there!
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
CONFIDENT ROI talks with Angelo Ponzi fr/THE PONZI GROUP
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
Thursday Aug 16, 2018
CONFIDENT ROI talks with Angelo Ponzi fr/THE PONZI GROUP
Thursday May 17, 2018
Have we lost faith in faith itself? 05-17-18
Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
We produce a fascinating show called The Next Chapter that tries to answer (from a practical and philosophical point of view) what comes next...particularly for us aging baby boomers who've been gifted with a whole extra inning in life. As a group, we baby boomers will live longer than any generation in history with many of us making it well into our nineties or beyond. So what will we do with that bonus time and our new found next chapter? Hosted by former CEO coach and evangelical minister Charlie Hedges, this show took an unexpected turn the last three weeks into exploring religion. Will our aging group of baby boomers find our way back to the "faith of our fathers" (as the end grows nearer). Or will we stick to our "enlightened" agnosticim and/or scientific athesim? Or find a "new religion" in some new age "force" to make sense of the universe and our place in it. These are (after all) the age old questions that have gnawed at man since the dawn of time. Who are we, where did we come from and where are we going? The so called "meaning of life". But as I note in this post series summary, we seem to be entering into a strange new world where a growing number of people just don't care about these questions at all anymore. Meaning we've lost faith not just in our leaders but in faith itself. We trust no one and believe in nothing. So it's not just a battle between "believers" and "non-believers" (in politics, religion, philosophy, democracy or any belief system you can name) but the emergence of a new category never seen before...NO belevers. People for whom "none of the above" is the default answer to just about any question you can ask. Where the majority of voters (here in Orange County and elsewhere) are now listed in the voter roles as "decline to state". And where a growing majority of people would rather stick a needle in their eye than talk about politics, philosophy, religion or anything "greater than themselve". So do you agree with my gloomy assessment that we're in some strange new "post belief" world. Where facts are all fungible, news is all fake and the experts are all wrong? And is this just a transition to some new "age of enlightenment" or the new normal. A new dark age where anything goes, chaos rules and the old rules or belief systems just don't apply. Or even interest us anymore...
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Don't Miss This Weekend's FAMILY PET EXPO
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Don't miss the worlds largest PET AND PET PRODUCTS EXPO this weekend (Friday, April April 27 thru Sunday, April 29th) at the OC Fair and Event Center. Listen to this week's OC SPOTLIGHT as we share all that you'll see including bldgs full of cats and dogs, birds and reptiles (this being the largest reptile exhibit around). Watch the police dog demos, catch the SplashDog demos (as they judge which dog will jump the farthest into an above ground swimming pool to catch a frisbee) and see a world of animals you've only dreamed of. You can even checkout the dozens of dog and cat rescue organizations placing pets with families like yours right there, on the spot. It's all there and more at the world's LARGEST PET AND PET PRODUCTS EXPO, this weekend at the OC Fairgrounds.
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
Confident ROI launches weekly podcast w/Alex Vorobieff 04-24-18
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
Confident ROI launches weekly podcast w/Alex Vorobieff here on OC Talk Radio.
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Check out DISNEY ON ICE
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Monday Apr 23, 2018
Got a chance to chat with one of the cast members for the latest DISNEY ON ICE production skating thru SoCal this week. This version focusing on the film FROZEN won't make it to OC this tour. But for those willing to make the drive to Citizen's Business Bank Arena in Ontario next weekend (April 26-29), I can tell you (as one Disney fan to another) the trek is well worth it! For more info, visit https://www.disneyonice.com/frozen
Friday Feb 09, 2018
How to Bullet Proof Your Marriage
Friday Feb 09, 2018
Friday Feb 09, 2018
On this week's OC SPOTLIGHT we talk to a long time forensic accountant, John Stirling Kinross, who has collected and chronicled his most amazing divorce cases in a new book specifically for women entitled HOW YOUR HUSBAND SCREWS YOU IN DIVORCE (and how you can protect yourself by BULLET PROOFING YOUR MARRIAGE). In it he gives fascinating case studies ("horror stories" as he calls them) of affluent, intelligent women who in the name of love did NOT treat their marriage as a real contract nor insist on the same level of clarity, transparancy and legal protection that they would in any other form of partnership.
"We prepare for all types of disasters," says author John Stirling Kinross. "So why not divorce?" Learn from the mistakes of others in this series of real life examples (none of which you'll ever believe could possibly happen to you) and take the simple, precautionary steps John recommends to truly protect yourself from the "doomsday scenario" that you hope and pray will never happen. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. And thereby BULLET PROOF YOUR MARRIAGE from the disaster of divorce.