Check out our Q&A with rock star Michael Franti — the American poet, musician, and composer who with his band Spearhead spreads the message of love, peace, and social justice. He is our January 2016 Entrepreneur of the Month in Be Inkandescent magazine.…more
Welcome to author and publisher David Bruce Smith’s new show: The Grateful American™ Series. This interactive, multi-media program is designed to restore enthusiasm in American history for children — and grown ups, too! The series will include: The…more
WELCOME to Finance Rules: The Egan, Berger & Weiner Financial News Radio Show — a monthly podcast show that offers insights into some of the top trends happening in the financial markets! Today we’re featuring CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™…more
TODAY ON GUIDING LIGTHS Our spotlight is on: Futurist Andy Hines. Click here to PLAY NOW! Our hot topic: What does business look like in 2013 and beyond? Your host: Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher of Be Inkandescent magazine, and founder & president of The…more
WELCOME to Finance Rules: The Egan, Berger & Weiner Financial News Radio Show — a monthly podcast that offers insights into some of the top trends happening in the financial markets. Today we’re featuring Financial Advisor Carmen Wu, who shares…more
Owning a string of hardware stores in downtown Washington, D.C., isn’t what you’d expect Gina Schaefer to say she does for a living when you meet the perky, petite 40something. But she and husband Marc Friedman proudly stand at the helm of a $19 million…more
Fine artist Andrea Arroyo immigrated to New York from Mexico in the early 1980s to study in the professional program of avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham. She danced professionally for years, then transitioned to the visual arts. She became a star…more
Dr. Andrew Weil is the world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine — which is a healing-oriented approach to health care that encompasses body, mind, and spirit. A Harvard University-trained doctor, he is the founder and director…more
From a fatal car crash and the death of a parent, to the drama of comforting a sick child and coping with infidelity, life’s greatest emotional challenges play out in the pages of Caroline Leavitt’s books. These scenarios are the stuff of…more
Michele Muska is a woman who speaks in textures. The fiber artist based in Enfield, Connecticut lives, creates, and works in a colorful world where fibers and textiles tell her story. Michele started her company, LolaRae, over a decade ago to showcase her…more
Dr. Esther Sternberg is the Research Director for the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona at Tucson, founded by Dr. Andrew Weil — our Entrepreneur of the Month in the December 2013 issue of BeInkandescent magazine. In fact, Dr.…more
Acclaimed DC broadcaster Jan Fox’s four Emmy Awards attest to her stellar 30 year career in local network news. But don’t ask her where she went to Journalism School. The only woman role model on TV when Jan was a kid was “I LOVE LUCY.” Jan likes…more
WELCOME to Finance Rules: The Egan, Berger & Weiner Financial News Radio Show — a monthly podcast show that offers insights into some of the top trends happening in the financial markets! Today we’re featuring Certified Financial Planner…more
Step inside the cozy Fredericksburg, VA, shop, Taste: Oil, Vinegar, Spice, and you may not know exactly what to do first. Lining the walls are two rows of silver tanks, each filled with one of Taste’s 40 varieties of top-grade olive oil and vinegar. A…more
WELCOME to Finance Rules: The Egan, Berger & Weiner Financial News Radio Show — a monthly podcast show that offers insights into some of the top trends happening in the financial markets! Today we’re featuring Financial Advisor Sheldon Weiner, a…more
Who says crime doesn’t pay? Not Louis Ferrante, an associate of the Gambino family, who by age 21 had netted millions for his employers. “My natural talent for management led Mafia bosses to rely on me,” explains the man who went on to pay a big price…more
Do you have a budding entrepreneur in the house? The founders of Tomorrow’s Lemonade Stand (TLS) think you do — and their community of little ladies and mini men promote and instill the spirit of entrepreneurship for girls and boys in America. “We…more
Bryan Beatty is a Certified Financial Planner® and partner at Egan, Berger & Weiner LLC based in Northern Virginia. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry, he is a principal of this independent financial services firm, which is…more
Leadership powerhouse Amy Elizabeth Fox is a trainer, executive coach, and organizational strategist with experience consulting for corporations and nonprofit organizations. Since 2004, she has been running Mobius Executive Leadership, a boutique firm…more
Do you want to get more of what you want, improve your relationships, and enjoy life’s deeper rewards? That’s the ambitious goal that Harvard lecturer Erica Ariel Fox achieves in her new book, Winning From Within: A breakthrough method for leading,…more
Yeeeee-haw! Sandra Boynton goes Country! With three Gold Record albums and a Grammy nomination to her credit, Boynton now brings you “Frog Trouble,” a terrific CD and illustrated songbook of her new and wildly original Country songs. And they’re sung by…more
Lara Galinsky is an author, speaker, and expert on working on purpose. As the senior VP of Echoing Green—a groundbreaking nonprofit organization with the mission to unleash next generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems—Lara helps young…more
Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD, is an international keynote speaker specializing in leadership and nonverbal communication. She coaches executives, female leaders, salespeople, and change-agents to build strong and productive business relationships by projecting…more
With no formal education in business, entrepreneur and author Jo Packham has risen to the top of the craft community as a publisher of several successful magazines for artisans. The creator and editor-in-chief of “Where Women Create,” “Where…more
Matt Woolman is a radical. Not only is he the director of Creative Entrepreneurship in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University—the former designer is teaching art students how to be entrepreneurs. Crazy talk? Not according to Woolman, who…more
What does it take to successfully work in the global marketplace? In this podcast interview, we get the inside scoop from our August 2013 Truly Amazing Woman Jennie Walker, director of Global Learning at Thunderbird School of Management’s Najafi Global…more
“The Art Forger” turned Author B.A. Shapiro into an overnight success—more than two decades after she started writing books. A fantastic story centers on the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art…more
Reading Partners is a national nonprofit organization that provides volunteer-led, one-on-one literacy tutoring to more than 5,500 elementary school students in 103 schools in low-income communities across six states and the District of Columbia. It delivers…more
Award-winning science journalists Ashley Merryman and Po Bronson made headlines in Sept. 2009 when they released “NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children.” Indeed, their anti-parenting manual is an insightful exploration of themes and issues that…more
Bestselling author Po Bronson is author of six books including his latest “Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing,” which he co-authored with fellow bestselling author Ashley Merryman. Their first book, “NurtureShock, upends what you might think…more
