You can follow your heart, discover how life works, be happy, and bounce back from hard times. It’s easier than you might imagine.

Author and illustrator Andrew Matthews breaks it all down in his cheerful and insightful books, which have sold more than 8 million copies and inspired audiences at more than 1,000 international companies.

Andrew’s forte is presenting timeless wisdom in fresh, engaging ways. Each of his uplifting books is peppered with lovable, hand-drawn cartoons.

Andrew is based in Queensland, Australia, where his wife Julie serves as his books’ publisher.

On this episode, Andrew shares invaluable lessons for businesses and individuals alike:

• Big things can happen to small, out-of-the-way businesses when they have inspired concepts.

• To succeed, a company doesn’t have to be first to market. It can observe what’s working and improve on it.

• There is a large, hungry appetite for simple solutions to complex problems.

Whether it’s finding resilience in setbacks, taking small steps to overcome big challenges, or packaging ideas in ways that resonate with customers, Andrew’s lessons are universally applicable.

Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart.

Photo: Andrew Matthews, Seashell Publishers
Posted: November 25, 2024
Monday Morning Run Time: 46:53
Episode: 13.24

BOOKS BY ANDREW MATTHEWS INCLUDE:

• Bouncing Back!: How You Rebound From Disappointment and Disaster 

• Follow Your Heart

• Being Happy

• How Life Works

THIS WEEK’S ARTICLES OF INTEREST BY DEAN ROTBART

• Nine Lessons to Prepare for the “Transaction of a Lifetime”: Insights from Renita Wolf on Exiting Your Business

• It’s a Dirty Job, But Someone Has to Get Rich Doing It

Renita Wolf is an expert on Exit Strategies.

Renita and her firm, Poe Wolf Partners, are renowned for helping founders and mid-market CEOs build better businesses and exit on their terms.

Before founding her firm, Renita spent 25 years holding senior financial and operation positions for companies including Wells Fargo, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Cray Research.

Whether business owners hope to execute what she describes as “the transaction of a lifetime” in a year, a decade, or even longer, there are concrete steps they should take now to maximize the value of their companies when the time arrives.

Among the topics Renita covers this week are the ways to identify potential buyers for your business, significant tax considerations, and recognizing the best time to move on. As you are about to hear, preparing to sell a business is as much a journey as a destination.

Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart.

Photo: Renita Wolf, Poe Wolf Partners
Posted: November 18, 2024
Monday Morning Run Time: 43:41
Episode: 13.23

REGISTER FOR RENITA WOLF’S UPCOMING WEBINARS: 

Exit Planning: Close the Value Gap (December 10, 2024)
Exit Planning: Assemble Your Advisory Team (January 14, 2025)

THIS WEEK’S ARTICLES OF INTEREST BY DEAN ROTBART

• I Want to “Unplug” From Online Purchases and Banking. Is It Possible?

• It’s a Dirty Job, But Someone Has to Get Rich Doing It

David Sauers is a successful entrepreneur from Savannah, Georgia, where he runs a service business with 50 nationwide branches.

Formerly an executive in commercial banking and business lending, the company David co-founded is marking its 20th anniversary this year.

David is the first to admit that his business is not the type that most people dream about owning — at first. 

However, his emphasis on quality, consistency, community, and creativity provides a wealth of lessons for all business owners and entrepreneurs.  

[Read this week’s All You Can Eat Business Wisdom Second Helping, which offers six actionable insights here.] 

In an homage to the panel game show that ran on CBS between 1950 and 1967, “What’s My Line,” you’ll have to listen to this week’s episode to discover the uncommon service that David’s company provides.

Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart.

Photo: David Sauers, Royal Restrooms
Posted: November 11, 2024
Monday Morning Run Time: 41:27
Episode: 13.22

RELATED LINKS:

• All You Can Eat Business Wisdom signed first editions

• Book a Free 30-Minute, Reputation Consultation with Dean Rotbart

• Follow Reputation Tool Chest on X

This week, founding host Dean Rotbart, a Wizard Academy graduate who served many years on the Academy’s faculty, shares the story of how a self-published children’s book author garnered global media coverage, reaching more than 2 million potential customers in a single day and zooming more than 1 million spots to the top of the Amazon charts.

The lessons to be gleaned by her success, Rotbart promises, can be applied by every business owner, entrepreneur, and author who’d like to attain blockbuster visibility without spending a dime on consultants, social media ads, or news releases.

How did the author of the children’s book do it? Well, it helps that she, too, is a Wizard Academy alumna and that Talya Rotbart is married to the self-anointed “Dean of Reputation.”

Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart.

Photo Collage: Talya Rotbart (top row right), Dr. Laura Schlessinger and Talya (bottom row left)
Posted: November 4, 2024
Monday Morning Run Time: 31:59
Episode: 13.21

EPISODE LINKS:

• But I Said I’m Sorry by Talya Rotbart 

• Book a Free 30-Minute, Reputation Consultation with Dean Rotbart

• Hour One of the Dr. Laura Podcast for October 30, 2024 (Subscription Required)

• Follow Reputation Tool Chest on X