May 14Mini-cast 184: Keith Davenport for Kansas House District 43Interview with Keith Davenport, passionate employee ownership advocate and candidate for Kansas State House District 43.
Apr 16Mini-cast 181: Hardship Withdrawals from ESOP AccountsHow employee-owned Central States Manufacturing finds the balance between short term needs and retirement security.
Apr 2Mini-cast 179: Hypertherm & the Recovery Friendly WorkplaceJenny Levy describes what the Recovery Friendly Workforce Initiative means, how it works, and why it is an important part of Hypertherm.
Dec 31, 2021Mini-cast 166: ICYMI - Cranky Bret and the Bad Customer A meme posted on social media suggests giving restaurant staff grief about policies. Bret reaffirms that anti-mask is anti-employee.
Sep 4, 2021Mini-cast 150: Happy Labor Day Bret Keisling is joined by fellow hosts Jesse Tyler & Rodney North to discuss what Labor Day means in the context of employee ownership.
Jul 20, 2021159: The Personal Fitness Business Revisited"Bill" Moore, owner of Personal Fitness in Camp Hill, PA talks about the business of personal training.
Jul 10, 2021Mini-cast 142: NCEO Launches Captive Insurance ProgramA discussion of NCEO’s OWN Health and OWN Risk, two new captive insurance programs that are only available to employee owned companies.
Apr 23, 2021Mini-cast 131: Blue Ridge Acquires Coastal PensionsTom Roback, president of Blue Ridge ESOP Associates, discusses the recent acquisition of Costal Pension Services.
Feb 26, 2021Mini-cast 123: EO Inclusiveness and DAI Global We discuss SSIR.org's "It’s Time to Put Employee Ownership on the Inclusiveness Agenda," by James Boomgard, CEO of DAI Global.
Feb 20, 2021Mini-cast 122: Baker Center of Excellence for Employee OwnershipCelebrating The Baker Center of Excellence for Employee Ownership and Business Transformation at Montgomery County Community College.
Feb 3, 2021137: Dan Mickle - Coping with the PandemicPerformance Psychology Consultant Dan Mickle discusses individual and organizational coping strategies.
Jan 8, 2021Mini-cast 116: EO Interviews - David Hincapie Part 2Part 2 of our interview with David Hincapie, with concrete examples of how EO practitioners and advocates can use the SBA to grow EO.
Dec 26, 2020Mini-cast 114: Dan Mickle - Getting Through The PandemicPerformance Psychology Consultant Dan Mickle shares the importance of modifying expectations to overcome pandemic weariness.
Dec 18, 2020Mini-cast 113: Shutdowns, Trustees & the BoDBret Keisling looks at government-ordered shutdowns, and the role of the trustee and board of directors if a company violates them....
Dec 16, 2020130: NCEO's Holiday Gift GuideNCEO’s new 2020 Holiday Gift Guide features really cool products and services from amazing employee owned companies.
Dec 11, 2020Mini-cast 112: ESOP Courses from the Beyster InstituteThe Beyster Institute is offering two EsOp courses in 2021, one for EsOp company management, & the other for emerging or new professionals.
Nov 17, 2020126: David Hincapie Pt. 2 - SBA and Growing EOWe're joined by the SBA’s David Hincapie to share concrete examples of how EO practitioners and advocates can use the SBA to grow EO.
Nov 7, 2020Mini-cast 107: ICYMI - A National Mask PolicyWe look at the connection between consumer confidence & interstate travel & argue that we need a national mask policy.
Oct 7, 2020120: Anti-Mask? Still?? Really???Bret Keisling believes that the economy will not recover without consumer confidence. For now, that means masks.
Oct 3, 2020Mini-cast 102: Where is EO? White Nationalists, etc.Bret Keisling envisions an EO movement that comes together to denounce White nationalists and their allies as contrary to the core tenets of