Do you know the challenges and opportunities associated with why you started a business? John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal more about why you need to examine the real reason you started your business.

What was on your mind when you started your business? John Bradberry joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that regardless of why you start a small business, you must know why so you can deal with the pros and cons of that start-up decision.

How one prophet predicted the future of small business. Bruce Piasecki joins Jim Blasingame to reflect on the late British economist, E.F. Schumacher, who prophesied about the value of small business two generations before it was cool.

Is there anything hopeful in America's future? Gerald Celente joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the only thing that he thinks can save America - direct democracy - and how that would work.

Confidentiality and trust are everything to a consultant. Gene Zaino joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the small business consulting and services sector, including how critical are confidentiality and trust to success.

Millions of Americans have chosen to become small business consultants. Gene Zaino joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why "solopreneurs," independent consulting and service-oriented small businesses, is a fact-growing sector.

Here's a great entrepreneurial success story. Tom Markel joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how he capitalized his first business by first finding customers and then looking for capital.

Do you have an entrepreneurial organization? Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the "Century of the Entrepreneur," which will require more employees who are allowed to take entrepreneurial risks and managers that redeem them when they fail.

What defines an entrepreneur? Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the characteristics of an entrepreneur and how they manifest in the marketplace.

Is someone born to be an entrepreneur or can you be trained? Bill Schley joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that the concept of entrepreneurship is being defined in many ways.