Ivan Misner joins Jim Blasingame to reveal recent research on how many hours it takes to make a friend, a good friend and a best friend.

Jim Blasingame laments the passing of two very important members of his Brain Trust, Dr. Judith Glaser and Andy Gause, and why the world is worse off from their passing.

John Huber joins Jim Blasingame to address the snowflake effect caused by hearing certain spoken words, and say that the real world and marketplace are indifferent to your very existence, let alone your relative success – deal with that fact or starve.

John Huber joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how some people have become so self-protected from the real world and its rude words that they can’t function, and will become uncompetitive.

Michael Layman joins Jim Blasingame to report on the multi-year assault on the fundamental structure of franchising by Democrats, regulators like the NLRB and the courts.

Mark Babbitt joins Jim Blasingame to identify secondary trauma from social media activity, where your otherwise upbeat and positive life and mood is diminished by something you read on social media that you really didn’t need to know.

Sarah Hiner joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the relative benefits of fasting as a way of healthy eating and weight control, including a way to fast in the same day you eat.

Gene Siciliano joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the greatest reason most business founders have so much trouble selling is because they haven’t identified how they will fill their days afterwards.

Kita Szpak joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how letting go of perfection in favor of excellence gives you more productive leverage and likely more happiness than you can imagine.

Monica Eaton-Cardone joins Jim Blasingame to report on the state of the cyber-war, especially at the point-of-sale and inside of the merchant technology.