Entrepreneur Weekly

Alan Taylor from Entrepreneur attended the SheTech Explorer 2026 event, where he interviewed mentors who are guiding high school girls on their journey to becoming the next wave of inventors. The SheTech Explorer Day is a dynamic, hands-on tech conference aimed at igniting interest in STEM among young women. Through interactive workshops and real-world challenges, participants delve into variou...

Welcome to Entrepreneur Weekly with Alan Taylor. Today, he talks to Gregory Vetter, the CEO and founder of companies like Alta Fresh Foods and Homegrown Brands. Gregory’s journey started in a small town where his mother's salad dressing inspired him. A funny moment happened when he found out a neighbor had taken her dressing, highlighting his love for food and community. After leaving his job i...

In the most recent episode of Entrepreneur Weekly, host Alan Taylor participated in the AI Mavericks Conference, an event organized by Scott Duffy. During this conference, Catherine Bell, the founder of Titan Impact Group, shared her insights into her journey of understanding artificial intelligence (AI). Initially, she found AI to be daunting; however, she ultimately recognized its potential t...

In this episode of Entrepreneur Weekly, Alan Taylor engages in a thought-provoking dialogue with longtime friend, Scott Duffy, exploring the rapidly evolving domain of artificial intelligence (AI) at the AI Mavericks event in Los Angeles. Initially harboring skepticism, Alan’s perspective undergoes a transformation upon noting that a mere 6.1% of businesses have integrated AI into their operati...

Welcome to another episode of Entrepreneur Weekly with Alan Taylor who is at the SheTech Event 2025 took place at the Mountain America Expo Center, featuring insights from Ryan Starks of the Governor's Office for Economic Opportunity. He highlighted Utah's strong economic environment, praised community support for training future leaders, and discussed efforts to mentor students. The office foc...

The SheTech event in Sandy, Utah, is returning for its second year, attracting approximately 3,000 high school girls interested in STEM fields and 1,000 professionals and mentors. Superintendent Sydnee Dickson emphasizes the importance of hands-on experiences in inspiring girls to explore various careers. While she expresses concern over potential shifts in education policies, she highlights ev...

Welcome to a new episode of "Entrepreneur Weekly with Alan Taylor," broadcasting from the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, Utah, during the SheTech event, which gathers around 3,000 high school girls and 1,000 mentors to inspire young women in tech. Sydney Tetro, President of the Women's Council, emphasized the need for female role models in STEM, noting that 95% of girls lack these fig...

Welcome everyone to the "Entrepreneur Show", as we have special guest, Dave Asprey, who is known as the father of biohacking and is famous for creating bulletproof coffee and hosting the Bulletproof Radio show, which has now been renamed as the Human Upgrade Podcast. He has made significant changes in his life, losing over 100 pounds and reversing his age by more than 20 years through biohackin...

The CEO Series, a standout video series, is the brainchild of William Salvi, a Renowned media agency owner based in Chicago. This Emmy award-winning show stands out for its exceptional quality and its unique focus on CEOs from diverse industries. William, along with his brother Chris, initiated the series seven years ago, and for the past four years, they have been delving into the stories, rol...

On day three of the Women Tech Council in Utah, Governor Spencer Cox spoke about the SheTech Explorer Day event. The event hosted 4,000 junior high and high school girls and provided them with exposure to the tech industry. Governor Cox, who has expertise in business, entrepreneurship, and tech, expressed his excitement and gratitude for the event, which he believes opened many doors for these ...

Alan attended the She Tech Explorer Day event hosted by the Women Tech Council. Dr. Susan R. Madsen, founding director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project, joined him to discuss this event. The event had 4,000 high school girls and was different from other trade shows because of the sound of the girls. The event allowed girls to see themselves in technology and other fields, and it also sh...

Alan is speaking with Cydni Tetro, President and Co-Founder of from the Women Tech Council, at a She Tech event in Salt Lake City. The Women Tech Council is a nonprofit organization that aims to increase the number of women in tech by providing mentoring, visibility, opportunities, and networking. She Tech program provides role models and mentors to high school girls, exposing them to technolog...

 Alan welcomes Jonathan Beskin, a serial entrepreneur and bestselling author of "The Least Likely Millionaire." The book tells the story of how Jonathan overcame crippling anxiety, toxic parenting, and a total lack of support to start and build a wildly successful company, despite everyone telling him his ideas would never work and that he would be a failure. The book is a triumphant memoir hig...

T.J. Colaiezzi is the Founder and CEO of Life Brand, a company that helps people build a strong personal brand using social media. The idea of people sharing their lives online is here to stay, but Life Brand provides educational resources on how to strategically use social media to brand yourself, as well as what not to do. Social media is the first thing that employers and potential business ...

Matt Swider is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheShortcut.com. He served as Tech Radar's editor-in-chief for nine years and has over a million Twitter followers. Utilizing his skill set and followers, he created his own business, TheShortcut.com, which provides consumers with information on how, where, and when to find the technology they seek. The Shortcut is currently the #1 consumer tech...

Derral Eves is the Executive Producer and Co-Founder of "The Chosen" TV series, which was crowd-funded. He is a passionate entrepreneur who builds an audience to support his projects. He believes creating a shareable brand with a clear vision, mission, and purpose is crucial for success. Derral started in agency work in 1999, helping businesses be found online. He then shifted to creating conte...

Alan continues his journey by interviewing entrepreneurs at the 2023 Consumer Summit.  First up is Chip Hopper, creator of Bookjedi.com.  A self-made editor.  He left his corporate job to do what he loves, read. From inception to writing, editing, and promoting the book.   Next is Troy Beckstead, Founder of AI13, a product line that caters to the automotive and offroad industries.  Troy did a t...

Alan continues to interview successful entrepreneurs and inquires as to what they are all about.  First up is Andrew Smith - Managing Director of Savory Fund - Savory Group partners with restaurateurs to help them expand and improve their brand. They don't give the founders money, they invest financially and physically by bringing in teams to help back and operate the assets that they acquire. ...

Alan is in Salt Lake City, Utah, attending the 2023 Consumer Summit Conference.  Thanks to Cydni Tetro, CEO of Brandless, she has lined Alan up with a few entrepreneurs whom she feels have great stories and products.  If you haven't listened to the previous episode, Cydni Tetro and her team created a platform that allows other brands to showcase healthier products for people's bodies, both in a...

Alan welcomes Lori Harder - Podcast Host, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Founder H2Glo.  From a high school dropout to a successful entrepreneur, Lori has faced many struggles and overcame them by learning how to pivot.  Knowing when to break superficial relationships to create real connections.  She is the author of "Tribe Called Bliss", and is the host for the podcast, Earn Your Happy!  L...

Alan welcomes the CEO of RELEVE, Dawn Dahlby, author of Live Wellthy.  As a certified financial planner, Dawn says money is but a tool.  A tool that is defined and controlled by one's behavior.  Many of us live in fear of not having enough money, and or not being enough as human beings.  Dawn teaches how to master your mind and your money.  In her book Live Wellthy, she focuses on three key fac...

Alan welcomes business coach and CEO of Proven Chaos, Jerry Macnamara, as they discuss the secret to success with one word, Love!  Loving your people and treating them as whole people.  It's the right thing to do.  When you put love first and foremost in everything you do, the result is magic.  His mission is to have more smiles.  Alan inquired as to when was the moment of truth for him.  Jerry...

Alan welcomes Emily Ford -  Founder of ITFactor with Emily Ford.  An ordinary girl from a small town.  Lots of turbulence growing up.  Wanted more in life like most people.  Sought out mentorship in her early ’20s.  Stepped into leadership at 26, now on a mission, to help ignite people, build skills and mindsets, to help create other leaders.  The world desperately needs leadership. Emily is a ...

 Joining Alan on this episode of Entrepreneur is Sissie Hsiao - Vice President and GM of Google Assistant.   What is Google Assistant?  It’s designed to help busy people.  We want to build a natural and conversational helper to help get things done.  How good is it at recognizing what I am saying?  People don't enunciate well, or have heavy accents, so they are creating programs that will be ab...

Alan welcomes Coach JC - Mental Conditioning Coach, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, and Author of Win All Day!  Alan talks about his Aha! moment when he understood business  It's when he lost everything due to arrogance.  Question to Coach JC, "when was your aha! moment?"  He replied, "my breakthrough came when he realized all else failed and have no choice but to reinvent himself!"  Coach ...

As the world turns, entrepreneurs are flourishing.  Joining Alan this week is Jason Brown, founder and CEO of Family Central.  Jason started building chains of retail stores until 1999 when he dove into the digital world and started building digitally native businesses.  Though he was successful in building new companies, he also experienced failure.  As the world was changing with so were the ...

Alan welcomes Liam Martin - Co-Founder and CMO of Time Doctor, Co-organizer of Running Remote Conference and Co-author of Running Remote Book.  Alan starts the show by sharing how as an entrepreneur the need to control everything comes with the territory, yet at the same time he believes the best work comes from an employee that is able to be motivated and inspired with no time stamp.  Lian say...

Alan welcomes long time friend and muse Pam Golden - President of GLA Communications.  Alan asks Pam if she can explain her long run of success.  Pam summed it up in 8 key points as follows:  #1 -   Never stop learning.  If you don't keep learning and evolving with times you can't help your clients.  Don't stay still.  Keep changing and try new things, move forward with the time and analyze wha...

Entrepreneurs are gonna take over the world!  Alan welcomes Rohan Sheth - Founder of GrowRev.com  Rohan shares how he came into this world with a Golden spoon only to have it gone in a blink of an eye.  Having to move to Canada as a young lad with his parents to start over, he quickly adapted and advanced in the assembly of a fast food chain.  Rohan was offered the keys to the kingdom and denie...

Alan welcomes his first guest Evan Goldberg - Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite.  It's a company designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.  From 11,000 companies to over 27,000 companies use NetSuite to help with their hypergrowth.  Evan says during this time of dislocation and disruption there is a lot of opportunity.  Companies are being built in the "new normal".  One of the biggest chan...

Alan welcomes James Lawrence, Guinness Book of World Record Breaker and family man.  Author of "Redefined Impossible".  In 2015 he did 50 triathlons, in 50 days, through 50 states.  Why?  He wanted to know his personal limits.  When you reach on mountain top and you see another you want to conquer that one.  Alan asked how he got the name, "Iron Cowboy".  James explained that everything he did ...

Alan welcomes Karen Chupka - Executive Vice President of Consumer Technology Association.  They talk about the Consumer Electronic Show that is coming January 5th thru the 8th in Las Vegas.  Over 1900 exhibitors.  Karen explains that Eureka Park is an area dedicated to start ups.  Entrepreneurs from all over the world, over 34 countries will be represented.  University innovations will be repre...

Alan is joined by Amanda Holmes - CEO of Chet Holmes International.  She is a second-generation business owner.  Her father wrote a bestselling book titled, “The Ultimate Sales Machine. Immediately Alan dives into wanting to know how to increase one’s sales for the upcoming year.  Amanda gracefully turns it around and offers, 3 things holding you back? First, it’s people! Because of COVID, peop...

Alan welcomes Roy Sharples  - President, CEO & Founder of Unknown Origins.  Alan inquires about the statement “Philosophy starts in the Bedroom”.  Roy explains in the bedroom is where you as a child dealt with imagination and wonder.  The more you go through life and are able to retain the childlike wonder, helps keep you creative.  Power of creativity.  Picasso always believed that children ar...

Alan welcomes actress, author, and producer Mariel Hemingway.  Mariel discusses her doctors.  Dr. Sun, Air, Water, Exercise, Nutrition, Earth, and Rest.  She explains finding your balance and slowing things down so you're able to stay in the moment is the key to discovering who you are.  Mariel believes everything you need to help you can be found in nature.  She reminds everyone that nobody kn...

Alan welcomes long time friend and entrepreneur, Marcus Lemonis - CEO of Camping World, Television Personality, and Philanthropist.  Marcus begins with evolution.  The twist and turns through the journey of life.  From good to bad, we change.  We change our logic to our looks.  Without change and or if you don't acknowledge change, you end up on a dead end street.  Alan shares that the best web...

Joining Alan on the “steppingstone of wisdom”, is Glenn Stearns, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Podcaster, Philanthropist, and star of “Undercover Billionaire”. Glenn shares his journey as to how he got to be where he is today. Growing up with humble roots, he wanted more and so he and his friend packed it up and traveled to California. It was there he started his mortgage business. From a mortgage busi...

Joining Alan today is his new friend, Sam Malouf -  Co-Founder of Malouf Co. and The Malouf Foundation.  Sam shares that the real engine of his company is the people.  You can't do it all nor do you know it all.  Getting the right people to work for you and with you makes a big difference in the success of your company.  His mantra is, "We Invest in People".  Sam and his wife then moved onto cr...

Welcome back Entrepreneurs!  This show we have a special guest interviewer,  Jennifer Gottlieb, who will be taking the place of  Alan Taylor as he is at the Barrett-Jackson Car Show in Houston, Texas.  Jennifer is at the Venture Fuel Summit in Utah, taking interviews with successful entrepreneurs asking them, "What is your advice for new upcoming entrepreneurs?" First up is Founder and CEO of ...

Alan welcomes James Burton, Chief Growth Officer at Personal Capital.  Turning a crisis into an opportunity is the question of the hour.  Alan asks James how do you define a crisis?  James says it's a time of great potential change, coming out of a situation of stress or problems.  James has spent about 30 years in the industry like Schwab and Fidelity.  He loves working close to consumers.  To...

Listen up Entrepreneurs!  Alan welcomes Lindsay Teague Moreno - Author of WAKE UP! The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind About What It Means to Really Live.”  She is also the author of Boss Up! It’s about the idea that there is a replicable set of things that people can do that work across any kind of business.  What do I need to do to start up a successful business? How and where do I even ...

Alan welcomes Dr. Sanjeev Khagram - Dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU Foundation Professor of Global Leadership, and a member of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's board of directors.  Khagram discuss the need for a master’s Program in Space Policy. 12 key technologies that are changing this world A.I., MACHINE LEARNING, AR VR XR, BLOCKCHAIN, QUAN...

Joining Alan today is Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT:  The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids.  Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives.  She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's be...

Welcoming Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT:  The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids.  Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives.  She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's because she co...

Joining Alan this week is David Radlo - Author and business leadership & growth expert for RB Markets-Achieve most. David talks about his book: Principles of Cartel Disruption: Accelerate and Maximize Performance. He talks about how his book is a guide for entrepreneurs on how to negotiate deals. He talks about what it was like negotiating agreements with Fidel Castro. David goes on to talk abo...

Joining Alan this week is Scott Duffy - Best Selling Author of Breakthrough. How to Harness the Aha! Moments That Spark Success.  They duo discuss the confusion business owners are having with the new guidelines regarding the use of masks.  At the end of the day, they just want to comply.  Scott talks about the event he is having at the Sundance Resort in Utah.  It's called the Breakthrough Mas...

This week Alan welcomes Will Ahmed - Founder & CEO of WHOOP.  It is a high performance wearable device that measures everything about your body and acts as a 24/7 life coach.  It tells you what good and bad behaviors it has.  Will shares how he came about this idea and did a lot of physiological research to find out exactly how to measure and predict what amounts of exercise, sleep and recovery...

Mike McDerment - FreshBooks Founder, shares what sparked his business and how returning home to work from his parents basement is where the magic began.  Mike goes on to say that building your team and having them share your values is really important as well as staying focus on your business so it doesn't go the wrong direction. Ryan Alard - VP of Marketing for Digistore24, talks about how he...

Keri Ford - CEO of Elevate with Keri & Holistic Life Coach joins Alan today as they discuss the journey of healing oneself.  Alan talks about how he is taking care of business but no his body.  They discuss his keto diet, and Alan shares how he is constantly counting carbs and is afraid of eating things now.  This is a no no, says Keri, this will make you want to eat everything if you put yours...

Joann Lublin - Longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and author of Power Moms joins Alan as they discuss the journey women have taken to become successful business women.  Joann talks about her book and how she interviewed women who are in places of power and are mothers.  From mothers to entrepreneurs, women are making a rise in the business world.  Kristin lee - Entertainment Business...