Renee Rosen gives Helen Gurley Brown’s Cosmo a novel spin! VIDEO INTERVIEW

    Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Renee Rosen by clicking on the video player above!  One of the best novels I read in 2018 was Renee Rosen’s Windy City Blues, in which she told the story of Chicago’s legendary Chess Records through the eyes of a fictionalized young woman who worked at... Continue Reading →

Christine Hallquist’s Art of Transgender Politics! VIDEO INTERVIEW

    Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Christine Hallquist by clicking on the video player above!  Derek Hallquist grew up the son of a man who believed fervently in the importance of modernizing and protecting America’s energy grid. As a child and teen, Derek followed his dad to energy-producing plants, learning about turbines,... Continue Reading →

Elizabeth Fournier: how to be green in the afterlife! VIDEO INTERVIEW

    Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Elizabeth Fournier by clicking on the video player above!  Everybody needs a niche and Elizabeth Fournier has one. She’s America’s friendly, neighborhood mortician. She also has a color. Green. As in, Elizabeth Fournier is America’s green mortician, writing books and spreading the word that funerals and... Continue Reading →

Business Wars fought by podcaster David Brown! PODCAST INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: David Brown, podcast host, "Business Wars"     Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with David Brown by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of podcast fans who like nothing more than a brutal war of perceived slights and misunderstandings—Marc Maron vs. the... Continue Reading →

Let the Story Do the Work selling your wares! VIDEO INTERVIEW

    Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Esther Choy by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of entrepreneurs who can add all kind of details to their origin story and it still won’t convince you to buy what they’re selling … in the... Continue Reading →

Kenneth Feld: The Man Behind Ringling’s Big Top! INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Kenneth Feld, owner, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (I spent a day interviewing Kenneth Feld, owner of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in January 1995. The profile—below—was for a Jewish lifestyle magazine but never published.)  A yellow legal pad on the desk before him is packed with page after page of... Continue Reading →

1253 Frank Morsani revs Tampa Bay’s philanthropic engine! PODCAST INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Frank Morsani, businessman, philanthropist, author, To Be Frank: Building the American Dream in Business and Life   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Frank Morsani by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of automobile dealers who still pine for the return of Joe... Continue Reading →

Can Monty Python save the world economy? VIDEO INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Bill Jones, Ben Timlett, documentary filmmakers, Boom Bust Boom (starring Terry Jones of "Monty Python's Flying Circus")     Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Bill Jones and Ben Timlett by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of people who always knew... Continue Reading →

1246 Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young shocks Tampa Bay business community! INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Andrew Young, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, former Mayor of Atlanta, civil rights activist (Originally published in The Maddux Report, May, 1990; this was the first of three interviews I did with Andrew Young. The most recent was in 2013 for the book Building Atlanta, which I wrote with pioneering black... Continue Reading →

1237 Superbosses will make you yearn for a better boss! VIDEO INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Sydney Finkelstein, author, Superbosses, Why Smart Executives Fail, Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, director, Tuck’s Center for Leadership     Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Sydney Finkelstein by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full... Continue Reading →

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