Segment 1: We first talk about the secret weapon that small business owners are starting to discover: mindfulness and meditation. It’s already catching on at the New York Times! We’ll show you how mindfulness and meditation can be the key to being happier and more productive in your company. David Gelles is the Corner Office columnist and a business reporter for the New York Times. At the Times, he previously covered mergers and acquisitions for DealBook. Before joining the Times in 2013, he spent five years with the Financial Times. At the FT, he covered tech, media and M&A. In 2011, he conducted an exclusive jailhouse interview with Bernie Madoff, shedding new light on the $65 billion ponzi scheme. He is the author of “Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out”.

Segment 2: Taxes. It’s a word that sends a shiver down the spine of every small business owner, especially this year with the change in the tax law, none of us really know what to expect. We speak with a tax attorney about the biggest tax changes affecting small business this year and what tax deductions you can potentially take advantage of. Steve Moskowitz, CPA is a tax attorney and respected authority on a variety of tax, legal and accounting matters and has been quoted by Forbes, the New York Times and CNN Money.

Segment 3: What is it like to start an SAP business during the Great Recession and then 9 years later sell it? We talk to a small business owner about his lessons learned running his SAP start up. Yosh Eisbart has been an entrepreneur his entire life. At the beginning of Great Recession in 2009 with co-founder Michael Pytel, Yosh started NIMBL with $2000 – an SAP Business Software Consulting firm – and grew the business without any external funding to over 100 consultants for an eventual sale in 2018 to a global SAP Strategic buyer. Yosh is currently writing a book called “Start-up Sutras” – reflecting on 108 nuggets of experience gained during the NIMBL experience.

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