Segment 1: Ryan Berman is the author of RETURN ON COURAGE, the Founder of Courageous, a creative consultancy that develops Courage Brands® and trains organizations through Courage Boot Camp. He has helped brands such as Caesars Entertainment, Major League Baseball, Puma, Qualcomm, and Subway. We dive deep into courage. It’s a word that is thrown around small business and our society a lot these days - you need to have courage to start a business, you need to have courage to say what you stand for. But what really is courage? What does it take and do any of us really have it?

Segment 2: Jessica Moser is senior vice president and the leader of Small Business Solutions in MetLife’s U.S. Group Benefits business. She oversees sales, strategy, underwriting, and overall P&L for businesses with fewer than 100 employees, and does the same for Specialty Markets, which includes Professional Employer Organization and Association businesses. We talk about how small businesses can attract and retain the best employees by offering attractive ancillary benefits.

Segment 3: Bill Furlong is a serial entrepreneur and currently serves as a mentor and investor in a variety of adata and b2b centric companies. He is Founder/CEO of SquareStack. He is also the author of Appify Your Business: Harness the Power of Apps to Save 10 Hours a Week and Reinvent Your Business. We talk about how it can be a challenge to manage all the technology it takes to run a small business these days but we show you a solution that can simplify it for you.

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