Book Review for Jeff Karp’s LIT: Life Ignition Tools: Use Nature’s Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas and Ignite Action In LIT: Life Ignition Tools, Dr. Jeff Karp takes readers on a deeply personal and profoundly insightful journey, blending his experiences as a child struggling with ADHD with his professional achievements as a world-renowned…
You want inspiration? John Sitomer delivers in spades! As he puts it, “I spent one third of my life battling cancer. I’m thrilled it was me!” Today on THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with John Sitomer, a fitness entrepreneur, a dad, and the founder of South Florida’s Council of Dads. For John, battling…
The Mentors Radio, a popular and unique business & ethics radio show now in its Fourth Year, has a new time slot on AM860 The Answer in the San Francisco Bay Area, now airing at 1:00 pm every Saturday. Produced by the Catholic Business Journal, the radio show and radio podcast features three remarkable and…
Now entering its Fourth Year, The Mentors Radio program expands broadcast into the greater Dallas-Forth Worth region beginning January 4, 2020, on the Salem Radio Network. The Mentors Radio Show features three ethical and successful CEO hosts—Tom Loarie, Ric Brutocao, and John Phillips—who engage in lively, in-depth interviews with top ethical business leaders from a wide…
As a young seminarian in the Diocese of Brooklyn, Abbot Eugene Hayes of St. Michael’s Abbey, Silverado, CA, witnessed firsthand the vocation crisis the Church experienced shortly after the changes brought about in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. But as leader of the hundred-strong community of Norbertine fathers, brothers and novitiates living at…
June 18, 2014 Every year, a small percentage of Catholics in business do switch to what they expect will be a more fulfilling line of work—including religious non-profit fields. Every year, a small percentage of Catholics in business do switch to what they expect will be a more fulfilling line of work—including religious non-profit fields. Here’s a way…
January 9, 2010 Don’t miss Saturday’s live, call-in radio show, The Catholic Business Hour, when host Dick Lyles interviews three-time Emmy Award winning broadcast journalist Jim Newman. A lifelong Catholic, Mr. Newman’s journalism career spans three decades and includes his most recent work on KABC-TV in Los Angeles, where he provided insightful financial information on the morning, midday…
January 2, 2010 The Catholic Business Hour radio host Dick Lyles will deliver a special January 2 live, call-in program. No guest is scheduled for the show. Instead, Mr. Lyles will discuss the role of business in a spiritually driven society, including a discussion about the Catholic church’s teachings regarding capitalism and faith. “Some people assume that faith…
December 8, 2009 Did you know that the Feast of the Immaculate Conception has special meaning for the Catholic Business Journal? We are consecrated under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, imitating St. Maximilian Kolbe, a patron of modern communication, in his unwavering devotion to the Immaculata. Further, our mission is to encourage other Catholic professionals at all…
November 28, 2009 On Saturday morning, November 28, Thomas M. Loarie, Chairman and CEO of Mercador MedSystems, Inc., and a career life science executive with more than 30 years experience growing multi-national medical technology companies, will discuss his faith and the life science field on The Catholic Business Hour radio show with Host Dick Lyles. Loarie is not…
I am an observer. People fascinate me and I enjoy listening to their stories, challenges and triumphs. As the Managing Partner of Bell Oaks Executive Search, I have interviewed and spoken with thousands of individuals in career transition over the last 10 years. These interactions, along with my other experiences in executive search, have helped…
November 2, 2009 by Rev. Lawrence G. Dunklee, M.Div., M.A. “Mr. Businessman went to Mass, he never missed a Sunday. Mr. Businessman went to hell for what he did on Monday.” This well-known poetic ditty is often cited by people who work in Catholic social justice as a clever way of reminding us of the importance of…
October 21, 2009 By Brian Lopez Poverty, Violence, Death; what is a kid to do? Have HOPE! Hope as a word is difficult to understand. It can be defined as many different things depending on the individual. But as a concept, hope can be the most dangerous possession a person can have. Dangerous, in that it can help…
October 17, 2009 VIDEO: John Clark (guest on The Catholic Business Hour) and Jim Kelly, co-founders of The Paladin Financial Group, discuss ethical investing.
October 8, 2009 Maybe it was just the kind of kid I was, but I’m guessing that most children are constantly reminded by adults to be more efficient. Maybe not exactly in those words. More likely it comes in the form of phrases like “don’t be late”, “use your time wisely”, “don’t waste money” or even “turn off…
October 8, 2009 Tune in Saturday morning, October 10, from 11 a.m. to Noon EST (8 a.m. – 9 a.m. PST) to The Catholic Business Hour with host Dick Lyles, and catch a live, call-in interview with Mary Cunningham Agee, a former Wall Street banker and Marketing Strategist for two Fortune 100 companies who transformed a personal…
October 2, 2009 Tune in Saturday morning, October 3, from 11 a.m. to Noon EST (8 a.m. – 9 a.m. PST) to The Catholic Business Hour with host Dick Lyles, and catch a live, call-in interview with husband and wife, Robert and Berni Neal on the topic of Philanthropy. Married for 25 years, Rob is an investment real…
September 24, 2009 Tune in Saturday morning, September 26, from 11 a.m. to Noon EST (8 a.m. – 9 a.m. PST) to The Catholic Business Hour with host Dick Lyles, and catch a live, call-in interview with Dr. Vincent Fortanasce.A world-renown, pioneering, Yale- and USC-trained neurologist, bio-ethicist, author and radio show host, Dr. Fortanesce is one of the…
September 17, 2009 Tune in Saturday morning, 11 a.m. to Noon EST (8 a.m. – 9 a.m. PST) to The Catholic Business Hour, with host Dick Lyles, and catch a very interesting interview with Don Carney, founder and president of StoryTel Foundation in Omaha, Neb. A talented performer, script writer and documentary producer, and also father of 8…
September 11, 2009 On Saturday morning listeners to The Catholic Business Hour found out why a busy headmaster launched a textbook project — producing textbooks that are now in use in schools in all 50 states and overseas as well! In an informative interview Saturday morning on the EWTN Global Catholic radio network, which includes 130 AM/FM stations…
