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Siena Dexter joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show(tm) to talk about the data science of connecting with consumers to choose your brand, your product over a competitor. How do you create brand loyalty? How do you garner interest in a new product or brand so that your target consumer knows what the value is in just 3 seconds? Siena calls it the 3 Second Decision. Listen and learn how the BIGGEST names in Consumer Packaged Goods use behavioral economics to trigger the consum...

Karl Maier, Founder of Abunden, joins Karen Rands to talk about how his Abunden Management Toolkit system helps his clients double their sales. Karen jokes at the start of this show -- that this info is the INSIDE Secret business owners and investors are looking for to actually 20x their sales so they can sell their company and exit for big returns on investment for both the founders and all the investors. The joke is that it isn't a secret at all. People + Processes = Profit. Watch and Listen...

Karen Rands the Compassionate Capitalist and Heather Havenwood, the Sexy Boss and Internet Influencer, talk about the evolution and revolution of NFTs. Blockchain will transform business in the future the way the Internet revolutionized EVERYTHING starting in the 90s. NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens are the key element of that. NFTs, and how they protect the digital rights and identity of the item, on the blockchain, is so much more than a cartoon of monkey or whatever other crazy thing you have he...

There are documents that Founders and Investors need to make sure a company has in place to protect the business when critical disrupters occur. Similar to a will before you die, a business can't wait until a founder is disabled, dead, or divorced to implement these business contingency agreements. Paul Hood joins Karen Rands to talk about the events business owners and investors should anticipate and the agreements that act as insurance policies to protect the interest of the organization's sta...

In support and celebration of International Women's Day, and recognizing March as Women's History month, we celebrate all that it means to be a woman. In honor of all that women have achieved and all that is yet to achieve, including real equality- in mind, body, and bank account, we looked into the Compassionate Capitalist Show Vault and rediscover this memorable interview with famed 'Sexy Boss' Heather Havenwood. Karen and Heather have a lively chat about these 4 core topics: Take Total Own...

In celebration of Black History Month, we brought back Karen's popular 2 part podcast series on Black Economic Prosperity - Past Present and Future. Catch new intro and update too. The wealth gap between white and black communities because of systemic racism and the resulting obstacle for building equity and wealth is astounding. This is part 2 of Karen Rands' series on Black Economic Empowerment and Prosperity. This episode addresses the 10X prosperity gap, as reported by the Brookings Insti...

True equality comes with economic prosperity. This is a replay of Karen's historic, informative, and popular look at The Black Lives Economic Story - Past Present & Future PT 1. The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast will explore the history of black enterprise, and government policies intended to aid in economic prosperity, and the racist practices that created barriers and obstacles to African American prosperity so that wealth and education gap which exists today has its roots dating back to th...

Startup entrepreneurs can feel like they are on treadmill never reaching their goal of $1M in revenue. Even established Business Owners can feel they are in the rat race, stuck on a track, with no end in sight. They used the investor seed capital to reach their initial milestone of millions in revenue, but feel like they are out of gas and plateaued, with no way to reach the 8 or 9 figure revenue target they need to sell their business. With the black swan event of the pandemic, a business t...

On this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Show, Nathan Beckord, Founder and CEO of Founder Suite, and Karen Rands will talk about what steps a founder needs to take to increase the odds of seed round and subsequent funding rounds successful. The steps to complete a successful capital raise are predictable, yet most entrepreneurs make the same common mistakes. Even with all the free resources available through economic development organizations, incubators and accellerators, and an abunda...

Think It, Be It Founder, John Mitchell, joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the Science of Success. Feeling stuck, John used tried and true, but often overlooked, methods to figure out his personal breakthrough to go from earning a few hundred thousand a year to growing his own business to $5M in Revenue, and a big windfall when he sold it at a $25M valuation. John discovered the disconnect between his efforts and the results that had been holding him back - the beli...

You can't save yourself to wealthy. You must make your money compound to create wealth. If we accept that the greatest way to create wealth is by starting/owning a successful business, then we must agree that the next best way is to be the investor in that successful company. Karen Rands is joined by Aryeh Sheinbein for this episode of Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about creating generational wealth by owning and investing in private businesses. During their conversation, they touch on S...