The Larsen Group

Michael Ewing is a popular Tucson-based fine artist.  His story of change includes studying architecture and math before attending art school in the Midwest, and a career that has spanned teaching mathematics, traveling extensively across the US for inspiration and insight, music and painting in a style characterized as romantic and poetic.  He admits to having “a beautiful obsession” with the people, places and structures of the Old Pueblo, and is grateful for the influence of many established Southwestern artists, patrons, and gallery professionals.

www.mewingart.com                 February 18, 2012              20 minutes

Tom Endersbe leads a certified financial planning organization based in Minnesota servicing clients in 30 states.  His newly released, co-authored book, The Three Commitments of Leadership: How Clarity, Stability, and Rhythm Create Great Leaders, explains how the classic leader/follower model has been replaced by a new model.  Engagement of every teammate assuming responsibility to a common purpose, and leaders obsessed with building lasting relationships foster collective, positive results.

www.threecommitments.com        February 11, 2011            20 minutes

Rick Meyers and Bob Pinney are seasoned global operations executives with the Werner Company, the top brand for climbing equipment and a new line of fall protection harnesses.  With their consumer products sold through “big box” stores, US households on average have 3.7 Werner ladders.  The Pennsylvania-headquartered firm is expanding operations in Europe, Pan-Asia and Latin America beyond their manufacturing campus in Mexico, where the workforce is respected for its creativity, openness and commitment to change.  Watch for their trademark blue oval at the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Os Hillman is president of Marketplace Leaders, an organization whose purpose is to help men and women discover and fulfill God’s complete purposes through their work, and to view their work as a ministry.  His new book, Change Agent:Engaging Your Passion to be The One Who Makes a Difference, discusses the seven mountains of culture – business, government, arts and entertainment, education, media, family, or religion – and challenges us to step up to lead change.
www.marketplace.org             February 4, 2012             20 minutes

John Dinkel is an automotive industry expert with over 40 years of experience spanning engineering, journalism, test and analysis, product development, product planning, advertising, marketing and public relations.  John was Editor-in-Chief of Road & Track magazine, one of the most popular consumer automobile magazines in America, and professes to have spent his life doing things he had no logical reason (or background) to do – from testing cars to racing Corvettes for a SCCA championship winning team. 
eleven-tenths_AT_cox.net      February 4, 2012              20 minutes

Dave Anderson and Eoin Noonan are members of the Vermont-based band Split Tongue Crow.  The group’s other instrumentalists, Vermonters Jeremy Woods and Matt Marro, have a shared musical history with Dave since adolescence.  Moving to the US at 16 fromIreland, Eoin’s earnest and often haunting lyrics are put to backwoods harmonies.  He and Dave are guitarists since age 12, and like all members of the band have diverse career interests spanning solar energy, cooking, carpentry and social work.
Enjoy three songs from their first CD, the wind from the Northeast blowing them to you.
www.splittonguecrow.com     February 4, 2012              20 minutes

Jacqueline Berger is a former financial services executive who shifted to follow her lifelong passion and fascination with the lives of the wives of the American Presidents.  Now known as the First Ladies Lady and frequently on the national speakers’ tour, Jacqueline recently released Volume II (three years in the making since Volume I in 2008) of the three part trilogy –Love, Lies and Tears: The Lives of America’s First Ladies.  She brings dynamic women from history to life, while revealing the scandals and exposing the false rumors surrounding them.

www.firstladieslady.com         January 28, 2012                     20 minutes

Laura Diamond leads a double life. With early-career experiences in public relations for a technology firm, Laura is now a third-generation leader of Cieslak and Tatko, her family’s funeral home business outside of Pittsburgh.  She also moonlights as an actor and model, recently being the stand-in and photo double forHollywood leading ladies Katherine Heigl and Roseamund Pike.  Laura recently launched a solopreneur public relations and communications practice.  All these career circles and not yet age 30!

www.cieslaktatko.com             January 28, 2012                20 minutes

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Regina Brett has been a newspaper columnist for 16 years, 11 with Cleveland’s Plain Dealer where she was a finalist in 2008 and 2009 for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary.  Also host of an “internal affairs” live talk show on NPR, Regina’s new book, Be the Miracle: 50 lessons for Making the Impossible Possible, is an inspirational collection of stories about the decisions we make and how our choices can make the impossible possible.  Regina’s first book God Never Blinks has been published in 20 countries, originally based on a column she wrote that went viral across the Internet.

www.reginabrett.com        January 21, 2012                         20 minutes

Bob Mayer is a recently retired 45-year veteran lawyer whose firm represented clients both big and small, negotiating deals on everything from amphitheater developments to the sale of vintage aircraft.  A frequent coast-to-coast radio guest, Bob has conducted negotiation, mediation, and persuasion seminars and workshops in both the United States and abroad.  His book How to Win Any Negotiation without Raising Your Voice, Losing Your Cool, Or Coming to Blows advises readers on how to tilt the playing field to their advantage in a non-coercive, non-manipulative way.

www.rdmayer.com             January 21, 2012                         20 minutes

www.thewaytowin.net

Michelle and Joe Frazier took a leap of faith in mid-2011 to open Café Marcel, a restaurant in Tucson’s trendy 4^th Avenue district offering savory and sweet European-style crepes. Michelle career-shifted to the restaurant industry five years ago from being a personal trainer working with older adults.  Developing a passion for international cuisine during his years in the US Navy, Joe went on to work with executive chefs and manage restaurants for 25 years.  The Fraziers are having a ball working together to build this vibrant new business, in particular expanding their diverse and loyal clientele.

www.cafemarcel.biz          January 21, 2012                         20 minutes

Andy Tarczon is a founding leader of The Diffusion Group, a consultancy known for research on and translation of emerging technologies and application to harness the power of the Internet, coupled with knowledge of the behaviors of the connected consumer and evolving video markets.  Andy spent two decades as a product manager responsible for some of the earliest efforts to connect wireless data networks to Internet information sources.  Fresh back from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Andy shares insights on the changing domains of contemporary television.

www.tdgresearch.com             January 14, 2012                 20 minutes

Dr. Gary Auerbach is a practicing chiropractor who due to an unfortunate accident shifted to support the professional development and connection of chiropractors around the world, AND build a business via his photographic talents in platinum portraiture.  Gary embarked on a 15-year project of photographing Native Americans, resulting in works featured in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and in his book We Walk in Beauty. Gary is also an accountant and former pistachio farmer, exemplifying how our linear zigs and zags and reconnecting circles of experience move us forward.

www.garyauerbach.com          January 14, 2012                20 minutes

Dr. John Izzo is an organizational development consultant, motivational speaker and internationally recognized author of the new book Stepping Up: How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything.  Through the stories of “boots on the ground” people from a variety of backgrounds who have created or changed communities and organizations of all sizes, John stresses how passion is more important than pedigree.  Most every problem, from personal difficulties and business challenges to social issues, can be solved if we look to ourselves first to create change, rather than looking to others.     

www.steppingupforchange.com        January 7, 2012       20 minutes

Stephanie Urdiales and Ron Andrea are from the Golden Goose Thrift Shop in Tucson. As general manager, Stephanie leads a staff of four and an over 500 member family of volunteers to make good things happen every day.  Through meticulously screened, cared for and presented donations, they have earned over $3 million in eight years through their retail outlet to help fund community outreach services in Arizona’s Pima and Pinal Counties – revenue that is 50% of the funding for SaddleBrooke Community Outreach and Catalina Community Services to help the disadvantaged.

www.goldengooseaz.com      January 7, 2012                  20 minutes

Debby Dubay is a Vietnam and Desert Storm era US Air Force veteran who turned her passion for collecting hand-painted French porcelain into a profession.  Becoming a licensed appraiser and internationally known expert in the process, Debby is the founder of a unique antique retail point, the Limoges Antique Shop in Rutland, Vermont.  Her website dates from the early days of the internet, and her career and life have been featured in several best selling books encouraging people to play to their passions.