CEO To Rainmaker
CEO to Rainmaker: Monthly small business educational show featuring the subject of finance & loans. Content designed to elevate a small business CEO's financial executive skills. "A rainmaker is an exceptionally talented CEO who can "make it rain" i.e. bring in customer money, on a consistent basis.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
How A Survivor of the 2017 Las Vegas Mass Shooting Used That Experience To Elevate His Business.
Gene sits down with Ryan Miller a public speaker, business performance coach and author. Ryan and his wife were survivors of the 2017 Las Vegas Mass shooting where 59 people were ki…
How To Become A Great Business Owner for Free!
For many owners, established or startup, their businesses are not doing as well as they like.
Gene sat down with Mihai Patru to discuss tools and services that are available in Californ…
Simple Economics To Make You A More Skilled Business Owner
Gene sits down with Professor Manfred Keil, who teaches economics at Claremont Mckenna College, Claremont , California. Dr. Keil's specialty is economic forecasting for the US, Sout…
Preach What You Have Practiced w/Bill Donohoo
Gene sits down with Bill Donohoo who is currently a business professor who teaches at California State Universitys at San Bernardino & Long Beach . Before that he was the co-owner of th…
To Win In Business You Should Know The Score w/Dale Sarver
Gene sits down with Dale Sarver, formerly the CEO of his own company and currently a business advisor of SCORE, ( Servce Corp of Retired Executives). SCORE is a program provided by th…
Harder Than Ever To Obtain A Business Loan, Myth or Reality? W/Keith Cerwinski
Gene sits down with Banker, Keith Cerwinski, Regional Vice President for American Business Bank , in Corona, CA.
Keith offers his opinion on the difficulty of getting loans approved and…
No Pain No Gain !! - W/ Verious Smith
Gene sits down with Verious Smith small business owner located in Corona, CA.
Verious shared his background and his entrepreneurial journey which was very painful but through sheer …
Episode 61#- 2022 year in review, 2023 format changes
Gene provides stats on his very successful first year as a podcast host and shares his new format for 2023 starting in January
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Episode # 60 How To Get Your Piece of the Government Pie ! w/Abe Xiong
Gene sits down with Abe Xiong , president of National Government Contractors Assocation Abe explains the process of how small business owners obtain contracts also shares his entrepre…
Episode # 59- There Are A Lot of Different Ways To Make Money w/Rebecca Diamond
Gene sits down with Rebecca Diamond owner of Rebecca Diamond Voice Actor
Rebecca has a unique business and and a non traditional business background (theater arts) proving that an…
Episode #58 How To Build A Winning Team By Becoming A Better Leader w/Patti Cotton
Gene sits down with Patti Cotton, President of the Cotton Group , a company engaged in the area of leadership and organizational development. Patti is an expert in these two functiona…
#57 "It's Time To Make Dust" w/Janet Steiner Former CEO
Gene sits down with Janet Dabek Steiner former CEO of Thoro Packaging, Inc. and currently a motivational key note speaker.
Thoro packaging was formed by her father Macy Dabek in 1968 a…
#56- How to Get Big Bucks When You Sell Your Company w/Wayne Slavitt
Gene sits down with Wayne Slavitt, president of the Primemark Group. Wayne is an expert in the area of maximizing business value and exit planning . He earned his designation as a cert…
Episode # 55 How I Did It ! The Story of a Poor Mexican Kid from Lynwood , Ca w/Gene Valdez
In honor of National Hispanic Entrepreneur month , Gene shares his story as to how he made his dream of becoming a successful coach/consultant a reality . Genes parents Edward & Consu…
Episode # 54- Female Immigrant From Mexico Creates A Multi Million Dollar Business in Just 5 years! w/Angy Lopez
Gene sits down with Angy Lopez, CEO of Angy's Angels Cleaning Service
Angy's story is truly inspirational and motivational
Angy was a divorced mother with four children who immigrated…
Episode # 53- From City Intern to Successful Entrepreneur w/Jonathan Palacios-Avila
Gene sits down with Jonathan Palacios-Avila, co-founder & currently VP of Marketing and Research of Stratos Fuel Inc. Jonathan of Mexican heritage, founded the company 8 years a…
Episode # 52 Miguels Mexican Restaurant- A Family Success Story w/Javier Vazquez
Gene sits down with Javier Vazquez, CEO of highly successful Miguel's Mexican Restaurants which was formed by his Mother & Dad over 50 years ago . There are now 22 location, 21 q…
Episode # 51 Can You Use Thrift & Spending Money To Pursue Profits In The Same Sentence? w/Tony Reyes
Gene sits down with Tony Reyes who is an expert in the 24 billion dollar thrift store industry and is now the CEO of the Thrift Store Consulting Group, a company that provides services …
Episode # 50 US Population- Demographics- What Are The Numbers Telling us?
Gene discusses general population numbers as provided by The US Census, (2019) and the breakdown of small businesses owned by women, all minorities and veterans. This information ca…
Episode # 49 If It Worked For Albert Einstein, It Will Surely Work For You ! w/Gene Valdez
Gene interprets a quote of Albert Einstein ,
" Logic Will Get You from Point A to B. Imagination Will Take You Everywhere "
In order for a CEO to be super successful they must spend muc…