A simple reminder that a promise only matters when follow-through gives it weight.
The piece stays with the gap between intention and follow-through, using a personal example of weekly commitments to make the point feel immediate.

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Long-form conversations connect leadership and small-business decisions to the personal experiences that shape how professionals work.
Podcast Business News Network Platinum lets working professionals explain how their decisions look from inside the job. Steve Harper and Jill Nicolini conduct conversational interviews that favor personal experience over polished management doctrine, giving guests room to…
Chalkboard erasers meet Hawaiian wedding storm plans; your definition of business listening gets a good stretch.
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A simple reminder that a promise only matters when follow-through gives it weight.
The piece stays with the gap between intention and follow-through, using a personal example of weekly commitments to make the point feel immediate.
A loose, reflective conversation about comfort, healing, and living with the past.
Marilyn Horowitz turns a conversation about cost into something wider: what people pay for comfort, healing, bodily care, and the work of keeping old disappointments from setting the terms of the present.
A thoughtful look at why change feels risky, and how to make it more manageable.
Change is the real subject here, but the discussion keeps it practical rather than rhetorical. Sherry Ann Alexandrovich gives a steady way of thinking through why people hold on to what they know, how even welcome transitions can still carry loss, and why it helps to name both…
A plainspoken reminder that leadership is influence, whether it is intended or not.
The piece makes a clean case that influence is constant, whether or not anyone sets out to lead. It links an aviation story to team behavior, showing how every exchange leaves a mark on what others learn, notice, and repeat.
Practical leadership advice shaped by aviation, military experience, and clear-eyed situational awareness.
Randy Swaim's conversation with Jill Nicolini feels less like a polished business interview and more like a steady talk about leadership, coaching, and staying alert to what is really in front of a team.
A loose, reflective interview about how blackboard work shaped memory and understanding.
The piece follows a speaker thinking through an upcoming move and using it to sketch how a life gets built, then circles back to Footprints in the Chaotic Unknown and its subtitle on art, science, oracles, and kinfolk.
A reflective biography linking tennis, a tennis club, and architecture through My Own Court.
John Riggio's segment follows a clear line from tennis to architecture, and My Own Court gives it a neat anchor. He talks through learning tennis with his parents, moving into pro tennis, building his own tennis club, and then shifting toward architecture after college.
A calm look at Hawaii weddings that keeps the ceremony rooted in place.
A Hawaii wedding is presented as something that should feel tied to place, not run of the mill. Becky Ringler, with Simple Kona Beach Wedding, lays out familiar ceremony elements alongside Hawaiian details: the lei exchange, a lava rock wrapped in tea leaf, a Hawaiian ring…

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Interview with author and consciousness coach Marilyn Horowitz who shares a recent breakthrough realization: she believed she was chasing achievement but had already achieved her goal.
Steve Harper opens with the idea that everything has a cost.
Sherri Ann Alexandrovich welcomes Bernie Hallam, a retired police officer who teaches police resiliency, for a conversation about what it takes to keep showing up after hard experiences.
Randy Swaim, a Marshall Goldsmith certified executive coach and founder of Coaching for Relevance, centers this Podcast Business News Network episode on the claim that “influence is not an option.” He uses Jackie Robinson’s quote, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives,” to argue that leadership is measured by effects on other people, not by self-attention.
An 11-year-old is having a hard time with math.
Steve Harper and Susan Engel, an LCSW and certified EMDR clinician, focus on people pleasing through a real job-help example, including the awkward detail that Steve reached out to a friend and got no thank-you back.
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John Riggio comes on as a guest who has lived two public careers at once.
Randy Swaim, a Marshall Goldsmith Certified Executive Coach and founder of Coaching for Relevance, describes a near-car accident on the way back from the airport and turns it into a lesson about leadership.
John Riggio discusses his autobiography covering his tennis career, architectural work, and entertainment industry connections.
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John Riggio uses his Podcast Business News Network appearance to move between his architecture business, his pro tennis past, and a book called "My own court, the life story of tennis legend John Riggio." He names Manhattan's Sun East tennis center, a "$100 million contract," and later says his deal rose to "over $120 million" with Mitsubishi, Reebok, Adidas, and Leona Helmsley.
Steve Harper and Susie Engel discuss the phrase “you’re taking it personally” and whether it helps or harms a conversation.
Promises sound simple.
John Riggio, architect and former tennis pro, shares stories from his career, including a $100 million contract, paying $100,000 to help a friend avoid forced surrogacy, and encounters with celebrities like Lady Gaga.
Becky Ringler of Simple Kona Beach Weddings says she has facilitated and ordained the weddings of hundreds of couples on the Kona side of Hawaii, where the dry coast usually makes beach ceremonies reliable.
Steve Harper interviews Becky Ringler of Simple Kona Beach Weddings about personalized ceremonies in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where she says every wedding is treated as "the most important wedding." Becky explains that she is licensed by the state of Hawaii, ordained in a non-denominational ministry, and often co-officiates when families want their own officiant.
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Steve Harper and Susan Engel center this Podcast Business News Network Platinum episode on "real positivity," contrasting it with pretending everything is fine.
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Randy Swam joins the host for a relaxed business conversation.
Steve Harper opens by linking change to David Bowie’s "Changes," then uses that idea to ask why people hesitate to turn and face the strange.
Randy brings a leadership lesson to the host.
Her father started bringing home pulp fiction and read them aloud to his wife, reviving a marriage that had been on the rocks.
Grant Venerable uses his memoir title, “Footprints in the Chaotic Unknown,” to connect art, science, and kinfolk to a lifetime of learning.
A tennis legend shares pro tips, stories from his career, and discusses his AI-generated photo and book.
A psychotherapist discusses the therapeutic power of silence and how it can improve mental health and well-being.
An interview with Ronald Berenbeim, an expert in business ethics, discussing his travels to Vietnam and humanitarian initiatives.
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A mental health expert discusses how to find light and positivity when facing major life adversities.
A podcast episode featuring a wedding planner and a couple discussing their dream Hawaii wedding experience.
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Host Jill interviews executive coach Randy Swam about his Hollywood documentary and its impact.
John Rigio shares tennis stories and discusses a book swap event.