Episodes

  • Bling Over Banking: Baublebar Co-Founders On Ditching Wall Street for Diamond Drive

    Bling Over Banking: Baublebar Co-Founders On Ditching Wall Street for Diamond Drive
    Nov 16 2024
    Two best friends, Amy and Daniella, met in their 20s in the fast-paced world of investment banking. When they attended Harvard Business School together, their class project to study how they would create a jewelry line quickly became a reality for them. BaubleBar co-founders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky join Liz to explain how they found each other at UBS, the dismissive criticisms they faced when they first pitched their jewelry business, the memory of their sale, and the trajectory that their multi-million dollar business is on now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    33 mins
  • How to Force a Do-Over After Fumbling Your Dream Job: NFL Coaching Legend Bill Parcells

    How to Force a Do-Over After Fumbling Your Dream Job: NFL Coaching Legend Bill Parcells
    Nov 9 2024
    Bill “The Big Tuna” Parcells is the only NFL coach to lead four franchises to the playoffs, three to a conference championship—not to mention bringing the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories. Since he was young, his whole life revolved around sports. But when it was time to go pro, he had his doubts. Legendary NFL coach Bill Parcells joins Liz to share the difficult path breaking into the coaching profession, the folks who gave him his first shot, and the euphoric experience of winning multiple Super Bowls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • Election Night's Wall Wizard: Fox News' Bill Hemmer Unveils the Tech Magic

    Election Night's Wall Wizard: Fox News' Bill Hemmer Unveils the Tech Magic
    Nov 2 2024
    On election night, viewers tuning into FOX News will witness Bill Hemmer manning the “Bill-board,” where he’ll be crunching the numbers and breaking down the data to show how America is voting in real-time. Co-host of America’s Newsroom, Bill Hemmer joins Liz to explain how he’s been preparing for the challenge of covering a historic election night, the biggest surprises of presidential elections he’s covered in the past, and the compelling stories to be told from the county vote data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 mins
  • Mic Drop: Kennedy's Path from Radio Intern to MTV Star

    Mic Drop: Kennedy's Path from Radio Intern to MTV Star
    Oct 26 2024
    From one of the biggest stars on MTV to one of the most well-known names on Fox News & Fox Business, Kennedy chartered quite a path for herself when she started as a radio intern at the age of 18. She says she owes her career to the people at K-Rock who trusted her to lead the next generation of on-air personalities talking about the music they love. Host of the ‘Kennedy Saves The World’ podcast, Kennedy joins Liz to explain how she earned her first job broadcasting and video DJing, her anxiety-inducing first day at MTV, and how she eventually landed at Fox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • How a Bartender-turned-Florist Became The First Ecommerce Giant: 1-800-Flowers' Jim McCann

    How a Bartender-turned-Florist Became The First Ecommerce Giant: 1-800-Flowers' Jim McCann
    Oct 19 2024
    Jim McCann fondly remembers his humble beginnings in Queens, growing up the son of a working-class Irish Catholic family. He worked plenty of jobs before he finally bought a flower shop, with plans to become a florist and build a business. After ten years in the florist game, he had acquired nearly 40 flower shops. But the world around Jim was changing; 1-800 numbers were all the rage, and e-commerce had exploded since the embrace of the Internet. 1-800 Flowers CEO Jim McCann joins Liz to share how he grew his one retail flower shop into a massive company worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He explains how he acquired the signature 1-800 Flowers and what he did to adapt his business through the decades to become the national brand they are today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • High School Dropout To Founder & CEO: How DUB’s Steven Wang Is Democratizing Investing

    High School Dropout To Founder & CEO: How DUB’s Steven Wang Is Democratizing Investing
    Oct 12 2024
    Steven Wang caught the startup bug early, launching his first business in the 1st grade. His parents immigrated from China, hoping to give their son a chance at the American Dream. That got complicated when Steven dropped out of high school. Once free from school, he wasted no time. He built and sold a VR company. By the age of 18, he was an engineering product manager at Apple. When he finally landed at Harvard, he soon felt the tug of a fresh new business idea calling to him. Tech CEO & DUB app founder Steven Wang joins Liz to share how his dropouts from high school and Harvard led him to revolutionize and democratize the investing world with his app that allows anyone to copy the leading investors or become a successful fund manager themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • "Owning Manhattan" Real Estate Mogul Ryan Serhant Has No Regrets

    "Owning Manhattan" Real Estate Mogul Ryan Serhant Has No Regrets
    Oct 5 2024
    Ryan Serhant has worn quite a lot of hats. From soap opera star to off-off-Broadway actor, before eventually settling on hustling real estate agent. Remembering his earliest experiences living in New York City as humbling ones, as the city had been rough on him financially, mentally, and physically. Giving up was tempting, but Ryan was certain this was only one chapter in his success story. Real estate mogul and star of Netflix’s “Owning Manhattan,” Ryan Serhant, joins Liz to share how he struggled from the bottom of real estate all the way to the top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins
  • Never Too Old to Start Over: How NHL Star Mike Richter Left the Ice & Headed to Yale

    Never Too Old to Start Over: How NHL Star Mike Richter Left the Ice & Headed to Yale
    Sep 28 2024
    In 1994, the New York Rangers were in a drought—they hadn’t won a national hockey championship in 54 years. Enter goalie Mike Richter and his team, who would lead the Rangers all the way to a Stanley Cup. Reaching the heights of his hockey career in his 20’s, he never could have anticipated his next puck save would be his last. After suffering two concussions in a short eight-month span, he was given no choice but to retire from the sport. New York Rangers 1994 Stanley Cup-winning goalie Mike Richter joins Liz to share the incredible journey his team embarked on to win a national championship for their city. He explains how he adjusted to his transition from professional sports to Yale Business School and his ambitions for his clean-energy business enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 mins