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The Man Who Never Stops Teaching, with Logan McGhan-EP 266

Today’s podcast is about mentorship, finding it, and paying it back. Logan McGhan is an old friend of mine from the used machinery business who is now a CNC programmer at a semiconductor company in Arizona. Along the way he’s had invaluable mentors in martial arts, machining, and sales, and

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Beds, Banks and Beyond

The economy is always hard to figure out, but we seem to be in an especially baffling period for both professional economists and amateur business

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Our Crunchy New Car

About two weeks ago my boyfriend bought a 2013 all-electric Nissan Leaf while I cheered him on. Steve had been driving a 2005 Chevy TrailBlazer

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Shot at Stardom

Jon Samuelson has three daughters, Bonnie, Karlie and Katie Lou. Two were in the NCAA Basketball Final Four over the weekend. A third started for

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Paid by the Hour

I received an email recently from Steve Rose, a veteran of the machining wars who was educated in an apprentice program in England during the

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