OC TALK RADIO

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As we begin a New Year, we bring in Rachel Daly, a psychotherapist from the Newport Beach Trauma Therapy Center to discuss the all too common “post Holiday blues”. Including their causes (from stress and financial worries to past traumas and current health challenges) and some tips on how to combat this all-too-common mental health problem which so many of us face this time of year. Including not making it even worse by overloading yourself with too many overambitious “New Year’s Resolutions”. And the realization that you’re not alone (nor helpless in this struggle). Using this “turn of the page” to create a new chapter in our life (instead of a repeat of past mistakes and negative patterns). Filled with what most people truly want (from Rachel’s experience): Love Connection and Being Heard.

Hear more here on Orange County’s only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO, Streaming live from our studio here at the University of California’s Beall Applied Innovation Center.

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Brian Castles, Founder of Castles Confections in Fullerton joins us to share how he became Orange County’s very own Willy Wonka. And using his mom’s family recipe, has brought back hand crafted toffee again to So Cal.

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Hayden Ruiz, owner of Partee Golf Simulators joins us to discuss renting a golf simulator for high end corporate events and/or personal parties. The enormous leap in realism in these simulators today (where you are actually hitting a ball into a screen and then tracking that ball visually on some virtual course). How PARTEE is actually starting to install these high end golf simulators into high end homes as well. And how a young man with a Bio Medical Engineering Degree goes from that…to this!

On this week’s OC SPOTLIGHT. On Orange County’s only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO, streaming live from our studio here at the University of California Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER.

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How does the Orange County Business Council represent and promote the business community? Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with Orange County Business Council President & CEO Jeff Ball.

He talks about how Orange County Business Council members work with government and academia, to enhance the economic development of Orange County, the nation’s sixth-largest county. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station which streams live from the University of California-Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER. www.ocbc.org

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Learn about LENDISTRY and their work helping deploy capital for government programs like the PPP Loans (Paycheck Protection Program) initiated under COIVD). As well as being a direct small business lender for small businesses that may not qualify under traditional banking requirement.

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Diane Lydon joins us to discuss her work at a Business Outreach Manager for the State of California’s Office of Small Business and Disabled Veterans Business Services (often referred to simply as OSDS). Helping small businesses and veteran owned businesses secure government contracts.

Operating under the mandate created by California Assembly Bill AB-2019, 25% of all state government contracts are supposed to go to qualified “small businesses”. But finding those small businesses and teaching them the requirements and process of how to apply for these many contracts has been the challenge.

Which becomes the mission of people like Diane and others like the SBDC’s local Contracting Center in Riverside (which we interviewed earlier) to assist small businesses of all shapes and sizes to seize this opportunity by registering, getting “small business certified” and then understanding the process and procedures to secure one of the many government contracts being awarded daily for every imaginable product and service from consulting and catering to construction and cleaning.

How to make it thru this maze of government agencies (with long acronyms) to the prize at the end? Start by going to http://www.CaliforniaEProcure.CA.Gov. And then contacting Diane or the local Small Business Development Contracting Center here in Riverside for more FREE ASSISTANCE in getting started and set up to securing your own government contract.

On this week’s PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

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Alicia Brayboy, DIGITAL MARKETING CENTER talks about her background and why she moved from NY to SoCal to further her marketing career. And how she helps businesses share their brand stories thru social media marketing and make sense of the many platforms and digital strategies available to businesses today.

On this week’s PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

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Meet Manish Bhardia President of the Asian Business Association of Orange County (ABAOC). And partner in his own firm THINK AI. As he discusses his cutting edge work in adding Artificial Intelligence (AI) to businesses (just like yours!) And helping other Asian businesses (thru his work with the ABAOC) learn about new technologies (like AI0 and use it to increase productivity in their own organizations.

On this week’s PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.

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Erika Garcia, President and CEO, OC CREDIT and BUSINESS BUILDERS is back to discuss her role as an ambassador the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. And her upcoming Estrella Award.