The ROAR Podcast Series

Manny Flores, President & CEO, SomerCor and The First Million is Always the Hardest podcast come together as part of the ACHIEVE Summit Series. Host Bo Kemp sits down with Manny Flores at WGN Radio for a conversation about one of the most important tools in small business growth: the SBA 504 loan. As a nonprofit lender and Certified Development […]

Apple built the world we live in on our phones. Now it’s working on what comes after them. In this week’s episode, I sat down with David Pogue. THE David Pogue. He’s the guy who tells the most important consumer tech stories on the planet, in a way that makes you forget it’s about buttons and features […]

Bo Kemp is joined by visionary entrepreneur and investor Marcus Lemonis for The First Million is Always the Hardest on WGN Radio. Hear as Bo and Marcus share their journeys in life and business as well as the keys to success and overcoming challenges. Bo and Marcus talk about the excitement around the upcoming Achieve […]

I was a mom who was paying attention. I tested Meta’s parental controls and wrote about teen screen addiction for USA Today. I talked with my daughter about everything and watched over her social media accounts. I still had no idea Instagram was feeding my high school cross-country star a steady diet of thinspo and eating disorder content. […]

This week on Booze Newz, we’re heading to Tasmania to talk with Master Distiller Heather Tillott about Sullivans Cove — the distillery that became the first outside Scotland or Japan to win World’s Best Single Malt. How did a tiny operation in Cambridge turn patience, evolving core releases, and rare single casks into one of the […]

Jim Bob Morris and Dane Neal are joined by Bloomington Illinois’ Brandon Holtz as he gets ready for the 2026 Masters. Hear as Brandon shares his journey from Illinois State basketball to real estate, then winning the Mid-Amateur Championship and now making history at iconic Augusta. Listen as Jim Bob and Brandon go over the […]

Jim Bob Morris joins Dane Neal on WGN Radio to share excitement around the Final Four. Hear as Jim Bob fills us in on his friend Brad Underwood as he gets ready to coach the Illinois Fighting Illini in the biggest game of his career and the most important for Illinois since 2005. Jim Bob […]

Social media did what doctors wouldn’t. Telehealth did what insurance ignored. Now there’s a nationwide hormone shortage. Can tech fix it again — or did we already use up our miracle? This is a story of tech fixing something very broken. Then “the system” breaking it again. Menopause. The Change. Cougar Puberty. Whatever you want […]

“I tell you guys how to be less addicted to your phones, get more out of your life — and I feel so broken right now.” That’s me — a consumer tech journalist who has spent nearly 20 years telling you exactly how not to let your phone run your life. Now I’m coming clean. […]

In this episode, Hudson Lindenberger sits down with Tony Salles, third-generation Master Distiller of El Tequileño, to talk about how his family’s tequila brand is helping change the way people think about tequila. We discuss his deep family roots in the industry, why El Tequileño has only ever made its own tequila, and how traditional […]