Saunders and Cash

Eddie Sandoval started Pinole Blue as a senior in college just three years ago, once he reached the point where he know he needed to decide what he wanted to do with his life. He remembers as a child making family trips back to Chihuahua, Mexico and visiting family in the mountains where the Tarahumaras live. He decided he needed a way to give back to this community that is the basis of his heritage. On these trips, his family would always bring the Pinole, a ground blue corm made into a...

For this podcast we recorded the FlagshipKansas.Tech Scaling Up Tech event, held on October 23, 2019, in Manhattan, Kansas. As the official podcast partner of FlagshipKansas, the technology council for the state of Kansas we were able to capture most of the chats and discussion between the founders of three local technology companies. These chats are real, first-hand, authentic accounts of what happened to a business on their way to rapid growth, what happened when another business is...

For this podcast we recorded the second part of the FlagshipKansas.Tech Scaling Up Tech event, held on October 16, 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. As the official podcast partner of FlagshipKansas, the technology council for the state of Kansas we were able to capture most of the chats and discussion between the founders of three local technology companies. These chats are real, first-hand, authentic accounts of what happened to a business on their way to rapid growth, what happened when another...

For this podcast we recorded the FlagshipKansas.Tech Scaling Up Tech event, held on October 16, 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. As the official podcast partner of FlagshipKansas, the technology council for the state of Kansas we were able to capture most of the chats and discussion between the founders of three local technology companies. These chats are real, first-hand, authentic accounts of what happened to a business on their way to rapid growth, what happened when another business is...

Danielle Kunkle Roberts is a Medicare Supplement Accredited Advisor, National Social Security Certificate Holder and founding partner at Boomer Benefits, a national agency specializing in Medicare-related insurance. We caught up with Danielle to learn her story of entrepreneurial success and how she has grown into a $15 million dollar business. Danielle Roberts was a journalist student at Texas Christian University before she spend 10 years working in human resources and then realized she...

Groover Labs is a concept that takes elements from tech centers like Boston and Silcon Valley and brings that start-up vibe to Wichita, Ks with a space that includes activities for business start-ups, the arts, technology, co-working space, hot seats, classrooms and events. We talked with the founders of the labs, Curt Gridley and Tracy Hoover in the podcast. Curt Gridley, a native of Kansas and his wife, software engineer Tracy Hoover says that when they lived in the Boston area, they were...

Brandy Willett Brandy Willett, an “entrepreneur enabler” is closely engaged in a broad number of entrepreneur programs in Wichita including the E2E incubator, Start Up Grind, One Million Cups and Women Entrepreneurs of Kansas. In the interview she talks about the advantage of working with entrepreneurial start-ups because of the flexible of starting with a dream and a vision of what you want to do, but also have the ability to pivot if the market demands its. Her best advice to a startup...

We caught up with a very busy young entrepreneur,Jessica Thomas Tang who found her inspiration as to start a business as she was planning her own wedding, focused on helping brides on a budget. Jessica is a new bride; an MBA student; works at the Hive; a local company designed to help women with co-working space and support to start businesses and a new entrepreneur. Wichita Coordination is designed to help brides on a budget have the wedding of their dreams, without breaking the bank. We...

Media producer, podcast expert and the host of The Salty Dog Podcast, Jason Angel Villanueva joins us to talk about his move from Houston, TX to Wichita, KS, getting married and starting podcasting with The Salty Dog Podcast, as a series of conversions between himself and a buddy, mostly about Christian topics. Jason discovered podcasting in 2013 as he was recording short teachings on a free Word Press blog. He started his graphic design background working for a professional hockey team....

Join us as we interview Gary Oborny the Chairman and CEO of Occidental Management. We have a wide ranging interview, starting with Gary's early years growing up in Kansas, the son of two entrepreneurs. Gary Oborny got his start in entrepreneurship at 19 as a freshmen at Wichita State University. In his freshman year, he started a landscape company and later transitioned to the oil and gas industry. Gary, established Occidental Management in 1997. Occidental evolved into a development...

This is part two of our interview with Kenneth Friedel as we learn more about the model for mastering entrepreneurial resiliency. Our podcast is based on our radio show which airs every Sat. @ 2 Pm Central time on KSUN 95.9. You can also listen to the live stream via the TuneIn app. Just want to say thanks to our sponsors: Foreman Law, Retreat To Joy, FlagshipKansas.tech, SCKEDD, Lee Gray Action Coach, Friends University, Shaken not Stirred Bartending Ken is a consultant, master...

Join us as we kick off the second season of our Saunders and Cash podcast. Our podcast is based on our radio show which airs every Sat. @ 2 Pm Central time on KSUN 95.9. You can also listen to the live stream via the TuneIn app. And of course we want to thank our sponsors: Foreman Law, Retreat To Joy,FlagshipKansas.tech South Central Kansas Economic Development District (SCKEDD), Lee Gray Action Coach, Friends University and Shaken not Stirred Bartending We are following up with Kenneth...

If you want to hear an inspiring story of a hard luck guy growing up with limited resources, marrying young, putting family first and then when the time is right taking the leap into being an entrepreneur by becoming the local publisher of Medical Professionals, then tune in to hear this interview of Miguel Olave. Miguel attended high school in Derby, Kansas and would have dropped out, except for a special teacher that took him under her wing and mentored him to complete high school and...

In this episode, we are joined by leadership expert and host of the A Dose of Leadership podcast, Richard Rierson. Richard started out as a US Marine Corps pilot where he got his first exposure to the principles of leadership he teaches others today as a leadership coach and business consultant. Richard is a student of leadership as well as a practitioner. Richard’s continual quest to influence the lives of others has led him into what he is doing now, teaching leadership and sharing the...

We caught up with Wichita-based entrepreneur and business coach, Ivy LaClair to learn more about her pivot to being a life coach for entrepreneurs with a focus on motivating others to be more confident in their sales strategies. Ivy grew up in Wichita and moved to Berkeley, CA building a multiple 6-figure motivational speaking and coaching business, before returning home recently. To accomplish her business objectives she created Shine On, Wichita! to provide events, group programs, and...

When it comes to creating a business succession plan, there are several important question you want to answer as to start the planning process and we asked Daniel White and Bryan Hanning of AGH Advisors to join us in the podcast to discuss these questions to give entrepreneurs a starting point as they begin to plan for a business succession. Here are just a few of the questions we covered: Are you ready financially, mentally and emotionally to step away from your business? Is your business...

Every entrepreneur at some point in their business career realizes, it’s time to hang it up, and pass the business on to others. Business succession planning is a series of logistical and financial decisions about who will take over your business upon retirement, death or disability. We asked two experts from AGH, Todd Richardson, the VP of Corporate Finance and Eric Thummel, VP of Tax Services to help identify the key areas of concern for entrepreneurs when considering succession planning....

We recently caught up with the very busy Liz Farha of Midwest Billboards as our guest on Saunders and Cash and it turned out to be an exciting enterview. Twelve years after getting a start in the billboard business, Elizabeth Farha is now the Chief Executive Officer of Midwest Billboards and has finally achieved "what I was always moving towards." She now has 15 billboards in the Wichita area and a total of 55 digital billboards across Kansas and Oklahoma. For marketing of a business,...

When Kenneth Friedel started out he didn't really plan on becoming a certified master facilitator, one of only 35 in the world. His work has really been in strategic planning, succession planning, mergers, acquisitions and process improvement. The concept for Purple Crayon Solutions comes from the beloved child's book by Crockett Johnson. In the story a boy creates his own path using his trusty purple crayon to draw exactly what he needs for his ideas and dreams to come true. In our podcast...

Join us in the interview as we talk with two very dynamic college students, Jessica Aldrich and Christian Ammerman, co founders of a chapter of Startup Grind U at Wichita State University. Start UP Grind is a global organization promoting entrepreneurism and now has university chapters, among the first to be started was the chapter at Wichita State University. Jake Wayman, the chapter director of the local Start-up Grind Wichita got together with Biomedical engineering graduate student...