Business With Passion showcases passionate business owners (from the San Francisco Bay Area). Learn the strategic keys to transforming your passion into a successful business. Get inspired by their enthusiasm and knowledge.
Episode theme: People who make a living doing things that seem like child's play. Kirk Rademader has been sculpting sand for over 12 years, 8 of those professionally. He has worked on several very large sand projects overseas and has recently returned from extended projects in Turkey and Portugal. He has won many sand sculpting championship titles, and appeared on Travel Channel’s Sand Blasters: The Extreme Sand Sculpting Championship.John Collins has been folding paper and making paper airpla...
Episode theme: People whose old-fashioned businesses would seem to have no place in our modern culture.Art Rogers has been helping families tell their stories with photographs since 1975. In his Point Reyes Station studio and in the homes and gardens of those he pictures, he crafts museum-quality portraits to capture the special moments every family cherishes. By returning to photograph the same people in the same setting years later, he helps create family history in a very personal way. Thes...
Episode theme : People whose old-fashioned businesses would seem to have no place in our modern culture.Andrew Hoyem founded Arion Press in 1974. Considered one of the most accomplished printers of today, Hoyem is also a published poet and exhibited artist who occasionally includes his own writings and drawings in Arion books. The concepts for all Arion publications originate with Hoyem, who chooses literary texts, commissions new work from writers and artists he admires, and designs the books...
Episode theme : Guests who make a living infusing more fun & games into people's lives.Dan Zelinsky (a fifth generation San Franciscan) is the owner of Musée Mécanique - one of the world's largest (over 200) privately owned collection of coin-operated mechanical musical instruments and antique arcade machines in their original working condition - all of which can be played by visitors. Peep shows (early San Francisco scenes/bawdy comedy), fortune tellers, photo booth, and several games of chan...
Episode theme : How How does a local free weekly newspaper continue to thrive for almost 50 years? The Pacific Sun was founded in 1963, and is the second longest running alternative weekly in the nation, behind only The Village Voice. With a readership of around 80,000, the paper is distributed at over 400 locations throughout Marin County, California. Guests include: Jason Walsh (Editor), Gina Channel-Allen (Publisher), and Beth Allen (Art Director/Production Manager). For more information: T...
Episode theme : Hear local entrepreneurs tell the story of how they developed successful businesses (held at Dominican University).Bruce Burtch is a nationally-recognized cause marketing catalyst. He helps for-profit and nonprofit organizations develop win-win partnerships which maximize their strategic marketing and fund development. He designed and directed the most successful cause marketing program on emergency preparedness in the country through a partnership between the Pacific Gas and E...
Episode theme : Hear local entrepreneurs tell the story of how they developed successful businesses (held at Dominican University). Jay Hamilton-Roth (Producer, Business With Passion) is a marketing strategist who helps small businesses brainstorm, design, and implement effective marketing plans that connect their business with their passions. Holly Stiel (Owner, Thank You Very Much, Inc.) in 1976 became the first female concierge in the US, and now teaches businesses globally how to provide w...
Episode theme : The people involved in making San Francisco's Fleet Week 2010: Navy personnel from the USS Makin Island, organizers, and the heart-thumping airshow performers (including the U.S. Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron -- the Blue Angels). The Blue Angels ’ mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting efforts and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill amba...
Episode theme : The people involved in making San Francisco's Fleet Week 2010: Navy personnel from the USS Makin Island, organizers, and the heart-thumping airshow performers (including the U.S. Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron -- the Blue Angels). The USS Makin Island (LHD-8) is the last of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ships. They have a hybrid engineering propulsion plant (which includes two gas turbines and two auxiliary electric propulsion motors). Since 75% of a amphibious ship's...
Episode theme : 11 people who make a living drawing cartoons were interviewed at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center Sketch-a-Thon. The following cartoonists were interviewed: Brent Anderson (Astro City), Alexis Fajardo (Kid Beowulf), Brian Fies (Mom's Cancer), Shaenon Garrity (Narbonic), Debbie Huey (Bumperboy), Greg Knight, Paul Madonna (All Over Coffee), Thien Pham (Sumo), Lark Pien (Mr. Elephanter), Dan Piraro (Bizarro), and Frank Roberson (Maximus). For more information: TV.M...
