Hosted by Marketing the Midwest · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 30 episodes
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Marketing the Midwest hosts The Midwest Flourish, a business show with 30 episodes published.
What does the future of manufacturing talent look like, and how do we prepare for it today? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Laura Macknick, President & CEO of the @DonWoodFoundat
In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Chuck Surack — entrepreneur, philanthropist, musician, and one of northeast Indiana’s most influential community builders. Chuck shares the story
What does it really take to build a successful startup and why do so many fail? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with John McDonald, President & CEO of the Northeast Indiana Innovation
How does tourism actually impact economic and workforce development in small communities? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Tera Roughley, Executive Director of the Huntington Coun
In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Matt Truty, co-founder and CEO of Fort Wayne-based BT Pro Solutions, to talk about what it really takes to build a modern tech company. They explo
There are major changes on the horizon for Indiana’s workforce system. In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Rob King, Executive Director of the South Central Region 8 Workforce Board,
What if cost wasn’t the barrier to higher education? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Bushnell, President & CEO of the Questa Education Foundation, to discuss how st
How do you help young people move from dreaming to doing? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Megan McClellan, Executive Director of Believe in a Dream in Fort Wayne. Since 2010, Bel
Career & Technical Education (CTE) has been opening doors for students for decades and it’s evolving fast. In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Jim Walmsley, Director of the IMPACT In
Ann Arbor is providing access to millions of dollars for business startups, in this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant talks with Mike Flanagan, Vice President of Capital Programs at Ann Arbor SPARK, who
Latino students in the Midwest often face extra hurdles on the road to academic and economic success, from uncertainty around immigration policy to language barriers and limited access to guidance. In this episode of The
Warsaw, Indiana may look like a small Midwestern community, but it’s home to one of the most powerful medical device ecosystems in the world. In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Dr.
How do communities help young people thrive beyond high school? On this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Park Ginder, Ph.D, former school superintendent and now Executive Director of Grow
What does it really take to be an entrepreneur? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Dr. Andrew Roberts, a practicing physician, entrepreneur, and chair of the SCORE Northeast Indiana
How can a community build a sustainable workforce while keeping its economy growing? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant talks with Adam Welch, Vice President of Economic Development at Greater For
How does a region truly grow its workforce, economy, and sense of community? For Bob Quick, President and CEO of Commerce Lexington, it comes down to two things: connection and trust. In this episode of The Midwest Flour
Getting a government contract can feel impossible, but it doesn’t have to be. In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Jeff Andelin, Northeast Indiana’s APEX Accelerator Counselor, to unc
What does it take for a rural Midwest community to thrive in today’s workforce landscape? In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, host Rick Farrant sits down with Lauren Buchanan, Workforce Development Manager for Van W
Women often face unique hurdles when starting or growing a business—access to capital, caregiving demands, cultural barriers, and the inner work of valuing your own expertise. In this episode of The Midwest Flourish, Ros
How do you rebuild trust, spark civic engagement, and make neighborhood planning actually work? Dan Baisden, Director of Fort Wayne’s Department of Neighborhoods, shares the city’s “embedded planning” approach—meeting re
John Mcdonald
remarkable figure whose journey spans engineering, leadership, and personal transformation · Northeast Indiana Innovation Community
1 appearance on this show
Rob King
Director of Applied Security Research · South Central Region 8 Workforce Board
1 appearance on this show
Jim Walmsley
former End of Life Care paramedic · IMPACT Institute
1 appearance on this show
Mike Flanagan
Assistant Chief Commissioner for South and East Wales · Mastery Transcript Consortium
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Roberts
historian, Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, member of the House of Lords · Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
1 appearance on this show
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