Business Radio

Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author, and Emmy-nominated tech media personality. She is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, whose mission is supporting current and future entrepreneurs through investment, mentorship, and media. Prior to founding her own company, Zuckerberg was an early employee at Facebook, where she is best known for creating Facebook Live, now used by more than a billion people around the world. A Harvard graduate, Zuckerberg hosts a weekly business talk radio show on SiriusXM and is the author of four books: two best-selling business books, Dot Complicated and Pick Three; and two children’s books, Dot (currently also an award-winning preschool television series on Universal Kids and Hulu) and Missy President. Zuckerberg travels the world speaking about technology, entrepreneurship, her time in Silicon Valley, and, shockingly, how to unplug! When she’s not Facebooking or actual written-word booking, she can be found at the theater—Zuckerberg is a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer of both Hadestown and Oklahoma!—or doing her best to unplug at home with her husband and three children.

America’s trusted voice on money and business, Dave Ramsey is a personal money-management expert and an extremely popular national radio personality. His seven best-selling books—Financial Peace, More Than Enough, The Total Money Makeover, EntreLeadership, Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money, The Legacy Journey, and Smart Money Smart Kids—have sold more than 11 million copies combined.

By age 26, Ramsey had established a $4 million real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age 30. Using the wisdom he gained, Ramsey rebuilt his financial life and now teaches others how to be responsible with their money, so they can acquire enough wealth to take care of loved ones, retire with dignity, and give generously to others.

Ramsey offers that life-changing message as host of a nationally syndicated radio program, The Dave Ramsey Show, which is heard by 17 million listeners each week. In 2009, he was honored as a National Association of Broadcaster’s Marconi Award winner. Ramsey was inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2013 and the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2015. Follow Ramsey on the web at daveramsey.com.

Alan Fleischmann is the founder, President, and CEO of Laurel Strategies, a business advisory and strategic communications firm that advises CEOs and leaders across the globe. Fleischmann has spent his career in the halls of power in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He’s a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Board Member of the Atlantic Council and the Jane Goodall Institute, a member of the Global Philanthropists Circle and the Robert F. Kennedy Leadership Council, and an advisory director on the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Hall.

Jason Stein, a media professional with 25 years of journalism experience across multiple platforms, is a leading personality in the global automotive space. His career path includes international experience within the auto industry, but also professional sports, auto racing, entertainment, and economics. He has experience as a live moderator, daily podcast host, and columnist. A frequent speaker on automotive issues, he is also a contributor to national and international radio programs as well as a weekly segment in Detroit, MI. Stein is currently the global media leader of four international brands and two industry specific titles. He directs the editorial and commercial operations for Automotive News, one of the world’s largest business-to-business media organizations and leads three international Automotive News properties, including Europe, Canada, and China. Stein joined Automotive News as a Detroit-based reporter in October 2003 before transferring to Automotive News Europe’s Munich, Germany, headquarters in 2005. Two years later, he was named publisher of Automotive News Europe, a responsibility that included the management of the news and commercial operations, covering 32 European countries as well as marketing, digital, audience, and event activities. In 2009, he returned to Detroit to oversee the editorial operations of Automotive News. In 2012 he added the responsibility of associate publisher, then publisher in 2013. Before joining Automotive News, Stein was an award-winning automotive columnist, and news and sports writer for several North American newspapers in Ontario, Ohio, and Indiana. In late 2015, Stein helped form the Crain Communications/Michigan State University Detroit Journalism Program for aspiring journalists within the city of Detroit. He has served as a volunteer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan and Cornerstone Schools in Detroit. He also holds a position as a juror for the World Car of the Year Award and Ford’s annual Salute to Dealers recognition program at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention. Stein holds a degree in political science from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Janet Alvarez is the executive editor at the personal finance publication WiseBread. She is a CNBC and Telemundo contributor, as well as a Harvard Visiting Nieman Fellow. Alvarez is a formidable consumer advocate and veteran bilingual financial journalist. 

In her more than 15 years in financial journalism, Alvarez has served as director of news and social media for Univision, contributing editor and video host for TheStreet.com, podcast host for TIME Inc. and Charles Schwab’s Insights & Ideas podcast, managing editor of Mint.com and Quicken, US news editor for Reuters Breakingviews, and an anchor/reporter for the nationally-syndicated news program First Business. She was also director of communications at PEAK6 Investments, a major options trading firm, where she was instrumental in the launch of WeSeed.com and OptionsHouse brokerage.

Alvarez has interviewed countless Fortune 1000 CEOs and CFOs, political luminaries, and major fund managers; and has written about everything from derivatives and corporate finance to basic budgeting and savings techniques. She is a sought-after commentator, and is regularly quoted by most major financial publications. She also appears regularly on radio and television programming, and is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on personal finance and investing topics at universities, conferences, and roundtables. 

Alvarez holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, an MBA from the Thunderbird School at Arizona State University, and a certificate from the Wharton Business School’s Business Journalism Seminars.

Perri Peltz is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, and public health advocate. Most recently, Perri created the documentary news series Axios on HBO with Matthew O’Neill. Perri & Matthew also co-directed and produced the 2019 HBO documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Previously, Perri directed the HBO documentary Warning: This Drug May Kill You, about the opioid addiction epidemic. She produced the HBO documentary Risky Drinking and co-directed "A Conversation About Growing Up Black” as part of the “Conversation on Race” series for The New York Times Op-Docs. Other films include HBO’s Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. and Prison Dogs. Perri hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” on SiriusXM and is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University's School of Public Health. She was previously an award-winning broadcast journalist for NBC, ABC, and CNN.

Matthew O'Neill is an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. He most recently created the HBO documentary news series Axios on HBO with Perri Peltz. Perri & Matthew also co-directed and produced the 2019 HBO documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America. Matthew has been making non-fiction television and films with Downtown Community Television Center, Inc, (DCTV) in NYC's Chinatown for the last 20 years. His earlier films for HBO, ESPN, Netflix and FRONTLINE have focused on everything from the Egyptian Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the American criminal justice system. For his filming he has been recognized with two Columbia DuPont Awards, a Peabody Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, four Emmy Awards, and two Oscar nominations.