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Midway Business Podcast — 260 episodes
The 1% Decision That Can Change Profitability
The Power of Letting Go
When Leadership and Culture Fall Out of Sync
When Leadership Feels Like Too Much
The Cost of Staying Comfortable
Are Your KPIs Creating Clarity or Noise?
What Makes a Leader Worth Following?
Shortcuts Build Problems. Standards Build Companies.
Rethinking a Major Business Expense
What Eight Years Behind Home Plate Taught a CEO
The Hard Truth About Scaling a Business Faster
Lead Better, Think Smarter, Grow Faster
Growing Your Business Starts With Letting Go
Success Begins Where Most People Give Up
Leading With Purpose When Pressure Is Rising
Are You Winning the Wrong Game?
Trust, Transparency, and the Future of Leadership
The Mindset Shift That Changes Team Performance
Why Leaders Keep Getting Burned at Renewal Season
Why Great Strategy Still Fails in Execution
Better Leadership Inside Creates Better Service Outside
You Are Not Stuck, Your Patterns Are
The Hidden Breakdown Behind Rising Benefits Costs
Why Hard Working Teams Still Fall Behind
More Meetings, More Messages, Same Problems
Refueling Productivity to Start Moving the Needle Again
Revenue Is Growing. So Why Does the Business Still Feel Stuck?
Built to Run Without You or Not Built at All
From Calendar Chaos to Predictable Results
Built to Scale or Built to Survive?
Why Some Teams Move Smoothly While Others Sprint
Why Adaptation Drives Momentum
Leading Without Surprises
Why Broadcasting Matters More Than Ever
The Leadership Bottleneck No One Sees
Break the Routine Before It Breaks You
Mistakes Happen, Excuses Shouldn’t
How Not to Run Out of Air in Business
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Your Results Keep Stinking
Rinse, Repeat, Regret: The Cost of Doing Nothing Different
Stop Wearing 15 Hats: The Smarter Way SMBs Are Scaling
Stop Chasing Whales Before You Own a Boat
Still Waiting to Try AI? Your Competitors Thank You.
Your Logo Isn’t a Brand (and Other Truth Marketing Bombs)
Keeping Your Business in Alignment (Without the Back Pain)
Too Busy to Market: The Silent Killer of Small Business Growth
Passion Starts a Business. Revenue (or Lack of It) Decides If You Keep It.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall—Your Business Reflects It All
Leadership or Liability: How Stagnant Thinking Sinks Companies
AI Won’t Steal Your Job… But the Guy Who Uses It Will
Mediocrity Called—It Wants Its Participation Trophy Back
Why “Saving 4%” Is Broker Code for Wasting Six Figures
Breaking Free from the Renewal Trap: Stop Funding Your Broker’s Golf Habit
From Credible to Cringe: How Clip Art Is Sabotaging Your Brand
The Business of Giving Back: Wounded Warrior Family Support
Overcomplicated? Here’s How the Rule of Threes Wins Customers Back
Why Waiting Until December Could Bankrupt Your Benefits Strategy
Sauce, Strategy, and Success: Business Takeaways from Chicago Pizza Guys
Running a Practice, Running a Business—Turns Out They’re the Same Drill
The CEO’s Dilemma: Are You Solving the Right Problems or Just Staying Busy?
From Hot Spots to Blind Spots: Business Lessons from Lighting Design
Want to Think Like a CEO? John Andrade Shares The 4 Formula to Untangle Any Challenge
Stop Losing Talent: Engagement That Works (Without Pizza Fridays)
Collecting Cash Without Collecting Enemies: Turning Overdue Invoices Into Pure Profit
Why Your P&L Is Lying to You (and How to Catch It in the Act)
AI Won’t Replace You… Unless You’re Doing the Wrong Work
How to Fix Your Business in Eight Days (Without Firing Everyone on Day One)
Your Data Just Got Held Hostage. Now What?
How to Stop Paying for a Broken Healthcare System (Without Firing Your Broker… Yet)
Beyond the Breaking Point: What Great Leaders Do Differently
Dear CFO: You Analyze Everything Except the One Thing Bleeding Cash
Because ‘We’ve Always Done It This Way’ Is Clearly a Financial Plan
We Tried Nothing and We’re All Out of Ideas - But Hey, At Least HR Still Has Bagels
Brokers, Spreadsheets, and Other Things That Haven’t Changed Since 1997
Skate Your Lane: Beer League Strategies for Boardroom Survival
When Your Moral Compass Has Better GPS Than Your Insurance Network
Breaking Up with the Status Quo - It’s Not You, It’s Your 14% Premium Hike
The Premium Is Too Damn High: A Strategic Deep Dive into Annual Sadness
Staying in Your Lane! Unless You’re in a Penalty Kill Situation
Saved $120K and Nobody Cried (Except Maybe the Benefits Broker)
The Process-Driven Approach to Business Success
Eye In The Sky Never Lies: Sports, Scuba, and Business Replays
Cutting Costs with Discipline: Smarter Benefits Strategies
The 10,000-Hour Rule in Business, Sports, and Life
The Business Blind Spot | Perception Versus Reality
Fire, Failure, and the Fight to Adapt: Business Lessons from the USS Forrestal
Turning Chaos into Opportunity: Lessons in Adaptation and Growth
Optimizing Revenue and Costs with Jason Treadwell
More Than the Miles: Lessons in Business from Ultra-Marathon Training
Why Businesses Fail: The Cost of Poor Planning and Compliance
How to Challenge the Status Quo and Thrive With Your Benefits Program
Rising Premiums and Reluctant Changes
Balancing Cost and Safety: Lessons from Scuba Diving for Business Leaders
Cutting Costs with Smarter Healthcare Choices and Technology
From Sports Rules to Health Plans: Evolving for Success
Proactive Cost Control: The Future of Employer-Managed Health Insurance
The CFO’s Guide to Predictable Healthcare Costs: Risk and Reward
Purpose-Driven Success and Business Strategies
Breaking Down Barriers: Improving Healthcare Transparency and Affordability
From the Deep End: Rethinking Employee Benefits with a Data-Driven Approach
Reinventing Employee Benefits: Strategies for Cost Savings
Mastering Healthcare Costs: Strategies for CFOs
Hidden Costs and Conflicts | A Deep Dive into the Healthcare System with Butch Zemar
Scuba and Business Resilience | Sunken Ships to Boardrooms
Strategic Troubleshooting and Benefits Management
From Navy Adventures to HR Strategies
Fatherhood Fitness: Navigating Wellness Journeys for Busy Dads
Data Decisions: Navigating Complexity in Business
Navigating Employee Benefits: A Dive into Risk Management
Unlocking Healthcare: Navigating Challenges and Solutions in the American System
Navigating the New Horizons of HR: Challenges and Opportunities for Small and Mid-sized Companies
Streamlining Benefits Enrollment Process and Containing Healthcare Costs
Military Support Roles and Structured Workplace
Navigating the Broker-Employer Relationship in Employee Benefits Management
Managing Healthcare Costs and Benefits for Midsize Companies
Muting The Megaphone with Kate Dileo | The Brand Trifecta
Managing Healthcare Costs for Employers: Strategies for Savings
Executive Disability Insurance: Bridging the Coverage Gap
Uncovering Healthcare Rip-offs: Saving Money and Seeking Transparency
Do Not Be Lazy, Just Do Your Job | Hospital Revenue By Source
Be the Outlier For Your Company
You Shoot With Your Bad Eye | Employer Responsibilities Coming | Tips for 2024
Profit First with Rachel Siegel | Building with Purpose and Profit
Get Paid For Time Invested Your Benefits Renewal
Hospitals Depend On Employer Sponsored Health Plans | Cost Analysis
Where Is Advertising Today? | The Mistakes Businesses Make Today with Advertising
The Transparency Movement: Interview with Lester J. Morales
Have Purpose | The Network You Keep | Get Funky Socks
You Have A Bad Compass 🧭 | Do Something Different To Get Ahead with Benefits Programs
Hey Justin! | Insurance Agent Gone Viral
Knowing The Reality of Your Benefits Program
Hockey Is Life With Ken Wosczyna and Predictable Renewals
Companies Will Be Sued For Lack of Fiduciary Responsibility
Fire Your CFO | Benefits Renewal Data | Broker Compensation
Path to Major League Baseball with Troy Viola
Build a Better Strategy With Your Company’s Benefits Renewal
Role of Employee Benefits on Attracting Employees to the Workplace with Chris Wolpert
Get More Control of Outcomes with Ken Wosczyna and Butch Zemar
Investor Funded Start-ups with Jason Treadwell
2023 Renewals | Modern Health Plans for Middle Market Employers
Employee Shopping Spree | Meet The Employees Where They Are At
Extraordinary Growth with Tyler Williams | The Zemar Podcast
Middle Market Benefits Renewals | Elite Benefits Playbook
The Evolvement of Benefits Administration Systems
Leveraging Technology For Open Enrollments
CFOs Need To Be Accountable | Comfort Food Does Not Help Win The Game
Setting Expectations Right | Too Much Money In Healthcare
Feel Great With Kait | Pillars of Health with Kaitlin Borncamp
Southside Name Game | Trends With Dave Wills
Having Predictable Medical Renewals | Ken Wosczyna Interview
Spoiled Little Rich Kid | Provider and Insurance Company Dominate
Avoid The Purple Unicorn | Leverage Your Medical Claims
Endless Battle to Control Costs | View Things From a Different Angle
PBMs With Core Values | Interview with Ali Goodwin at TrueScripts Management Services
Get Your Mid-Year Review Now! Save Thousands of Dollars and Become HR Compliant
Going Against the Grain | $60,000 In Savings Case Study
Put Some Skin In The Game | Learn The System and Know When to Outsource
Consistency is Key To Produce Results | 50 mile training run | Scuba Expeditions
It Takes A Village To Help Employees In The Workplace | Executives Need To Change Priorities to Lead
Go Beyond Nutrition and Exercise | Part 1 Interview with David Greenwalt
Automate Your Benefits Workload | Interview with Rhett Robbins, Butler Benefit Group
Analyzing Risk with Daniel Wells at ClaimDoc | Zemar Podcast
Once You See It, It Is Hard To Not See It | You See Better With Your Head Up
Stand For Something | What Are Your Core Values?
Change Your Surroundings, Change The Way You See Things
The Lazy System | Employers Need To Take Responsibility
Blown Off The Shipwreck | Remove The Roadblocks
What is Your Military Grade | Merging Markets to Lower Health Insurance Premiums
Open Enrollment Meetings In The Snow | Elite Benefits Playbook
Follow These Trends Or Be Left Out | Do Not Chase The Shiny Object
Your Benefits Strategy Sucks and Employees Leave | Studies That Will Blow Your Mind
Fifty-Percent Wasted Heathcare Administration Costs | Healthcare Funding
Lets Go Scuba Diving | Believe in Change with New Environments | New Processes and Better Outcomes
Obey the Rule of Thirds | Changes That Make Life Better | History of Scuba Diving
New Routines | Save Money | The Zemar Podcast
Benefits Compliance Overview | Navy Aviation Compliance | Open Enrollments
Traditional Vs Digital Marketing with Chris Spanier | The Zemar Podcast
Elevate Your Game and Craft your Content Pillars with Jason Finn, Poker Broadcaster | The Zemar Podcast
Not All Brokers Are Created Equal | Interview with Carrie Espinosa from Horizon Benefit Services
Landing and Launch Pads | Building Better Habits | Interview with Colleen Klimczak, Certified Professional Organizer
Have Something to Brag About With Alan Stern | The Zemar Podcast
Roles and Responsibilities For Deep Shipwrecks And The Employer
Be The Outlier | Military Habits Live On | My US Special Forces Scrutiny Story
Scuba Diving Attraction | Navigating Claims | Get Your Company’s Scorecard
Feel The Pain | ER Visits | Mid-Year Strategies | Consultant Fees
Collision At Sea If You Sleep At The Wheel - Same With Your Benefits Program | Zemar Podcast
One Checklist Can Save A Company Six-Figures | The Zemar Podcast
Blurred Vision - CFOs Action Items for their Employer’s Pain of The Great Resignation | The Zemar Podcast
Meet the Cannon Hockey Player | Employers Can Beat The Great Resignation
Making Music with Sims Tillirson | Employers Move Forward with Technology | Interview on the Zemar Podcast
US Navy Luck of the Irish | Employer Get Your Green! | Mid-Year Review
Avoid the Dark Path | Scuba Diving Story Related to Business | Update on Compensation Disclosures
Bill Hammett and Alternatives to Traditional Health Plans Full Interview | The Zemar Podcast
Webinar - Why is Healthcare Such a Problem? | The Zemar Podcast
Scale With End to End Processes | Interview Amanda Russo, Founder of Cornerstone Paradigm Consulting, LLC | The Zemar Podcast
Interview with Marshall Allen, Author Never Pay The First Bill | The Zemar Podcast
Interview with Eric Silverman | Voluntary Disruption | The Zemar Podcast
Hit Zero! The Book | Podcast Interview with Chris Wolpert of Group Benefits Solutions
Insurance Compensation Disclosure Requirements | The Good, Bad and The Ugly
Strategizing To Attract Great Talent To The Workplace | Cost Issue, Not A Benefits Issue
The Biggest Fire In History | Military Process and Procedures | Start Now for 2023 Improvements
Veterans Day Shoutout! | Puck Battles | Open Enrollments | Fee Disclosures
Move Your Business To The Next Level | Interview with Carlos Sava
Ultra Run Update | Elite Benefits Updates | Open Enrollments 2022 | Compliance 2022
Key Deadlines | Case Study on Savings | You Won‘t Save Money By Staying
Business Analytics | Interview with Anabel Lopez, CPA, PMP from Cumberland Irving, Inc.
The Healthcare Manifesto | Interview with Robert Slayton
Leverage Cash With Bank On Yourself Revolution | Interview with Sarry Ibrahim
CFOs Step Up To The Status Quo! | Adverse Effect to Affordability | Fourth Quarter 2021 Updates
Business Fundamentals Bootcamp | Interview with Lynette DeRose at Supporting Strategies Chicago Southland
Medicare Planning with Jason Denniston, MedicareIndy.com
Protect Your Business - Interview with ”Chip” De Preter, Intellectual Property Attorney | Patents, Trademarks and More!
Tips For Employers and Brokers | Interview with Paul Aemisegeo at Payrollmart.com | The PEO Exit
What is a Successful Benefits Renewal for Your Company? | Case Study with Real Savings! | Commission Disclosures
David Blake Presents The Flip Flop Philosopher | Innovate Like a Rock Star
Chris Johnson and His Passion, Love For People and His Family | Must Hear Insurance Updates!
Who is Butch Zemar? | Scuba, The Navy, and Family!
What Is Your Company's Employee Benefits Score? | Have a Better Renewal Process
Grow Your Business with LinkedIn | Navy Veteran Tracy Enos Shares Her Expert Insights on LinkedIn
Control Healthcare Claims and Reverse the Trend | Interview with Ben Krambeck at Claim Doc
Rewind to 2020: Insights From the Experts -Tips that will save you $1,000's
Health Insurance Landscape - What are your options?
Create Business Superfans | Interview with Frederick Dudek
Employment Law Topics with Laura Balson, Managing Partner of the Chicago office at Constangy
Global Connector and No. 1 Best-Selling Author Justin Breen Interview | Group Health Renewal Update by Butch Zemar
Keep On Pushing with Devon Harris, Three-Time Olympian and Bestselling Author of Keep on Pushing
Win Business With a Personal Brand and A Major League Mindset with Andy Neary
Covid-19 virus: Health Insurance Options, a conversation with the specialists - March 2020
Make More Sales With The Brand Trifecta - Interview with Kate DiLeo
Is a PEO Right for your company? | Interview with John Valle, TandemHR
Interview with Steve Fretzin | Be That Lawyer | Be Successful in the Ever Changing World
Early Planning | Stay in Compliance to Avoid Penalties | Interview with Chad Granger with PrimePay
Have a Champion Mind - Interview with Former Olympic Cyclist and Cornerman, Dr. Jeff Spencer
Save $50,000 with this Case Study | Plan Designs | Blind Exposure | Revenue Tied Life Insurance Planning
Biden Subsidy Update | Interview with Charles Read, CPA Author of The Payroll Book
Resources to Solve Employee Benefits Problems - The Value of an Insurance Broker
American Rescue Plan Act and Advanced Premium Tax Credits for Health Insurance
The American Rescue Plan Act and Start Planning for Your 2022 Renewal
Surprised Billing, Subsidies, Cobra Elections, Biden Open Enrollment and more!
The Zemar Podcast in a Nutshell!
Small or Medium Sized Companies Save More with Level-Funded or Self-Funded Programs
Make 2021 Your Best Year In Business With These Marketing Tips from James DiMambro, JimmyVision
Advisor Discussion On The Biden Administration Healthcare Executive Order January 2021
Healthcare Pricing Transparency Tips and Tricks
What Is The Affordable Care Act Really About?
The Aftermath of Open Enrollments
2021 New Year's Resolutions, New Changes Coming, and Be a Smarter Healthcare Consumer
The Zemar Podcast Interview with Jaime Van Buskirk at JVB Physical Therapy
When Should You Start Planning For The Next Renewal? And Interview with David Matuszak, CFP
Final Days of Open Enrollment; Interview with Kyle Altenburg at Hanley Realty
Get skin the game with health insurance; Interview with Dr. Joe Brannigan, D.C.
More concerns in the workplace; Interview with Eric Wilson iSellHealth.com
IL Forces a Second Shutdown - What about your healthcare options?
Supreme Court update on the ACA and What we are seeing with the Open Enrollment for 2021
Updates During This Open Enrollment 2020
Covid premium relief, MLR Rebate Checks and Insider Tips...
Finding the Health Insurance Sweet Spot for Small to Mid-sized Companies
Evaluating Health Insurance for 2021
Open Enrollment Topics for Q42020
The History of Health Insurance -How did it all evolve?