Mastering Communication and Mindset with Pilar Ortiz: A Must-Listen Episode

Today’s guest is Cynthia Weiss, a commercial banking and lending expert who evaluates businesses’ financials to determine whether that business can repay a loan, should one be granted. This interview features advice on handling your business financials correctly and discusses the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 and what that means for small business lending in underprivileged areas. If you are a business owner that has ever borrowed money or you think that at some point you’ll need someone else’s money to grow your organization, listen up; this is a juicy episode you won’t want to miss!

Bring pen and paper to my conversation with Tony Miller, a seasoned entrepreneur from Tampa, Florida, where we discuss the importance of thorough due diligence in any business endeavor. With five diverse business ventures under his belt in just 17 years, Tony has a keen eye for business and a wealth of hard-knock wisdom. He has owned a marketing and advertising agency, a distillery, an online education platform, and an innovative application for the industrial packaging space. Presently, he is developing a mammoth multi-million-dollar Surf Park, Peak Surf Park, the first of its kind in the area – a first-mover project. In this insightful conversation, Tony takes us behind the scenes of his ventures, sharing the hard truth of what it takes to make a business “go.” Tony outlines the questions you’ll need to ask yourself to conduct thorough due diligence and pressure-test your business idea from all angles before jumping in and