As part of Memorial Day Weekend, we feature two special veteran guests who will join us to discuss both their military service, and their best-selling military-themed books. Former Army Ranger Sean Parnell will discuss his book, “Outlaw Platoon”, and former U.S. Marine Corps officer Nathaniel Fick talks about “One Bullet Away”.

We examine what it takes to become an effective leader when it comes to the political arena. We talk with a pair of candidates for the Republican nomination for Allegheny County Council, Matt Drozd and Tom Baker, to get a feel for their ideologies, and to determine what sets them apart.

Raja takes a look at the role that business support organizations can play in helping businesses grow and develop as he talks with Rich Lunak of Pittsburgh-based InnovationWorks. Plus, Henry Thorne, one of the founders of the wildly-successful maternal lifesaving company 4Moms, talks to Raja about his remarkable story.

We preview one of the hottest networking events in Western Pennsylvania, the Entrepreneurs Growth Conference, presented by the Small Business Development Center at Duquesne University. The all-day event takes place on Friday, May 10, on the Duquesne University campus. Raja talks with the event’s keynote speaker, Will Knecht of Wendell August Forge, as well as two workshop presenters, Steven Wayhart of Brandmill, and Ken Sevick of ActionCoach.