January 1, 2013 Five-minute highlight clip of Richard’s speech. Contact Richard if you are interested in having him speak at your event.

December 15, 2012 Guest Blogger Paul Polito Often, out of ignorance mostly, clients put their accountants in a box and won’t let them out. I have experienced this. Once a client gets it in their head that “Polito is our tax guy,” it’s really hard to shake that image. Our profession has so much more to offer! When ...

December 11, 2012 Certified Public Accountant, Dru Brannen joined the show to talk about 2011 year end tax issues for small businesses. John Drulane (“Dru”) Brannen, CPA, is a founding Partner with Friedman Brannen LLP. For more than three decades, Dru has provided multi-level tax and tax consulting services to individuals and all forms of business entities. ...

March 4, 2012 Sponsor and tax attorney Rich Gaines discusses the 3 pillars of Family Wealth: business prosperity, mastery of self, and financial health. Making Sure Your Business is Braced for Success was the subject of his interactive and experiencial workshop. For more information on workshops, please visit Legacy Legal or call 760.931.9923. . Podcast

November 15, 2012 The excerpt below is from the San Diego Union Tribune summarizing Oceanside’s Thanksgiving Day running races. OCEANSIDE — While some families were still in bed or preparing for company, many spent Thanksgiving morning together running or walking though downtown Oceanside at the annual Turkey Trot fundraiser. “This is just such a great way to start ...

October 21, 2012 Richard and Joe welcomed Congressional Candidate hopeful, Scott Peters. Scott is vying for the Congressional seat of the 52nd District, which is currently held by Republican Brian Bilbray. Scott was raised in Detroit, Michigan, and went onto obtain his undergraduate degree from Duke University, after which he served as an economist for ...

October 14, 2012 Richard and Joe welcomed climate researchers, Dan Cayan, Ph.D and Jeff Severinghaus, Ph.D to discuss their research and findings relating to climate, particularly the related impacts, trends and predictions. Dr. Daniel R. Cayan is a Research Meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, San Diego, and a Researcher in the ...

October 12, 2012 Curt Gautreau and Joel Grushkin talk about how owners of commercial real estate can take advantage of new tax laws that come into effect in 2014 in order to lower their tax burden. Mr. Gautreau is the President of Cost Segregation Initiatives (CSI), and is based out of the company’s Baton Rouge office in ...

September 12, 2012 In his his most recent talk to financial planners, Richard Muscio asserts that solid, strategic, business planning should not be founded only on the precise drafting of documents and the most efficient number-crunching techniques in relation to reducing income taxes and wealth transfer taxes. Instead, business planning succession should focus on valuation, collaboration, ...

September 2, 2012 Richard and Joe interview local craft beer icon, Greg Koch. Koch co-founded Stone Brewing Co. in 1996 with his business partner Steve Wagner. Stone operates its brewery and restaurant, Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens, in Escondido. Greg is a graduate of USC’s Marshall School of Business and in 2011, was awarded ...