Best known as the wine expert on Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Ted Allen is contributing editor for Esquire Magazine and also host of the Food Network Show Chopped. In and amongst all that, he writes cook books. Ted gives up his ground breaking recipe for avocado-mousse and the secret to choosing wine at a restaurant.

Turns out boys just wanna play video games and read Maxim Magazine while girls take over the world. Kay S. Hymowitz explains all in her book Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys.

Sales expert Chip Doyle explores competition in the workplace.

If your boss is going to fire you anyways, why not just file a harassment claim against him and delay the inevitable. Employment lawyer Dennis Strazulo breaks down the termination counter measure.

Our coaching with CTI focuses on this line: “Honey, I have to stay late again tonight - what, it’s the third time this week. I’m getting tired of this“!

In the J.O.B. Nuggets: A third of U.S. workers are not getting enough sleep, why breast feeding your child will cost you money, and the co-worker who jumped into a pool of acid to save his buddy!

What in the world do we pay our Congressman to do? To me, all its seems as though they do is fight with each other, give long rambling speeches and text pictures of their genitals. Author Robert Draper will explain all in his book Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Robertson family has taken hand made Duck Callers (for you city folk, it’s a noisemaker you use to attract ducks SO YOU CAN SHOOT THEM) and turned them into a multi-million dollar business and a reality TV show. The president and son of Duck Dynasty on bossing around your family and how he outsmarts the business world, with his beard!

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Darrell Waltrip is a Hall Of Fame race car driver, a 3-time NASCAR champ, and a commentator for FOX. So it makes sense we ask him what you do if you have to sneeze and you’re moving at 200-plus miles and hour.

Want to know why Pixar has one bathroom for the entire movie studio? Author Jonah Lehrer reveals the answer from his book Imagine: How Creativity Works.

It’s a meeting of the girlfriends this week with two power packed hard hitting interviews. Charlottee Beers lived the TV show Madman rising through the ranks of the advertising world to become one of the first female executives in a time when men dominated. If that wasn’t enough, she then served as undersecretary of state under Colin Powell.

Author Liza Munday is gonna break down The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family (A story of breaking down the barriers and then the explanation of how its done)!

Sales expert Chip Doyle passing out tips on how to tell if a client is just playing you for free consulting!

DO NOT MISS employment lawyer Dennis Strazulo’s EPIC rant about why EVERYONE should just “get over it” when it comes to handing over your Facebook password to potential employers.

In our session with Henry Kimsey-House from CTI how to make working with family - a success!

In The J.O.B. Nuggets: How your co-workers are making you fat; secrets on how to get noticed in the job application process and the story of a 4-year old who wants to drive an ice-cream truck for a living !

Who discovered president Andrew Jackson was an adulterer? That presidential candidate John Edwards paid $400 to get his hair cut? That while governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis released convicted murderers? Opposition researchers that’s who. Michael Rejebian spills the beans in his new book We’re with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics.

Karin Tuxin-Bettman Project Lead for Google Street View in the Amazon explains what it’s like to map the second longest river in the world!

You think your words are coming out right, but the results are wrong? Sales expert Chip Doyle is here to fix your communication problems.

You do not want to miss Dennis Strazulo’s top employment handbook mistakes. IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!

Our Heffernan Insurance non-profit minute features the Center For Domestic Peace.

Lori Zaslow has serious matchmaking skills! As the founder of Project Soul-mate and the star of Bravo TV’s latest docu-series, Love Broker, she has the right to tell us why you don’t eat chili on a first date and other “soul-connecting” secrets.

For  Adam Carolla Dancing With The Stars, his pod-cast, his book, his movie, his production company and his TV shows are not enough. To be fulfilled,  he had to go and get abused by Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice. The Trump debrief and why he’s good at being a “Smart Ass”!

Gonna have to put our thinking caps on this week! Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on why we can thank space travel for inventing Lasik eye surgery. Why sending a person to Mars is just as important as building new bridges. Plus the definitive answer on why Star Trek is better than Star Wars.

All sorts of moving parts on PBS’s very popular Antiques Road Show. First it literally moves - from city to city. Second, anyone can go on it…as long as you have an old sword or lamp or tribal art. Lastly, the appraisers  - they’re wise sages. Executive Producer Marsha Bemko tells us how it gets put together each and every week for your viewing pleasure.

Don’t worry this week’s guest Doug Clark of the TV Show Flipmen on Spike TV has only barfed 4 TIMES while walking into a house he has bought sight unseen at a courthouse.

Author Bob Frisch tells us: Who’s in the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them.

“Coffee is for closers”! At least that’s what Alec Baldwin told us anyways…Sales expert Chip Doyle with closing tips this week!

How much vacation time can you rollover? Employment Lawyer Dennis Strazulo has your answer.

In our coaching from CTI what to do if your boss is having personal problems - and you know it!

In The J.O.B. Nuggets:Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes, young Americans struggling the most in the bad economy and the scoop on Valentines Day cards from a guy who makes them !

Celebrated restaurateur David Chang is the man behind the Momofuku empire. From noodles to Top Chef to drinking with Anthony Bourdain….. and if your luck Mr. Chang will give us a stern lecture on why not to overcook your quail eggs!

The man with his pulse on the Bay Area job scene Andrew Gardiner from BAjobs.com is back.

In our Heffernan Insurance non-profit minute we feature: The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department Five Keys Charter Schools.

Sales expert Chip Doyle makes a compelling case that you do not need to know anything about the product you’re selling (believe it)!

Our coach from CTI with tips on whether or not to help out a boss in need.

Need some time off? Employment Dennis Strazulo explains FMLA (The Family and Medical Leave Act).In the J.O.B. Nuggets: Why that customer service rep was rude to you, NBA loud mouth Mark Cuban with tips for start-ups (don’t get swag) and top disgusting things your co-workers do (think B.O.).

David Chang Transcription provided by Lindsay and Tim Harrison:

 LO: So, I think you’re interesting because you come off as sort of a normal dude who just likes food, but you’re not. You went to theFrenchCulinaryAcademy. You’re a highly successful restaurateur.  So here’s the question, how do you keep the buzz about your food so you get people coming in the door, but also keep it normal so aJoeBlowlike me isn’t intimidated to want to go to Momofuku?

David Chang:  Well, I think at the end of the day we like to reverse engineer the process. Right? We want the expectations of people to be exceeded when they leave the door. And we want people talking about that’s an amazing meal, whether at any of our restaurants. It’s just a matter of how do we get to that point. So once you know that’s the goal, certain things become superfluous, and you can fly directly at the goals.

For the full interview: http://blog.workingradio.com/2012/02/13/david-chang-transcription/ 

With 108 U.S and International Patents and over 350 products flooding the marketplace, Lori Greiner is the “Queen of QVC”! We’ll chat about hawking no mess cooking utensils on QVC, what she tells people who pitch her business ideas in parking lots and how many “billions” of earring organizers she’s sold.

Author John Byrne has hob-nobbed with some big-wigs and brings us his findings World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It.

Andrew Gardiner founder of BAjobs.com surveys the Bay Area job market.

Our sales expert Chip Doyle explains why it’s important that Walmart sells 70% more strawberry poptarts when a tornado is approaching (think sales trends).

Employment Lawyer Dennis Strazulo taking your questions this week like ,can your company transfer you at anytime for no reason?

In our J.O.B. Nuggets: Tips on how to get along with your grumpy boss, why companies that don’t respond to job applications suck and why you can not get fired for working during lunch .

How do you move a life size replica of the Statue of Liberty from Des Moines to Sheboygan? You hire a shipper. Reality TV star from Shipping Wars Marc Springer will break down the fine art of moving things. 

We’ll have an in-depth interview with an actor who played dead on CSI.

Sales expert Chip Dolye on what to do when a client balks at your proposal.

Employment Lawyer Dennis Strazulo wraps up 2012 laws you should know about.

We are going where no man has gone before this week. Actor George Takei, Sulu from Star Trek, takes us back stage on The Enterprise. Talks about his new gig on Celebrity Apprentice (Donald Trump is more Spock then Captain Kirk). And being raised in a WWII Japanese Internment Camp.

Ben Flajnik is currently dating 25 women at the same time - on TV! Theoretically he is going to fall in love with one of them, then propose. YES! YES we are sellouts for having ABC’s The Bachelor on this week. But The Bachelor = ratings ( and we could use some)!

Being a bartender is one part Sam Malone (I’ll have a Screaming Viking), two parts Picasso (artist wearing a Beret) with a dash of Louis Pasteur (think chemistry)! A true mixologist, Tony Devencenzi of San Francisco’s Bourbon and Branch takes all of our cocktail making questions (like: what do you do if someone serves you Jose Cuervo).

68% of Americans believe there is a leadership crisis. 10% of Americans believe that business leaders work for the greater good. Author Betty Shotton breaks down Liftoff Leadership, values and attributes that give rise to your greatness.

Employment lawyer Dennis Strazulo has the new 2012 employment laws you need to pay attention to.

Can’t lock down a sale unless you book an appointment! Sales expert Chip Doyle with the secrets to locking down appointments.

Our coaching from CTI helps a young graphic artist decide to go it alone or go and work for the man.

In The J.O.B. Nuggets: Being happy at work means that you DO NOT take that promotion; 50 percent of us missed a family event because of work; the best day to buy a car,groceries, clothing and an airline ticket. 

All of that… and some inspiration from our boss Pat Meety about a Chinese Yak .

Stephen Farrelly went from body guard for U2 in Dublin to Sheamus(fake smoke billowing) professional wrestler on WWE. If it’s possible to get beat up over a phone interview - we just might! Sure….. wrestling is more like a soap opera than a sporting event! But that chair Sheamus took over his head wasn’t fake!

Author Aaron Shapiro makes a bold claim: it’s Users, Not Customers: Who Really Determines the Success of Your Business. How to have fun and play while building users!

Sales expert Chip Doyle draws a line in the sand between what your customer needs versus what they want. Because Chip says: YOUR CUSTOMERS DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. 

“Stump the Straz” with Dennis Strazulo. Have an employment law question? Send it to our employment lawyer: www.workingradio.com

Our Heffernan Insurance non-profit minute features Mission Hospice.

For the first time ever we can say WE WILL be successful this week. Darren Hardy publisher at Success Magazine has interviewed a lot of the “biggies” (Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Howard Schultz) and has distilled down success in his book The Compound Effect. So of course we’ll ask him how big his buddy Tony Robbins head….. actually is.

Ever wonder how a Wolf became a Shih Tzu? Author Mark Derr tells us how the Dog Became The Dog.

Sales expert Chip Doyle manufactures the “perfect customer”. How you can be a great client for your sales rep.

Employment lawyer Dennis Strazulo will not shoot a cannon ball at your house! However, he will bust some workplace myths!

How do you combine a mom who works from home, but also wants to make the world a better place? Our co-active coaching with CTI with some direction.

In our Heffernan Insurance non-profit minute we feature AIM Kids.

Brit Morin went from working at Google and Apple to transforming herself into Martha Stewart 2.0. We’ll ask Brit all about “hacking” your home with Creative Living: How do you use a laser cutter around the house and what is the updated version of “Pigs In A Blanket”.

We talk so much that we don’t think very well. Author Dan Roam helps us to draw the pictures to focus our thoughts When Words Don’t Work.