The Savvy Entrepreneur Show was created as a way to showcase others who don’t fit the traditional model of the entrepreneur. A way to give a voice to the many women and BIPOC entrepreneurs, as well as those entrepreneurs whose path has been especially challenging. Vets, immigrants, minority gender and disabled individuals, and single parents are just some examples. The Savvy Entrepreneur is also a voice for those doing amazing social good with their ideas.
The show was born from a simple desire to help give talented people an equal chance to live their dream.
The Savvy Entrepreneur Show airs Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon Central time on WLCB 101.5 FM, a community radio station based in the north Chicago/south Milwaukee suburbs, but streams worldwide.
The Savvy Entrepreneur Podcast feed can be found on all the major podcast platforms, and also on The Savvy Entrepreneur Radio Show YouTube channel.
About Doris Nagel, Host & Creator of The Savvy Entrepreneur
Doris Nagel, host of The Savvy Entrepreneur Radio Show & Podcast, has tacked through life, but has always challenged the status quo and is never happy unless she is learning and trying something new.
She taught herself to read French in junior high, dreaming of visiting France. In high school, she was the first woman on the men’s golf team (there was no women’s team). Growing up in small Midwest farming town, both were considered kind of weird.
She traveled at the drop of a hat, and has visited more than 50 countries, many of them by traveling alone. Traveling like that made her acutely aware of the many inequities in our world.
And when she hung up her passport for while, she adopted an infant girl from Russia and raised her as a single mom. In a culture where many people still seem to think a family is a traditional two-parent Beaver Cleaver-like unit with 2.5 children, she just didn’t fit in.
Later (much, much later!), she took up the cello and now plays weekly with a string quartet and a local community orchestra.
So it’s really no surprise that she was inevitably drawn to global expansion and to entrepreneurship. Both require lots of out-of-box thinking. And it’s also no surprise that she’s been part of at least nine different startups.
It’s also not a surprise that her professional career has included many stops. State budget analyst, government lawyer, lawyer in private practice, inhouse counsel, trainer, business consultant, and entrepreneur.