podcasts for locals, exiles & New Orleans lovers everywhere
OUT TO LUNCH finds economist and Tulane finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch at Commander's Palace restaurant. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business renaissance to join him. The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Inc magazine have all named New Orleans the best city in the USA to be an entrepreneur. Out to Lunch is the cafeteria of the new New Orleans entrepreneurial movement. You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.
Photo by Rick Lineberger
Out to Lunch - Coffee Ice Cream
September 24, 2012
Adrian Simpson from New Orleans Ice Cream and Danielle Boyce Batten from Cool Brew Coffee are making an allied assault on the nation. Read More »
Out to Lunch - Make it Right
September 16, 2012
How's this for proof of concept? Taylor Royle from Brad Pitt's Make it Right foundation rode out Isaac in the Lower 9th. Peter Couhig from Resource Environmental Solutions builds big businesses & saves acres of wetlands. Read More »
OtL - The Good Side of the Hurricane
September 9, 2012
Dirty Coast, Dear World, and Bideo.com all grew out of the dark days of Katrina. In the wake of Isaac, company founders Blake Haney, Robert Fogarty, and Pike Barkerding assess where they are today, and where we are as a city. Read More »
Out to Lunch - The Company Social
September 2, 2012
"I Tweet therefore I am." With apologies to philosophers, if your company is not on social media you're invisible. Megan Hargroder & Will Scott explain the new universe. Read More »
OtL - Better to Give Than Receive
August 27, 2012
Jason Nicosia, founder of Connect for a Cause, auctions off lunches with movers & shakers for charity. Michael Angle, founder of Giftmeo, brings people together to share the gift of giving gifts. Read More »
Out to Lunch - Fruit & Chocolate
August 19, 2012
Don Harding, co-founder of Cool Fruit Sensations, credits his wife with the big idea that launched them to sudden success. Rob Nelson, President of Elmer's Chocolate, carries on the tradition of being the oldest family-owned chocolate company in the country. Read More »
Out to Lunch - Occasional Ikea
August 12, 2012
Personal shoppers & assistants, once the province of Hollywood stars, are now affordable thanks to Kay Morrison's The Occasional Wife & Mehmet Ergelen's Bluebag Read More »
Out to Lunch - Wealth & Wellness
August 5, 2012
Jessica Blanchard turned her back on international finance and came home to New Orleans to found Balance Yoga & Wellness Studio. Mackie Shilstone never left home and from New Orleans has turned himself into an international sports training phenomenon. Read More »
Art Market
July 28, 2012
Arts administrator Mia Volkemmer and fine artist mask maker John Flemming join Peter Ricchiuti for a lunch filled with tales of the art world that range from Uptown to Afghanistan& Bridget Bardot. Read More »
Out to Lunch - Cheers!
July 21, 2012
Erick Lewko, National Sales Director of Old New Orleans Rum, and Craig Cordes, co-founder of Cordina cocktails to go, sit down for a fun-fueled rum and daiquiri birthday lunch with Peter Ricchuitti. Read More »
Out to Lunch - Bill of Health
July 17, 2012
Peter Ragusa unveils Better Day, software that aims to replace every medical record in America. Joe Lovett heads vc investors, The Louisiana Fund. Peter's medical implant stock tip Read More »
Out to Lunch - All Natural
May 6, 2012
Billy Bosch brought us Monster energy drink, now he's launching his own brew, Iconic . Benardett Jno-Finn creates Senica natural hair & body products. Read More »
