Many Hats

About Many Hats

I talk to entrepreneurs and others who juggle life challenges such as family, work responsibilities, grief and illness as they pursue their entrepreneurial dreams and journey. We will talk about the role that the “other hats that they wear” might have inspired their entrepreneurial journey.

Publisher

HOWARD DUKES

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jan 2026

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Educator, consultant and advocate Tiana Batiste Waddell teachers parents how to navigate the education system in her new book

   Tiana Batiste Waddell has been a student in the South Bend Community School Corporation. She's been a teacher, administrator, parent, consultant and advocate. She now wears the hat of author seeking to give parents the strategies and language to ensure that their children successfully navigate through the often choppy waters of the American educational system. We will talk about her new book "Navigating the American Schooling Institutions: A Captian's Guide" on this episode of The Many Hats Podcast.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Talking and reading poetry with Jenario Morgan

   Jenario D. Morgan is a Black American Catholic poet and educator whose writing draws deeply from faith, family, history, identity, and the complexities of Black American life. Born June 6, 1961, in Detroit, Michigan, Morgan has spent his life cultivating a profound appreciation for education, culture, spirituality, and the power of language. A husband and father of a daughter and son, he brings the wisdom of family and lived experience to his literary works. Since 2017, Morgan has served as a teacher at Riley High School in South Bend, Indiana, where he works as an assistant within the History Department and helps guide students through the study of history and the human experience. His literary work extends that same intellectual and reflective spirit into poetry. He is the author of Black Nouns, a collection that examines identity, memory, spirituality, history, language, and consciousness through a distinctly personal poetic voice. Morgan's poetry treats words not merely as instruments of expression, but as vessels of cultural memory and spiritual inquiry. His work stands at the intersection of the Black American experience, Catholic imagination, historical consciousness, and the enduring search for meaning. Through both his teaching and his poetry, Jenario D. Morgan continues to affirm the transformative power of education, faith, and the written word. His poem "Black Wear", came from his thoughts of the physical prowess, resilience, endurance of Black People for the last 600 years. Jenario's poem "Black Excellence" was inspired by Black Inventors and Black Theologians and both of their contributions. His inspiration to write "MLK, destined to be", was by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's oration, activism, community organizing in America's Civil Rights Era.

3. 

   19 Aug 2026

   Rudy Rodriguez pictures his passion

   I was driving down Lincolnway West the Colfax Campus where the Charles Martin Youth Center and the Colfax Cultural Center are located when I noticed a block party taking place at a one-story building across the street. I decided to stop and see what was going on. I soon learned that Rudy Rodriguez, a photographer, videographer, and Washington High School graduate put this event together at the building where his business is located. Rudy is an entrepreneur at heart who had many irons in the fire. Things came together when Rudy decided to turn is passion of photography into his business. He now owns Rodriguez Productions and R Studio, which is the creative space for a variety of artists, as well as an event space. With all that Rudy does, he finds time to give back to the community. Rudy will talk about his why on this episode of The Many Hats Podcast.

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