3rd Ingredient®

Advice, information and training in the field of economics, business operations and business management.

3RD INGREDIENT® is a fundamental belief system originating with Jim Blasingame.

3RD INGREDIENT® is a line of products and services offered by Jim including a series of books, written articles and publications, and educational materials; advisory services; and consulting/training all in the field of Economics, Business Operations and Business Management.

Please browse the following selection of 3RD INGREDIENT® educational audio products to learn more about Jim’s motivational beliefs, products, and services concerning small business economics and operations; including Jim's exclusive series of 3RD INGREDIENT® shows.

Soulaima Gourani
Soulaima Gourani joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the unprecedented and multi-faceted power that a handful of Big Tech firms wield, and what the rest of us can do to minimize their impact.
James Bowers
Jamey Bowers joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why Big Tech’s assault on free speech is not like any other threat before, including the McCarthy era, and therefore more threatening to America’s future.
Randy Landreneau
Randy Landreneau joins Jim Blasingame to report on the collusion between Big Tech and Washington as they both seek to control everyday Americans, but Big Tech has even bigger aspirations.
Randy Landreneau
Randy Landreneau joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why the PTAB is now controlled by the Big Tech oligarchs, which give lie to the notion that upstart competitors could reign these giants in, for evidence, look what they did to Parler.
Randy Landreneau
Randy Landreneau joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the reasons the Big Tech oligarchs are more existentially dangerous than any monopolistic corporations in the past.
Shelby Scarbrough
Shelby Scarbrough joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that the basis for her book on civility was inspired by writings of George Washington, and how these very human behaviors are being challenged by the velocity of the digital age.
Shelby Scarbrough
Shelby Scarbrough joins Jim Blasingame to report on the ways our civility is being compromised by the digital age because trust and ethics doesn’t transfer well at the speed of light.
Rick  Hann
Rick Hann joins Jim Blasingame to discuss that taking personal, ethical responsibility, even when no one is watching, is the headwaters of returning our society and marketplace to a place of trust.
Rick  Hann
Rick Hann joins Jim Blasingame to tell the stories of his experience with corporate leaders who failed to inspire ethically, and how that looked like someone was intentionally trying to take down the company.
Rick  Hann
Rick Hann joins Jim Blasingame to report on their observation of a decline in ethical behavior by corporate America, especially since the 1980s, and what that behavior hath wrought on our society.