But, for those of you who feel you simply cannot get through an entire week without hearing my voice, I have good news.

Yesterday, I had the good fortune to appear as a guest on Small Business Trends Radio, where I discussed small businesses, access to affordable health care and public policy with show hosts Anita Campbell and Steve Rucinski.

It turned out to be a very good show, if I do say so myself.

The program is archived online here — so, trot on over there and check it out.

(And many thanks to both Anita and Steve for having me on their popular small business radio webcast for this follow-up visit.)

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I’m back in Spain this week, as a matter of fact, for another conference during which I have once again been invited to impart a bit of my microbusiness wisdom.

Sadly, I didn’t bring my podcasting equipment with me.

The good news is that next week I’ll have another report for you on microbusiness in Europe and, specifically, on what’s happening here as the relevant economies face the loss of a large chunk of the workforce. Their Baby Boomers are retiring, too.

Back next week!

Having returned from my trip abroad over the weekend (of which you’ll hear more later), I’m just a little behind here. So, I deeply regret that the MNB Podcast will be a tad late this week.

I do expect to upload it later today. My apologies for the delay.

As a further service to our readers (and because I simply enjoy making more work for myself), we’re launching a podcast version of the Weekly News Briefs newsletter for your listening pleasure. The first podcast will be available on January 2, 2006.