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Energy Healing: A Complement To Medicine

August 30, 2013 by angishields

The Doctors Roundtable

Energy Healing: A Complement To Medicine

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Energy fields in the body have long been recognized in Eastern cultures, including medicine. Subtle energy fields are now being more incorporated and used in Western medicine. “Chi, prana, and bioenergy fields” are all words used around the world to describe this lifeforce. The belief in a living force is ancient and widespread today. Energy healing one modality of complementary medicine. When we are injured, ill or under stress, the natural flow of energy is interrupted and may negatively impact our mind/body/emotional/ spiritual connections. We can use certain tools and modalities to clear, balance, energize and support the human energy system to maximize the body’s ability to heal.

The CDC’s National Health Statistics Report documented that 1:4 Americans have used some form of complementary medicine within the past 12 months. Multiple studies have shown that our thoughts can be measured and that thoughts affect our health in a significant way. Some physicians have estimated that one third of all “healings” come about not through surgery or medicine, but from our self-healing capacities. Matter is compressed energy and information is patterns of energy. The heart’s electromagnetic signals demonstrate energy flow throughout our bodies. Many practitioners and patients believe that it is time to bring the qualities of healing into the mainstream conversation- even Oprah and Dr. Oz have featured segments on this interesting topic.

Today, an Atlanta Energy Therapist and renowned author, shares her insights and experience on energy medicine, energy balancing and energy healing as a complement to traditional medicine in optimizing our own body’s ability to heal. She will discuss energy work modalities, what to expect when working with an energy healer and provide examples of working with people with chronic illnesses, such as cancer, as well as episodic dis-ease like stress management.

Robbie Houcek

Private Practice Energy Therapist for over 15 years
Healing Facilitator
National Speaker
Author featured in “Remarkable Women”, “Getting Things Done; Successful Women Speak” and “Freeing Godiva; A Woman’s Journey of Self-Empowerment”

Ernie Garcia with Carvana, Louis Gump with LSN Mobile, Todd Semrau with Urban Eats Consulting Group and Sean Bodmer with CounterTack

August 29, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Ernie Garcia with Carvana, Louis Gump with LSN Mobile, Todd Semrau with Urban Eats Consulting Group and Sean Bodmer with CounterTack

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Ernie Garcia/Carvana

Ernie Garcia, Jr. is the President and Founder of Carvana, a disruptive new voice in the auto industry. As head of the first complete online auto retailer from search to finance to delivery, Garcia is focused on bringing a new energy to the antiquated dealership model. Leveraging relationships with Drivetime, Carvana is backed by more than $1 billion in revenue and over 20 years’ experience in the car buying and selling market.

After graduating from Stanford, Garcia held a position at Royal Bank of Scotland, which primed him to enter the finance arm of the family business. Equipped with knowledge of both the financial and automotive industry, the disconnect between dealer and customer benefit quickly became apparent to Garcia. Convinced that the antiquated car buying process could be transformed into a seamless, open and mutually beneficial process by leveraging technology, Garcia founded Carvana. Under his leadership, Carvana is seeking to disrupt the brick and mortar dealer model with direct-to-consumer sales and is pioneering the car sales model through technological advancements.

Garcia currently resides in Phoenix, Ariz. with his wife and young daughter. When he’s not on a plane visiting Carvana operations outside Atlanta, he enjoys spending time with his family, trying his hand as an amateur songwriter and practicing his comedy routine.

Louis Gump/LSN Mobile

Louis Gump is a seasoned executive with deep experience in mobile media, technology, sales and business development. As CEO of LSN Mobile, he leads the overall strategic direction of the company, as well as day-to-day operations, product realization and team development. He is also a member of the board of directors.

Prior to joining LSN Mobile, Louis led industry-leading mobile teams at both CNN and The Weather Channel, setting benchmarks for excellence and market impact. Having also served in various industry associations, Louis is considered a driving force within the mobile media industry. He has received numerous awards including the 2011 Wireless Technology Forum’s Mobile Media Person of the Year, the 2010 MMA Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2009 “Top Ten mobiThinkers” award. Louis holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University.

Todd Semrau/Urban Eats Consulting Group

Todd Semrau specializes in developing and managing food & beverage brands for restaurants, mixed use developers, hotels, resorts, food trucks and B2B retail food operations. His career in the hospitality industry started in 1995 when he opened his first restaurant; The Heaping Bowl in East Atlanta Village, (EAV). The “Bowl” helped spur the revitalization of East Atlanta which today has become one of Atlanta’s popular in-town, indie hangouts.

10 years of operations and four additional restaurants gave Todd a bird’s eye view of the positive impact a community focused restaurant concept can have on the community it serves. Along the way, Todd realized he had a knack and the vision for developing compelling food and beverage concepts that could spark community, synergy and good growth in any setting. Since creating his company Urban Eats Consulting Group, Todd has consulted with a wide range of clients including: new restaurateurs, commercial developers, restaurant companies, hotel developers, food truck operators and neighborhood grocery/deli owners.

Sean Bodmer/CounterTack

Sean M. Bodmer is Chief Researcher at CounterTack, Inc. focusing on analysis of observable traits and effects of crimeware and the tradecraft cybercrime operators and malware purveyors. Sean has worked Information Systems Security and cyber counterintelligence roles for various firms and customers over the past seventeen years across United States. Most notably, he has spent several years performing intrusion and intruder analysis/attribution for Fortune 100, Defense Department, and ‘other’ Federal Agencies.

At CounterTack, Sean is leading the development of next-generation detection techniques that focus on in-progress detection and countermeasures through the use of passive and active honeynet technologies. Sean is an avid contributor to the Security Industry and has shared many lessons-learned and findings surrounding the tradecraft of organized and persistent threats. In 2009, Sean co-authored with McGraw-Hill Professional Press, ‘Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits 1st Edition’ and is currently working on the 2nd Edition due out in Q2 2014.

In 2012, Sean co-authored ‘Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation’ and is also co-authoring ‘Hacking Back: Offensive Cyber-counterintelligence’ that will focus on “precision hack-backs and takedowns” ranging from the tradecraft, lessons learned, and the legal and ethical issues surrounding hacking back and takedowns of live or active cybercriminal infrastructures and persistent threat campaigns.

Meeting Pros: QUALENA ODOM-ROYES, CSEP, CMP with EventEssentials, LLC., Russell Lopinto, CMP with Tech Rentals, LLC

August 29, 2013 by angishields

Meeting Pros Radio

Meeting Pros: QUALENA ODOM-ROYES, CSEP, CMP with EventEssentials, LLC., Russell Lopinto, CMP with Tech Rentals, LLC

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On this Episode of Meeting Pros:

QUALENA ODOM-ROYES, CSEP, CMP with EventEssentials, LLC.

EventEssentials’ Principal Event Planner and owner is Qualena Odom-Royes, CSEP, CMP. Ms. Odom-Royes has over 18 years of experience in event and meeting planning. Accredited from The University of Georgia in Conference Planning and Meeting Management, she also holds the Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP) and Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designations. Prior to opening her own event planning business, her background was in event management and marketing at MCI Telecommunications/WorldCom, handling corporate sponsorships and business to business advertising, and MTV Networks (MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land, VH1).

Recognizing her talent for detailed organization and the need for a company that could plan meetings and events from start to finish with an emphasis on return on investment for the meeting organizer, Ms. Odom-Royes opened EventEssentials ten years ago. Since that time, the award-winning company has provided planning and facilitation services to organizations in a variety of different industries. The meetings and events have ranged from high-end executive gatherings for 12 people to large-scale business conferences for over 7,000. EventEssentials’ past and current clients include Cox Communications, The Coca-Cola Company Georgia Supplier Minority Development Council (GMSDC), Piedmont Hospital, Manheim, Scholastic and Taste of Atlanta. EventEssentials is a certified minority business enterprise and was named the 2011 Class 1 Supplier of the Year for GMSDC and earned the 2012 GMSDC Eagle Award recognizing their extensive partnerships with other minority business enterprises. A fervent advocate also of teaching, Ms. Odom-Royes developed the coursework and has taught the continuing education course (Event & Meeting Planning Certificate) at Clayton State University for the past ten years. In addition, Ms. Odom-Royes joined the online adjunct faculty at Argosy University in February 2012 where she teaches Business Administration courses.

In 2012 Ms. Odom-Royes was awarded the prestigious Dale Riggins Humanitarian Award for her outstanding professionalism in their service to the special events industry and the community at large during the Allie Awards Nite Gala hosted by the Atlanta chapters of ISES (International Special Events Society) and NACE (National Association of Catering Executives).

Ms. Odom-Royes’ past positions on the International Certification Committee as well as the Executive Board of Directors of ISES Atlanta, Lambda Epsilon Omega Foundation, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta and current appointments at Plan Your Meetings Magazine and Allie Awards have required analytical and technical skills; people management and liaison; meticulous record keeping and accountability. Her capabilities and dedication have earned her tremendous respect; and her general friendly demeanor has expanded her network of business contacts exponentially.

FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER – @EVENTESSENTIALS

FACEBOOK – EVENTESSENTIALS

BLOG – THEQSPOTBLOG.COM

LINKED IN – QUALENA ODOM-ROYES, CSEP, CMP

Russell Lopinto, CMP with Tech Rentals, LLC

Russell LoPinto CMP is the Vice President of New Business Development for Tech Rentals Inc. Aftergraduating from The University of South Carolina with a BA in broadcast journalism in 1984 Russell came to Atlanta and worked at CNN, WSB and a number of local production companies running camera, lights and sound. In 1989 Russell went to work for Total Audio Visual Services as a sales associate. At the time, TAVS was one of the largest A/V companies in the country. In 1993 Russell took the position of DOS & M for Tech Rentals Inc, which at the time was a relatively small A/V company. Since that time, Tech Rentals has grown to become one of the top 10 audio visual staging companies in the United States, as recognized by Rental and Staging magazine. Russell has served on the Georgia Meeting Professionals International, International Special Events Society and Professional Conference Managers Association boards, as well as the Hospitality Helping Hands board Executives.

Patrick Clements, CEO of Sherpa Desk and Brooks Robinson, CEO of Springbot August 28th, 2013

August 29, 2013 by angishields

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Patrick Clements, CEO of Sherpa Desk and Brooks Robinson, CEO of Springbot August 28th, 2013

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This is a great show featuring two young, very smart entrepreneurs who are creating what I believe to be two of Atlanta’s next success stories. In addition both are very active in the not for profit world making our city a greater place for all our citizens.

Patrick Clements is the CEO of bigWebApps and his newest company is Sherpa Desk. Patrick is passionate about the customer service experience and his company is providing services to companies across the planet. Patrick created Draft on Taft, a local not for profit that hosts an annual music, food, and fun event in midtown Atlanta. Since the inception, Draft on Taft has raised over $200,000 for local and national organizations dealing with issues facing children. In 2013 the not for profit receiving funds was GiGi’s Playhouse, an organization assisting children born with Down Syndrome.

Brooks Robinson is someone I have known and admired for many years. Brooks is the founder and CEO of Springbot. Brooks is helping on line retailers deliver compelling advertising messages at just the right moment. His company is driving up conversation rates for his clients. Brooks and his wife are both in leadership positions with Kate’s Club, an organization whose mission is to empower children and teens facing life after the death of a parent or sibling.

I highly recommend that you listen to these two successful entrepreneurs share their stories. Visit their websites and get to know their companies. I promise you will be hearing a great deal about these companies in the near future.

Women Presidents' Organization

August 27, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Women Presidents' Organization

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The Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) is a non-profit membership organization for women presidents of multimillion-dollar companies. Members of the WPO take part in professionally facilitated peer advisory groups in order to bring the ‘genius out of the group’ and accelerate the growth of their businesses.

Moira Vetter/Modo Modo Agency

Moira Vetter is the founder and CEO of Modo Modo Agency, an award-winning, business-to-business marketing firm that has won over 100 awards in its first 5 years. Modo Modo Agency, with offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles, was recognized as the second fastest growing women-owned Atlanta firm in 2010. She has just published her first book, AdVenture, An Outsider’s Inside View of Getting an Entrepreneur to Market.

Joy Lynn Fields/Joy Lynn, Inc.

Joy Lynn Fields is an award-winning focus group moderator whose 25-year marketing career includes qualitative research and brand strategy work for some of the world’s most well-known companies and brands. Joy Lynn is the founder and CEO of Joy Lynn, Inc. a full-service qualitative marketing research company based in Atlanta GA. She founded the company in 1995 after spending 6 years in consulting with the late Frank Lane, recognized branding expert and author of Killer Brands. Although Joy Lynn’s experience spans a broad range of categories, much of her focus has been in consumer packaged goods. She conducts both traditional and web-based qualitative, as well as some ethnographic work throughout the US and abroad. Her experience includes facilitating groups and interviews among not only consumers, but physicians, employees and executives as well.

In 2013, Joy Lynn was named Enterprising Women of the Year by Enterprising Women magazine. In addition to her undergraduate degree and post-graduate work, Joy Lynn also has an Expert Level Professional Research Certification from the Marketing Research Association and a Certificate in Marketing Strategy from Cornell. She can be reached at jlfields@joylynn.com

Catherine Cates/Newport Board Group

Catherine Cates, Advisor with Newport Board Group, is a seasoned executive whose 30 year business career includes 13 years in C-level roles in entrepreneurial companies. Catherine is passionate about helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses past the predictable barriers called “No Man’s Land”.

Catherine uses her ten years of banking and finance experience to help CEO’s “decode” their financial statements and focus on just a few key metrics. Growth often requires cash, and Catherine helps companies better manage their cash and put together a compelling story for lenders and investors to bring in more cash. She also helps CEOs focus on the most important issues that will drive growth and profitability. And she helps get leadership teams aligned for better results.

Catherine has been a CEO of a specialty medical staffing firm, and COO of a manufacturing firm. She worked in finance and banking for ten years, and was also a consultant with a national firm for two years. She grew up in North Carolina and holds a B.A in Economics from Dartmouth College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Page Harty/SignatureFD

Page Harty is a partner and senior client relationship manager at Signature FD, LLC. She is a Certified Financial Planner professional and has been in the financial services industry for over 20 years. Page has spent the majority of her career providing comprehensive financial advice to high-net-worth individuals and families.

Page is the leader of SignatureFD’s women’s initiative, SignatureWOMEN, and is passionate about helping other women become financially empowered to use their wealth to lead a great life. She is committed to helping women clients create a plan that guides them through life’s transitions, such as the loss of a spouse, divorce, selling a business, retirement and job changes.

Prior to joining SignatureFD in 2008, Page served as First Vice President, Wealth Strategist, in the Private Wealth Management (PWM) area of SunTrust Bank, where she partnered with successful individuals and families to develop comprehensive wealth management solutions. Before joining SunTrust, she spent several years calling on the ultra-high-net-worth market as a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management Group, followed by a Wealth Strategist position in SunTrust’s multi-family office affiliate, Asset Management Advisors (AMA).

Page is a native Atlantan. Her two grown sons, Mat and West, live in Washington, DC, and Jacksonville.

Creative Ways to Pay for Long Term Care – Carol Hurst on Eugeria! Radio

August 27, 2013 by angishields

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Creative Ways to Pay for Long Term Care - Carol Hurst on Eugeria! Radio

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Growing up in a small town in northeast Arkansas, Carol Hurst was drawn to seniors at an early age, studying gerontology at Arkansas College. After graduating, Carol worked as a case manager, a legal advisor and a nursing home ombudsman for the State of Arkansas. Twenty seven years ago, Carol moved to Atlanta and took a job in the insurance and financial services industry. After a number of years, she began working in the mortgage industry, and stayed there until about five years ago, when the bottom dropped out of that market. As she began to investigate other career options, she realized that she could combine her recent expertise with her love for seniors by specializing in products that would help seniors safely tap the equity in their home to help pay for their own long term care, and maintain their independence without becoming a burden to their children.

For the last five years, Carol has done nothing but reverse mortgages, now working for Reverse Mortgage USA. She is not only a knowledgeable provider of reverse mortgages, she is also an educator. Carol acknowledges that reverse mortgages are not right for everybody, but they can be a lifesaver for some. Listen in to hear her provide more detail on who might benefit from this opportunity. To reach Carol directly, call her at (770) 314-0027, send her an email at churst@rmeducator.com, or check out her website at www.reverse-mortgage-usa.com.

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for more than 20 years.

Mark Wilson with eVerifile and Kim Anderson with Families First

August 27, 2013 by angishields

Growth Matters

Mark Wilson with eVerifile and Kim Anderson with Families First

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Mark Wilson/eVerifile

Entrepreneur Mark A. Wilson is the President and CEO of Atlanta-based eVerifile Inc., a privately held company specializing in delivering fast, web-powered workforce screening solutions and support systems for organizations across the globe. Founded in 1999, the company serves organizations in a number of industries, including healthcare, gaming, pharmaceuticals, transportation and utilities. Mr. Wilson acquired eVerifile in early 2012 along with an impressive team of investors.

Wilson has over 25 years of experience in the business information services industry, and has held senior level sales and operations management positions with companies such as D&B, ABF Freight Systems and Whirlpool Corporation.

In 2001, Wilson founded RYLA Teleservices Inc. a true start-up, launched in his basement and named after his two children Ryan and Lauren. As President and Chief Executive Officer, he established RYLA as a nationally-recognized customer support and contact center with more than 3,000 employees and revenues in excess of $100 million. Over the years, Wilson continued to grow the business, serving Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations while adding call center locations around the country and creating thousands of full-time and seasonal jobs. The company’s many accolades include Wall Street Journal’s top workplaces, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2009 fastest-growing company, and the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies for four consecutive years. RYLA was acquired in 2010.

Wilson’s vision and leadership has earned a number of prestigious honors, including Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award ® for 2010 and TiE Atlanta’s 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year.

A native of Arkansas, he earned his degree in Business Administration and Management at Wilberforce University. Wilson and his family now live in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kim Anderson/Families First

Kim Anderson is Chief Executive Officer with Families First. Kim is responsible for the implementation and success of the Families First mission while guiding a staff of over 100 employees in 10 locations with an annual budget of $10 million.

Prior to joining Families First, Kim was Senior Director for BoardWalk Consulting providing strategic planning, board enhancement, organizational management and executive leadership for numerous non-profit organizations. Kim previously served as Executive Director of AID Atlanta, the southeast’s largest AIDS services organization. Before that, Kim enjoyed an extensive legal career in the healthcare arena. After service with the law firm of Alston & Bird, she became the first General Counsel of Grady Health System, and subsequently served as Vice President & Assistant General Counsel for Magellan Health Systems, a publicly traded behavioral healthcare company, and senior legal counsel for the Atlanta Housing Authority.

Kim is a graduate of Oberlin College and Columbia University School of Law.

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta E2E Pillar

August 26, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Special Edition: TiE Atlanta E2E Pillar

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Arul Murugan/Enrich

Arul Murugan is the founder and CEO of Enrich which is the largest pure play Oracle EBS solution provider in Atlanta. He founded the company in 2003 and since then the company has consistently grown and now doing business in 20+ states in US, UK and Asia. Enrich helps organizations squeeze value out of Oracle technology. Starting with Procurement, Enrich enables savings realization across Supply Chain and Financials, by leveraging flexible technology – deployed on premise or in the cloud – and coupled with expertise to help drive success.

Eric Tejeda with PossibleNOW and Randy Gold with AGH

August 26, 2013 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Eric Tejeda with PossibleNOW and Randy Gold with AGH

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Eric Tejeda/PossibleNOWÂ

Eric Tejeda is the Director of Product Marketing forÂ PossibleNOW. PossibleNOW provides enterprise preference management solutions that empower direct marketers to personalize multi-channel communications to prospects and customers. Eric supports the organizationâ€™s growth objectives by productizing and launching innovative new products and services that fill critical needs in the marketplace.

He also directs all aspects of brand marketing, thought leadership, demand generation, sales enablement, and training. Responsibilities include campaign planning, direct marketing, digital advertising, social media, and promotions to drive sales through both direct and channel sales organizations.

Customer Engagement Marketing SummitÂ inÂ AtlantaÂ September 26-27, 2013

Â Randy Gold/AGH

Randy Gold brings talent and experience to the firmâ€™s real estate and construction practice in his role as Principal and Chief Operating Officer ofÂ AGH. Â Randy has an extensive background representing commercial and multifamily real estate developers and investors through purchase/sale transactions, deal structuring, consulting and reporting. Â With more than 14 years of experience representing pension funds, private investment groups, insurance companies and builders with portfolio assets ranging from $25 million to $5 billion, Randyâ€™s clients rely on his practical expertise to help them meet their goals.

In his role as Chief Operating Officer of one of the leading accounting firms in the Southeast, Randy is responsible for helping to create the strategy and tactics to support AGHâ€™s long term vision of developing expert team members who provide the foremost client communication and service. Â Focused on business development, Randy helps the firm continue its history of significant growth in each of its practice areas.