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The In’s and Out’s of Body Contouring with Dr. Thomas Locke

February 14, 2013 by angishields

The Doctors Roundtable

The In’s and Out’s of Body Contouring with Dr. Thomas Locke

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This episode explores cosmetic surgery, and more specifically, the in’s and out’s of body contouring with Dr. Thomas Locke of WISE Medical Center… all brought to you by HealthGate.

Body contouring is a way that patients can improve their body shape (hips, flank, abdomen, posterior upper arm, thighs, and chin most commonly) via various liposuction equipment and techniques.

Thomas Locke, M.D./WISE Medical Center

Double board certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine as well certified in Aesthetic Surgery, Dr. Thomas J. Locke, III, was born in Vidalia, Georgia, and raised in SW Atlanta. He did his undergraduate study at Princeton University, graduated from medical school at Howard University, and completed residency training at George Washington University. His practice philosophy centers around all aspects of personal image enhancement services. He has extensive training and professional practice experience in body contouring. To this end, he is also an instructor for surgical equipment vendors, teaching doctors from all over the country who are learning liposuction, fat transfer, and all aspects of body contouring. Other specialty interests include bariatrics, weight loss, hormone replacement therapy, and anti-aging medicine. He currently serves as Medical Director for WISE Medical Center in Alpharetta, GA.

BonusRuum – Check out this Innovative Approach to Adding Space for an Aging Parent!

February 13, 2013 by angishields

Eugeria

BonusRuum - Check out this Innovative Approach to Adding Space for an Aging Parent!

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Kennesaw native Chet Tischer began his career in real estate at the age of 14! It started with Chet cutting a homebuilder neighbor’s lawn. From there, he began doing odd jobs for the builder, and he never really stopped building homes.

After 25 years as a homebuilder, Chet, like many others found himself having to reinvent his business as the market for new homes evaporated a few years ago. One day he was sitting around with his wife ruminating about the necessity of adding space to accommodate an aging parent. Chet was already aware of the growing need for multi-generational living spaces. Skeptical, at first, Chet set about creating the most complex senior living space he could imagine. After many iterations, he has created a patented, modular, affordable and accessible living space for seniors or disabled adults that can be installed in a few hours inside a garage, or attached to any existing exterior doorway of your home. These spaces come furnished with electrical and water hook-ups, heating, air conditioning and even high tech medical monitoring devices. Chet’s brainchild is being made available through his company, BonusRuum.

Check out this fascinating interview, and look for an on-site broadcast some time in April, when BonusRuum will open up a warehouse in Marietta that will have a model room available for touring! In the mean time, if you are interested in more information, check out their website at www.bonusruum.com, or call their offices at (770) 480-5676.

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 20 years.

Wayne Zitsch with SunTrust Bank

February 13, 2013 by angishields

Learning Insights

Wayne Zitsch with SunTrust Bank

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Wayne Zitsch/SunTrust Bank

Wayne Zitsch, Manager of Enterprise Learning Development, Group Vice President with SunTrust Bank, is a Talent Development Executive with expert experience in building learning teams, selection/deployment/management of learning management systems, outsourcing of training development, and project management/program management operations and funding systems. Wayne has led of teams of over 50 people and vendor engagements of over $15 million. Other interests include Human Capital Management Systems and onboarding experience. Preferred role is that of a change agent and leader.

Today’s show is brought to you by TrainingPros.

February 19th – Adventures and Possibilities that Emerge from Unique Perspectives

February 13, 2013 by angishields

Write Here Write Now

February 19th - Adventures and Possibilities that Emerge from Unique Perspectives

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Both Lisa Decker and Jim Beach possess intriguing career paths. Lisa has 20 years of experience in running a successful construction-related business. She has engaged in real estate sales and investing as well as in health eduction. Jim has started businesses (his first at the age of 25), taught entrepreneurship, worked with the Japanese government and has been an adjunct faculty member at a university. Today, Lisa Decker is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and CEO of Divorce Money Matters. She has written a comprehensive program on divorce: Secrets to a Sane, Savvy, Money-Saving Divorce. In 2009, Jim founded www.SchoolforStartups.com. He is Executive Director of www.InternationalEntrepreneurship.com. Recently he started two new radio shows: Restaurant Owner Radio and School for Startups Radio, both on Business Radio X. With co-authors, Jim wrote School for Startups,published by McGraw-Hill in June 2011.

How do Lisa and Jim gain the perspectives and/or insights that lead them to their business adventures? What do they look for in order to generate a new business or a different approach to a life issue? What encouragement do they share with others?

Atlanta Independent Womens Network

February 12, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Atlanta Independent Womens Network

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Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk/bbr Marketing

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk is the President and Founder of bbr marketing, a firm that provides marketing strategy and services to professional services firms. By having such a narrow market, she has been able to create a name for herself and her company, and was recently named “One to Watch” by AccountingToday on their Top 100 Most Influential People of 2011. She attributes the awareness and growth of her firm to a number of things, one of the most effective has been making connections with others and actively networking among her peers. She is never hesitant to make introductions to colleagues with the hopes that they will eventually work together, refer business to each other or simply enjoy getting to know each other. She’s even been known to reach out to her competitors, and has made some lasting friendships and alliances because of this strategy. At the end of the day, she feels the good that can be done by connecting people far outweighs any negative impact. And who doesn’t enjoy meeting someone new?

Dolly Evans/Small Business Services

Dolly Evans with Small Business Services has developed three successful businesses over a 20 year period and works with her clients to do the same. All of her endeavors support the owner managed business and its owners by providing planning and affiliated financial and accounting services. She gives back to the community by serving on local Boards of nonprofits, assisting in building a business foundation that allows the mission of the organization to be met and exceeded.

Carmen Westbrook/Naked-Fashion Help

Carmen Westbrook is an Image Consultant and owner of Naked – Fashion Help. In addition to working with men and women to help them improve their overall image through smart wardrobe choices, she’s developed a 45-minute presentation called “Pull Yourself Together!” that she presents to professional women’s groups. She is on the membership committee of the Atlanta Independent Women’s Network and enjoys volunteering at the non-profit, Dress for Success Atlanta.

Playwright Lolita Snipes Joins Dana & Elizabeth Along with Two WTC Members

February 12, 2013 by angishields

Good Morning Atlanta

Playwright Lolita Snipes Joins Dana & Elizabeth Along with Two WTC Members

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Elizabeth, Matilda, Lolita, Joseph & Dana

Elizabeth and Dana are joined in-studio by playwright and producer Lolita Snipes to talk about her new production at the 14th Street Playhouse, Good God A’Mighty! starring Melba Moore, Dante Carter and Just June. The show opens this Thursday night 2/14 and promises to be a wonderful experience.

World Trade Center members, Joseph Walker, Executive Director of ITMS (International Travel Marketing Solutions) and Matilda Arhin, President Ghana World Chamber of Commerce and of DuxDuchy (a consulting firm) joined the usual headline coverage and banter and shared a bit about their companies and their take on the global marketplace.

Some highlights of the show include Dana making sure everyone understands that theater is not football and clarifying why and how Atlanta got the questionable title of “Sexiest City”!

Moving to a Contingent Workforce with Carolyn O’Brien and Tom Followill with Tag Team Interim Experts, LLC

February 12, 2013 by angishields

Performance Difference Radio

Moving to a Contingent Workforce with Carolyn O'Brien and Tom Followill with Tag Team Interim Experts, LLC

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Is your business challenged by having the right people when needed to build your business. There is a movement towards building a contingent workforce. The flexibility, experience and skill that contingent workers bring can be integral to a business. Carolyn and Tom discuss the benefits and opportunities in building this workforce to help you grow.

Carolyn Reeves O’Brien

As Founder and Principal of Tag Team Interim Experts, LLC, Carolyn provides overall daily leadership and managerial oversight for the company’s growth strategies. Ms. O’Brien guides Tag Team Interim Experts’ vision and values, and ensures that the agency’s efforts are translated into measurable value for every client.

Since 2006, Ms. O’Brien has led Tag Team Interim Experts through significant expansion, including garnering over 350 Interim Marketing ExpertsSM across the U.S. with a focus on placing professionals in interim marketing roles.

Ms. O’Brien brings a broad range of experience to bear on marketing – including classical marketing experience as well as interactive marketing consulting across several different industries. Prior to founding Tag Team Interim Experts, LLC, Ms. O’Brien worked for The Coca-Cola Company. She has an array of marketing experience, including brand management (the flagship brand, Coca-Cola as well as Fresca and Diet Sprite), channel management, and shopper marketing experience on several Blue Chip clients across national and regional retail. Ms. O’Brien also has extensive experience in launching new brands for The Coca-Cola Company as well as for Land O’Lakes and Cains Foods.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Ms. O’Brien worked as Director or Marketing at ING Financial Services where she was responsible for developing the launch strategy for the ING brand in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Ms. O’Brien also brings experience from the high tech industry as well as from start-up interactive companies. She also worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where she was a consultant in change management. Prior to working as a consultant PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ms. O’Brien worked for IBM in marketing, while going to school in the evenings to earn her MBA.

A native of Atlanta, Ms. O’Brien earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Wake Forest University and her Masters of Business Administration at Georgia State University.

Ms. O’Brien is also the founder and CEO of Two Tailz K9 ResQ, Inc. (www.twotailzk9ResQ.org ), a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming homeless and abused dogs.

Carolyn can be contacted via email.

Tom Followill

Tom is a Partner with Tag Team Interim Experts, LLC, responsible for the Company’s Business Development Strategy and Client relations. Tom is charged with the development and execution of Tag Team’s mission to anticipate, understand and deliver Best-In-Class expertise to Clients to produce superior results.

Tom brings over 20 years of business development, client engagement and recruiting experience to Tag Team. He has experience in appointments across most functional areas and at all management levels – from individual contributors to executive and C-suite leadership. Specifically, his experience focuses on a significant number of industries including: Automotive, Consumer Products and Services, General Manufacturing, Private Equity, Technology, and Venture Capital endeavors. Tom possesses an impressive network of business experts that help him identify high-impact opportunities with exceptional focus placed on fulfilling Clients’ core strategic initiatives.

Tom’s client engagement and search experience spans Regional, National and International businesses. He began his executive career at an internationally recognized and acclaimed law firm followed by a stint in helping to build a boutique, national marketing and public relations firm focused on B2B marketing and video production. He developed an interest in human capital management and pursued his career in the employment industry, which included increasing responsibilities of business development and management in an international staffing firm. Subsequently Tom helped design, build and and direct a healthcare staffing and executive placement practice.

Most recently Followill was a Senior Partner and Practice Leader with a nationally known Executive Search Firm. He established and helped build the Consumer Product practice with a particular focus on Senior Level Executive development and placement. During his tenure, Tom developed a focused approach to his unique style of client and candidate development, centered on constructing an ever-expanding, fluid network of powerful and influential business executives. Tom’s believes success comes from the combination of having a select network of mentors, a true passion for anticipating and exceeding Client needs, and a sincere optimism that spans his endeavors.

Tom’s outside interests include strong dedication of time to his family, coaching youth sports, promoting Entrepreneurial endeavors, playing golf, and giving his time to local and national charities and the community in general. Tom holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the South (Sewanee) majoring in Psychology, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University, with a concentration in Marketing and a focus in Human Resources Management.

Tom can be contacted via email.

The Secrets to Business Success from Marketing to Mindset and Taxes to Technology

February 11, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

The Secrets to Business Success from Marketing to Mindset and Taxes to Technology

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Purple Snowflakes Get Noticed, white ones don’t. Our guest, Dagmar Sands, is a true success story with a list of successes in live, business and real estate that won’t fit on five or six closely spaced pages. President of Dagmar Sands – Real Estate International, Inc., an international real estate group and luxury property marketing firm, networking wonder, mentor to many and the brains and drive behind Johns Creek City Guide, an online community resource that has helped draw many to Johns Creek. She and the Guide have likely facilitated more business connections that have made people money than AT&T. She is originally from Czechoslovakia although you’d never pick up on it in her speech and is fluent in about five languages… Which helps explain why she’s such a powerhouse international property broker.

What a great person to talk about the power of helping others and making your business stand out from the crowd. She explains more than just what a city guide can do to help connect people and companies with services and opportunities and why that is so critical to your success today. Dagmar also delivers wonderful insights into the business and personal secrets that made her a well known, well respected and sought after speaker, mentor and partner.

Her upcoming book is all about getting noticed and you’ll want to stay in touch and get a copy as soon as it’s available, especially if you are one of the 1.3 million Realtors out there aspiring to stand out and get the best deals.

You can reach Dagmar at: www.johnscreekcityguide.com, email her at dagmar@johnscreekcityguide.com or call 404-313-3456.

HCREW Technologies President and Co-Owner Tommy Higginbotham and his team work with you like business partners, not technocrats. Why? Because Tommy literally grew up an entrepreneur along side his dad who ran his own business. He and his partner understand their job is to help their clients save money and make smart decisions on technology to improve business infrastructure reliability, decrease operating costs and increase productivity.

Offering consultative advice on a company’s technology, data and network setups, Tommy’s company tackles the soft underbelly of so many firms dependent on IT infrastructure to operate. They start by making sure the equipment and software are maintained, monitored for problems and proactively upgraded so small glitches are caught before they become catastrophes.

Helping be sure if “the asteroid hits your building” you can carry on today what with today’s firm so dependent on IT, is essential to survival. After all, how long can you operate with no way to get to your Accounts Receivable records? It’s why they offer monitored backups of your systems and data so ifthe worst happens, your critical customer records, accounting data, sales information, etc., can all be back up and running almost instantly.

If you are small business, even if it’s just one PC and you can’t see living without it… up to a medium size firm, you’ll want to invite Tommy in for a review of your situation. After all, the business you save might be your own!

You can contact Tommy at www.hcrewtech.com or email thigginbotham@hcrewtech.com and call 855-427-3986.

CPA, CFA and Business Adviser Steve Rothschild, with RRB Financial Services, has been helping businesses small and large avoid not just the tax traps but dodge the tiger pits that kill so many start-ups and growing firms. Steve’s company sets itself apart by helping you interpret the numbers and take action on what they are telling you.

Blending a combination of common sense and sound business advice in with the numbers you need to run your business along with sound tax advice, he helps you avoiding getting one of those “Dear Felon” letters from the IRS. Since 1987, Steve has helped firms avoid thinking about gaming the tax code but instead of putting the code to work for them in a positive way that returns big bucks to the company to help it grow.

If you are starting a company, have a new growing one , or own an established successful one, Steve can help you look to the future so you create an exit strategy and retirement program that will maximize your wealth and secure a comfortable and worry-free retirement.

You can contact Steve at www.rrbcpa.com email steve@rrbcpa.com or call 404-974-3066.

Brad Rahinsky with Hotel Equities

February 11, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Brad Rahinsky with Hotel Equities

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Brad Rahinsky joined the Hotel Equities team in early 2012. He brings solid operations experience and a valuable background in technology and e-commerce, revenue management, sales and marketing. With responsibility for creating and administrating models for operational excellence, Brad develops the criteria and guidelines for the company’s hiring practices for all associates and oversees the selection, training and mentoring of managers.

Brad’s previous positions include Managing Partner at Performance Hospitality Group for a six-hotel portfolio including Hilton and Hyatt brands, and Regional Director at TRAVELCLICK, the hospitality e-commerce leader. He holds a B.S. degree in Communication Arts with a minor in Marketing from the University of West Florida.