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CPA Roundtable Discussion with Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk Featuring: Marc Schwartz, Stacey Gorowitz and Bill Harshman

January 28, 2013 by angishields

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Todayâ€™s High Velocity Radio featured a CPA Roundtable Discussion assembled by Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk. Bonnie co-hosted the show today with regular host Stone Payton.

Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk is the President and founder ofÂ BBR Marketing, a firm that provides marketing strategy and services to professional services firms.

And Hereâ€™s A Little Background Info On Our Panel Members . . .

Marc Schwartz/Schwartz International

Marc Schwartz is a Partner withÂ Schwartz International, a firm that takes pride in providing an alternative forÂ companies and individuals looking for top-tier international tax consulting expertise with the flexibility,Â responsiveness and personal touch only a smaller firm can provide. Marc has lived and worked in the US andÂ abroad in both governmental and private sector roles. His diversified experience has allowed him to bring a globalÂ perspective to the business. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University, a Masterâ€™s in International Affairs fromÂ Columbia University, and a law degree from Emory University. He is also a CPA.

Stacey Gorowitz/S.J. Gorowitz Accounting & Tax Services

Stacey Gorowitz founded SJG in 1991. Her broad knowledge and insistence on excellence was established during a successful career with Price Waterhouse where she worked extensively with closely-held businesses. Through her business expertise and the collective knowledge and creativity of an experienced staff, Stacey has grown the firm to become the success that it is today.

Stacey is known as a client advocate and a trusted advisor, dedicated to turning numbers into opportunities. She earned a Bachelor of Accounting degree as well as her MBA from the University of Miami.

Bill Harshman/Harshman Phillips & Company

Bill Harshman is a 30+ year CPA and co-founder of HPC. Prior to HPC, Bill spent 17 years rising through the ranks of a â€˜Big 4â€™ firm, including 7 years as the Partner-In-Charge of the Atlanta Tax Department of Arthur Young & Company (â€˜AYâ€™, predecessor to Ernst & Young). During his â€˜Big 4â€™ tenure, he spent 2 years working directly under the AY US National Director of Tax, served on the AY National Tax Policy Group, and was an instructor for the AY Tax Management Training Program.

While at HPC, Bill has specialized in working with entrepreneurial and closely-held companies in the manufacturing, software, distribution, and food services industries. HPC clients have benefited from his expertise in tax planning, IRS representation, small business financing, and complex mergers and acquisition transactions.

Timmothy McFadden, CEOSpace and Gene Hammett, Business Coach with Core Elevation

January 28, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Timmothy McFadden, CEOSpace and Gene Hammett, Business Coach with Core Elevation

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Timothy McFadden, Club President Atlanta for CEOSpace and Gene Hammett, Business Coach with Core Elevation were our guests. Our show today focused on ways business owners can dramatically grow their businesses. Each guest explained powerful strategies you can put to work to dramatically improve your business results.

Timothy McFadden explained CEOSpace is a new form of a trade show where you meet top executives and business owners face to face, developing new customers and making contacts who will refer business to you.

With a blend of local meetings and several national meet-ups each year, CEOSpace provides a blend of high level networking between company owners as well as CE Credits in many industries in every state. It is why the annual meeting attracts hundreds of top business people, educators and governmental leaders including John Kerry and Barack Obama who have spoken at their meetings.

They give back with a program for students in high school and college where 90% of their fee is paid. Imagine the life-altering experience spending a few days meeting with people who are successful business owners, heads of major corporations and top governmental leaders would do for the future of your son or daughter.

CEOSpace’s structured combination of networking, education and deal making fulfills an important function and is something progressive business owners and parents who understand the value of exchanging ideas and meeting other successful business owners and civic leaders will want to learn more about.

You can reach Timothy at 404-775-9606, email tmm@ceospaceatlanta.com or the web www.ceospaceatlanta.com.

Gene Hammett, Business Coach and owner of CORE Elevation, specializes in helping business owners grow their business using a four step process so they see sales grow and their company thrive.

A successful business owner before he turned to coaching, Gene brings the mindset of a former entrepreneur and business owner to coaching and his orientation toward promotion, differentiation, growth through purposeful action and commitment. His unique program is an outgrowth of his experiences in his business… and with having his own business coach. He credits that decision with being one of the major reasons he was doubling sales year over year. Today, he has two coaches working with him because a coach makes even a coach more effective and focused.

Gene has a special focus on the web and digital world of programmers, web developers and creative agencies but has clients in other businesses as well. His focus on the digital sector gives him an understanding of the unique challenges of those companies and the jargon used. In a word, he understands.

If you are serious about changing the results in your business this year, you’ll want to talk with Gene or catch one of his free webinars. You can reach Gene at 678-242-9957 or email gene@corelevation.com and www.coreelevation.com.

Business Radio Interviews: This Week At Business RadioX® Sandy Springs January 21 – January 26, 2013

January 27, 2013 by angishields

This Week At Business RadioX® Sandy Springs

January 21 – January 26, 2013

Featuring Business Radio Interviews with Executives and Entrepreneurs from our Sandy Springs Studio

High Velocity Radio

Robert Grashuis and Joshua Schwarber with OneSpring, and Catherine Cattles with GTSI

Performance Difference Radio

The New Professional Home for Performance Improvement Specialists with Dr. Judy Hale and Deb Page

Eugeria

Honoring Life and Offering Hope – Kim Joens of Seasons Hospice

Global Leader Radio

The 3 C’s of a KSU EMBA!

Atlanta Business Radio

Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot, Jessica Park with JPark Events, Drew Voyles with Young Life Africa Expeditions and Michael Muldoon with La Tagliatella

The Doctors Roundtable

Breast Augmentation and Rejuvenation: Dispelling the Myths, with Dr. John Connors

Audio Dust Jacket Volume Four

January 27, 2013 by angishields

BRX National

Audio Dust Jacket Volume Four

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Jenny Milchman/Cover of Snow

Jenny Milchman is a suspense writer from New Jersey. Her debut novel, COVER OF SNOW, is forthcoming from Ballantine in January 2013 and is available for pre-order now. Her short story The Closet was published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in November 2012. Another short story, The Very Old Man, has been an Amazon bestseller, and the short work Black Sun on Tupper Lake appears in the anthology ADIRONDACK MYSTERIES II

Jenny is the Chair of the International Thriller Writers’ Debut Authors Program. She is also the founder of Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day, which was celebrated last year in all 50 states and four foreign countries by 350-and-growing bookstores.

Jenny hosts the Made It Moments forum on her blog, which has featured more than 250 international bestsellers, Edgar winners and independent authors. She co-hosts the literary series Writing Matters, which attracts guests coast-to-coast and has received national media attention, and loves to teach and speak about writing and publishing for New York Writers Workshop, Arts By The People, and WomenWhoWrite.

Charmaine Hammond/GPS Your Best Life- Charting Your Destination & Getting There in Style

Charmaine Hammond, MA, BA, is an international transformational speaker, 2x #1 best selling and award winning author and radio host, helping people live inspired, resilient lives and helping transform workplaces. She has owned her business for 16 years, although her first career started in the Correctional System where she was a Correctional Officer. Using her skills to manage conflict and crisis, she returned to grad school attaining a Masters Degree in Conflict Analysis & Management. She has facilitated team building and problem solving process and strategic planning sessions for hundreds of clients, has spoken to 70,000 people around the world, and is on a mission to bring kindness to the workplace. Her new co-authored book GPS Your Best Life helps you get in the driver’s seat of your life. She is also author of On Toby’s Terms (being made into a motion picture), Bounce Forward, and Toby the Pet Therapy Dog.

Whether you’re trying to determine what you really want in life, to clarify your goals, or how to get where you want, GPS Your Best Life will help you map your destination and put you on the road to personal fulfillment, happiness, and success.

Angil Tarach-Ritchey/Behind the Old Face: Aging in America and the Coming Elder Boom

Angil Tarach-Ritchey RN, GCM is a national expertin senior care. With over 30 years in senior care and advocacy Angil is very passionate about improving the treatment, living and care of aging adults and is well respected in her field. Her insightful work is not only appreciated by seniors and family caregivers, it isrecognized by her professional peers.

Behind the Old Face: Aging in America and the Coming Elder Boom, A Teenage nursing-home aide Angil Tarach-Ritchey’s discovery of a resident’sold love letters altered her view of elderly patients and inspired her career of advocating for quality elder care. Drawing upon decades of experience and her interviews with seniors, Angil provides an overview of aging and elder care in the U.S., reveals the rich inner worlds of the elderly, conveys their advice to those who will become senior citizens, and describes her vision of a community- based, inter-generational, and sustainable approach to elder care. A must read for anyone who works with, is related to, or is acquainted with an elderly person.

Lillian Brummet/Purple Snowflake Marketing

Book marketing guru and award winning author, radio host and blogger Lillian Brummet joins us today to share her experiences in the world of writing. Lillian has fond memories of an early childhood in California and Nevada (USA) and grew up in the south-central region of BC, Canada. Her business partner, co-author and husband Dave was born and raised in Kelowna (BC) where he met up with Lillian in 1990 and they have been together ever since.

Purple Snowflake Marketing offers a realistic guide to what authors can expect to face and how to employ research and preparation to make a memorable first impression. As you put together a marketing plan, you will be able to proceed with the confidence of a seasoned writer. This book is packed with value, with over 1000 resources along with stats and inspiring quotes to assist you in developing that unique marketing plan for each book you write.

February 5th – In Pursuit of the “Better Mousetrap”

January 26, 2013 by angishields

Write Here Write Now

February 5th - In Pursuit of the “Better Mousetrap”

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We know the saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Entrepreneurs Diane Bogino and Tim Sanders have each “built that better mousetrap” in their respective fields. Diane’s business – Performance Strategies, Inc. – provides assessments, seminars, coaching, consulting and training to help companies become even better at what they do best. Tim Sanders is part of the team that is Net Minds, a group publishing company. Consulting companies constantly proclaim, “We can help you make a real difference in how you do business and get business.” Similarly, we can find a multitude of publishing companies each of which declares they can do the best job helping authors.

As part of Performance Strategies Diane Bogino also hosts GBDN tv (Georgia Business Directory Network). She creates and produces video interviews of business leaders. She then edits the video and uploads them to a youtube url. She shares the links with her clients who can then leverage the video url.

Net Minds could be described as a brokerage for writers: authors come looking for a coach and/or ghostwriter and layout design person and marketing person; editors/writers come looking for a potential client as do design specialist. Net Minds uses proprietary processes to assemble the best team.

What makes Performance Strategies and Net Minds different? What is their “better mousetrap?” How did each create its concept?

Stacy Williams Shuker with Down South Innovation

January 25, 2013 by angishields

Disruptive Healthcare

Stacy Williams Shuker with Down South Innovation

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Stacy Williams Shuker/Down South Innovation

Stacy Williams Shuker has been a part of Atlanta’s innovation community since 2006. She started out as a scientific advisor in an intellectual property law firm and community volunteer. In her role as Director of the Center of Innovation for Life Sciences, she pioneered the use of social media in economic development. As Director of Partnership Development for Georgia Bio, she initiated an industry outreach program, which resulted in several multi-billion dollar companies visiting our research universities. Her new partnership development firm, Down South Innovation, connects large pharmaceutical and medical device companies with academic and emerging company resources across the Southeast.

She has chaired and served on several committees with the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta, Georgia Bio and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. She is also a big fan of StartupLounge – an Atlanta based organization that pairs emerging companies with qualified investors. Dr. Shuker will be devoting her professional volunteer efforts to making the Southeastern region a thriving ecosystem for innovation and commercialization.

Mike Slawson with Lumense

January 25, 2013 by angishields

Disruptive Business

Mike Slawson with Lumense

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Mike Slawson/Lumense

Mike Slawson co-founded Lumense in 2011 and serves as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Mike has been instrumental in setting company strategy, securing intellectual property rights, raising capital, and building strategic partnerships.

Prior to Lumense, Mike was a co-founder of Qualtre, Inc., an ATDC company commercializing MEMS inertial sensors, where he served as CEO for almost three years. Since 1998 until 2010, Mike was also a partner at Alliance Technology Ventures, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm developing early-stage companies in information technology and life sciences. For much of his time at ATV, Mike was responsible for the information technology investment strategy. Mike either managed or assisted with the management of the firm’s successful investments in several companies, including SecureWorks, Novera, Telaxis, SyChip, Digital Furnace, Mindlever, and OmniGuide. Prior to joining ATV, Mike was a Kauffman Fellow at Chicago-based ARCH Venture Partners.

Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt, an MSEE from North Carolina State University, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Mike also held engineering and engineering management positions with Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, and Alcatel. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and children.

Today’s show is brought to you by Minerva Planning Group.

Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot, Jessica Park with JPark Events, Drew Voyles with Young Life Africa Expeditions and Michael Muldoon with La Tagliatella

January 24, 2013 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Sanjay Parekh with Startup Riot, Jessica Park with JPark Events, Drew Voyles with Young Life Africa Expeditions and Michael Muldoon with La Tagliatella

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Sanjay Parekh/Startup Riot

Sanjay Parekh is the Founder of Startup Riot, an all-day event which highlights 30 startups through three minute, four slide presentations given by the startups. The startups subsequently answer questions from a judging panel for three minutes. This year’s event will be February 20, 2013 at The Tabernacle and features keynote speakers T.A. McCann and Adam Rich.

Jessica Park/JPark Events

Jessica Park, Director of JPark Events, is a certified event planner and entrepreneur here in Atlanta, as well, she is a native Atlantan. Jessica’s near 20 year tenure in the restaurant and service industry has given her the skills to organize peers and charges to get things done in a high volume environment. A demeanor perfectly suited for event planning, proving to unusually skilled in multitasking and troubleshooting. Jpark Events has catered an afternoon tea and dessert for the Dalai Lama, has been featured in Martha’s Circle, and on Style Me Pretty, and Ruffled Blog. Her work has also been seen in Occasions Magazine, The Atlantan Brides, and Pretty Pear Bride featuring her custom dessert tables. Recently she was voted best caterer in Atlanta by Wedding Industry Experts.

Drew Voyles/Young Life Africa Expeditions

Drew Voyles is a Regional Coordinator with Young Life Africa Expeditions. YLXA is a division of the non-profit global organization, Young Life, passionate about sending students, young adults, and families on Trips to Africa that go beyond comfort zones through full-immersion experiences. Partnering with more than 20 different Young Life Africa communities across 13 Countries, YLXA has taken over 1,200 people on 91 Trips over the past 7 years to serve and experience the heart of Africa through a different lens. Countless people both in Africa and the U.S. have come home from these Trips with their lives forever changed.”

Michael Muldoon/La Tagliatella

As President of Polish-owned AmRest Holding’s La Tagliatella, LLC in the US, Michael Muldoon is responsible for developing the strategy and executing day-to-day operations of the European-based Italian restaurant concept. With more than 130 La Tagliatella restaurants across Europe, Asia and India, Michael opened the brand’s first U.S. flagship location at the Shops at Metropolis in Midtown Atlanta, Ga., in December 2012, followed by a second location at Emory Point in Atlanta in January 2013. A third location is slated to open in Arlington, Va., in March 2013. With Michael leading the way, AmRest plans to open more than 100 La Tagliatella locations nationwide in the next few years.

Prior to introducing La Tagliatella to the U.S., Michael was president of the $240 million Applebee’s division of AmRest and led the turn-around and eventual sale of the Applebee’s division. He spent time as vice president of human resources of AppleGrove which was acquired by AmRest in July 2008. Michael has spent his entire career in the restaurant industry beginning as an hourly employee and working his way through various leadership positions in operations and support functions.

Michael holds an MBA from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Eastern Michigan University. He lives in Roswell, Georgia with his wife Charity and their two sons, Michael and Declan.

Breast Augmentation and Rejuvenation: Dispelling the Myths, with Dr. John Connors

January 24, 2013 by angishields

The Doctors Roundtable

Breast Augmentation and Rejuvenation: Dispelling the Myths, with Dr. John Connors

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What a show today! The topic is “Breast Augmentation and Rejuvenation: Dispelling the Myths” featuring Dr. John Connors, special guest Ashley Smith, and brought to you by HealthGate.

Breast augmentation is the most common and fastest growing plastic surgery performed in the United States. In 2012, approx. 307,000 women had this surgery and many women are pursuing this option as part of increasing their confidence. In this segment, Dr. John Connors, a double board certified surgeon, explores all options and dispels some myths surrounding this procedure. He will also discuss related imaging technologies , new alternatives, and aftercare.

John P. Connors III, M.D.

Being double board certified in Surgery and Plastic Surgery, Dr. Connors obtained his MD from Georgetown Medical School, conducted his Residency in General Surgery at Dartmouth and received a Fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is the only surgeon in Georgia to offer Precision Vision 4D Patient Imaging, thereby revolutionizing consultations. Having been featured on CBS, 11 Alive, and Fox News, Dr. Connors is a regular lecturer at surgical society meetings across the US. He is Founder of Emergence Surgical Gifts, Inc, a non-profit offering free reconstructive surgery to children.