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Smoked Mozzarella and Egg Sandwich Recipe

December 21, 2010 by angishields

Dr. Fitness & the Fat Guy

Smoked Mozzarella and Egg Sandwich Recipe

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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy share their Smoked Mozzarella and Egg Sandwich recipe. This is a great brunch meal. Make an omelette with some milk, egg whites, spinach, peppers, onions. Use an English muffin as your bread and add some smoked mozzarella cheese to top it off. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow us on Twitter @FatGuy and @DrFitness6 Be our Friend on Facebook

The New Home Buying Experience: Steve Cole & Kim Casbon: Regions Bank

December 21, 2010 by angishields

BRX National

The New Home Buying Experience: Steve Cole & Kim Casbon: Regions Bank

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Attorney Steven W. Cole has practiced residential and commercial real estate law for over 23 years. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the real estate area to the firm. Steve has unique understanding and insight to the varying concerns and needs of all the parties to a real estate transaction, whether it is from the viewpoint of the lender, buyer, seller, agent or mortgage broker.

With more than 25 years of experience in handling closing activities for thousands of home buyers, Steve had finally seen enough. The idea for Home Team Advisors came to him after completing a commercial purchase transaction.

He’s committed to the goal of giving home buyers a service that makes business sense for their family’s future.

Kim Casbon has been helping customers achieve their dream of home ownership since 1993 through a commitment to exceptional customer service, attention to her client’s needs, and minimizing the stress often associated with buying a home.

Kim has had a career in both mortgage banking and brokerage services. She was Mortgage Bankers Magazine’s 1996 rookie of the year. She received the Rising Star award in 2009 as Regions Mortgage’s best new hire. With over 17 years of mortgage origination experience, she has been an industry leader in production and mortgage training. She recently obtained her underwriting designation and has authority to underwrite her loans.

She lives in Roswell, Georgia with her husband Phillip of 18 years, her 8-year-old son Maxwell, and her 3-year-old collie, Lexie.

Ellen Turner and Laura Boone owners of TurnerBoone, Loren Solomon founder of Advertising for Good, and Jane McCraken, CEO of Proventus Group share their Chic Tips for business success with Elizabeth Gordon, bestselling author of The Chic Entrepreneur on The Chic Perspectives Show

December 21, 2010 by angishields

Chic Perspectives

Ellen Turner and Laura Boone owners of TurnerBoone, Loren Solomon founder of Advertising for Good, and Jane McCraken, CEO of Proventus Group share their Chic Tips for business success with Elizabeth Gordon, bestselling author of The Chic Entrepreneur on The Chic Perspectives Show

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Elizabeth Gordon, President ofÂ Flourishing Business and bestselling author of

The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business in Higher Heels, shined the Chic Spotlight

on Ellen Turner and Laura Boone owners of TurnerBoone,Â http://www.turnerboone.com/

high growth commercial furniture dealers, distributors and installers of furniture,

modular building to the commercial interior industry and design firm,

Loren Solomon founder of Advertising for Good, http://advertisingforgood.org/ which

partners corporations with non-profits with an aim of not only doing good but creating

a new revenue stream for corporations and Jane McCraken, CEO of Proventus Group,

http://proventusgroup.com a company that improves the business of drug and device

development. Â Â Listen to their Chic Tips.

Business Advisor, Elizabeth Gordon interviews Ellen Turner and Laura Boone owners of TurnerBoone, Loren Solomon founder of Advertising for Good, and Jane McCraken, CEO of Proventus Group on The Chic Perspectives Show

December 21, 2010 by angishields

Chic Perspectives

Business Advisor, Elizabeth Gordon interviews Ellen Turner and Laura Boone owners of TurnerBoone, Loren Solomon founder of Advertising for Good, and Jane McCraken, CEO of Proventus Group on The Chic Perspectives Show

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Our final episode of The Chic Perspectives Show this year was a great one! Â The studio was packed with impressed women entrepreneurs who shared their stories of business success. Â Â Elizabeth Gordon, President ofÂ Flourishing Business and bestselling author ofÂ The Chic Entrepreneur: Put Your Business in Higher Heels, shined the Chic Spotlight on Ellen Turner and Laura Boone owners of TurnerBoone, Loren Solomon founder of Advertising for Good, and Jane McCraken, CEO of Proventus Group.

Ellen Turner and Laura Boone started TurnerBoone,Â http://www.turnerboone.com/ a commercial furniture and design firm in 2004Â working out of Ellenâ€™s spare bedroom and were dubbed two girls and a car by their mostly male competitors. Â Since them, they have doubled their revenue every since opening, in 2009 grew 88%Â andÂ now have 14 employees and 100+ clients.

They talked about the challenges of being in an industry that has gone through huge declines (commercial real estate), how they have adapted their business and marketing plans to meet and beat this recession and what the future holds.

My next guest was Loren Solomon, an award-winning writer, producer, and Creative Director with over two decades of experience. Â Since 1992, Loren has created and developed successful integrated branding campaigns for clients from the local to global arena. Loren graduated with a BA in English from the University of Virginia, attended and taught at The Portfolio Center, one of the top Advertising Graduate Schools in the country.

Her career included stints at J. Walter Thompson, The Martin Agency, and Grey Global before she went out on her own, quickly becoming one of most well-known and respected marketing professionals. Her client work includes Emory Universityâ€™s Goizueta School of Business, Home Depot, MAP International, CNN, Atlanta Ballet, NIKE, The Coca-Cola Company, American Cancer Society, and more.

Loren talked about starting Advertising for GoodÂ http://advertisingforgood.org/ which partners corporations with non-profits with an aim of not only doing good but creating a new revenue stream for corporations. Â Hear how she’s convincing big companies how to juice up traditional marketing campaigns by adding in social good elements.

My next guest was CEO of Proventus Group,Â http://proventusgroup.com which works to improve the business of drug and device development. Â Jane’s career has focused on accelerating the growth and value of life science and technology-oriented companies in both theÂ USÂ andÂ Europe.Â She has worked with private equity, venture-back and public companies most recently as a member of senior executive teams and earlier in her career, as a venture capitalist and investment banker.

Jane is known forÂ puttingÂ strategic thinking into tactical plans with innovative yet practical approaches for strengthening corporate operations, finding new market opportunities, accelerating growth and overcoming challenges.Â Prior to joining Proventus, Jane was CEO of Nexus Oncology, an international clinical research organization.Â She gained additional experience in the life science industry as CFO of Axis-Shield plc, an invitro-diagnostics company.Â Jane also worked in the IT industry and was as CEO of all-hotels.com, an on-line travel company and COO of VIS entertainment, a computer games developer.Â She earned her Bachelors degree atÂ WakeÂ ForestÂ UniversityÂ and a Masters degree from Georgia Tech.

Jane talked about the business of doing comprehensive feasibility studies for new drugs – Â a crucial step in the ultimate goal of getting a product to market. Â Proventus works with biopharmaceuticals, medical device developers and clinical research companies. Â Jane has put together a team at Proventus with significant experience in clinical operations, business process improvement and information technology.Â They bring independent, pragmatic advice to assist companies with process improvements, technology adoption, and expanding your existing capabilities or geographic reach.

It was a pleasure getting to know all these fabulous female entrepreneurs. Â We heard about their strategy for differentiating, their philosophy on building relationships, their lessons learned over the course of 2010 and what’s on the horizon for all of their companies in 2011. Â And you won’t want to miss their Â Chic Tips.

Meal Makeover Mom Liz Weiss Shares Kid Tested Healthy Recipes For Picky Eaters

December 21, 2010 by angishields

Dr. Fitness & the Fat Guy

Meal Makeover Mom Liz Weiss Shares Kid Tested Healthy Recipes For Picky Eaters

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On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on Liz Weiss, author of No Whine with Dinner: 150 healthy Kid-Tested Recipes from the Meal Makeover Moms. Relax this book has recipes for foods your kid will really eat like mac and cheese, tacos, cupcakes and pizza. Liz says that most families think preparing healthy meals takes a lot of time; is too expensive and the kids complain anyway – so why bother. So she decided to create kid friendly nutritious meals that can be prepared quickly. Liz came on to share some of her best tips to get your kids to eat healthier. A great tip that she shared was to get your kids involved – let them pick a recipe out of the book and make it for the family – when kids have ownership they complain less and are excited and proud of their accomplishment. Another tip was to not have any chunks in your sauces – kids don’t like lumps – especially picky eaters. This registered dietitian had lots of do’s and don’ts when it came to feeding your family. To learn more please go to www.mealmakeovermoms.com

For more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. iTunes

Also please check out our new book 35 Things to Know to Raise Active Kids

Salmon Salad Recipe

December 20, 2010 by angishields

Dr. Fitness & the Fat Guy

Salmon Salad Recipe

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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy share their salmon salad recipe. This salad works well with warm lentils. So boil up some lentils – Dr Fitness’ go to legume. Then toss some boneless skinless salmon fillets on the skillet with some olive oil – season and cook them up for about 4-5 minutes on each side. Now in a bowl make your favorite salad – try some arugula lettuce, then combine the salmon and the now hopefully cooled off lentils in their and you got yourself a healthy meal. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow us on Twitter @FatGuy and @DrFitness6 Be our Friend on Facebook

Missi Wolf Explains How to Burn 900 Calories A Workout at Her Blast900 Fitness Center

December 20, 2010 by angishields

Dr. Fitness & the Fat Guy

Missi Wolf Explains How to Burn 900 Calories A Workout at Her Blast900 Fitness Center

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On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on Missi Wolf founder of the hot new fitness center concept Blast900 The Ultimate Workout. This workout is for all fitness levels – whether you’re a runner, jogger or walker you can lose weight at this gym. It’s not really a gym in the conventional sense it is a workout center that uses interval training techniques and fast paced music to get you moving. A class can have people of all fitness levels working out together – half the class are using high tech cardio equipment while the other half are doing other exercises. Each are using intervals to burn lots of calories then after a few minutes they switch up – the cardio people start exercising and the exercisers start doing cardio. After struggling to lose over 100 pounds Missi decided to design a program that combines cardio, strength training, resistance training, abdominal work and stretching all in one one hour workout. This fitness chain has started in Atlanta but is looking to expand through franchising all over the place. To learn more please go to www.blast900.com

For more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. iTunes

Also please check out our new book 35 Things to Know to Raise Active Kids

Michael Lasky, Founding Partner, Altera Law Group, appeared Dec 22. W.O.W. – Who Owns What..(and why it matters). It may surprise you that your company does not own many of its key assets. This may result in a business train wreck which will cost you far more than you can imagine. It will almost certainly prevent you from getting the highest value for your company. Learn how to get on track to creating a corporate value force multiplier.

December 19, 2010 by angishields

BRX National

Michael Lasky, Founding Partner, Altera Law Group, appeared Dec 22. W.O.W. - Who Owns What..(and why it matters). It may surprise you that your company does not own many of its key assets. This may result in a business train wreck which will cost you far more than you can imagine. It will almost certainly prevent you from getting the highest value for your company. Learn how to get on track to creating a corporate value force multiplier.

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Prior to founding Altera Law Group, Michael was an attorney practicing intellectual property law at Merchant and Gould for 22 years. He is one of a few attorneys who has continuously practiced in patent, trademark and copyright (including advertising law) for his entire career. In that period he has become a recognized international speaker on strategic use of intellectual property. In addition, he has experience in a multitude of specialty areas, including:

•Infringement analysis and opinions of patents, trademarks and copyrights
•Trademark and copyright protection in the United States and abroad (having approximately 700 filings in his career)
•Brand name creation, name clearance and strategies for world marketing of company and product names
•Advertising and Internet law
•Patent drafting and prosecution (approximately 1,000 patents)
•Worldwide corporate intelligent/monitoring of competitors’ technological and branding developments
•Domestic and international licensing of know-how and IP rights
•Due diligence clearance for mergers, acquisitions and IPOs
•Technology transfers including international transfers between the United States and Europe
•Patent litigation strategy and support
•Preparation of commercial agreements including license agreements and employee non-disclosure/non-compete agreements
In addition to his intellectual property law practice, Michael has extensive experience in marketing-related issues, including strategic positioning, brand management, brand creation and licensing. He is the founder of Aktia Corporation, a brand name creation and marketing consulting firm that specializes in developing integrated brand strategies for companies.

Michael is a frequent university lecturer on integration of intellectual property into business strategies and is internationally recognized as a speaker on branding strategy and intellectual property topics. He has addressed audiences at INTA; European Trademark Owners Association; the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA); The Trademark Institute of Sweden; The Canadian I.P. Association; McGill University, and International Licensing Executive Society (LES).

Michael is a registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Attorney. In addition, he is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, several federal appeals courts, the states of Minnesota and Georgia, and the Canadian Patent Office.

Michael received his Juris Doctor (cum laude) from Syracuse University School of Law in New York. He also holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (with honors) from the University of Minnesota.

http://alteralaw.com

Michael Lasky can be reached at mlasky@alteralaw.com. There is a PDF handout companion for this show which can be sent to you by email.