In today’s Wellness Minute we share some of the reasons why the French are so skinny. Some people think people from France are skinny because of their constant smoking or their quiet disdain for anything American. Sure they eat a lot of cheese and drink a lot of wine, yet somehow they are skinnier and healthier than the rest of us. That’s why it is called the French Paradox. The big reason they stay slim is that they look at food differently. They savor each bite like a food critic. They also eat smaller portions than we do – about 25% smaller in fact. 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. Now available on iTunes right here
Elizabeth Gordon interviews Dan Boudreau, President and CEO of Macrolink Action Plans Inc.
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Dan Boudreau is a business planning coach specializing in small business development and financial forecasting. His services span the areas of research, planning and training.
With 18 years experience in the consulting field, Dan has developed and facilitated training workshops on the following topics: Entrepreneurial Training, Business Planning, Market Research, Proposal Development, Train the Trainer, and E-Business Basics.
Dan has owned and operated small businesses since 1980, ranging from single owner home-based enterprises to more than 180 employees. He is acknowledged and appreciated by his peers and clients for his excellent communication skills and his ability to bring entrepreneurial ideas to fruition, which ensure that his clients receive services of the utmost quality.
http://riskbuster.com/
In this Chic Perspective, Dan emphasizes the importance of business plans, and offers tips and advice for writing your first business plan.
He also discusses his new book – Business Plan or BUST!: A Comprehensive Tutorial For Starting And Growing Your Business.
Listen to Dan Boudreau’s Chic Tip for Entrepreneurs here. Â The entire interview is available in Season One of The Chic Perspectives Show.
Elizabeth Gordon interviews Amy Leavell Bransford – Owner of New Moon Skin Care
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Amy Leavell Bransford is a licensed esthetician who owns and operates New Moon Skin Care, an Atlanta-based microdermabrasian, skin care and hair removal business.
http://www.newmoonskincare.com/
Prior to acquiring her license in esthetics, she worked as a publicist in the record industry for bands and artists such as 311, CAKE, Widespread Panic, Galactic, Vic Chesnutt and Precious Bryant.
She also worked for two Atlanta-based record labels, Terminus Records and Capricorn Records. Amy’s passion for music stemmed from her father, keyboardist and environmentalist Chuck Leavell.
In this Chic Perspective, Amy shares how music led her to skin care, and how she then turned an interest into a business reality.
After studying at the Atlanta Institute of Aesthetics and becoming certified in CPR and microdermabrasion, she opened her business, “New Moon Skin Care,” named because healthy skin cells regenerate approximately every 28 days – the same cycle as the moon. She explains how she turned a passing interest into a successful business idea.
This is so interesting to me. Those of you that know me, know how I closely follow the cycles of the moon and I am hearing more and more people tuning in this important  natural timing to make decisions, take action and just get more in the flow of life.
Amy also reveals how she spread the word to market and promote her business by leveraging the media, how she overcame her own limiting beliefs to achieve more of her full potential.
Thank again Amy for coming on today to share with all of us how we can shine from the inside out and get gorgeous glowing skin with natural techniques and products.
If you’ve ever dreamed of opening up your own skin care business, you love hearing Amy’s story and how you made it happen.
Carolyn Turknett, co-founder and President of Turknett Leadership Group
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Carolyn Turknett is co-founder and President of Turknett Leadership Group, an Atlanta-based consulting firm providing leadership and organization development services to companies in a variety of industries.
http://www.turknett.com/
Founded in 1987, the firm is a leader in using sophisticated proprietary assessment tools and long-term, personalized coaching to develop successful leaders and organizations.
Carolyn Turknett has more than fifteen years experience in management and leadership consulting. The focus of her work is character in leadership, organization assessment and change, executive team development, and leadership in turbulent times.
In this Chic Perspective, Lyn talks about how she and her husband started and grew their business by leveraging strategic partners and contractors and how they got their first book published, 
Decent People, Decent Company: How to Lead With Character at Work and in Life.
Lyn also shares her observations on how women’s leadership style differs from men’s as well as how entrepreneurs lead differently than corporate leaders.
Over 1000 executives have completed the Turknett individual Executive Development Program.
Turknett clients include companies of all sizes and industries, such as AGL Resources, American Cancer Society, BellSouth, Bennett International Group, Freebairn & Co., Georgia-Pacific Corp., Hewlett-Packard and Mercer Human Resources Consulting.
Listen to Carolyn Turknett’s Chic Tip for entrepreneurs and business leaders here. Â The entire 30 minute interview is available as part of Season One of the Chic Perspectives Show.
The Return of Max’s First Guest and Lots of Listener Emails
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Welcome to Kid Power Radio. I’m your host Max and each week
I review what’s happening on TV, at the movies, books and music I like ….You
get the idea
This show is a very special show. I have the first guest
I’ve ever had. Here’s…Poppy
Hi Poppy. Welcome back to the show.
Tell about yourself.
What are some of your favorite sports?
Tell us a memorable moment in your life. You were alive in
The Great Depression, right? What was so great about it?
Out of all the restaurants we took you to what was your
favorite? Was it “Baldini’s?
Which do you like better? Florida
or Georgia?
What is you favorite T.V. show?
What is your favorite football team?
What is your favorite movie?
Do you have any shout outs?
Thanks for being on my show Poppy
Listener Question…
I got 6 email this week…Thanks, Karen, Rita, Marv, Joe, Helen, Madie, Tim and Melissa
Thanks everyone for sending in emails. You all are now official
members of the Kid Power Radio Street Team. Your job is to tell all your
friends about the show and if they email me they could get a special shout out
just like you did.
Remember, you can email me at RADIO STAR MAX at YAHOO.COM
That’s it for now. See you next week. Bye
Atlanta Business Radio Interviews Don Rigby From Integrated MarCom Who Reveals The 4 Pillars Of Structured Growth
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Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesdays at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA. Atlanta Business Radio is sponsored by Fast Pitch! Networking which is a one-stop shop for networking and marketing your business online. Please go to their website www.fastpitchnetworking.com and when you mention you were referred by Lee Kantor when you sign up you will be helping the show! Thanks.
On this morning’s show Amy Otto and Lee Kantor started out by discussing some of the upcoming networking events happening in the Atlanta area. We mentioned the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and their website www.metroatlantachamber.com. We also gave a shout out to our friend Sandy Richardson from the Gwinnett Chamber and her website www.gwinnettchamber.com.
We talked a little about Powercore, a closed contact business networking group. For more information about them please go to their website www.powercore.net. And for a pretty comprehensive listing of all kinds of Atlanta Events including Business Networking events please check out www.AtlantaEvent.com
Our guest today was Don Rigby founder of Integrated MarCom. Integrated MarCom was launched in February 2006 in order to help emerging companies achieve sustainable organic growth.
Don has been in Atlanta for 15 years. His background is extremely diverse. Don has done everything from performing on Broadway, to working in Radio to being the Head of Marketing for a software company. He has lived through 9 mergers and acquisitions and shared some of what he has learned on the way.
Don spoke about the 4 Pillars of Structured Growth which are: Strategy, Messaging, Execution and Sustainability. He shared examples of how his process has helped clients in a variety of industries including: financial services, mortgage and staffing.
Some of the specific issues Don has helped companies with are: positioning companies as the go-to resource in their space; improving conversion rates from lead-to-prospect-to-client; and enhancing the lifetime value of the client.
Don helps emerging companies dig deep within themselves and analyze what has worked in the past, what is working now and what will work in the future. Once he has uncovered the hidden potential of a company, he then gets buy-in from the top to the bottom of the organization and then he integrates his proven business development processes seamlessly into the company. And he is so confident in his ability and his processes he guarantees their effectiveness.
For more information about Don Rigby and Integrated MarCom please check out their website www.integratedmarcom.com. You can reach Don by phone at 770.552.6028 or by email at don @ integratedmarcom.com.
If you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show.
Atlanta Business Radio Interviews Brian Cork with brian cork Human Capital and Holly Green Author of More Than A Minute
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Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA. Here’s how to listen to the podcast of our show.
First click on the title of the show you are interested in. Then there should be a player in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Now just press play and the show you chose should start playing. You can also download the show to listen on your mp3 player. We are now available on iTunes, click this link and you can find all our past shows. Press SUBSCRIBE and you will automatically get the latest show when you sync your iPod to your computer.Today’s show is brought to you by TAB of Northwest Atlanta.The Alternative Board of Northwest Atlanta brings together owners of privately held businesses to overcome challenges and seize new opportunities with a combination of peer advice and strategic business coaching. Board members meet monthly to learn from one anothers successes and mistakes and create more valuable and profitable companies. Achieve Greater Success with Peer Advice and Coaching with TAB of Northwest Atlanta. www.tab-nwatlanta.com
Erik Wolf with Zero-G Creative was kind enough to guest host for Amy this morning. Check out Erik’s website at www.ZeroGCreative.com
Our guests this morning were serial entrepreneur Brian Cork founder of brian cork Human Capital. Brian is a leader in executive recruiting and executive coaching. He explained the difference between an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur and a corporate employee. He also explained his philosophy about business and success, You can learn more about Brian and his firm at www.bchcroi.com or on his personal blog www.briancork.blogspot.com
You can check out Brian at the Vinings Club for a Catalyst Magazine sponsored talk on Raising Capital on September 11. Go to www.catalystmag.com to register. Brian is also speaking at Radford University’s Economic Summit in October – go to Brian’s website for more information on that. Also a big congratulations to Brian for in inclusion on the Inc magazine Top 500 companies list and also to being named one of Catalyst Magazine top 25 Entrepreneurs…both honors are for the second year in a row.
We also had on Holly Green is the CEO and Managing Director of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc. based in San Diego, California. She has over 20 years of executive level and operations experience in FORTUNE 100, entrepreneurial, and management consulting organizations.
Her book, More Than A Minute: How To Be An Effective Leader & Manager In Today’s Changing World lends voice to her corporate experience and goes beyond the theory of leading and managing by providing practical action oriented information to those aspiring for greatness in business. For more information about Holly and her firm please go to her website www.thehumanfactor.biz or www.morethanaminute.com Holly will be in Atlanta speaking about Bursting Your Bubbles on October 10. Check out her website to register and to get more information.
Also if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show
Elizabeth Gordon interviews Heidi Richards – CEO of the Women's ECommerce Association International (WECAI) on the Chic Perspectives Show
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Heidi Richards was my guest today on the Chic Perspectives Show. Â Heidi Richards is an author, business coach and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of the Women’s ECommerce Association International (WECAI).
A writer and professional speaker, Heidi enjoys traveling to new countries, learning new cultures and sharing a woman’s perspective on marketing, leadership and running a business.
Heidi has written eight books and co-authored two, published and edited four ebooks, and publishes a quarterly international magazine WE Magazine for Women.
In January 2005, Heidi was named one of the Top 50 Virtual Women Shaping the Internet for 2005. And she even has a day named after her! Heidi Richards Day is June 26th.
In this Chic Perspective Show, Heidi discusses the advantages in being a woman in business today, how the worldwide economic slowdown has affected her growth, and how important the internet and social media are to her business.
She also highlights some of the various techniques she uses to market her company.
Check out more about Heidi’s companies @
http://speakingwithspirit.com/meet-heidi/
http://wemagazineforwomen.com/
Home – Women in Ecommerce Helping Women Do Business on the WEB since 2001
Thanks so much for being my guest today Heidi.
Listen to Heidi Richard’s Chic Tip here and check out the full 30 minute interview as part of Season One.
Atlanta Business Radio Interviews Social Media Master Teo Graca with NetTeams and LinkedIn Expert Sean Nelson with Acuity
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Please click on the POD button to listen to the latest Atlanta Business Radio show podcast broadcasting live each Wednesday at 10am EDT from Atlanta, GA, USA. Here’s how to listen to the podcast of our show.
First click on the title of the show you are interested in. Then there should be a player in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Now just press play and the show you chose should start playing. You can also download the show to listen on your mp3 player. We are now available on iTunes, click this link and you can find all our past shows. Press SUBSCRIBE and you will automatically get the latest show when you sync your iPod to your computer.Today’s show is brought to you by TAB of Northwest Atlanta.The Alternative Board of Northwest Atlanta brings together owners of privately held businesses to overcome challenges and seize new opportunities with a combination of peer advice and strategic business coaching. Board members meet monthly to learn from one anothers successes and mistakes and create more valuable and profitable companies. Achieve Greater Success with Peer Advice and Coaching with TAB of Northwest Atlanta. www.tab-nwatlanta.com
This morning we had our social media special featuring Teo Graca with NetTeams and LinkedIn Specialist Sean Nelson with Acuity Benefits Solutions.
We started off with Teo explaining his company’s turnkey membership management system and how it bridges the gap between face to face online networking. The idea was developed by President and CEO Teo Graca who has over 25 years of design research including experience with the State Department, the Military, Fedex, Lockheed Martin and other Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Graca has leveraged this intensive background to develop the Net-Teams community solution to customer relationship management. His burning passion to develop a single networking platform for multiple networks has produced an easy-to-use and intuitive system. It is focused on users in the small to mid-sized business market, but can be used within larger companies too. For more information please go to Teo’s website www.net-teams.com
Next up we had on Sean Nelson, author of Got LinkedIn, From Clueless to Connected in 6 Days. He is also President of Acuity Benefits Solutions. Sean shared some of his best tips to maximize the powerful networking tool LinkedIn. He believes the vast majority of people who have a profile on LinkedIn are not using it to its fullest potential. He also explained how he uses linked in while networking offline as well as online. For more information about his book or his company please go to his website www.linked101.com or www.acuitybenefits.biz
Also if you know of a business in Atlanta that we should know about please email Amy Otto at Amy @ atlantabusinessradio.com and we will try and get them on the show.
