Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Elisabeth Lawson with Rise ‘N Shine Organic Farm, Lacey Davis with Elwood Staffing, and Dale Styers with Floyd Against Drugs
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Steve Howard with Spaceport Camden
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Steve L. Howard serves as the County Administrator and Spaceport Camden Project Lead.
As Project Lead, Steve guides Spaceport Camden’s vision of developing a world class spaceport through a public-private partnership that establishes Camden County as the Commercial Space Center of the United States. Due to its central location to several existing aerospace and high-tech centers, Spaceport Camden will serve as a hub for southeast Georgia. Spaceport Camden will create a space corridor from Florida to Georgia and up the East Coast of the United States.
Steve is a member of the Commercial Space Spaceflight Federation Board of Directors alongside industry leaders like Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic. Additionally, Steve is a member of the Georgia Space Alliance Board of Directors.
In February 2016, Steve received the General James Oglethorpe Space Award for his significant contributions to the space program within Georgia.
In October 2017, Steve was invited to attend the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s National Space Council. 
In December 2017, Steve was recognized as one of Georgia’s ten Transportation Technology Game Changers by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) for his visionary leadership in making Spaceport Camden a reality.
In May 2019, Spaceport Camden was named a Top Infrastructure Project in the United States by global infrastructure strategy firm, CG/LA Infrastructure.
Connect with Steve on LinkedIn and follow Spaceport Camden on Facebook and Twitter.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- How spaceports coexist with the environment
- The history of space in Georgia
- How the spaceport will impact the economy of Camden County and the State of Georgia
- Other opportunities the spaceport will bring to the State of Georgia
- Safety of the spaceport and launch path
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Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.
BRX Pro Tip: Audit Activities and Behaviors
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BRX Pro Tip: Audit Activities and Behaviors
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you this afternoon. Lee, one of the things that we should be consistently keeping an eye on, we should be auditing our activities and our behavior, shouldn’t we?
Lee Kantor: [00:00:17] Absolutely. We’re being bombarded with different opportunities, and technology makes it easy to try things on and subscribe to something. And it’s one of those things that really can get out of hand pretty quickly if you’re not staying on top of it. So, I think it’s super important to really monitor the different activities and behaviors that you’ve got going on and decide whether they’re still working for you.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:41] So, I think if you can list them all, all these different things you subscribe to or activities you’re doing, and get them in a list; and that way, it makes it easier to check in to make sure that those activities are still serving you. But I think that even if you just kind of check your calendar out and decide, “Hey, should I be doing this still? Is this still a good meeting to be going to? Is this still a good association to be affiliating myself with? Is this still a good person to be affiliated myself with?”
Lee Kantor: [00:01:09] And if you periodically do that, maybe quarterly, then you’re going to decide if this is something that you should still be investing time and energy into, or it might be time to just say, ‘You know what? It was something that I needed to get here. But it’s not what I need to get there.” And if you need it, keep doing it. If you’re not sure, maybe give it another month or so. But if it’s something you’re on the fence about, you might really want to consider getting rid of it and moving on to something else, or just kind of making it disappear from your calendar and put more energy into other things.
Paul Welty with Emory Continuing Education
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Paul Welty is the Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, Interim Executive Director, Emory Continuing Education.
Powered by a partnership between award-winning Fullstack Academy and Emory Continuing Education (a division of Emory University), Emory Tech Bootcamps provide condensed, immersive programs taught by industry experts.
Students who complete the bootcamp leave ready for fulfilling tech careers in Atlanta and beyond.
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn and follow Emory University on LinkedIn and Facebook.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Fullstack Academy and Emory University Launch Online Cybersecurity, Coding Bootcamps in Atlanta
- Live, online programs designed to help students enter the booming Georgia tech industry which has over 20,000 unfilled jobs
- What is Emory Continuing Education?
- Why Emory Continuing Education has partnered with Fullstack Academy to offer these Tech Bootcamp
About Our Sponsor
OnPay’s payroll services and HR software give you more time to focus on what’s most important. Rated “Excellent” by PC Magazine, we make it easy to pay employees fast, we automate all payroll taxes, and we even keep all your HR and benefits organized and compliant.
Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.
CAW E12: Shannon O’Connor, of Paychex.com
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Shannon O’Connor, Regional Human Resources Consultant
PAYCHEX
630.220.6106
SDOCONNOR@PAYCHEX.COM
www.paychex.com
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Shannon O’Connor joins us from Paychex HR Solutions. Her career began in the Human Resources field in the mid-’90s. She had the privilege early on of working as the HR Manager for a start-up company as Employee #3! That provided a unique view into the challenges encountered by employers as they ramp up quickly. From policy creation to employee relations to coaching supervisors Shannon recognized how much an employer’s culture and commitment to their employees connect directly to the power of employee productivity. She developed a passion for helping employees feel valued and connected to their employer so they can execute their talents to their highest degree and push their employer forward as a company.
She understands the challenges that business owners face every day. She in fact stepped away from the corporate world for 5 years to invest in and manage an indoor entertainment facility with 100 employees of her own! She experienced firsthand the challenges employers face trying to manage a business, create profit and care for their employees. Shannon has spent 14 years with Paychex. In that span of time, she has plugged hundreds of business owners and HR Managers into the powerful resources that Paychex delivers to its clients. Shannon is a proud and passionate Rotarian and serves as both an Officer and Board Member. She was born and raised in a small town in Alaska and cherishes the values that the environment instilled.
About the Business
Paychex is one of the largest Employer Support Services companies in the United States. They are a leading provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, providing user-friendly technology designed to streamline the employer AND employee experience. Paychex provides guidance on human resources best practices, develops policies & practices related to employee management, trains & develops Supervisors and Managers, processes payroll and tax returns along with providing HRIS, Employee Onboarding, Applicant Tracking, and Time Tracking systems. Paychex is the largest 401k Recordkeeper for small- and medium-sized businesses throughout the U.S.. A $4 Billion company serving more than 680,000 clients, Paychex has consistently recognized as one of America’s most admired and most ethical companies, and a technological leader in both the payroll services and Human Resources industries.
Host
Matt Nelson: Senior Vice President, Crest Insurance Group
Matt is a Senior Vice President at Crest Insurance Group in Tucson, consulting with companies to identify and implement insurance, risk management, and employee benefits solutions. With more than a 15 years of industry experience, he has served as a keynote speaker on the healthcare industry, leadership, workplace culture and risk management for professional organizations throughout Southern Arizona, including the City of Tucson, Greater Tucson Leadership, the Financial Executives and Affiliates of Tucson, and the CEO Roundtable of Tucson.
Matt is an active member in the Tucson community, having served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Arizona Army National Guard and volunteering with multiple local organizations, including as Treasurer and a Big Brother with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Southern Arizona, a volunteer with the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Chair of the Pima County JTED’s Business and Industry Council, a builder with Habitat for Humanity and many other local youth charities.
Email: mnelson@crestins.com
Phone: 520.784.7636
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mattrnelson2
BRX Pro Tip: Building and Nurturing Relationships Consistently
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BRX Pro Tip: Building and Nurturing Relationships Consistently
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you, Lee, we are always talking about building and nurturing relationships. We talk about it in our Pro Tips. We do everything in our power to make those things happen in the studio, in our virtual interviews, and in our interaction with our Business RadioX family. But let’s talk a little bit about not just a focus, and appreciation, and affinity for, and a commitment toward building and nurturing relationships, let’s talk a little bit about this idea of integrating some real degree of consistency in that effort.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:42] Yeah, relationships are the lifeblood of our business. Our business is a relationship business. It might look like a radio business, it might look like a podcasting business, it might look like a broadcasting business, but what we do is help our clients nurture and build relationships with the people most important to them. So, everything that we do is in and around relationships. So, we have to be good at it, we have to be getting better at it, and we have to be helping our clients and prospects kind of get in that same mindset as well.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:14] So, I think it’s important to consistently be connecting with enough of the right people every day. That’s a lever you have to be pulling every single day. Am I connecting with enough of the right people? That should be prospective clients. It should be connecting people with existing clients. You should be connecting with the right people every single day.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:39] And another thing you should be checking yourself with is, are you communicating with clarity, so that people understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it? I think a lot of people, when they have not good enough communication skills, and they’re not communicating with clarity, they’re really sabotaging these relationships because on one hand, you might think that you are connecting with people and you’re serving the people, but if they’re not really appreciating and understanding that, you have to really wonder, are you really doing the connecting that you think you are? So, really hold yourself to a high standard when it comes to communicating with clarity.
Lee Kantor: [00:02:19] And then another thing to think about is, are you being generous first in order to build the trust that’s necessary to build these relationships? In our world, I feel that it’s built in. Generosity is kind of built in, because what we do is we invite people on shows without any strings attached in order to help them get the word out about the work they’re doing. That’s a generous act first. And if you’re doing that regularly over time, and inviting more and more people onto shows, then you are kind of working that part of the equation effectively. So, if you spend more time connecting, being generous, and communicating with clarity, I think you’re going to be able to nurture and build relationships more effectively over time.
Jennifer Cutillo with BeBalanced
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TMBS E145: The Money Coach on Behalf of FICO
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About Lynnette Khalfani-Cox:
Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®, is a personal finance expert, speaker, and author of 15 money-management books, including the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom. Lynnette has been seen on more than 1,000 TV segments nationwide, including television appearances on Oprah, Dr. Phil, The Dr. Oz Show, The Steve Harvey Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and many more.
A former financial news journalist for The Wall Street Journal and CNBC, Lynnette is the CEO of TheMoneyCoach.net LLC, a financial education company that she runs with her husband and co-founder, Earl Cox. Lynnette earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Irvine. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California.
Did You Know?
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