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Jag Sheth with Emory University, Charles Shapiro with World Affairs Council Atlanta and Wolfgang Schloer with GSU Office of International Initiatives

October 2, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Jag Sheth with Emory University, Charles Shapiro with World Affairs Council Atlanta and Wolfgang Schloer with GSU Office of International Initiatives

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Jagdish N. Sheth is Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Professor Sheth has over 50 years of combined experience in teaching and research at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, MIT, and Emory University.

Professor Sheth is the recipient of all four top awards given by the American Marketing Association: the Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for market research, the P.D. Converse Award for outstanding contributions to theory in marketing, and the William Wilkie Award for marketing for a better society. He is also a Fellow of the AMA, ACR, AMS, and APA.

Professor Sheth is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Science, awarded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2016), and Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, awarded by Shiv Nadar University (2017). In 2019, he was presented the Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest faculty honor at Emory University. Professor Sheth has authored or coauthored more than three hundred papers and several books. His latest book is Genes, Climate and Consumption Culture: Connecting the Dots (2017).

He is the co-founder, with his wife Madhuri Sheth, of the Sheth Foundation, which funds the AMA Doctoral Consortium and the Sheth Family Foundation, which supports local community projects and cultural events.

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Charles Shapiro, President, World Affairs Council of Atlanta, held numerous senior positions at the U.S. Department of State, including Ambassador to Venezuela, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere and Coordinator for Cuban Affairs. From 2011-2013, he was the president of the Institute of the Americas, a think tank at the University of California San Diego. He is a member of the Agnes Scott College Board of Trustees.

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Wolfgang Schlör is Associate Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia State University (GSU), serving as the Senior International Officer for the institution. Prior to joining GSU in 2017, he was Associate Provost for the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education at Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He also served as Interim Associate Provost for International Affairs and Interim Director of International Programs and Studies (IPS) as well as Associate Director of IPS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and held similar positions at the University of Pittsburgh.

Schlör has held research and postdoctoral appointments at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; and the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1994 to 1996, he served as the US Director of the International Affairs Network, a major project to develop international affairs training capacity in Central and Eastern Europe, based in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Schlör holds PhD (Dr.Phil.) and M.A. (Dipl.Pol.) degrees in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.

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BRX Pro Tip: Additional Revenue Streams from Authors and Speakers

October 2, 2019 by angishields

Seela Farani-Simmons with National Education Partners and Jonathan Keyser with Keyser

October 1, 2019 by angishields

Transforming Leaders and Reinventing Organizations from the Inside Out

Valley Business Radio

Seela Farani-Simmons with National Education Partners and Jonathan Keyser with Keyser

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Seela Farani-Simmons

Seela Farani-Simmons is an Organizational, Learning, and Leadership Development professional and Director of L&D at Northcentral University / National Education Partners. Northcentral University was founded in 1996 with the goal of offering higher education to working professionals around the world, and today is a proud affiliate of the private, nonprofit National University System based in La Jolla, California. NCU delivers a premier online educational experience with doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in business, education, and psychology, as well as doctoral and master’s degrees in marriage and family therapy, technology and health sciences.

Seela’s career spans nearly 20 years across a variety of industries, including finance, retail, hospitality, and health care. She is dedicated to understanding organizational behavior and performance. Throughout her career, Seela has worked with business leaders and HR professionals in organizations ranging from small start-up environments to large-scale Fortune 100 organizations. Regardless of the industry and company, what sets Seela apart is that she approaches her work with vision, passion, and authenticity.

Seela holds a Masters degree in the Psychology of Leadership from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelors in Technical Communication from Arizona State University. She is also a member of the Association for Talent Development, the National Speakers Association, and the International Coach Federation.

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Jonathan Keyser

Jonathan Keyser is the founder of Keyser, the largest commercial real estate tenant brokerage firm in Arizona and one of the fastest growing in the country. Keyser is dedicated to exclusively representing the global real estate needs of office, industrial, educational and medical space users, helping them with all real estate matters including lease renewals, relocations, build-to-suits, acquisitions and dispositions. Through Jonathan’s disruptive focus on selfless service, he is reshaping the commercial real estate industry, and his firm represents thousands of companies globally across multiple industries.

Jonathan Keyser’s book, You Don’t Have to Be Ruthless To Win, details his transformation from a former ruthless, cutthroat commercial real estate broker who used to do whatever it took to win into a man on a mission to reinvent and transform the commercial real estate brokerage industry through selfless service.

A Wall Street Journal #1 Best-Selling Author, national speaker, regular media contributor, and strong supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Jonathan is actively working toward the upcoming launch of The Keyser Institute to inspire, train, and equip the next generation of selfless leaders.

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Ron McMurtrie with Sage and J Cornelius with Nine Labs

October 1, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Ron McMurtrie with Sage and J Cornelius with Nine Labs

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Ron McMurtrie oversees all marketing disciplines across Sage’s 23 markets, driving new customer acquisition and customer loyalty in Sage Business Cloud. He first joined Sage as EVP of Customer Marketing in 2016 and oversaw the integration of market leading US cloud accounting solution Sage Intacct in 2017.

Mr. McMurtrie aligns the strategic direction of product, brand, digital marketing and communications and oversees key functional areas for new customer acquisition, building customers for life and advancing Sage’s cloud strategy. He is a multi-dimensional leader with P&L and personnel responsibility spanning direct sales, marketing, enterprise consulting and professional services in private and public-sector markets.

He has more than 23 years of global business experience leading high performance sales, marketing and business operations teams for companies such as First Data, Verizon and Cerberus. Mr. McMurtrie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California at Davis.

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J Cornelius has been building digital products since 1996 and has helped countless startups and corporate product teams create products and services you probably use today. He is the founder and president of Nine Labs, a digital product strategy, design, and experience consultancy operating in Atlanta and New York City.

He speaks at conferences and leads workshops around the world, and serves on the advisory board of multiple venture capital groups, accelerator programs, and private companies.

A serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, J started his first business in high school and never looked back. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, three kids, and two dogs.

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BRX Pro Tip: Audio vs Text

October 1, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Audio vs Text

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BRX Pro Tip: Audio vs Text Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:01] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, you and I have gone on record for years now on the virtues of audio versus video, but let’s talk about audio’s relationship to text.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:17] Once again, I think audio is the engine for most content creation. And in our environment where you’re face-to-face talking and creating relationships, it’s an even better way to do this. Audio, to me, is better than text because people never get talker’s block. They might get writer’s block, but they never get talker’s block. In our studio, we create so much content and bring out from our guests, helping them articulate their messaging, and helping them get the word out about the good work, and capture their stories, and capture kind of really great information from them in a comfortable manner is so much easier than it is if you told them to just write a whitepaper about what they know.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:07] We can capture in a matter of minutes everything that they know in a very conversational, authentic, passionate manner; whereas, if you told them to go home and just write the same stuff they just told us, it would kill their weekend. It would just be a terrible thing for them to do. Most people would hate doing it. And what we’ve done in our world is capture the information. And guess what? In a matter of minutes, it can be transcribed. And they got all the words, and they can get all the SEO and all the benefit of having the text that you need in order to drive traffic to your website. You can get it in an audio manner painlessly, easier, simpler, and a lot more fun.

Stone Payton: [00:01:52] In the last 21 minutes, you and I just crafted eight Business RadioX Pro Tips. We plan to do 10 this afternoon. We did it in 21 minutes. What if you and I told ourselves on Friday afternoon, “Go home. You write four, I’ll write four of these eight Business RadioX Pro Tips,” how much of our weekend would’ve been invested doing that?

Lee Kantor: [00:02:11] Right.

Bill Calpin with Digital Resolve

October 1, 2019 by angishields

Just My Segment

Bill Calpin with Digital Resolve

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Bill Calpin is CEO for Digital Envoy, parent company of Digital Resolve, a proven online fraud protection and identity intelligence solution provider. He brings more than 30 years of successful sales, management and executive leadership experience to the company in the financial services, information services, and technology sectors. Bill has a proven track record in accelerating company growth, building the infrastructure needed to maintain fast-paced growth, and especially in identifying new markets for technology and services.

Prior to joining Digital Envoy, Bill launched Ocean Cove Associates, an independent consulting firm that focused on business acquisition and investment opportunities. Before that, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of North America for X.HLP, Inc., a global software and services company. He also previously served as Chief Executive Officer for Abridge, an internet technology company.

Prior to Abridge, Calpin had been a member of Equifax’s executive team, starting in 1995, when the global information services firm acquired his company, UCB Services, Inc. He was President and Chief Operating Officer for UCB Services, served as Senior Vice President of Citicorp Mortgage in St. Louis, and held his earliest leadership roles with Unisys Corporation. Bill holds a degree in business administration from the University of Washington.

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BRX Pro Tip: Audio vs Video

September 30, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Audio vs Video

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BRX Pro Tip: Audio vs Video Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:01] And we are back with Business Radiox Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, let’s talk about the mediums. Audio versus video, where do you stand?

Lee Kantor: [00:00:13] As you know, I have a bias towards audio, and I have a bias towards audio done in the way that we do it – in-person, face to face in a room. The reason, to me, that audio is better than video is that you can take audio and turn it into video. But what you create in the room with face-to-face, with headphones, and microphones, no distractions, a level of intimacy and safety that you cannot create with video. Video, for a large portion of the population, creates anxiety, It creates fear. It makes him self-conscious. Audio with headphones, everything melts away. There’s no—they’re not looking at their phone. They’re not worrying about what their hair looks like or if they have a stain on their shirt. They’re happy to be here. They are immersed in the conversations. And then, they get content that, then, can be repurposed into video if they desire. That, to me, is why audio is a better choice than video.

Stone Payton: [00:01:12] Well, I agree. And you don’t have to take our word for it. Go out and listen to a video interview of any one that you can find where they have a video interview and an audio interview somewhere, and see which one of those is more authentic, is more real, is more listenable, the person is more comfortable in their own skin. And the depth of information shared in that exchange in audio versus video, there’s almost no comparison.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:36] And then, if you want to layer onto the production hassle the video has over audio, then it becomes really a non-issue because there is so much more complexity when you’re recording video. And to create something—video is show, not tell, by definition. It’s supposed to be visually interesting. And most video interviews are just a static shot of two people talking to each other, and there’s nothing visually interesting happening on the screen. So, to me, you’re just creating a lot of complexity and a lot of hassle for not that much of a benefit when you can take the audio in a comfortable environment like ours, and then just add slides and add visual elements to make it visually interesting.

TMBS w/ Lisa Aimee Sturz, Red Herring Puppets Ep 17

September 28, 2019 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

TMBS w/ Lisa Aimee Sturz, Red Herring Puppets Ep 17

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GUEST:
Lisa Aimee Sturz, Artistic Director/ Owner
Red Herring Puppets
4500 North Oracle Road, Suite 421
Tucson, AZ 85705
828-273-1488
lisa@redherringpuppets.com
www.redherringpuppets.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook |

Lisa Sturz has 40 years’ experience working in film, television, theatre, and educational settings. She has worked with Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Imagineering, Jim Henson Productions, NBC, PBS, the Ice Capades, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Silver Dollar City, Asheville Symphony, and many more.

She is the Artistic Director of Red Herring Puppets, a national touring company specializing in curriculum-based performances. She has an MFA in Puppetry from UCLA and has taught at CalPoly, Grinnell, & Warren Wilson colleges and led hundreds of in-school residencies.

Red Herring Puppets have been featured at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, the Puppet Showplace in Brookline, Ma., and the 1st International Puppet Fringe Festival in NYC. They have earned a California Emmy and a UNIMA citation, the highest honor in American puppetry.

Their adult production of “My Grandfather’s Prayers” has been tapped to air internationally on JLTV. Other films and TV credits include Murphy Brown, Puzzle Place, Elmo in Grouchland, Muppets from Space, Howard the Duck, the Flintstones, Ninja Turtles III, Roger Rabbit, Gremlins II, RoboCop 2 and Batman Returns.

HW&W Ep 12: Tax Law, Social Services, Finance

September 27, 2019 by angishields

Business RadioX® Community

HW&W Ep 12: Tax Law, Social Services, Finance

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GUESTS:

Hubert Johnson, Attorney at Law
Guardian Tax Law
1110 E Pennsylvania St Ste. 406
Tucson, AZ 85714
520-849-6247
hjohnson@guardiantaxlaw.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn |

Hubert Johnson started his tax law career in 2009 working his way up to Lead tax team attorney and manager for multiple departments for an RLD Tax firm.  In 2012, he became a tax attorney for OIC Tax where he established an Offer In Compromise program.  He was also a Graduate Tax Law Professor and Lecturer at Baruch College and Tax Attorney at Melnick Law Firm.  In 2015, he joined Tax Tiger, where he helped launch and build a franchise.

Mr. Johnson was admitted to the Idaho Bar in 2007 and the California Bar in 2008.  He graduated from the McGeorge School of Law, the University of the Pacific in 2007.  He was a Summa Cum Laude undergraduate at CSU Sacramento and was also on the Deans List in Law School

Mr. Johnson has also given tax lectures in NY, Sacramento, and Roseville, and he has prepared educational videos on Personal and Business tax issues.  He has helped thousands of clients and businesses find resolutions and peace of mind including over 300 successful Offers In Compromise in one year.

Mr. Johnson offers Free Tax Consultations to help individuals and businesses know their rights and options with IRS and State taxes issues.

Diana Lonbeck, Thrivent Financial
Sponsor of 100+ Women Who Care Tucson
215 W Giaconda Way Ste 131
Tucson, AZ 85704
520-444-5910
diana.lonbeck@thrivent.com
connect.thrivent.com/lonbeck-financial-team/
100womenwhocaretucson.org/
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn |

Diana has been married to her husband for over 10 years and they have three children: 25, 5 and 3. Diana and her family enjoy spending time outdoors with their 3 dogs and enjoy traveling back to their hometown in California to see their extended family and friends. In Diana’s day job she works for Thrivent Financial as a financial planner where she helps her members to be wise with money and help them to find ways to be generous. Diana is also a board member with More Than A Bed, a foster, and adoptive resource center. She is very proud to be a part of this great organization helping these families. Diana is also very involved with an organization called 100+ Women Who Care. She is one of the founding members of the Tucson chapter that was started by Desha Bymers Davis surrounded by her amazing leadership team back in September of 2015. 100+ WWC has collectively given over $230,000 in the last 4 years. How does 100+ WWC give so much? They meet every quarter and each woman agrees to give $100 to the charity with the majority vote. We have about 250 members so each charity receives about $25,000. We are looking to grow our membership to 500 so we can give $50,000 every quarter. It is a wonderful way to collaborate with other women to make a meaningful impact in our community.

Barbara McClure, Executive Director
Impact of Southern Arizona
3535 E Hawser St
Tucson, AZ 85739
206-915-0919
barbara@impactsoaz.org
impactsoaz.org
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | Twitter |

Barbara McClure wakes up each morning passionate about going to work at a place that improves lives and inspires futures every day! She has been the Executive Director of a Tucson social service nonprofit called IMPACT of Southern Arizona, for ten years. As a visionary and planner with decades of experience as a small business owner and in nonprofit leadership, her innovative ideas and strategic thinking, along with a talent for bringing the community together, have helped grow IMPACT five-fold in a short time. Barbara’s talents and interests are diverse but all center around helping people, improving community, bolstering education, building capacity and sustainability, being vocal about the rights and conditions of others, experiencing art, nurturing all inhabitants of her garden, and enjoying life to the fullest. She and her family have found their perfect, permanent destination in the southwest desert of Arizona.

About the Host

Karen M. Fisher
Senior Loan Officer
NMLS ID# 180167 – AZ MLO Lic# 0911886

Summit Funding, Inc.
5151 E. Broadway Blvd., Ste. 700
Tucson, AZ 85711
Branch NMLS ID# 1464335 – Summit Funding, Inc NMLS ID#3199
AZ Lic# 0925837 – Equal Housing Opportunity

(520) 447-2279 Direct Phone
Karen.Fisher@SummitFunding.net
www.OurNeighborsOurHeroes.com

As a Senior Loan Officer, I originate residential home loans (1-4 Units) for purchase or refinance transactions for owner-occupied, second homes or investment properties. I am licensed in the State of Arizona; however, I can connect you to great mortgage loan officers anywhere in the United States or Canada. I have been a loan officer for just over 20 years. In the prior 17 years, I was a Realtor, an Associate Broker, Branch Manager, and Designated Broker. My beloved husband Scott and I have been married for over 37 years, we have an awesome daughter Allison who is engaged to her Gonzaga University sweetheart, Enrique. I love to read, travel, hike, golf, camp, entrepreneurial ideas, inventions, animals and children. My key to success is to focus on excellence, not perfection and being growth-minded.