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Spark Stories Episode 9

August 20, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Spark Stories Episode 9

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Corey Elias has climbed the Corporate ladder and the view never got much better. He spent many years as a top Sales rep, then a Manager and then a Director and working hard to make companies successful.

During this time Corey started a company investing in real estate to help diversify his income. Years later Corey and his wife took further control of their own destinies by purchasing a business. They made the leap and took over ownership of the North Georgia School of Ballet in Atlanta, GA. Corey’s wife’s childhood dream had become a reality and they worked tirelessly to make the studio a success.

In just 2 years they experienced 212% growth and created an amazing family of dancers. These experiences, coupled with a degree in marketing, a masters in finance and a long successful career in sales and sales management fuel Corey’s passion for helping others find the franchise that is a perfect fit for their lifestyle and financial goals.

Corey works nationwide and has lived and worked throughout the country, so he understands many of the nuances and challenges of urban and rural markets. Learn more about his trailblazing process for finding you the perfect franchise here.

Corey is married to his amazing wife Bethany and they have a beautiful daughter named Abilene. In his free time Corey can be found on the tennis court, mentoring the Sandy Springs youth, traveling the world or at the dance studio pretending he has moves.

Connect with Corey on LinkedIn and Facebook.

About Your Host

Clarissa Sparks is a brand strategist, experienced facilitaor, and founder of the She Sparks Agency in Atlanta, Georgia. She is passionate about leveraging her experience across a wide range of industries to help multi-passionate entrepreneurs, emerging leaders, and corporations design innovative, sustainable business models and strategies. Clarissa turns ideas into visual and tangible experiences, and always brings a new perspective to the table – inspiring others to make an impact. She is the author of This Little Light of Mine, A Guided Journal of Purpose, Passion and Shine and co-author of Business & Career for the Christian Woman.

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The UnAmerican Dream Author Carlos Hidalgo and Normanie Ricks with Achieve Vision Center

August 20, 2019 by angishields

The UnAmerican Dream Author Carlos Hidalgo and Normanie Ricks with Achieve Occupational Therapy Solutions

Atlanta Business Radio

The UnAmerican Dream Author Carlos Hidalgo and Normanie Ricks with Achieve Vision Center

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Carlos Hidalgo, Author of The UnAmerican Dream, is a 25-year business veteran who has held various corporate roles, started his own entrepreneurial ventures and served in non-profits. Hidalgo co-founded his first company in 2005 leading it to two consecutive Inc. 5000 Awards before departing and launching his second company VisumCx.

In addition to his current role as CEO at VisumCx, Hidalgo also serves as a managing partner in a health care platform start-up and serves on the board on a tech start-up in addition to writing often on the intersection of business and personal success.

Carlos and his wife Susanne have four grown children and live in Colorado Springs, CO.

Connect with Carlos on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow The UnAmerican Dream on Facebook.

Normanie Ricks is the owner and operator of Achieve Vision Center which is a service of Achieve Occupational Therapy Solutions, Inc. Normanie and her team treat conditions that are most prevalent in children with Cerebral Palsy, Down’s syndrome, Autism, ADHD and Developmental Disabilities.

These children may have problems reading and copying from the board, have double-vision, have dyslexia, have constant headaches, erases excessively, skips lines or words when reading, knows the material/information but scores poorly on standardized tests.

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BRX Pro Tip: Choose Yourself

August 20, 2019 by angishields

Chris Carneal with Booster Enterprises, Erik Bush with Demand Driven Technologies and Scott Roby with Ware2Go

August 19, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Chris Carneal with Booster Enterprises, Erik Bush with Demand Driven Technologies and Scott Roby with Ware2Go

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Chris Carneal is grateful to be the Founder and CEO of Booster, the #1 school fundraising company in America. Since 2002, Booster has raised schools over $300 million for local education through its flagship program the Boosterthon Fun Run.

As the son of an educator, Chris created Booster to help schools flourish. It profits schools more than ever, impact students through character and fitness programming, and saves teachers and administrators valuable time so they could focus on their highest calling—teaching.

Chris has launched more offerings like Booster Spirit Wear, Booster’s custom apparel company with client care as exceptional as their spirit wear. Today, 1,000 team members serve schools in all 50 states. Each leader is propelled by Booster’s six Virtues, that when lived out, shapes a person into their best.

Chris believes in creating a remarkable company culture, hiring caring leaders, and innovating like crazy, so that clients not only win, they become stronger.

Erik Bush has lead the growth of Demand Driven Technologies since its formation in the fall of 2011. Under his leadership the company has experienced exceptional growth and now supports clients on 6 continents around the world. He has lead the development of a global network of channel partners who represent DD Tech solutions in their respective markets while overseeing the migration of our solutions to a predominantly cloud based offering.

Erik retired from IBM in 2010 after 31 years of experience with the company, the majority of which was in executive and management positions. He was the executive responsible for the rapid growth and expansion of IBM’s Network of GBS Global Delivery Centers. Erik also served as the Vice President of Operations for IBM’s Global Business Services units in Europe and the Americas.

Erik has extensive experience working with clients in the production and distribution industries. He leads through a deep commitment to delivering tangible benefits to his clients through a pragmatic, results oriented approach. He holds a BS degree in Economics from Miami University of Ohio.

Scott Roby, Co-Founder and General Manager of Ware2Go, is a 30 year UPS executive with a diverse background in corporate development, marketing, transportation, industrial engineering and UPS Airlines.

About Your Host

Joey Kline is a Vice President at JLL, specializing in office brokerage and tenant representation. As an Atlanta native, he has a deep passion for promoting the economic growth and continued competitiveness of communities in and around Atlanta, as well as the Southeast as a whole. He has completed transactions in every major submarket of metro Atlanta, and works primarily with start-ups, advertising/marketing agencies, and publicly-traded companies. With a healthy mix of tenacious drive and analytical insights, Joey is a skilled negotiator who advises clients on a myriad of complex real estate matters.

With a strategy and business development background, Joey is first and foremost a pragmatic advisor to his clients. Most recently, he was the Director of Business Development for American Fueling Systems, an Atlanta-based alternative energy company. While at JLL, he has become a member of the Million Dollar Club, and has built a reputation as an expert on the intersection of transit-accessibility and urban real estate. With intimate involvement in site selection and planning/zoning concerns, Joey approaches real estate from the perspective of the end user, and thus possesses a unique lens through which to serve his clients.

Joey holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a founder, board member, and the treasurer of Advance Atlanta, and also sits on the Selection Committee for the Association for Corporate Growth’s Fast 40 event. In addition, he is a member of CoreNet and the Urban Land Institute. Finally, he is part of LEAD Atlanta’s Class of 2019.

Connect with Joey on LinkedIn.

The Arizona 100: Preview of the August 22 Issue

August 19, 2019 by angishields

Valley Business Radio

The Arizona 100: Preview of the August 22 Issue

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The Arizona 100

The Arizona 100 is a twice-monthly digital publication that provides quick and concise, yet thorough, news of the people, events, activities and news shaping Arizona. Each of the 100-word stories or 100-second videos focus on the arts, entertainment, history and restaurants to business news, management, healthcare and real estate.

The Arizona 100 has international and national “100” partner markets, which publish any article/ video upon request providing a combined reach of more than 300,000 readers across 15 markets.

The Arizona 100 is a project of HMA Public Relations, a full-service public relations and marketing communications firm in Phoenix.

To subscribe to The Arizona 100, visit thearizona100.com. Submit story ideas to editor@thearizona100.com

BRX Pro Tip: BRX is a Calling, Not a Job

August 19, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: BRX is a Calling, Not a Job

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BRX Pro Tip: BRX is a Calling, Not a Job Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:02] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I feel this way. I know you feel this way. We say it, we see it, we feel it. But Business RadioX really is a calling. It’s not a job.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:17] Right. And this is one of the the challenges as we grow the network to make sure that the right studio partners are coming on board for the right reasons. When you start learning about Business RadioX, and you see the radio part, or you see the revenue model that’s built around it, that gets your interest. But the bottom-bottom line is that we’re here to serve the communities that we live in, that we work in, and that we’re helping the community get the word out about the important activity, the business activity that’s happening.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:48] So, when you start doing this, at first, you might kind of think of sponsors, and money, and all that stuff, and which is important. And you need that in order to have a successful Business RadioX studio. But over time, you realize the impact you’re making in the business community when you’re telling these stories about these underserved markets, these women-owned businesses, these minority-owned businesses, these veteran-owned businesses, and you’re giving them an opportunity to get the word out about the important work that they’re doing, and you just see kind of their faces when you’re giving them this chance to tell their story.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:22] No one is letting them tell their story. No one is giving them a platform to really speak passionately about what they do. And here, you are doing that. And you see that, “Hey, this is really going to help me. Hey, this is going to help me get clients. Hey, this is giving me a chance in the marketplace. I’ve been struggling. I’ve been having a hard time articulating what we do. And you allowed me to tell my story, And now, I got my story down good and I feel really good about. Now, I have content I can share.”.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:46] This work is so important. Small to midsize businesses are the lifeblood of all these communities that we serve. And somebody has to be the people that tell these stories and amplify these stories. And we are proud to be doing that kind of work. And we are hungry to find more and more people that are like us, that believe in the mission, that want to tell the stories, that want to be relevant in their community because they are the ones that are sharing the stories that matter to the communities that matter to them.

John Peak with Candid Partners, Aleks Cardwell with Smarp and Marshall Mosher with Vestigo

August 16, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

John Peak with Candid Partners, Aleks Cardwell with Smarp and Marshall Mosher with Vestigo

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John Peak is a die-hard technologist, who at 26 decided to start his own company – so he learned how to raise capital, manage people, and many more things that the software developer in him never thought he would have to deal with. Come hear about his journey and the work that goes on at Candid Partners – a company that has a 4.7 (out of 5) rating on Glassdoor.

John is the co-founder and a Managing Partner of Candid Partners, Atlanta’s premier cloud consulting firm and AWS Partner. A self-proclaimed “cloud geek” he brings more than 25 years of expertise in application architecture plus 6 years in cloud architecture to lead and advise the transformation of Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to Candid Partners, John founded three other start-ups beginning at age 26. John started the Atlanta Java Users Group (AJUG), attained AWS certifications for both Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer, and has a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in Computer Science and Mathematics.

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Aleksander Cardwell is the Product Marketing Manager at Smarp, an employee communication platform that services major enterprise organizations across the world. At Smarp, Aleks is responsible for everything from strategic narrative and content creation all the way to sales enablement, demo strategy and storytelling.

After spending time living, studying and working in 3 continents, Aleks eventually made the jump from Finland to Atlanta when Smarp chose the city as the location for their North American headquarters. The city has welcomed Smarp and Aleks with open arms and served as the perfect springboard into the US market.

Aleks is a graduate from Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. If he’s not in the office working on how to tell the next great story, he’s probably out in the park showing the locals how they play basketball back home.

Follow Smarp on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Marshall Mosher, from Atlanta, Georgia, is a 2015 graduate of the University of Georgia where he completed a triple major in Biology, Psychology, and Economics along with a Masters in Public Health Administration.

After graduation, Marshall participated in a summer at NASA and Google at the Silicon Valley technology incubator Singularity University’s annual Global Startup Program (GSP) where he was dedicated to positively impacting America’s obesity problem in encouraging a more active and healthy lifestyle through the power of exponential technology.

In an effort to encourage physical activity as a tool for both physical and mental enhancement, Marshall combined his passions for Public Health and action/adventure sports with the founding of Vestigo. With clients like CNN, Home Depot, and Chick-fil-A, Vestigo utilizes the mental performance enhancing power of adventure sports, both real and virtual, to create experiences that train teams to embrace innovation, tap into the Flow State, and successfully navigate change, using adventure as a catalyst for both positive health impact and fostering a mindset of limitless possibilities.

To live by this mindset in his personal life, Marshall is a semi-pro multisport adventure athlete constantly seeking to challenge his own limits as a Class V Whitewater paddler, paraglider pilot, Jet Suit pilot, Ultralight pilot, mountain biker, snowboarder, kite boarder, scuba diver, caver, and climber. Currently, Marshall is training to set a world record with the tallest Summit to Sea expedition ever completed, a completely human-powered journey from the top of Mt Everest to the Indian Ocean via mountaineering, paragliding, whitewater kayaking, and mountain biking.

Follow Vestigo on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About Your Host

Connect with Joey on LinkedIn.

BRX Pro Tip: Why We Don’t Charge for Some Shows

August 16, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Why We Don't Charge for Some Shows

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BRX Pro Tip: Why We Don’t Charge for Some Shows Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:01] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, I’m sure some folks, outside looking in, often wonder, as successful as we are, with a track record that we have, why do we still, from time to time, choose to not charge for some of the shows that we do?

Lee Kantor: [00:00:21] Well, this helps us fulfill our mission of telling the stories that traditional media ignores. So, we’re able to offer a nonprofit, or business association, or a small niche business group the opportunity to come on and tell their stories. What this does for us is that it helps us get in front of people that we wouldn’t normally have gotten in front of. And the sponsor, in this case, even if they’re not paying, the host of the show is the one that’s doing the heavy lifting and inviting the people.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:52] So, a lot of times, they know people we don’t know. And then, it helps us kind of expand our influence into areas that we wouldn’t normally have access to. So, we’ve done shows here in this studio in Spanish for Spanish-speaking groups. We’ve done it for universities. We’ve done it for the government agencies. We’ve done it for all different kinds of groups and not charge them because it’s good mojo, it’s good for the community, it’s good for everybody. And also, it lets us create that ubiquity where we are showing up in all kinds of places because we’re serving everybody that’s involved in business, and we’re creating that social proof that says we really are champions of businesses of all sizes.