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TMBS E14, Matt Logan, Advisor with Cetera Financial Group

July 29, 2019 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

TMBS E14, Matt Logan, Advisor with Cetera Financial Group

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Matt Logan, CFP®, AIF® – is an advisor with the Cetera Financial Group. An independent financial advisor within the Cetera Financial Group network, serving business owners, retirees, doctors, young professionals, and other individuals and assisting with their financial planning needs.

Matt graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics. He holds his Series 7, 24, and 66 registrations, life, health, and long-term care insurance licenses.

In 2008, Matt earned the Certified Financial Planner and in 2017, he earned the Accredited Investment Fiduciary designations. He is based in Greensboro, NC

HW&W E10: Sandi Eghtesadi, Owner/CEO of Farmers Insurance

July 29, 2019 by angishields

Tucson Business Radio

HW&W E10: Sandi Eghtesadi, Owner/CEO of Farmers Insurance

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Guest

Sandi Eghtesadi is the Owner and CEO of her Farmers Insurance Agency for over 30 years. She has passionately been serving Tucson families and businesses with over 6,000 customers. She has built her Insurance Agency from scratch and attributes her success to building on her past experience in human resources and the legal field. Transferring this skill set to helping her clients assess their current risk and transferring that risk to insurance is what she excels at. Her many awards both locally and nationally attest to her love of people and passion and knowledge of her business.

Sandi states “It is so exciting seeing what how Tucson has grown so dramatically in the last 40 years and it is rewarding to play a role in helping Tucson families and businesses succeed. Having great customers is a privilege I never take for granted as my inter-generational agency continues to grow and succeed. I have an outstanding staff and together we have over 56 years of experience. Success is a team sport and that extends to the community partners and military. My staff and I volunteer to support our U.S. Military and First Responders as an integral part of our vision for the Tucson we love.” If you want more information please take a look at us on Google or call (520) 881-8000 for more information.

About Your 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

Fynn Glover with Matcha and Ravi Venkatesan with Bridge2 Solutions

July 29, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Fynn Glover with Matcha and Ravi Venkatesan with Bridge2 Solutions

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Fynn Glover founded RootsRated.com in 2012. The company leveraged its origins as a digital publisher to develop content marketing SaaS for small e-commerce businesses and rebranded as Matcha. In 2018, the company raised its Series A from Atlanta-based TechOperators and relocated from Chattanooga to Atlanta. He has a BA from the University of Richmond, where he played soccer and studied international relations and French.

Ravi Venkatesan is a Product and Technology Leader specializing in driving Business and Technology alignment with Bridge2 Solutions. Passionate disruptive new product development and innovation. His top strengths include lateral thinking, being a talent magnet, simplifying complex business problems using technology.

Ravi has 15 years of experience in Consulting, Product Development, and Technology and has worked with industry leaders including 7 years with Accenture deploying large-scale technologies for Fortune 100 clients, and 4 years with Cbeyond deploying technology to power Cloud and Communications products for SMBs.

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.

BRX Pro Tip: Why Broadcast Live

July 29, 2019 by angishields

TMBS w/ Dr. Buck Blodgett, The LOVE>hate Project, Ep 13

July 28, 2019 by angishields

Business RadioX® Community

TMBS w/ Dr. Buck Blodgett, The LOVE>hate Project, Ep 13

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If A Loved One Was Murdered or Hurt Badly, Would You Seek Revenge or Offer Forgiveness?

Dr. Buck Blodgett, who wrote A Message from Jessie  and founded The LOVE>hate Project (www.ligth.org) after his daughter was raped and murdered.

Most people would tell you that it is hard to forgive after a tragic event. Some people will forgive easily while others will look to seek revenge.

He founded the LOVE>Hate Project after his daughter was murdered in her home by a friend. Her name was Jessie.

He has turned the tragedy into a mission that could help others? It is an effort to end male violence against women.

Dr. Buck Blodgett, wrote A Message from Jessie and founded The LOVE>hate Project (www.ligth.org) after his daughter was murdered. The book can be bought on Amazon.

Many people who suffer personal tragedies don’t want to talk about it, yet you not only did Doctor Blodgett talk about it, but he turned it into a mission. Why? Each day in the United States women are victims of all types of violence at the hands of men – murder, domestic abuse, sexual assault – yet too often as a nation, we take little or no notice.

Her death left Blodgett stunned, shocked and filled with anguish, yet also inspired him to do all he can to prevent such horrors from happening to others.

As he says, “It’s too late for Jessie, but not too late for millions of girls and women,” “My question is: How many more Jessies will there be before we get the job done?”

Dr. Buck Blodgett is the author of A Message from Jessie and is the Founder of The LOVE>hate Project (www.ligth.org). He also has been in family chiropractic practice since 1996 and is the founder of The Chiropractic & Wellness Group, and Wellness Drs. He and his wife, Joy, were the parents of Jessie, who was murdered when she was 19. Since her death, Blodgett has worked to end violence and to educate, motivate, and inspire young minds to choose love over hate. He speaks nationally in schools, conferences, and prisons.

TMB E17: Howard Stewart – AGM & Brett Wright – D& H

July 26, 2019 by angishields

Business RadioX® Community

TMB E17: Howard Stewart - AGM & Brett Wright - D& H

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Guests

Howard Stewart, President/CEO
AGM Container Controls
3526 E. Fort Lowell Road
Tucson, AZ 85716
hstewart@agmcontainer.com
520-881-2130

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SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn | YouTube

Howard Stewart has been President/CEO of AGM Container Controls (AGM) since 2000.

Howard currently serves as the 2019/2020 Open Your Heart Chair for the American Heart Association (AHA) Tucson Chapter. He serves as a board member for the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, UWTSA (2013-2020). Howard also serves as a board member for the Tucson Metro Chamber (2012-2020).

In 2018/2019, Howard chaired the local AHA Heart and Stroke Ball, helping to raise over $500,000 for local heart research.

Under Howard’s leadership, AGM has successfully run 21 consecutive UWTSA fundraising campaigns at the Gold award level. In 2019, AGM achieved its 27th straight year without a layoff. Due to Howard having recreated AGM’s college tuition reimbursement plan, a record 26% of AGM’s workforce attended college in 2018.

In 2017, Howard proposed an important new Tucson initiative, which has since been named “FlyTucsonFirst”. The initiative’s purpose is to get Tucsonans to understand the vital economic impact that will occur only if we fly in and out of our own Tucson International Airport.

In 2018, Howard was named CEO of the Year by Tucson Local Media. In 2009, AGM was recognized as “America’s Small Business of the Year” by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In 2002, Howard was recognized as Tucson’s Small Business Leader of the Year.

Business info:

AGM Container Controls is a Tucson-based manufacturing company with 145 employees. AGM has an Employee Stock Ownership Program. As such, every AGM employee is either an employee-owner or in the process of becoming such. AGM manufactures environmental control hardware for missiles and other electro-optical equipment. AGM also manufactures the world’s premier vertical wheelchair lift, which provides access to elevation changes in public facilities and residences for individuals with disabilities.

Brett Wright, Owner, and President of D&H Air Conditioning & Heating Co.
Date: Thursday, July 25
3629 N Oracle Road, Tucson, AZ 85705
Phone: 520-408-2665

D&H AC: AIR CONDITIONING SERVICE IN TUCSON

Social Media: D&H Facebook | D&H Instagram
Other: https://dandhac.com/ac-technicians-training-facility/

Brett Wright grandfather Arthur Duhamel and partner Harry Hawk founded the company in Tucson back in 1959. He says he literally grew up in the business tagged around with his grandpa by age 6 and by his teen years, he was “digging ditches and working in the shop, before studying business at the U of A.”

Brett bought the company in 1987. And now, as D&H celebrates its 60th anniversary, the family-owned business continues to provide consistent, high quality, expert HVAC services throughout Southern Arizona.

In fact, the company is doing an exciting first as they are in the process of opening a state-of-the-art technicians’ training center, which will benefit the industry, workforce development and its clients at all levels, including superior 24/7 service, full financing, and coverage of all brands. Word has it that Four core values set D&H Air Conditioning and Heating apart from the competition: Service; Innovation; Knowledge; and Experience.

This facility is a complete house INSIDE a huge commercial facility at 3990 S. Evans Blvd in Tucson. It’s never been done before in Tucson – or anywhere, that we know of.

The new space will include our showroom, training lab, classrooms, call center, and offices. The house will be fully equipped with every residential system we offer, each connected to a control room that can simulate all kinds of system failures– and wired for audio and video so training techs can see a playback of visits with roleplaying ‘homeowners’ to self-assess their technical and communication skills. This will be a place where young people will be able to build a well-paying career without four-year college experience.

With our training lab and training house, we will be able to continuously train our technicians and help improve their skills to make sure our customers receive the best service every time.

The air conditioning industry is undergoing a major technological change benefiting homeowners: more comfortable homes, lower energy bills, more flexible and durable A/C systems.

Small A/C operators are bound to disappear, unable to keep up with the level of training, mobility, and service required by equipment makers and consumers. D&H AC is well prepared for this, with large investments in hiring, training, equipment, and technology. Our clients benefit from this at all levels, including 24/7 service, full financing, and coverage of all brands.

Forty-Niner Golf & CC – Tucson’s Hidden Jewel

BRX Pro Tip: Theater

July 26, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Theater

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BRX Pro Tip: Theater Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:01] Welcome back to BRX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, let’s talk a little bit about the window dressing the theater, some of the touches that we put on this thing of ours to make this the environment that generates such marvelous results.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:19] Yeah. A lot of what happens in the studio is going towards building that experience that is memorable, that’s visceral, that leaves an impact that these people remember. It becomes the best thing they did that day. It becomes the best thing they did that week. It’s the thing that they tell their spouse, and family, and friends about. Some of the things we do in the studio to create and to amplify the experience is we use headphones. There’s no reason to use headphones. We can all hear each other. We’re just a few inches away from each other. But by putting on headphones, we’re isolating ourselves and our voices, and we’re really whispering into the brains of all the people in the room. We have their undivided attention.

Lee Kantor: [00:01:00] Another area of theater is the on-air light. The on-air light, boom, once that light goes on, there’s a hush in the room. They feel the tension. This is real now. This is happening. We are doing a live broadcast. Broadcasting live. That creates the tension. That creates the, “I can’t take it back. I better be careful of what I’m saying.” It creates the opportunity of doing something they’ve never done before. Most of these people have never been part of a live broadcast. And then, it amplifies the tension. Another thing that we do in here is what-

Stone Payton: [00:01:35] Well, we’ve got the lighted sign, we get the flat screen television, we’ve got a mixer that is, my dad would say, too much sugar for a dime. But it’s appropriate because of the environment that we’re trying to create. And then, there’s some things you can do from a theatrical standpoint in your role as producer and host. One of mine, it’s as simple as, “We are live in five.” And I mean, it’s just a whole different dynamic when you do that.

Lee Kantor: [00:02:00] Right. And taking photos after the show. Making it an event. This is something that they’re going to share on social media. They’re proudly taking their photo in front of a Business RadioX microphone that I can’t tell you how many LinkedIn profiles have that photo in it because it is a big deal. It legitimizes them in the eyes of their marketplace.

BRX Pro Tip: Reasons for Not Doing This

July 25, 2019 by angishields

BRX Pro Tips

BRX Pro Tip: Reasons for Not Doing This

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BRX Pro Tip: Reasons for Not Doing This Transcript

Stone Payton: [00:00:03] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kanter here with you. Lee, we talk almost every day, every hour about the rationale, the reasons for doing this, for working with Business RadioX, this thing of ours, but let’s look at the other side of the coin. What are some valid reasons not to do this?

Lee Kantor: [00:00:25] I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t sell a product that was worth, at least, $10,000. If my customer isn’t worth $10,000, I probably wouldn’t do this with us. I mean, I might do a podcast individually for myself, but I wouldn’t do it through Business RadioX because I don’t think the price point works well. I think, it’s an easy sell when they think they can get one sale in a year, and that pays for a year of BRX. That makes it simple. If it’s a $500 item, and they’ve got to sell a quantity of it, I don’t think we’re that great for doing that.

Lee Kantor: [00:00:59] Another reason to not do this is if you don’t care about people and serving. If you think that you’re just going to burn and churn through a list of people as clients, we’re probably not the right fit because we’re investing a lot of time in building a community and serving an ecosystem. And if you don’t have that mindset, it’s not going to work for you because we’re really looking for people who have a longer term kind of perspective of things. And if they’re looking for a quick fix, or they need money tomorrow, again, our platform probably isn’t right for them.

Stone Payton: [00:01:29] Well, I’ll tell you, I wouldn’t do this if my goal was to become a media or, specifically, a radio personality. If I really envision my headshot on a bus or a bench in the town square, and I wanted to be that local celebrity, there’s nothing improper about that pursuit, but this isn’t the right path for that at all. This thing of ours is the right path for serving a specific niche in your community, building those relationships, and celebrating and supporting people in the local business community, and doing that with the aim toward serving and growing your business. But if you want to be a radio personality, this isn’t the right thing.