Junko’s Health, Wealth, and Happiness Hour Episode 1

April 27, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Junko's Health, Wealth, and Happiness Hour Episode 1

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Junko’s Health, Wealth, and Happiness Hour is brought to you by Fujiyama Wealth Management.

Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF) was “birthed” by Elana (Bekerman) Frank, an Atlanta native and current resident. Her story wasn’t unique. She suffered from infertility. It took her two years, rounds of Clomid, intrauterine inseminations (IUIs aka“turkey baster method”) and 4 IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) cycles to make two babies. At the time living in Israel, their socialized medicine and desire to create Jewish babies afforded her the opportunity to inexpensively sort out a solution. When she returned to the States, she realized that others weren’t as lucky as her – in terms of treatment success, community support, and financial aid. She learned for others it takes years, miscarriages, unbearable debt, oceans of tears, and heartache before finally giving birth, if at all. And with the cost of 1 IVF cycle ranging on average from $12,500 – $25,000 in Atlanta, GA, many don’t even have a chance for a chance. Knowing that there this need for funding, support and enhanced awareness of this sometimes “unspoken” issue in the Jewish community, she decided to create JFF. Working for 19 years in the Jewish community (in College Park, MD; NYC; Kfar Hassidim, Israel, and Cherry Hill, NJ, and now Atlanta, GA) is something that chose Elana as much as she chose it. Elana feels armed with the tools and chutzpah to be the Executive Director of her small but mighty non-profit. Elana and her husband Jason live in Atlanta, GA with their two curly haired boys, Levi (6) and Avidan (4 ½).

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Jodi Wittenberg is an a native Atlantan. Her family has been in Georgia for generations. In her (almost) 50 years, she attended Hebrew Academy of Atlanta, Henderson High School, and UGA. She dropped out of college her junior year (every parents nightmare back then) and went to work in the family business, Herschel’s Fabrics down on Spring Street. From there, her parents and her shifted gears and opened Return To Eden Natural Foods Store on Cheshire Bridge. She sold that operation in 2008 and created an online kosher cheese business, The Chosen Knish, with a friend. We operated a cottage business out of my garage. As it grew, she knew she needed an actual retail location. Along with two other girlfriends, in January of 2014, The Chosen Knish evolved into The Spicy Peach located in Toco Hills. They have been there for years now selling kosher specialty items, soup, salads, paninis, and they do light catering. They are currently working on expanding our physical space, as well as their web presence. She has been married to the same good guy, Josh, for 20 years, and they have 3 lively teenagers. For fun, she loves to read girlie books and cookbooks, do arts n crafts, go to the beach, and get involved in community volunteer projects.

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Nana Asantewaa Queen Mother of Konongo in Ashanti Akim in Ghana West Africa. Nana was one of the first to operate a Tropical Grocery Store in Atlanta and one of the first to introduce the sale of shea butter at her shop Cecilbee’s Afro Mart. Nana is also into missions to Ghana ie Konongo.

Andrew Levy with DTproductions, and Amy Tully and Dane Robinson with Onelife Fitness

April 27, 2018 by angishields

High Velocity Radio

Andrew Levy with DTproductions, and Amy Tully and Dane Robinson with Onelife Fitness

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Andrew Levy serves as the President of DTproductions. DTproductions is a group of filmmakers that focus on connecting brands with the human spirit. Their secret weapon is Chispa, the spark that inspires them to create with a purpose. Last year they produced films in 21 cities and 5 countries that achieved over 50 million views for themselves and their partners.DTproductions work with skydivers, gold miners, chefs, doctors, educators and any person that shares our spark and inspires an audience.

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Onelife Fitness means simply that. You have One Life. Onelife Fitness is here because it’s time, time for a fitness company to inspire people of all shapes, sizes and fitness levels. Onelife Fitness is setting the standard for the world’s best fitness centers. Their clubs offer vast amenities and are innovative, community-focused, convenient, friendly and affordable with the ongoing commitment to deliver unparalleled service to their members, and the results they’re looking for.

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Lori Foley with PYA, Jeff Halter with Y Women

April 27, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Lori Foley with PYA, Jeff Halter with Y Women

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Lori Foley hold the title of Principal at PYA, a national professional services firm providing management consulting and accounting. She leads PYA’s Compliance service line and is a member of PYA’s Value Transformation and Business Support & Improvement teams. She combines industry experience in managing multiple hospital-owned practices with nearly two decades of consulting experience advising physicians, and organizations affiliating with physicians, in the areas of compliance, compensation, strategic planning, operational and financial improvement, and affiliation structures.

Recently, Lori has been immersed in assisting physicians with understanding the volume-to-value transition, population health management, and deployment of chronic care and transitional care management structures so providers can use existing CMS-funded mechanisms to learn survival skills for value-based reimbursement.

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Jeffery Halter is the country’s leading male expert on advancing women and engaging men. He is the President of YWomen, a strategic consulting company focused on engaging men in women’s leadership issues. YWomen helps organizations create Integrated Women’s Leadership Strategies, drive actionable business plans and strategies to attract, retain and advance women and address gender bias in the workplace.

Jeffery is the former Director of Diversity Strategy for The Coca-Cola Company. He is the author of two books, Why Women, The Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men and Selling to Men, Selling to Women. A sought-after speaker at industry forums and for corporate programs, Jeffery is a two-time TEDx speaker and has spoken at national and global women’s leadership conferences, diversity symposiums, and at Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day programs. Jeffery’s clients and best practice research includes companies such as McDonald’s, Deloitte, GE, Mercedes-Benz, American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Altria and dozens of other companies. Combining 30+ years in corporate America – from the sales front line to the corporate headquarters — and his passion for integrated leadership strategies, Jeffery connects with leaders at all-levels of the organization to create sustainable change and impact the bottom line.

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Culinary Atlanta featuring Jonathan Colon with Slingin’ Wings Festival

April 25, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Culinary Atlanta featuring Jonathan Colon with Slingin' Wings Festival

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This episode of Culinary Atlanta is brought to you by HandPicked ATL and PokeBurri.

If you are looking for a chicken wing lover’s dream come true, then you will love Slingin’ Wings Festival being held at Brookhaven Park. This chicken wing event will bring together 10 -15 wing restaurants including Hudson Grille, Wing Stop, Wild Wing Café, Taco Mac and more to be announced. The festival will be featuring some of ATL’s best tasting wings from mom and pops to chain restaurants. The event will feature live local music, a wing eating contest for patrons, blue cheese bobbing contest and judge’s contest in four categories for participating wing restaurants, which are as follows: Best Buffalo Wing, Best Smoked Wing, Crispiest Wing, Best Creative Wing Sauce and the People’s Choice Award.

You can follow the Slingin Wings Festival on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Hand-Picked ATL is the best of what to do and where to go in Atlanta. It’s their humble belief that by surrounding ourselves with the authentic, the unique and the curious, our lives are more awesome. Hand-Picked celebrates the independent makers by seeking out their inspired goods and crafted experiences, providing meaningful ways for their users to connect for themselves.

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Seven Chan and Ken Yu are owners of Poke Burri and Lifting Noodles Ramen. Both have proven to be award-winning concepts with cult-like followings in the city. The pair met and opened their first shop a year and a half ago combining Sevens business and marketing acumen with Ken’s food and restaurant background. The two plan to franchise and grow each concept in the next year and have new locations slotted to open this year and into 2019.

Connect with Steven and Ken on Instagram and Facebook.

William VanDerKloot with VanDerKloot Film & Television/Little Mammoth Media

April 25, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

William VanDerKloot with VanDerKloot Film & Television/Little Mammoth Media

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Bill VanDerKloot’s career as a Director and Producer of VanDerKloot Film & Television, spans four decades and includes short films, broadcast commercials, television documentaries and theatrical features. Over the years he has traveled the world creating films on a range of topics from public sculpture to political history; from southern blues to environmental science. He has won over one hundred international awards, including Emmy Awards and the George Foster Peabody Award.

He produced the Atlanta Olympic Film, TIME AND DREAMS, which helped win the bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. VanDerKloot’s productions include special video installations for the Carter Presidential Museum and Library, the Columbus Museum, and the Special Collections Library at the University of Georgia.

Bill has directed hundreds of commercial and branded content projects for such clients as CNN, Delta Air Lines, Cox Enterprises, Coca-Cola, McKesson, Invesco, US Marine Corps, and Porsche, to name just a few. His work has been shown on such venues as PBS, National Geographic, Turner Broadcasting, CNN, HBO, Showtime, as well as iTunes, amazon, and Netflix.

VanDerKloot created the award-winning Little Mammoth children’s programs, The BIG Adventure Series®, which are licensed in over 30 countries worldwide. The latest episode, The NEW BIG Plane Trip, was released in 2018.

Based in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, VanDerKloot founded Magick Lantern in 1990, a video post-production house and digital production studio serving the advertising, broadcast and film production industries. He sold the studio in 2013 to focus on content production.

He and his company have supported the local community with pro bono work for dozens of organizations, including Trees Atlanta, Literacy Action, Homeless Taskforce, The Carter Center, The Georgia Conservancy, Habitat for Humanity, and the Girl Scouts, to name just a few. He donated his company’s services to then-City Council President Cathy Woolard and Ryan Gravel, to create a video that introduced audiences to a concept called, The Atlanta BeltLine.

VanDerKloot was the founding director of the Atlanta Film Festival and has written about filmmaking for such publications as American Cinematographer. He was a long-time board member and past president of the Georgia Production Partnership (GPP), an industry association responsible for creating Georgia’s wildly successful film tax incentives.

He is a board member and past-Chair of the University of Georgia Libraries Board of Visitors. He currently serves on the Morningside Neighborhood Association Zoning Review Committee, and has done so for over a decade.

VanDerKloot has screened his films and lectured around the country at such institutions as University of Florida, Georgia State University, New York Churchillians, Coalition for Quality Children’s Programming, and the National WWII Museum.

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Mike Arenth and Mary Hamill with HotSchedules

April 24, 2018 by angishields

CEO Exclusive Radio

Mike Arenth and Mary Hamill with HotSchedules

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HotSchedules was born when two restaurateurs, David Cantu and Ray Pawlikowski, set out to help restaurants work smarter through technology. As time passed and the industry continued to evolve, their customers turned to them to solve their biggest challenges with innovative technology. Almost 20 years later, HotSchedules continues to bring innovative technology that powers the nearly $800 billion hospitality industry.

Mike Arenth is the President and CEO of HotSchedules. Previously, Mr. Arenth worked as a Senior Advisor for Silver Lake. Prior to Silver Lake, he served as Executive Vice President for SAP, where he oversaw the Ariba business. Before joining SAP in 2012, Mr. Arenth spent ten years at Ariba, where he was most recently Senior Vice President & General Manager, responsible for cloud software sales, the business network, customer management and professional services in North America, EMEA & APAC.

Prior to joining Ariba in 2002, Mr. Arenth worked for Andersen Business Consulting in the Supply Chain Management practice. Mr. Arenth holds a B.A. in Economics from The John Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from George Washington University.

As Vice President of Sales Engineering at HotSchedules, Mary Hamill leads a team of 12 sales and solutions engineers, a department she built from the ground up in an effort to provide industry and technical guidance for restaurant brands that are in the process of choosing to leverage HotSchedules and its suite of workforce and back office solutions. Before joining HotSchedules in 2013, Mary served as Senior Director Information Technology at Luby’s Fuddruckers Restaurants Inc. Prior to Mary’s work at Fuddruckers, she previously led the human resources and information technology departments of Max & Erma’s Restaurants Inc.

Connect with Mike and Mary on Linkedin, and follow HotSchedules on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook

The Pioneer’s Path Episode 3

April 24, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

The Pioneer's Path Episode 3

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The Pioneer’s Path is brought to you by the Terraform Group.

The Pioneer’s Path show is designed to share the stories of established Visionaries, including their triumphs and defeats in order to encourage that group of undiscovered Visionaries who have so much untapped potential to literally change an industry, create jobs, and impact their communities once they figure out who they are, and how they could create massive value for an organization once they do. The Pioneer’s Path is hosted by Tim O’Connor and brought to you by the TerraForm Group.

You can follow the Terraform Group on Facebook and Twitter.

Known as a motivated, visionary leader Dennis Worden with Ignite Advisory Group has experience at building strong and loyal collaborative relationships. He is an outstanding communicator in encouraging individuals and organizations to press beyond mediocrity and rise to excellence.

Dennis served as General Manager of three major market stations, KKIM – Albuquerque, KCFO AM/FM – Tulsa, and KKLA – Los Angeles, before becoming Vice President of National Programming for Salem Media Group. Dennis is one of only two individuals to have been named twice Broadcast Station Manager of the Year by the NRB.

Dennis joined John Maxwell and The INJOY Group as Director of Marketing and then was asked to join the executive team of John Maxwell’s international non-profit leadership organization, EQUIP.

Dennis was named President of The Duncan Group, the most respected sales training company in the mortgage banking industry. The Duncan Group purchased INJOY and Maximum Impact from John C. Maxwell forming the Maximum Impact Group. MIG owned the Catalyst conference, Maximum Impact Leadercast, Thrive, Maximum Impact Club, and The Duncan Group including Mortgage Mastery University, Sales Mastery conference, and Achieving Leadership Excellence. As one of three owners of Maximum Impact Group, Dennis sold his interest to begin working with a variety of companies, thought leaders, and non-profits, providing coaching, non-traditional and traditional marketing strategies that produces growth and a sustainable ROI.

Chris Nedza is an entrepreneur, innovator, technologist, and coach who founded ZeeZor, a company that helps beauty salon owners get real-time data analytics on their mobile phone which allow them to drive the right employee behavior at the right time to maximize store performance, and boost employee engagement.

As an author and public speaker, Chris tours the country as the Visionary for ZeeZor on a mission to empower the salon industry with simple and practical ways to improve their business. His years of entrepreneurial experience have given him both the appreciation for, and perspective of a business owner that his audiences instantly relate to.

ITEN Wired Radio: Ep. 4-2018: Author Paul Carney-Moving Your Ash

April 23, 2018 by angishields

ITEN Wired Radio

ITEN Wired Radio: Ep. 4-2018: Author Paul Carney-Moving Your Ash

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Paul Carney/Author
Move Your AE

I help you take command of your career by showing you how to document and promote your full career value.

The “Æ” (pronounced “ash”) is the symbol that now represents the sum of your skills, talents, education, experiences, credentials and so much more about you. It represents your entire career value, not just a set of skills.

To get ahead in your job, or to get another job, you need to Know, Grow, and Show your career value, not just what is on a resume or your LinkedIn profile. Competition is tough out there, and without this knowledge, you will be left behind.

Buy “Move Your Æ (ash)” now on Amazon (paperback or Kindle):

http://bit.ly/MoveYourAshBook

Once you have started reading it (at least through Chapter 7), let’s connect and discuss. You will have a new view on your career at that point.

Bri Snellgrove
Marketing Well Played/Social Icon

My passion is business relations and I am what most call a, “marketing nerd.” To grow in any profession you have to READ, RESEARCH and ASK QUESTIONS. Never stop asking questions.

I’ve developed skills in several areas; Marketing, Communications, Branding, Advertising Campaigns, Social Media, Public Relations, Event Management, Project Management, Media Production, Journalism, Graphic Design and more.

Jim Rhodes/ITEN WIRED

The ITEN WIRED Team

ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

April 22, 2018 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

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The work of Women in Technology has an incredible impact.
Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT COMMUNITY, WIT also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEAM.

Carrisa Jones is the Director of Talent Acquisition and Atlanta Market Ambassador at Advocate, an IT Consulting and Managed Services firm that helps global enterprises transform and optimize their cloud and connectivity infrastructure. In addition to having 15 years experience serving in a broad range of roles from Telecommunications Analyst, Client Support Management and Account Executive, Carissa also has earned the title of WIT’s 2017 Volunteer of the Year and WIT Connect’s 2018 Event Chair.

To accurately assess their infrastructure, identify what’s currently best-in-class, and figure out how to get there faster, companies need an insider’s perspective. That’s exactly what Advocate brings to the table. As Cloud & Connectivity Insiders, they have more data to work with – which is why they deliver, on average, 25 percent savings and a 10 to 1 Return on Investment. Advocate’s insider approach is the reason why over 550 companies have chosen to work with them.

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