Justin’s guest is Dr. Roger Smith, the CTO for Florida Hospital Nicholson Center, discussing the future of telehealth, robotic surgery and virtual care.

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Simply put, Brandon Adkins, with Adkins Real Estate Group, loves Dunwoody and real estate. And with over 10 years in the business, he shows no signs of slowing down. Prior to Keller Williams, Brandon was a CPA working as a Director at KPMG LLP, focusing in real estate and M&A financial due diligence. He helped multi-billion dollar corporations buy and sell other corporations the same way he will help you buy or sell your home. Although there are a few less zeroes in his transactions today, his enthusiasm for “the deal” is stronger than ever. His attention to details, analytical mind and CPA skill set help him understand the Dunwoody market better than your average agent and allows him to communicate with the most business savvy clients out there.
Brandon has been a resident of Dunwoody for seven years now and is well connected to the community. He serves on the board of directors as Treasurer of the Dunwoody Club Forest neighborhood association. He is actively involved and has served as President of his Family Focus Sunday school class at Dunwoody United Methodist church. He has served on the board of directors for Breakthru House, a non-profit serving women with addictions. And with 3 children ages 6, 4 and 5 months old, Brandon is involved in just about every activity possible in Dunwoody for children.
Brandon is also the owner and author of a Dunwoody focused online-magazine called Life is Good in The Wood. With a strong Dunwoody subscriber base and an average of over 1,000 page views a day, this magazine allows Brandon to stay connected to what is going on in Dunwoody, and most importantly to clients, allows a unique local marketing forum for a seller’s home and buyers looking to buy in the city.
Again, simply put, Brandon loves Dunwoody and real estate and is uniquely qualified to be your best Dunwoody-focused agent. Connect with Brandon on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
Jana Glass is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia (LPC#003501) and a Master Addiction Counselor through NAADAC Certification Commission. She received her Masters Degree in Community Counseling from The University of Georgia and her Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of Florida.
Jana specializes in treating Anxiety, Depression, Infertility, Substance Use/Abuse, and Trauma. She is passionate about making sure that people feel comfortable, understood, respected, and helping people heal from past abusive experiences and losses to live their ideal life.
Jana completed the Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 Trainings for Brainspotting and the Level 1 and Level 2 EMDR trainings. She is a Distance Credentialed Counselor (DCC) and uses online therapy via video sessions, phone sessions, and therapeutic email exchanges for clients who cannot come for office sessions or prefer to engage in Distance Counseling. Learn more about Jana and Supportive Solutions here.
Pam Rahal, President of Recruit Detective, has spent years helping business executives, recruiters and hiring managers find the prospects and information they need to succeed. With a nuanced touch, unparalleled research skills and technical know-how, she has brought clarity to otherwise opaque environments, giving her clients an edge in competitive recruitment, sales and business intelligence markets. Connect with Pam on LinkedIn.
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Our skin is our largest organ and protects what lies within our bodies. The skin responds best to ingredients that come directly from the earth, rather than synthetic formulations or chemicals. Our mission at Alitura is to provide the highest quality products we can, and for that reason, we are anti-laboratory, anti-GMO and anti-chemicals.
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Matt Elsperman & Terry Willette
Matt Elsperman is a former Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant, Iraqi Freedom Veteran, and Personal Security Specialist for the government and has conducted investigative and security work throughout the world. He has provided services to U.S. and foreign diplomats.
Terry Willette is a former Army Counter Intelligence agent and Vietnam Veteran and the founder of Aces Investigation Agency over 20 years ago. He has provided services for some of the worlds top 100 companies.
Aces Investigation Agency, LLC is a veteran owned business dedicated to the values of Professionalism, integrity, and discretion. 90% of our investigators are military veterans who bring with them the integrity, work ethic and values they learned and practiced in the military into their investigative work for our clients.
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Steven Cook, Founder of FortuneCMO.co, is an internationally recognized brand marketing, MarTech and innovation thought leader, speaker and writer. Steven is a 25+ year Fortune 500 global marketer at P&G, Coca-Cola and Samsung, where he was SVP, CMO N.A. He has also been a CMO for several startups. He established Coca-Cola’s first Global Strategic Innovation group, and has built and led iconic B2C and B2B brands globally online and offline in highly competitive categories, such as Electronics, Tech, Entertainment, Beverage, Food, Cosmetics, Personal Care and Health and Well-being.
Steven currently is the CMO for Champion Capital Group and Startup Nation 2 Enterprise. He works with VCs and startup founders in CMO, business development, product innovation and capital raise roles in Silicon Valley, Silicon South and Startup Nation (Israel) to accelerate brand building, go-to-market and commercial growth.
For the past 5 years, Steven has also been the Contributing Editor for CMO.com by Adobe, publishing 150+ written and video interviews with CMOs, CEOs and other thought leaders. He covers digital transformation and marketing and innovation from a Fortune 500, and startup CMO’s perspective. Steven has also covered events including the Adobe Summit, SXSW, AMA, CES, Social Shake-up, Mobility Live, Ad Week, and other leading CMO and MarTech events. He has also been published in Forbes CMO and other leading business press. He is a Board Advisor at ARKE.com and is an SXSW Accelerator Advisor. Connect with Steven on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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On this week’s episode, Emma Foulkes and Bruce Logue of AGLCC hosted JoAnn Pfeiffer of Eastern Data Systems, and Drew Barton of Southern Web. They shared numerous things for the business owner to think about to handle their IT technology and website needs.
Eastern Data Systems:
Since 1997, EDI has specialized in strategic sourcing of customized and major manufacturer IT systems that are the lowest priced, of great quality, and are quickly delivered to our customers from our 56,000 sq. ft. facility in Norcross, Georgia. Additionally, we offer quality IT systems & supplies from leading suppliers including, HP, Microsoft, Lenovo, Intel, etc. Annual revenues of over $35,000,000 and are the second largest distributor of Microsoft oem software products in the east.
The company currently has 28 employees. Full Line Product Distributor: Systems, Servers, Notebooks, LCD’s, Computer Components, Networking, Operating Systems and Office Software.
Web: http://www.ediatlanta.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EDIAtlanta/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ediatlanta
Blog: http://ediatlanta.blogspot.com/
Southern Web
Since 2005, Southern Web has helped leading brands elevate their message online across multiple industries, from real estate and law to healthcare, manufacturing and more.
One of the leading Atlanta SEO Companies today, Southern Web supports over four hundred companies and has built over a thousand websites.
With their renewed focus on Digital Marketing, they have helped their customers grow their website traffic, leading to remarkable results in both revenue and lead generation.
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Drewbarton
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewbarton/
Web: https://southernweb.com
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As Executive Chef of Seven Lamps, Drew Van Leuvan oversees all aspects of the restaurant including supervising culinary development and ensuring the kitchen is operating at its peak performance on a daily basis. With close to 20 years of culinary experience to draw from, his goal is to have Seven Lamps recognized among Atlanta’s best restaurant and bar programs and to bring a neighborhood establishment to the Buckhead restaurant scene.
Van Leuvan began cooking while enrolled at the University of Massachusetts. He quickly realized cooking was his passion and went on to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America in 2000. After graduation, Van Leuvan perfected his skills while apprenticing under some of the world’s best chefs including Jean Louis Palladin, Guenter Seeger, Wylie Dufresne, Joel Antunes, Sam Mason and Chef Mark Dommen. In 2004, Van Leuvan served as Executive Chef at Atlanta’s acclaimed Toast restaurant where he was recognized as a “Chef on the Rise” by Food & Wine magazine. Following his stint at Toast, Van Leuvan became Executive Chef at Spice restaurant where he received three stars from both the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Creative Loafing. In 2006, Chef Van Leuvan was appointed Executive Chef of Saga restaurant where he received the “Rising Star Award” from StarChefs.com and “Most Memorable Plate of 2007” from Creative Loafing. Van Leuvan began working with Concentrics Restaurants in 2008, helping with the opening of the Midtown gastropub TAP as well as Room at TWELVE Centennial Park, before becoming Executive Chef at ONE. midtown kitchen. He was previously the owner of hand-made pasta Pan De Mie Pasta Company. Van Leuvan is a member of the Jean Louis Palladin Foundation, Slow Food and Chefs Collaborative.
Outside of the kitchen, Van Leuvan enjoys spending time with his daughter, Kayden. He also enjoys building most anything, working in his garden and utilizing his homegrown vegetables in his dishes. Van Leuvan resides in Decatur with wife Kimberly Powell and Kayden. Follow Seven Lamps on Twitter and Facebook.
Skye Estroff is the marketing and media manager for Atlanta’s largest food festival, Taste of Atlanta. Skye manages all TV, radio and print media relationships, as well as strategizing and planning all social media. She is an Atlanta native, a University of Georgia graduate and an expert in Atlanta’s best food. Connect with Skye and Taste of Atlanta on Twitter and Facebook.
The Springer Mountain Farms Southern Wing Showdown produced by Taste of Atlanta takes place Sunday, August 20th at The Foundry at Puritan Mill. For more information on the event, visit their website and Facebook.
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MY LIFE & 1, 000 HOUSES: Failing Forward to Financial Freedom by Mitch Stephen is an exhilarating book of an amateur entrepreneur who stumbles upon the long standing revelations of business, money, love and life while struggling to find financial freedom. The journey eventually culminates into the purchase and sale of over 1, 000 properties.
But make no mistake, this book is about falling down and getting back up. As thought provoking as it is entertaining, this memoir and motivational story of self-empowerment will touch the gamut of your emotions; laugh and cry, but more importantly, be inspired.
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Since co-founding IMAGINEAIR, Ben Hamilton has led the company through continuous year-over-year growth in his mission to bring private aviation to the masses, with over $16M in revenue and 5 Million passenger miles flown to date. Ben is passionate about enabling people to connect face-to-face with ease and spend more time on what matters. Prior to serving in his role as CEO, Ben was heavily involved with the operational development of IMAGINEAIR, and served as the company’s Part 135 Director of Operations. He has personally flown hundreds of IMAGINEAIR customers, greatly valuing the opportunity to get to know them and to use that experience in ensuring the delivery of exceptional service across the organization.
Prior to launching IMAGINEAIR, Ben served as President of Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jacket Flying Club of more than 200 members, and was a flight instructor with exceptional success instructing students, faculty and alumni. Ben is a licensed Airline Transport Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor with Multi-Engine, Single-Engine, and Instrument Ratings. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A from Emory University.
As Flight Operations Manager, Alex Teodorescu ensures that all aspects of the company’s flight operations maintain the high levels of safety, quality and professionalism that have become synonymous with the name IMAGINEAIR. Prior to his involvement with IMAGINEAIR, Alex served as Assistant Manager of Radu Physical Culture in New York, helping to oversee the operation of two facilities, one in New York City and the other on Long Island.
Alex earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with Honors from Georgia Tech and holds a commercial pilot license with multiengine, single-engine, and instrument ratings. At Georgia Tech, Alex also served as the Crew Chief of two aircraft and as the Vice President of Maintenance on the Executive Committee. In his free time, Alex enjoys the outdoors, rock climbing, caving, mountain biking, freediving, and skydiving.
Connect with Ben, Alex and IMAGINEAir on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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