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Amber Bryant of Stiletto Mom

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Business Babies and Beauty

Amber Bryant of Stiletto Mom

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Amber Bryant

Married to a former NFL player Fernando Bryant, Amber Bryant knows how to score touchdowns as the Volunteer Coordinator of the local Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO) in her community. Due to her NFL connections, Amber is well known in Atlanta’s social scene and can make one phone call to raise thousands of dollars. Although she currently doesn’t have a child at local elementary school, Amber has been designated an honorary member due to her commitment for the school and her connections to wealthy donors. Her three-year-old daughter Griffin will eventually attend the school, but always the go-getter, Amber is laying the groundwork to create her own legacy at the PTO. In addition to her volunteer work, she is also a Montessori elementary school teacher and has a 13-year-old stepson, Fernando II, and 15-year-old nephew, Austin, that reside with her and her husband. She is preparing to launch a new brand for busy mommies called Stiletto Mom.

“Rightsizing” Your Possessions – Lower Your Stress!

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Eugeria

“Rightsizing” Your Possessions - Lower Your Stress!

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Caroline Dell, owner of Care Transitions of Atlanta NE, grew up in Orange County California, and obtaining an education degree from Cal State at Long Beach. After relocating to Atlanta over 20 years ago, she spent the majority of her career in adult education in the acute hospital environment. Several years ago Caroline decided to make a career change. Having a friend who owned a Care Transitions franchise in California, Caroline began to explore the possibilities of buying a franchise in the Atlanta market. During this discovery period, she found that Care Transitions was exactly what she was looking for: an organization committed to finding ways to help seniors. Since starting her business, Caroline has also discovered that her educational background is most helpful in instructing her clients how best to “rightsize” their possessions.

Caring Transitions was founded in 2006 to “help reduce the stress and problems associated with senior relocation”. “As the nation’s largest professional resource for downsizing, de-cluttering and household liquidation, Caring Transitions provides the total solution for sorting, organizing, donations, shipments, packing, Estate Sale and Online Auctions.… Our goal is to treat every client in the way that they not only expect, but deserve!” Every employee is bonded, and each franchisee must complete the comprehensive Certified Relocation Transition Specialist (CRTS) Program. “Caring Transitions offers a streamlined support system to help facilitate a less stressful transition, taking care of the details so you can take care of yourself or a loved one”.

“We serve as the client’s advocate, ensuring that their best interests are kept in mind”. If you’re interested in this cost effective, personalized relocation service, check out Caring Transition’s web site at: www.caringtransitionsAtlantaNE.com or call Caroline Dell at 404-900-9447.

We want to thank Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care

Popular Genius Spotlights Wegener Media

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Popular Genius Spotlights Wegener Media

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Andrea Falls, Founder of Popular Genius, introduced Business RadioX listeners to special guests from The Netherlands, Wegener Media.

Brent Vicknair / Head of Innovation

Global integrated marketing, integration and innovation consultant whose entrepreneurial leadership produces outstanding results for organizations and brands who must innovate in order to grow. Connecting the business case with the areas of brand strategy, product development and design, communications planning and execution consistently – and meaningfully – across all channels.

Dirk Henst / Innovation Consultant (Technology)

Working in a lean and highly agile environment helping internal and external people to accelerate business with Wegener Media. Main focus on concepts, strategy and getting things done. Having a background in IT and being part of every innovation concept from a technology perspective to align with legacy environments and use the full potential of new technologies.

Paul Vereijken / Innovation Consultant (Content & Storytelling)

Background in journalism – both print and online. Connects to power of content and art of storytelling to the ideas we work on at Innovation. Believes that the power of a story you can truly connect with is the one thing that will give you the strength to break the wall and make the change.

Listeners can also learn more about Popular Genius

DeKalb Business Today “Lunch Hour” – July 31, 2015

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Dekalb Business Radio

DeKalb Business Today "Lunch Hour" - July 31, 2015

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On the latest edition of DeKalb Business Today, host Matt Holmes talks with two people who are helping businesses and business people to get their message out. Steve Brett joins the show from Presentation Tune-Ups to discuss how he helps companies perfect their pitch from the elevator to the boardroom. Respectful Signage founder Pam McNall discusses how her innovative approach to signs is turning heads in businesses as well as in local schools.

Steve Brett/Founder-Teacher at Presentation Tune-Ups

Steve Brett is a pioneer in digital marketing and website development and a 30-year veteran in the marketing, advertising and sales business.

Now he’s instructing researchers and scientists, policy makers and politicians, teachers, trainers, lawyers, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and business people of all kinds how to tell a better story, design a better deck and deliver a better speech. What makes him qualified?

In the past, he built a 4As ad agency in New York City that worked with Fortune 500s as well as local retailers. Steve has worked with some of the best-known and least-known companies in the world, from the New York Stock Exchange to regional banks; from big Pharma to biotech start-ups; from luxury brands to collectibles. Steve worked with an early cell phone company that merged with Verizon; he built the first website for the Citizen Watch Company; and for the first time, his group offered athletic shoes for sale online for The Sports Authority.

Working with Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Steve will be the “discipline expert” for The RAISE Forum, which will match growing businesses with senior funding opportunities in order to help create a more collaborative investing climate in the Southeast.

Steve holds a Masters in Teaching from Agnes Scott College and a BA in Literature/Education from The New School in New York. He is currently developing a curriculum for the CDC and he is working on a book.

Pam McNall/Founder & CEO of Respectful Signage

Pam McNall spent 19 years at CNN – starting in the newsroom and working her way up to the documentary unit. She spent 12+ years in the “Special Projects” unit, where most of her award winning experience happened.

Pam’s production work has been rewarded by the Emmys, Peabodys and she’s also won a National Journalism Award.

Pam started her own business five years ago – Let’s Chat Productions LLC, the umbrella company for RespectfulSignage.com.

She designed business and financial plans for start-up companies and started Respectful Signage exactly one year ago.

DeKalb Business Today – July 31, 2015

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Dekalb Business Radio

DeKalb Business Today - July 31, 2015

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Business is booming in the Tucker-Northlake area and that’s the focus of the latest edition of DeKalb Business Today. Host Matt Holmes is joined by three members of the Board of Directors of the Tucker-Northlake Community Improvement District (CID): Resurgens Bank President and CEO Charles DeWitt, Rosenfeld’s Jewelry President Bill Rosenfeld and commercial real estate developer Ben Kushner of the Ben F. Kushner Company.

Charles DeWitt/President & CEO of Resurgens Bank

Charles DeWitt is a founding board member and President & CEO of Resurgens Bank, a community bank headquartered in the Atlanta area. He founded the bank in 2008 with the commitment to serving his surrounding community and providing a fresh approach to lending across metro Atlanta. As he and his team successfully navigated the bank through the Great Recession, Resurgens Bank routinely receives top ratings from third parties as a strong and top performing bank.

Charles is very involved in his local community of Northlake/Tucker. He has been involved in Northlake Community Alliance, Northlake Business Association and recently was elected to the board of the Tucker-Northlake Community Improvement District.

Bill Rosenfeld/President of Rosenfeld’s Jewelry

Bill Rosenfeld is the president of Rosenfeld’s Jewelry in Tucker. The folks at Rosenfeld’s Jewelry enjoy educating the public about their craft. With over 150 years of combined Fine Jewelry experience, they invite customers to experience the professional difference.

Ben Kushner/President of Ben F. Kushner Co.

Ben-Fox Kushner, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has been in commercial real estate continually since 1971. He started Ben F. Kushner Co. in 1979. In addition to being President and CEO of Ben F. Kushner Co., he is Managing Partner of over 24 LLC’s that own retail and office properties.

Ben Kushner is also an Adjunct Professor of Business at Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University.

He and Connie Kushner hope to one day live in the style to which their two children have become accustomed. Daughter Jennie is a graduating senior in Journalism at the University of Alabama and Henry is business major at the University of Alabama. They both work with the Company assisting in the management of the seven properties in the Alabama portfolio.

In addition to real estate and teaching Ben-Fox enjoys sports, flying his plane, fitness, riding horses and golf. He loves to read and write, and continues to take courses in a myriad of subjects not related to business.

Kathleen Hamrick with Innovation Depot and UAB, Justin Smith with Sertaware, John Peinhardt and Katie Johnson with Directorpoint, Matt Landers with Platypi, and Tommy Cox with Advanced Systems Unlimited

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Birmingham Business Radio

Kathleen Hamrick with Innovation Depot and UAB, Justin Smith with Sertaware, John Peinhardt and Katie Johnson with Directorpoint, Matt Landers with Platypi, and Tommy Cox with Advanced Systems Unlimited

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Kathleen Hamrick / Innovation Depot and UAB

Hamrick is an Alabama native and serves Innovation Depot and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as Director of the Innovation Lab (UAB iLab) at Innovation Depot. In the UAB iLab, Hamrick has played an integral role in the sourcing of seed investment for two student-led startups and for the programmatic development and implementation of programming to support experiential learning opportunities for students with interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. Hamrick is a shareholder with the cancer molecular diagnostics company: Blondin Bioscience, which recently secured Phase 1 SBIR funding from the National Institute for Health. She serves also as a member of TEDxBirmingham’s organizing committee.

Justin Smith / Sertaware, LLC

John Peinhardt and Katie Johnson / Directorpoint LLC

John Peinhardt is a co-founder and President of Directorpoint LLC. Prior to Directorpoint, Mr. Peinhardt served as a Management Consultant for Vantage Associates, Inc., where he advised management teams on strategy execution, large-scale project management, and project portfolio management. Before consulting he gained extensive experience managing large-scale strategic and information technology initiatives for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. Mr. Peinhardt is a Project Management Institute Certified Project Management Professional.

Matt Landers / Platypi

Tommy Cox / Advanced Systems Unlimited

Alan Reeves with Birmingham Business Alliance, Cecil Bostany and Max Koss with Warren Averett and Alston Noah with Vincari

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Birmingham Business Radio

Alan Reeves with Birmingham Business Alliance, Cecil Bostany and Max Koss with Warren Averett and Alston Noah with Vincari

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Alan Reeves / Birmingham Business Alliance

Cecil Bostany and Max Koss / Warren Averett

Alston Noah / Vincari

Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Vincari helps hospitals, surgery centers and the physicians who perform surgical procedures to minimize costs, maximize quality and specificity for ICD-10 documentation as well as optimize facility and professional fee reimbursement. The software platform, Lightspeed Valet, is engineered for speed, accuracy, and the ability to anticipate physician needs, learn individual patterns and guide specificity. Lightspeed Valet dramatically improves the entire process related to ICD-10 both upstream at the point of care and downstream for the coding and documentation teams.

Devon Laney with Innovation Depot, Glenn Kinstler with 2B Solutions and Will Wright with Pack Health

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Birmingham Business Radio

Devon Laney with Innovation Depot, Glenn Kinstler with 2B Solutions and Will Wright with Pack Health

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Devon Laney / Innovation Depot

T. Devon Laney is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Innovation Depot, Inc., the high-tech/biotech business incubator located in downtown Birmingham and recipient of the 2011 Technology Incubator of the Year Award from the National Business Incubation Association. Devon has been with the Innovation Depot since 2005. Prior to joining Innovation Depot, he worked on a broad range of marketing, I/T and strategic organizational projects with various Fortune 500 companies as an analyst with Accenture LLP in Atlanta. Previously, Devon worked on the development, redesign and launch of Energen Corporation’s intranet, and also served as the Entertainment Editor for nationally distributed Family Issues Magazine during its first 18 months of publication.

Glenn Kinstler / 2B Solutions

Husband, father, dog lover, Tide and Blazers fan, craft beer connoisseur, guitar player, Birmingham native, Relationship Manager at 2B Solutions.

Will Wright / Pack Health

Georgia Business Radio July 31st Host Ryan “Redhawk” McPherson: Guests Gary Patterson with The Fiscal Doctor, Peter Stacho with Speakpage – Buckhead Business Radio

July 31, 2015 by angishields

Buckhead Business Radio

Georgia Business Radio July 31st Host Ryan "Redhawk" McPherson: Guests Gary Patterson with The Fiscal Doctor, Peter Stacho with Speakpage - Buckhead Business Radio

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Gary Patterson/The FiscalDoctor

Founder

Gary W Patterson Biography

Gary helps business leaders find the Million Dollar Blind Spot: Before It Finds You enabling sustainable profitable growth. He has helped over 200 middle market leaders who are tired of their organization being (1) a best kept secret, (2) stuck , or (3) coasting.

Gary specializes in helping leaders increase revenue profitably with less stress by

uncovering million dollar blind spots in time to avoid costly mistakes and make the best business decisions;

carrying out rigorous due diligence and risk assessment reviews, and

partnering with them on critical fiscal and financial projects.

Gary Patterson has learned one thing from analyzing and helping hundreds of companies:

“What You Don’t Know About Your Business: Can Cost You Your Business” which can mean the difference between life and death, in your product, business, department, life or job.

Thankfully, there is a Fiscal Doctor in the building, The Fiscal Doctor

www.FiscalDoctor.com LinkedIn Facebook Twitter YouTube

www.removingrisk.com

Peter Stacho/Speakpage

Founder & CEO

Previously lead the design effort for Turner Broadcasting’s internal apps platform as UX Architect. Apps we designed include the content management system behind CNNGo (2014 Digital Innovation Awards: Best Digital Strategy), Turner’s OnDemand CMS, and an automated live video feed ingest system which has successfully replaced legacy software inside CNN’s Newsrooms across the globe. Peter has won half a dozen awards and actively contributes to the open source community.