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Kids Business Radio 07-25-15 Host Dirk Ebener with Kids Business Expo and Global CIF Interviewing Guests: Megan Lynch with Apprentice Minds and Pete Kane with RevLocal – Buckhead Business Radio

July 25, 2015 by angishields

Buckhead Business Radio

Kids Business Radio 07-25-15 Host Dirk Ebener with Kids Business Expo and Global CIF Interviewing Guests: Megan Lynch with Apprentice Minds and Pete Kane with RevLocal - Buckhead Business Radio

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Megan Lynch/Apprentice Minds

Co-Founder

Megan Lynch, high school English teacher turned entrepreneur and co-founder Ragan Lynch Simmons are part of Apprentice Minds, an organization that helps young entrepreneurs discover, develop, and demonstrate their passions to the world. Apprentice Minds and the AMEC, Apprentice Minds Entrepreneurial Co-op, made up of 30 entrepreneurs from 5 states launched a Kickstarter campaign to support he next generation of entrepreneurs.

www.ApprenticeMinds.com | Twitter | Facebook

Pete Kane/RevLocal

Business Development Manager

Born in Philadelphia lived in Asheville NC and Richmond Va for 25 yrs and the last 26 years in Marietta. Attended Virginia Tech, enjoy golf, tennis, running and doing Google reviews for local businesses and friends. Married to Carolyn for the last 31 years. We met on the Carnival Cruise lines ….yes the “love boat”. Have two daughters Sarah and Mary Rachel age 28 and 24. and having the time of my life enjoying our almost 2 yrs old granddaughter Ellison.

Most of my career is been in sales and sales management consumer goods companies like Nabisco and food distribution companies like Sysco and US foods. The last 2 years I’ve spent with Revlocal based out of the Columbus Ohio area. A digital marketing company. Pete’s passion has been to help entrepreneurs and small-business owners be successful using new digital strategies. I also love helping people over 50 who didn’t grow up with all this technology to become more productive, less stressed, and lead a more balanced life using Evernote.

www.RevLocal.com | LinkedIn | Twitter (Pete) Twitter (ReLocal) | Google+ | Tumblr

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DeKalb Business Today “Lunch Hour” – July 24, 2015

July 24, 2015 by angishields

Dekalb Business Radio

DeKalb Business Today "Lunch Hour" - July 24, 2015

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On the latest edition of DeKalb Business Today, host Matt Holmes looks at the importance of bookkeeping to local businesses. Dwayne Belle and Bianca Crawford from Decatur’s ACC Business Services join the show to talk about the accounting and payroll services they offer. Plus, Laura Vandewiele from Young Rembrandts stops by to talk about the work she’s doing in local schools to expand children’s brains through art.

Dwayne Belle/CEO, ACC Business Services

Dwayne Belle is a native Texan. He has been practicing accounting for 25+ years. He has a BA in Business Administration and an MBA in Accounting and Financial Management. Dwayne is truly a “numbers” kind of guy! He is serious about his work and providing his clients with World Class Service.

Bianca Crawford/Business Development Manager, ACC Business Services

Bianca Crawford has lived in Atlanta for 10 years and has a BA in Communications. Bianca is a “connector” by natural trade. Meeting and networking with other like-minded business professionals is truly her gift. She is responsible for attracting new business clients to ACC Business Services and providing the business with Public Relations Management.

Laura Vandewiele/Owner, Young Rembrandts of North Fulton and DeKalb

Young Rembrandts is an award winning drawing program for children ages 4 – 12. The drawing classes are taught at local elementary schools and recreation centers across the United States and Canada. Young Rembrandts uses a step-by-step methodology that teaches students the technical skills of drawing. This method of directed drawing allows students to draw increasingly complex images and ensures that every child is a creative success.

Laura Vandewiele owns the local Young Rembrandts franchise serving Fulton and Dekalb Counties. Laura’s background is in education, but since starting Young Rembrandts in 2012, she finds that owning a business is a great fit for her. She is passionate about helping kids develop their drawing skills and discovering their own creativity.

Romanoff Renovations and Solution Road

July 24, 2015 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Romanoff Renovations and Solution Road

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Romanoff Renovations and Solution Road

This week I was joined in studio by guest co-host, Bo Wilkins, of Sound River Advisors. Sound River Advisors is a collection of experts who help privately-held businesses create compensation packages designed to retain key high-value executives. Their compensation plans help preserve the owners’ equity in their business while rewarding the leaders who have helped build the business.

We sat down with Doug Romanoff, founder of Romanoff Renovations, a flooring installation company he started in 1974. Doug described how, as a young man recently out of college, he decided he wanted to start his own company after working for another company for a while. He shared how at the time, he had only $300 in his bank account. So, he would buy some discontinued carpeting nearby, go into the city and market it to apartment complexes that were renovating, selling them the product he’d bought and installing it for them.

Over the ensuing 40 years he became one of Home Depot’s largest contractors, installing their flooring at over 400 of their locations around the country. His business has grown from that one man start-up to a business with over 2000 installers, billing over $100 million per year.

We also talked about how he established a charitable foundation through the company called The Romanoff Foundation, focused on helping individuals and families in the community who are struggling.

Solution Road is a not-for-profit whose mission is to help organizations in need of fundraising. Sarah Smith and her colleague, Charlie Craig, came by to talk about how they put their skills at relationship-building to work for the organizations they serve to help them achieve their goals.

This new company’s first client is GeoVax, an Atlanta-based organization that is in the later stages of testing the vaccine they have developed to prevent HIV. GeoVax is also now actively working to develop a vaccine that will successfully prevent Ebola as well.

Sarah and Charlie explained how rewarding it is for them to be helping an organization with such far-reaching impact if they are successful in their efforts. We were pleased to help them tell their story!

Special Guests:

Bo Wilkins, Partner, SoundRiver Advisors

Former Executive Managing Director, Wealth Management, Reliance Trust Company
Former Partner, Nease, Lagana, Eden, & Culley
BA, History & German, Hampden-Sydney College
CLU – Chartered Life Underwriter; ChFC – Chartered Financial Consultant; CAP – Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy

Doug Romanoff, CEO/Founder, of Romanoff Renovations

Sarah K. Smith, CEO/Founder, of Solution Road

Masters Degree, English, University of Essex
Previous Director, Corporate Marketing, Emory University
Former Vice President, The Emmy Awards Foundation
Previous Director, Special Projects, TEDx Peachtree

Charlie Craig, COO of Solution Road

Master of Arts, Bioethics, Emory University
Master’s Degree, Journalism, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Previous Author and Editor, Global Technology Report, Ernst & Young
Former President, Georgia Bio

DeKalb Business Today – July 24, 2015

July 24, 2015 by angishields

Dekalb Business Radio

DeKalb Business Today - July 24, 2015

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On this edition of DeKalb Business Today, host Matt Holmes looks at the role technology plays in our corporate culture. Keith Drew of Morse Communications and Joshua Gerber from Digital Agent join the show to discuss how their companies are helping businesses large and small to stay up to speed in an ever changing technological world. Plus, Decatur attorney Douglas Park stops by to explain his work in small business and trademark law and Dr. Shanesha Brooks-Tatum of Creative Research Solutions discusses how she’s helping companies to re-examine their futures.

Keith Drew/Director of Sales, Morse Communications

As a leader in Unified Communications (UC), Keith Drew has evaluated thousands of businesses, their communications needs, and designed UC solutions to improve their organizations as they seek to meet their goals and objectives in an ever-changing business environment; transforming businesses within the global/internet-connected economy. This process is the concept of Transforming Businesses through Process Innovation–blending people and technology; making companies more effective, more efficient, and thereby more profitable. After having worked with four manufacturers in the telecom industry, Keith now brings this expertise to Atlanta as Director of Sales for Morse Communications, so together they can help your business find the same transformation through improved communications.

Dr. Shanesha Brooks-Tatum/Vice President, Creative Research Solutions

Dr. Shanesha Brooks-Tatum is Vice President of Creative Research Solutions, LLC, a research and evaluation firm located in DeKalb County. Creative Research Solutions was founded in 2009 by Dr. Brooks-Tatum and Dr. Travis Tatum. Their firm’s results-driven approach measures and documents their clients’ impact, maximizes clients’ resources and enables them to tap into new sectors.

In 2014, Creative Research Solutions received the Shining Star Award from the National Association of Women-Owned Small Businesses (NAWOSB). Creative Research Solutions is the 2015 Business of the Year, Community Workforce Award Recipient from the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Brooks-Tatum was a recent Scholar-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College (2012-2014), a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Emory University in 2014, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Brazil in 2013. She is also Founder and Chair of the National Annual Black Women’s Life Balance and Wellness Conference, convening its 5th conference this September.

Douglas Park/President, Douglas Park Law

Doug Park focuses his practice on providing transactional legal services to small businesses in the Atlanta metropolitan area. His services include entity formation, corporate governance, trademarks, mergers and acquisitions and exempt securities offerings. He has practiced law for over a decade and has previously worked for the Atlanta office of an international law firm and as in-house counsel for a public company.

Mr. Park graduated magna cum laude from Wake Forest School of Law and he also had a Master of Laws degree in Tax from the University of Alabama.

Joshua Gerber/Sr. Sales Executive, Digital Agent

Joshua Gerber is the Senior Sales Executive for Digital Agent, LLC. He’s been with the company for over six years and he’s responsible for closing and managing most of the firm’s largest accounts. Joshua is a Grant Park resident, graduate of Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business and an active member of Atlanta’s business community. Joshua is a sailor, home brewer and a motorcycle enthusiast. He and his wife are expecting their first child this December.

Christina Johnson of BFLY Coaching and Tandice Jean Baptiste of My Skin My Story

July 24, 2015 by angishields

Business Babies and Beauty

Christina Johnson of BFLY Coaching and Tandice Jean Baptiste of My Skin My Story

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Christina Johnson/ BFLY Coaching

It has often been said that whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. If that is true, Christina Johnson has superhuman strength. A teen mom born to a teenage mother, Johnson refused to be a statistic. As one of the stars of VH1’s “Atlanta Exes”, The visionary mogul is the co-founder of beauty brand Butterfly EFX alongside celebrity makeup artist Toni Acey. Johnson and Acey leveraged their affinity for fashion and style by developing a highly pigmented palette of lipsticks and lip-glosses that are not only richly saturated in color, but also beautifully packaged.

Having overcome years of setbacks and battles, Johnson feels that she is finally living her purpose and what some may consider the new American dream. As a devoted mother, businesswoman, spiritual guru and philanthropist. She is also the founder of BFLY Coaching that will produce its first event, Amazing Me Amazing Life Event.

Tandice Jean Baptiste/MySkinMyStory

Tandice Jean Baptiste is an educator with over ten years of professional experience. She holds Bachelor of Science in elementary education from Winston-Salem State University and earned a Master of Education in early childhood from Kennesaw State University in 2010. It was Tandice’s introduction to the color complex at an early age that increased her sensitivity to the topic that has plagued African Americans throughout history. Furthermore, while teaching, she also dedicated her time as a mentor and a role model for several girls of color. It was the experience as a mentor that reminded her of the impact the color complex has had on women of color. Afterwards, a flame was ignited, and since Tandice has dedicated her time and effort towards eliminating the color complex and increasing self awareness and acceptance.

Tandice’s goal is to create a support system for the beautiful brown girls who have been subjected to society’s limited perception of beauty. MySkinMyStory is her platform to celebrate women of color and to provide them with the voice and the recognition they deserve. She strives to encourage young women of color to break the harsh generational cycle of stereotypes, prejudices, and labels based on the hue of one’s complexion. Tandice hopes that MySkinMyStory will not only encourage women of color to speak out about the color complex but will also empower them to love their skin and to celebrate their beauty.

Prescription Medications

July 24, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Prescription Medications

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Prescription Medications

We talked about prescription medications on this week’s show. It’s true, prescription medications are an important part of the care we need for a number of health-related issues. It’s also true that many of these medications can be very expensive, particularly those that are not yet available as generic options.

There are also some worrisome statistics related to prescription medications that are worth noting:

As much as 27% of ER visits are related to medication-related problems
Up to 69% of all hospital admissions are related to medication-related problems
~11% of hospital re-admissions are related to medication-related problems
~ $140 billion in hospitalization costs are related to medication-related problems
~ 10% of all healthcare insurance expenditures are related to prescription medications

This week’s guests are using technology to address both the cost of these meds as well as working to reduce the amount of problems that can come from ineffective management of the medicines patients are taking.

Charles Stephenson is the founder of AuthentaScripts. AuthentaScripts is a web-based platform that works much like travel bidding sites such as Priceline. The user logs in, enters the name-brand medication they’ve been prescribedc, and, based on where they are geographically, the system displays the expected cost for that med at pharmacies within a 15 mile radius.

The patient has the ability to tell the system how much they’re willing to pay for the medicine and it will display places where it’s possible to find that price.

Dr. Sheila Woodhouse is a practicing Emory cardiologist and creator of DoxMed. DoxMed is a technology platform that becomes a complete database of a patient’s medications, why they’re taking them, how much, etc. The system allows patients to better understand what/why they’re taking what they are and better comply with the recommended regimen.

DoxMed also enables physicians to see the full gamut of meds a patient is taking and why, and make better decisions about what additions/changes should be made to avoid drug interactions, toxicity, etc., when prescribing for them.

Special Guests:

Dr. Sheila Woodhouse, MD, CEO/Founder of DoxMed

Doctor of Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine
MBA, Business Administration and Management, Georgia State University J. Mack Robinsons College of Business
Board Certified, Cardiology
CEO/Founder, Sentikon Technologies & Consulting

Charles Stephenson, CEO/Founder of AuthentaScripts

BA, Management, University of Phoenix
Former Phase Team Leader, US Army
Founder, RescuePigeon
Previous Field Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Jimmy Godwin, Pharmacy Intern at Publix

Doctor of Pharmacy, Mercer University
Member, Georgia Pharmacy Association

Cobb County Edition: Kristie Hurd of Multifunding, LLC

July 23, 2015 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Cobb County Edition: Kristie Hurd of Multifunding, LLC

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Kristie Hurd/ Director of Small Business Lending Multifunding, LLC

My expertise in different aspects of Lending and Merchant Services has been aquired over a decade. And in my earlier life, l owned and operated

a commercial art business. Entrepreneurship is in my blood!

My passion is to assist small business owners with expert consultation, guidance and service.

My portfolio includes businesses of all kinds including restaurants, hotels, transportation businesses. retail, repair shops and manufacturers.

As a Director of Small Business Lending for MULTIFUNDING LLC,

I share a commitment along with my colleagues , to help businesses to explore their options to acquire the best loans available to assist with their growth.

We are also experts at helping clients who may have high interest loans to refinance .

khurd@multifunding.com

www.multifunding.com

ph. 404-748-0455

The Phone can be your Friend Again, Even with a Hearing Loss!

July 21, 2015 by angishields

Eugeria

The Phone can be your Friend Again, Even with a Hearing Loss!

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48 millions Americans have hearing loss….In 1990, the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) levied a tax on communication companies for the sole purpose of helping Americans with disabilities associated with communication. This tax funds free phones for Americans with hearing problems and Monique Waldron’s job is to make sure people with hearing problems get a FREE phone if they want one!

Listen to today’s Eugeria! Radio Broadcast as Monique talks with MaryJo, Sam & Lee about this federally funded program and how to get your Free Talk to Text phone with easy to read text in nearly real time, call log that displays previous conversations, speakerphone offering hands-free calls, and digital voice amplification too!

In order to get a free phone you must order from Monique. Call her at 404-655-2162, Email: Monique.waldron@clearcaptions.com, or visit the website https://clearcaptions.com/

Assisted Living Activities Directors…She’s delighted to do a Free Education/Demonstration of the phone for your residents or she will come to your home to demonstrate the product, get you signed up and show you how to work your new talk to text phone, including programming the phone numbers of your frequently called numbers!

Thanks to Griswold Home Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Home Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Atlanta for more than 23 years.

Isabel Marques with Startup Pirates Atlanta – Buckhead Business Radio

July 21, 2015 by angishields

Buckhead Business Radio

Isabel Marques with Startup Pirates Atlanta - Buckhead Business Radio

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Isabel Marques/Startup Pirates Atlanta

Chief Pirate

Startup Pirates is a non-profit global initiative with success in many cities in Europe, Asia and South America, with over 50 programs so far and more than 80 startups created. The Startup Pirates Atlanta program is an intense and fast paced one-week program that enables aspiring entrepreneurs to get inside the startup world and learn how to develop a business idea. With a combination of training, mentoring and idea development, we help participants structure and develop their early stage business ideas. In the end, they have the opportunity to pitch to investors and successful business leaders and receive prizes that enable them to continue their work.