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Biz Radio U Featuring Turner Levison with CommissionTrac

March 17, 2017 by Danny

Hosted by Adam Wozniak and Darren Parkinson

Turner Levison / CommissionTrac
CEO

Turner Levison focuses his time and effort in writing, building relationships and growing CommissionTrac. A 2012 graduate of The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, Turner started his career as a marketing associate at JPMorgan. In 2014, he joined David Cummings’ software start-up, Rivalry, as the first hire and was tasked with creating and scaling the sales operations. In his time with Rivalry, Turner grew the sales from one customer paying $0 to over 35 customers and $150,000 in annual recurring revenue. During his time there, the company raised a series A investment of $500K in venture capital from Buckhead Investment Partner (BIP), which showed a valuation increase of $3.2mm in less than 18 months.

In 2015, a unique opportunity was presented that gave him the opportunity to co-found CommissionTrac with long time commercial real estate software engineer, Bill Crichlow of LeasCom. The two launched the cloud based commission management platform to the North American market in 2016.

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center The Shrimp Tank Featuring Dr. Alex Roig and Dr. Craig Taylor

March 16, 2017 by Danny

Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks, Ted Jenkin and Lee Heisman

Dr. Alex Roig / Dr. Weight Loss of Atlanta

Dr. Alex Roig is originally from Pennsylvania where he attended the University of Pittsburgh. After that, he enrolled in Life University in Marietta, GA where he received a Doctorate of Chiropractic, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition.

Throughout his college years, Dr. Roig taught as a Personal Trainer, helping people exercise and diet more effectively while honing his passion for health. After graduating from Life University, he worked as a full-time chiropractor until 2002 when he decided to pursue his passion of helping people change their lives by weight loss. He has been helping people with weight loss for over 25 years.

Dr. Craig Taylor / Taylor Chiropractic and Wellness

Dr. Craig Taylor is the co-founder and owner of Taylor Chiropractic and Wellness, whose focus is to provide patient-centered care using a variety of integrative treatments. His Bachelor of Science was earned in Biological Sciences at the University of Georgia and became a Doctor of Chiropractic at Life University. He is certified in a wide range of Chiropractic techniques as well as physiotherapy exercises and modalities.

His expertise is not only helping relieve discomfort, but also finding the actual cause of the pain. He believes that detecting the origin of where the pain is coming from will remove the source of what’s causing the discomfort. He uses a number of highly-effective adjusting approaches to help improve spinal biomechanics and reduce nervous system interference. The approach he uses is based on the latest scientific research.

Growing up in a medical family, he always envisioned himself going to medical school. In college, he experienced a lacrosse injury which lead to two herniated discs in his mid-back. After months of seeing several medical doctors and physical therapists with minimal pain relief, he finally sought out to find a chiropractor. Within a month, his mid-back pain was completely diminished and hasn’t bothered him since. He feels fortunate to have gone through this life changing experience involving chiropractic care.

Being an Atlanta native, he is excited to give back to the community that has treated him so well. On his spare time, he enjoys playing and supporting the local sports teams and athletes. He also enjoys spending time with his family and friends, taking his dogs to the park, weight lifting, water sports as well as eating and living a healthy lifestyle.

Neighborhood Business Radio Episode 1

March 16, 2017 by Danny

Anton Watt / Networth Realty
Wholesale Real Estate Salesman

A licensed agent with Networth Realty of Atlanta 2 years of combined experience. An unsurpassed level of market knowledge, contacts in the industry, and exceptional wholesale opportunities. He knows exactly He conducts business in the most honest, professional, and friendly way. The deal is never done until our investors are fully satisfied and we see to it with the utmost integrity and top-of-the-line customer service.

Shari Morris / Law Office of Shari Morris, LLC

Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Shari’ Morris developed a passion for the law at the very tender age of nine. Her passion and interest stemmed from her personal experience of going through the aftermath of her parents’ divorce and a difficult child custody and support battle. The experience fueled her desire to not only educate but also to counsel and guide her clients through the stress of difficult matters with the utmost of ease. Throughout the years of practice, Shari’ has represented clients with difficult divorces, child support matters as well as heavily contested child custody disputes; all of which have resulted in the most favorable outcome for her clients as well as ensuring the child’s interest were considerably safeguarded.

Attorney Morris has been a resident of Georgia since 2013. She has been a practicing attorney for five years and she has been a solo practitioner since August 2016. She is licensed in three states(Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi). Her specific practice areas of law are Family Law and Personal Injury Law.

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Michelle Mazur with Communication Rebel

March 16, 2017 by Danny

Michelle Mazur / Communication Rebel

Dr. Michelle Mazur is the CEO of Communication Rebel where she helps speakers and entrepreneurs make a bigger impact with their signature talk while building a business on their own terms.

Her Ph.D. is in Communication (so she KNOWS how people process messages and what gets them to a yes) and she has 29 years of speaking experience.

After working with her, clients have gone on to book $10,000 speaking gigs, become international speakers (they even speak in front of First Ladies!), and negotiate their highest speaking fees ever!

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Continuous Accounting

March 16, 2017 by Danny

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Matt Cagwin / First Data Corporation
Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer

Matt began his career at Arthur Andersen and KPMG in Atlanta Georgia providing attest services to public and private clients in the manufacturing and technology industries.

Matt joined Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) in 2004 and held various progressive roles, including from 2010 through 2014 Vice President of Finance Services and Strategic Finance Initiatives, based in London, England. In this role, he is responsible for leading a 200-person accounting team, and overseeing a 200-person outsource contract with Capgemini (based in Krakow, Poland and Chennai, India). Matt also led CCE’s Finance Transition program, which was responsible for transitioning the majority of CCE’s in-country accounting activities to a captive shared service centre in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 2014, Matt joined First Data as the Vice President, Financial Reporting, Policy and Sarbanes Oxley. In this role, Matt successfully transitioned his team from Denver, Colorado to Atlanta, Georgia. In 2015, Matt assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and played an active role in FDC’s Initial Public Offering.

Matt holds a bachelor and master’s degrees in accounting from Florida State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Tammie Coley / Cox Communications
Executive Director, Enterprise Accounting, Financial Systems & Compliance

For more than 20 years, Tammie Coley has been an innovator and organizational architect in developing enterprise-wide strategies for the implementation of leading practices in the accounting function. Coley joined Cox Communications in 2003 and is currently the Executive Director, Enterprise Accounting and Internal Controls Governance where she oversees the accounting and internal controls governance functions. During her tenure, Ms. Coley provided the vision and leadership that lead to the successful transformation of Cox’s Accounts Payable function, reducing costs by more than 60%. She also successfully transformed the monthly accounting cycle generating more timely financial statements with greater consistency and accuracy while reducing the costs of the accounting function. Furthermore, Ms. Coley led the initiative to shift Cox’s compliance function to an enterprise-wide internal controls governance function incorporating the 2013 updates to the COSO framework.

Brad Baer / UHY Advisors
Managing Director

Brad Baer is a Managing Director in the Management & Technology Consulting group of the firm in the Southeast, which provides high-value consultative services to help clients meet their business, accounting and finance objectives. He is responsible for client service, client management, solution creation and delivering process improvement expertise to help clients enhance and sustain gains in their businesses. Brad has more than 20 years of experience in all facets of finance and accounting, management, client service and operations.

Andrew Borsuk / UHY Advisors
Business Development Director

Andrew Borsuk is a Business Development Director for UHY Advisors in the Southeast, which provides high-value consultative services to help clients meet their business, accounting, and finance objectives. He serves clients nationwide, bringing expertise in business development and relationship building across all the practice areas covered by UHY Advisors. Andrew has more than 20 years of diverse professional experience.

Joseph LaRocco with Eagle Carpet Care & Restoration

March 15, 2017 by Danny

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Joseph LaRocco/Eagle Carpet Care & Restoration

Eagle Carpet Care is a second generation, family owned business started in 1985. They proudly serve the metro Atlanta and North Georgia areas including Alpharetta, Athens, Buford, Cumming, Johns Creek, Lawrenceville, Gainesville and everywhere in between.

Eagle Carpet Care uses only truck mounted hot water extraction, often referred to as “steam cleaning”. They clean tile and grout, air ducts, upholstery and oriental rugs. They also offer carpet repair including stretching, patches and re-seaming. For life’s scary moments, Eagle Carpet Care’s Restoration Division is just a phone call away to clean up water damage, fire damage, mold clean up, flood damage and bio-hazard or trauma situations. They offer fee estimates and same day service.

The mission of Eagle Carpet Care is to set the industry standard for quality cleaning, employee training, and customer satisfaction, while maintaining environmentally sound business practices and a community focused work ethic.

Debbie Faulkner with Carrington Real Estate Services, Tary Drouault with Keller Williams Realty and John Ragland, Jr. with Supreme Lending

March 15, 2017 by Danny

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Debbie Faulkner/Carrington Real Estate Services

Debbie Faulkner is with Carrington Real Estate Services, a national, full-service residential brokerage firm with licensed agents in 33 offices across 23 states. Through its parent, Carrington Holding Company, the company has direct access to Carrington’s family of businesses, and by leveraging those connections has transformed from a start-up to one of the largest residential real estate brokerages in the U.S. While its initial focus centered largely on the distressed market, the company has evolved into a recognized leader in all aspects of the market today, with more than half of its transactions comprised of traditional residential resale.

Tary Drouault/Keller Williams Realty

A top agent in Georgia with over 20 years experience, Tary Drouault is with Keller Williams Realty. Since becoming a Realtor in 1990, helping others create wealth through real estate and turning houses into homes has been her passion! One of the marks of a great agent is their past success. It’s not enough to just have special awards – although she has many. The real measure of a great agent is how many past clients they have successfully helped purchase and/or sell a home… and she has helped hundreds! Picking the right agent to represent you can be the difference between getting what you want or not. Call her today at 770-277-2166 to find out more. Let’s get started!

John Ragland, Jr./Supreme Lending

Supreme Lending has a strong and genuine belief in the “customer for life” principle of doing business: it is what fuels the company. Referrals from previous customers and local real estate professionals have always delivered the majority of Supreme’s production.

John Ragland Jr. is a mortgage banker with Supreme Lending. He graduated with a degree in Finance from The University of Georgia. He loves to help clients determine the best financing options for their home purchase.

Scott Jacques with Crown Realty & Management and David Garrison with OFL Preservation

March 15, 2017 by Danny

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Scott Jacques/Crown Realty & Management

Crown Realty & Management is a full-service real estate company specializing in professional property management services for more than three decades. They service all of the metro Atlanta area providing leasing, property management and lease purchase, as well as sales and acquisition investor services. Crown currently manages over 1,000 single family homes and townhomes, placing over 8,000 tenants. They are members of the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM), the industry’s trade association which helps the public to identify the knowledge and experience of the managers in the marketplace. Their distinct position among their peers includes every designation offered by NARPM including the coveted Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) as well as the qualifying broker having a Master Property Manager (MPM) designation.

David Garrison/OFL Preservation

There is a growing need for property preservation in the real estate business due to the rapid increase of foreclosures in today’s market. For real estate companies, asset managers and property managers, it can be difficult, time consuming and expensive to find qualified service providers when looking for professionals to cover the broad range of their needs.

OFL Preservation is educated in HUD conveyance preparation, code violation abatement and conveyance condition management. They will ensure that all necessary work required by the regulatory guidelines for the loan type is complete and the property is in conveyance condition. If any work is needed to bring the property into conveyance condition, and can be completed within the published regulatory fee schedule, the work will be completed under this order. If the work cannot be completed for the published fee, an estimate will be provided to bring the property into conveyance condition.

Healthcare Attorney Michele Madison Talks Post-election Strategies for 2017

March 15, 2017 by Danny

Healthcare Attorney Michele Madison Talks Healthcare Reform In 2017

On this week’s episode, healthcare expert, Michele Madison, attorney with Morris, Manning, & Martin LLP, stopped by to talk about healthcare reform, what is coming and what it means for physician practices.

With November’s national election ushering in a new administration and rapid movement to make significant changes to the Affordable Care Act, healthcare practitioners and organizations have legitimate questions about efforts they should undertake to become compliant with ACA rules.

Michele shared her perspective on how healthcare leadership and practitioners should approach various aspects of ACA compliance in 2017, a year in which major elements affecting reporting and reimbursement were to be implemented.