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Essie Escobedo with Office Angels, Amanda Wilbanks with Southern Baked Pie Company, and Amy Holcomb with SkyMedicus

February 21, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Essie Escobedo with Office Angels, Amanda Wilbanks with Southern Baked Pie Company, and Amy Holcomb with SkyMedicus

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John Ray, Amy Holcomb, Essie Escobedo, Amanda Wilbanks, Mike Sammond

Essie Escobedo/Office Angels

Office Angels’ mission is to restore joy to the life of small business owners, enabling them to focus on what they do best. At the same time, Office Angels honors and supports at-home experts who wish to continue working on an as-needed basis. Not a temp firm or a placement service, Office Angels matches a business owner’s support needs with professionals who have the skills and experience necessary to handle work that is essential to creating and maintaining a successful small business. For over 16 years, Office Angels has been helping small business owners, associations, and non-profits with administrative tasks, bookkeeping, marketing support, presentation preparation, speaking engagements, business development, document formatting, database management, research, writing services, and much more.

Amanda Wilbanks/Southern Baked Pie Company

Founded in Gainesville, GA in 2012, Southern Baked Pie Company (formerly Buttermilk Pie Company) was launched by University of Georgia graduate and creative entrepreneur Amanda Wilbanks. With family recipes, Southern charm, and an all-butter pie dough that melts in your mouth, Amanda and her team of bakers create gourmet sweet and savory pies for all of life’s special occasions and celebrations. Southern Baked Pie Company masterfully creates a variety of decadent flavors and specialty selections utilizing seasonal fresh fruit from local Georgia farmers and businesses. They offer pies in a variety of sizes including whole pies, petite pies, and bite-size tassies. Although born and baked in Georgia, Southern Baked Pie Company ships pies to corporate and individual clients nationwide.

Amy Holcomb/SkyMedicus

Have you ever considered having dental work done in Mexico, a hip surgery in India, or plastic surgery in Brazil? SkyMedicus offers the first online, patient-driven healthcare marketplace that allows patients and credentialed physicians across the globe to directly connect in a secure and private forum. Patients can get procedure approvals, costs and even book their appointments and travel accommodations directly online, while being supported by their very own medical concierge.

Love Your Body Month (3)

February 19, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

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Food, Faith & Feelings

Love Your Body Month (3)

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“Food, Faith, and Feelings” Podcast Episode from February 19, 2017

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Victoria Ciresi with Burn Boot Camp Roswell

February 17, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Victoria Ciresi with Burn Boot Camp Roswell

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Tiffany Krumins, Victoria Ciresi, Steven Julian

Victoria Ciresi/Burn Boot Camp Roswell

To change the body, you must first change the mind! A true transformation starts by knowing there will be hardships and preparing yourself to overcome them. The expert trainers at Burn Boot Camp are not only well equipped with creative workouts, but ready to coach you through all of the ups and downs that come with life. During the Burn Boot Camp “Focus Meetings,” you’ll be able to get personal with your trainer and address the obstacles that have hindered your personal growth in the past. Become a better all around person by strengthening your mind before strengthening your body.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Candice Campbell with Nimble. Design Company

February 14, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Mastermind Your Launch

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Candice Campbell with Nimble. Design Company

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Candice Campbell/Nimble. Design Company

With nearly a decade of proven experience bringing connected brands to life in the built environment, Candice brings a strategic, thoughtful eye and holistic, experiential approach to every new engagement. Known for her relentless drive, meticulous attention to detail, and connected design approach, Candice has developed a reputation for delivering powerful brand experiences, and an undeterred level of client service.

In 2014, Candice formed Nimble. A Design Consultancy to help clients realize and extend brand stories beyond the logo and into the built environment to differentiate, inspire and influence audience behavior.

Since formation, Nimble. has grown from one to an established team of four, producing award-winning, multi-disciplinary brand experiences for clients in real estate and hospitality. In under three years, Nimble. has launched over 75 new brands, led nearly 50 property repositioning campaigns, and traveled thousands of miles to bring innovation and consistent brand exposure to projects in 13 core markets.

With a love for real estate, and a relentless drive to perfect the connection of brand to place, Candice leads strategic vision, art direction, and all signage and interiors work on behalf of Nimble.’s property repositioning projects and key accounts. She directs a growing internal team, and works closely with the firm’s external collaborating creative partners, to craft holistic brand experiences, spanning the gap of branding to built environment.

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Stefanie Diaz/Mastermind Your Launch

Stefanie Diaz has always had a keen ability for developing marketing strategies for entrepreneurs, but it’s her ability to position startups for accelerated momentum through personal branding and content marketing that has become the cornerstone to her professional success. Her background includes being a strategic adviser to CEO’s spanning startup phase to over $100 million in annual revenue. She has led strategic partnerships with global retailers and Fortune 500 companies, as well as facilitated multi-million dollar government contracts. There is something magnetic about the energy of startup founders that draws Stefanie in. They’re hungry, driven, and committed to making positive change for themselves and the greater community. Learn more at MastermindYourLaunch.com.

Steve Stroud with Roswell Inc. , Merrill Oakes with Urban Escape Games, and Mark Crutchfield with Roswell Infiniti

February 14, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

North Fulton Business Radio

Steve Stroud with Roswell Inc. , Merrill Oakes with Urban Escape Games, and Mark Crutchfield with Roswell Infiniti

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John Ray, Steve Stroud, Merrill Oakes, Mark Crutchfield, Mike Sammond

Steve Stroud/Roswell Inc.

Roswell Inc guides the economic development initiatives for the City of Roswell through a public-private partnership, supporting the business community through education, promotion, and building impacting relationships, and cultivating strategic partnership and economic opportunities to ensure Roswell’s competitiveness and strengthen the quality of life for Roswell residents.

Merrill Oakes/Urban Escape Games

Real-life escape rooms are a new concept and Urban Escape Games developed the first game in Georgia. They design all of their games in house with the immersive technology and themed to a story. Upon arrival, there will be seating for everyone to watch a briefing video. Once in the game room, you watch a video to immerse yourself into the storyline. Then the countdown clock starts and your team has one hour to find clues, solve puzzles, crack codes, and investigate everything to make it out in time! It is great team builder for companies. Their most recent addition is a Conference Escape Game where they come to your office, hotel or conference center, hosting groups from 50 to 2,500.

Mark Crutchfield/Roswell Infiniti

As one of the nation’s original Infiniti dealers, Roswell Infiniti has witnessed their area’s growth and how today’s customers expect and demand more than ever before. Their goal is to exceed your expectations. Their satisfied customers, many of them repeat customers, come from all over Georgia and the Southeast because buying or leasing a new Infiniti from Roswell Infiniti is both a pleasant and rewarding experience.

Love Your Body Month (2)

February 12, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Food, Faith & Feelings

Love Your Body Month (2)

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“Food, Faith, and Feelings” Podcast Episode from February 12, 2017

THE DR. DIONNE SHOW: Women in Male Dominated Professions

February 9, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

THE DR. DIONNE SHOW: Women in Male Dominated Professions

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Sherie Hodge, Dr. Dionne Poulton, Jessica Rantamaki

This episode of “The Dr Dionne Show” features a candid conversation about the experiences of three professional women who work in male-dominated professions. Are their experiences the same as women who work in other workplace environments? What types of assumptions and biases are made about them? How do they handle situations? Do good looks influence workplace dynamics? These questions and much more are discussed by the panel.

Jessica Rantamaki/Geo-Hydro Engineers

Geo-Hydro Engineers provides environmental consulting services, geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing, and special inspection. Their clients include owners (private and public), industry, developers, architects, structural engineers, and contractors.

Sherie Hodge/Skylark Media

Skylark Media is a small Atlanta design firm which specializes in providing creative solutions that sell. The minority-owned company, led by Sherie Hodge, an FAA Certified Remote UAV (Drone) Pilot, represents the company’s new Aerial Photography division. She also serves as the Director of Creative Services.

HOST: Dr. Dionne Wright Poulton

Dionne Wright Poulton, Ph.D., is an HR and Leadership Consultant, Educator, Author, Speaker, and Owner of Poulton Consulting Group, LLC, an HR and leadership consulting business specializing in diversity and inclusion, equity, bias, intercultural communication, adult learning, adult behavior, and conflict mediation. Since its inception in 2004, Poulton Consulting Group has worked with a wide range of diverse clients in the U.S. and Canada including many in the San Francisco tech and digital marketing industry; K-12 schools and higher education; and many corporate and service industries. Poulton Consulting Group is also a government-approved business for local, state and federal level contracts.

Dr. Wright Poulton is author of the acclaimed book “It’s Not Always Racist…but Sometimes It Is” which is an extension of her PhD dissertation at the University of Georgia where she researched the racial biases and assumptions of teachers. She is also a certified K-12 teacher whose work is inspired by her 16 years of cumulative experiences as a high school teacher and university instructor in public and private institutions in Canada and the United States. Additionally, Dr. Wright Poulton has earned professional degrees from San Francisco State University (M.A.), the University of Toronto/OISE (B.Ed.), and from Rice University (B.A.) in Houston, TX where she was a former NCAA Division I track and field scholarship athlete.

In 2014, Profiles In Diversity Journal identified Dr. Wright Poulton as “a woman to watch.” She has presented social commentary in print media in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, as well as on numerous radio shows including CBS Radio stations in Atlanta, GA and on Tavis Smiley’s Radio Show. “The Dr Dionne Show” debuted in 2016 on Business RadioX with a focus on smart dialogue about diversity, leadership, and behavior in the workplace and beyond.

Dr. Wright Poulton is originally from Toronto, Canada and is a former member of Canada’s National Track and Field Team. She currently lives with her husband and two daughters in Snellville, GA.

To book Dr. Dionne Poulton as a speaker for your next event, or to facilitate one of her innovative professional development workshops based on her PhD research, you can reach her through:

Email: dionne@poultonconsultinggroup.com
Phone: 404-323-3842 or 1-877-263-2227 (internationally)
Facebook: The Dr. Dionne Show
LinkedIn: @Dr Dionne (Wright) Poulton
Twitter: @DrDionnePoulton

For more information, visit Dr. Poulton’s business website: www.poultonconsultinggroup.com

Cassandra Underwood with Talk About It Catering

February 9, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Cassandra Underwood with Talk About It Catering

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Cassandra Underwood/Talk About It Catering

Talk About It Catering is a non-traditional full-service catering company. In addition to catering events, they offer weekly meals, freezer meals and lunches. They can accommodate people with dietary restrictions.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Jason Binder and Mark Wyssbrod with Envision Alpharetta

February 7, 2017 by Garrett Ervin

Mastermind Your Launch

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Jason Binder and Mark Wyssbrod with Envision Alpharetta

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Stefanie Diaz, Jason Binder and Mark Wyssbrod

Jason Binder/Envision Alpharetta

Jason Binder is a small business owner and independent financial planner for the firm Acolyte Advisors. He and his wife, Nicolette, have two daughters, Cecilia and Maggie. They enjoy attending local events like Food Truck Alley or taking the girls to the parks and greenway.

Jason has a passion for service within Alpharetta and the greater North Fulton area. Never one to sit back, he takes responsibility and works with others to make a difference for the community. His activities in the areas of community service, civic responsibility and economic development include the following:

Working with area nonprofits and organizing projects as the Community Service Director for the Alpharetta Rotary Club. Jason was recently honored as the 2014 Alpharetta Rotarian of the Year.
Appointed to the Alpharetta Design Review Board in 2012. The Design Review Board’s responsibility is to preserve Alpharetta’s historical and cultural character and enhance the city’s aesthetic value.
Worked to bring Alpharetta’s community together as a co-organizer of multiple Day of Service events. Over 500 volunteers have gathered together to help beautify Alpharetta and support our local non-profit organizations.
Led the development of the Alpharetta Business Academy for the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce.
Serves on the Board of the Alpharetta Public Safety Foundation to support our city’s First Responders.
Completed the Georgia Academy for Economic Development in December 2014. Selected by the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce, the Academy’s multi-day regional program provides participants with an understanding of the complexities of economic and community development.

Mark Wyssbrod/Envision Alpharetta

Mark Wyssbrod has intertwined quality of work with small business economics, the importance of financial position and a tax strategy. He is referred to as a Small Business CFO™. As an Eagle Scout, he understands the significance of being prepared and, as an economist, he understands the worth of being efficient.

Mark has lived in the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast. This diverse background allows him to communicate well with individuals with different backgrounds, as well as understand their motivating factors. Mark has integrated improv in his business, which allows him to be a better active listener and to think creatively for “outside the box” solutions for his clients.

Mark earned his Bachelors of Science in Business and Economics with a concentration in Accounting at the University of Kentucky. He earned his Certified Public Accounting designation from Georgia in January 2002.

With an entrepreneurial spirit Mark has started several successful small businesses. A past business venture was the award winning Pro@ctive CPA. After attending a retreat in the spring of 2013 he made a decision to sell this company in order to spend more time with his family and community. Mark is a “local capitalist” and is a part owner of a local payroll company, sign company, water-collection and reuse company and development company.

Mark believes it is important to give back to his community and he does so with both his time and resources. Mark has been a temporary foster parent, a volunteer at a halfway house, supporter of numerous community activities and events (including the Alpharetta Veterans Memorial in 2015) and just completed his term as the co-chair of Leadership North Fulton. Prior to 2015, Mark volunteered over 180 hours per year; in 2015, Mark volunteered 494 hours; and in 2016 Mark volunteered over 600 hours. The increase in time invested in his community is a result of following a calling to selling his CPA firm and surviving a near-death event.

Mark has been recognized as a Business Person of Excellence by the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce honored him as the 2013 Small Business Peron of the Year. This award was achieved for his focus on quality and commitment to his clients, team members and community. He has also been awarded the Five Star Wealth Manager Award for tax services since 2009 to 2013. In 2015, Mark was honored by the Georgia Society of CPA with the Public Service Award.

envisionalpharetta.com

Stefanie Diaz/Mastermind Your Launch