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Johnny Crist, Candidate for State House of Representatives

August 17, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Case In Point

Johnny Crist, Candidate for State House of Representatives

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Johnny Crist/Candidate for State House of Representatives

Johnny Crist is a Conservative Republican candidate for Georgia House District 108.

Johnny married his college sweetheart and and within one week of their wedding, Johnny was enrolled in seminary. It has always been their goal to pastor a local church.

Johnny received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. It was there when they decided to become church planters. They relocated to Atlanta to pioneer a new church that would eventually birth 19 daughter congregations.

While in full-time ministry, Johnny was elected mayor of the city of Lilburn, which is one of the 66 cities that comprise metro Atlanta. As a result, he resigned his church to give his full attention to the city. Then in the November 2020 election, Johnny was unsuccessful in an attempt to unseat the incumbent in a run for District 108 of the Georgia State House of Representatives.

Johnny and Anne have eight children. At this point, six of the eight are married. They have restored an antebellum in downtown Lilburn which is one of the landmarks of the city.

Now Johnny is a candidate for the Georgia House of Representatives District 108. He hopes to be sworn into office in January of 2023.

PREVIEW: 2022 Moxie Awards Keynote Speaker Sarah Hathorn, CEO of Hathorn Consulting Group

August 17, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

PREVIEW: 2022 Moxie Awards Keynote Speaker Sarah Hathorn, CEO of Hathorn Consulting Group

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The Gwinnett Chamber’s annual Moxie Awards recognize women who are making it happen. The awards luncheon is scheduled for Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at the Gas South District in Duluth, GA. This two-part program will begin with keynote speaker Sarah Hathorn and will conclude with the presentation of the Moxie Awards.

Sarah Hathorn/CEO, Hathorn Consulting Group

Sarah Hathorn, CEO of Hathorn Consulting Group, is the go-to expert in working with leaders and companies to create successful corporate DNA. Over the past 30 years, she has developed her own unique “Creating Successful Corporate DNA™” approach. Sarah focuses on ensuring that organizations have the right DNA permeating their leadership deck, workplace culture, business strategy, talent pipeline, and departmental teams. She optimizes teams and individuals to reach their highest potential and boost their productivity and level of engagement. The conscientious alignment of those strands of essential value helps to measurably improve and accelerate multiple levels of company productivity, performance, and profitability.

As a former senior-level executive in a Fortune 100 company, Sarah has an uncommon depth and breadth of experience. Her vantage point of understanding – and adaptation to the real-world challenges of competitive business – gives her full-spectrum knowledge and insight. Working with individuals, teams, or throughout the entire organization, she provides a targeted focus on maximizing Corporate DNA. Sarah has worked as a consultant in over 40 different industries and collaborates with large and medium-sized organizations. She helps to measurably and quickly increase performance, productivity, and profitability while creating sustainably successful corporate DNA. Many of her former protégés now occupy the highest positions within Fortune 500 companies, and her client list is a virtual “Who’s Who” of elite companies and top executives.

Sarah is also an internationally sought-after thought leader and has worked with leaders in over 39 countries. Her leadership tips, insights, and advice have been published by the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, U.S. News & World Report, and Forbes.com as well as many other major publications and media outlets. She has been involved in numerous philanthropic organizations and is a graduate of the Leadership Gwinnett class of 2009.

2020 Moxie Award Winners – Top row: Melanie Conner, Joy Mitchell, Amanda Sutt, Gale Higginbotham Bottom row: Linnea Miller, Dr. Jann Joseph, Claire Gordon

Jasmine Billings, Community Development Manager for the City of Lawrenceville

August 12, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Jasmine Billings, Community Development Manager for the City of Lawrenceville

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Jasmine Billings/Community Development Manager for the City of Lawrenceville

Jasmine Billings is a vibrant, intentional community builder, passionate about growth in the community through building relationships, developing partnerships, supporting youth advocacy, and strategic civic engagement & awareness. Serving as the Community Development Manager for the City of Lawrenceville, Jasmine is experienced in event management, business engagement, and is passionate about community outreach. Through connectivity and shared experiences, her drive is to educate and engage with youth and create awareness through workforce development. Her positive, initiative-driven attitude highlights her commitment to creating a holistic approach to self-determination and collective action.

Jasmine currently serves as the Chair for Gwinnett Young Professionals, Mainstreet Manager for the City of Lawrenceville, Board Member of Gwinnett United in Drug Education (GUIDE), Interim Board Chair of Impact 46, and Glance Gwinnett Committee Member.

Jasmine is a Gwinnett native, graduating from Brookwood High School, avid about the success of Gwinnett County, and the community she serves. She attended Georgia Southern University obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Sports Management, and Georgia State University obtaining a Master of Science in Sports Administration, and is currently obtaining her Master in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She enjoys being a pet mom to her dog, Oliver, being with her family and friends, traveling and other activities and experiences, creating lifelong memories.

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Angelia White with ALW Tax & Financial Services and Jake Kimbel with (Un)Discovered Athlete

August 11, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Angelia White with ALW Tax & Financial Services and Jake Kimbel with (Un)Discovered Athlete

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Jake Kimbel, Angelia White and Harper LeBel

Angelia White/ALW Tax & Financial Services

ALW Tax & Financial Services is an accounting firm offering tax resolution, tax preparation, and financial services to small businesses.

Jake Kimbel/(Un)Discovered Athlete

(Un)Discovered Athlete is Gwinnett County’s premier baseball training facility, owned and operated by local minor league baseball players providing comprehensive baseball development for any athlete.

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Chad and Dominai Reeves with Keller Williams Realty Sugarloaf

August 9, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Chad and Dominai Reeves with Keller Williams Realty Sugarloaf

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Bruno Taillefer, Chad Reeves, Dominai reeves, Brian Peart

Chad & Dominai Reeves/Keller Williams Realty Sugarloaf

When you choose to join Keller Williams, you join forces with the most dynamic real estate company in the world. Keller Williams is an international real estate franchise company with more than 110,000 real estate agents, operating in 700 offices across the globe. Founded in 1983 by Gary Keller and Joe Williams with the mission to build careers worth having, businesses worth owning and lives worth living for its associates, Keller Williams Realty has been among the fastest growing real estate franchises in the industry since its founding.

In 1991, the company began franchising, and since that time has expanded across the U.S. exponentially, as well as in Canada, Indonesia, Southern Africa, Vietnam and Dubai. In 2011, during the most challenging real estate market in history, Keller Williams surpassed Century 21 to become the 2nd largest real estate franchise in the U.S. In 2012, the company ranked as the No. 1 real estate franchise on the 33rd Annual Franchise 500 list by Entrepreneur magazine. In 2014, Keller Williams became the world’s largest real estate franchise by agent count.

More so than ever before, real estate professionals are turning to Keller Williams Realty for the education, coaching, technology, culture and wealth building opportunities that are redefining their potential and powering their careers toward new heights.

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Margaret Washburn, Managing Partner at Washburn Law Offices & Municipal Court Chief Judge

August 6, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Margaret Washburn, Managing Partner at Washburn Law Offices & Municipal Court Chief Judge

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Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Margaret Washburn/Managing Partner at Washburn Law Offices & Municipal Court Chief Judge

Margaret Washburn is the Managing Partner at Washburn Law Offices, a general trial practice dedicated to family law, business litigation, probate, criminal defense, personal injury and workers comp in Lawrenceville, GA. Margaret is a graduate of Emory University School of Law, J.D., Oglethorpe University, B.A., cum laude, and Lakeside High School. She is the Chief Judge, Municipal Court for the City of Sugar Hill; Associate Judge, Duluth and Berkeley Lake; and a recipient of numerous awards from Gwinnett County Bar Association, and Council for Municipal Court Judges of Georgia. Margaret was voted “Best of Gwinnett” for legal representation 2014-present. She also participated in People to Know; Past President, GCBA, Lawrenceville Kiwanis Club and Council for Municipal Court Judges, and has over 70 published articles. Her memberships also include Leadership Gwinnett 2020, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, 1818 Club, Gwinnett Leadership of Women, and TPC Sugarloaf.

She has two sons and two daughters-in-law who are attorneys, and three grandchildren. At home she enjoys tennis, writing and running, and is a dedicated Georgia Bulldog.

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Tonya Ferguson and Jeff Thrutchley with Camp Horizon

August 4, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Tonya Ferguson and Jeff Thrutchley with Camp Horizon

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Steven Julian, Jeff Thrutchley, Tonya Ferguson, Harper LeBel

Tonya Ferguson & Jeff Thrutchley/Camp Horizon

Camp Horizon offers year-round programs to Metro Atlanta’s youth in foster care. They work to restore dignity and hope to children, teens, and young adults who have been abused and/or neglected, empowering them to make good decisions and lead healthy, productive lives.

Camp Horizon was founded in 1982 when a handful of friends decided to find a way to positively impact the community. They agreed that changing the lives of abused and neglected children living in foster care would be valuable to the children as well as the community. And so it began in the summer of 1982, supported by a shared goal of investing in the future of our community. The challenge of the new organization was to reach out to the “bruised and broken-hearted.”

From their humble beginnings of only eight campers sleeping in tents in a parking lot of a local church, to their current week-long and year-round programs at a state of the art camping facility, the mission has remained the same. Camp Horizon has grown hundreds of wounded children into healthier adults. Equipped with knowledge and skills they have learned from Camp Horizon, these former campers will be the people who impact their communities with great strength. Not only will they break the cycle of abuse in their own lives, but they will be prepared to help prevent abuse in the lives of those around them. They will take what they have received from Camp Horizon and grow it into a powerful agent for social change.

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John Rivers with 4R Restaurant Group and 4Roots Farm

August 1, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Orlando Studio

John Rivers with 4R Restaurant Group and 4Roots Farm

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A new podcast series, “Regions Business Radio Orlando”, covers financial topics such as banking and lending, mortgages, wealth management, and more, while also introducing you to many of the top executives with Regions Bank in the Orlando market.

Hosted by Scott Wall, Commercial Banking Leader with Regions, all episodes of “Regions Business Radio Orlando” are available for download on Apple iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy your favorite podcasts.

John Rivers/4R Restaurant Group and 4Roots Farm

Following a 20-year career in healthcare, John Rivers retired as President of a $1.5 billion company to pursue a lifelong dream of opening a restaurant. In 2009, John created his first concept, 4 Rivers Smokehouse, which quickly became one of the fastest growing restaurants in the Southeast. The business grew to 22 locations to include John’s other concepts, the Southern-inspired COOP, the Mexican themed Cantina at Disney Springs, and the farm-to-table 4Roots Café. 4 Rivers garnered national recognition being named “The South’s Best BBQ” by Southern Living, and the “#1 BBQ Restaurant Chain” by MSN.

Born out of John’s garage, the “barbeque ministry” remains at the heart of the company’s mission to lift up those in need and help build better communities. The culmination of the 4R Foundation’s work, the Orlando based 4Roots Farm will serve as a community campus to inspire revolutionary change in Florida’s food system through education on sustainable and regenerative farming, advancements in agriculture technology, and research in culinary medicine via the launch of the Culinary Health Institute.

Author of The Southern Cowboy Cookbook and graduate of Florida State University College of Business, where he served on the Board of Governors, John has been named one of the Restaurant Industry’s Power 20 Leaders by Restaurant Business & News, “Restaurateur of the Year” by Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, and Orlando Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful, 15 to Watch”. John had the honor of cooking at the prestigious James Beard House in New York City, and was twice named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

John serves on the FDACS Food Security Advisory Council and the Department of Agriculture Innovation Committee for the State of Florida, and is a member of the Florida Governor’s Council of 100. John lives in Winter Park with his wife and two children, and serves on the boards of numerous school, church, and local charitable organizations.

About Regions:

Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF), with $145 billion in assets, is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of consumer and commercial banking, wealth management, and mortgage products and services. Regions serves customers across the South, Midwest, and Texas, and through its subsidiary, Regions Bank, operates approximately 1,400 banking offices and 2,000 ATMs. Regions Bank is an Equal Housing Lender and Member FDIC. Additional information about Regions and its full line of products and services can be found at www.regions.com.

This information is general in nature and is provided for educational purposes only. Regions makes no representation as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, suitability or validity of any information presented and Regions does not accept liability for any direct or indirect loss stemming from the application of any material. Information provided and statements made by employees of Regions should not be relied on or interpreted as accounting, financial planning, investment, legal or tax advice. Regions encourages you to consult an appropriate professional concerning your specific situation and irs.gov for current tax rules.

Nancy Miller of Bull Realty

July 27, 2022 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Nancy Miller of Bull Realty

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Ashley Tatarsky, Nancy Miller, and Brian Peart

Nancy Miller/Bull Realty

Nancy Miller joined Bull Realty in 2001. Her brokerage practice focuses on single tenant net lease and multi-tenant retail investment properties. Nancy is a partner with the firm and heads the National Net Lease Investment Group. Her focus includes working with investors, 1031 exchange transactions and developers throughout the U.S. She is an industry-recognized, savvy, and knowledgeable investment expert. Over the last five years, she has brokered over 125 single tenant transactions.

Nancy has held a real estate license for over 25 years and is licensed in several states. She is a Life Member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). She also holds the prestigious CCIM designation and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University and an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, where she is a guest lecturer.

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