Matthew Holtkamp/Candidate for Gwinnett County Commissioner District 4
Having moved from an Iowa farm at the age of 19, Matthew Holtkamp arrived in Gwinnett County in 1985. Now 37 years later, with his family grown and his business thriving, he stands ready to work for residents to ensure the same amazing opportunities for those ready to do the same.
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Let Leta take you on a journey of faith, life, travel, and interior design. Leta Brooks is the star of the hit podcast “Status Life With Leta.” Reaching a record number of downloads in a very short amount of time, Leta engages her audience with her honesty, captivating stories, and her talent for teaching. “Status Life With Leta” is a lifestyle podcast and blog which focuses on everything you need to know to enhance your life, your health, and your home.
Leta uses her 20+ years of experience as a practicing interior designer to teach trends, design styles, and tips on how to make a house a home. She also guides her followers to a lifestyle of better mental, physical, and spiritual health. With her “sweetie”, Derek Hays, as her co-host, they entertain listeners with playful banter and real life situations. Her mission is to help each and every listener #designyourlife.
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On this episode, Leta discusses suffering grief after closing one of her businesses, but also moving forward and making new business goals.
Leta Brooks/Status Home Design
Status Home Design is a 12.000 sq ft retail store located in the Kohls Plaza of Hamilton Mill at 2240 Hamilton Creek Pkwy, Dacula, Georgia. They have 70 different merchants inside the store selling furniture and home goods of various styles. Their Status Carpenters can rehab, refinish, or repaint almost anything. This fantastic team of carpenters also custom builds tables, bookcases, cabinets, and barn doors. Status Design Studio, Inc., their award winning full-service interior design firm is also located inside the store. Their designers, provide exemplary service for all your home and business needs. Status Home Design’s knowledge of the latest trends and access to an abundance of manufacturers for furniture and all home decor items, sets them apart from the rest. Last, but certainly not least, they have an in-house seamstress and upholstery workshop.
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No matter where you are in life – just starting out, in your peak earning years, nearing retirement, or contemplating your legacy – Phelan and Myers Wealth Management Group of Janney Montgomery Scott is here for you. When you work with them, it’s about going beyond investing. It’s about connecting your life and your finances.
They take a comprehensive and customized approach to your finances, by understanding your needs and goals and aligning your investment strategies to help meet those goals. Their depth of knowledge and experience, combined with their firm’s capabilities and resources, enables them to provide high quality service, while offering advice and executing financial solutions for every stage of life.
No needs are more important than your own. They pride themselves in making your needs and goals, their own. They don’t simply work for you. They work with you to understand who you are as an individual and as an investor.
Their mission is to help you to define your financial objectives, and then use that knowledge to develop — together — a plan that is tailored to fit your unique needs and preferences, and is in your best interest. They’re proud to offer comprehensive financial planning resources, providing you access to education, advice, planning, and consultation.
Scott Phelan, CFP®
Executive Vice President/Wealth Management, Financial Advisor
Scott Phelan has over 20 years of financial advising and planning experience. As Executive Vice President/Wealth Management, Financial Advisor, his focus is helping build wealth for high net worth individuals and corporate clients. His core competencies include estate, retirement, insurance and income tax planning strategies. Scott has a long and distinguished career in the financial services industry having held leadership positions at Edward Jones, The Hartford, and New England Financial. Most recently, he was a Senior Vice President, Wealth Management, Financial Advisor/Senior Portfolio Management Director at Morgan Stanley. Scott began his career at the New England Financial Group where he developed and implemented employee 401(k) programs.
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Kevin T. Myers, CFP®
Vice President/Wealth Management, Financial Advisor
Kevin’s philosophy is simple; he worries about your finances so you don’t have to. As a Certified Financial PlannerTM (CFP®) Professional, Kevin helps clients develop and implement a comprehensive financial plan that is tailored to your needs. Kevin specializes in portfolio management, ensuring that each of his clients’ unique needs are being taken into account. Kevin has over 10 years of experience in the financial services industry and previously served as a consultant. He attended the University of Georgia where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Personal Financial Planning.
Phone: 678.448.4842
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Randy Redner/Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia
At the Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia, everything they do centers around one purpose – improving our world through the power of philanthropy. On a fundamental level, they do that through managing funds held in trust, donated by individuals, organizations and businesses. Most funds are donor-advised funds, similar to savings accounts. These funds are pooled for investment purposes and their income is used to make grants for a wide variety of charitable purposes. But their goals expand far beyond managing funds. They desire to strengthen the communities they serve in Gwinnett, Northeast Georgia and beyond by providing leadership, addressing community needs and assisting individuals and organizations with their charitable giving.
Josh Baker/Insight Media
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Mark Galvin/ePresence
ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged. Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.
Lucy Mejia/Junkluggers
The Junkluggers are a full-service, eco-friendly, and community-oriented furniture and junk removal company on a mission to keep as much out of the landfills as possible by donating, remixing, and recycling the items they take.
John Withers/How Money Works
The mission at How Money Works is to educate 20 million Americans on the basics of personal finance in the next 10 years. These are the concepts that everyone should have learned, but most were never taught in school. With this education, people can protect themselves and their families and not make the mistakes many have made with money. They conduct free 1-hour educational classes – both LIVE and via Zoom – based on their book “How Money Works – Stop Being a Sucker” by Tom Mathews and Steve Siebold. These classes are aimed primarily at commercial businesses, with a minor focus on churches, schools, and other interested organizations. Their cause is giving Americans the gift of financial literacy, so they can live a better, happier, and even healthier life.
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Travis Giles/McMahan’s Clothing
McMahan’s Clothing is your premier men’s custom clothing destination. They offer custom suits, jackets, shirts, trousers, belts, and more. Their Full Canvas jacket construction and Bespoke process makes McMahan’s the best value in the custom industry.
Marty Gildemeyer/Pro Tech Mechanical & Praxis Group
Pro Tech Mechanical is a complete sales, service, installation, and automation of residential and commercial Heating & Air Conditioning Systems.
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Injury Insider with Derek Hays” answers legal questions and debunks personal injury myths with insight and expertise. For 25 years, Derek has exclusively represented injured parties in Georgia. Now, he’d like to put that knowledge to work for you!
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About The Law Office of Derek M. Hays
The Law Office of Derek M. Hays is located in the heart of downtown Lawrenceville at 30 Lumpkin Street, Suite C in Lawrenceville, GA . We are just minutes away from the Lawrenceville Square and Gwinnett Justice and Administrative Center.
Derek Hays, owner and founder of the Law Office of Derek M. Hays, is among Georgia’s elite trial lawyers, recognized for his work on behalf of victims of car wrecks, nursing home negligence and other personal injury claims. He has successfully obtained approximately $125,000,000 in combined verdicts and settlements in his almost 25 years practicing law. Nationally, he is one of America’s Top 100 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, earned by the most skilled and ethical attorneys. Derek M. Hays has also been honored as Gwinnett Magazine’s “Best of Gwinnett” every year since 2015 as well as being a valued member of the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Mr. Hays believes communication is key and this sets him apart from other firms. He is committed to clients and manages each case while discussing all aspects of your claim with you from the beginning, answering questions and guiding you through the process to maximize your compensation.
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Kelly Kautz/Gwinnett County School Board Candidate
Kelly Kautz is a Gwinnett County native who is seeking to become the next member of the Gwinnett County School Board for District 4. She is a product of GCPS having graduated from Brookwood High School and now has a son who attends Gwin Oaks where Kelly serves as the Vice President of the PTA.
Kelly is a proven servant leader dedicated to doing what is best for the community. She is also a proven advocate for children. She is a licensed attorney in Georgia and has been practicing law in Gwinnett County for 20 years. As a former prosecutor, she made sure that children are safe in schools. Currently, as an attorney/Guardian ad Litem for Gwinnett County Juvenile Court, Kelly advocates for abused and neglected children. She is the voice for children in the courtroom, and now is asking you to allow her to be their voice in the classroom.
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Michael Bungay Stanier, a Rhodes Scholar and author of multiple books including “The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More, and Change the Way You Lead Forever”, joins Leader Dialogue co-hosts Dr. Roger Spoelman and Ben Sawyer on the March 15, 2022 podcast. The topic is “Achieving Systemness: Coaching Opportunities” and takes a closer look at best practice coaching as leaders deal with workforce disruptions and staff burnout in the aftermath of the pandemic. Michael shares his perspective and insights on this important topic, providing practical suggestions that can be applied immediately.
Roger Spoelman, DBA, MBA
Roger is a healthcare executive with more than 38 years of industry experience. He most recently served as interim CEO at Trinity Health Regional Systems in New England, Ohio, and Illinois at Loyola University Health System.
His tenure at Trinity Health included leading several hospital mergers, and later as regional executive for the corporation’s Mercy Health operations. He also is founder and executive sponsor of the Trinity Health Innovation Hub. In 2018, Roger oversaw the merger of International Aid Inc. and CURE International Inc., two organizations where he served on the Board of Directors for over a decade. He recently served as the President and CEO for CURE International Inc., which operates eight charitable hospitals in developing nations, and focuses on faith-based care that restores quality of life to pediatric patients with surgically treatable disabilities. Roger was appointed Chair of the BAMF Health board of directors in 2019. He is working closely with the company to achieve their patent-focused mission of bringing intelligence-based precision medicine to the world.
Roger is a co-host of the Baldrige Foundation Leader Dialogue program, and mentors and coaches’ numerous executives and assists organizations and their boards of directors with succession, strategy, and innovation.
Ben Sawyer, MBA, PT, OCS, LBB
Ben Sawyer is an ABOUT executive. He has more than 35 years of industry experience, most recently serving as CEO of SOAR Vision Group, and EVP of Care Logistics.
Ben started his healthcare career in 1985 as a Physical Therapist, focusing on sports medicine and orthopedics, and received his specialist certification as an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS) in 1997 from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties.
After securing his MBA, he moved into hospital administration, overseeing rehab, wellness, cardiac therapy, and occupational medicine services, specializing in team development and performance optimization. This expanded into a system leadership role overseeing performance and quality improvement. During that time Ben achieved his Lean Black Belt certification (LBB)
Ben has a gift for recognizing strategic gaps that can be turned into opportunities. For example, during the COVID-19 crisis he initiated national executive roundtables with the Baldrige Foundation via the Leader Dialogue program to help executives turn the pandemic disruption into an opportunity for improved collaboration and performance towards true Community Health beyond the walls of hospitals and to prioritize and coordinate action and resources.
Michael Bungay Stanier/Author, Speaker & Business Coach
Michael Bungay Stanier has written books that have sold a million copies, including The Coaching Habit, a book that’s become the best-selling book on coaching this century. Michael founded a training and development company, Box of Crayons, that has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. He was a Rhodes Scholar and named the #1 Thought Leader in Coaching and a Coaching Guru. Michael has launched several podcasts and spoken live and virtually to crowds of thousands.
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