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Discrimination in the Craft Beer Industry

October 22, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Food, Faith & Feelings

Discrimination in the Craft Beer Industry

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Sean O’Keefe/Pontoon Brewing

Pontoon Brewing opened their doors for the first time in December 2017, becoming the first microbrewery in Sandy Springs. What’s the Pontoon Lifestyle? It’s a way to embrace Southern leisure with a fresh, modern exuberance. It’s that sweet lookin’ party platform on the horizon, rocking out to your favorite tunes and waving the ol’ Red White and Blue as high as she blows! Pontoon Brewing is inspired by the South’s beautiful lakes and waterways, cocktail coves, and awesomely scrumptious beer. Shades On, Bottoms Up!

About Manna Fund:

Manna Fund is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing hope and financial assistance to individuals who need eating disorder treatment scholarships. Manna provides funding for inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient eating disorder treatment for individuals lacking insurance coverage or for those with inadequate insurance coverage. Manna Fund grants scholarships to recipients by providing direct payment to partnering eating disorder treatment facilities.

Their mission is to address the epidemic of eating disorders by providing prevention, education, research, and financial assistance for treatment to all qualified individuals through well-administered programs.

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Laura Madajewski, Principal with HLB Gross Collins, P.C.

October 22, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Laura Madajewski, Principal with HLB Gross Collins, P.C.

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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.

Laura Madajewski/HLB Gross Collins, P.C.

Laura is a Principal in the Audit and Advisory department with HLB Gross Collins, P.C., one of Atlanta’s most well-known certified public accounting and consulting firms. She joined HLB Gross Collins P.C. with 16 years of public accounting experience and has extensive experience in managing audits and in the preparation of financial statements.

Laura is committed to making the assurance process run smoothly for her clients and looks for ways to help clients improve controls, strengthen management, enhance governance roles and oversight and streamline operations. She works diligently to facilitate positive changes and growth for her clients’ operations. As a trusted advisor, she gets to know each client in order to provide a customized approach to their assurance and accounting needs.

Laura leads the firm’s Manufacturing, Distribution and Supply Chain Practice, as well as the Employee Benefit Practice. She also has extensive expertise serving nonprofit organizations including private schools, religious organizations, trade associations and foundations. She is a regular presenter and published author on various topics within her areas of specialization.

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SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Arthur Jenni with Switch Global

October 21, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Arthur Jenni with Switch Global

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Arthur Jenni/Switch Global

Switch Global is a full service AV-IT integration firm with a passion for helping their clients communicate and connect with their audiences more efficiently and effectively.

Will Peter with Regions Bank

October 21, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Business Radio

Will Peter with Regions Bank

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Will Peter/Regions Bank and Regions Securities

Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE.RF), with $144 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 of FDIC. Additional Information about Regions and its full line of products and services can be found at www.Regions.com.

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Atlanta Gladiators Media Day

October 20, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

The Atlanta Gladiators have called Gwinnett County home since 2003. The ECHL (AA professional hockey) franchise is affiliated with the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and provides family friendly, affordable fun to metro Atlanta.

On the verge of the 2021-22 season, the Gladiators hosted their annual Media Day at Gas South Arena. Business RadioX was on hand to speak to the Gladiators about the upcoming season.

Head Coach Jeff Pyle

#17 Derek Nesbitt/Forward

#24 Malcolm Hayes/Defenseman

#11 Zach Yoder/Defenseman

Team President Jerry James

How to Use Art to Change Your Space

October 20, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

How to Use Art to Change Your Space

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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.

Status Life with Leta is brought to you by Status Home Design, and by the Law Office of Derek M. Hays at 404-777-HURT.

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.

Contact Leta at lbrooks@statushomedesign.com

Guest: Lynne McDonald/Lynne McDonald’s Gallery

Lynne McDonald is an award winning, juried artist. She grew up in California, but moved to Atlanta from Montreal, QC and started painting full-time in 2012. Since then, her skills have evolved and now you can find her work in galleries, stores, hotels, offices and private collections internationally. Her inspiration comes from nature and her travels. She considers herself curious and thinks of each painting is an experiment. “I prefer painting in abstracts, because I like the participation of the observer. It always amazes me what other people see in my work. I learn just as much about them as they do me.”

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Jamie Hamilton with Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett, Deirdra Cox with Community Sustainability Enterprise and Scott Mawdesley with Corners Outreach

October 20, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

Jamie Hamilton with Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett, Deirdra Cox with Community Sustainability Enterprise and Scott Mawdesley with Corners Outreach

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Scott Mawdesley, Jamie Hamilton and Deirdre Cox

Jamie Hamilton/Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett

For more than 30 years, Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett has been helping to improve the lives of those with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities through a PreK-12 school and young adult day program. With a focus on providing the highest quality education and therapeutic services, nurturing and challenging each student on their own level, instilling a positive self-image and love for learning, and supporting parents in their quest for the best life for their child, they are making a difference in the lives of families in Gwinnett and surrounding counties.

Deirdra Cox/Community Sustainability Enterprise

Community Sustainability Enterprise (CSE) is a community & economic development focused 501c3, serving Gwinnett County and the Southeast region of the United States. Their vision is economic mobility and self-efficacy in families and communities of color, that produces thriving families, sustainable communities, and generational wealth transfer.

Scott Mawdesley/Corners Outreach

Corners Outreach exists to equip underserved students of color and their families to lead full lives through educational and economic development. Their vision includes one community where every person thrives no matter their color, status or background.

The Inspiring Journey of a Hospital CEO (Part 2 of 2)

October 20, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Gwinnett Studio

The Inspiring Journey of a Hospital CEO (Part 2 of 2)

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Hospital CEO Angela Ammons shares her fascinating story of how she turned a small rural hospital on the brink of closing its doors into an accomplished award-winning hospital.

Randy Brunson/Centurion Advisory Group

Randy Brunson is the founding shareholder of Centurion Advisory Group. Randy has invested most of his forty-year career in financial services. He spent several years on the institutional side and had the opportunity to start a successful financial planning firm in 1991. Centurion Advisory Group serves individual and corporate clients, both in Georgia and throughout the country, offering personal and business financial planning, retirement plan design and management, and investment management services.

Randy studied engineering and marketing at UT Chattanooga. Randy currently holds the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) and CKA designation and makes it a priority to stay on top of his knowledge in the financial industry through continuing professional educational opportunities and reading. In addition, Randy has completed studies in qualified plan design, estate planning and business transition planning and he enjoys speaking and writing regularly on these topics.

Angela Ammons/Clinch Memorial Hospital

Located in Southeast Georgia, Clinch Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving Homerville, Clinch County, and surrounding counties. Clinch Memorial was originally founded in 1957 as a 48-bed rural community hospital and moved to a new facility in Homerville in 2007.

Clinch Memorial Hospital combines the innovations of a modern health care system with personalized care in a hometown setting. Their doctors, nurses, medical technicians and support staff understand how important quality healthcare is to residents of South Georgia. They go the extra mile to make sure an experience at Clinch Memorial Hospital is a great one. Their patients enjoy convenient, quality care from the medical professionals they have come to know and trust over the years.

To learn more about the Georgia Tax Credits to help support Clinch Memorial Hospital, please contact Lily James at ljames@clinchmh.org or call (912) 520-0585.

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Michelle Kang, Vice President of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

October 15, 2021 by Garrett Ervin

Celebrating Powerhouse Women

Michelle Kang, Vice President of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

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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.

Michelle Kang/Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

Michelle Kang is a first generation Korean American. She immigrated to Georgia in 1992 and has since become a U.S. citizen by naturalization. Since obtaining her Master of Public Administration from the University of Georgia in 2009, she has been serving the Korean American community and business community in the region with her various positions in several organizations including:

Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Board Member
Gwinnett County 2022 Citizen Budget Review Committee Member
Community Partner Advisory Committee for the Gwinnett Place Mall Redevelopment
Korean American Constituency Director of the Asian American Action Fund
Secretary-General of the Atlanta Korean American Committee Against Asian Hate
Chairwoman of Business Planning Committee of the Federation of Korean Associations (Southeast USA)
VP of External Affairs of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, GA

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