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B2B Compliance Marketing and Trends E1

October 19, 2022 by Karen

eCommerce Insights

B2B Compliance Marketing and Trends E1

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B2B Compliance Marketing and Trends E1

In this episode atmosol talked with Maria Tringali, Sr. Solutions Consultant at Avalara; Scott Dailey, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Carl Stahl Sava Industries; and John Ciceri, Digital Marketing Coordinator at Carl Stahl Sava Industries about B2B compliance, marketing, and trends.

If you’re working in the B2B industry or want to learn more, this episode is something you don’t want to miss. Listen and join the learning, sharing, and laughing about the challenges of personalization in B2B marketing, how to meet the customer’s needs, helping your sales team, document compliance, keeping abreast of the latest and greatest in tax compliance, and more.

Carl Stahl Sava Industries produces miniature and ultrafine mechanical cable and cable assemblies for endoscopic instruments and surgical robots, as well as a wide array of industrial, aerospace and military applications.

Using monofilaments smaller than 1/3 the diameter of a single human hair, Sava’s cables help the world surgical robots and instrumentation achieve motion.

Operating from its 100,000 sq ft headquarters in Riverdale, New Jersey, many of the world’s next innovations in surgical robotics and endoscopes pass through Sava.

Scott Dailey has nearly 25 years of digital marketing experience and has spearheaded multi-million dollar campaigns with companies like Bausch & Lomb, The Home Depot, Furniture Brands International (Thomasville), Godiva Chocolate and many others.

Today, Scott is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the global ultrafine mechanical cable manufacturer, Carl Stahl Sava Industries, located in Northern New Jersey.

Scott is a national sales and marketing business speaker that has traveled the country debunking myths about what it takes to make your digital footprint a revenue-acquiring powerhouse.

Whether you’re a giant, or just starting out, Dailey teaches organizations how to produce the kind of digital sales activity that gives your business a sustainable advantage within an overcrowded and noisy digital, democratized economy.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn.

John Ciceri is a Sales Development Representative at Carl Stahl Sava Industries. He is qualified to find and screen potential customers who can benefit from our products and services.

As the first line of communication with prospects, he has an understanding of the sales process, excelling at researching leads, starting new relationships, and setting our customer up for success.

John has strong communication skills, and the ability to showcase offerings in a compelling way.

Connect with John on LinkedIn.

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transactional taxes, including VAT, sales and use, excise, communications, and other tax types. Our comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions are fast, accurate, and easy to use.

Our Compliance Cloud™ platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance tasks imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world. Avalara offers more than 500 pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications.

Each year, we process billions of indirect tax transactions, file hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns, and manage millions of exemption certificates and other compliance related documents.

Maria Tringali has been with Avalara since 2014, helping B2B and other highly exempt businesses better understand their tax compliance responsibilities.

Currently she provides training, education and support for sales reps, partners and prospective Avalara customers on the importance of getting tax compliance right, even if you charge very little retail sales tax.

Follow Avalara on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

About eCommerce Insights

eCommerce Insights is about bringing people together to discuss the vast landscape of eCommerce covering topics like technology, conversion optimization, branding, and marketing. The show focuses on how to build, manage and grow your online business using scientific and predictable methods thereby reducing uncertainty and risk. Our guests include vendors, merchants, experts, and technology partners shaping the world of eCommerce.

About Our Hosts

Ram Mohan is CEO and partner at atmosol, an ecommerce and technology company. He has spent over two decades in technology and eCommerce consulting helping companies ranging from small to fortune 100 achieve their business goals using technology.

As CEO, Ram leads atmosol’s eCommerce and SaaS services business working with our clients. In addition, he leads a team that runs an eCommerce portal in the meetings and events sector focusing on the EMEA market. He is also responsible for several SaaS products that are envisioned, built, and marketed by atmosol in different verticals and geographies.

Ram enjoys keeping up with and gaining a deep understanding of the latest trends in technology and eCommerce so he can help atmosol and our clients avoid hype and adopt trends that offer a tangible impact on our businesses.

Honey Olesen is the Director of Operations with atmosol and has substantial experience in leadership, management, operations, project management, digital marketing, human resources and data analysis. She deeply understands how businesses work and can take complex concepts and make them easy to understand for both employees and customers. She has worked at atmosol for over 11 years and has had the opportunity to work with some great brands and people in ecommerce, marketing and business.

Before entering the world of technology, Honey worked with some fantastic business owners in the building industry – soaking up knowledge of business day-to-day operations and growing her professional development.

She believes that in order for businesses to be successful, they need to have a clear mission and purpose, make sure the business goals are aligned with the values and stay focused on what’s important. She believes this is the same for individual success: find a place where your mission, purpose, goals, and values align with the company.

About Our Sponsor

Atmosol is a technology company working at the intersection of eCommerce and SaaS software. Our deep expertise in web development in addition to our long partnership with eCommerce platforms enables our clients to break through eCommerce platform barriers and build experiences that amaze their customers. Being in the eCommerce business ourselves running a meeting and events sales portal in the EMEA, we know the trials and tribulations our customers face firsthand.

In addition to eCommerce, we also build highly scalable SaaS products for our clients. We’ve also built and marketed our own successful SaaS products in different verticals.

Follow atmosol on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Career and Technical Education Director Cindy Gutierrez on the State of the State and CTE E22

October 18, 2022 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

Career and Technical Education Director Cindy Gutierrez on the State of the State and CTE E22

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Robert and J.J. spent some time with Cindy Gutierrez who is the Director of CTE Program Services for the Arizona Department of Education. Cindy shares what it takes to put on a great Career and Technical Education program as well as al of the exciting happenings currently going on within the state.

Learn what the Arizona CTE Program has to offer the students within the state of Arizona.

The Arizona Department of Education — the state agency tasked with overseeing Arizona’s K-12 public education system. The department, led by a publicly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction, comprises more than 600 staff across four state offices working to serve Arizona’s students, families, educators, and school communities.

Career and Technical Education is a division of Arizona Department of Education. CTE’s Vision is to Develop Arizona’s competitive workforce through the power of Career and Technical Education.

Cindy Gutierrez serves as Director of CTE Program Services in the Career and Technical Education (CTE) unit of the Arizona Department of Education, a position she has held for the last six years and has been with the department for over eight years. Cindy serves under the leadership of the Deputy Associate Superintendent and state CTE Director, Cathie Raymond and Superintendent of Public Instruction, The Honorable, Kathy Hoffman.

In this position, Cindy leads a team of eight program specialists who oversee the high school CTE programs across the state, which include Construction Science Technologies, Engineering, Manufacturing and Information Technologies, Agriculture and Welding, Transportation Technologies, Public Service Careers, Health Science Technologies, Family and Consumer Sciences, Education Professions, and Business, Marketing and Communication Technologies programs. Prior to becoming a director, Cindy served as the CTE Construction Science and Transportation Technologies Program Specialist for the Arizona Department of Education.

Cindy began her career in education in the Peoria Unified School District as a high school Industrial Technology Instructor teaching Drafting, Cabinetmaking, and her passion, Construction Technologies. Cindy also organized and taught CTE Internship courses related to each CTE program on the campus, connecting seniors in high school to Business and Industry partners to gain real world experience before graduation. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Education from the University of Arizona and a Master of Education in Career and Technical Education from Northern Arizona University.

A native of the West valley – Peoria, Cindy has seen the overwhelming growth of the valley and can credit her own father for many of the homes built since the early 1970’s.
In November 2021, Cindy was honored to receive the Visionary Leadership Award in recognition of her support and partnership with the Arizona Construction Career Days.

About Your Hosts

Meet JJ Levenske

JJ Levenske is a seasoned construction executive with over 30 years of experience in the commercial and industrial sectors. From pre-construction services to complex quality controls and close-outs, he brings a commitment to delivering the highest levels of professionalism and customer service.

JJ’s dedication to construction has allowed him to become an industry expert which he aims to share with customers and investors alike. JJ does not believe in mediocrity and strives to see the “end at the beginning” for each project, effectuating a higher return on investment for the entire team.

Early on in his career, JJ worked as a cost engineer conducting feasibility estimates, strategic capital estimates, cost planning, and analysis of value engineering for the technology, petrochemical, and food industries. He went on to develop and implement a variety of systems for estimating, scheduling, resource management, and cost tracking while holding Project Manager and Senior Management Positions.

During his tenure, JJ has been involved in $1 billion worth of construction services. A strong entrepreneurial acumen allows him to be the perfect advocate for your facility based business solutions.

Meet Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson is a knowledgeable construction professional with over 40 years of experience. His experience ranges from residential to the commercial and industrial sectors.

Robert began working in the trades immediately out of high school and quickly advanced to Journeyman status. Robert went on to estimating, operations, senior level management and then business development.

Robert is consistently building relationships and networking with those associated with all aspects of development and construction. Robert has become a respected source for prefabricated construction solutions.

Robert enjoys spending time with Pam, his wife of 42 years, their 3 children, and 10 grandchildren.

About Our Sponsors

Bleuwave is a Phoenix-based general contractor with a specialty in land development & site improvement, pre-construction, design build, remodel and renovations, construction management, and post construction.

Bleuwave is passionate about what they do and takes pride in their partner’s success.

When you need it done right the first time, call Bleuwave.

Follow Bleuwave on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Tori Contracting’s smaller, cohesive structure results in superior workmanship and economical solutions.

The Tori Contracting team has construction experience acquired by performing highly successful work for hotels and casinos, restaurants, retail stores, healthcare facilities and a wide range of commercial and themed projects.

We provide design assist capabilities from start to finish…from schematic design and development through construction documents with the aid of our full-time AUTOCAD staff.

James Christensen with Gateway Bank E33

October 18, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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As the only community bank in Mesa, AZ, Gateway Bank represents a return to how banking used to be, where the staff knew everyone by name and treated you like a person instead of a number.

Gateway’s team brings this nostalgic approach into modern times and offers the best of both worlds: the local, personal attention you want, plus a wide variety of products and services to meet your needs.

While the bank is located in Mesa, they serve businesses and residents across the Valley. With a large network of fee-free ATMs, plus added conveniences like Remote Deposit for businesses, you can experience the Gateway difference no matter where you are.

James Christensen is the President of Gateway Bank, the only community bank in Mesa, Arizona. Under his leadership, Gateway has thrived through multiple economic downturns and grown
to consistently be one of the strongest performing financial institutions in its peer group.

James has worked in the banking industry for over 35 years, mostly in commercial lending and management. Hailing from the Midwest, he was President of a community bank in Kansas for a decade before joining Gateway Bank’s founding team in 2007.

James is very active in the local community and a fierce advocate for small businesses, groups that have been marginalized, and people in need. He enjoys educating and inspiring people to improve their financial health and overall well-being.

Connect with James on LinkedIn.

About Arizona Good Business

What is good business? What are local businesses doing to build a better Arizona?

Join Arizona Good Business to hear from local companies who are:

Centering purpose at the forefront of business
Creating social well-being for the community
Prioritizing sustainability and positive environmental practices
Growing strong company cultures through building authentic teams
Ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion are involved in all business decisions

Arizona Good Business features local business leaders that are redefining what it means to do good business.

About Your Host

Thomas Barr is the Executive Director for Local First Arizona, the largest coalition of local businesses in North America. He advocates for a strong local business community that contributes to building vibrancy, equity, and prosperity across the state. A proud Arizona native and graduate of Arizona State University, Thomas leads the business coalition of Local First Arizona by advocating for the economic and cultural benefits provided by building strong local economies.

Thomas steers the strategic direction of LFA’s major programs and initiatives as well as the engagement of over 3000 businesses across Arizona. As Executive Director, Thomas guides a team of statewide senior directors overseeing the execution of LFA’s communication strategy, major initiatives and key partnerships, as well as the collaboration of over 30 staff implementing work in entrepreneurship programs, small business advocacy, local food initiatives, sustainability, urban development and community building. He frequently speaks to groups locally and nationally, presenting the impact of Local First Arizona and the importance of local economy work in building prosperity.

Outside of Local First Arizona, Thomas has participated in volunteering his time to many causes and organizations throughout the Valley including Young Nonprofit Professionals – Phoenix, Equality Arizona, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Heritage Square Foundation and Phoenix Legal Action Network. Additionally, Thomas is a 2018 Phoenix Magazine 40 Under 40 honoree, alumni of Arizona Leading for Change, and current participant in Valley Leadership Institute’s 40th cohort.

Connect with Thomas on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Creating the Safest Table Inside and Out E6

October 18, 2022 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

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Being connected to others starts with connecting to our own true selves. When we connect to our true selves, we notice resonance and dissonance. From a place of inner resonance, we share our truth with others, holding it lightly, knowing it may only be 2% of the full picture.

People leaders help unlock the collective genius of the group by creating a safe space, ‘the safest table,’ for people to share their truths about their resonance and dissonance and productively debate and challenge one another, however uncomfortable, in service of helping each person grow and realize more of their potential.

Join Rooted & Unwavering host Hylke Faber and Pamela Mattsson, SVP of People and Organizational Development at Outreach as they explore connecting to true selves.

Outreach is the first and only Sales Execution Platform that automates sales engagement and turns intelligence into actions to improve execution across every stage of the sales cycle, from prospecting to deal management to forecasting. When organizations execute at their full potential, they win more deals with less effort and deliver a better customer experience.

Pamela Mattsson is SVP of People and Organizational Development at Outreach.
She is responsible for building values-driven, human-centered and inclusive developmental experiences for all Outreach employees from individual contributors to C-Suite. She ensures Outreach’s culture is strong and pervasive yet challenges each employee to be the best version of themselves by expanding and evolving with each and every culture-add (vs. culture-fit).

She enables Outreach to walk the talk of our core values, & solidify the behaviors, systems & symbols that allow those values to scale. She uses an experiential, conscious & humanistic approach, and has 20+ years of experience in global and multicultural instructional design, change management and adult learning within organizations & as a global consultant.

Before Outreach, she led Executive Development for Amazon globally and is responsible for building Amazon’s executive onboarding program, Escape Velocity, executive coaching practice, and codifying what “It is Always Day 1” means for Amazon’s culture at scale.

Connect with Pamela on LinkedIn.

About Rooted & Unwavering

Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.

In this podcast and radio show, Hylke Faber, seasoned transformational coach and author of the award-winning Taming Your Crocodiles series, engages in deep inquiry with leaders from all walks of life about courageously connecting with our true selves, others and the world at large.

How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?

Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.

About Our Host

For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.

Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.

When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.

He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.

He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.

His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

Realizing Your Greatness

We are a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

- Executive Coaching: we work with clients individually to help them connect to their calling and use every challenge as an opportunity to help them grow more into what makes them great.
- Team Performance: we help teams evolve to their next level of excellence, connectedness and impact by working on the root drivers of team performance.
- Culture Development: we help organizations to evolve their culture by creating clarity about where they aspire to go, and by building role models, coaches and systems that catalyze people being energized to work the new way.

Key Notes: we deliver powerful speeches at conferences and other events that help audiences become energized, more connected to themselves and each other, more open to discovery and ready to commit to the next stage of learning in their career and life journeys.

Growth Leaders Network (GLN) serves Fortune 500 companies, smaller organizations and non-profits globally.

GLN clients report that we catalyze significant business transformational impact and profound shifts in people, team and organizations at the root cause level.

Learn more about the Growth Leaders network here.

Shasta Broadus, Dr. Nancy Gaines-Dillard, Kyanti Palmer and Vaddess Like Goddess

October 14, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Shasta Broadus, Dr. Nancy Gaines-Dillard, Kyanti Palmer and Vaddess Like Goddess

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Shasta Broadus, Dr. Nancy Gaines-Dillard, Kyanti Palmer and Vaddess Like Goddess

Capital Stewardship is a personal and professional business development network geared toward the growth of the business owner which in turns grows their business.

Shasta Broadus is a personal and professional business development executive with the heart for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

She has a BS in Psychology, Masters course work in organizational leadership and a background in finance.

Connect with Shasta on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Dr. Nancy Gaines-Dillard, DNP-BC Doctorate prepared, Board Certified Family Medicine Integrative Healthcare Practitioner with over 26 years of varied experience in Family, Emergency, and Acute Care Medicine at teaching hospitals, Level I Trauma Centers and Tertiary facilities.

She has taught at Thomas Jefferson University, Harcum College and various other educational institutions. She is a business owner, Inventor, Innovator, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur and Talk show host who owns NGC Network LLC, a media broadcast network.

Dr. Nancy’s Integrative Medicine has a unique perspective on healthcare modalities in that she is creative and progressive in her healthcare and education practice. She has two practice sites in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area with satellite offices and affiliate providers throughout the valley.

She provides services such as Telemedicine (multiple states), Women’s Health/Wellness, IV vitamin drip therapy, Stem Cell Therapy, Weight-Loss, Aesthetics, and Holistic and Traditional Medical Office Visits. She has her own product line “NG Cares” customized wellness solutions that address overall health and wellness. She offers individual and family healthcare plans. Dr. Nancy believes in living your best life now.

Her philosophy is such that she empowers her patient population by personalizing care and relationship building that improves health outcomes. She is a pioneer in her field and is dedicated to heal and educate the world, one person at a time.

Connect with Dr. Nancy on LinkedIn.

Keys Community Inc. was founded in 2013 with a goal to open doors for opportunity to their community. Just seven years later Keys Community opened their first behavioral health clinic in Phoenix, Arizona.

Their mission is to improve access to high quality, mental and behavioral health services for all of Arizona’s youth, adults and families. They are building a healthy community by providing therapeutic services that preserve the overall family structure for individuals struggling with behavioral health and mental health challenges.

Keys Community offers a variety of services such as clinical services, life skills development, mentoring and community events. Their clinical services are geared towards trauma, child & adolescents behaviors, faith-based, LGBTQIA+ , individual, family & couples therapy and art, animal & gardening therapy.

Family services focus on family preservation, family respite and parenting classes. Keys help adults with career readiness, case management, community engagement, health & wellness, peer support and mentoring. They have a youth program called Keys Kids which provide after-school program, tutoring, life skills development, mentoring, Y.E.S -Youth Eliminating Stress respite and their skills geared summer program.

Mentoring is one of their main components when services members/clients. While mentoring they’re teaching how to model healthy coping skills, they’re providing substance recovery support and how to maintain positive relationship/interaction. Keys Community outlines the importance of health & wellness, how to create a nutritious meal plan and living a balanced physical, mental and spiritual lifestyle.

Kyanti Palmer has a true devotion to children which drives her daily in her chosen profession of Behavioral Health, Kyanti is currently the CEO of Keys Community Inc., a behavioral health clinic in Phoenix, Arizona since 2020.

Her passion for behavioral health began eleven years ago when she was employed as a behavioral health tech. In working in the industry firsthand, she knew early on that she wanted to start her own behavioral clinic with a focus on family reunification.

Kyanti realized the need for cultural awareness, financial wisdom, health and wellness in the community as she became more involved with families of the children she coached and mentored. She started Keys Community Foundation, Inc. a non-profit organization with a mission to support the community in developing better families by offering a variety of educational and developmental forums in mental health, wellness, daily life skills and parenting.

In addition, the non-profit provides a temporary housing program and her ultimate goal is to open a chain of community centers that supports her vision for family development.

Kyanti has a degree in Theology which enables her to mentor, counsel and lead with a compassionate heart without bias intentions. Kyanti’s work ethic is commendable and is fueled by her desire to help others. She leads by example in an outgoing, energetic, fun way.

If you ever want to see a true visionary, take time to get to know Kyanti Palmer; she truly is a great person to know and very resourceful.

Connect with Kyanti on LinkedIn and follow Keys Community on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Healing Wings Ministries & Publishing is a multi-faceted ministry endeavoring to transform lives by empowering the brokenhearted and fostering healing, wholeness, and freedom through the unconditional love of Christ. We aspire to inspire by being Vessels of Light—shining light into the dark world.

Healing Wings is publishing its first book, Vessel Of Light, a narrative biography from a compilation of journals based on Vaddess’ extraordinary life encounters and her quest for healing. Vaddess leaves nothing to imagine as she recounts complex traumas she bravely faced and overcame.

She shares her amazing stories in hopes of encouraging people to take inventory of their own lives, motivating each one to D.A.S.H. to their destiny, and Display Acts of Selfless Humanity by being a Vessel Of Light.

Vaddess (like Goddess) has been motivating, inspiring, and empowering others for decades. Majoring in Engineering, she holds minors in Interior Design and Counseling. She worked closely with the Probation and Parole Office, counseling those sent to her by court order, and taught A.A. and N.A. classes for the probationers and parolees.

She is no stranger to television appearances and hosted a radio talk show. Through the years, she has formed various support groups and has traveled the country for motivational speaking engagements. In addition, she has coordinated and hosted leadership/inner healing conferences and women’s empowerment groups.

The hope of Vaddess is that her inspirational stories will reveal a new perspective on daily life, humanity, and future vision. She gives people the notion to partake in the voyage to D.A.S.H. to destiny by being a Vessel Of Light.

Vaddess lives in Phoenix, AZ, with her husband, Daveed, their goddaughter, Annie, her former husband, Harley, and their nine fur and feather babies. She hosts “SheRose High Tea Parties,” conferences, seminars, and speaking engagements wherever opportunities are open.

Connect with Vaddess on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Veronique Munro with Infinity Sun

October 13, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Veronique Munro with Infinity Sun

Creating and innovating sunless tanning products since 2005, Infinity Sun has become known as the ‘Rolls Royce’ or ‘Apple’ of the Sunless Tanning industry. Renowned for delivering ‘Best-in-Class’ products, Infinity Sun launched the first and only “plug & spray” technology, rendering it the most advanced spray tanning system on the market and making its users ROCK STARS in the spray tanning business!!

Infinity Sun not only delivers the most advanced technology, highest quality sunless tanning solutions and luxury retail line but also offers unparalleled education and marketing support. Our vast experience is passed on to our customers, teaching them how to succeed in this highly competitive environment.

Infinity Sun Academy trains sunless tanning professionals to go on to becoming the world’s leading sunless tanning experts, spraying for TV, beauty pageants, bodybuilder competitions, and many other high-profile events. If you are serious about the business of sunless tanning, look no further than the industry pioneer in airbrush tanning. Infinity Sun is the official sunless tanning brand of Miss California USA and MISS USA.

Infinity Sun Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Veronique Munro is considered a pioneer and trailblazer in the sunless tanning industry. Before spray tanning was known and accepted, Munro launched the first and only fully computerized airbrush tanning system that combined sunless tanning solutions together with high-end beauty treatments, producing flawless results while improving the condition of the skin.

Founded in Beverly Hills in 2005, Infinity Sun has worked with over 7,000 businesses worldwide by providing the most advanced technology, solutions, products and world-class training. Miss Munro’s objective is to remain the leader in delivering the most technologically advanced systems and products to beauty salons, tanning salons, spas, med spas, resorts, cruise ships, fitness centers, dermatologists and the mobile spray tanning market.

When asked why she chose to create such a revolutionary system, Munro responded, “having worked with many salon and spa owners, I wanted to bring a system to market that would yield the highest ROI, while offering results driven beauty treatments as part of the sunless tanning experience.” “You can’t have a great tan unless you have healthy and vibrant skin” and that is the foundation of Infinity Sun.

Veronique’s philosophy is one of creating partnerships, working very closely with clients, overseeing the implementation of the service and ensuring each new location is trained to become specialists in their area, while providing all the tools necessary to make success a reality.

Munro is also known as “Celebrity Spray Tanner” and Infinity Sun is considered the brand of choice by many of the Hollywood elite, who have either been tanned by Veronique or an Infinity Sun trained spray tan artist. Celebrities include Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Catherine Zeta Jones, Jennifer Anniston, Mandy Moore, Kim Kardashian, Paula Abdul, Giuliana Rancic, and many others have been fans of the brand.

Veronique also actively consults on sunless tanning with magazines including Allure, Glamour, Self-magazines and TV shows including hit TV Shows “Glee”, “Sunset Tan”, “Dancing with the Stars”, “Millionaire Matchmaker”, “Dr 90210” and “Entourage” among others. Infinity Sun is the Official Sunless Tanning Brand of Miss USA. Munro spray tanned many celebrities for the Oscars, Golden Globes, Kids choice awards, as well as the Tony’s.

Miss Munro has a deep passion for dogs and founded Sprays for Strays, a fundraising organization that raises funds through the sunless tanning industry to help dog rescues organizations across the USA save the lives of stray and shelter dogs.

Follow Infinity Sun on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

The Road Less Traveled E126

October 13, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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Matt Roberts joined the Tycoons and opened up about the rollercoaster of his career and the lessons he’s learned along the way. You can hear the passion in Matt’s story for what he does and the community he supports. Sherrill Manufacturing is positioned as the only true American flatware maker still in business and sells only 100% made in USA products. Matt and his partner, Greg, re-built the flatware industry in their small town and took risks to set Liberty Tabletop above their competitors by reinventing the company as an online retailer and specializing in non-traditional patterns.

Tune in to hear the remarkable story of how Matt defied the odds by following the road less traveled and how that has made all the difference. Check out all their products at www.libertytabletop.com.

Liberty Tabletop is a flatware brand of Sherrill Manufacturing. Sherrill Manufacturing is the only manufacturer of flatware left in the United States. In 2005, Matt Roberts and Greg Owens purchased all of the domestic manufacturing assets of Oneida Limited, which, at that time, was the largest flatware manufacturer in the world.

Matt and Greg transformed Sherrill Manufacturing from a contract manufacturer to a brand selling direct to customers through their website at www.libertytabletop.com. Liberty Tabletop sells only 100 percent made in USA products. In fact, all of the stainless steel used in the manufacturing process is melted, tested and transformed in the USA.

Sherrill Manufacturing also designs and makes all tooling internally, utilizing processes to reproduce designs perfectly every time. Designs such as Calavera, Celtic, Woodstock and Honeybee are exclusive to Sherrill. You will not find these designs anywhere else in the world. Sherrill Manufacturing is committed to high quality with the final customer in mind. Our “factory to table” business model proves this out.

Matthew Roberts is born and raised in Central New York. Matt graduated from Oneida High School and went on the earn multiple degrees in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University and Syracuse University. After a number of years working for General Electric, Matt was hired by Oneida Limited in the engineering department, working his way up the ladder until he was named VP of Manufacturing and Engineering, running all of Oneida’s manufacturing facilities in the US and Mexico.

After China joined the WTO, domestic manufacturing eroded quickly and Oneida closed all of their factories. Matt was charged with closing the US factory and moving the production to China. He, working with Greg Owens, who ran the Mexican facility, purchased the factory in 2005.

Matt still lives in Oneida, about a mile from where he was raised. Matt and his wife of 35 years, Alice, have three grown children, Andrew, Eric and Mallory. They are also lucky enough to have two grandchildren from Andrew and Kayla, Cooper and Charleigh. Last, but not least, is Duke the dog who loves to spend time at the factory.

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About the Show

Tycoons of Small Biz spotlights the true backbone of the American economy, the true tycoons of business in America… the owners, founders and CEO’s of small businesses. Join hosts, Austin L Peterson, Landon Mance and the featured tycoons LIVE every Tuesday at 1 pm, right here on Business RadioX and your favorite podcast platform.

About Your Hosts

Austin Peterson is a Comprehensive Financial Planner and co-founder of Backbone Planning Partners in Scottsdale, AZ. Austin is a registered rep and investment advisor representative with Lincoln Financial Advisors. Prior to joining Lincoln Financial Advisors, Austin worked in a variety of roles in the financial services industry.

He began his career in financial services in the year 2000 as a personal financial advisor with Independent Capital Management in Santa Ana, CA. Austin then joined Pacific Life Insurance Company as an internal wholesaler for their variable annuity and mutual fund products. After Pacific Life, Austin formed his own financial planning company in Southern California that he built and ran for 6 years and eventually sold when he moved his family to Salt Lake City to pursue his MBA.

After he completed his MBA, Austin joined Crump Life Insurance where he filled a couple of different sales roles and eventually a management role throughout the five years he was with Crump. Most recently before joining Lincoln Financial Advisors in February 2015, Austin spent 2 years as a life insurance field wholesaler with Symetra Life Insurance Company. Austin is a Certified Financial Planner Professional and Chartered Life Underwriter. In 2021, Austin became a Certified Business Exit Consultant® (CBEC®) to help entrepreneurs plan to exit their businesses.

Austin and his wife of 23 years, Robin, have two children, AJ (21) and Ella (18) and they reside in Gilbert, Arizona. He is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in French and of Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management with a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in sales and entrepreneurship.

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Landon Mance is a Financial Planner and co-founder of Backbone Planning Partners out of Las Vegas, Nevada. He rebranded his practice in 2020 to focus on serving small business owners after operating as Mance Wealth Management since 2015 when Landon broke off from a major bank and started his own “shop.”

Landon comes from a family of successful entrepreneurs and has a passion and excitement for serving the business community. This passion is what brought about the growth of Backbone Planning Partners to help business owners and their families. At Backbone Planning, we believe small business owners’ personal and business goals are intertwined, so we work with our clients to design a financial plan to support all aspects of their lives.

In 2019, Landon obtained the Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) designation through the Exit Planning Institute. With this certification, Backbone Planning Partners assists business owners through an ownership transition while focusing on a positive outcome for their employees and meeting the business owner’s goals. Landon is also a member of the Business Intelligence Institute (BII) which is a collaborative group that shares tools, resources and personnel, and offers advanced level training and technical support to specifically serve business owners. In 2021, Landon became a Certified Business Exit Consultant® (CBEC®) to help entrepreneurs plan to exit their businesses by counseling owners about exit options, estimating the value of the business, preparing the business for exit and tax considerations.

Landon enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, stepson, and new baby twins. He grew up in sunny San Diego and loves visiting his family, playing a round of golf with friends, and many other outdoor activities. Landon tries to make a difference in the lives of children in Las Vegas as a part of the leadership team for a local non-profit. He regularly visits the children that we work with to remind himself of why it’s so important to, “be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Landon received his B.S. from California State University Long Beach in business marketing and gets the rest of his education through the school of hard knocks via his business owner clients.

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Alberto Esparza with IRise Foundation

October 12, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Alberto Esparza with IRise Foundation

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Alberto Esparza with IRise Foundation

IRise Foundation is an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to providing STEM education to underserved and underrepresented communities.

Alberto Esparza founded Si Se Puede Foundation in 1993 and retired from the organization in December 2021 to pursue other career opportunities and create the I Rise Foundation and which will continue to provide STEM and other educational programs to girls of color, Native American Youth and support LGBTQ+ Initiatives.

Alberto earned a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and obtained his master’s degree from Northern Arizona University. His efforts teaching young people the importance of education is on-going as has and will continue to develop the next generation of community leaders and engineers.

Alberto has served on several volunteer boards and commissions, including the Phoenix Human Relations Commission (HRC) and as co-founder of the City of Phoenix national award-winning cultural diversity program, “We’re all on the Same Team.” While serving on the HRC, he served as ambassador for cultural diversity by promoting opportunities for positive exchange among diverse groups through community outreach, education and cultural diversity awareness.

Over the last thirty-four years, Alberto has been a bridge builder and leader in providing community programs that improve the quality of life and strengthen communities, families and youth in the Phoenix East Valley. Alberto is highly visible in low-income communities within the East Valley, listening to the needs of the residents and providing programs that empower children and families to enrich their lives by participating in programs such as STEM/Robotics and other educational programs offered by the I Rise Foundation.

Under Alberto’s 34-year leadership, approximately 30,000 youth and community residents have left with a life-changing experience. Alberto takes pride in serving underserved populations and looks forward to expanding the STEM/Robotics and Scholars Programs to other communities in Arizona. Alberto’s charisma and ingenuity has opened doors to unlimited opportunities for encouraging communities to become more active in providing children with the necessary tools to be successful.

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E112 The Inside Scoop on Citizen Development from Amtrak, PMI and TrackVia

October 12, 2022 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E112 The Inside Scoop on Citizen Development from Amtrak, PMI and TrackVia

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E112 The Inside Scoop on Citizen Development from Amtrak, PMI and TrackVia

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe welcomed Dali Ninkovic from PMI, Matt Hubbard from TrackVia and Michael McCullough from Amtrak. The topic of discussion for this episode is Citizen Development, what is it and why should you care as a project professional.

Dalibor (Dali) Ninkovic is responsible for PMI Citizen Developer global B2C and Community business. Over the years, Dali has worked in the low-code and no-code industry through a variety of both, technical as well as commercial roles before joining PMI and firmly believes in democratization of software development. He is a strong supporter of citizen development movement with its hyper-agile approach to digital transformation.

Matt Hubbard is a pioneer on a mission to usher in a new era of productivity through citizen development. Matt caught the citizen developer bug in 2011 after he built his first no-code app on TrackVia in 2011. The app took him 8 hours to create but saved him 200 hours of manual labor per year. Today, Matt is Head of Operational Excellence at TrackVia where he teaches individuals how to become citizen developers and organizations how to scale that capability in a safe and effective way.

Michael McCullough is a Citizen Development Implementation Strategist who over the past 8 years has supported large project management offices by developing tools and processes which enable projects to be run more efficiently. His passion for innovation and problem solving has led him to embrace and become a global thought leader for Citizen Development. Seeing the unlimited potential in Citizen Development he has worked with Business Leaders, Project Managers, and other Citizen Developers to develop and implement CitDev best practices.

In our discussion we explored what is Citizen Development and why is it important for PMI. We learned about the benefits Amtrak has reaped utilizing the low code, no code Citizen Development platform. Dali, Matt, and Michael share their experiences with onboarding CD within organizations and challenges to overcome. If you’re looking to understand Citizen Development and why it matters to you as a project professional then this is the episode you need to hear.

Connect with Dali:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalibor-ninkovic/

Connect with Matt:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/💙-matt-hubbard-💛-91b34b98/

Connect with Michael:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcculloughmd/

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Thank you to THE PMO SQUAD and The PMO Leader for sponsoring this show.

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PMI is the world’s leading project management organization with almost 700,000 Global Members and over 300 Local Chapters Internationally.

Dalibor (Dali) Ninkovic is responsible for PMI Citizen Developer global B2C and Community business.

Over the years, Dali has worked in the low-code and no-code industry through a variety of both, technical as well as commercial roles before joining PMI and firmly believes in democratization of software development.

He is a strong supporter of citizen development movement with its hyper-agile approach to digital transformation.

Dali’s aim is to help PMI’s global community realise the benefits of citizen development in a governed and risk-averse way through the application of PMI’s Citizen Developer education, standards, frameworks and best practices.

TrackVia was founded to make it easier for the doers in any department within any organization to drive innovation and agility. They’re all about finding new and more efficient ways to serve those who’d rather build than buy the solution to the unique business workflow challenges they face.

They believe that anyone driven to innovate beyond the status quo is already a citizen developer at heart. By giving citizen developers the tools they need to thrive, they’re working to democratize innovation and unlock the potential in more people.

Matt Hubbard is a pioneer on a mission to usher in a new era of productivity through citizen development. Matt caught the citizen developer bug after he built his first no-code app on TrackVia in 2011.

The app took him 8 hours to create but saved him 200 hours of manual labor per year. Given that success, Matt proceeded to build more apps and teach others to do the same. He later co-founded a consultancy firm that specialized in business process improvement and low-code/no-code technology.

Today, Matt is Head of Operational Excellence at TrackVia where he teaches individuals how to become citizen developers and organizations how to scale that capability in a safe and effective way.

As the nation’s largest intercity passenger rail service, Amtrak has connected people and communities across America for half a century.

Amtrak doesn’t just move riders from point A to point B; it serves as a catalyst for moving our economy forward, creating jobs, protecting our environment, and connecting people, cities, and our nation to a brighter future.

Keeping our future on track will require a national investment – and a renewed commitment – to innovation, infrastructure, and ensuring access to dependable, modern rail. An investment in our rail infrastructure is an investment in America.

Michael McCullough is a Citizen Development Implementation Strategist who over the past 8 years has supported large project management offices by developing tools and processes which enable projects to be run more efficiently.

His passion for innovation and problem solving has led him to embrace and become a global thought leader for Citizen Development. Seeing the unlimited potential in Citizen Development he has worked with Business Leaders, Project Managers, and other Citizen Developers to develop and implement CitDev best practices.

Widely recognized as a leader in the Citizen Development Community he was asked to review a new PMI publication, the Citizen Development Handbook for Creators and Change Makers for content. Additionally, he served as a subject matter expert for the Citizen Development Business Architect and Practioner certifications.

Michael’s highlighted contributions include being featured in two Microsoft articles for using LCNC in support of Project Management. He was a top 5 finisher for the Hamdan bin Mohammed Innovation in Project Management competition.

Michael was invited to serve as a judge for the LCNC PMI Make Reality Challenge. Lastly, he was honored by receiving the First Amtrak CEO Circle award for using developing Low Code applications to help Amtrak respond to the COVID19 pandemic.

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

Where do PMO Leaders go for Information, Learning, Networking and Services? The PMO Leader community has “Everything You Need to Become a Great PMO Leader”. One PMO World, One Community! Learn more about The PMO Leader – www.thepmoleader.com