Prima Creel/Take 5
As a Senior Sales Director, I manage teams in Florida and New York to increase sales and develop sources for additional revenue streams. Specializing in digital campaigns, we help clients reach Take 5 Media Group audiences by blending email campaigns with social media, display, re-targeting, Geo fencing and more. We enhance corporations CRM databases with relevant attributes for informed marketing capabilities. By guiding teams to collaborate with agencies, media buyers and business owners to increase ROI, we help clients target demographics through direct response, content and branding efforts. New to email? No problem. We are happy to help: pcreel@take5mg.com

You’ve always dreamed a lot bigger than everyone else.

Been more driven. More ambitious.
From a young age, you’ve poured all your energy and passion into bringing your big dream to life.
And – unlike so many others – you’ve succeeded. You’ve put your name on the map.

So why aren’t you celebrating?

Why hasn’t success brought you satisfaction?
By all societal standards, you’ve arrived.

Instead of satisfied, you feel drained. You overthink every decision, play it safe, or procrastinate.
You wonder what happened to the enthusiasm and zeal you had for the climb up.

You need a new goal, a new vision, a new passion you can pursue with the same drive that brought you here.

Enter: Performance Coaching.

(From Left) Wes Hudgens/Gulf Power
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Northwest Florida Forward is a strategic initiative that will drive economic vitality and growth for the region.

It will take all of us — business, government, educational and community leaders — working together throughout the region to make this a reality.

Engage with us. Join a Northwest Florida Forward Council and help make an impact on the region.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategies

• Develop the region’s entrepreneurial hubs and connect them with industry clusters, assets, services, networks, facilities, tools, and expertise.
• Establish commercialization tools and programs connected to the region’s national security research and technology assets.
• Increase access to capital for Northwest Florida entrepreneurs and develop a formal mechanism to access funds.
• Encourage local entrepreneurs and innovators to tap into federal funding in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants.
• Promote rural entrepreneurship.
• Market regional entrepreneurial success stories.
• Support entrepreneurial programs and curriculum in the K-20 continuum to foster a culture of innovation and cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit in the region.

Conservation Educator with over 12 years experience developing and leading school group programs centered around state defined learning goals.

Interested in: Using photojournalism and community engagement as tools to study climate change, its effects, and how they will impact human-wildlife conflict, predominantly around fractured habitats and wildlife corridors.

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Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

• Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
• Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
• Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2018, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17^th and Thursday, October 18^th, 2018 at Sanders Beach.
• Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews.

Kathy Summerlin/Saenger Pensacola

*Broad experience in booking negotiations and special event planning and management from both a non-profit and for-profit aspects including talent research, sound, lighting, logistics, and catering.

*Extensive experience in event marketing including media placement, media relations, promotional projects, group sales, direct mail, social media, television, cable and radio.

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Everything is falling apart. This is a good thing. Old structures and old beliefs are collapsing. No more “keeping it together”. If it’s trying to fall, let it. We are releasing what we thought we were to make room for what we truly are: Love.

Pensacola Business Radio is brought to you by the good folks at Gulf Coast Office Supply, eightfifty:media, IT Gulf Coast, and a host of local pro-business organizations committed to Economic Development in the West Florida region. Business Radio X Studios-Pensacola is a Listener Supported Station, if you would like to support BRX Studios & Pensacola Business Radio please join us by clicking on the button below. The support from our listeners helps keep the voice of business amplified in this community, through sponsored stories and community service. All made possible by our listener support.

Walt is a seasoned Business Coach, Executive Business Advisor and Business Consultant, who owns CORE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS and builds value in firms by helping existing businesses, helping small business owners and entrepreneurs cross the management bridge to become more effective leaders and experience that “aha” moment when they realize their potential. Walt holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from the University of NH and a degree in Finance from the American College in Bryn Mawr, PA. He has over 35 years of progressive business and management experience in many different industries with start-ups as well as small and medium sized businesses and Fortune 500’s such as MetLife, Raytheon and MCI. His vast Executive Business Adviser experience includes traditional marketing, integrating social media, outside and inside sales in both consumer and B2B markets, customer service management, training of sales and service teams, individual coaching, market identification, product management. marketing opportunities and pricing, daily operational management, employee management, human resource management, new hire on-board training, employee benefits implementation and management and financial planning. Walt is an Executive Business Adviser accredited and certified by the Institute of Independent Business.

Specialties: Expertise as a Executive Business Adviser, Business Coach and Business Consultant in Sales, Operations, Finance, Customer Service and Employee Management, Training and Marketing in any business or market.

Brandon Forshino

I am a marketing and communication professional who has a heart for Ministry and helping small organizations grow. My specialties include Digital Advertising, including Google Ads, and Facebook Advertising, Social Media, Public Relations, Business Development, Email Marketing, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

I have successfully launched and run two companies – the first at age 18 which was a social network (merger and Acquisition after three years)

Currently running Out of a Dust Marketing and Communication, a full service marketing and PR agency serving music and entertainment, professional services, and nonprofit industry’s.

Combining the art of stand-up comedy and transformation, New York Times Bestselling Author and Comedy Central headliner, Kyle Cease, uses his 25 years of performing, creating, and letting go of what other people think to help his audience move past their old stories and into a new vision of what is possible in their lives. This interactive one-man show will evolve spontaneously, in the moment, as Kyle taps into his inner wisdom and hilariously guides the audience back into their natural state of playful creativity.

Evolving Out Loud is a powerful event designed to help you release your old conditioned patterns of fear and strategy and leap into a higher awareness of your unlimited potential. At this event you will discover amazing and unique things about yourself that have been hiding just beneath the surface.

WARNING: The things you learn at this event you will never be able to unlearn.

https://www1.ticketmaster.com/kyle-cease-pensacola-florida-03-25-2019/event/1B00556EA0BD4F97

Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.

Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.

The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.

• Monthly networking meetings in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. These are open to all women and are free to attend. We run a structured meeting with open networking, an educational segment, a sponsor presentation, an opportunity to hear about the businesses of all attendees, and a whole lot of fun. We frequently hear from attendees that these meeting are chock full of value and a great way to build new relationships to help support their businesses. The Pensacola meetings include lunch paid for by our sponsors.
• Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast Magazine. We have produced 4 editions of this print magazine. Each edition features interviewees of local successful leaders in business who share their honest thoughts on leadership, success, obstacles, and inspiration as it relates to women in business. We also include other articles on leadership, networking, and other skill development. It is geared for anyone in business or looking for business motivation and tips. Our goal is for this to be a quarterly publication, however the magazine is currently on hold as we explore graphic designers. Our latest edition can still be found on our website.
• Annual Pursue Your Passion Women’s conference. To help celebrate National Business Women’s Week, we hold a full day conference during the third week of October along with several other events leading up to the conference. We feature a national keynote speaker, several local successful leaders in business, along with Speed Networking, an Experience Hall, structured and unstructured networking exercises and plenty of laughter, relationship building and excitement. Our attendees are not only motivated by the conference but they leave with tangible tips they can take back and implement in their businesses to lead them to success. For 2019, our conference will be held on Wednesday, October 17^th , 2018 at Sanders Beach.
• Power Up Challenge is a 12 week educational series where we hold classes once a week for two hours. Classes focused around four main areas of business: Networking, Marketing, Business Efficiency, and Sales Skills. Open to men and women and all classmates receive the full audio recording of each class along with class notes, expanded notes, and extra resources. Remote classes also available. Classes are affordable and attendees are elated with the amount and quality of the information that is shared.

Women in Leadership radio podcast show – sponsored by Pensacola Business Radio X. We hold monthly shows featuring local community leaders and other men and women in business. We engage our guests in conversational style in-depth interviews.

Kathy Summerlin/Saenger Pensacola

*Broad experience in booking negotiations and special event planning and management from both a non-profit and for-profit aspects including talent research, sound, lighting, logistics, and catering.

*Extensive experience in event marketing including media placement, media relations, promotional projects, group sales, direct mail, social media, television, cable and radio.

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Mason Pelt is the founder and managing director of Push ROI, Inc. Mason’s helped some of the largest brands in the world improve their online marketing and helped to grow startups to states of sustainable revenue.

Mason has written about technology, design, business, and marketing in publications including TechCrunch, Venture Beat, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today, and other

My expertise has been all over, I started in video production, moved into digital ads /analytics and shifted into using data for user experience. I’m capable of ranting a bit about any marketing question. I’m sorry if this isn’t super helpful.

I’m currently working on a few articles about AI, those don’t fully relate to marketing and maybe a bit doom and gloom. I’ve come to think AI, is going to either kill us all or destabilizes the economy… As I said, doom and gloom.

Lyndol Woodruff / Thought Culture

I’ve been all over, experienced a ton of amazing and crazy things, met a ton of amazing people (and some not so good people), worked in all facets of entertainment in LA for a number of years, built stuff, lost stuff, ignored saving money, been in trouble with the law, avoided love, lived in a bus, done stand up comedy, slept on couches, slept in bushes, slept in jail cells. And a laundry list of other shenanigans. And yet, here I am. Still alive. With a great big question mark on how that is even possible.

I am currently Chief Connection Officer of Dallas-based production company, Thought Culture, Director of the Southwest Region for Recording Artists Guild (RAG) and working with my team to build my personal brand as an inspirational comedian.
http://www.thoughtculture.com

Blythe Brumleve / Brumlevebrands.com
In 2008, Blythe was working as a blogger with a dream of owning her own company when she received an opportunity to work in the world of logistics. As an executive assistant to the CEO, COO, and CFO, she gained first-hand knowledge into the daily operations of a $140M asset-based logistics provider. Knowing about her blogging side hustle, the executive team allowed her to take on the additional responsibility of the company’s digital marketing initiatives where she felt as if she found her true calling. However five years later the company unfortunately closed leaving Blythe to seek other opportunities in marketing and media. During stints as editor in chief of a local magazine and radio/TV broadcaster in the North Florida market, Blythe’s team earned several awards including several ADDY®’s plus receiving runner-up as Jacksonville’s Best Radio Personality. Eventually Blythe would use these skills to realize her dream by founding Digital Dispatch in 2018. Present day, Blythe and her team oversee a variety of digital marketing and web development projects for their clients with an omnichannel approach. Using turn key in addition to custom built solutions, Digital Dispatch is able to help the transportation industry with inbound marketing strategy, online employee/driver recruiting solutions, streamlined communications, goal-oriented marketing analytics, and other software tools specifically built for the transportation industry.

Lorena Tomasini/MALM Life and Health Insurance Agency
Lorena Tomasini is the owner of MALM Life and Health Insurance Agency, a digital insurance agency in Miami, FL. Together with her mom, they work with clients over the phone to help them meet their financial protection needs.
https://LinkedIn.com/in/Lorena.tomasini