Cheryl Brantley/Café 120
Café 120 started as an idea. The idea of a private coffee house whose focus is not only achieving the best possible coffee experience, but also connecting with the local community. Café 120 was opened with the idea of building relationships that bring out the best in their coffee and their community. “Local” is at the heart of what they do. Café 120 will strive to buy local, be a community gathering place, and craft truly artisan coffee.
“Beyond the Cupola” allows invited customers, community, and team members of Oconee State Bank to have an opportunity to share their stories of success and inspiration, and/or how the Remarkable culture of Oconee State Bank has inspired them to mark lives in their own right.
Mark Prior/M1 Strategic Capital
Mark B. Prior is the founder and Managing Partner of M1. Mr. Prior has over twenty-five years of experience in fund management, alternative asset analytics, enterprise level senior management, and strategy formulation/implementation. He is also the founder of a financial technology SaaS company. Additionally, he was a co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of a mortgage fund where he developed and actively managed a national real estate debt investment fund that produced a high return on investment and managed a portfolio of both collateralized commercial/residential debt and real property. Before co-founding the fund in 2004, Mark spent more than a decade in the Fortune 100 manufacturing and forest product sectors which culminated in profit and loss responsibility for a $600 million business unit. He also has extensive experience managing projects in Asia, Europe and South America. Mr. Prior earned advanced degrees from Duke University (Master of Environmental Management) and Pepperdine University (Master of Business Administration).
Chris LaFay/Classic City Consulting
Chris LaFay is a web developer and designer that enjoys working with clients as much as working on their projects. The challenges that he has faced as a web developer, corporate project manager and as the CEO of my own company, Classic City Consulting, have all given me insight into all aspects of the process. Chris believes this enhances his understanding of the expectations that are put upon himself and his team. The more difficult the problem, the more he wants to solve it.
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.
Welcome to the 1st episode of “Live Well“. Follow the journey of Mike and Tracy as they begin their trek to better health with the help of two experts: Health and wellness coach Stephanie Wolfe and personal trainer DeWitte Thompson.
Stephanie Wolfe/The Whole Food Health Coach
Stephanie Wolfe is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, which is the highest level of training available to health coaches and is a coveted partnership with physicians and medical practitioners. She works with clients individually or as a group through a step by step process using advanced coaching methods, offering her clients full access to resources and tools to support them throughout their health journey. As a two-time cancer survivor (now 18 years clean) she knows about body systems and the nutrition that fuels them. She calls herself a “preventionist” because it is her believe that prevention is a stronger goal than finding a cure or treatment for diseases that are robbing us from our health and happiness.
DeWitte Thompson/Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants
DeWitte Thompson is a certified personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and owner of Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. DeWitte has been involved in the health and fitness industry for over 12 years working with sports teams, corporate groups, and individuals helping them to achieve their health and fitness goals. He started Healthy Life & Fitness Consultants, Inc. four years ago when he realized the need for personalized and convenient training that gets results.
Jennifer Rusz/Sterling Rose Consulting Corp
Jennifer Rusz has a long career working for both corporations and as an entrepreneur. Rusz began her career, in the 90’s in market intelligence, business operations and management for companies such as Mid America Research/Fact in Focus, Lucent Technologies, Kyocera Wireless, ARS/ Current Analysis and Websense Software Solutions before starting her first company in 2004. She has since been a business consultant now Founder and CEO of Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Sterling Rose Consulting Corp is an award winning full service business consulting firm, with three divisions, which include business consulting, marketing consulting and strategic technology consulting. For more information about Jennifer Rusz or Sterling Rose Consulting Corp please visit www.sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com or call (470)202-8659.
About “Strategic Insights Radio”:
“Strategic Insights Radio” is intended to be an interactive radio show hosted by Sterling Rose Consulting Corp. Listeners can Tweet their questions for a live response on the radio to @sterling_rose1 or via @strategicradio. Also, suggestions on business topics that listeners would like to learn more about are welcome. Please send suggestions to info@sterlingroseconsultingcorp.com.
Yoshi Domoto/Japan-America Society of Georgia and JapanFest
The Japan-America Society of Georgia (JASG) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to promote mutual understanding between the people of Japan and the state of Georgia through establishing and promoting ties and programs in the areas of business, culture, customs, education, commerce, politics, and social networking. One of its biggest events is JapanFest Atlanta. JapanFest is the largest Japanese festival in the Southeast. Held September 15-16, 2018 at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday and 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday, the festival will celebrate the special economic and cultural bond Japan and Georgia share together.
Brittany Luiz/American Tombow
Tombow is today’s market leader for arts, crafts and office products. Serving consumers and businesses around the globe, Tombow was established in Japan in 1913 as the wood-case pencil provider for Japanese students. Since these beginnings, they have upheld a history of unparalleled customer service. Tombow has grown the company’s portfolio to a worldwide provider of art markers, liquid glue and adhesive tape, fine writing pens, correction tape, drawing pencils, colored pencils and erasers manufactured in facilities located in Japan, Vietnam and Thailand. Worldwide operating divisions distribute Tombow branded products in their respective geographies.
Masae Y. Okura/Taylor English Duma
Taylor English Duma LLP is a full-service law firm headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Built from the ground up to provide highest-quality legal services for optimal value, the firm combines the best aspects of a traditional law firm with seasoned attorneys managing their practices remotely throughout the United States. Their attorneys work each day to provide timely, creative, and cost-effective counsel to help clients solve problems and achieve goals. Taylor English Duma represents all types of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups to individuals. A 2018 recipient of Forbes Small Giants award, the firm is the Georgia law firm member of Geneva Group International (GGI), the leading worldwide alliance of accounting and law firms.
Buzz Brockway/Marsy’s Law for Georgia
Marsy’s Law was named after Marsalee (Marsy) Nicholas, a beautiful and vibrant University of California Santa Barbara student who was stalked and killed by her ex-boyfriend in 1983. Only a week after Marsy was murdered, her brother Dr. Nicholas and Marsy’s mother, Marcella Leach, walked into a grocery store after visiting her daughter’s grave and was confronted by the accused murderer. They had no idea he had been released on bail.
Their story is typical of the pain and suffering the family members of murder victims have endured. She was not informed because the courts and law enforcement, though well-meaning, had no obligation to keep her informed. While criminals have more than 20 individuals rights spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, the surviving family members of murder victims have none.
The passage of Marsy’s Law changed all that in California, and now in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota and Ohio. Victims of crime in all of these states must, by law, be treated with respect and dignity by the criminal justice system. Courts must consider the safety of victims and families when setting bail and release conditions. Family members have legal standing in bail hearings, pleas, sentencing and parole hearings.
“If any good can come of something this horrible, the loss of my sister and the losses of other families of crime victims, it’s that these violent acts served as a catalyst for change,” Dr. Nicholas said. “Marsy’s Law will provide for a more compassionate justice system for crime victims and make that a constitutional guarantee. Now the momentum can be put behind a U.S. Constitutional Amendment so that the rights of all crime victims, anywhere in America, can be protected.”
Welcome to the “prequel” episode of Birdies and Beer, an unique lifestyle podcast featuring all things golf and craft beer! On this episode, you will meet the host of the show Tim Stolz, his Birdies and Beer partner Jason Grady, along with producer Mike Sammond.
Tim Stolz/Host
Jason Grady/Birdies and Beer
Michael J. Daugherty/LabMD and The Cyber Education Foundation
Mike Daugherty is the CEO of LabMD, a cancer testing laboratory. He has spent most of the last decade defending his company against charges that it had deficient cyber-security practices. The early years of his entering and fighting Washington, DC, are recorded in his book “The Devil Inside the Beltway”. In so doing, he has become the only litigant to challenge the basic authority that underlies more than 200 enforcement actions relating to cyber-security and online privacy that the FTC has brought over the past 15 years. Every one of the over 200 litigants before him, including some of the largest companies in the world, have settled with the FTC, creating an unquestioned and untested belief that the FTC has broad authority to regulate in these areas. On June 6, 2018, he prevailed. In so doing, he toppled key pillars of the FTC’s cyber-security and online privacy edifice, successfully exposing and challenging The Administrative State.
