“Food, Faith, and Feelings” Podcast Episode from April 23, 2017
LAUNCHING A NEW PRODUCT (Part 1 of 5): Trademarks, Patents, Licensing and More
Shark Tank winner Tiffany Krumins and co-host Steven Julian discuss what you need to know when launching a new product. Issues such as trademarking, patents, licensing and more are discussed. Plus, Tiffany shares the latest news about Ava the Elephant!
TIFFANY KRUMINS
Tiffany Krumins, the first Shark Tank winner, is an Atlanta native and the inventor of Ava the Elephant, a child friendly dispenser that takes the fear out of taking medicine. Called a modern day Mary Poppins, Tiffany has gone from nanny to entrepreneur, and has seen her passion to help children grow into a business that is now known and loved all over the world.
Tiffany’s success story began when she was a nanny to a little boy with Down’s syndrome who was terrified of “medicine time”. To help alleviate his fear, she constructed an animal made of fabric, sponges, a store bought medicine dropper, and a recordable sound chip from a greeting card – and Ava the Elephant was born. Knowing that she would need to find a way to produce her invention, Tiffany began searching the internet and found a casting call on Craigslist that said: “Do you have the next million dollar idea but don’t have the funding to make it happen?” She immediately applied for the casting and was invited to be on the first ever episode of Shark Tank.
Her story has been a roller coaster ride as she went from being on a national TV show and receiving $50,000 to start her company, to learning just months later that she had thyroid cancer. While working from a hospital bed, she struggled through the growing pains of building a business and fighting cancer.
Tiffany’s appearance on Shark Tank and the success following continues to provide countless opportunities for her and her brand. Her story has received unparalleled exposure. Some of her more notable appearances and acknowledgements:
- Follow-up appearances on Shark Tank on four separate occasions
- Sharing her story and her product on the Dr. Oz Show to a national audience of millions of viewers
- Nominated for the Top 50 Mompreneurs by Babble.com
- Keynote speaker for Disney Social Media Mom’s
- Her story has been featured on Forbes.com, Entrepreneur.com, TVGuide.com, YoungEntrepreneur.com, MomInventors.com and many other online and print publications
Nadira Shadeed & Joe Rouw with Pediatric Vision Development Center and Sarah Weikert with Hemophilia of Georgia
Nadira Shadeed & Joe Rouw/Pediatric Vision Development Center
The Pediatric Vision Development Center specializes in providing vision therapy and vision rehabilitation services to patients of all ages. Their vision therapy services improve visual skills for kids struggling in school and gives them the visual tools needed to help them improve academically. Their vision rehabilitation services help people with vision problems following a brain injury (including concussions) to regain visual abilities and improve visual comfort so they can better function when returning to work or school.
Sarah Weikert/Hemophilia of Georgia
Since 1973, Hemophilia of Georgia (HoG) has operated as a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing services and support for Georgians who have hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders. Their mission is to enable people affected by bleeding disorders to live productive lives. The only agency of its kind in the state, Hemophilia of Georgia works to enhance client’s care and quality of life.
Led by a volunteer board of directors, Hemophilia of Georgia is dedicated to its mission. Hemophilia of Georgia’s nonprofit pharmacy provides convenient home delivery of clotting factor and other medication at competitive prices. In addition to their accredited pharmacies, Hemophilia of Georgia provides home infusion training, education, and outreach services. They know it takes more than medicine to support the bleeding disorder community.
RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGES: Learning From an Expert
Joe Moss and Tom Hogan
On this episode of “On the Money“, host Joe Moss discusses residential mortgages with Tom Hogan, Senior Vice President of Residential Mortgage Banking at Embassy National Bank.
Tom Hogan/Embassy National Bank
A new building with an old soul, Embassy National Bank was founded in 2007 to meet a need of its community: a truly business-friendly local partner who could make lending and banking accessible, straightforward and grounded. A local group of businessmen with backgrounds in finance, banking and hospitality created that partner for the greater Atlanta area, especially the communities of Lawrenceville, Duluth, Suwanee and Norcross. To support that vision, Embassy National Bank has assembled a team of managers and bankers with both local and nationwide experience to support the bank’s mission: to be the community partner small businesses want, and one their neighbors need.
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“On the Money” focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. “On the Money” also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.
Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, “On the Money” airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.
Joe Iarocci with Cairnway, Dave Bernard with The Intellection Group, and Angela Ellington with Moistura Silk
Joe Iarocci/Cairnway
Cairnway is a collective of servant leadership promoters helping businesses apply the power of servant leadership in the workplace. Servant leadership is a powerful approach to achieving common goals in which the leader acts to serve those who are led. Cairnway offers practical servant leadership training programs for individuals and teams that seek superior results. Servant leadership works for those pursuing greater employee engagement, customer loyalty and innovation. Members of the Cairnway team appreciate every opportunity to share their expertise in management, leadership development, human resources, executive education, coaching and public speaking.
Dave Bernard/The Intellection Group
As they have done for 15 years, The Intellection Group fixes broken and stalled technology projects for CTOs, CFOs, COOs, and CEOs of organizations of all sizes. The company’s specialty is complex (and often, award-winning) SaaS projects, and they’ve become well-known as the “vendor of last resort” for many of their clients. The Intellection Group’s work has won awards such as the TAG Excalibur Award, the TAG Top 40 Most Innovative Company Award, and the Virginia Governor’s Technology Award. The company is a recognized innovator in natural language and virtual reality technologies.
Angela Ellington/Moistura Silk
Moistura Silk hair care brand creates a sensorial approach to hair care, delivering a holistic beauty experience with an uncompromising look and feel of hair. A holistic beauty experience where technology and feelings coexist as one. The result is a hair experience that you can smell, see and feel the difference. Moistura Silk is a multicultural product for all textures of hair. The brand manufacturer is RTG Research Laboratories, a personal care company located in Atlanta GA. RTG Research Laboratories focuses on grassroots community efforts to include the commitment to educate young women in the field of cosmetic science.
Talking Real Estate With AGLCC
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Emma Foulkes, Lesley Robertson, Lori Gehring, Kevin Walts
Talking Real Estate With AGLCC
This week hosts Emma Foulkes and Bruce Logue of AGLCC featured three experts from the real estate industry who facilitate home sales/purchases. Realtor with Keller Williams, Chip Ivey, joined us to talk about the Atlanta home market and shared some tips for buyers to think about.
Fifth Third Bank provides mortgage origination services as part of their suite of solutions provided to their customers. Lori Gehring and Kevin Walts came by to talk about the mortgage process and gave some insight on what to look out for and how to best prepare for securing a mortgage.
Fifth Third Bank, established in 1858, is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest, and as of September 30, 2016, had $314 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $27 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit
organizations.
In Georgia we have 32 Banking Locations- 29 in the Atlanta area and 3 In Augusta, Ga. 5/3 is a Full
Service Mortgage Lender- Conventional, FHA, VA,USDA and Jumbo Mortgages. 5/3 has it own Downpayment
Assistance program for Homes located in Low Tract or for Low Income Individuals- 3% of the Sales price up to
$3600.
This program can be used in conjunction with other Down Payment Assistance Programs such as Atlanta
Housing Authority, ANDPI, Lawrenceville Housing Authority, DeKalb County DPA . 5/3 is also actively involved with the Urban League and RRC doing Empower U classes- including Mortgage Classes.
Lesley Robertson is an attorney with Shafritz & Dean LLC, specializing in real estate law in Atlanta since 1998. She has closed large deals in both residential and commercial developments, working with the gamut of professionals and individuals with real estate needs.
Shafritz & Dean is a firm specializing in expertise in real estate in Georgia and Florida, estate planning, and corporate law. The practice prides itself in what it describes as “Silver Lining Service” for each individual they encounter, in an effort to insure that everyone walks away happy.
MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Becky Berry with Becky Berry Career Coaching and Michael Cowherd with On The Way!
I can’t believe it’s been two years since I took the leap to share my voice with the world in a big and scary way. I had no expectations for how far this road would take me which is why I feel so blessed that I have the opportunity to celebrate TWO YEARS of giving Atlanta entrepreneurs a platform to tell their story in a unique and authentic way.
On this very special episode, we are going to shake things up… Turning the tables is my good friend and fellow lady boss, Becky Berry, who will interview yours truly. Yes, it’s time for me to tell my story in a way that I never have before. Listen as we pop the champagne and talk about the high and woes of #startuplife.
And make sure you stick around because Michael Cowherd, Founder of On The Way!, and co-organizer of W.O.E. (Women Only Entrepreneurs) woeatl.eventbrite.com will also be joining me in studio to talk about an incredible upcoming event for Atlanta’s trailblazing women.
Becky Berry/Becky Berry Career Coaching
Infinite possibilities exist at the intersection of women, technology, and education. Becky’s belief in those infinite possibilities and her experience in varied careers, including technology, enable her to help clients gain new, unimagined perspectives on their careers. How? By helping clients rediscover, reclaim, and re-imagine their talents, skills, strengths, work experience, and life experience so they can identify their ideal careers and go after them! Becky knows how to help women bridge the gap between their perceptions of what tech work is and the reality of the broad range of career opportunities in technology.
Here’s the thing. She’s had several careers including magazine publisher, software entrepreneur, stay-at-home mom, and social entrepreneur. Now, as a Certified Professional Career Coach, she uses her extensive and varied work experience to help women take action to embrace change with excitement to reach their dreams. Clients learn how to dig down and unearth their hidden talents. They also learn how to talk about their talents and skills as they create strategies that will lead to the success they have been looking for. They re-imagine their current careers or imagine and explore better ones. Along the way, they develop a picture or their lives that they could never have dreamed of. They take all of the work they do together and create a personalized, achievable career path.
Website: http://beckyberrycoach.com
Twitter: @beckyberrycoach
Stefanie Diaz has always had a keen ability for developing marketing strategies for entrepreneurs, but it’s her ability to position startups for accelerated momentum through personal branding and content marketing that has become the cornerstone to her professional success. Her background includes being a strategic adviser to CEO’s spanning startup phase to over $100 million in annual revenue. She has led strategic partnerships with global retailers and Fortune 500 companies, as well as facilitated multi-million dollar government contracts. There is something magnetic about the energy of startup founders that draws Stefanie in. They’re hungry, driven, and committed to making positive change for themselves and the greater community. After conducting over 60 interviews to date, Stefanie is excited to bring Mastermind Your Launch to the Business Radio X platform. Learn more at MastermindYourLaunch.com.
What is Depression?
THE DR. DIONNE SHOW: Women and Finance After Death & Divorce
This episode of “The Dr. Dionne Show” features an informative and enlightening discussion about the financial steps and decisions women should make after losing a spouse, either through divorce or death. Three experts representing divorce law and financial planning share their personal and professional lessons. Their discussion includes themes such as the importance of increasing financial awareness, always knowing one’s household financial status, and lifting the burden of female socialization requiring women to always “put others first”.
Jerri Hewett Miller/Wealth Horizon
Wealth Horizon was founded in 1998 as a comprehensive financial planning and investment advisory firm that acts as a fiduciary for their clients. They are advocates for their clients’ financial future. Their tag line is “the confidence to move forward”. They specialize in helping people through life’s transitions. They believe that money is a tool that can exponentially expand their sense of well-being when it is being put to use in line with your personal values, leaving you time to focus on the relationships that are most important to you.
Eileen and Mona Shuman/Shuman & Shuman Family Law
With more than 40 years of combined experience, attorneys Mona S. Shuman and Eileen J. Shuman of Shuman & Shuman Family Law have the compassion, tenacity, and expertise required to successfully resolve family-related legal situations in Atlanta and the surrounding area. A mother-daughter attorney team, Mona and Eileen understand the intricate relationships among family members and work with unmatched passion to achieve their clients’ goals for mediation, negotiation, or in the courtroom. Together, they achieve success for their clients in matters including divorce, custody, child support, alimony, division of property, domestic violence, prenuptial agreements, post-divorce modification, and several other family legal matters.
HOST: Dr. Dionne Wright Poulton
Dionne Wright Poulton, Ph.D., is an HR and Leadership Consultant, Educator, Author, Speaker, and Owner of Poulton Consulting Group, LLC, an HR and leadership consulting business specializing in diversity and inclusion, equity, bias, intercultural communication, adult learning, adult behavior, and conflict mediation. Since its inception in 2004, Poulton Consulting Group has worked with a wide range of diverse clients in the U.S. and Canada including many in the San Francisco tech and digital marketing industry; K-12 schools and higher education; and many corporate and service industries. Poulton Consulting Group is also a government-approved business for local, state and federal level contracts.
Dr. Wright Poulton is author of the acclaimed book “It’s Not Always Racist…but Sometimes It Is” which is an extension of her PhD dissertation at the University of Georgia where she researched the racial biases and assumptions of teachers. She is also a certified K-12 teacher whose work is inspired by her 16 years of cumulative experiences as a high school teacher and university instructor in public and private institutions in Canada and the United States. Additionally, Dr. Wright Poulton has earned professional degrees from San Francisco State University (M.A.), the University of Toronto/OISE (B.Ed.), and from Rice University (B.A.) in Houston, TX where she was a former NCAA Division I track and field scholarship athlete.
In 2014, Profiles In Diversity Journal identified Dr. Wright Poulton as “a woman to watch.” She has presented social commentary in print media in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, as well as on numerous radio shows including CBS Radio stations in Atlanta, GA and on Tavis Smiley’s Radio Show. “The Dr Dionne Show” debuted in 2016 on Business RadioX with a focus on smart dialogue about diversity, leadership, and behavior in the workplace and beyond.
Dr. Wright Poulton is originally from Toronto, Canada and is a former member of Canada’s National Track and Field Team. She currently lives with her husband and two daughters in Snellville, GA.
To book Dr. Dionne Poulton as a speaker for your next event, or to facilitate one of her innovative professional development workshops based on her PhD research, you can reach her through:
Email: dionne@poultonconsultinggroup.com
Phone: 404-323-3842 or 1-877-263-2227 (internationally)
Facebook: The Dr. Dionne Show
LinkedIn: @Dr Dionne (Wright) Poulton
Twitter: @DrDionnePoulton
For more information, visit Dr. Poulton’s business website: www.poultonconsultinggroup.com