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TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Michael Gossling with DoMyOwnPestControl.com

January 20, 2017 by Mike

Tiffany Krumins, Michael Gossling, Steven Julian

Michael Gossling/DoMyOwnPestControl.com

DoMyOwnPestControl.com is a family-owned company that was started by two brothers in 2004, and is now one of the largest and fastest growing online retailers of professional do-it-yourself pest control products in the United States. The company has won numerous awards including being honored on the prestigious 2010 Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies, ranking No. 700, as well as being honored on Internet Retailer’s Hot 100 List of the Best Retail Websites of the Year for 2014. BizRate.com also awarded the company with the 2016 Circle of Excellence Platinum Award for the 7th consecutive year for exceptional customer service and support.

MASTERMIND YOUR LAUNCH: Phillip Naples and Andrew Egenes of Unbrokerage

January 17, 2017 by Mike

Stefanie Diaz, Phillip Naples and Andrew Egenes

On this episode, Stefanie had the pleasure of sitting down with Phillip Naples and Andrew Egenes with Unbrokerage. Listen as they share why Unbrokerage is the easiest way for business owners to purchase and manage their business insurance.

Phillip Naples/Unbrokerage

Phillip is a 15-year veteran of the insurance industry. He has worked with hundreds of companies and realized the challenges they faced when buying commercial insurance. He is now a recovering broker that is redefining the way companies purchase and manage their insurance. When he’s not flipping the insurance industry on its head, he enjoys spending time with his family, riding bicycles, and coaching run club at a local elementary school.

Andrew Egenes/Unbrokerage

Andrew is a 10-year marketing and technology veteran with experience in a wide range of areas including e-commerce and business process automation. Andrew has an affinity and love for taking on the challenges faced by many of today’s Internet-based businesses. In his spare time, he enjoys obsessing over the Atlanta Braves, traveling the world with his wife and daughter, and disconnecting in the North Georgia mountains.

www.unbrokerage.com
https://twitter.com/unbrokerage

Stefanie Diaz/Mastermind Your Launch

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. Learn more at MastermindYourLaunch.com

Gloria Mattei with Nothing Bundt Cakes, Pete Hajjar with Prime Business Advisors, and Anita Davis with Business2Banker Connection

January 17, 2017 by Mike

John Ray, Anita Davis, Pete Hajjar, Gloria Mattei. Mike Sammond

Gloria Mattei/Nothing Bundt Cakes

Nothing Bundt Cakes reintroduces an old family favorite – the bundt cake – with a light, moist taste and fresh, clean look that appeals to all ages. Each 8-inch and 10-inch bundt cake features custom concept cake decorations that are smart, contemporary and fun to enhance any occasion, large or small, in a wide range of cake flavors and sizes. Nothing Bundt Cakes celebrates the very heart of true hospitality where all are welcome and no one is a stranger. Each thoughtful detail of the experience, from the heartfelt welcome at the door, to remembering the customer’s favorite flavor, has been naturally embraced at Nothing Bundt Cakes. Nothing Bundt Cakes mission is to come up with unique valuable solutions to every guest celebration needs. Their goal is to share the recipe for success, spread the word that is necessary to be sweet to one another, and and make every day a celebration.

Pete Hajjar/Prime Business Advisors

Pete Hajjar with Personal Business Advisors is a proven expert at business growth and profit. In a span of 30 years, he has started, grown, and sold four companies with local, national, and international partners and clients. Pete’s passion to help others succeed inspired him to start Prime Business Advisors which provides profit and growth solutions, personal mentoring and group training for existing businesses and start-up entrepreneurs.

Anita Davis/Business2Banker Connection

Business2Banker Connection works with C-level executives and entrepreneurs to keep the cash flowing and the company growing. They reposition their clients to become the companies that bankers chase after to lend money. For nearly 20 years, Anita Davis served as a business banker and loan advocate for clients. She successfully helped clients obtain millions of dollars to fund business growth. This first-hand experience also revealed that many good companies have difficulty obtaining and maintaining bank funding. Business2Banker Connection was formed to be part of the solution to help businesses achieve funding success. Their firm emphasizes strategic funding solutions versus transactional borrowing habits. They teach companies how to get approved for business loans. Clients benefit from getting the “inside scoop” on bank approval requirements. Their firm provides clients with lending readiness processes and a road map to maintain access to funding without interruption.

Bob Patrick & Kelly Kelkenberg with Duluth Fit Body Boot Camp and Michael Hall with The Milner Group

January 16, 2017 by Mike

Steven Julian, Kelly Kelkenberg, Bob Patrick, Michael Hall, Mike Sammond

Bob Patrick & Kelly Kelkenberg/Duluth Fit Body Boot Camp

Introducing the Fit Body Forever program – a fitness program designed for adults 55+ years old and Baby Boomers who want greater health, better physical function, and to stay fit and active for the long haul.

Michael Hall/The Milner Group

The Milner Group is dedicated to helping financial advisers and insurance professionals protect their clients. They provide a wide range of risk management services including; Life Insurance, Annuities, Long Term Care, and Disability Insurance. Michael’s role is to help each adviser find the very best solution for their individual client. They believe that protecting families and businesses from the turmoil that follows death or disability is essential, and they work hard to help their advisers and agents take care of their clients. Risk Management is a very important part of any financial plan but it is very often overlooked. In life, just like in sports, it is important to play offense and defense and they serve a vital role in making sure business owners and families have the best defense possible.

Practice Respect Focus on Self

January 15, 2017 by Mike

“Food, Faith, and Feelings” Podcast Episode from January 15, 2017

THE DR. DIONNE SHOW: Bias, Discrimination and the Law

January 13, 2017 by Mike

This episode of “The Dr. Dionne Show” includes a candid conversation about bias and discrimination in the workplace, and how employers can protect themselves from lawsuits and discrimination claims.

Robert McDonald/The Law Offices of Robert C.D. McDonald

Robert McDonald with The Law Offices of Robert C.D. McDonald has been serving employment discrimination clients for over thirty years in Atlanta. Bob has successfully represented employees in sex discrimination and age discrimination cases. He has also negotiated many severance agreements with positive outcomes. His areas of practice include all forms of employment discrimination including age and sex discrimination, successfully representing both in-court and out-of-court negotiated settlements concerning all forms of discrimination. His emphasis is to avoid protracted litigation through negotiation, but he’s ready to fight hard in court if necessary.

Specific areas of practice include discrimination (age, race , disability, pregnancy, and national origin); sexual harassment and discrimination; whistle-blower; severance negotiations; non-compete agreements; employment contracts; and unpaid overtime.

The firm has two office locations: Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth, GA and Peachtree Parkway in Cumming, GA. Contact information is (404) 314-6738 and rmcdonaldlaw@ceocenters.com.

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

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: On-Air Production Meeting with Tiffany and Steven

January 13, 2017 by Mike

Go “behind the scenes” as Tiffany and Steven hold a production meeting for their weekly radio show.

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

STEVEN JULIAN

Steven Julian has been the co-host of “Gwinnett Business Radio” since 2013 and a resident of metro Atlanta for most of his life. Steven is excited to be part of “giving a voice” to local businesses in and around Gwinnett by being part of “the voice of business” at Business Radio X. After a ten year career in pastoral youth ministry, Steven has been part of the financial services world since 2009, working independently since 2013. The freedom of independence in his “day job” allowed Steven to pursue the opportunity to interview and build relationships with business owners through Business RadioX. Steven is a registered representative with INVEST Financial Corporation.

Steven is proud to live in Suwanee with his wonderful wife Stacey and his three boys, Joshua, Zach and Elijah. Steven and his family like to attend as many baseball games in as many stadiums as they can, and he has enjoyed coaching youth sports for at least one team for each son.

Amy & Nate Wilson with Muze Salon Suites and John Moulton with Hundsperg Knives

January 12, 2017 by Mike

Steven Julian, John Moulton, Nate Wilson, Amy Wilson, Mike Sammond

Amy & Nate Wilson/Muze Salon Suites

Muze Salon Suites was created by Amy and Nate Wilson from her dream to open a full-service salon. Her passion is to empower women to become their own boss and run their own salon business. Being a beautician herself, she aspired to bring a new energy to the industry that offers much more than a suite to her tenants. Muze is not a corporation or a franchise chain, they are family owned and operated with a passion to help others succeed. Muze offers a collection of private luxury salon suites operated by elite beauty professionals offering many services, all in one location. Muze is your one stop beauty mall!

John Moulton/Hundsperg Knives

Hundsperg creates hand-forged and hand-made kitchen knives, carrying knives, and camping knives. Located in Marietta, GA, their goal is to make the best possible tools for your specific task and simultaneously spend as much quality time with their family as possible.

THANK YOU to Bahama Breeze – Duluth for providing today’s lunch!

ONLINE MARKETING FOR SMALL BUSINESSES: Jeff Cohen with Attack Digital Marketing

January 11, 2017 by Mike

Jeff Cohen/Attack Digital Marketing

Attack Digital Marketing is an agency that works with sales-driven organizations to connect marketing to the sales process to increase ROI on the marketing investment and to grow sales pipelines. The four key areas that they work in: 1) Aligning Marketing and Sales 2) Implementing Inbound marketing strategies, 3) Website development and 4)SEO and content creation

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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.