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Cory Thompson & Cynthia Jackson with Georgia Piedmont Technical College and Neil Stevens with KeyWorth Bank

August 13, 2014 by Mike

Nikole Toptas, Cory Thompson, Cynthia Jackson, Neil Stevens, Dominick Rainey

Cory Thompson/Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) is proud to offer two new and exciting career paths that will offer students the opportunity to work in the growing fields of Television, Film and Music. In the fall of 2013, GPTC began offering a Technical Certificate of Credit (TCC) and a degree in Design Media Production Technology (DMPT). In the fall of 2014, a degree in Recording Arts Technology (RART) was added to the curriculum.

Design and Media Production Technology prepares students for employment in a variety of media production industries. This program of study emphasizes hands-on production in specialized areas. Graduates of the program receive a Design and Media Production degree with specializations in graphic design and prepress, computer animation, web interface design, or motion graphics.

The Recording Arts Technology degree program prepares students for a career in the audio engineering field including working with live sound, such as for concerts and church services or recording, studio engineering, field recording, production of beats, audio for gaming, sound for film and television and sound for interactive applications such as animation, multimedia and web audio.

Cynthia Jackson/Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Established in 1961, Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC) is one of the oldest and most respected of Georgia’s 33 technical colleges. Recognized for their student-centered atmosphere, Georgia Piedmont Technical College prepares individuals with the education, training, and skills to enter the workplace ready to make a difference in hiring companies and in the ever-changing global economy.

Residents of DeKalb, Rockdale, Newton, and Morgan counties have the opportunity to attend classes at one of two campuses and five centers conveniently located throughout the service area. GPTC provides real-world skills for rewarding careers. In fiscal year 2010, the College served 24,590 students and conferred 1,118 awards to graduates earning associate degrees, diplomas and technical certificates of credit. Graduates have a 99% job placement rate with 69% graduate placement in jobs in or related to their program of study or in further education.

Neil Stevens/KeyWorth Bank

KeyWorth Bank is a $400 million dollar community bank headquartered in John’s Creek, GA with locations in East Cobb, Dunwoody, Alpharetta and Duluth. KeyWorth Bank’s main focus is small to medium sized businesses and professionals including physicians and dentists.

STRAIGHT TALK

August 8, 2014 by Mike

Apryl Mitchell, Pamela Hogan, Angel Nowlin, Dr. Heavenly Kimes, Desiree Fowler

On this special edition of Business Leaders of Today, the panel discusses business, personal relationships, sports and a whole range of topics.

Apryl Mitchell & Desiree Fowler/Humidor Mobile Cigar Bar & Catering

Humidor Mobile Cigar Bar & Catering provides cigar services for a wide variety of social and professional events such as weddings, bachelor/bachelorette parties, sporting events, corporate events, etc. Services include full cigar bar set up, live cigar rolling, cutting, and lighting. Humidor is now the proud exclusive Atlanta distributor of Boss Life E-Cigars.

Angel Nowlin/The Nowlin Group Agency

Angel Nowlin is the proud CEO of the Nowlin Group Agency, specializing in business insurance, asset protection and wealth building. Her BA in Business Management and Series 6 and 63 motivates her to lend her expertise in these specialized areas. Focused, motivated, loyal, honest – just a few of the characteristics possessed by Angel that make her a successful entrepreneur. After years of entrepreneurial experience, she has decided to take her knowledge and power to enhance other business owners by spotlighting them and their attributes.

Pamela Hogan/Hogan Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics

The Hogan Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics (formerly Georgia Institute of Cosmetology and Esthetics) has more than 35 years combined experience. They provide top quality education to students who go on to become successful professionals in the cosmetology, esthetics and make-up artist industry. Whether you would like to open your own salon and spa, or dream of working in the most exclusive and famous establishments in the country, The Hogan Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics has the foundation you need to make those dreams come true.

Dr. Heavenly Kimes/DrHeavenly.com

Dr. Heavenly Kimes knows a thing or two about success. As an award-winning business, money and relationship expert, she has helped hundreds of people realize their dreams. For over 12 years she has successfully owned and operated multi-million dollar companies and has negotiated deals worth millions based on her business savvy and self-education.

An avid believer that real success starts with the proper mind-set, Dr. Heavenly decided early on to learn as much as possible about business and how to use it to change her life. Her commitment to success spurred her to earn a real estate license, an insurance license and a Series 65 certification, all while raising a family and building her dental practices.

In 2012, Dr. Heavenly released her first book entitled, “Dr. Heavenly’s Business Prescriptions”, a straight-talk guide to success for those who want to change their lives and create wealth. In the book, she shares the mistakes she’s made and how she changed her mind-set to become one of Atlanta’s “Top Docs” and a multi-millionaire. Recently, she co-authored the bestselling series “Wake Up…Live The Life You Love” and created “Dr. Heavenly University”, a curriculum based learning series geared to help entrepreneurs learn how to get their businesses started properly from the beginning with their exit strategy in mind.

TAXES & FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR SMALL BUSINESS: Debra Scott with Vining Financial Services and Alicyn McLeod with McLeod Tax & Consulting

August 6, 2014 by Mike

Debra Scott with Vining Financial Services and Alicyn McLeod with McLeod Tax & Consulting join Joe Moss to discuss financial planning and tax issues that affect your business.

Debra Scott/Vining Financial Services

Vining Financial Services is a registered investment advisor with securities offered through Triad Advisors, Member FINRA/SIPC. They offer comprehensive, holistic financial planning to individuals, families and businesses in a warm and caring environment dispensed with humor and common sense.

Alicyn McLeod/McLeod Tax & Consulting

McLeod Tax & Consulting believes that clients should have ready access to an informed, interested and approachable advisor who educates them so that they can confidently and intelligently make their own decisions.

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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.

Christian Bollrath with Hera Lighting and Cynthia Pararo with Pineapple House

August 6, 2014 by Mike

Christian Bollrath, Cynthia Pararo, Dominick Rainey

Christian Bollrath/Hera Lighting

Hera Lighting opened its U.S. headquarters in 1991. They design, develop and manufacture high quality lighting solutions specifically for cabinets, furniture and displays. Hera has rapidly become the market leader for display lighting. Today they work with most major retailers and brands in North America.

Cynthia Pararo/Pineapple House

Atlanta’s Pineapple House Interior Design is a think-tank of creative minds with expertise in interior design, architectural design, furnishings and construction. The designers guide clients through any aspect of the design/build process, from decorating an existing home to any degree of construction. Their work has been featured in over one-hundred magazines, a dozen coffee table books, and on 11 television networks. Over fifty Pineapple House projects illustrate college textbooks and professional industry handbooks. They have been recognized professionally with 36 ASID “Design Excellence” Awards and three IIDA “Best of the Best” honors.

Caring for Seniors

August 1, 2014 by Mike

Gary Kitchen, Victoria Collier, Kay Coppage

Senior Salute Radio brings timely information to leading edge Boomers and Seniors about issues involving care-giving and aging. Learn from both professionals and regular people going through the process with their families. Each week we will also Salute an incredible Senior.

Senior Salute Radio is presented by The Elder & Disability Law Firm of Victoria L. Collier.

Kay Coppage/Plymouth Harbor Adult Day Program

Plymouth Harbor Adult Day Program provides care and companionship for older adults who could benefit from socialization and supervision and offers respite for caregivers. The program seeks to further the goal of allowing older adults to remain in the home. Started in 1991, Plymouth Harbor is a ministry of Central Congregational United Church of Christ, staffed by dedicated social workers and a team of caring volunteers.

Plymouth Harbor offers a warm, loving and welcoming environment in which participants can form peer friendships while engaging in meaningful activities, enjoying entertainment by local musicians, and sharing a nutritious meal. Plymouth Harbor participants also benefit from occasional visits from the children at Turning Sun School and friendly pets. Plymouth Harbor is open to older adults who can benefit from a nurturing and safe environment outside the home, including those who may not wish or be able to stay alone for extended periods and who can benefit from social interaction and a structured environment. The program fee is $42.00 per day.

Gary Kitchen/Laona M. Kitchen Foundation

The Laona M.Kitchen Foundation is a 501 C 3 non-profit, all volunteer organization founded in 2012 to assist care givers by providing short-term respite care to relieve them of the demands of caring for one with Alzheimer’s/dementia. One of the other missions is to provide education to the community on how best to cope with these irreversible and deadly diseases, also assisting families in applying for the VA Aid and Attendance Pension.

Senior Salute Moment/Loana Kitchen

The mother of Gary Kitchen, Laona Kitchen was a mother, grandmother and great grandmother who battled Alzheimer’s disease. The Laona M. Kitchen Foundation was founded in her honor.

Relationships and Business

August 1, 2014 by Mike

Pamela Hogan, Sharon Spicer-Evans, Angel Nowlin, Dr. Heavenly Kimes, Beverly Shepard

On this special edition of Business Leaders of Today, the panel discusses personal relationships and how it affects business.

Angel Nowlin/The Nowlin Group Agency

Pamela Hogan/Hogan Institute of Cosmetology & Esthetics

Dr. Heavenly Kimes/DrHeavenly.com

Sharon Spicer-Evans & Beverly Shepard/Spicer-Evans Models & Talent Agency

The Spicer-Evans Models & Talent Agency is shoulders above the rest when it comes to helping aspiring models achieve industry success. Their exciting bookings include promotional work for major hair companies, fashion shows and trade shows, along with magazine portrayals and other print work.

They specialize in talent development and management, offering workshops and other training tools that prepare you to face the modeling world with poise, style and self–confidence. Their top-notch make-up artists, stylists and photographers are dedicated to helping you present your best you.

Spicer-Evans’ recent promotions include high-profile name brand hair products including Strength of Nature, Pro-line, Beautiful Textures, African-Pride, Dream Kids, Elasta QP, Soft & Beautiful, Naturally Free and Mega Growth. If you’re interested in taking your career to the next level, then the Spicer-Evans Models & Talent Agency should be your next move!

Judy Young Doering & Julie Amerson with Noble Village Senior Living

July 31, 2014 by Mike

Mike Sammond, Judy Young Doering, Julie Amerson, Steven Julian

Judy Young Doering & Julie Amerson/Noble Village Senior Living

Noble Village Senior Living is a privately, locally family-owned development company that’s been in business over twenty years and specializes in building, owning and operating senior living communities. These communities provide a continuum of care, from independent living cottages and homes, to independent living apartment homes, to licensed assisted living and memory care. Noble Village Senior Living has built several communities in metro Atlanta including Johns Creek and Suwanee, and are currently building a new community in Peachtree Corners. They currently own and operate Noble Village at Sugarloaf in Suwanee and plan to open the new community Noble Village at Spalding in Peachtree Corners in the Spring of 2015.

THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF SMALL BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital

July 30, 2014 by Mike

Phillip Campbell, Joe Moss, Doug Ireland

Successful business owners Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital join Joe Moss to discuss the right way and the wrong way to start and run your very own business.

Doug Ireland/Freeland Painting & Construction

The mission at Freeland Painting & Construction is to bring excellence to their clients through home repairs. Painting, roofing and general renovations are not a unique business, but Freeland Painting & Construction intends to be unique within this industry. They believe that their customer’s fulfillment and happiness is the ultimate goal and the only assignment. They believe that only by serving their customers FIRST can they then serve their employees, suppliers and families.

Phillip Campbell/Homegrown Capital

Homegrown Capital is a private capital firm specializing in residential new construction and renovation loans. Their mission is to provide secured high-yield returns to their investors and supply essential funds to their builders.

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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.

Aviva Leebow with Pacesetter Steel Service, Kathy Colbenson with CHRIS Kids and Vanessa Anderson with Covenant Christian Ministries Academy

July 30, 2014 by Mike

Aviva Leebow, Kathy Colbenson, Vanessa Anderson, Dom Rainey

Aviva Leebow/Pacesetter Steel Service

Pacesetter Steel Service, headquartered in Kennesaw, GA, is an industry leader in flat rolled carbon steel. Pacesetter processes and distributes coated steel products through its own service centers in Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston as well as partnerships with other processors nationwide. Pacesetter is a privately held company founded by its current President and CEO, Steve Leebow.

Many associates who helped build Pacesetter from its early beginnings are still with the company today. The tenured workforce talent offers invaluable leadership and expertise to their newer associates.

Since humble beginnings, Pacesetter has added equipment, locations, and capabilities to their organization to best serve the needs of customers. Pacesetter continues to expand its offerings outside of just their products, but also into their creative, value enhancing services. They continuously look for ways to help make their customers more profitable by offering and implementing ideas on increasing customer plant throughput, innovative pricing and inventory management strategies, early engineering involvement, and alternate products

Kathy Colbenson/CHRIS Kids

Since 1981, CHRIS Kids has transformed the lives of over 20,000 children, youth and families. Their mission is to heal children, strengthen families and build community. CHRIS is an acronym that stands for their core values: Creativity, Honor, Respect, Integrity and Safety. They offer services for children, youth and families that helps individuals overcome trauma and move to resiliency and self-sufficiency. Their goal is that all children, adults and families receive the hand they need to lead fulfilling lives and to demonstrate responsible citizenship. The CHRIS Kids vision is to improve the community by providing high-quality, trauma-informed behavioral health services and support systems. Everyone deserves to be a part of a safe, vibrant community. For more information or to help make a difference, visit www.chriskids.org.

Vanessa Anderson/Covenant Christian Ministries Academy

Covenant Christian Ministries Academy, a ministry of Covenant Christian Ministries Church, is a fully accredited school (ACSI and SACS CASI – AdvancEd) established in 1994 which provides educational services to students both foreign and domestic. Excellent learning opportunities are available at CCMA! Class sizes are moderate to allow individual needs to be addressed.

Various activities are available to students in addition to the academic rigor – basketball, volleyball, cheerleading, chorus, yearbook, spelling bee, and more. Their basketball program produces true student-athletes, several recruited to NCAA Division I colleges.

The mission of Covenant Christian Ministries Academy is to prioritize the wisdom of God first and include Him in every aspect of our lives as we provide a quality academic program, equipping students for higher learning and guiding them to a productive life in society.