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Atlanta Gladiators Media Day

October 20, 2021 by Mike

The Atlanta Gladiators have called Gwinnett County home since 2003. The ECHL (AA professional hockey) franchise is affiliated with the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and provides family friendly, affordable fun to metro Atlanta.

On the verge of the 2021-22 season, the Gladiators hosted their annual Media Day at Gas South Arena. Business RadioX was on hand to speak to the Gladiators about the upcoming season.

Head Coach Jeff Pyle

#17 Derek Nesbitt/Forward

#24 Malcolm Hayes/Defenseman

#11 Zach Yoder/Defenseman

Team President Jerry James

How to Use Art to Change Your Space

October 20, 2021 by Mike

Let Leta take you on a journey of faith, life, travel, and interior design. Leta Brooks is the star of the hit podcast “Status Life With Leta.” Reaching a record number of downloads in a very short amount of time, Leta engages her audience with her honesty, captivating stories, and her talent for teaching. “Status Life With Leta” is a lifestyle podcast and blog which focuses on everything you need to know to enhance your life, your health, and your home.

Leta uses her 20+ years of experience as a practicing interior designer to teach trends, design styles, and tips on how to make a house a home. She also guides her followers to a lifestyle of better mental, physical, and spiritual health. With her “sweetie”, Derek Hays, as her co-host, they entertain listeners with playful banter and real life situations. Her mission is to help each and every listener #designyourlife.

Status Life with Leta is brought to you by Status Home Design, and by the Law Office of Derek M. Hays at 404-777-HURT.

Leta Brooks/Status Home Design

Status Home Design is a 12.000 sq ft retail store located in the Kohls Plaza of Hamilton Mill at 2240 Hamilton Creek Pkwy, Dacula, Georgia. They have 70 different merchants inside the store selling furniture and home goods of various styles. Their Status Carpenters can rehab, refinish, or repaint almost anything. This fantastic team of carpenters also custom builds tables, bookcases, cabinets, and barn doors. Status Design Studio, Inc., their award winning full-service interior design firm is also located inside the store. Their designers, provide exemplary service for all your home and business needs. Status Home Design’s knowledge of the latest trends and access to an abundance of manufacturers for furniture and all home decor items, sets them apart from the rest. Last, but certainly not least, they have an in-house seamstress and upholstery workshop.

Contact Leta at lbrooks@statushomedesign.com

Guest: Lynne McDonald/Lynne McDonald’s Gallery

Lynne McDonald is an award winning, juried artist. She grew up in California, but moved to Atlanta from Montreal, QC and started painting full-time in 2012. Since then, her skills have evolved and now you can find her work in galleries, stores, hotels, offices and private collections internationally. Her inspiration comes from nature and her travels. She considers herself curious and thinks of each painting is an experiment. “I prefer painting in abstracts, because I like the participation of the observer. It always amazes me what other people see in my work. I learn just as much about them as they do me.”

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Jamie Hamilton with Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett, Deirdra Cox with Community Sustainability Enterprise and Scott Mawdesley with Corners Outreach

October 20, 2021 by Mike

Scott Mawdesley, Jamie Hamilton and Deirdre Cox

Jamie Hamilton/Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett

For more than 30 years, Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett has been helping to improve the lives of those with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities through a PreK-12 school and young adult day program. With a focus on providing the highest quality education and therapeutic services, nurturing and challenging each student on their own level, instilling a positive self-image and love for learning, and supporting parents in their quest for the best life for their child, they are making a difference in the lives of families in Gwinnett and surrounding counties.

Deirdra Cox/Community Sustainability Enterprise

Community Sustainability Enterprise (CSE) is a community & economic development focused 501c3, serving Gwinnett County and the Southeast region of the United States. Their vision is economic mobility and self-efficacy in families and communities of color, that produces thriving families, sustainable communities, and generational wealth transfer.

Scott Mawdesley/Corners Outreach

Corners Outreach exists to equip underserved students of color and their families to lead full lives through educational and economic development. Their vision includes one community where every person thrives no matter their color, status or background.

The Inspiring Journey of a Hospital CEO (Part 2 of 2)

October 20, 2021 by Mike

Hospital CEO Angela Ammons shares her fascinating story of how she turned a small rural hospital on the brink of closing its doors into an accomplished award-winning hospital.

Randy Brunson/Centurion Advisory Group

Randy Brunson is the founding shareholder of Centurion Advisory Group. Randy has invested most of his forty-year career in financial services. He spent several years on the institutional side and had the opportunity to start a successful financial planning firm in 1991. Centurion Advisory Group serves individual and corporate clients, both in Georgia and throughout the country, offering personal and business financial planning, retirement plan design and management, and investment management services.

Randy studied engineering and marketing at UT Chattanooga. Randy currently holds the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) and CKA designation and makes it a priority to stay on top of his knowledge in the financial industry through continuing professional educational opportunities and reading. In addition, Randy has completed studies in qualified plan design, estate planning and business transition planning and he enjoys speaking and writing regularly on these topics.

Angela Ammons/Clinch Memorial Hospital

Located in Southeast Georgia, Clinch Memorial Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving Homerville, Clinch County, and surrounding counties. Clinch Memorial was originally founded in 1957 as a 48-bed rural community hospital and moved to a new facility in Homerville in 2007.

Clinch Memorial Hospital combines the innovations of a modern health care system with personalized care in a hometown setting. Their doctors, nurses, medical technicians and support staff understand how important quality healthcare is to residents of South Georgia. They go the extra mile to make sure an experience at Clinch Memorial Hospital is a great one. Their patients enjoy convenient, quality care from the medical professionals they have come to know and trust over the years.

To learn more about the Georgia Tax Credits to help support Clinch Memorial Hospital, please contact Lily James at ljames@clinchmh.org or call (912) 520-0585.

Stewarding Family Wealth is presented by

Michelle Kang, Vice President of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

October 15, 2021 by Mike

Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.

Michelle Kang/Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta

Michelle Kang is a first generation Korean American. She immigrated to Georgia in 1992 and has since become a U.S. citizen by naturalization. Since obtaining her Master of Public Administration from the University of Georgia in 2009, she has been serving the Korean American community and business community in the region with her various positions in several organizations including:

Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Board Member
Gwinnett County 2022 Citizen Budget Review Committee Member
Community Partner Advisory Committee for the Gwinnett Place Mall Redevelopment
Korean American Constituency Director of the Asian American Action Fund
Secretary-General of the Atlanta Korean American Committee Against Asian Hate
Chairwoman of Business Planning Committee of the Federation of Korean Associations (Southeast USA)
VP of External Affairs of Korean American Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, GA

Celebrating Powerhouse Women is presented by

Regions + Danley = Relationship

October 14, 2021 by Mike

Bill Linginfelter, Mike Hedden, Cooper Hedden and J.D. Mealor

Regions Business Radio” covers financial topics such as banking and lending, mortgages, wealth management and more. The program also allows listeners to get to know some of the top executives from Regions Bank.

Hosted by J.D. Mealor, Senior Vice President and North Georgia Market Executive, all episodes of “Regions Business Radio” are available for download on Apple iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you enjoy your favorite podcasts.

Bill Linginfelter/Regions Bank

Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE.RF), with $144 billion in assets, is a member of the S&P 500 Index and is one of the nation’s largest full-service providers of Consumer and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, and Mortgage products and services. Regions serves customers cross the South, Midwest, and Texas, and through its subsidiary. Regions Bank operates approximately 1,400 banking offices and 2,000 ATMs. Regions Bank is an Equal Housing Lender and Member of FDIC. Additional Information about Regions and its full line of products and services can be found at www.Regions.com.

Steve Hedden & Cooper Hedden/Danley Sound Labs

Tom Danley started in the speaker business in a legendary way. His early subwoofer designs quickly launched him to a status of bass mastery. Major tours with Clair Brothers, U2, Alabama & Michael Jackson proved his concepts to be worthy of the largest events of the era, including Superbowl XXIV. Danley Sound Labs, named in his honor, has spent the last 12 years building on his audio advances. Expanding his interest to full range loudspeakers, the company has developed a full line of premium loudspeakers.

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Workforce Development

October 14, 2021 by Mike

Brian White, Jace Brooks, Alicia Battle and Heather Loveridge

Jace Brooks/Director, Better Work Gwinnett

Better Work Gwinnett began as part of the Gwinnett Cares initiative and the Georgia Center for Opportunity’s Hiring Well, Doing Good initiative. The goal is to foster a local solution that supports business efforts to find workers while doing good in the community.

Brian White/Director of Community Engagement, First Step Staffing

First Step Staffing is committed to providing its employees extensive training, meticulous support, and community reinvestment to provide you with the skilled and qualified employees you need. First Step Staffing strikes an expert balance between business success and giving back. In fact, they leverage their staffing savvy in order to create social change. That’s what earned them a reputation for high-quality service and dedicated, talented employees.

Alicia Battle/Director of Workforce Development, Goodwill of North Georgia

At Goodwill of North Georgia, the mission is a simple one: put people to work. Every day, thousands of men and women face barriers that make it difficult for them to find work and earn a paycheck to support their families. Sometimes it’s lack of training or education, limited job skills, or a disability. But with the support of donors and shoppers like you, Goodwill of North Georgia overcomes those barriers.

Their training programs prepare people for careers in a wide array of fields such as retail, financial services, floor technology, healthcare, traditional and green construction, forklift operations, and more.

Think about Goodwill and the good they do the next time you’re deciding what to do with your gently used goods, or even when you’re about to go treasure hunting for a bargain. If you’d like to help them improve communities, strengthen families, and energize the economy, they welcome your donations and invite you to visit their stores.

Host: Heather Loveridge/Magnolia Media Group

At the heart of marketing is great storytelling – and that’s what they do at Magnolia Media Group. Whether it’s through social media, e-newsletters, websites, brochures or complete marketing services, they help organizations tell their story.

Giving Back to Gwinnett is presented by:

Scott Mawdesley with Corners Outreach

October 13, 2021 by Mike

Scott Mawdesley/Corners Outreach

CASE IN POINT is presented by:

The Inspiring Journey of a Hospital CEO (Part 1 of 2)

October 13, 2021 by Mike

Angela Ammons shares her inspiring story of leaving home at an early age without a high school diploma to becoming an accomplished CEO of an award-winning and nationally-recognized hospital in Southeast Georgia.

Randy Brunson/Centurion Advisory Group

Angela Ammons/Clinch Memorial Hospital

To learn more about the Georgia Tax Credits to help support Clinch Memorial Hospital, please contact Lily James at ljames@clinchmh.org or call (912) 520-0585.

Stewarding Family Wealth is presented by