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2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Tammy Cohen with InfoMart

November 11, 2024 by angishields

GWBC Radio

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Tammy Cohen with InfoMart

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The Greater Women’s Business Council LACE (Ladies Achieving Continuous Excellence) Awards is a black-tie event that celebrates, recognizes and awards both corporate partners and women business enterprises (WBEs) that made major contributions to the mission of GWBC.

LACE Awards are given to companies or individuals for their outstanding contributions in supporting women-owned businesses through mentoring, coaching, world-class supplier diversity initiatives and providing procurement opportunities. The 2024 LACE Awards took place on Friday, November 1, at the Georgia Aquarium.

Tammy Cohen, an industry pioneer and expert in identity and employment screening, founded InfoMart over 30 years ago. Deemed the “Queen of Screen,” she’s been a force behind industry-leading innovations. She was most recently the first-to-market with a fully compliant sanctions search, as well as a suite of identity services that modernizes talent onboarding.

Tammy revolutionized the screening industry when she stepped into the field, developing the first client-facing application and a due diligence criminal search that has since become standard for all background screening companies.

Cohen has received national awards and honors for her business and civic involvement, including Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Top 25 Women-Owned Firms in Atlanta, Enterprising Women Magazine’s Enterprising Women of the Year award, the YWCA of Northwest Georgia’s Kathryn Woods Racial Justice Award, and a commendation in the 152nd Congressional Record.

Connect with Tammy on LinkedIn.

This transcript is machine transcribed by Sonix.

TRANSCRIPT

Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s time for GWBC Radio’s Open for Business. Now, here’s your host.

Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here, broadcasting live from the Georgia Aquarium at GWBC’s 2024 LACE Awards, talking to one of the winners, and one of the probably most passionate people I’ve ever met when it comes to business and the business community, Tammy Cohen with InfoMart. Welcome.

Tammy Cohen: Thank you. Thank you.

Lee Kantor: Well, we’re here at this GWBC event, let’s first get the elevator pitch for InfoMart so we get that documented. So, first, tell us about that and then we’ll talk about GWBC and why it’s so important to the business community.

Tammy Cohen: Okay. So, InfoMart is a global background screening company. We serve customers globally doing criminal employment verifications. Call us at infomart-usa.com.

Lee Kantor: And then, the reason we’re all here tonight is to celebrate all of these ladies achieving excellence. What compelled you initially to become part of the GWBC community, and what has kind of surprised you from being, you know, with it for so long?

Tammy Cohen: So, I actually didn’t join for years because my business at that point was ten plus million over, and I’m like why would I want to join? But I had customers that’s like, “No. I need you to join because I need that spend.” So, I joined and never realized what I was missing out on. And it’s not just about building your business, and I think that’s what surprises me, it’s what you learn to go out and build your business is what you take away from here.

Lee Kantor: Now, I’ve been fortunate to interview hundreds of WBEs over the years, and what keeps coming back is the community and the collaboration, and the sisterhood of women talking to women in a safe place, getting to know each other, and those conversations can happen anywhere. I have somebody recently talked about meeting someone in the Uber line that now they’re doing business across the country. It’s just that type of collaboration can happen, which you don’t see a lot in other kind of organizations.

Tammy Cohen: You really don’t. And that’s what’s so unique is that you can meet somebody and you’re immediately looking at how can we do business, who do I know to connect you with. And then, that person will remember, and it might be five or ten years later, but you get a connection somehow. It’s very connected. And even though it’s a regional type of organization, the national events and the way you keep connecting, it becomes very much a community as nationally.

Lee Kantor: Right, it’s those six degrees of separation, they really come to life. And a lot of times you do get the referrals from those weak ties, right? Not your best friend, but the person who kind of knows you a little bit, that’s where the business kind of takes up.

Tammy Cohen: Oh, I can’t tell you how many emails I get that’s just an introduction from somebody who ends up being a great account. And it’s all just somebody said, “Hey, I want to introduce you to my friend Tammy Cohen. This is what she does.” So, we’re very much a community that supports each other.

Lee Kantor: Now, GWBC is obviously the certifying agency here in Georgia and the Carolinas, what would you say to the women-owned business owners that are out there that think, “Oh. I don’t have to do this, I have enough business,” or “It seems too hard to go through the process”? Because I would imagine there’s so many more women-owned business owners that would benefit from being part of the community, and like you said, maybe not for the reason they think. They may think this is a way to just drive revenue, but it’s a lot more than that.

Tammy Cohen: I think what I didn’t realize was, you know, the opportunity for matchmakers, and that’s basically where you go to an event and then a day you sit with ten different corporations, get to pitch your business, you might take a company away, you might not. But what you take away is the ability to pitch under great stress, and you can’t get that anyplace else. And then, you have the community of where you get to know each other. And the fee is not that much relative to what you take away. But, you know, it’s like any organization, if you don’t jump in and get involved, you’re not going to take anything away.

Lee Kantor: Right. This isn’t one of those places where you just write a check and then wait by the phone at home. You got to kind of lean in, and you got to do the work, and you got to volunteer, and you got to put yourself out there.

Tammy Cohen: You just have to show up, show up on the virtual meetings, put your camera on, contribute a couple of things in the running chat. So, it’s easy to actually get engaged. You just have to take the effort to do it.

Lee Kantor: Well, Tammy, if somebody wants to learn more about InfoMart, one more time the website.

Tammy Cohen: backgroundscreening.com.

Lee Kantor: All right. Well, Tammy, thank you so much for sharing your story. You’re doing such important work and we appreciate you.

Tammy Cohen: Thank you.

Lee Kantor: All right. This is Lee Kantor, back in a few at the GWBC 2024 LACE Awards.

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Nazeera Dawood and Veni with Vendorship

November 11, 2024 by angishields

GWBC Radio

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Nazeera Dawood and Veni with Vendorship

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Nazeera Dawood is Founder and CEO of Vendorship. After a rewarding career as a medical doctor her passion for prevention prompted her to obtain a master’s degree in Public Health.

During her 8 years in public service as Research Project Manger, Director of the Fulton County Health Department as well as Fulton County Chief of Staff and she developed an extensive knowledge of the (governmental) proposal process.

Nazeera has a passion for solutions- and results-driven strategies, with a focus on quality, cost-effectiveness, use of practice guidelines, evaluation, supportive collaborations and public private partnerships for the benefit of all. She currently serves on the Review Board of the inaugural Fulton County District Attorney Conviction Integrity Unit.

A serial entrepreneur she has a wide professional network in the public sector, in business and in no-profit work. Nazeera founded Vendorship Inc. to ease the entry into government contracting.

As Vendorship’s CHH (Chief of Client Happiness) she strives to deliver the custom program to government contracting opportunities our clients need to provide government agencies with high quality products and services that improve the work of the public sector and all of our citizens’ lives.

Veni brings over two decades of diverse expertise in HR, ERP Functional Consulting, in the IT industry. She has a proven track record working with Fortune 500 companies across India, USA, and Canada.

Her experience spans People Management, Client Relations, and Automation. At Vendorship, her focus will be on developing HR strategies that align with business objectives.

Veni enjoys traveling.

Follow Vendorship on LinkedIn.

This transcript is machine transcribed by Sonix

TRANSCRIPT

Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s time for GWBC Radio’s Open for Business. Now, here’s your host.

Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here, broadcasting live from the Georgia Aquarium at the GWBC 2024 LACE Awards. I’m so excited to be talking to some of the nominees, some of the awards tonight. We have with us right now Nazeera Dawood and Veni N. with Vendorship.

Veni N.: Thank you.

Nazeera Dawood: Thank you for having us.

Lee Kantor: Welcome. So, please educate us on Vendorship. How are you serving folks?

Nazeera Dawood: Sure. So, Vendorship was initiated in January of 2018, we are in our seventh year. We make government contracting easy. We assist businesses from all industry sectors to navigate the government contracting system in federal, state, county, city, and universities and become their extended partner and handhold them in identifying opportunities, writing proposal response, and anything that can help them to become successful in government.

Lee Kantor: So, what’s your backstory? How did you get involved in this line of work?

Nazeera Dawood: Sure. So, I used to actually practice medicine in India, but I found my dream job after coming here in the local county, which is Fulton County. I was an administrator at the health department, and then I went to become the chief of staff for the former chairman of the Board of Commissioners. And at that time, I realized that many companies do not have the resources to even write a one-page response to the government. They just didn’t know how to tell their story, though they had very good skillsets and services that government needed. However, they just didn’t have the capacity or the knowledge. That’s when we realized there’s a gap and we formed Vendorship to assist firms to make them more comfortable and make it more easy for them.

Lee Kantor: Now, I would imagine there’s a lot of government dollars that don’t get taken advantage of, and a lot of the reason behind that is it’s so complex, or the people, the businesses feel like it’s too overwhelming. They may have tried once or twice and then failed and said forget it, it’s too much trouble than it’s worth. How do you help that person kind of even find out if this is even viable? Do I have a service that there is a path to government money or not? And how do I navigate that complex world with the paperwork and all of the forms that you have to fill out to kind of get the opportunity?

Veni N.: That is where we come in as Vendorship. We take up 80 percent of the work off them, like make it easy. We research the RFPs, write the proposal for them, help in bidding, so the end to end work for them, we take it up. So, that makes it easy for them and that’s where we serve them with our service.

Lee Kantor: So, do you just take a fee for that service or do you take a percentage of the dollars that are generated?

Nazeera Dawood: Since our service is knowledge as a service, so there is a fee for our time, efforts, and expertise that we put in. And, also, towards the end, once they win a contract, there is a slight award share. But it’s a partnership because we are coming with the supplemental information about getting into government contracting and they’re coming with their niche service area. All they need to have is a company that offers a service that government needs. So, they do not need to have any certifications. All they need to do is have a service that government needs, and we can help them navigate the system by either getting certifications first, or respond to opportunities through teaming partnerships or subcontracting opportunities.

Lee Kantor: So, do you help the firm that doesn’t even know if they have a service the government does? Like for example, we do business podcasts for associations, is that something that there would be government money? Is that something that we should pursue? I don’t know.

Veni N.: You should because government is always looking for marketing campaigns. They’re looking to get the word out during some of the public campaigns. Such as when COVID happened, they were trying to get the word out. So, they would love to partner with you, but then you have to be in the playing field. Right now, they don’t know Business RadioX is having the service. So, when you work with us, we help you become a vendor first, help you do the business development, shake hands, bring more visibility, but also respond to opportunities. When a prime vendor is responding in marketing, you would bring your sector of podcast to that proposal response submissions.

Lee Kantor: So, we would work with you, you would kind of give us a roadmap or we would pay you to give us a roadmap, and then when opportunities arose, you could execute those for us on our behalf and then help us get those contracts.

Veni N.: Yes, we would write the response for you actually, so you can just focus on doing the podcast and not worry about all the other work.

Lee Kantor: Once I partner with you, then it’s kind of you now are kind of watching my back and helping me be successful on our behalf.

Veni N.: We are the extended team for them and then we help them guide everything.

Lee Kantor: So then, are you always on the lookout for more things? Like, would you be kind of scouring databases to go here’s something that might be good for you, and you’re just doing that because that’s what we’re paying you every month, a retainer or something to do the service?

Nazeera Dawood: Exactly.

Veni N.: Yes. And, also, we help B2B, so there might be another corporate partner that might want your service as well, so we’re making those partnerships as well. Because you might be only 50 percent eligible to submit a response, but we bring in a teaming partner who has the remaining 50 percent of eligibility, so combining you increase your score to a win.

Lee Kantor: So, do you have kind of a highlight of your most favorite thing that you’ve done so far, the most successful partnership you’ve worked on?

Nazeera Dawood: Yes. So, we had a client who was one of the seven vendors who won $47 million from Malta, and they were a staffing agency, technology staffing agency. And so, we helped them navigate the system and they were able to win those contracts. We have a client who started with zero revenue, a new company, helped them build the logo and all the things to bring them more visibility. And within one year, they bagged two projects from the government sector.

Lee Kantor: So, who’s the ideal partner for you? Who’s your ideal client? Do you have a profile of what that person looks like or that firm?

Veni N.: It’ll be all IT solutions and staffing companies. And we’re also extending to commercial these days, so everybody.

Lee Kantor: The more staffing agencies you know, you have a better chance?

Nazeera Dawood: All kinds of industries.

Veni N.: Predominantly at this point we are serving technology. Predominantly technology companies are our partners. But then, we do serve companies who have janitorial services. We do have a company whom we are serving who does mental health services. So, we are in all sectors and industries, predominantly technology, but since our strategies are almost similar, we become their capacity.

Lee Kantor: Now, what compelled you to become part of the GWBC community? Why was that important for you and your firm?

Nazeera Dawood: Because we are 100 percent women-owned and we knew that we wanted to assist other women-owned small businesses as well. We are a small business, but we were two, three, five years ago, a very small, struggling, growing business, so we know the struggles that come with growing a business. And we know there’s monies in the government, and by becoming woman-certified through GWBC, we realized not just the networking opportunities, but also able to assist fellow colleagues, GWBC partners to get into government contracting.

Lee Kantor: So, if somebody wanted to learn more, have a more substantive conversation with you or somebody on the team, what’s the website? What’s the best way to connect?

Veni N.: vendorship.net, you have to go to and you get all the details on there.

Lee Kantor: Well, thank you so much for sharing your story today. You’re doing such important work and we appreciate you.

Nazeera Dawood: Thank you for your time and thank you for having us.

Veni N.: Thank you for having us.

Lee Kantor: All right. This is Lee Kantor, back in a few at the GWBC 2024 LACE Awards.

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Sed Joseph with StageWing

November 11, 2024 by angishields

GWBC Radio

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Sed Joseph with StageWing

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Sed Joseph, Founder and CEO of StageWing, helps turn up the volume on life’s celebrations.

She also helps DJs and small A/V companies grow their businesses by connecting them to clients looking for services and equipment support for live and virtual events.

Connect with Sed on LinkedIn.

This transcript is machine transcribed by Sonix

TRANSCRIPT

Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s time for GWBC Radio’s Open for Business. Now, here’s your host.

Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here, broadcasting live from the Georgia Aquarium. I’m so excited to be at the GWBC 2024 LACE Awards, and so very excited to be talking to the DJ of the dessert portion of the evening, Sed Joseph with StageWing. Welcome.

Sed Joseph: Thank you. Hi.

Lee Kantor: Hey, how are you?

Sed Joseph: Pretty good. I’m excited for tonight.

Lee Kantor: I know. It’s going to be a big night. A lot of ladies here that have done some amazing things.

Sed Joseph: Excellent. And I’m paired with the dessert tonight, so I’m really going to get a lot of good attention.

Lee Kantor: So, tell us about StageWing.

Sed Joseph: Yes. So, StageWing, I’m the founder of StageWing. We are a platform where DJs and A/V professionals list their gear, and we have event planners and other A/V professionals who actually rent gear from us. So, think of us like the Airbnb but of lighting and sound equipment.

Lee Kantor: So, you have a marketplace that matches people with equipment with people who need equipment?

Sed Joseph: That’s exactly right, yes.

Lee Kantor: So, what was the genesis of the idea?

Sed Joseph: Well, as you know, I’m a professional DJ, and one of the biggest pain points that we have when we’re traveling, going from state to state, is to find where the equipment is going to come from and source it. You definitely don’t want to travel with turntables on a plane or anything like that. So, it’s a much easier community where you can easily find the equipment that you need. So, yeah, it just came out of that pain point. I talked to some of my friends in the industry and that’s how it came about.

Lee Kantor: So, you have a website? So, are you a technologist? You knew how to make a website that did that? That seems like a pretty big lift.

Sed Joseph: I am far from a technologist. Actually, I came up with the idea and I talked to a couple of friends of mine, and there were some no code, low code options out there that I started off with, the very first version of it. But since then, I’ve paired up with my tech team, and so now we have a full product at stagewing.com.

Lee Kantor: Is it all over the country or is it primarily in Georgia or the South?

Sed Joseph: Great question. We’re in 12 states right now. Yes.

Lee Kantor: So, what comes first, the people with equipment or the people who need equipment?

Sed Joseph: Actually the people with equipment.

Lee Kantor: That’s harder?

Sed Joseph: You really need the equipment on the site first. But, yeah, once we have the equipment there, like in Atlanta, that’s our biggest market right now, but we have people in Athens, and we have folks in Houston and Orlando, Miami, New York. So, yeah, having some equipment on the site makes it a lot easier for people to find us.

Lee Kantor: So, say you want to go to a new market, how do you kind of begin the process to, you know, have people put their stuff on?

Sed Joseph: That’s a great question. So, usually what I do is I travel there or either I find someone who travels there often, and they usually pair me with someone who’s already there, have a business viable already there, which is to help bring more customers their way.

Lee Kantor: And then, say that I have a son in Chicago – and I don’t know if you’re in Chicago or it’s on your roadmap.

Sed Joseph: Yeah, that’s on our roadmap. You’re right.

Lee Kantor: That’s a good place to be. So, would he have friends that are kind of entrepreneurs, or is this like big production companies that have warehouses full of equipment that you would partner with?

Sed Joseph: It’s both. It’s both, yeah. It’s the mom and pop who have a whole bunch of equipment just in their garage.

Lee Kantor: In their garage, right?

Sed Joseph: Exactly.

Lee Kantor: So, they can just list it and then if somebody needs it, like, how do they do the handoff?

Sed Joseph: So, the great thing about it is that we call ourselves almost like the DoorDash of DJ gear and lighting and sound, because the person who lists the equipment can also handle the delivery, the setup, all of that’s included.

Lee Kantor: That’s included in the price or that’s negotiated?

Sed Joseph: They can actually put that on our site as an add-on. So, if they’re interested in doing that, that’s —

Lee Kantor: So, it would be like X number of dollars for a turntable and X plus X or X plus Y for delivery setup?

Sed Joseph: That’s exactly right. And if you’re not interested in ever moving, like let’s say you got a big sub in your basement – a subwoofer for those who may not know what sub means. It’s a very heavy piece of equipment – then you can always say pick up only and then just let the renter decide if they want to pick it up from you.

Lee Kantor: And then, how do you handle kind of, “Oh. Well, that fell off the table and we have some breakage”?

Sed Joseph: Yes, yes, yes. So, currently it is on our equipment providers to have their own insurance, which most people do. But the future – I’m going to give you a little taste of what’s happening in the future – we have an insurance partner now that we’re working with to provide that as an additional add-on.

Lee Kantor: Because a lot of those marketplaces have some sort of an insurance provider, and that just built into the fees of the transaction.

Sed Joseph: Yeah, that’s exactly it.

Lee Kantor: So, what do you need more of? How can we help?

Sed Joseph: Oh, definitely what are you doing right now, I’m just so grateful that I’m on the station with you all and speaking with you. So, just spreading the word about us, I think, is really going to help us. You know, that’s the biggest thing, is that more eyes on our brand.

Lee Kantor: And then, if somebody wants to learn more, have a more substantive conversation with you or somebody on the team, what is the website? What’s the best way to connect?

Sed Joseph: Oh, great. Thank you for that. They can connect with me directly via email, which is said sed, S-E-D, at stagewing, S-T-A-G-E-W-I-N-G, .com, or I’m also on LinkedIn, Sed Joseph on LinkedIn as well.

Lee Kantor: And what about any of the socials, Instagram, they could find you in other places?

Sed Joseph: Yes. As a DJ, I’m Sed the Saint. That is my DJ name. That’s my stage name. And, also, they can find us @stagewingapp, A-P-P, on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, everywhere.

Lee Kantor: Good stuff. Well, thank you so much for sharing your story. You’re doing such important work and we appreciate you.

Sed Joseph: Thank you so much. This was fun.

Lee Kantor: All right. This is Lee Kantor, back in a few at the Georgia Aquarium for GWBC 2024 LACE Awards.

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Annita Golatt with Bee Collaborators Project Management Group

November 11, 2024 by angishields

GWBC Radio

2024 GWBC LACE Awards: Annita Golatt with Bee Collaborators Project Management Group

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Annita Golatt, with Bee Collaborators Project Management Group

This transcript is machine transcribed by Sonix

TRANSCRIPT

Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s time for GWBC Radio’s Open for Business. Now, here’s your host.

Lee Kantor: Lee Kantor here, broadcasting live from the Georgia Aquarium at the GWBC 2024 LACE Awards. I’m so excited to be talking to my next guest, Annita Golatt with Bee Collaborators Project Management. Welcome.

Annita Golatt: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Lee Kantor: Well, I am so excited to learn what you’re up to. Tell us about your business.

Annita Golatt: So, I basically support small business groups that are just getting started off the ground, and I help them manage their projects and get them more socially involved with what’s going on within the community.

Lee Kantor: So, what’s your backstory? How did you get involved in this line of work?

Annita Golatt: Okay. Well, a little bit about me. I’m ex-military, so I’m a veteran. And I work for a major corporation, health care corporation here in Atlanta. And I just decided, because I’m a project manager by trade —

Lee Kantor: That’s your superpower.

Annita Golatt: That’s my superpower, yes. And so then, I just decided to go ahead and just get started on my own. I was like, I’m giving all this talent to a wonderful health care organization, but I can offer it to so many other people. So, I started off volunteering, and then I realized I’m really good at this. You know what I mean? I’m really good at helping people. So, I decided, you know what? Let me see what I can do with it, and it’s just taken off.

Lee Kantor: So, then you started asking for business. Like, how’d you get your first clients?

Annita Golatt: I just started volunteering.

Lee Kantor: Oh, so that’s the secret?

Annita Golatt: Yeah. We were doing, like, Christmas drives. We were doing things in the community just to give back. And then, people just started reaching out, like, “Hey, we like how you’re collaborating with these small businesses.”

Lee Kantor: “Help us.”

Annita Golatt: Yeah. “Can you help us?” And I was like, yeah, so I just had to jump in there.

Lee Kantor: So, now, you just go from project to project?

Annita Golatt: I do.

Lee Kantor: So, how many projects can you handle at once? What’s your personal best?

Annita Golatt: I did a couples retreat last year, and it was about trying to fix marriages. It was interesting, and it went really, really, really well. And we got picked up by a major broadcast studio.

Lee Kantor: And it’s your show?

Annita Golatt: Yeah. So, now, we’re kind of B-listers at this moment, so it’s actually getting ready to become like a reality show.

Lee Kantor: Wow. That’s an unintended consequence of that activity, right?

Annita Golatt: Yeah, but it was great.

Lee Kantor: So, now, do you have a sweet spot in terms of your types of clients you would like to work with?

Annita Golatt: I’m a people person. I’m military, so I get in where I fit in. You know what I mean? If I can help, that’s my person. You know what I mean? If you need something from me, you’re my person.

Lee Kantor: So, a person that’s out there or a business that’s out there, what type of pain are they having the day before they reach out to Annita and hire her?

Annita Golatt: I think it’s the organization. It’s the understanding where to take your business and who to collaborate with. So, I’m kind of the jack of all trades. I’m like the “plug,” you know what I mean? So, I try to help them get back on the right track in trying to optimize as much as they possibly can.

Lee Kantor: So, what kind of questions do you ask that client at the beginning stages to help them kind of, you know, at least get in the right mindset to be helped?

Annita Golatt: Where would you like your company to go within the next five years? That’s typically what I like, to give them a five year mark and plan. And hopefully, we hit that mark within two. If we hit it in five, great. But I want to know where do you see your company, because a lot of times when they come to me, they’re going down.

Lee Kantor: They’re struggling.

Annita Golatt: They’re struggling.

Lee Kantor: Right. So then, you got to really get in there quick to help.

Annita Golatt: And they’re ready to give up. And so, that’s not what we want. As business owners, we want to make sure that they are still on the right track, and they’re meeting their marks, and they’re still kind of engaged with their company, and they still have that —

Lee Kantor: The passion that got them started, but they’re frustrated.

Annita Golatt: The passion, exactly. Yes, yes, yes,

Lee Kantor: So, what compelled you to become part of the GWBC community?

Annita Golatt: I mean, have you met the community?

Lee Kantor: I know them pretty well.

Annita Golatt: Okay. It’s something that’s effortless. It speaks to me who I am as far as a person is concerned. I love the values and the trademark. I love what they do for the community. Most importantly, the support that they give women, I think is very, very, very important. And it’s the versatility of it all, I think.

Lee Kantor: So, do you work only in Atlanta?

Annita Golatt: I work in Atlanta, but I live in the south side of Atlanta, so I live about 45 minutes from my current position.

Lee Kantor: Oh, okay. Have you been to the GWBC new office?

Annita Golatt: I have not.

Lee Kantor: Oh, you should check them out.

Annita Golatt: Is it beautiful?

Lee Kantor: It’s Bank of America Plaza, it’s beautiful.

Annita Golatt: Gosh, I’m going to have to get an invite.

Lee Kantor: It’s a co-working space. You should definitely check it out.

Annita Golatt: Okay. I definitely should get invited.

Lee Kantor: So, if somebody wants to learn more about you and your firm, if they need some help, where should they go? Is there a way?

Annita Golatt: They can check me out on beecollaboratorsprojectmanagement.com, or you can follow me on Instagram @nita_the_pm.