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Coley Herrin with PDI and Jae Knight with Bubba’s 33

July 6, 2023 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Coley Herrin with PDI and Jae Knight with Bubba's 33

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Coley Herrin/PDI

Coley Herrin is the President and CEO of Plumbing Distributors, Inc., more commonly known as PDI. The family owned business, founded in Lawrenceville, GA in 1973, was born out of a passion for identifying and fulfilling the needs of customers while exemplifying first-class service. Now in it’s 50th year of serving customers, PDI is recognized as a vibrant kitchen, bath, and lighting retailer and an industry leader in wholesale distribution. Today, the independently owned company operates 26 locations across Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee, including the first two Kohler Signature Showrooms in the Southeast region. PDI comprises more than 400 employees and continues to flourish through a combination of successful partnerships, acquisitions, and a commitment to its core values of: accountability, commitment, flexibility, integrity, loyalty, and teamwork.

Jae Knight/Bubba’s 33

Jae Knight is the Local Store Marketer for Bubba’s 33 restaurant in Buford. Bubba’s 33 makes everything in-house from scratch, right down to the sauces on their wings and dressings on their salads. Their patties are cooked medium well and served hot and juicy on a toasted bun. When all the other guys are feeding you frozen meals prepped in a warehouse miles away, Bubba’s 33 is whipping up something fresh and delicious the whole family will enjoy.

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Cassandra Finch, Plant Power U

March 29, 2023 by John Ray

Hello, Self . . .

Cassandra Finch, Plant Power U

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Cassandra Finch, Plant Power U (Hello, Self… Episode 16)

Cassandra Finch, holistic health coach at Plant Power U, and host Patricia Leonard had a lively conversation about how we eat, how it impacts our energy and those around us. Cassandra discussed sleep, inflammation, attending to what our bodies are telling us, the changes her clients are experiencing, and much more.

Hello, Self… is presented by Patricia Leonard & Associates and produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®.

Cassandra Finch, Health Coach, Plant Power U

Cassandra Finch is a holistic health coach who helps people find the inspiration and time to add the power of vegetables to their everyday meals. An Emmy award-winning former television reporter, she is the founder of Plant Power U, a health-centered motivational company.

Cassandra helps her clients and community claim ownership of their lives by showing them that the future of their fate starts with what’s right on their plates. Cassandra has cooked professionally in restaurant kitchens and spent countless hours sharing with the curious, the confused, and the courageous how their health and life struggles are just the invitations they need to follow a new way of living that begins with food.

Her desire is for all health seekers to learn the secrets and daily habits that can plant power their lives so they can discover who they are truly meant to be.

You can follow Cassandra on Facebook and Instagram under Plant Power U or email her at cassandra@plantpoweru.com.

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About Hello, Self…

Hello, Self… is a biweekly podcast focused on inspiring stories of turning dreams into reality. Join coach and author Patricia Leonard and her guests as they share life-changing Hello, Self… moments.

Hello, Self… is brought to you by Patricia Leonard & Associates and is based on the new book by Patricia Leonard, Hello, Self.., available here.

The show is produced by Arlia Hoffman in association with Business RadioX®. You can find this show on all the major podcast apps. The complete show archive is here.

Patricia Leonard, Host of Hello, Self…

Patricia Leonard is President of RUNWAY TO SUCCESS, a division of Patricia Leonard & Associates located in Nashville, TN. She is a MESSAGE ARTIST speaker, career & business coach, author and magazine columnist. Patricia consults with clients on leadership, empowerment, career management, entrepreneurship and the power of language. Her work is focused on helping clients find their runway to success!

She has a professional background in management, human resources, corporate training, business consulting and talent development. Patricia has worked with companies in the service, music, banking, manufacturing, publishing, warehousing, healthcare, academic, retail and financial industries, and has taught management classes as an adjunct professor.

Patricia has a degree in Human Resource Management, is certified as a Career Coach and Consulting Hypnotist and is MBTI qualified.

Her volunteer energies are focused on Women in Film and Television-Nashville, where she is a Board Vice President; Dress for Success as the Advisory Board President; and International Coaching Federation-Nashville where she held Board roles for several years.

Patricia is the author of Wearing High Heels in a Flip Flop World, BECOMING WOMAN…a journal of personal discovery, THE NOW, HOW & WOW of Success, Happenings, a full year calendar of inspirational messages and a spoken word album titled, I AM…

She enjoys songwriting, creating poetry and has written a one-woman show and artistic speech she performs titled Hello, Self…, about a woman in midlife reinventing herself, which led to her new book by the same name, available here.

On the personal side, Patricia, describes herself as a woman, lover of life, mother, grandmother, career professional and message artist; AND in that order! Her goal is to continue inspiring others, of any age, to START NOW creating and expanding their Runway to Success.

She believes that life is a gift, the way we wrap it is our choice.

Connect with Patricia:

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Anna Klimmek, Happy Food MN

April 26, 2022 by John Ray

Minneapolis St. Paul Business Radio

Anna Klimmek, Happy Food MN

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Anna Klimmek, Happy Food MN (Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Radio, Episode 38)

Happy Food MN provides corporate wellness events and healthy cooking demonstrations, as well as offering an online school of fun and informative classes. Founder and chef Anna Klimmek was on the show to talk about her fun approach to empowering people to live their best life. She talked with host John Ray about why she calls her company Happy Food, her tips to make it easier for people to cook with whole foods, her workshops, why she doesn’t ever talk about weight, how her business mirrors the way she cooks, her successes, and much more.

Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Radio is produced virtually by the Minneapolis St. Paul studio of Business RadioX®.

Happy Food MN

Happy Food MN was founded by Anna Klimmek, who received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Le Cordon Bleu Training.

Combining more than one hundred dietary theories and a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods, she crafts personalized workshops to help your employees achieve their health goals.

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Anna Klimmek, Founder/Chef/Health Coach, Happy Food MN

Anna is a health coach and personal chef who teaches people to eat for their body in a way that works for their life. As a Le Cordon Blue grad, she has nearly 20 years of culinary experience. Her education as a Health Coach with advanced study in Hormonal and Gut Health from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition guide how she cooks and approaches food and gives her a unique perspective on the relationship between cooking, food, health, and life.

Anna’s mission is to empower people to live their best lives in the body that they are in. Happy Food MN offers programs that create self-empowerment, not only with food but with life choices. She is a personal chef and cooks for people with autoimmune disorders and food sensitivities. She does one-on-one health coaching, cooking classes and Healthy Living and Eating Workshops that teach you, “it doesn’t have to be hard to live healthy.” My superpower is that I make healthy living, tasty fun, and easy!

Questions and Topics Discussed in this Episode

What do you do?
How did you start?
Who do you serve?
What is your true mission?
You are in the process of rebranding “Healthy Cooking” to “Happy Cooking” – Why?
What do you want everyone to know about living a happy life?
How has your life changed since starting your own business?
What’s next?
Any advice for budding Entrepreneurs?

Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and produced virtually from the Minneapolis St. Paul studio of Business RadioX®. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, Stitcher, TuneIn, and others.

Robby Kukler with Fifth Group Restaurants

July 14, 2020 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Robby Kukler with Fifth Group Restaurants

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Robby Kukler works with and mentors Fifth Group Restaurants’ Operations, Marketing and Recruiting teams while focusing on vision-based company growth and concept development opportunities.

Robby knew from an early age that restaurant ownership was in his future: By age 16 he was creating menus for his future restaurants and working weekends as a busboy and bar back. After earning his degree in Food Systems & Economics Management from Michigan State University, he spent a summer at Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne and was recruited by Morrison’s before founding Fifth Group.

He is a long-time advocate of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, where he is currently Chairman of the Board, and a board member of the Food Well Alliance, a local organization supporting urban agriculture and local farmers.

Robby was recently honored as one of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Most Admired CEOs” of 2018. An adventurous food, wine and beer lover, he is equally excited about trying Buford Highway noodle shops as the country’s best restaurants.

Connect with Robby on LinkedIn and follow Fifth Group Restaurants on Facebook.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

Reopening restaurants during COVID & the strategy around phased re-openings
How Fifth Group is navigating this “new normal” for restaurants
How business is going since re-opening
What services are the restaurants offering right now (dine in, take out, patio, brunch/lunch, amended hours?, regular menus?)
What safety measures & precautions are the restaurants are taking

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Lonnie and Karin Mimms with Computer Museum of America, Thomas Frank with FortyFour and Skye Estroff with Taste of Atlanta

July 16, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Lonnie and Karin Mimms with Computer Museum of America, Thomas Frank with FortyFour and Skye Estroff with Taste of Atlanta

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Lonnie Mimms is the founder and curator of the Computer Museum of America, exhibits featuring selected artifacts from the digital revolution.

From a very young age, Lonnie was interested in electronics. He started playing with Radio Shack kits in the early 1970s. By the age of ten, he gained access to an IBM 360 and was writing programs in APL. In the mid-70s, he and his best friend would go to the Rich Computer Center at GA Tech and spend Saturdays writing programs and playing games on the Cyber 74.

Over the years, Lonnie continued to hone his programming skills graduating from Georgia Tech, where he majored in Electrical Engineering. After graduation, he entered the family real estate business where he continues to work as the CEO.

Lonnie has always been a collector and kept all of his early computers, which were the inspiration for him to create exhibits and open the museum. As a co-founder of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast held in Atlanta, this offered an opportunity to display and share part of his collection. Lonnie feels passionate about preserving computing artifacts and sharing the history of digital revolution can inspire the future.

Karin Mimms is VP of Computer Museum of America.

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Thomas Frank is the Managing Partner & Executive Creative Director at FortyFour, a full-service digital consultancy that specializes in designing and building integrated digital solutions.

Thomas has 20+ years of experience in building, guiding, and directing world-class digital teams to envision, pilot, and commercialize innovative digital products, services, and customer experiences.

Prior to founding FortyFour, Thomas was a senior executive at Dell, IBM, Cambridge Technology Partners, and several agencies, where he lead creative teams that work at the intersection of business and culture to deliver transformational work to global clients.

Born in Germany, educated in Japan and living in the US, Thomas holds advanced degrees in Visual Communications and Business Administration. Additionally, Thomas has received numerous certifications and awards for design leadership.

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Skye Estroff is the marketing and media manager for Atlanta’s largest food festival, Taste of Atlanta and Southen Wing Showdown. Skye manages all TV, radio and print media relationships as well as strategizing and planning all social media. She is an Atlanta native, a University of Georgia grad and an expert in Atlanta’s best food.

Connect with Skye on LinkedIn and follow Taste of Atlanta and Southern Wing Showdown on Facebook.

Lori & Jim Casal with Lucky Dog Chicago Eatery

October 4, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Lori & Jim Casal with Lucky Dog Chicago Eatery

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Lori & Jim Casal/Lucky Dog Chicago Eatery

Located at 1175 Buford Highway in Suwanee, Lucky Dog Chicago Eatery is proud to offer the true Taste of Chicago with Southern Hospitality. Serving up Vienna Beef and a variety of Italian Sandwiches. Good for families, groups and kids, they offer home delivery, catering, take-out and of course walk-ins.

Edmund Nelson with Edee’s Place BBQ

August 31, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Edmund Nelson with Edee's Place BBQ

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Edmund Nelson/Edee’s Place BBQ

During a family reunion in 2015, Edmund Nelson talked his cousin Dee from Florida into moving to Georgia so they could open a barbecue restaurant. They opened a food stand next to the Mini Mart on Harbins Road in Dacula. It was called Edee’s Place BBQ to represent Edmund and Dee’s names. After a few months of success, they drove to Alabama and purchased a food truck. The popularity of the food truck prompted them to look for space in the Dacula area. They found a closed restaurant off of Liam Avenue and formally opened Edee’s Place in April 2017. Edmund designed the restaurant after his mother’s kitchen. Everyone that comes to Edee’s Place should feel like they are at home eating his family’s recipes. Since Edee’s Place opened, the restaurant has hosted several events, a variety of patrons, and continues to grow! Come by and enjoy! Edee’s Place BBQ was a recent winner of the Reader’s Choice Award for 2018.

Cheryl Brantley with Café 120

August 21, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Cheryl Brantley with Café 120

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Cheryl Brantley/Café 120

Café 120 started as an idea. The idea of a private coffee house whose focus is not only achieving the best possible coffee experience, but also connecting with the local community. Café 120 was opened with the idea of building relationships that bring out the best in their coffee and their community. “Local” is at the heart of what they do. Café 120 will strive to buy local, be a community gathering place, and craft truly artisan coffee.

Pensacola Business Radio-FoodieLife Radio Series: Chef Challenge to End Hunger

August 31, 2017 by angishields

Pensacola Business Radio

Pensacola Business Radio-FoodieLife Radio Series: Chef Challenge to End Hunger

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Cathy Pope/Feeding The Gulf Coast
CEO

KYLE SCHOOLAR | External Relations & Volunteer Manager

Chef Challenge is Feeding the Gulf Coast’s fundraiser that brings together some of our area’s most celebrated chefs and restaurants for an evening of superb food and drink while they compete to win best dish of the night in their respective category. Guests also will enjoy live entertainment by Roman Street and a vast silent auction, all in the name of ending hunger.

Chef Challenge is held to help advocate Hunger Action Month (September). Hunger Action Month is a nationwide awareness campaign set forth by our corporate affiliate, Feeding America, that educates the public about the issue of hunger and helps raise awareness about our hunger-relief efforts along the Central Gulf Coast.

Tickets can be purchased for $60 prior to the event, $75 at the door.

Guests must be 21 and over.

Cathy Pope has served as the President and CEO of Feeding the Gulf Coast since September of 2016. Formerly the executive director of Meals on Wheels of Central Georgia, Cathy has spent years combating hunger in communities. In her 25 years of work experience, Pope has worked at the Susan G. Komen Foundation, managed her own business, taught high school math, worked as an adjunct college instructor in microeconomics, and as a network engineer for Bell Atlantic. Pope has an undergraduate degree in mathematics, a Master’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Political Science. Cathy has four children, two in college and two recent college graduates, all living in Georgia.

Mission

Working through member organizations and special programs, we provide nutritious food to meet the challenge of feeding people who are hungry as a result of personal crisis or disaster. We work to educate the public regarding domestic hunger, proper nutrition and related issues.

Feeding the Gulf Coast, formerly Bay Area Food Bank, serves a 24-county area spanning south Alabama, south Mississippi, and the panhandle of Florida. In 2016, the food bank distributed over 22 million pounds of food to nearly 400 church pantries, soup kitchens and other nonprofit organizations throughout its service area. The food bank also operates multiple nutrition programs, including Summer Food Service, Afterschool Snack, Backpack, Disaster Relief, Community Garden, Mobile Pantry, Produce Drop, Cooking Matters, and SNAP Outreach. Feeding the Gulf Coast is a United Way agency and a member of Feeding America. For more information, visit www.feedingthegulfcoast.org.

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