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John Winstanley, Fort Safety

October 12, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

John Winstanley, Fort Safety

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John Winstanley, Fort Safety (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 549)

Inspired by personal experience, John Winstanley, Founder and CEO of Fort Safety, founded a nonprofit to assist families with internet safety for their children. He spoke with North Fulton Business Radio host John Ray about the three C’s of internet safety, his passion for this work, the kinds of problems present online, how the Fort Safety system works, partnering with groups and brands, and much more.

North Fulton Business Radio is produced and broadcast by the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Fort Safety

Fort Safety provides families and communities with practical instruction and preventative measures to address the daily challenges of internet safety, online harassment, and technology-born addictions.

Fort Safety shines the light of awareness and hope on to what we do, see, and feel while online.

Fort Safety strives to provide every parent and caregiver in America the knowledge and power to protect their kids from online threats.

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John Winstanley, Founder and CEO, Fort Safety

Inspired by the courageous life of his daughter Laura Gwen and motivated by the frustration of seeing children of all ages fall victim to online toxicity, John Winstanley founded FortSafety in 2013, in Monroe, Georgia. With the support of his wife and family, John left his career as an engineer behind to start a nonprofit focused on protecting kids and strengthening families.

Featured in multiple publications, podcasts, radio, and TV shows and awarded commendations for their outstanding public service, John and the Fort safety aims to make internet use safe for children and empower their families to make healthy decisions for their internet use. John’s unique style of presentation uses stories of his own struggles with depression, self-esteem, and a technology-born addiction to teach his audiences how to create an internet safety plan, protect and empower kids to deal with bullying, or care for a child that has been exposed to harmful content by accident, for example.

Questions and Topics in the Interview:

How did Fort Safety get started?
Where are you from?
Should parents throw their internet devices in the trash…why not?
What are the 3 c’s of internet safety?
What is your mission, your guiding light?
What do you want parents/educators to know about internet safety and their kids?
How can parents, schools, churches, or businesses get involved with FortSafety?

North Fulton Business Radio is hosted by John Ray and broadcast and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. 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.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Special thanks to A&S Culinary Concepts for their support of this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. A&S Culinary Concepts, based in Johns Creek, is an award-winning culinary studio, celebrated for corporate catering, corporate team building, Big Green Egg Boot Camps, and private group events. They also provide oven-ready, cooked-from-scratch meals to go they call “Let Us Cook for You.” To see their menus and events, go to their website or call 678-336-9196.

Ilana Lowery and Victoria Saylor with Common Sense Media

July 18, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Ilana Lowery and Victoria Saylor with Common Sense Media

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Ilana Lowery and Victoria Saylor with Common Sense Media

Common Sense is committed to making kids the nation’s top priority. The San Francisco-based nonprofit, which just opened an Arizona office in January, is a trusted source for families, educators and advocates who help kids thrive. Common Sense provides resources to harness the power of media and technology, and to shape public policy to improve the well-being of every child.

Ilana Lowery, Arizona Director for Common Sense Media, is the former editor-in-chief of the Phoenix Business Journal. She left the Journal in June, 2018, after 23 years as a key leader at the daily business publication. As the first director of Common Sense, Ilana is responsible for driving a strategic effort to build the organization’s presence, philanthropic base and strategic partnerships throughout the state. The Chicago native joined the publication as a reporter in 1995.

Prior to the Business Journal, she was an editor for Independent Newspapers Inc., a community newspaper chain based in Scottsdale. Before moving to the Valley in 1989, Ilana was a reporter and editor for Pulitzer Newspapers in Chicago. An award-winning journalist, she also worked as a scriptwriter and associate producer for the NBC-TV affiliate in Chicago. A 1986 graduate of the University of Illinois, Ilana earned BA degrees in Mass Communications and English.

Currently, Ilana is an adjunct professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications and a digital editor for the Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. In addition, Ilana serves on the executive board of Gabriel’s Angels and is a member of the prestigious women’s professional associations Charter 100 and Central Phoenix Women. She recently served on the advisory board for the Greater Phoenix Jewish News and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Arizona Press Club and the Arizona Newspaper Association, which in 2015 presented her with the Order of the Silver Key, an honor for journalists who have been in the profession for 25 years or more, contributed to the journalism profession both locally and nationally, and have inspired fellow journalists.

Ilana is a longtime advocate of causes involving social issues, education and children’s well-being, and she has served on multiple boards for Valley organizations committed to these issues. In 2014, Ilana was a Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce Athena Award finalist. She also was honored as a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine Council. Ilana also is a member of the Alliance of Arizona nonprofits, a long-time member of the Hon Kachina Board of Governors, and most recently, she was co-chair of the 2919 Arizona Science Center’s Galaxy Gala.

Victoria Saylor has over 20 years of experience in the education sector as an elementary school teacher and university advisor, bringing a strong sense of student advocacy and best practices to her role at Common Sense. She has provided educational leadership by helping pioneer her district’s groundbreaking Spanish Immersion program and establishing it into a highly desired choice for students.

After leaving the classroom, Victoria worked as a consultant for Santillana USA and Capstone Classroom publishers, where she sourced K-12 curriculum and teamed closely with district leaders and teachers for professional development. As proof of her long-standing commitment to student success, she served as a home instruction teacher for homebound students by providing a personalized learning environment that accommodated their needs. She also founded a private tutoring service, which allowed her to remain connected to her professional network and help students grow academically.

Victoria actively volunteers in several private and professional groups, and is a recipient of the Above and Beyond award, which recognizes educators who have made lasting impacts in the lives of their students and community. She is a proud graduate of the University of Arizona, where she earned degrees in Elementary Education and Spanish. Outside of her career, she’s a proud wife and mom to her daughter, son, and Labrador Retriever. She loves to cook and enjoys hiking the beautiful deserts of Arizona.

Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow Common Sense on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Safe Mode with Co-Founders Chris Curley and Rachel Stoddard along with Consultant Chris Bray

October 3, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Safe Mode with Co-Founders Chris Curley and Rachel Stoddard along with Consultant Chris Bray

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Safe Mode with Co-Founders Chris Curley and Rachel Stoddard along with Consultant Chris Bray

Safe Mode is an organization dedicated to providing education and training to members of the community, and law enforcement, about how to address the dangers facing children online. Topics available include sexting, child pornography, luring a minor for sexual acts, cyber bullying, sex trafficking, and furnishing harmful images to minors. Audience-specific programs are specially tailored for parents or guardians of children, school-aged minors, and law enforcement investigating these internet-based crimes.

The founders of Safe Mode, as well as all instructors, have worked or are currently involved in law enforcement investigations of internet crimes involving children. Experienced investigators, as well as state and federal prosecutors, will share their knowledge and expertise regarding how online crimes occur, how to protect children from being victimized, as well as how to best support and communicate with children regarding these issues. Because of their extensive law enforcement background, presenters can also speak to investigators currently working in the area of Internet Crimes Against Children and provide practical guidance on how to recognize and minimize secondary trauma.

Presentations can be made at schools, parent organizations, community centers, assemblies, church groups, or any other organized settings designed to educate the community. Resources will be provided to attendees in the form of brochures and information packets regarding the material presented.

After Chris Curley retired from a 23 year law enforcement career, he started Triple Helix Investigations in 2016, which offers Background Checks, Lab Based Drug Testing and Aptitude Assessments to any size employer nationwide. Because of his background in the field of Internet Crimes Against Children, Chris also offered Internet Crimes related presentations.

In 2018 Chris separated his business services from the Internet Crimes presentations and founded Safe Mode, Inc. Safe Mode is a pending non-profit organization providing Internet Crimes Against Children presentations to children, parents/guardians and law enforcement personnel nationwide.

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.

Rachel Stoddard co-founded Safe Mode after a decade-long career in government service. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of Arizona State University, Ms. Stoddard went on to become a Cum Laude graduate of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. While still a law student, Ms. Stoddard headed the Advocacy Program Against Domestic Violence, clerked for Judges at the trial and appellate courts, and worked for prominent civil law firms as well as the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

Ms. Stoddard became a Deputy County Attorney with MCAO shortly after graduation and quickly ascended the ranks until being entrusted with highly- complex and sensitive cases involving crimes against children. Because of her written prowess and courtroom skill, Ms. Stoddard was selected to be an Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Arizona. As a federal prosecutor, she handled several federal trials and appeals including successfully arguing before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. She was named the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator, a role which required her to lead prosecutions of violent and technology-based crimes involving children as well as liaise with local, tribal, state, and federal authorities. Ms. Stoddard also conducted trainings for law enforcement on a variety of legal issues.

Connect with Rachel on LinkedIn, and follow Safe Mode on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Chris Bray is a recently retired, thirty-six year veteran of a major southwestern city police department with twenty-nine of those years as a sergeant. The last twenty-two years he has worked as an investigative supervisor in the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Bureaus. He was assigned to the Vice Enforcement Unit where he supervised investigations into Human Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Illegal Enterprises and Money Laundering.

He is a subject matter expert on Human Trafficking for Arizona POST and California POST. He has provided advanced investigative training to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies as well as social service providers across the United States. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University and is a contributing author on the topic of Human Trafficking.

He served on the Board of Directors for the Arizona Anti Trafficking Network and is a training associate for the Fox Valley Technical College AMBER ALERT Training Program.

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn.

PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS FROM HACKERS: Albert Grassia with Digital Safety Net

March 18, 2015 by Mike

On the Money

PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS FROM HACKERS: Albert Grassia with Digital Safety Net

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A computer is compromised every 6 seconds. Are you safe? Is your company safe? In this episode of “On the Money“, host Joe Moss talks with Albert Grassia with Digital Safety Net about how hackers and viruses can destroy a small business – including yours – and how you can protect yourself.

Albert Grassia/Digital Safety Net

Digital Safety Net helps private and commercial organizations assess their vulnerability to technological and security risks, and develops customized solutions to support workstations and networks from hackers.

Digital Safety Net has defended their clients from cyber attacks and secured their workplace and personal computers. Invest in your future and allow them to make business easier for you. Your IT should be secure. Let Digital Safety Net be the ones to give you that peace of mind.

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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.