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Anna Brumby, Walden Businesses

May 2, 2022 by John Ray

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Anna Brumby, Walden Businesses (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 453)

Anna Brumby, a principal at Walden Businesses, joined host John Ray to cover various aspects of her work as a business broker and intermediary. She had advice on what to look for in a business broker, how to prepare your business for sale, stepping back from day-to-day leadership, getting a valuation, and much more.

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

Walden Businesses

Walden is a results-oriented business intermediary.

The firm’s focus is on introducing the client’s business to prospects that are serious, qualified, and capable of completing the business transaction.

An owner’s identity and business information are not compromised. Discretion and attention to detail are the cornerstones of Walden’s success.

The firm’s reputation for completing transactions with high-quality companies is a market advantage. Many of Walden’s clients are pre-qualified and referred by accountants and attorneys who are aware of Walden’s impeccable credentials.

Walden’s professionals are dedicated to assisting clients in achieving their goals.

Walden offers the following services to its clients:

  • Sell-Side Representation
  • Buy-Side Representation
  • Consulting Services
  • Valuation Services

If you are reviewing your company’s strategic alternatives and seeking professional advice, or wish to learn more about our process for optimizing your financial goals, please contact us or give one of our principals a call at 678-277-9951.

Company Website |LinkedIn

Anna Brumby, Principal, Walden Businesses

Anna Brumby, Principal, Walden Businesses

Anna Brumby brings over 20 years’ experience to Walden Businesses as an influential business leader working with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses on multiple continents. Anna is an experienced professional with an extensive background in sales strategy development, contract negotiations, marketing strategies, financial analysis, and communication development.

Anna spent years working with the largest credit processing company on global expansion strategies including acquisition targeting and evaluation for the mergers and acquisition team. Additionally, she led a high-growth sales team working to expand the corporate footprint across the US and into new international markets. For the last decade, Anna has worked with small business owners on acquisition strategies and growth plans to increase their revenues and expand business operations.

Certified as a Mergers and Acquisition Professional (CM&AP) through the Kennesaw State University, Coles College of Business – Executive Education Program, Anna has focused her efforts on exit strategy planning for her clients to ensure they receive the maximum value for their businesses when preparing to sell. Anna is recognized as a trusted business strategist and has been a frequent public speaker at international conferences, universities, and professional business organizations. As an ongoing advocate for small business owners, Anna has been a frequent guest on Fox Business News, 11-Alive, and WSB Atlanta.

She holds a dual BS degree in both Political Science and Accounting from Presbyterian College and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Georgia, Terry College of Business.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • When do you start preparing your business for sale and the top three steps to take
  • How do you build the value of your company so it’s ready to sell?
  • Do you understand the sales process and the best way to prepare?
  • What professional support services will I need to help me during the sales process?
  • How do I prepare for after the business has sold?

 

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: Anna Brumby, business broker, business intermediary, M&A, M&A transactions, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank, selling a business, valuation services, walden businesses

Manuela M. Davis, Century 21 Connect Realty

April 28, 2022 by John Ray

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Manuela Davis, Century 21 Connect Realty (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 452)

Manuela Davis, a realtor with Century 21 Connect Realty, was the guest on this edition of North Fulton Business Radio. She and host John Ray talked about her love of meeting people, her ability to navigate and understand neighborhoods for her clients,  her commitment to over-communication to ensure her clients are getting the best results possible, the current market, rates, and much more.

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

Century 21 Connect Realty

Since 1971, the CENTURY 21® brand has been changing the real estate game by offering independent brokers, entrepreneurs and affiliated agents the ability to achieve extraordinary results in an increasingly competitive market. But a lot has changed since then. Many have copied the CENTURY 21 approach, and over time we have seen a ‘sea of sameness.’

With more brand awareness* than any real estate brand, Century 21 Real Estate is poised to change the game once again. To do this, we are reinventing what the CENTURY  21 brand means in the hearts and minds of those who are buying, selling and working in real estate today.

This starts with our new mission – to defy mediocrity and deliver extraordinary experiences – and comes to life in our identity as a brand and the services we develop for our system members.

Our new approach led us to create a new brand identity for the CENTURY 21® brand – a stylish, sleek and sophisticated makeover designed to catapult us into the next century.  With a refreshed color palette that stays true to our iconic gold and black scheme, the new identity is more modern and distinctive than ever.

The new C21® Seal allows us to project a modern view as well as be more relevant to those buying apartments, commercial properties and more.

Ultimately, we believe this new identity delivers an enormous amount of value to our members – helping our affiliated brokers and agents to stand out and attract more prospects than ever before.

The CENTURY 21 System currently has over 14,250 independently owned and operated franchise brokers across 86 countries and territories who have started this movement.

Company Website |Instagram | Facebook

Manuela Davis, Realtor, Century 21 Connect Realty

Manuela M. Davis, Realtor, Century 21 Connect Realty

Born and raised in Austria, Manuela Davis has lived in Roswell for more than half of her life and she likes to think that it has earned her the recognition that she is “from Atlanta”. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to own and operate Voilà Hair Salon since the early nineties. It was her long-time passion and intimate knowledge of the greater Roswell area that brought her to join Century 21 Connect Realty and become a Real Estate Market Expert.

She is fluent in German and uses her language skill for global referrals. She is a dedicated and hard-working lady who loves to give back to her community. Organizing fundraisers for almost three decades, she is a past president of the Roswell Woman’s Club and continues to serve as an active member. She works with several Non-Profit Organizations organizing fundraisers and is very involved in her community.

She and her husband Mike enjoy their two Labradoodles – Dundee and Grace whom they walk at the Roswell Recreation Park on a daily basis. Mike and Manuela enjoy Pickleball and exercise but also love good food! Their son Jack likes to play basketball and enjoys playing with their doggies.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • Where are you originally from and how long have you lived in the US?
  • Do you feel like there was something about the experiences you had growing up that played an outsized role in setting you up for success later in life?
  • What have you been doing since you arrived in the US?
  • What are other things you like to do?
  • What Fundraiser do you have coming up this week?
  • What do you like to do best and how do you do it?
  • Why do people hire you?
  • How is the market?
  • How does the interest rate affect your business?
  • People say there are no homes for sale?
  • What is your claim to fame?

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: A&S Culinary Concepts, Century 21, Century 21 Connect Realty, Manuela Davis, North Fulton, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank, residential real estate

Lamar Tyler, Tyler New Media

April 26, 2022 by John Ray

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Lamar Tyler, Tyler New Media (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 451)

Lamar Tyler, CEO of Tyler New Media, joined the show to share the work he and his wife Ronnie do at Tyler New Media. Lamar talked about how they got started through the Black and Married with Children blog (BMWK), how Traffic Sales and Profit (TSP) grew out of it, how to leverage digital marketing and social media, TSP as a mechanism to create more successful entrepreneurs, the upcoming TSP LIVE event at The Hotel at Avalon in Alpharetta, and much more.

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

Tyler New Media

Tyler New Media is the home of TSP (Traffic Sales and Profit), and BMWK (Black and Married with Children).

The founders Lamar and Ronnie Tyler have been named one of Ebony Magazine’s Power 100, a list of the top 100 movers and shakers in the black community, finalists for Black Enterprise’s Family Business of the Year, finalists for Infusionsoft’s Small Business ICON award and winners of the ClickFunnels Two Comma Award. They’ve been featured in Essence Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Jet Magazine, Parenting Magazine, CNN, HLN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and many other press outlets.

BlackandMarriedWithKids.com is the largest independent African American marriage and parenting site on the web.

TSP Is The Premier Community for Purpose-Driven African American Entrepreneurs.  Through their events, courses, & TSP Mastermind, they share the best strategies to help you exponentially grow your business.

They teach entrepreneurs across various niches and markets how to generate profit with ease in the shortest amount of time – regardless of email list size or budget.

TSP LIVE 2022 is coming up June 23rd- 25th at the Avalon Hotel in Alpharetta. More about TSP LIVE here.

Company Website | LinkedIn | Facebook

Lamar Tyler, CEO, Tyler New Media

Lamar Tyler, CEO, Tyler New Media

Lamar Tyler is CEO of Tyler New Media and heads a digital marketing education and consulting brand Traffic Sales & Profit. He performs public speaking at events and conferences across the country, conducts workshops and seminars, and hosts discussions on topics such as entrepreneurship and digital marketing.

Using his motto “The Gatekeepers Are Gone,” Lamar has leveraged digital marketing to move his online brands from small personal blogs to an international brand with over 700,000 social media fans and 60 thousand plus customers in all 50 states and 43 countries around the world.

Among the recognition received for his work, Lamar, along with his wife Ronnie was named one of Ebony Magazine’s Power 100, a list of the top 100 movers and shakers in the black community, finalists for Black Enterprise’s Family Business of the Year, finalists for Infusionsoft’s Small Business ICON award and winners of the ClickFunnels Two Comma Award. Additionally, in 2021 Lamar’s company Tyler New Media was ranked #2040 on the Inc. 5000 list of the country’s fastest-growing private companies and won the ClickFunnels Two Comma X Award for doing over 10 Million in sales using the ClickFunnels software platform.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • What is Tyler New Media
  • Tell me about how you formed both of these businesses?
  • Why did you start your BMWK blog as a business?
  • Who do you work with at TSP?
  • What are the biggest mistakes businesses make online in digital marketing?
  • Tell us about the impact of TSP
  • Tell us about making the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies List
  • How to start a business effectively
  • TSP LIVE at the Avalon Hotel

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: BMWK, digital advertising, Lamar Tyler, lead magnet, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank, Traffic Sales and Profit, TSP LIVE 2022, Tyler New Media

Kim Eickhoff, Kim Eickhoff Coaching

April 26, 2022 by John Ray

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Kim Eickhoff, Kim Eickhoff Coaching (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 450)

Kim Eickhoff joined North Fulton Business Radio host John Ray to discuss her coaching work with small and medium sized businesses. Kim shared her focus on company culture, the need to set the values and direction upfront, how the strongest personalities will determine it if you don’t, the need for clarity from leadership about the mission and path forward to employees and potential employees, the need for leaders to focus on these strategies, what’s at stake, and much more.

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

Kim Eickhoff, Growth Strategist, Kim Eickhoff Coaching

Kim Eickhoff, Growth Strategist, Kim Eickhoff Coaching

Kim Eickhoff is a growth strategist and motivational speaker. She specializes in working with business leaders who have a deep desire to change the way they run their organizations. She has 20 years of experience in providing guidance and coaching support.

Navigating business challenges is never easy. She coaches leaders and their teams to enhance their self-awareness to improve organizational discipline and create lasting, transformative change.

As a motivational speaker, Kim provides a variety of presentations that guide leaders and their teams to become self-aware and identify their true value, improving interpersonal relationships within an organization.

In addition to coaching, she facilitates workshops and training sessions to support business owners and their leadership teams. Together, they identify gaps in their organization’s alignment, define clear goals and implement effective action plans.

When clients work with Kim, they transform into inspired businesses that have the capability to:

-Define a clear organizational vision -Establish and implement strategies that lead to productivity -Happier, healthier supportive work cultures -Increase sales goals and expand profits.

She believes that none of these goals can become a reality without understanding the essential role that every team member possesses.

In all of her programs, Kim is committed to team members understanding themselves and developing a mindset to support the challenges present in all businesses. When you choose to work with Kim Eickhoff Coaching, your leadership team will be in a state of constant discovery. You will identify your challenges, fears, and anxieties to develop mindset practices supporting a sustainable business. This work is not easy, but it is necessary for your business to have long-term success.

As a lifelong learner, Kim is committed to assisting organizational leaders and team members to get down and dirty and unpack their “stuff”.

In addition to an Executive MBA from the University of Colorado, Denver, and a Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University, Kim has certifications in:

-Adding Zeros Certification, Team Coaching Certification, IMPACT Management Systems Training, High-Performance Leadership Program  and Certified Soma Yoga Teacher.

Website | LinkedIn | Facebook

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • What creates a toxic culture in an organization?
  • What are the components of a toxic culture?
  • How does a toxic culture affect the workplace?
  • Who’s responsibility is it to ensure there isn’t a toxic culture?
  • What steps can an organization take so that they create a healthy culture?
  • How does a healthy culture function in comparison to a toxic culture?  Why is this important?

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: Kim Eickhoff, North Fulton Business Radio, organizational culture, renasant bank, toxic culture

Ehab Jaleel, Amana Academy Charter Schools

April 25, 2022 by John Ray

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Ehab Jaleel, Amana Academy Charter Schools (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 448)

With a diverse population of over eight hundred students, Amana Academy Charter School is a unique K-8 school using the Expeditionary Learning (EL) model for its curriculum. Ehab Jaleel, Executive Director, and host John Ray talked about the EL learning model, what the children learn and experience, the partnership with the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta which has resulted in their new West Atlanta Campus, and much more.

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

Amana Academy Charter Schools

Amana Academy is a K-8 tuition-free public charter school open to all students who are eligible to attend Fulton County Schools.

Considered among the most well-regarded charter schools in the state of Georgia, Amana Academy’s Alpharetta campus was established in 2005 and authorized by the Georgia Department of Education and the Fulton County Schools system.

Amana chose the Harvard-based EL Education (Expeditionary Learning) model* because of its equal emphasis on academic achievement and character education. With high standardized test scores, an integrated STEM curriculum, a focus on stewardship and ethical character, and Arabic world-language instruction across all grade levels, Amana is a success story in the world of whole-child education.

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Ehab Jaleel, Executive Director, Amana Academy Charter Schools

Ehab Jaleel, Executive Director, Amana Academy Charter Schools

Ehab Jaleel has a zeal for pursuing innovation and mobilizing new ventures with an eye toward making a difference in his community and the world. He aspires to be a “weaver”—building community connections and weaving a rich social fabric.

A graduate of the Leadership Atlanta class of 2016, Ehab is a corporate professional turned nonprofit leader/educator. He is Executive Director of Amana Academy Charter Schools, an emerging network of metro-Atlanta public schools. He co-founded Amana’s flagship school in 2005 in Alpharetta, GA, a STEM-themed EL Education credentialed Title-1 school that is among the highest performing schools in Georgia. Amana’s first replica school is in partnership with Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta at their Camp Timber Ridge.

Ehab’s education and community focus extends to a number of organizations including the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce’s Tech400 Committee, the Advisory Council for North Fulton Community Charities, as a board member of the Atlanta International Night Market, and as a Regional Director for the Georgia Tech President Scholars Selection Committee. He led the governance committee on the Board of Directors for the Georgia Charter Schools Association, and he served as a board member at U-Beyond, a youth mentorship & professional development organization. 

In 2014 Ehab was included in the list of Georgia’s 100 Most Influential Muslims; and in 2015, The Alif Institute recognized him with the Arab American High Achiever award.

Born in Jordan, Ehab immigrated to the United States at the age of six and resided in Albany, NY until his family moved to Florida’s Tampa Bay area.  He has also lived in Louisville, KY while working for General Electric, but most of his adult life has been in metro-Atlanta where he earned degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and where he worked at The Coca-Cola Company’s headquarters in operational marketing and innovation roles for fifteen years.  

Ehab resides in Milton, Georgia with his wife Lara ‘Lemiya’ Alexander. They have three adult daughters, the eldest an equestrian, the second a veteran of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and the youngest attending his alma mater studying Environmental Public Policy and minoring in Japanese.  He is a foodie who enjoys global travel, fitness, outdoor adventure, and following Formula 1 racing.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • What are charter schools? How did Amana get started?
  • Why did you make the switch from the corporate world to running a school?
  • How do you see yourself fitting into the North Fulton landscape?
  • What is the student experience at Amana? How does it benefit them? Where do your students come from?
  • How do families find you?
  • Where do they go after 8th grade?
  • Education was in the news quite a bit during the pandemic. How did your school navigate it; and how will emerging trends affect your organization and the education sector in general? Are there lessons for leaders?
  • We hear you are expanding with a very innovative partnership with Girl Scouts. Tell us more about that.
  • What local partnerships do you have going?
  • How can the community get involved and help with your mission?

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: Amana Academy Charter Schools, charter schools, education, Ehab Jaleel, Fulton County Schools, Girl Scouts, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, North Fulton, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank

Iris Grimm, Dog-Gone Leadership

April 1, 2022 by John Ray

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Iris Grimm, Dog-Gone Leadership (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 446)

Iris Grimm, an executive and leadership coach for over two decades, developed a leadership program based on our relationships with dogs called Dog-Gone Leadership. She joined John Ray in the studio to share how this idea came to be, how she uses the metaphor of relationships with dogs to assist her clients, who she loves to work with, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Iris Grimm (Master Performance Inc.)

For the past 21 years, Iris has guided executives, small business owners, and leaders in a variety of capacities and industries to reach the next level(s) of their success.

Their definition of success is as unique as their paths:

  • be more effective in their role as a leader, hence supporting their team better and having them be more engaged
  • start/expand their business or their career promotion in a purposeful way,
  • create more balance between work and personal life,
  • get out of their own way and show up at a better version every day and many more.

All these goals require an upgrade on inner leadership, trust in oneself and others, as well as letting go of unproductive habits, mindsets, and approaches.

Dog-Gone Leadership

Dog-Gone Leadership is a unique and innovative approach to optimizing performance in your company by utilizing canine relationships. Stop feeling resigned to the status quo and create better outcomes and connections with ease.

Dogs are not just (wo)men’s best friends. They can mirror our behavior and thinking. They reflect our leadership and energy. They can reveal our blind spots. They uplevel our performance and commitment.

Therefore, dogs are ideal partners for creating more conscious leaders, whether they are already in an official leadership position or not.

Dog-Gone Leadership with Iris Grimm steps outside of the conventional leadership development box.

  • Dogs shake off their stress with ease. Great leaders shake their stress off quickly and return to an emotional state that serves the situation best.
  • Dogs can read the energy of a room very quickly. Great leaders can read the energy in the room and adjust their style/approach accordingly.
  • Dogs let go of the past quickly (unless the humans get in the middle of it). Great leaders take nothing personally and let go of any grudges and conflicts swiftly.
  • Dogs reflect our leadership in vivid pictures and behaviors. Great leaders surround themselves with coaches and teachers who point out blind spots and challenge them to grow.

We take the boring out of leadership development and infuse playfulness, love, mindfulness, surrender, commitment, and many more leadership principles and skills that we can learn from dogs.

Dog-gone leadership is merging leadership performance with canine guardianship  – pulling out analogies, pointing out differences, and applying principles and skills with the dog that can be translated into the business world. This program is about bringing the best out of everyone – the leader, their team, and the dog.

As a result, participants transform their leadership with, from, and for their dogs – making this a win-win-win situation.

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Iris Grimm, Executive/Leadership Coach & Trainer, Master Performance, Inc. and Dog-Gone Leadership

Iris Grimm, Executive/Leadership Coach & Trainer, Master Performance, Inc. and Dog-Gone Leadership

Iris Grimm has been in the coaching and training industry for over 20 years. Whether her clients are executives in larger companies, business owners, or entrepreneurs, she loves to support them in creating richer experiences in their lives and work.

Iris is also the founder of Dog-Gone Leadership, an experimental training program where her clients transform their leadership with, for, and from their dogs. Her love for dogs and her extensive experience with dogs, combined with her devotion to support people to perform better as leaders, makes her training programs engaging, practical, and life-changing.

When she is not meeting with her clients, Iris loves to hike with her dogs and spends time in nature.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • What is the focus of Dog-Gone Leadership?
  • How did you come up with this concept?
  • With the pandemic, many people finally adopted a dog since they work from home. And once they returned to the office, they felt reluctant leaving their dog at home by themselves. What is your opinion about pet-friendly workplaces?
  • When you present this program in companies, does every participant have to bring their dog?
  • Is having a dog a requirement to participate in the Dog-Gone Leadership program?
  • What lessons can we learn from dogs?

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: Dog-Gone Leadership, dogs, executive coach, executive coaching, Iris Grimm, Leadership, leadership coaching, Master Coaching, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank

Elizabeth Warren, Tower Roofing

March 25, 2022 by John Ray

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Elizabeth Warren, Tower Roofing (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 445)

Elizabeth Warren, Director of Business Development at Tower Roofing, talked with host John Ray about the services Tower Roofing offers. She explained when you might need to contact them, their methods of replacing and cleaning roofs, why you should never pressure wash your roof, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Tower Roofing

Tower is a specialized commercial, industrial, and residential roofing contractor based in Marietta.

For the past 36 years, they have served our satisfied clients all over Atlanta and the surrounding counties and cities.

Being a leader in the Georgia roofing market since 1985 means we can provide you with the stability, strength, and quality you need. They are dedicated to working with you to implement a solution that meets your needs, from roof system installation to roof repair.

At Tower Roofing, they strive to provide only the best roofing products and services to our customers with an absolute commitment to customer service.

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Elizabeth Warren, Director of Business Development, Tower Roofing

Elizabeth Warren, Director of Business Development

After moving back to her home state of Georgia, Elizabeth is Tower’s Director of Business Development. She grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and moved herself to Manhattan to attend college. Elizabeth went to the Fashion Institute of Technology where she studied Fashion Business Management, International Trade Marketing, English, and Product Development.

In her free time, she enjoys being outside and baking!

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • When to call Tower
  • When to replace a roof
  • How do you clean a roof?
  • Issues with gutters
  • Roof vents
  • Commercial roofs
  • The areas Tower serves

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: attic ventilation, commercial roofing, gutters, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank, residential roofing, shingles, Tower Roofing

Jay R. Weiser, Jay Weiser Consulting

March 21, 2022 by John Ray

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Jay R. Weiser, Principal and Founder at Jay Weiser Consulting, helps his clients thrive in the face of disruption and uncertainty. He and John Ray discussed the need to be prepared and responsive, how his experience informs his approach, his Five Leadership Superpowers™ needed to drive and sustain change, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Jay Weiser Consulting

Choosing the right consultant for your organization is very important. You do not want to just pick anyone.

You want to choose a partner that

  • Puts your organization’s interests first

  • Takes the time to understand the organization and its challenges/opportunities

  • Works collaboratively with leadership to frame and solve its problems

  • Enables the organization to solve today’s AND prepare for tomorrow’s challenges

  • Is enjoyable to work with and sits alongside, not across from, you

That is a tall order, but you deserve nothing less. That is how Jay works.

Jay Weiser Consulting is right for you if you want a:

Catalyst – Who challenges the status quo, increases awareness, creates urgency, drives decision-making, and mobilizes the organization.

Challenger – Who asks tough questions, stretches the team’s thinking, helps them see and think differently, and brings in new perspectives.

Integrator – Who helps synthesize information from inside and outside the company, converts it into actionable insights to inform and drive decision-making.

Guide and Navigator – Who, with leadership, determines where to go, charts the course, prepares for the journey, and foresees and manages risks on the way.

and a Force Multiplier – Who amplifies and extends leaders’ efforts and impact, ensures focus on the most important and accelerates the time to results.

Faced with disruptions and uncertainty, leaders must make a choice.

Do they want to be CAPTIVES, victims of circumstances and at the mercy of others, OR CAPTAINS, leaders prepared to take charge, enable the organization, and confidently and successfully steer it to its destination? Ready to be a captain? If so, talk with Jay now.

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Jay R. Weiser, Principal and Founder, Jay Weiser Consulting

Jay R. Weiser, Principal and Founder, Jay Weiser Consulting

Jay Weiser is the Principal and Founder of Jay Weiser Consulting. His practice is dedicated to enabling leadership teams and their organizations and individual leaders to not only survive but thrive in the face of disruptiveness and uncertainty. Leaders need a new set of capabilities to succeed in this turbulent environment.

Jay developed a leadership capability framework, THE FIVE LEADERSHIP SUPERPOWERS™ to address this very need. Through his advisory services, educational offerings, and speaking, he helps them build, apply, and sustain these SUPERPOWERS. By doing so, clients improve their overall preparedness and readiness, dampen downside risk from disruptions and uncertainty, recover and rebound faster, and pounce on opportunities faster amplifying their returns and value delivered to stakeholders.

Jay has a passion for helping clients sustainably create value at the intersections of strategy, organization (and leadership) and operations, no matter the context. He is an integrative thinker and continuous learner fueled by an insatiable curiosity to find the right, best way to do this for his clients. Knowing one size does not fit all and that there are no silver bullets, he guides clients in developing, implementing, and sustaining fit-for-purpose and -the future solutions that deliver results.

Jay has over 3 decades of experience advising executives across multiple industries and in a wide variety of environments. He clients and employers span from the middle market to Fortune/Forbes 500 organizations including recognizable names like Accenture, Autotrader (Cox Auto), Bristol Myers Squibb, Fulton County Schools, JP Morgan Chase, to Tiffany and Publix. Jay has been interviewed for Fortune.com and several podcasts. He has had articles published by Harvard Business School Press and other publications. He frequently shares his thought leadership via LinkedIn posts and on his site.

He has an undergraduate business degree from The Wharton School (UPenn) and his MBA from Goizueta Business School (Emory). He lives happily with his wife of 32 years, an educator, in Alpharetta, GA.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • Likelihood and sources of continuing disruption and uncertainty
  • Weaknesses that disruption and uncertainty have exposed.
  • Why new leadership capabilities are needed
  • New leadership capability model – The Five Leadership Superpowers(TM)
  • Ask about each of the five Superpowers and how they work
  • Assessing the Superpowers in your organization
  • How Jay Weiser Consulting can help

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: Disruption, Jay R. Weiser, Jay Weiser Consulting, Leadership, Leadership consulting, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank, risk, uncertainty

Donald Simon, Simon Financial Company

March 21, 2022 by John Ray

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Donald Simon, the owner of Simon Financial Company, presented many of the issues which arise in buy-sell agreements and how he serves clients by providing financial planning and insurance to protect business owners. He joined host John Ray to discuss why many buy-sell agreements are not written properly and do not account for potential risks, his solutions for being prepared, pre-funding for retirement, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Simon Financial Company

Simon Financial Company was founded by Donald J. Simon in 1983. Don loves helping business owners increase the value of their company using unique, time-tested methods.

Simon Financial Company provides to a diverse mix of 350+ business owners and nonprofits Talent Retention Plans, Business Succession Planning and Estate Planning.

Simon Financial Company’s clients include a very diverse mix of individuals, companies (blue-collar to high tech), professionals, and non-profit organizations.

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Donald Simon, Owner, Simon Financial Company

Donald Simon, Owner, Simon Financial Company

Donald Simon is a Certified Financial Planner, a Chartered Financial Consultant.

Don has been the owner of Simon Financial Company since 1981 and has helped over 350 businesses of virtually all types.

Don is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) with the College for Financial Planning, Washington DC and Denver, CO.  Don is also a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) through The American College, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.  He is also a Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) through the National Association for Financial Advisors (NAIFA) Falls Church, VA. and is also a member of NAIFA. This knowledge coupled with his many years of experience is an important commitment to advise each client properly.

He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Oglethorpe University, Atlanta Georgia.  He is a Member of the Marietta Business Association (MBA) and is the author of The Zen of Personal Finance.

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Questions and Topics in this Interview:

  • What are the elements of a business succession plan?
  • Why do most buy-sell agreements end up failing?
  • Why do most companies have a business valuation that ends up in court?
  • Why is funding for buy-sell agreements often a cause of failure?
  • What can a company do now to remedy these problems?
  • How expensive is it to fix these problems?

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.

RenasantBank

 

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.

Tagged With: business succession planning, business valuation, buy-sell agreements, Don Simon, North Fulton Business Radio, renasant bank, Simon Financial Company

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