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Wine Tasting & Networking with Adam & Eve Atlanta at Cork & Glass, presented by Riptide, LLC

April 23, 2025 by Mike

Riptide, LLC presented an evening of business networking, social engagement, and wine tasting on Tuesday, May 22nd at Cork & Glass in Alpharetta. The evening included a trivia and product presentation by Adam & Eve Atlanta. Business RadioX was on site to interview and highlight several of the business professionals attending the event.

PATTY MURRAY
Executive Business Coach
Murry Coaching & Consulting

PAM SANTORO
Realtor
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

TED SCHWARTZ
Senior Partner
Carter Hill Commercial Real Estate Advisors

CELIA TALBOT
Programs Director
Revved Up Kids

JACKSON LOCKLEAR
Owner & Operator
Graze Craze Sandy Springs

BROOKE WHEELER
President
Restoration Talent Solutions

KRISTIN REYES
Principal & Consultant
Pathar Group

About Riptide, LLC

Riptide, LLC brings 30 years of business background in technology, operations and sales strategy to the small to medium to growing sized business owner across Georgia and the Southeast. Riptide, LLC works closely with you to discuss what aspects of your business are going well, and where you could deploy better infrastructure, sales processes, and business operations. They help lay the groundwork for strong revenue growth for your company year over year. Riptide, LLC and their team focus and succeed in helping you and your product rise above the noisy marketplace, and position you for growth versus your competition.

Alli Neal, Revved Up Kids

March 2, 2022 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Alli Neal, Revved Up Kids

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Alli Neal, Revved Up Kids (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 436)

Alli Neal, Co-Founder of Revved Up Kids, joined host John Ray to share the important work they do to protect children and teens from sexual abuse and exploitation. Alli discussed how she felt called to start this work, the need to talk about this topic, programs offered for kids, parents, and youth service organizations, upcoming events, how business owners can get involved, and much more. North Fulton Business Radio is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Revved Up Kids

Revved Up Kids is on a mission to protect children and teens from sexual abuse and exploitation.

Revved Up Kids teaches children and teens who predators are and how they operate and equips them to respond appropriately if they encounter a predator. They also teach adults to be better protectors. Revved Up Kids has trained almost 40,000 Atlanta-area children to be safer.

Revved Up Kids offers a spectrum of more than 20 training programs that are provided in-person, virtually and on video. They work with private groups, youth-serving organizations, schools, police agencies, houses of worship, healthcare organizations and others to provide training that helps children and teens stay safer from the life-altering consequences of sexual abuse.

If you are interested in learning more about Revved Up Kids training, please call 678.526.3335 or email contact@revvedupkids.org.

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Alli Neal, Co-Founder, Revved Up Kids

Alli Neal is a child safety expert and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Atlanta-based Revved Up Kids. She holds a degree in Business from Miami University of Ohio. Alli’s continuing education includes child sexual abuse, trauma-informed care, and adverse childhood experience. Alli is the mother of two young adults.

Alli is a member of several nonprofit collaboratives, including the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber Nonprofit Roundtable (where she is currently the chairperson), the DeKalb Youth Services Coalition, and the Cobb Collaborative where she chaired the Family & Children Strategy Team in 2019 and 2020. Alli was selected as a Nonprofit Community Impact Leader by the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce in 2018 and 2019.

In 2010, Alli and her husband David founded Revved Up Kids to protect children and teenagers from sexual abuse and exploitation. To date, Revved Up Kids has trained almost 40,000 children and teens to be safer from sexual predators.

Questions and Topics in this Interview:

Tell us about the founding of Revved Up Kids
What programs do you offer?
What about Youth Service Organizations?
Talk about the work in schools and the shift during Covid
Tell us about your events
How can our listeners support Revved Up Kids?

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.

Revved Up Kids and Care4All Children Services

November 15, 2019 by Mike

Giving Back To Gwinnett

Revved Up Kids and Care4All Children Services

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Carla Simms, Veronica Guobadia, Tom Vooris, Alli Neal

Alli Neal/Revved Up Kids

It is the mission of Revved Up Kids to provide programs and safety resources that equip and empower participants to recognize and avoid dangerous situations and people, and to escape violence if necessary.

Revved Up Kids believes that the easiest target for a predator is a child who doesn’t know predators exist. It is their mission to teach kids who predators are, how they operate, and how to respond if they meet a predator. Their personal safety and self-defense training for children has been proven to change a child’s understanding about who predators are, improve self-protective behaviors and increase confidence in responding to a predator. Children have avoided and escaped attacks as a result of their training, and children have disclosed sexual abuse as a result of their training.

They work with private groups and child-serving organizations in the metro Atlanta area, training thousands of children every year. Visit their Programs Page for more information about our personal safety and self-defense training programs.

Veronica Guobadia and Carla Simms/Care4All Children Services

Care4All Children Services is licensed by the State of Georgia through the Department of Human Services – Office of Regulatory Child Care (DHS – ORCC) to provide placements and social services to children in foster care. The agency holds a contract with the Office of Provider Management (OPM) and partners with the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS).

Care4All Children Services recruits, trains and recommends families to OPM for approval in order to obtain a license to foster children in their homes. Once a home is licensed and children are placed for care, Care4All provides follow up social services to ensure that the basic needs of the children and parents are met.

As a Therapeutic Foster Care Agency, Care4All requires more training for parents initially and on-going. The agency also provides more support for children and caregivers. Treatment foster care is preferred over residential or group home-care because it maintains children in family settings, which in turn reduces incidences of trauma. To ensure the safety and security of children, Care4All’s intensive foster parent training includes crisis management and emergency response.