Lane Jones is ready to enjoy life!! How did he get there? That’s what most of us want to know… check out the link and find out how he is able to “retire and enjoy”! Lane has made such a huge impact in our community and the way we serve one another not only personally but also, professionally. From coffee, to construction and bottled water, Lane has contributed so much for all in the North Georgia region. 
Pensacola Business Radio: PodGuest Series Ep 2.
Sasha Laghonh Business & Lifestyle Strategist www.sashatalks.com
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Sasha Laghonh (laa-go ) brings over eighteen years of experience to the commercial and spiritual realm by working with private and commercial clients hosting diverse backgrounds and life endeavors. As a seasoned MBA professional, she also specializes in Organizational & Human Behavior which grants her a broad base from which to approach many topics. These tools drive her corporate career by executing diverse business strategies in complex and evolving environments. As a Business & Lifestyle Strategist she works with clients ready to transform their paths by offering customized services relevant to their needs.
To complement her career, she is a spiritualist hosting abilities that allow her to deliver intuitive insights derived from questions possessing various degrees of complexity. By applying these insights as a self-development tool, one can empower themselves by making better decisions with clarity and confidence. Sasha continues to share her craft with global clients through private sessions, professional groups and global media including print.
As a producer and author, Sasha’s work is presented through various media appearances and private speaking engagements. As a frequent guest on FM/AM radio and worldwide platforms, including events, she educates audiences on business strategies, effective management & leadership, lifestyle choices, and spirituality. For pleasure Sasha enjoys traveling, teaching and raising awareness of various humanitarian efforts. To learn more, visit www.sashatalks.com.
To say Tom has been through a few things in his 30+ years of being an entrepreneur is an understatement. He’s definitely had more failures than successes, but wouldn’t have it any other way. He sold His fitness business which he owned for 9 years a year ago to become the Impact Pilot, helping entrepreneurs generate more income through better sales strategy and using stories to sell.
Free gift for the audience: workbook on how to create a story: www.TomJackobs.com/storybook
Grab my workbook on how to create your own story at www.TomJackobs.com/storybook
I help business owners create more impact in their business with Story Based Selling.
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Lorena Tomasini
Owner, MALM Life and Health Insurance Agency
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Life Insurance | Health Insurance | Medicare | Final Expense | Dental Plans
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Lorena Tomasini is part of a mother-daughter duo. Has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Florida International University where she majored in Finance and has 12 years of experience in the life and health insurance industry. Works virtually with her clients via phone and screen share to make it fun and simple for everyone. Enjoy a cup of coffee or tea while learning valuable financial protection information.
Jim Rhodes/Michelle Gadson/Jay Smith
Planning Committee Memebers
ITEN WIRED is a conference hosted by IT Gulf Coast and Florida West Economic Development Alliance. The annual summit provides networking and learning opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, technology professionals and academia to foster local economic development efforts surrounding innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.
The ITEN WIRED planning team is composed of volunteers from IT Gulf Coast, Florida West Economic Development Alliance, and other members of our local IT community.
Foo Foo Fest events – www.FooFooFest.com
5th Annual Foo Foo Festival Arrives in Pensacola, Florida November 1-12
The “Festival City of the South” Offers 12-Day Arts & Culture Celebration
Pensacola, Fla. – When the modern performance arts have the backdrop of America’s oldest settlement, one of the South’s most charming coastal cities is magically transformed into a delightful, sensory feast. The nonprofit organization, Art, Culture, and Entertainment, Inc. (ACE), presents this sensory event when the 5th Annual Foo Foo Festival occurs November 1-12, 2018 in Pensacola, Fla. The 12-day Foo Foo Fest celebrates culturally creative happenings, events and moments and invites visitors to “Vacation Artfully” in Pensacola for nearly two weeks.
Pensacola, known as the “Festival City of the South,” is the only city on the stretch of the Gulf Coast from Mobile, Ala. to Tampa, Fla. that boasts having the “big five,” an opera, ballet, symphony, theatre and museum. Foo Foo Festival’s roster of events celebrates art, music, dance, opera, theatre and cuisine with programming from 30 grant recipients, throughout the city of Pensacola for nearly two weeks. The 2018 ACE grant recipients will host individual experiences specific to their craft throughout the festival. Strategically positioned in and around some of Pensacola’s most popular and longer-running events, the Foo Foo Fest encourages cultural tourists to make Pensacola an arts destination and enjoy other events those two weeks including The Greater Gulf Coast Arts Festival, the Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show, Pensacola Eggfest, the 34th Annual Frank Brown Songwriters Festival and the 14th Annual Pensacola Marathon.
To mark the fifth anniversary of the Foo Foo Fest, this year’s 2018 event features a special, large-scale interactive picture mural created from thousands of images of festival-goers. This Foo Foo Festival Picture Mosaic allows visitors to become “part of the art,” actually leaving personal, creative marks on a permanent historical art collage in downtown Pensacola, thus further emphasizing the wider community’s interconnectivity.
“Pensacola, Fla. has established a stellar reputation for its unique, diverse cultural arts offerings,” said David Bear, trustee emeritus for Art, Culture, and Entertainment, Inc. “So, it’s only natural we bring not only a variety of opera, ballet, symphony, theatre and museum culture to visitors and residents, but so many other diverse offerings of high artistic, cultural caliber during the 5th annual Foo Foo Fest.”
2018 Foo Foo Festival Highlights include:
In addition to the arts, downtown Pensacola offers historic walking tours, a large farmer’s market, quaint shops, food trucks, brewery tours and daily running clubs. Hosting the Foo Foo Festival in the fall offers big fun and a hefty dose of Southern sophistication delivered to boost tourism and travel during the “off season” with its unique slate of events.
For more information about the 2018 Pensacola Foo Foo Festival visit www.FooFooFest.com or follow Foo Foo Festival on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
About Art, Culture, Entertainment, Inc. (ACE)
ACE is a nonprofit organization that receives Federal, State of Florida, Escambia County, City of Pensacola, corporate, foundation and personal funds. ACE disperses these funds through an equitable granting process to nonprofit arts, culture and entertainment organizations throughout Escambia County, Fla., and promotes Escambia County as an arts and cultural destination through the annual Foo Foo Festival and other marketing efforts. For more information about ACE, visit www.acepensacola.org.
Tucson Means Business Episode 1 Guests:
Mitch Pisik
Executive Coach and Business Consultant
631-943-5275
mitch@pisik.consulting
Linkedin.com/in/mitchpisik
Twitter: @mitchpisik
Mitch has worked as an Executive Coach, Business Consultant, Keynote Speaker and Facilitator for the past twenty years; doing so in a full-time practice since 2016.
He leverages the award-winning successes of turning-around and substantially growing four diverse Private-Equity portfolio businesses as CEO (in New York, Texas, and Arizona) over fifteen years; and previously for seventeen years as a Senior Executive in strategy, business development, operations, finance, mergers and acquisitions, consulting, and finance at several of the world’s largest global companies – including Kraft, Newell-Rubbermaid, Novartis, and KPMG.
He has conducted business in over three dozen countries.
He is and has been, an active Board Member of numerous public, private, and not-for-profit organizations – including the Tucson Metro Chamber.
He also teaches the Strategic Leadership course at the University of Arizona.
A partial list of recent awards includes:
In 2016 winning the “Innovation in the Workplace” Award from the Society of Human Resource Management.
Finalist for the Copper Cactus “Business Leader of the Year” Award in 2016 and 2015.
In 2014 winning the Copper Cactus Award for the “Best Place to work in Southern Arizona”.
Bob Dytko
Stewart Title & Trust of Tucson
CIO, VP of Commercial
Development and Special Operations.
520-668-6697
linkedin.com/in/bob-dytko-4a1b805
Twitter: @bdytko
Bob provides today’s and yesterdays information about our industry here in Pima County along with other counties in Southern Arizona. His position is to be informed to answer your questions about our area. He has all the information you need at his fingertips. He will also share with you where to find the information to help you with your endeavor. He provides this service for his clients, potential clients, and his own employees as well.
His position VP of Social Media/Marketing Education Liaisons was created to provide you with the quality service and peace of mind, you deserve in the hassle-free, safe and secure escrow and title experience. The position does not stop after the closing of escrow but to maintain communication and excellent service for your future business endeavor.
Bob’s position has been amazing for him. He has not been happier in his life doing what he loves and that is reaching out and helping everyone he can be successful in life.
Bert Williams
Williams and Associates
Family owned since 1977 and celebrating their 41st anniversary this year.
Williams & Associates was founded in 1977, by Bert Williams, working in a small home office (the kitchen table) and has grown to include 3 locations: Tucson, AZ, Tempe, AZ and Lahaina, HI.
Williams and Associates is a multi-award winning Promotional Products company.
They have won the industry’s top award, the Gold Pyramid, three times.
Especially noteworthy is that last year they were named “National Family Business of the Year” by the
22,000-member Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI). Despite these rare accolades, owners Bert and Anne
Williams are most especially proud that their average salesperson has been with them for 29 years.
On a local level, Bert recently was named the Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce “2018 Legacy Member.”
With offices in Tucson, Phoenix, and Hawaii, they serve more than 3,000 national and international clients and are ranked in the top 1 percent in sales in the U.S.
“Marketing Solutions Through Promotional Products.”
Guns To Hammers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides our wounded veterans with Americans With Disabilities (ADA)-compliant remodeling and renovation services, making their homes easily accessible, helping them live independent and manageable lives.
After founding H-Towne & Around Remodelers, Inc., a successful remodeling company in Houston, Texas, founder, JR Smith, decided to redirect his time, money and energy toward this mission. As a former U.S. Marine, coupled with some guilt that he was able to leave the USMC unhurt and able-bodied (unlike many), JR feels he has a huge sense of responsibility to his wounded brothers and sisters who are now living at home — many of them in need of various home improvements.
Your donation will help make this happen, sponsoring veterans across the United States, transforming homes — opening doors and possibilities — to our veterans who need it most. Many of our veterans made huge sacrifices to protect our freedoms — it’s our responsibility to ensure they are never left behind. Donate, today.
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Jim Rhodes/Director ITEN WIRED – Carson Wilber/UWF Cyber Ambassador – Eman El-Sheikh, Ph.D./Director, Center for Cyber security at UWF
Eman El-Sheikh, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Cybersecurity
Professor, Computer Science
PI and Director, NSF ADVANCE Program
Designated by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education, we focus on three distinct areas to promote and expand cybersecurity awareness and practice.
We’re preparing the next generation of cybersecurity leaders with dynamic, interdisciplinary education and state-of-the-art training programs and facilities.
UWF Cybersecurity scholars work comprehensively to detect critical vulnerabilities and defend organizations of all sizes against information security exploitation.
Become a cybersecurity expert with up-to-date, industry-aligned programs and hands-on experience at the University of West Florida. UWF offers multidisciplinary Cybersecurity degree programs and certificates at the undergraduate and graduate levels. UWF is a member of the National CyberWatch Center and provides interdisciplinary Cybersecurity programs and certificates crossing Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security Management, Computer Engineering, Security and Diplomacy and other areas. Scholarships are available to support students in Cybersecurity-related areas.
The University of West Florida (UWF) offers multiple undergraduate and graduate programs in the area of Cybersecurity. These programs are each designed to make the student a highly employable candidate in the field of Cybersecurity.
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs
The Center for Cybersecurity also offers multiple undergraduate and graduate certificates in a variety of fields to best serve the needs of both students and the workforce.
Undergraduate Certificates
Graduate Certificates
Denise N Ables-PACE Center for Girls
Retired Diagnostic Sales Consultant since 2015.
Full time volunteer for 2 organizations:
PACE Center for Girls, Board of Directors, Media and Marketing Chair, Men Who Cook Co-Chair
Pensacola Women’s Alliance, Board of Directors, Chair
Mrs. Georgia Blackmon
| The Gathering Awareness & Book Center |
Mrs. Georgia Blackmon was born and raised in Pensacola, FL. She graduated from Booker T. Washing High School. She has been married to Johnny Blackmon for 56 years. They have two children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Blackmon is very active in the community. She was taught a long time ago, “If you take care of your community and children; the community and children will take of you.”
Mr. & Mrs. Blackmon are the owners of The Gathering Awareness and Book Center located in Pensacola, FL.
awarenessg@thegathering.gccoxmail
Stacey Robello-Home Instead Senior Care
In 2017, Stacy Robello, became one of the new owners at Home Instead Senior Care of Pensacola. She was a founding employee of the franchise in 1999 until late 2001. After receiving her BA in Elementary Education from the University of West Florida, she left to pursue her career as an educator in one of Florida’s top ranked systems; Santa Rosa County School District. But when the Home Instead office was granted their Home Health Agency license from the State of Florida in 2006, Stacy was inspired to return; this time as a Community Educator addressing issues specific to the aging population and as a promoter of the many home care services offered by Home Instead. She helps drive referrals and builds relationships within the provider network of home care. Some of Stacy’s affiliations are with the Baptist Women’s Board, Escarosa Senior Alliance, Santa Rosa Healthcare Advocates and the Healthcare Professionals Association of Northwest Florida, Impact 100 and Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Guild. Stacy is more enthusiastic than ever and she’s excited to continue the tradition of bringing exceptional home care and being a choice employer to the Pensacola community.
Kolleen Edwards Chesley
Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.
Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.
The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.
Contact directors@powerfulwomengulfcoast.com for more information or visit our website at www.powerfulwomengulfcoast.com or Facebook at “Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast” for all of our meeting information.
Pensacola Business Radio: Grover Robinson, Stan Harper and JETRO, Keith Hoffert-The ever changing business climate of Pensacola Florida and new direction of growth
Commissioner Grover C. Robinson, IV, is a seventh generation Pensacolian who currently serves as Escambia County’s District 4 Commissioner. Robinson has served on the county commission since 2006, and was appointed chairman in 2010 and 2016. He has also serves as chairman for the Florida Gulf Consortium. His past services include president of the Florida Association of Counties from 2014-15, 2016 class member of Leadership Florida and National Association of Counties at-large board member.
Robinson has been actively involved in the community, serving as a current or past board member for the Pensacola State College Foundation, Junior Achievement of Northwest Florida, United Way of Escambia County, Baptist Health Care Foundation, Christ Church Episcopal Parish and more. He and his wife Jill have two children, Grover V and Anna Lowrey.
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JETRO, or the Japan External Trade Organization, is a government-related organization that works to promote mutual trade and investment between Japan and the rest of the world. Originally established in 1958 to promote Japanese exports abroad, JETRO’s core focus in the 21st century has shifted toward promoting foreign direct investment into Japan and helping small to medium size Japanese firms maximize their global export potential.
