Lauri Plesco the founder of TAG (Teleprompter Accreditation Group), joins host Dana Barrett in-studio to talk about the benefits of Teleprompter certification for both producers and talent. She also shares her unique path and some great stories from her 20+ years working in the business here in Atlanta!
Chris Smith is a fourth-generation Bostonian and a descendant of Governor William Bradford (Mayflower). After majoring in business at Boston College, she moved to Dallas and was married in 1977. Chris worked in several start-up companies with her husband, spanning restaurants, pest control and real estate. Chris then decided to pursue her passion for helping people.
Having looked up to her grandmother, who was a nurse and one of the finest people she had ever known, Chris endeavored to emulate her. All her life, Chris had been a caretaker and enjoyed making a difference in peoples’ lives. Being a baby boomer, Chris is very cognizant of our aging population and for a long time has had a keen interest in seniors.
A dear friend told Chris of a friend who owned a senior living community and needed help with marketing. They met and there was an instant connection. Chris has been part of ParkGate for a year and finds working with people in this industry to be one of the most gratifying experiences that she could have hoped for. The people in the elder care profession have proven to be kind-hearted, caring, attentive and selfless. Chris says “It’s so rewarding to be among people who really do care.” For more information about ParkGate, email Chris at chris.smith@parkgatedallas.com or call the main number at 214-219-1091. You can also visit their website at www.parkgatedallas.com.
Born and raised in Boston, Lois Ricci has been a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner for 40 years. She started her nursing career working night shifts in the ICU at a hospital in Missouri. While there, she was asked to teach nursing assistants in a nursing home. She quickly realized that she loved working with the elderly (and didn’t love working the night shift)! She went on to do graduate work in Gerontology, and earned a doctorate in education. She recently spent three years with the University of Georgia Institute of Gerontology, and now is teaching courses at Kennesaw, University of Georgia and Clayton State University.
Lois also sits on the board of the Georgia Gerontology Society. This is an organization that provides a wide variety of educational resources to its members, and to the community. In addition, the Georgia Gerontology Society holds two educational events each year. On March 16, the Society is hosting its Spring workshop, entitled Palliative Care: Bringing the Pieces Together. This event will be held at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in the Eversole Auditorium from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. The cost is $50, and lunch and parking are provided. While the event will be held in Macon, it will be well worth the 75 minute drive! In addition, Social Work CEUs will be available. Find out more by visiting the website: www.georgiagerontologysociety.com. Lois can be reached via email at loisricci@bellsouth.net.
We want to thank Griswold Special Care for sponsoring today’s show. Griswold Special Care has been a preferred provider of high quality, affordable in-home senior care in Dallas and Atlanta for 20 years.
Kadeem and Kejuan visit the Business Radio X studio to talk about their upbringing, inspirations, and their hopes for the future. They are determined to provide value to young, aspiring entrepreneurs and help them not only bring their ideas to fruition but to make them profitable. Kadeem was a student at Florida A&M University when he had the idea for the business and called his old friend Kejuan to help him get it started. Young Entrepreneur Atlanta helps people aged 12-24 to grow and scale their businesses. A great line from the interview is,”Your network determines your net worth.” Never underestimate the importance of building and maintaining a strong network of professional contacts! The Facebook group for Kadeem and Kejuan’s “I Want To Be An Entrepreneur” can be found here.
In this week’s show, we talk with parents who turned the death of their child into a legacy to create hope and help for others. Debbie Houchins Sobeski is author of A Dove Set Free – A Mother’s Journey Through the Flood. In her book she chronicles her faith journey as a mother during her daughter Hannah’s battle with cancer. Debbie is also one of four co-founders of Hannah’s Hope Ministries operating under the mission statement “To provide hope to individuals and families in life crisis.” A movie about Hannah’s life is currently in production under the working title of “The Hannah Sobeski Movie.” The second guest on today’s show is W.E. (Bill) Smith who wrote Later: A Journey of Hope for When Everyone Survives which tells about his son Wes and the faith, family and community that helped them through a life-changing year. Wes loved life, looked for opportunities to laugh and enjoyed making others laugh until his death from leukemia. The foundation Bill co-founded, When Everyone Survives, has donated $625,000 to date for leukemia research in honor of Wes.
Join Vanessa Lowry and Tim Morrison as we discover the legacy of faith and influence left by the children of these parents/authors.
 On March 7, 2012 tune in to BrandMoney to listen to Pam Onyanyo from Cedar International talk about expanding small and medium businesses into Africa.Pam Onyanyo is President/CEO of CedarInternational and is “Featured in BusinessWeek” as one and upcoming women entrepreneurs in North America. She is a true champion and understands what it takes to successfully close a business transaction in Africa and other developing countries.”Ms. Onyanyo has over 18 years of management and International business experience. She has held numerous executive positions in diverse companies including IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Onyanyo responsibilities included business development, strategy planning, operations management, and corporate risk management.Ms. Onyanyo managed PricewaterhouseCoopers’ integrated consulting solutions servicing fortune 100/500 companies globally where she was responsible for managing a multi-million dollar practice of PwC Operations and Controls service line. Prior to formation of Cedar Ms. Onyanyo founded a successful management consulting firm IMCG that provided Corporate Risk Management and Enterprise Resource Planning. In her current role as President & CEO of Cedar International, she is responsible for the overall management of Cedar operations on both domestic and international fronts. She is constantly identifying and forging new alliance partners to position Cedar to be one of the best in delivering the services and products Cedar offers to its clients globally. Through her efforts, Cedar has successfully completed major transactions to East Africa that involved US multinational manufacturing companies with Exim-Bank offering credit facility. She is also the founder of OBRA Consulting a management consulting firm that provides Organizational Change Management, IT Change Readiness and Enterprise Project Management services to small and middle market companies. Ms. Onyanyo is passionate about community development especially areas that effect underprivileged. She works with inner-city children both abroad in Africa “Kenya” and in the State of Georgia “Atlanta” she is also a mentor to many young girls and upcoming entrepreneurs. |
Keith Green has worked with thousands of individuals who are preparing for retirement. He responded to critical gaps in the U.S. retirement system by founding the American Retirement Initiative in which he serves as its president. The American Retirement Initiative is a national conversation that facilitates best practice-sharing among trusted advisors. ARI provides thought leadership on employer-sponsored retirement plans and the retirement landscape in general in the US. He brings to this role over 20 years in leadership roles for leading financial services companies offering retirement solutions to individuals and organizations.
In his early career with TIAA-CREF, Keith worked as an Institutional Consultant, collaborating with colleges and universities on their retirement plan designs. Keith then joined Aetna Financial Services as its Regional Manager in its Michigan office and ultimately became vice president for its Southeastern Region.
After ING’s acquisition of Aetna Financial Services in 2000, Keith held progressively responsible roles, including Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Senior Vice President of Domestic Emerging Markets. He was then appointed Senior Vice President and executive-on-loan to Hemisphere, Inc., an organization tasked with bringing the headquarters of the Free Trade Area of the Americas to Atlanta. Much of his time during that period was spent in Latin American and the Caribbean capitols promoting trade and working on economic development issues with diplomats and democratically elected leaders.
In January 2006, Mr. Green was appointed Vice President of Government Relations for ING, responsible for ING’s state government relations in twenty US states. He held this role until 20ll when he founded the American Retirement Initiative.
Keith received both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan.
Bob Reid graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, married his sweetheart and went on to get a Master’s in EE from Stanford University. The work at Stanford was paid for by Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. His time at Bell Labs was by far the happiest time of his life. While starting a family, Bob became an instrument rated pilot. Working at the Labs was heaven for an engineer, where he wrote software for one of the first packet switches that was actually deployed. Bob produced the first computer generated animated video. (16mm movie!)
The department Bob was a part of was the systems engineering department for all data communications of the Bell System, and they never thought that the internet would be the result of the channels and switches that they were working on.
After taking a promotion with AT&T, where they put him through an Executive MBA program at Pace University, Bob decided the next headhunter that called would get his attention.
Bob and his family moved to Atlanta In 1980 to join a startup in satellite communications called Isacomm, where he was in charge of all the advanced data communications applications. The main outgrowth of that group was the first video conferencing network called “The Meeting Channel.” Isacomm was bought by United Telecom and eventually became the national accounts division of US Sprint. Rather than move to Kansas City, Bob joined Scientific Atlanta and began the very early development of the VSAT product line.
Bob left Scientific Atlanta in 1987 and wrote a business plan for AvData Systems, a shared hub satellite service, where he raised $1.4M in initial funding for this new company and booked $3.7M in revenue before we opened the doors for business.
In 2004 Bob Reid joined SDN Global as VP of Business Operations. SDN is an enterprise and military communications company using satellite and other technologies to literally cover the globe.
In more recent years, Bob has been the VP of Business Development at The Kotter Group, a 100% Virtual Desktop Company.
Bob Reid’s greatest mentor and influence was his father who was part of the greatest generation. He returned from the war to start a fine furniture manufacturing company which continues today under one of his grandsons. (reidclassics.com). He taught Bob what it meant to be a real patriot and to start and run a business successfully. He also instilled in him a love for math and physics.
Bill brings a Client focused attention to the Business Development initiatives for Talent Connections and Career Spa. Bill’s career encompasses 20+ years of Leadership, Business Strategy, Sales Process, and Human Resources success. As President at AMPF/AMCI, a consumer products company, Bill has initiated a targeted Sales focus across his national team to increase customer interaction, built sales processes consistent across the organization and increased customer contact to grow the brand. Bill’s background includes start-up experience where he served as Director of Sales for FANMATS, a consumer products company.
From 1997 to 2003 Bill led the recruiting practices and leadership development initiatives as Manager of Staffing and Development at Larson-Juhl, a Berkshire-Hathaway subsidiary. In this role, Bill initiated an entirely new national sales recruiting process and strategy, built the recruiting criteria, identified the key criteria for performance success and worked collaboratively across the organization to drive the process.
Bill is active in career mentoring and business networking as a board member for the St. Brigid Business Connection Group and he volunteers with the Christ Centered Career Group (C3G) at Northpoint Community Church – both located in Alpharetta, GA. In addition, Bill is active in the Atlanta Catholic Business Conference, the Kettering Executive Network, the Furman Business Breakfast series, Hith Tech Ministries and the Men of St. Brigid.
Earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Furman University in Greenville, SC, Bill chose to stay in the southeast after growing up in south Florida. Bill, his wife Laura and their daughter Hampton live in Alpharetta where they are active with travel softball, school activities and enjoying the outdoors. They enjoy golf, tennis, tent camping, trips to the beach and their Boxer, Samantha.
So many people have had to redefine their careers and look for other income streams to make it through the recession, now is a good time to explore a passion business that can help you feel and be more successful.
Joining us in the studio today, Celest Turner, an expert who facilitates authentic and sustainable success through personal coaching, writing, and training. She has been featured on NBC Philadelphia, GalTime TV Orlando, Examiner.com, and The Daily Buzz national morning show. She is also a columnist for Headdrama.com.
When it comes to growth and success strategies, Celest is definitely a renaissance practitioner. She has worked with aspiring entrepreneurs, ambitious individuals, and businesses to help them refine their vision and design a path to achieve success.
International powerhouse Lisa Nichols of The Secret and Chicken Soup for the African American Woman’s Soul calls Celest one of her “ambassadors of fortitude†and has featured her story of overcoming bullying and shyness in the book Unbreakable Spirit.
To learn more about Celest Turner, visit www.growthbycelest.com. To connect with her:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/growthbycelest
Twitter: www.twitter.com/growthbycelest
Youtube: www.youtube.com/growthcoachcelest
My name is Scoop McGee and one thing that I enjoy more than anything in the world is finding the best deals in town. I have a great knack for finding great deals and what I do for you is provide these deals directly to you. This way you can use these deals in the town with your work and live.
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Last week was by far the most fun interview to date. The Art Project (TAP) brought four talented artists (and jokesters) in to talk about promoting the arts in Atlanta through sketch comedy. My four guests were as follows:
Christian Andrews (creator of TAP)
Cori Burns (writer, director, producer and actress)
David Johannaber (TV and film producer)
and Julio Ceballes (fine artist) – check out his amazing artwork here: http://julioceballos.carbonmade.com/
