Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Christina Holtzclaw with Northwest Georgia Center For Independent Living, Penny Miller with Hampton Inn, Brooks Mathis with Greater Community Bank, and Todd Looper with InventureIT
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Investigation Duo Series Author Liane Carmen
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Liane Carmen is the author of the Investigation Duo Series. After using DNA testing to solve her own family mystery, she became passionate about helping others and writing stories about buried secrets. She recently completed a standalone novel, When Wings Flutter. She enjoys writing novels that deliver the unexpected but also have heart.
Her DVR is filled with shows from the ID channel, which she tries to reassure her boyfriend are mere “book research.” She’s an avid reader and a genealogy buff who’s been known to lose large blocks of time researching her family tree. She lives in Florida with her teenaged son and a houseful of pets, all of whom are always hungry.
Connect with Liane on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- About the Investigation Duo Series
- Writing
- DNA
- Genealogy
- Publishing
BRX Pro Tip: Systematic Prospecting
Giovanna Garcia-Pons with Gio Balance
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By combining her experience as a senior corporate executive and accredited health + life strategist, Giovanna “Gio” Garcia Pons combines cognitive science, cutting edge health modalities and business mastery to identify and optimize the biggest factor that sets companies apart from their competition: leadership + individual performance.
She incorporates her expertise in mind body connection and corporate sales, provides ground breaking training and support for individuals and companies that want to re energize their teams and elevate the health and performance of their entire company from the bottom up. This results in stronger engagement, collaboration, reduced healthcare costs, innovative solutions, and better business results.
Connect with Gio on LinkedIn.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Wellness & Performance
- Weight Loss
- Stress Management
- Habits
- Resilience
- Mindfulness
- Nutrition
- Personal & Professional Development
HWW E32: Sarah Michael; Sparkling Results
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About Sarah Michael
Sarah Michael is known as an Expert of Feminine Leadership and is the founder of Sparkling Results. Sarah works with women leaders to lead their lives and careers powerfully without being pushy.
Combining her practical business expertise, years of marketing and sales experience and gifts for Messaging, she created the Feminine Sales Power System out of her own experience learning to sell and market her services in a way that leverages her feminine side. Sarah helps her clients skyrocket their confidence and income with high-ticket programs that sell like hotcakes.
Sarah supports clients to sell themselves – their ideas, projects and results – in life and business by crafting conversations for any context that articulates esoteric and hard to describe ideas and intangible results in a way that people “get” and want to buy.
One of Sarah’s favorite expressions is “‘it doesn’t feel right’ can be a valid data point when making a decision.” In her work and her life, Sarah leverages feminine and masculine strengths to get results that feel good and create a sustainable lifestyle and career.
Sarah speaks and leads workshops throughout the country and around the world on topics related to leadership, sales and marketing. She holds a degree in English from Kenyon College and a Master of Communication Arts from New York University.
Website URL: https://sparklingresultscoaching.com/
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahemichael/
Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/SarahEMichael
Facebook Page URL: https://www.facebook.com/SparklingResultswithSarahMichael
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahmichael/
Additional Links:
https://sparklingresultscoaching.com/fsp/
https://sparklingresultscoaching.com/sell-like-a-girl
https://sparklingresultscoaching.com/flowchart
About the Host
Karen M. Fisher
Senior Loan Officer
NMLS ID# 180167 – AZ MLO Lic# 0911886
Summit Funding, Inc.
5151 E. Broadway Blvd., Ste. 700
Tucson, AZ 85711
Branch NMLS ID# 1464335 – Summit Funding, Inc NMLS ID#3199
AZ Lic# 0925837 – Equal Housing Opportunity 
(520) 447-2279 Direct Phone
Karen.Fisher@SummitFunding.net
www.OurNeighborsOurHeroes.com
As a Senior Loan Officer, I originate residential home loans (1-4 Units) for purchase or refinance transactions for owner-occupied, second homes, or investment properties. I am licensed in the State of Arizona; however, I can connect you to great mortgage loan officers anywhere in the United States or Canada. I have been a loan officer for just over 20 years. In the prior 17 years, I was a Realtor, an Associate Broker, Branch Manager, and Designated Broker. My beloved husband Scott and I have been married for over 37 years, we have an awesome daughter Allison who is engaged to her Gonzaga University sweetheart, Enrique. I love to read, travel, hike, golf, camp, entrepreneurial ideas, inventions, animals, and children. My key to success is to focus on excellence, not perfection, and being growth-minded.
Laura Bonich with The Leaders’ Lighthouse
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Laura Bonich is all about purpose, people, planet, and performance. She has worked with companies such as Burger King, H.J. Heinz, Kerry Ingredients and Campbell’s, as well as privately-held & family-owned companies.
Laura has developed and implemented national/global strategies that increased sales growth 20-50%, spearheaded multi-million-dollar portfolios and led projects from ideation to commercialization. With over 20 years in the Food & Beverage industry, Laura has experience in sales, purchasing, marketing, recruiting and executive coaching.
Having received a Bachelor in Psychology and a Masters in International Business, Laura has also trained at the Culinary Institute of America as a CCSP, and holds multiple coaching certifications, including with the International Coaching Federation.
Connect with Laura on LinkedIn
Matt Genova with Next Act Franchise Advisors
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Matt Genova is President, NEXT ACT Franchise Advisors. Matt was a Multimedia Sales and Sponsorship professional having worked for brands like The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN and WarnerMedia’s CNN. His teams helped local, regional and Fortune 500 companies reach new customers or reinforce their brand promise to current customers via cutting edge multimedia campaigns spanning broadcast, digital, mobile, audio, print and events.
After leaving the corporate world, Matt leveraged his sales and consultancy skills and launched Next Act Franchise Advisors, a franchise consultancy where he educates, guides and coaches people through the process of exploring business ownership through franchising. After relocating to Delray Beach, FL from Garden City, NY this Spring with his wife, Matt launched another company, Snackify Vending LLC, a healthy snack and drink vending machine business that will allow business owners to provide the nourishment their employees and/or customers need when they need it.
He has a charitable side to him as well. Matt’s eldest son, Jake, who graduated from Florida Tech last month, has Cystic Fibrosis, a progressive and deadly genetic disease with no cure. He most recently chaired the Advocacy & Outreach committee for the Greater NY Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation where helped to activate the CF patient and family community around specific initiatives and lobby for the CF Foundation in Washington, DC and Albany, NY.
Matt can be reached by phone: 917-522-0040 or email: matt@nextactfranchiseadvisors.com. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- Franchise vs. Starting your own business
- What is a Franchise Consultant?
- Advice for potential candidates
- Traits of a successful entrepreneur
- What it costs and funding options
- Management structure options
Paul Raley with Audality
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This episode is brought to you in part by our Co-Sponsor Trevelino/Keller
Paul Raley has been developing electronics for 37 years. Before founding Audality, Paul founded Paul Raley & Associates, Inc., a product design consulting firm that developed a wide range of products that includes wireless devices for the oil and gas community, wireless satellite transceivers, a wireless stereo turntable, and a robotic food processing system.
Paul previously served as a Board Member and Senior Vice President of Marketing for ESP, an electronics design firm that developed cable set top products for Arris and Scientific Atlanta. He also served on the board of directors for Coscomm Aerospace, where he was Chief Technical Officer.
Prior to that position, Paul was International Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Kitcomm, an Australian company that launched a constellation of satellites for satellite-based asset tracking systems. From 1991 to 1999, Paul was Director of Strategic Business Development for Scientific Atlanta, where he built joint ventures with Iridium Satellite, Orbcomm, GE Americom, Alcatel, and National Semiconductor.
Paul started his career as an engineer for military electronics giant Loral Electronics in 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to electronics startup Cross Systems, Inc. He spent his first eleven years developing aircraft electronic counter measure and electronics intelligence systems for the F-16, B-52, EP3 Orion, and the Nimrod.
Paul holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Brescia University, and an Associate’s Degree in Engineering Technology with a minor in Physics from Brescia University.
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn.
Amber Senter with Breeze Distro
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Amber E. Senter is founder and CEO of Breeze Distro, a licensed lifestyle and infused cannabis product and distribution company located in Oakland, CA.
She is also co-founder and executive director of Supernova Women, a women of color–led organization dedicated to empowering people of color to become self-sufficient cannabis industry shareholders.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- How Amber got started in the cannabis space
- The lack of diversity in the cannabis business
- About Breeze Distro and Supernova Women
- About EquityWorks! Incubator
