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Rome Floyd Chamber Small Business Spotlight – Sarah Long of PSI and Rocky Shaw of JBM
TMBS E100: Jim Francis, consumer law attorney
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Jim Francis is an accomplished consumer law attorney who works to protect consumers in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Francis’ work at his firm, Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C., focuses on fair credit reporting, fair debt collection practices, and consumer class actions. He has served as Class counsel in over 35 consumer class actions, trial counsel in two class actions, and counsel to some of the largest Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) settlements in history.
He has published articles and spoken extensively about the FCRA. Francis appeared on various news programs, including the Today Show and PBS NewsHour to discuss consumer-related issues and was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Also, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA).
Francis has been recognized for his work in consumer protection litigation. In 2004, Mr. Francis was the youngest lawyer to be ranked in the Top 100 Superlawyers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine.
He was subsequently ranked a Top 100 Pennsylvania Superlawyer in 2008, 2012, 2014-2018 and has regularly ranked one of the Top 100 Superlawyers in Philadelphia since 2004. Also in May 2014, he received the Community Legal Services of Philadelphia’s Equal Justice Award at its annual Breakfast of Champions. He is a 1992 graduate of Muhlenberg College (B.A., cum laude) and a 1995 graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law.
CTWJ E20: Kimberley Walker, Pima Paws for Life
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Kimberley Walker, President
Pima Paws for Life
2555 W. Zinnia Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
520-888-4307
Kimberley@pimapawsforlife.org
PimaPawsforLife.org
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook |
Kimberley was born in Michigan, and her family moved here when she was two years old. She has had a love for animals since she was a small child, and has had dogs, cats, horses, birds, and several types of reptiles. Kimberley has been involved in animal welfare in Tucson for 36 years and has worked professionally with animals her entire life. She wanted to start Pima Paws for Life in order to save animals that were being killed for illnesses and problems that were easily treated. She enjoys painting, reading, and crafts when she can find the time.
About the Business
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Pima Paws for Life was started 6 years ago, at a time when the dogs and cats at the Pima County shelter were still being killed for easily resolved medical problems, such as upper respiratory infections, mange, and ringworm. Their entire purpose was to pull these animals to safety, treat them, and find them good homes. As improvements were made at the County shelter, Pima Paws for Life expanded its reach to poorly funded outlying shelters, reservations, and the general public. Despite their heavy focus on animals with both easily treatable and serious medical issues, they have maintained a save rate that has never fallen below 98% since opening.
About Your Host
Jaime Overturf
Farmers Agent, Entrepreneur
2555 N Campbell Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 293-2900
joverturf@farmersagent.com
As a local Farmers® agent in Tucson, AZ, Jaime Overturf helps customers identify the insurance coverage that best fits their needs. This process is straightforward and personalized to help make them more informed about their insurance options.
Jaime has the knowledge and experience to help customers better understand their coverage options–whether that Jaime has the knowledge and experience to help customers better understand their coverage options–whether that’s auto, home, life, business insurance and more. You can connect with Jaime on Facebook.
Franchise Bible Coach Radio: Vince Ficarrotta with RNR Tire Express
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Vince Ficarrotta directs RNR franchising, from establishing territories and awarding franchises, to assisting with site selection, lease review and store layout, and so much more. He’s also a liaison for our home-office support staff, operations team and vendors.
Vince first went to work in the Rent-To-Own industry for Larry Sutton in 1981 as a 19-year-old driver for Champion TV & Appliance Rentals and advanced quickly through its ranks. He served as SE Regional VP of Real Estate for Home Choice/RentWay and eventually helped Larry create the format to franchise RNR in 2003.
“Due to my start in RTO I enjoy staying close to the stores and relish interacting with customers and seeing them become ambassadors for the brand,” says Vince. He has four children ranging in ages from nine to 30-years old: Jaxon, Sara Antonia, Vincent IV, and Gina Marie. He works out regularly, competes in sprint triathlons and admits to being a Zumba enthusiast. He’s a past president of THAN, Tampa Homeowners, Association of Neighborhoods and sits on the board of his local homeowners’ association.
Connect with Vince on LinkedIn.
About the Show
The Franchise Bible Coach Radio Podcast with Rick and Rob features no-nonsense franchise industry best practices and proprietary strategies that franchisors and 
franchise owners can implement to improve their profitability and operational efficiencies.
Our show guests are franchise superstars and everyday heroes that share their tips for growth and strategies to survive and thrive during the current challenges.
About Your Hosts
Rick Grossman has been involved in the franchise industry since 1994. He franchised his first company and grew it to 49 locations in 19 states during the mid to late 1990s. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and primary trainer focusing on franchise owner relations and creating tools and technologies to increase franchisee success.
Rick developed and launched his second franchise organization in 2003. He led this company as the CEO and CMO growing to over 150 locations in less than three years. He developed the high tech/high touch franchise recruiting and sales system.
Both companies achieved ranking on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 List. During this period Rick served as a business and marketing consultant to small business and multimillion dollar enterprises. He also consulted with franchise owners and prospective franchisees, franchisors, and companies seeking to franchise.
Rick had the honor of working with his mentor, Erwin Keup as a contributing Author for the 7th edition of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise Bible published by Entrepreneur Press.
Mr. Grossmann has been chosen as the new Author of Franchise Bible and his 8th Edition was released worldwide in January of 2017. He currently serves as an executive coach and strategist for multiple franchise clients.
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Rob Gandley has served as SeoSamba’s Vice President and Strategic Partner since 2015.
With 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship, digital marketing, sales, and technology, he continues to focus on leading the expansion of SeoSamba’s product and service capabilities and US market penetration. SeoSamba specializes in centralized marketing technology built for multi-location business models and continues to win industry awards and grow consistently year over year.
Concurrent with his work at SeoSamba, Gandley is a strategic growth consultant and CEO of FranchiseNow, a digital marketing and sales consulting firm. Gandley consults digital businesses, entrepreneurs, coaches and multi-location businesses across diverse industries. Prior to SeoSamba, he built an Internet Marketing business and platform responsible for generating over 100,000 qualified franchise development leads used by more than 400 US-based franchise brands for rapid business expansion.
Gandley also held various senior sales and management positions with IT and Internet pioneers like PSINet, AT&T, and SunGard Data Systems from (1993-2005) where he set sales records for sales and revenue growth at each company. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal Business School in 92’ with a BS degree in Finance and emphasis on Marketing.
Connect with Rob on LinkedIn.
Martine Resnick with The Lola
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Martine Resnick has created, built, marketed and monetized brands across television, film, digital media, e-commerce, retail, beauty, and interiors in the US and across Europe for both big and small brands, including Estee Lauder (Bumble and bumble.) and Warner Media (Cartoon Network, TNT and TBS).
Martine is a specialist in brands aimed at women. Over her career she launched and built multiple female brands including the Emmy winning Full Frontal with Samantha Bee on TBS and Cartoon Network’s award-winning – The Powerpuff Girls, turning it into a lifestyle brand for women and girls across fashion, beauty, home, sports and design. Over it’s 10+ years of success the brand has generated well over a billion dollars in revenue and became the No.1 selling brand for girls in multiple countries. Martine has also fostered profitable partnerships and collaborations with female-forward brands such as Refinery29, SheKnows, Blogher, The Wing, Topshop, Liberty London, Selfridges, Fred Segal to name a few.
After stepping away from corporate life, Martine started her own business and is The Co-Founder of The Lola – a Members club and community and workspace for women creating space to help women invest in themselves to grow professionally and personally through community, programming and content and a space purposely designed for women by women. The Lola’s first location opened summer 2019 in Atlanta’s Historic Old Fourth Ward (across from Ponce City Market) and already has over 390 Members within the first 8 months of opening.
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What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- How Martine leads her team when a racial crisis is underway
- Building an Antiracist Community
- Empowering Women in Business: Paving Your Own Path
- How Coworking Space Founders Are Beating COVID-19
- The impact of coronavirus challenges for small business owners
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Retirement Tips Radio: Fritz Gilbert with The Retirement Manifesto
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Fritz Gilbert retired at the age of 55 after a 33-year career in Corporate America.
His award-winning blog The Retirement Manifesto is focused on helping people achieve a great retirement.
Fritz and his wife, Jackie, live in a cabin in Blue Ridge, GA.
Connect with Fritz on LinkedIn and follow The Retirement Manifesto on Facebook and Twitter.
Retirement Tips Radio: Beau Henderson with RichLife Advisors
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Beau Henderson is a retirement planning specialist, a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and the founder and visionary of RichLife Advisors. He has helped more than 3,000 clients to not only improve their relationship with money, but to live their unique definition of a fulfilled, meaningful retirement with purpose.
Beau has a passion for financial education—both in serving as a go-to educational resource and continuing his professional development. He has a degree in psychology from the University of Georgia as well as the designations of Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP®), Certification for Long-Term Care (CLTC®), National Social Security Advisor (NSSA®), Certified Financial Fiduciary, Certified Professional Retirement Coach (CPRC), Certified Bucket Plan Advisor, Master Certified Success Coach and Certified Master Behavioral Analyst.
He is also an active member of Ed Slott’s Elite IRA Advisor Group℠—an organization dedicated to the ongoing education and mastery of the latest retirement tax laws. Through a strict commitment to ongoing training as well as access to America’s IRA Experts, Beau stays current on the latest strategies to help clients keep as much of their hard-earned savings from unnecessary taxes as possible.
Beau’s message of the RichLife has been featured in media outlets, including The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, MarketWatch and as a contributor to Forbes. He is radio host of The Retirement Resource and published author of ten books, including The RichLife – Ten Investments for True Wealth, The RoadMap to a RichLife: Success with Life, Relationships, and Money, Customized Social Security and 12 Steps to a Successful Retirement.
Beau’s passion for helping others organize their finances comes from a deeply personal experience—the loss of his father to lung cancer at the age of 49. He felt helpless as he watched his mother, who had been married to his father since she was 18, struggle with financial decisions and helped her piece her life together.
Through his family’s heartbreaking experience, he found a silver lining when he realized that he could make a profound difference in someone’s life by helping them navigate important financial decisions. His interest in psychology, coupled with his newfound interest in financial matters, led him to a career he loves. Now, more than 20 years later, he has never stopped learning and growing through his work and helping others create a Retirement by Design.
Beau is an avid local business advocate, podcast enthusiast and studio owner of North Georgia Business Radio X. He was recognized as Junior Achievement’s Business Partnership of the Year in 2016 for his efforts and commitment to increasing financial literacy in the community. In his free time, Beau loves to spend time with his family, including toddler, Gwendolyn, and time in the mountains of Murphy, NC.
Connect with Beau on LinkedIn and follow RichLife Advisors on Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.
High Velocity Radio: Mike Young with The Makeover Master
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Mike Young is the founder of The Makeover Master, host of the top-rated “Made Over Podcast”, author of “Made Over: How To Create A Powerful Brand That Will Transform Your Business & Save Your Life” and a seasoned entrepreneur.
Mike is the creator of the “Mentorship Makeover Business Growth System”, as part of what he considers his life’s work and duty to help others avoid the hellish 8.5 years of debt, pain and growing pains (and $200,000+) he spent buying every book and course he could afford, traveling to every seminar and event imaginable trying to get his business to work.
Be sure to check out Mike’s free course, Business Makeover Accelerator and The 5-Minute “Blind Spot” Challenge.
You can pick Mike’s brain here and connect with him on LinkedIn. Follow The Makeover Master on Facebook and Instagram.
Franchise Marketing Radio: Michael McFall with BIGGBY COFFEE
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Michael McFall doesn’t have a yacht, a podcast or an MBA, and you won’t hear him talking about being disruptive, leveraging assets or changing paradigms. He is, however, the founder of Global Orange Development, the co-CEO of BIGGBY COFFEE®, a fast-growing $100-million-dollar coffee franchise with 250+ locations across the Midwest and quickly expanding into the East Coast in 2020, and is author to the Inc. Original, Grind.
Mike’s story in the business world began during the Spring of 1997 when he and BIGGGBY founder Robert Fish went on their ‘infamous’ walk to discuss Mike’s role within the company which at the time had one location in East Lansing, Michigan. Two hours later, they were no longer talking about Mike managing a second store, but were agreeing on terms for creating a franchise and growing the brand. A handshake sealed the deal, and suddenly, they were partners of what is now the third-largest coffee franchise in the United States.
Having originally started with BIGGBY in 1996 as a minimum wage barista, Mike has since held every subsequent position within the company, including his current title as co-CEO (May 2016). Mike believes his time in each of his previous roles has allowed him to form a bond with his employees based on understanding, credibility, and respect. Two decades later, Mike shares his personal experiences having led Biggby through survival mode, stability, and aggressive growth.
One of many turning moments for Mike as a leader was the realization that just because BIGGBY was making money, didn’t mean they were doing a great job. From employees leaving without any notice to those who had no passion in what they were doing, Mike and his co-CEO came to the conclusion that something needed to change. After that pivotal moment, Mike was committed to making positive improvements, including creating a workplace culture based on love.
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn and follow BIGGBY COFFEE on Facebook.
