Daniel Dixon became the CEO of Send Jim in May 2019. Prior to becoming the leader of Send Jim, Daniel served as a military officer in the United States Air Force and worked in corporate America as a business consultant for a nationally recognized consulting firm.
During his time as a consultant Daniel founded a carpet cleaning business and really found a passion for entrepreneurship and small business.
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Named one of Atlanta’s top tech talents to watch, Geek Girl Emma Loggins is the founder and editor of the popular lifestyle site FanBolt, where she updates daily the latest happenings in the television and film industry, the world of technology, must-visit travel destinations – and really any that you’d be a fan of and geek out over! The site, which Emma also designed and developed by herself, currently receives an average of 300,000 hits per month and has given away over $200,000 in movie and television related contests since it first launched nearly two decades ago. She has conducted thousands of celebrity interviews with talent such as Jennifer Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, Joss Whedon, Betty White, John Travolta, William Shatner, Harrison Ford, Aaron Paul, Johan Hill, and so many more!
As a result of interviewing so many celebrities over the years, Emma is now a big fan of public speaking. She has spoken at over 50 events ranging from 5 to over 2,500 attendees, and she continues to seek out more speaking opportunities on everything from web usability, user interface design, web development, social media, web community building, blogging, and more.
In 2004, Emma was asked to be the official blogger for the FOX television series The O.C., and in 2005, she was interviewed by People Magazine for having one of the best television show websites. She was also a contributing writer on geek culture for several years with CNN.com.
Emma Loggins has done on-camera host and media personality work for a number of conventions where she has interviewed cast members of The Walking Dead, Lost, Breaking Bad, Gotham, Game of Thrones, American Horror Story and more.
Emma is also the founder and editor in chief of Women’s Business Daily, a site targeted at millennial female entrepreneurs who are chasing their dream and making it happen. Women’s Business Daily compliments their mission by providing daily content to motivate, inspire and educate them on their journey as well as help them achieve the ideal work/life balance!
Over the years, Emma has also worked as an influencer with a number of brands across all her social media profiles in addition to her websites. Some of these brands include Target, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, AMC, NARS, Coffee-mate, Coca Cola, Visit Scotland, Ireland Tourism, Toyota, Nissan, and more!
Designer + Developer + Social Media
Aside from the world of entertainment, Emma’s main company is a digital marketing agency, Excite Creative Studios. She has been designing websites since 1998. From small local businesses in Atlanta all the way up to campaigns with Warner Brothers for television series such as Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, and The Vampire Diaries, Loggins has worked with 100’s of businesses to design and optimize their web presence and also their social media marketing.
The Background AKA The Wonder Years
Emma was Valedictorian of her high school’s graduating class, and she went on to graduate with her Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia and Web Design (with a 4.0 GPA) from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 2006 where she won “Best in Show” at the school’s graduating portfolio show. However, Emma wasn’t quite done with furthering her education just yet, and in 2009 she received her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Web Design/New Media from The Academy of Art in San Francisco.
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Corey Rieck is the President and Founder of The Long Term Care Planning Group, a firm that specializes in delivering Long Term Care education and coverage to companies, high net worth individuals and large organizations. Since 2001, Corey has devoted his career to Long Term Care as a result of multiple personal experiences.
A neutral provider of Long Term Care Solutions since 2001, Corey brings a unique and comprehensive consultative perspective to this issue. Since 2003, part of his commitment to the Long Term Care Industry includes his having trained over 3,500 advisors from San Francisco to Wall Street on how to properly position Long Term Care to clients through the CLTC organization. Additionally, he has authored dozens of published industry articles on Long Term Care and has assisted many of the nation’s leading LTC carriers on operational and educational matters.
David Scott Peters is a restaurant coach, consultant, speaker, and trainer who teaches restaurant operators how to cut costs and increase profits with his trademark Restaurant Prosperity Formula. David has taught thousands of restaurants how to use operational systems and create a hospitality-based company culture to skyrocket their profits. He travels the world teaching his formula to restaurant owners, food distributors and a variety of hospitality groups. In addition, he is developing a set of online courses accessible to anyone interested in learning how to run a successful restaurant and a coaching program. In his past businesses, he used his formula to rescue a multi-unit restaurant sports bar chain from bankruptcy and helped the owners sell it for a profit. He built a restaurant management software from the ground up based on his formula and sold it to a group of investors that included satisfied software users.
David uses a no-BS style to teach and motivate restaurant owners to take control of their businesses and finally realize their full potential. Independent restaurant operators of single and multi-unit operations, as well as food distributors and consultants, can use his training courses to learn the operational systems every restaurant must understand and use to be profitable, especially in today’s economy of rising prices and wages.
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The basis of “water scarcity” is quite simple. When there is increasing demand for a finite resource that, in turn, has diminishing supply, then ultimately, we all have to deal with scarcity issues. In the case of water, this does not mean your faucet will go dry. It doesn’t mean that we will have to suddenly stop all economic growth. Scarcity typically means it will become tougher to acquire, become more expensive, and there will be growing competition for the resource. This holds true for water. The solution to scarcity is not fear, but strategic planning and smart water resource management.
Ron Fleming is President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Water Resources, a water resource management company that owns, operates and manages water, wastewater and recycled water utilities in strategically located communities, principally in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Global Water Resources deploys an integrated approach called “Total Water Management” to manage the entire water cycle by owning and operating the water, wastewater and recycled water utilities within the same geographic areas in order to both conserve water and maximize its total economic and social value.
Global Water Resources uses Total Water Management to promote sustainable communities in areas where they expect growth to outpace the existing potable water supply. Their model focuses on the broad issues of water supply and scarcity and applies principles of water conservation through water reclamation and reuse. Their basic premise is that the world’s water supply is limited and yet can be stretched significantly through effective planning, the use of recycled water and by providing individuals and communities resources that promote wise water usage practices.
Ron joined Global Water in 2004, crossing over from the construction industry where he worked on numerous large-scale heavy civil infrastructure projects throughout Arizona. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Senior Project Manager of Engineering and Construction. From 2007 to 2014, he served as General Manager, Vice President, and Chief Operating Officer. He assumed his current role as President and Chief Executive Officer in January 2015.
Ron has more than 16 years of related management and utility experience, including serving on numerous industry and community board of directors. He is on the Board of Directors of the Maricopa Economic Development Alliance.
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Ben Graff with Quarles & Brady is an established Arizona land use and zoning attorney with extensive experience in government relations and Arizona politics. He authored one of the first Planned Unit Development applications approved by the City of Phoenix and has become one of the preeminent attorneys furthering creative downtown infill development. As an Arizona native with deep roots in local politics and experience influencing strategic decisions related to land use policy, Ben’s successful practice is sustained through his connections with the development community, planning staff, neighborhood leaders, appointed officials, and elected officials in towns, cities, and counties throughout Arizona.
In 2004, Ben was appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano to serve a two-year term on the Arizona Board of Regents. He continues to serve as a Regent Emeritus, providing guidance and feedback regarding our state universities’ initiatives and strategic planning. On November 8, 2016, Ben was elected by the Maricopa County voters to serve a six-year term on the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (Central Arizona Project) Board of Directors.
Ben earned a BA from the University of Arizona and a J.D. from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He is the namesake for the Benjamin Graff Award for Excellence in Public Service, University of Arizona, which was established in 2005.
To hear more of his story, listen to Ben’s previous appearance on Valley Business Radio in April 2019.
Connect with Ben Graff on LinkedIn, and follow the Central Arizona Project on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Sean Murphy, Chief Medical Officer
Tucson ER & Hospital
4575 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85711
Nvang@TucsonERHospital.com
214.998.3911 (Nary’s Cell)
HOSPITAL NUMBER IS 520.375.9111
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Sean Murphy is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and the Chief Medical Officer for Tucson ER & Hospital.
Dr. Murphy started his career in medicine as a volunteer firefighter and EMT Basic in rural Wisconsin. From there he went on to receive a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a Medical Doctorate from the University of Miami. He completed a specialization residency in emergency medicine at the University of Arizona.
Training at the University sparked his particular interest in bedside ultrasound and procedures. After years of working in the world of corporate medicine, he is excited to be in a practice that affords exceptional autonomy and more time with patients.
When not in the ER he can be found rock climbing, mountain biking and playing percussion.
Host, Aaron Maus
Aaron Maus, Owner/Operator
Computer Doctor of Tucson
Aaron Maus is a 20 Year Office Technology Expert, specializing in Windows environments. Author of the Book, “Why won’t this thing work?” A host of the Tucson Tech Talk Show and Technology Frustrations and Gimmicks Podcast Show. Graduate the TCI Industrial Electronics Program in New York City, Master troubleshooter, Technical Trainer, self-proclaimed hacker for the people.
Sheri Barker, Owner, and Manager
SB Creative
520-271-3724
sheri@sbcr8ive.com
sbcr8ive.com; ReviewBetty.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook | LinkedIn |
Sheri Barker is a professional digital marketer who works with local business owners and service professionals to optimize their online presence, improve their local search ranking and attract new clients. She has worked with hundreds of business owners to achieve their goals by implementing the top SEO and lead generation strategies and leveraging technology tools to maximize their productivity. A master at teaching techy things to non-techy people, Sheri is passionate about helping business owners attract their ideal clients, generate more revenue and regain their focus and freedom.
SB Creative is a digital marketing agency specializing in lead generation, web design, and now – online review management with the launch of a new service called Review Betty. Your Google My Business listing and your online reviews now account for 40% of your local search ranking signals. ReviewBetty automates your effort to acquire, monitor and amplify customer reviews.
Stone Payton: [00:00:01] And we are back with BRX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, let’s talk about some of the key benefits of being a Business RadioX guest.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:11] Yeah. So, what’s in it for the guests? The guests get to create a piece of content that is them talking passionately about what they do, number one. So, just the content that is created from being a guest is tremendously valuable for all of the guests that we have here. Now, they have something that they can share internally through their own marketing and get the word out about what they do. Obviously, being a guest, they get to get the word out through our marketing. And when we’re telling the world about what they do, and broadcasting the show, and then kind of sharing it through all the podcast networks and all the variety of social media channels, we share it.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:46] So, you get the exposure, you get the content. But another kind of benefit that we see over and over again is the guests get to see this episode, show up pretty high whenever they Google themselves, specifically their name and/or their business or company. When they Google themselves, our—the episode that they were on usually shows up on the first page of the listing if they’re a typical business person. Now, if they’re kind of a Joe social media person, it may not show up as high, but it does show up high, usually, first page somewhere on their rankings in Google.
Stone Payton: [00:01:24] So, another benefit too, I think, sometimes, gets overlooked is when you or a guest on a Business RadioX show, you are being interviewed by someone who has been, at least, exposed to some very solid hosting facilitation mechanics. And when you do have an opportunity to share the work you’re doing in that environment with someone who really is good at facilitating that conversation is going to help you solidify your own thinking on a number of key topics, and it makes you that much better of a business person or practitioner when you’re out there in the market.
Stone Payton: [00:02:00] I’ve gotten feedback like that over, and over, and over again. And it’s almost a form of media training too. We’re very friendly, and it’s a good place to, sort of, cut your teeth. And you can go on to do other interviews, and you’re that much more better prepared for other media interviews. But solidifying your own thinking, crystallizing your own thinking, and getting better and better at articulating what you do, why you do it, and how you serve the market. I don’t know of a better place to get that committed to paper or to tape, as it were, than to be on a Business RadioX show.
The power behind Corporate Hartz, LLC is Jennifer Hartz. Her background includes in-house roles at iXL Enterprises and The Home Depot, and consulting through McKinsey & Company and Cresap (Towers Watson). She has vast non-profit knowledge through engagements with Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity International, as well as a long history of volunteer leadership.
Jennifer has an MBA with a concentration in Public Policy from Georgia Tech and a BA in Industrial Psychology from University of Pennsylvania. She is the Advisory Council Chair of Hands On Atlanta, as well as an alumna of Outstanding Atlanta, Leadership Atlanta, and the Marshall Memorial European Fellowship program.
Jennifer and her husband Eric have 4 children, ages 18 – 22, who were raised from diaper-age with articulated and reinforced family values and active volunteerism through “WhyServe?” an interfaith charity Jennifer co-founded.
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Halley Morochnik worked full-time in marketing/advertising for TBWA/Chiat Day, helping clients like Nissan, Infiniti, and Sony reach their marketing goals. In 2014, Halley started WebStep Design to deliver web solutions to small businesses and non-profits.
Web consulting combines her love of art & design, marketing, and problem-solving.
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An Tran moved from Vietnam to the United States when she was 9 and grew up in Tucker, Georgia. An graduated from Georgia State with a Psychology Degree. She is a stay at home mom with 6 kids under the age of 10 that serves as her full time job. To feed all those kids, An has two businesses. In 2018 she bought into Rhea Lana, a Children’s Consignment Franchise that has two events a year. This year An started Sylvan of Alpharetta, a Sylvan Learning Franchise.
An’s husband, Nhan Dinh, moved from Vietnam to the US when he was 10. He grew up in Roswell, Georgia and graduated from Georgia Tech with a Computer Engineering Degree. In 2005, he opened his own lawn repair shop AA Power Equipment in Roswell, Georgia. In 2012, that business expanded to selling on Amazon and now it’s one of the top 1000 sellers on Amazon in the United States.
An and Nhan have a love for children and a love for teaching them. They have been youth leaders at their church for over 15 years and believe that with the right guidance, learning can make a lifetime of difference. We see Sylvan as an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of our future leaders by helping them embrace a love of learning.
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Nick-Anthony Zamucen is the Founder of four franchised organizations, two in which he currently still owns, Bio-One Inc. and Best Option Restoration (BOR). Bio-One Inc. is the first and only successfully franchised crime scene cleanup company. He has changed the game when it comes the crime and trauma scene cleaning industry, with franchise locations in 44 states and continuing to grow at an exceptional rate.
His expertise has been featured in several TV and movie crime scene recreations. He was also named “Top 40 CEOs under 40” by Business Diversity Magazine, “People to Watch” in the San Francisco Examiner and “Game Changers You’ll Love” by the G4 channel. You will very rarely find a franchise at 98% success rate, but Nick-Anthony managed to do just that by going through a thorough screening process with everyone who wants to get involved with the business and extensively educating his franchise owners.
Nick’s core belief is that “Success breeds Success” which is why he spends so much time training his partners and franchise owners. He instills the belief in his business partners that it is not about individual success but collective success. Together we thrive or die by the way we treat and support our franchisees.
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Reid Husmer graduated University of Denver with a Bachelor’s degree in International Business and a minor in Spanish. Reid worked for several years in the software and hardware sales industry.
Wanting to do something different, in 2008 he started an eco-friendly hauling company out of his house in Centennial, Colorado. When the house started overflowing with stuff, Gone for Good opened up a thrift store in 2010 in Littleton, Colorado. In 2013 items started to overflow in the parking lot and it was time to move to Denver.
Today, Gone for Good has a 5,000 sq ft thrift store and an 8,000 sq ft recycling center. During the 2018 calendar year, Gone for Good recycled more than 100 tons of recyclable materials and donated to more than 20 charities.
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