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Suicide Among Seniors

September 25, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Suicide Among Seniors

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Senior Salute Radio brings timely information to leading age Boomers and Seniors addressing the issues of aging, care-giving and maintaining quality of life. Learn from both professionals and regular people going through the process with their families.

This episode covers a very difficult topic, “Suicide Among Seniors”. September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Listen to hear how suicide touches host Victoria Collier personally, along with her clients.

About The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm of Victoria Collier

The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm was established to serve the legal needs of senior citizens when their health care needs increase. The Firm focuses its entire practice on Asset Protection and Estate Planning matters, which encompasses the areas of Medicaid Planning, VA Benefits Planning, Special Needs Planning, and Estate Planning. Victoria Collier has grown her law practice through her personable nature and good management skills. The office is located in downtown Decatur, GA. The Firm makes house calls to those clients who are unable to come to the office. They understand that you might not be able to make it into the office, so they have no problem coming to you! Take comfort in knowing that it is the mission of Victoria Collier to support her clients in the creation of a long-term care plan for preserving assets, maximizing independence, and enhancing quality of life.

Tim Echols with Georgia Public Service Commission

September 25, 2019 by Mike

Case In Point

Tim Echols with Georgia Public Service Commission

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Tim Echols/Georgia Public Service Commission

Tim Echols serves as the Commissioner for the State of Georgia Public Service Commission.

A younger Tim Echols was selected by the Atlanta Airport Rotary Club as “Student of the Year” from his high school in 1978. While at the luncheon, he met Truett Cathy, a member of the Atlanta Airport Rotary Club. After the meeting, Truett invited Tim to come by his Hapeville office and there gave him a set of motivational tapes and a challenge. Echols said the tapes changed his life and as a result of listening to Zig Ziglar and his teaching, Tim set a goal to be a statewide elected official.

Shortly after graduating from UGA, Tim and his wife Windy founded TeenPact, a training experience for conservative high school students. The program began at the Georgia Capitol and now operates in 42 states having training 50,000 students. After building TeenPact, Echols ran for and was elected to statewide office in 2010 serving as Public Service Commissioner.

The PSC’s primary job is energy regulation. When he took office, Georgia was 34th in solar power. Now, eight years later, the state is 10th in the nation in approved solar. Echols created the Clean Energy Roadshow that has traveled the state every summer for the last eight years. This educational event travels to cities around the state helping commuters, businesses and municipal governments evaluate alternative fuel for their transportation and residential use.

Tim has tried to lead by example. He added solar hot water heating to his Athens home just before being sworn-in. He bought a natural gas car, a propane van and now owns an electric car. Tim also led the effort to provide the Salvation Army and two other agencies with $5 million to help low income seniors in Atlanta with heating assistance. That program continues today. Tim created a pilot program to provide specially equipped IPADS to the hearing impaired to help them function more productively. That programs continues today as well. Most recently, Tim led the PSC to increase the number of pediatric hearing aids in a program the PSC oversees. Tim wants to keep rates low and he works hard with his colleagues to make sure Georgia has the energy it needs from diverse sources, including nuclear power. Tim supports recycling the nuclear waste and using the remaining energy resident in those fuel rods as the most sustainable course of action for the state and nation. He has represented the United States at the World Nuclear Exhibition for the last six years. Tim also has been at the forefront in fighting human sex trafficking. He created the “Unholy Tour” that helps policy makers see first-hand the harms of human trafficking. Tim has a weekly radio show called Energy Matters airing on Cox Media Group and back episodes can be found at WGAU Radio – Energy Matters.

Financial & Estate Planning for Young Adults

September 25, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Financial & Estate Planning for Young Adults

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Craig Frankel, Alicyn McLeod, Chloe Moore, Cherish De la Cruz, Robert Port

Alicyn McLeod/Atlanta Tax

Alicyn McLeod with Atlanta.Tax is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Financial Planner with nearly 20 years of tax experience. She specializes in tax planning and compliance for closely-held businesses, individuals, and not-for-profits.

A Georgia native, Alicyn is a graduate of Augusta University where she earned a Bachelors in Business Administration in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration. She is an animal-lover who wanted to be a veterinarian as a child and accidentally stumbled into accounting while working her way through school. She quickly appreciated that each day holds its own unique professional challenges and learning opportunities. She enjoys applying her specialized knowledge to her clients’ business and tax situations to help them understand and navigate confusing issues that have a large impact on their finances.

Alicyn resides near Chastain Park and is an active member of the Atlanta business community. She has contributed her professional skills over the years by volunteering with several organizations including serving as President of the American Woman’s Society of CPAs – Georgia Affiliate, Treasurer of Goethe-Zentrum Atlanta (a German cultural center), and serving on the finance committees for the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts and Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. Alicyn is a 2016-2017 participant in the Philanthropic Advisor Leadership Institute (PALI) sponsored by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, as well as a 2018 participant in the Atlanta Women’s Foundation’s Women on Board program.

Chloe Moore/Financial Staples

Chloe is the Founder of Financial Staples, a virtual, fee-only comprehensive financial planning firm based in Atlanta, GA and serving clients nationwide. Financial Staples is dedicated to serving young professionals and small business owners who are entrepreneurial-minded, philanthropic, and purpose-driven. As a Certified Financial Planner professional, Chloe takes a comprehensive approach with clients and creates customized solutions that incorporate her clients’ values and financial objectives.

Prior to launching Financial Staples, Chloe advised high net worth individuals and families at a southeastern based independent trust company. She also works as a consultant for other financial advisors, providing outsourced financial planning and practice management solutions.

In addition to promoting financial literacy through volunteer efforts, Chloe also focuses on the cultivation of female and minority financial planners. She serves on the advisory committee for the XY Planning Network and is an active member of several professional organizations. Through her leadership, contribution, and volunteerism within the financial services industry, Chloe was recognized as one of Investment News Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2017.

Cherish De la Cruz/De la Cruz Law, LLC

Cherish De la Cruz established De la Cruz Law, LLC in 2013 to help multi-generational families plan their futures. In 2012, Cherish experienced losing a close family member to cancer. While taking care of her aunt’s affairs, she realized the stress and unnecessary hardship of not having a comprehensive and customized estate plan. As a mother of three young children and as the daughter of aging baby boomer parents, Cherish is both personally and professionally fluent in the complexities that arise in ensuring that family members are protected with life and estate planning. With her background and expertise in investments and insurance, Cherish works collaboratively with advisors in helping families and small businesses develop tailored estate plans.

Community involvement and leadership has always been important to Cherish. She is the Immediate Past President of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA), Chair of the Elder Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, a founding Board Member of XPX – The Exit Planning Exchange and Board Member of Mosaic Georgia (formerly the Gwinnett Sexual Assault Center and Children’s Advocacy Center). She is also a graduate of the 34th Class of Leadership Gwinnett (2019). In 2017, the Georgia Asian Times named Cherish as one of the Most Influential Asian Americans in Georgia.

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About Gaslowitz Frankel:

Gaslowitz Frankel is an experienced trial practice firm specializing in all aspects of complex fiduciary litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeast. With a focus on representing individuals, companies, banks, and fiduciaries in dispute involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities law, their experienced and highly qualified litigation attorneys have tremendous credentials and a proven history of success.

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Episode 64: The One Thing You Need to Know About Process Improvement – Alicia Butler Pierre

September 23, 2019 by Mike

Business Infrastructure

Episode 64: The One Thing You Need to Know About Process Improvement – Alicia Butler Pierre

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Processes not only ensure consistency with how you make a product or deliver a service, but they directly impact your customer’s experience. In this Season 5 finale, Alicia Butler Pierre, host of the Business Infrastructure show, shares what a process is, its importance in building business infrastructure, and the one thing you need to know about improving one. Listen in as she describes the stages of her podcasting process to illustrate how to execute process improvement. It might be a fun exercise to go back to previous episodes to determine if you can detect the improvements she talks about from season to season! Leave a comment and let us know what you find.

Monologue: Alicia Butler Pierre, Founder & CEO – Equilibria, Inc.

Location: Atlanta, GA USA

Show Notes:

- Behind the Facade: How to Structure Company Operations for Sustainable Success: Alicia’s book with a full chapter on process identification, documentation, and improvement (Chapter 8).
- Top 10 Factors to Consider When Outsourcing Process Analysis Work: an article by Alicia to help you identify the best resource for your process improvement initiative.
- Contact Alicia to Help You With Your Process Improvement Initiative
- 48 Laws of Power: a book by Robert Greene. Note the 45th Law: Preach the Need to Change, but Never Reform at Once.

LEADER DIALOGUE: Transforming Healthcare Financial Billing

September 20, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

LEADER DIALOGUE: Transforming Healthcare Financial Billing

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Duffie Dixon, Alan Nalle, Jennifer Strahan, Lisa Counsell

Topics discussed on this episode of “Leader Dialogue” include:

Professional Experience: This includes Alan Nalle’s background and a brief overview of PatientCo and the services they provide their customers.
Current state: Current strategies and opportunities for improvement in the area of the patient financial experience for health systems.
Performance excellence challenges in the Age of Consumerism: How Consumerism has changed patient’s loyalty to providers and healthcare systems. Learn how Patientco is leading the way to bridge this gap.

Alan Nalle/Patientco

Alan Nalle is Chief Strategy Officer at Patientco, developing strategies and supporting plans for Patientco to deliver unique value to its clients. Prior to Patientco, Alan served as a Managing Director in Accenture Strategy’s Healthcare practice where he led projects addressing many of his client’s most pressing issues related to growth and innovation for leading Providers and Payers.

Patientco is a payment technology company headquartered in Atlanta, GA founded specifically to re-think the healthcare payment experience. Patientco brings world-class payment infrastructure together with intuitive consumer payment tools informed by analytics to create a superior billing experience to deliver more payments to Health Systems.

About SOAR Vision Group

The SOAR Vision Group mission is to: Align People with Purpose to Achieve Exceptional Results. SOAR provides best practice strategy execution, business process optimization services, and a structured organizational development approach for organizations to effectively implement the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. For more information, contact SOAR Vision Group at (888) 294-3303 or visit soarvisiongroup.com.

About the Baldrige Foundation

The mission of the Baldrige Foundation is to ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the United States and throughout the world. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is presented annually by the United States President to organizations that demonstrate quality and performance excellence. For more information, contact the Baldrige Foundation at (202) 559-9195 or visit baldrigefoundation.org.

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Jason Campbell with QBJCdigital and David Greene with Sterling Seacrest Partners Inc.

September 19, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Jason Campbell with QBJCdigital and David Greene with Sterling Seacrest Partners Inc.

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Jason Campbell/QBJCdigital

As a leading Digital Transformation and Information Technology Staffing and Recruiting Agency, QBJC Digital specializes in connecting the best talent with the best companies. QBJC offers contract, contract to hire, permanent placement services, and technology solutions in the commercial and government space. They pride themselves on helping you deliver talent that has experience in Software Development, Information Security CISO, Information Architecture, Infrastructure, UX Design, Visual Design, Cloud-Enabled Business/Architecture, and Technology Solutions.

David Greene/Sterling Seacrest Partners

At Sterling Seacrest, they are here to serve as your risk advisors first and insurance broker second. They have a highly skilled team ready to collaborate with your business to position you to reach your goals. They believe in a customer-centric, highly collaborative process that results in uniquely tailored insurance and consulting solutions. Sterling Seacrest Partners does what they do, to let you focus on what you do.

Jane Bishop/Take the Next Step

Jane Bishop, is CEO of Take the Next Step which emerged out of her passion to help others “go for their It.” She helps small business owners and entrepreneurs strengthen and align with their inner core for success by using her coaching and training skills. When you work with Jane you will experience accomplishing your “it” and be a greater influence to those around you. Jane uses her E4U system to help clients get to the core faster to create and execute a plan for effectiveness. Jane is also a professional speaker and published author. Curious? Reach out and book a complimentary session and see where that leads.

Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies

Ryan T. Sauers has spent 25 years leading and/or consulting with visual communications and marketing related organizations. Ryan is President/Owner of the consulting firm, Sauers Consulting Strategies; Our Town Gwinnett Magazine (2 monthly magazines); and its parent company End Resultz Media.

Key areas of focus of the consulting firm include: sales training, marketing strategy, personal branding, leadership development, and organizational change.

Sauers is a frequent national speaker and columnist. He has been recognized as one of the top 80 CMO’s in the world and achieved the top designation of Certified Marketing Executive through Sales and Marketing Executives International.

Sauers is an adjunct university professor teaching leadership, marketing, and communication courses to current and aspiring leaders. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner.

Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is host of the radio show Marketing Matters. Sauers is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You? More info at: RyanSauers.com or OurTownGwinnett.com.

Show Overview

Marketing Matters with Ryan Sauers is a radio show presented by Athens Orthopedic Clinic and The Heart of What Matters. The show discusses topics as they relate to marketing, communications, sales, leadership and more. Host Ryan Sauers, a best-selling author and national speaker, discusses how these topics play a role in every aspect of our lives. Each episode shares tangible nuggets of information that listeners can easily understand and apply to their everyday life, whether personal or business. The show challenges listeners’ current state of thinking so they can grow to new heights and see new opportunities in business or life: which is rapidly changing, multi-generational, and noisy in nature.

Steve Galvin with LexisNexis

September 19, 2019 by Mike

ePresence

Steve Galvin with LexisNexis

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Steve Galvin/LexisNexis

This month’s guest is Steve Galvin and he joins his older brother, Mark Galvin, to talk about his three-year fight with pancreatic cancer. Steve is a sales executive with LexisNexis, but this episode focuses on his ongoing fight against cancer.

Steve’s story is rather incredible. From losing 115 pounds, to the mental anguish caused by chemotherapy, this is a story that shares how difficult it is to fight cancer and the toll on loved ones.

This is a departure from the social media conversation Mark normally focuses on, but we all need to hear this story since we all deal with cancer, either through a friend, loved ones, or personally.

Mark Galvin/ePresence

ePresence provides personal branding services for individuals, executives and entrepreneurs. They leverage social media on an individual level since that is where the audience is most engaged. Mark Galvin, CEO and Founder of ePresence, is a personal social media expert with 29 years of business management and hotel industry experience including stops with Marriott, Hyatt, Omni and IHG.

SIMON SAYS, LET’S TALK BUSINESS: Scott Francis with Trust Stamp

September 19, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

SIMON SAYS, LET'S TALK BUSINESS: Scott Francis with Trust Stamp

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Scott Francis/Trust Stamp

Trust Stamp captures any biometric or other identifying data from any source and irreversibly transforms it into a non-PII hash. Although the hash is anonymized and tokenized data, their AI creates a probabilistic match on a one-to-one or a one-to-many basis and each hash can be connected to external data via an encrypted pivot table. In addition to low friction authentication and flagging synthetic and duplicate identities, their technology can sign, watermark, and biometrically encrypt communications and documents.

Mercy Montgomery with the City of Sugar Hill and Laurie Sossa with Southern Barter Club

September 19, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Mercy Montgomery with the City of Sugar Hill and Laurie Sossa with Southern Barter Club

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Mike Sammond, Mercy Montgomery, Laurie Sossa, Steven Julian

Mercy Montgomery/City of Sugar Hill

Sugar Hill is one of the nation’s fastest growing cities and home to over 23,000 residents and more than 1,000 businesses. With a rapidly growing downtown, a focus on entertainment and the arts, and a strong business environment, city leadership has been strategic in creating a dynamic live, work, play community.

Looking to the future, Sugar Hill continues to plan for and create opportunities to live, work, and play for all generations. Expanded amenities, community experiences, and a diverse business environment continue to attract visitors as well as new community members as dirt is turned into a destination and small-town dreams grow into big time reality in the growing downtown.

Laurie Sossa/Southern Barter Club (SBC)

Southern Barter Club is a business network consisting of businesses that sell and spend virtual cashless trade dollars in lieu of cash when new business is brought to them through the barter network. One SBC trade dollars is equal to one US Dollar but only spendable in the SBC network. Barter conserves cash, opens up new markets, maximizes profits. SBC is a leader in the barter trade industry with 1000 businesses in GA and upwards of 50,000 participating businesses worldwide. The State of GA recently presented a proclamation and resolution to Southern Barter Club for the Positive Economic Impact it has had on the sate of GA and in supporting women owned businesses, entrepreneurs and non profits.