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SAL E7: Building Conscious Community through the AZ EA

December 30, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

SAL E7: Building Conscious Community through the AZ EA

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Arizona Enneagram Association
EA Mission Statement: To provide opportunities to grow in self-awareness, compassionate understanding, and better relationships.

https://arizonaenneagram.org/

Erlina Edwards: (520) 548-9176
edwards.erlina4@gmail.com

Erlina Edwards, Board President: Erlina Edwards has recently completed an illustrious career within corporate life where she earned the designation of Corporate Spiritual Adviser to global leaders and employees alike. Erlina, most recently in her role as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and People Operations, was committed to using a rich array of assessment tools to facilitate the growth of individuals and groups. She successfully utilized the Enneagram to guide, coach, and mentor senior executives and staff at all levels. These practices created cooperative, compassionate environments that advanced the achievement of ethical business goals and improved bottom-line results. Erlina plans to contribute her lifelong ongoing spiritual studies to the Board of Directors of The Arizona Enneagram Association in her role as its’ President. Her initial certification was through The Enneagram School of Narrative Tradition and she then went on to earn numerous certifications through other Enneagram Programs. Erlina recently moved back to Tucson with her husband Gene and is transitioning her expertise to the development of a private spiritual consulting practice. The practice provides guidance in exploring conscious life choices for enhanced spiritual life. Reverend Edwards is a Graduate of The International Interfaith Seminary, was Ordained in 2001, and has earned certifications from multiple accredited programs that have advanced and broadened her business and spiritual studies.

Jaye Andres:(602) 888-1381
jaye9@cox.net

Jaye Andres, Executive Director: Jaye Andres holds degrees in Psychology (B.Sc.) and Business (MBA). She is a “founding mother” of the Arizona Enneagram Association and served on the AEA board for six years; four as vice-president and two years as president (2009-2014). Jaye has lived and worked internationally, having been a peace corps volunteer in Thailand and worked for seven years with USAID in Zambia and Rwanda. Jaye certified in the Enneagram (narrative tradition) in 2006 and has been involved in teaching and coaching using the Enneagram since that time. As a life coach, consultant and workshop facilitator, her passion is to assist others in raising their self-awareness and move past limiting beliefs & habits to live a fuller, freer, richer, and more peaceful life.

HOST

Linda John Bio
(727) 272-7296
linda@lindajohnconsulting.com
www.lindajohnconsulting.com
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Linda John is the CEO and founder of Linda John Consulting, LLC, providing Executive Coaching and Destination Consulting services to clients throughout the USA. From 1993 – 2020, Linda served as the Executive Director for Visit Eau Claire in west-central Wisconsin. Some of Linda’s top accomplishments at Visit Eau Claire included the development of a successful regional tourism program, the creation of a sports commission for the Eau Claire area, and launching two successful mobile visitor center programs, all resulting in record-setting tourism growth for the region during her tenure.

In most recent years, John was at the table for the completion of the Pablo Center at the Confluence, where Visit Eau Claire opened its new Experience Center, as well as collaborating to craft the community partnership strategy for the new Sonnentag Event and Recreation Complex. She also was the lead voice in advocating for a new convention center, including the completion of a feasibility study and the development of a collaborative strategy for the project.

Linda now owns and operates her professional consulting practice, Linda John Consulting, through which she offers a variety of professional training and human resource development services, including team development and organizational rebuilding initiatives.

Linda is a Certified Destination Marketing Executive (CDME) and an accredited practitioner of the Integrative Enneagram for both individuals and teams. She holds memberships with Destinations International and the International Coach Federation (ICF). Linda holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business Administration from Minnesota State University in Mankato and a Master’s of Science degree in Training and Human Resource Development from UW Stout.

TMB E51: Jamie Anderson CEO Golden Years Project

December 24, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

TMB E51: Jamie Anderson CEO Golden Years Project

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Jamie Anderson, President/CEO
The Golden Years Project
520-981-7383
janderson@goldenyearsproject.org
goldenyearsproject.org

Jamie was raised in Pasadena/Houston, TX from six years old until I was 14 years old. Your parents divorced when you were 8 and you returned to Massachusetts with your mother and your other siblings because she had custody of you, and she wanted to be closer to her mother in her golden years.

Jamie joined the U.S. National Guard out of Massachusetts when she was 17 years old and spent 3 yrs. active duty and 5yrs inactive for a total of 8 years and was discharged with an honorable discharge. Her military occupational specialty was 39E, which was Special Electronics Devices Repairman.

After the military, she went into the life insurance industry (in sales) as an independent exclusive contractor and worked for American Income Life Insurance Company for 9 years which taught me a great deal about people and business administration, marketing, accounting, advertising, all of those disciplines.

In 2007, her mother wanted to relocate to Arizona and she promised me that if she ever moved back to the southern states, Jamie would pick up and move to be with or near her. Jamie started Anderson Capital Leasing which was a commercial equipment leasing brokerage and did quite well until the 2008 economy crisis.

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TMBS E135: Jason Kelley, GM, IBM Blockchain Services

December 22, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

TMBS E135: Jason Kelley, GM, IBM Blockchain Services

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COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: How Technology is Playing a Role in Getting and Keeping Vaccine “Cold Chains” Safe Technology like AI and Blockchain are Vital to Ensuring the Vaccine Cold Chain Remains Safe and Secure.

Earlier this month, we heard the news of the completion and approval for some of the first successful COVID-19 vaccines. With vaccines for Covid-19 now in approvals for global distribution, there is heightened focus on the need to distribute it safely, rapidly, and equitably – whether consumers are getting the vaccine at their local small-town pharmacies, or major chain drugstores in big cities.

About Jason Kelley:

Jason Kelley leads IBM Global Blockchain Services, partnering with client organizations and consortia to unleash the exponential business value of blockchain technologies and reinvented business processes. His teams provide the thought leadership and consultive capabilities needed to design, develop, and rapidly adopt digital ledgers, digital identity, trust, and transparency with IBM Blockchain offerings and solutions. 

 Mr. Kelley has been a successful entrepreneur, as well as a business unit creator for IBM having led IBM Global Business Services Solutions, Design & Innovation, and helping clients transform to differentiate and lead in the market through a digital reinvention with the application of Agile, DevOps and innovative technology. His teams bring endless energy, creativity, and outcomes for IBM clients around the world, delivering unique business capability with the marriage of analytics, automation/robotics, Watson, and cloud technologies. 

 A holder of 4 U.S. Patents Jason is also a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger veteran, serves on a number of boards, is Co-Chair of the Nation Security Innovation Council, and leads the community of black employees & mentors (BEAM) globally for the IBM Services organization

For more information please visit: ibm.com/blockchain

CAW E10: Kathi Roche, Santa Rita Landscaping, Inc.

December 20, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

CAW E10: Kathi Roche, Santa Rita Landscaping, Inc.

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Kathi Roche, Co-owner, General Manager & Chief Financial Officer
Santa Rita Landscaping, Inc.
755 W Grant Road
Tucson, AZZIP: 85705
520.623.0421
Email: kathi@srlandscaping.com Santa Rita Landscaping Website
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Kathi is a resourceful financial and business management professional with 38 years of experience in accounting, finance, and business management. Her work experience includes public and private firms of all sizes. She is a proven Manager, driven to cut company costs while boosting company revenue through innovative management techniques. Organized and diligent, with excellent written and oral, and interpersonal skills, Kathi is successful in building and motivating dynamic teams. Her practical experience with all facets of business includes Cost Control, Process optimization, Strategic planning, Staff development, Goal attainment, Accounting, Human Resources, Payroll, Office Management, Finance, Banking Relationships, Tax preparations, and Financial Statements. She has managed teams from 5 to 250 people and has overseen multiple mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, reorganizations, downsizing, and consolidations.

Kathi is a master at creating synergy within teams and integrating business plans seamlessly to maximize company profits, employee retention, and customer satisfaction. Kathi brings practical experience and knowledge of systems, procedures, techniques, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Many of her years of experience include work in the construction industry, from general contracting to the various trades. Her knowledge of WIP (work in progress) reports, accrual and tax accounting, balance sheets and income statements help form her management style that promotes increased net profits. Her titles have ranged from Accountant, Controller, Chief Financial Officer to Integrator, and General Manager. Kathi has been with Santa Rita Landscaping for 13 years.

About the Business

In 1985, brothers Brian and Garrett Ham started their Tucson landscaping company and called it Santa Rita Landscaping, named after the Santa Rita mountain range they lived near. Garrett was in his last semester of high school and Brian finishing his bachelor’s degree in Watershed Hydrology at the University of Arizona when Garrett received the firm’s first Contractors license with a $1,000 loan from First Interstate Bank of Arizona, co-signed by their father, to cover the bonding requirements.

The business began in their parents’ barn, which served as their first contractor yard. During the day both partners worked the physical aspect of a landscaping business, installing brick, irrigation, plants and trimming shrubs and each evening they would handle the business side of the company, returning phone calls, drawing plans and doing book work.

By 2005, the company employed 125 Tucsonans, and SRL bought the 4.6 acres at 755 W Grant Road to remodel the building that serves as their headquarters today. By 2006, the company employed over 190 Tucsonans and launched Santa Rita Environmental and Santa Rita Waste Systems to provide storm water compliance and roll off dumpster services, finally merging in 2012 with Southwest Enviroscapes, Inc. to form one of Tucson’s largest and leading commercial, public and residential landscaping providers. Throughout, the company has grown via its focus on customer service, ownership thinking, and The Santa Rita Way.

Host

Matt Nelson: Senior Vice President, Crest Insurance Group
Matt is a Senior Vice President at Crest Insurance Group in Tucson, consulting with companies to identify and implement insurance, risk management, and employee benefits solutions. With more than a 15 years of industry experience, he has served as a keynote speaker on the healthcare industry, leadership, workplace culture and risk management for professional organizations throughout Southern Arizona, including the City of Tucson, Greater Tucson Leadership, the Financial Executives and Affiliates of Tucson, and the CEO Roundtable of Tucson.

Matt is an active member in the Tucson community, having served as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Arizona Army National Guard and volunteering with multiple local organizations, including as Treasurer and a Big Brother with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Southern Arizona, a volunteer with the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Chair of the Pima County JTED’s Business and Industry Council, a builder with Habitat for Humanity and many other local youth charities.
Email: mnelson@crestins.com
Phone: 520.784.7636
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mattrnelson2

TMBS E134: Sharon Miller BOA, 2020 Small Business Report

December 18, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

TMBS E134: Sharon Miller BOA, 2020 Small Business Report

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Sharon Miller is the head of Small Business at Bank of America and is a member of the company’s Management Operating Committee.

Her team is responsible for providing more than 12 million+ business owner clients a full range of financial products and services through Bank of America’s network of approximately 4,300+ financial centers, 16,600 ATMs, and an award-winning digital banking platform.

Miller’s team delivers advice and guidance on cash management, business financing, personal lending, investments, and retirement to business owners in local markets throughout the United States. 

Bank of America 2020 Small Business Owner Report

Business Owners Remain Flexible and Resilient: 

85% of businesses stayed open in some capacity amid shutdowns
Of entrepreneurs whose businesses remained open, 78% say their day-to-day operations were impacted

         24% of business owners retooled operations to address the impact of the pandemic

 Cash Flow and Access to Capital Remains Crucial:

42% of business owners applied for at least one type of loan to address the impact of coronavirus, including:
34% applied for a Paycheck Protection Program loan,
 16% applied for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan, and/or
5% applied for a traditional bank loan

 Guarded Business and Economic Outlook:

Entrepreneurs are significantly less confident in the economy. Optimism has declined to levels not seen since 2016, while revenue expectations and hiring plans for the year ahead are at record lows since 2012 and 2013, respectively. Over the next 12 months…
 37% predict the national economy will improve
34% anticipate their revenue will increase
13% of entrepreneurs plan to hire, while 70% plan to keep staffing levels stable.

Top economic concerns for business owners in the year ahead are the political environment (78%), the impact of coronavirus (75%), health care costs (62%) and consumer spending (56%)

TMBS E133: Susan Bailey MD President of the AMA

December 18, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

TMBS E133: Susan Bailey MD President of the AMA

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Dr. Susan Bailey:

 Susan R. Bailey, MD, an allergist/immunologist from Fort Worth, Texas, was elected president of the American Medical Association in June 2020. Previously, she served as president-elect of the AMA for one year, speaker of the AMA House of Delegates for four years, and as a vice speaker for four years.

 Dr. Bailey, who has been active in the AMA since medical school when she served as chair of the AMA Medical Student Section, has held numerous leadership positions with the AMA. These include serving as chair of both the Advisory Panel on Women in Medicine and the AMA Council on Medical Education, as well as representing the AMA on the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and COLA.

 Her long history of service in helping guide organized medicine extends to the local and state levels as well. She has served as board chair and president of the Tarrant County Medical Society, and as a vice speaker, speaker, and president of the Texas Medical Association.

 Dr. Bailey is an allergist in private practice and has been with Fort Worth Allergy and Asthma Associates for over 30 years. She completed her residency in general pediatrics and a fellowship in allergy/immunology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., and is board certified in allergy and immunology, and pediatrics and has been awarded the title of Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.

 In addition to receiving her medical degree with honors from the Texas A&M University College of Medicine as a member of its charter class, Dr. Bailey was later appointed to the Texas A&M System Board of Regents by then Gov. George W. Bush and has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M University and of Texas A&M University College of Medicine.

 Dr. Bailey is married to W. Douglas Bailey, has two sons and one grandson, and is an elder and longtime choir member of her church.

TMB E50: Mark Ziska, Author of Titled ‘Do No Harm’

December 17, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

TMB E50: Mark Ziska, Author of Titled ‘Do No Harm'

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Mark Ziska, Author (new Book Titled ‘Do No Harm’)
Company: Do No Harm, Inc
Address: 2239 E 5th Street
Tucson, AZ 85719 Phones: 520-909-0422
520-909-0422
markziska@comcast.net

DO NO HARM offers a proven and time-tested 5-step process to help law enforcement organizations overcome the hurdles they are currently facing: community trust, engagement, and involvement as well as the use of force incidents.
Your co-author Ramon and you wrote this book after developing, testing, and proving that your 5-step system works. He was a former police chief was he not?

Mark knows firsthand what many law enforcement organizations are up against. He helped create this system and implemented every step of our process with his government and community partners’ support and during his tenure, they successfully reduced critical incidents in his department and created a legacy of change. 

There are 5 Steps reference in your book.

As a civilian who has been behind the scenes of law enforcement my view on modern law enforcement includes “To serve and protect” is the mission of Law Enforcement Professionals across the country.

We believe police reform is not “retraining” the police.

We believe police reform is not defunding the police.

We believe police reform starts at the top of every organization.

We believe police reform is best maintained for the long term when there is a shift in culture and emphasis on shared values with the community.

We believe police reform is possible, and we can change organizational culture to dramatically reduce the use of force and improve community relations.

We pledge to support our Law Enforcement community as they undergo a cultural shift to not only “Serve and Protect” but also “Do No Harm.”

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WUTS E4: Bette Lambert, of Silloway Maple

December 16, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

WUTS E4: Bette Lambert, of Silloway Maple

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Bette Lambert, partner
Silloway Maple
1303 Boudro Road
Randolph Center, VT 05061
802-272-6249
sillowaymaple@hotmail.com

Bette Lambert was born on her family dairy farm in Vermont and grew up working on the land and with many animals. Feeding and milking cows, building fences, and maple sugaring have always been a part of her life. And You married a dairy farmer and started a family. She has 6 children!

Bette wrote a book, called “A Farm Wife’s Journal”. where the window into farm life was flung open to sharing your daily joys and challenges!

Her days are filled with maple – agritourism, and sharing how maple is produced with guests on your farm, the production of maple syrup, candy, sugar, and other products.

About Silloway Maple

Maple is our business! Award-winning maple syrup, cream, sugar, candy, nuts…all made on our farm, with all renewable resources. Solar power, and traditional wood fire. We give tours year-round, and sell our syrup in a wide variety of containers, from 1.7-ounce glass hearts for weddings, to forty-gallon drums for institutions, and everything in between.

How maple syrup is produced,

For many years, woods roads were “broken out” in the early spring. The bulldozer was driven through the deep snow, making roads through the sugar woods. Traditionally, during school vacation, the third week of February, the trees were tapped. First went the person tapping the tree, carefully choosing a spot to drill that was not too near the taphole from another year. Next, treading in the same footsteps, walked a brother with the apron of spouts and the hammer, carefully tapping each metal spout in, followed by someone with a long roll of buckets, and lastly, the person with the covers.

Maple syrup is made from the sap of the sugar maple tree, primarily in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The sugarbush is managed to maintain health and vigor and maximize the production of high-quality sap. The sap is the product of photosynthesis that occurs during the previous growing season. Sap flows during the early spring when nights are cold, and the daytime temperature is above freezing. Old-timers say that winter “has lost its grip”, and sugarmakers are glad to head for the woods.

Host:

Kim Adair
CMO and Founder
Women Under the Sun-AZ, LLC.

Kim moved to Tucson from Colorado to be near the work of some of the top cancer research in the world at Arizona Cancer Center. Aside from owning her own successful small businesses, she has 35 years of advertising and marketing background. Kim was a senior advertising executive for a popular Colorado magazine, creating several popular community leader print campaigns, along with her own cancer print campaigns.

“What made me successful in each of my ventures, was my ability to market my own businesses. I like to have fun. I think in the margins. I am always trying to think about how I can turn an experience into something new and creative that will make people think”.

Kim likes to camp and canoe. Her favorite string instrument is the cello and aspires to learn to play someday. She would like to travel the world.

Co-Host; Mark Bishop

Forty-Niner Golf & CC – Tucson’s Hidden Jewel

SAL E6: Ruth Goetz, owner of Goetz & Company

December 16, 2020 by Sam Harrell

Tucson Business Radio

SAL E6: Ruth Goetz, owner of Goetz & Company

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Ruth Goetz, Owner
Goetz & Company
(715) 292-2731

Ruth is a former Wisconsin tourism executive and solopreneur from northern Wisconsin. Since retiring from her 30-year career as a Regional Tourism Consultant for the WI Department of Tourism, Ruth has combined her passion for tourism with her business leadership skills to continue to positively impact tourism-based businesses and organizations in Wisconsin.

At the culmination of her 30-year career, she was honored by over 1,000 tourism industry professionals at the WI Governor’s Conference of Tourism, when they awarded you the Lifetime Tourism Legacy Award., which says a lot about her leadership abilities.HOST

Linda John Bio
(727) 272-7296
linda@lindajohnconsulting.com
www.lindajohnconsulting.com
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