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Nicole Myden with Nicole Myden, LLC and Lisa Boettcher and Sage Aubrey with House of Nectar

September 21, 2023 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Nicole Myden with Nicole Myden, LLC and Lisa Boettcher and Sage Aubrey with House of Nectar

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Nicole Myden with Nicole Myden, LLC and Lisa Boettcher and Sage Aubrey with House of Nectar

Nicole Myden, LLC – a boutique shop, run by PR industry veteran, Nicole Myden, on a mission to help small business owners get the press coverage they deserve.

Nicole Myden has been connecting people and brands with the media for 23 years. Her career began in 2000 in Los Angeles working in entertainment publicity for Disney, FOX on American Idol, and films for Sony Pictures Classic.

Since then, Nicole has produced publicity campaigns in every niche with popular and well-known brands in the arenas of fashion, beauty, consumer products, lifestyle, health, wellness, tech, food, hospitality, medical, entrepreneurship, and more.

Her clients have been featured across an array of media outlets including Forbes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Los Angeles Business Journal, Phoenix Business Journal, Women’s Wear Daily, Oprah Magazine, Glamour, Marie Claire, and USA Today. Additionally, Nicole has held upper management executive roles at some of the most prestigious and award-winning agencies in the industry and had the honor of receiving company awards from both the industry and her peers.

Since relocating from Los Angeles to Scottsdale in 2016, Nicole has a great passion for mentoring and helping small business owners discover they are worthy of press opportunities and teaching them step-by-step systems and principles to garner those opportunities on their own.

She has mentored thousands of small business owners through in-person workshops, conferences, and one-on-one mentorship sessions. Her clients have experienced a variety of results, including landing magazine covers and features, local and national television segments, podcast and radio interviews, newspaper and online features, industry awards, and speaking engagements.

Nicole has been featured and seen on stages, at masterminds, trade shows, and conferences, and in the media teaching small business owners. Nicole prides herself on teaching through energetic alignment, a positive mindset, and practical tactics, to deliver results and buzz.

Connect with Nicole on LinkedIn and Instagram.

House of Nectar is the world’s first creative wellbeing brand to fuse energetic healing with brand mastery.

They believe that brands who transcend, cut through the noise and shift cultures can no longer be built with conventional methods—so they take an unconventional approach instead.

They build the talent behind the brand to find their truest calling, and then, the brand alignment follows.

Their method is holistic, intuitive and highly strategic. It’s a journey of inner work and brand discovery where they arouse authenticity, resurrect brand identity, story, strategy and positioning. The methodology is unorthodox, highly intentional and part of a creative awakening.

The House is here to guide brands, hold sacred space for them, and push them past the status quo.

Sage Aubrey is a cult-followed fashion entrepreneur, visionary and personality, featured in Vogue, WWD and Purse Blog, low key style icon, and mom to three cool AF little girls.

Sage founded her first accessory business when she was 15 and built nationwide distribution. She was recognized as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur at 26 for her success in women’s brick & mortar & online retail businesses and scaled Sage Aubrey Handbags to a globally distributed brand––with a successful Omni-channel sales strategy––coveted by celebrities and street style mavens the world across.

Sage’s career is built on her instinct, fortitude, and relentless self-expression. Her mission is to use her 20 years of bootstrapping to champion the next generation of brand owners with creative direction, vision and leadership.

Sage’s twin passions have entwined into her business, House of Nectar, a multi-dimensional creative wellbeing brand.

Lisa Boettcher is an ultra-efficient Creative Brand Strategist and mom of 4 tiny humans. Lisa’s career is built on her strong sense of strategy and the intuitive, futuristic approach she takes to her work––some of which has been featured on Target, in Forbes and Vogue.

Lisa founded, bootstrapped and sold a niche accessory fashion brand in under 5 years and with a decade of experience helping female founded brands scale through strategy, visuals, communications, community building, product design and development, she’s now guided by her desire to share creativity and the inner workings of identity with her community, whether through experiential offerings, with clients or on her social channels.

Lisa carries a high frequency of energy, a sixth sense and hard-won wisdom to further the impact brands of all sizes have on culture. Running alongside her career, she is a deep-rooted exponent for personal wellbeing practices and the process of unleashing yourself to discover the truest, most authentic version within.

Follow The House of Nectar on Instagram.

Two Keys for Agile Business Owners, with Marika Ponton, Office Angels

September 15, 2023 by John Ray

North Fulton Studio

Two Keys for Agile Business Owners, with Marika Ponton, Office Angels

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Marika Ponton: I live it. It is so crucial. When I was a flooring business owner, so many of the other franchisees would come to me because, I was profitable and I was having all these sales. And they’re like, well, what do you do? You know what, tell me how to be like you. Well, I mean, no one can be Marika, but what I can tell you is: how do your financials look?

Dig into your financials. I’m happy to look at them. And I did. And I would just glaringly see things. Hey, why are you spending on this when you know, your sales are down 50% from last month? Ooh, good point. So that’s number one.

And number two, I would say is just same things we’ve been talking about right here is take stock of non critical tasks that you’re doing. Take stock. Write it down. What are things that you are doing that you shouldn’t be doing and aren’t the best use of your time and outsource those. And that’s Office Angels is there to help you with that.

Listen to Marika’s full ProfitSense interview with Bill McDermott interview here.

The “One Minute Interview” series is produced by John Ray and the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link.

Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Give It All You Got E15

December 21, 2020 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Give It All You Got E15

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Give It All You Got E15

If you are an entrepreneur or business owner, check out this episode of Collaborative Connections Radio Show and Podcast. It will be well worth the hour, as it is jam-packed full of lessons, tips, and do’s and don’ts in business.

It was extra special because Kelly Lorenzen got to feature Karen Nowick, owner of Phoenix Business RadioX as a guest. Karen and Kelly were on air with 2 other rockstar business owners, Ali Craig and Jane M. Powers.

Looking for a quick one-hour lesson on branding, business development, marketing, sales, speaking, and/or trauma clearing? Well, this episode had it all.

Ali, Jane, Karen, and Kelly left nothing out!

Ali Craig.Co’s international team allows them to create the perfect, all-inclusive process for their distinguished companies.

Besides using smart science (Neuro Human Branding® Method) to your brand’s advantage, our work has a lasting and evolutionary factor (aka the 3 Impressions® Method) always evoking a positive first, last, and lasting impression. So that no matter how, when, and where your audience meets your brand at you will always be making a positive impression.

Passion filled and no holds barred, Ali Craig is on a mission to bring forth a new level of entrepreneur-elite, excited, and with massively increased incomes.

Bringing her once private, and highly exclusive systems, strategies, and techniques to the masses all in an effort to combat the BS, misinformation that is running rampant in this “Google” Age society.

It is this pseudo information that is outwardly designed to help a growing business, but yet in reality is the kryptonite to these heroic global economy changers desiring to live, be, and do a life of new notoriety™.

With over 22 years of real-world experience in luxury and neuro human branding®- Craig is always training her audiences – be them big or small- on how to create more powerful experiences, to create more profitable incomes with their brands and lives at large. Simply put Ali Craig is boldly passionate about teaching others to live a life of notoriety™.

Connect with Ali on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Let’s Talk Impact values the importance of your message and success. They understand in order to truly serve, you must speak with confidence and sell with authority.

Using her straight-forward, big-hearted style, Jane M Powers guides thousands to Speak with Confidence and Sell with Authority.

With decades of successful speaking, training, and coaching, and perhaps most important of all real-life experience founding and running multi-million dollar businesses, Jane appreciates that success is truly about the power of your CORE message.

With over 30 years of sales success as a Corporate Executive and Entrepreneur, she brings you everything you need to ensure a competitive edge in the market place.

Jane has been changing the way people sell and how to move people into action to make more money, have more fun and most of all – make a difference.

Connect with Jane on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Karen Nowicki is a successful author, speaker and the creator of Deep Impact Leadership™ and SoulMarks Coaching™. She is a two-time recipient of the prestigious national Choice Award® for her book and personal development retreat. Karen was crowned the first-ever “Mompreneur of the Year” Award in 2010 for the southwestern states. She was recognized for her leadership, business acumen and work-life balance.

Karen has been an expert guest on regional TV and radio shows, including Fox Phoenix Morning Show, Sonoran Living, Good Morning Arizona, The Chat Room, and Mid-Day Arizona. She has been a regular contributor to many print and online magazines – publishing articles and blogs for business and education.

Karen is an impeccably trained Integrative Coach Professional through The Integrative Coaching Institute at John F Kennedy University (2006) and has mentored more than 200 coaches worldwide. In addition to this intensive 3 year coaching certification program, Karen is also a Tao Healing Guide (2014) through the Sedona Mago Retreat Center; and most recently, has become a certified Trauma Mentor (2020).

In addition to working with private coaching clients, Karen is also the Owner & President of Phoenix Business RadioX. The Business RadioX Network amplifies the voice of business – serving the Fortune 500,000, not just the Fortune 500. Phoenix Business RadioX helps local businesses and professional associations get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, profession, and community.

Follow Phoenix Business RadioX on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

About Collaborative Connections

Kelly Lorenzen started the “Collaborative Connections” show to bring her clients and favorite charities together to meet each other, connect and collaborate in life and business. She hopes to build a stronger community one show at a time.

About Our Sponsor

KLM Consulting is a business concierge and project management firm. They help small business owners and non-profits build, brand and brag about their businesses.

About Your Host

Kelly Lorenzen, CEO of KLM Consulting, is an award-winning entrepreneur with over 15 years of business-ownership experience. She is also a certified project management professional.

Kelly’s expertise is in business development, customer service, marketing, and sales.

Connect with Kelly on LinkedIn, and follow KLM Consulting on Facebook.

Pam Balentine, Viking CPA Group, and Anna Clapper, Deep Blue Aquatics

November 5, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Pam Balentine, Viking CPA Group, and Anna Clapper, Deep Blue Aquatics

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**John Ray, Pam Balentine, and Anna Clapper**

North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 175: Pam Balentine, Viking CPA Group, and Anna Clapper, Deep Blue Aquatics

A small business “CPA with a personality” and a professional mermaid for your next corporate event were featured on this edition of “North Fulton Business Radio” as Pam Balentine, Viking CPA Group, and Anna Clapper, Deep Blue Aquatics, joined the show. “North Fulton Business Radio” is hosted by John Ray and is broadcast from inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.

Pam Balentine, Viking CPA Group

Pam Balentine is founder of Viking CPA Group, which services small to mid-size business owners, assisting them with tax, accounting, and consulting needs. She prides herself on being a value add to her clients and forming relationships. Pam helps clients understand their business numbers and how to use them to make key growth decisions. She assists clients with strategies to incorporate operations and processes with financials to ensure a low risk, effective, and efficient business.

Pam earned bachelor and master’s degrees in accounting from Michigan State University, and started her career at the prestigious EY in the Detroit office. She continued her career in auditing at various Fortune 500 companies. While working in internal audit, Pam started Viking CPA Group in March of 2013. She is a former adjunct accounting professor at Kennesaw State University. Pam describes herself as the CPA with personality.

To learn more, go to the Viking CPA Group website, email Pam directly, or call 404-850-0326.

Anna Clapper, Deep Blue Aquatics

Anna Clapper is a professional aquatic performer and owner of Deep Blue Aquatics in Columbia, SC. She has made appearances at events all across the Southeast. She not only provides exceptional mermaid and aquatic performance entertainment, but also offers personalized dive instruction, aquatic safety workshops, and life-saving certification courses upon request. She has nearly 15 years of diving experience and is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. As a PADI Master Freediver and Freediving Instructor, Anna has a recorded breath hold of over three and a half minutes. She can safely perform in open water and confined water environments using both breath hold diving and surface supply scuba systems. Anna has more than 20 years of training in a variety of dance styles, making her a skilled underwater model and performer.

In addition to diving, Anna is a published scientist. She works closely with local organizations as an advocate for conservation and STEM education. In her spare time, Anna is also a volunteer diver at the South Carolina Aquarium (in her human form). And, as you might have guessed, her favorite sea creatures are jellyfish.

To learn more, go to the Deep Blue Aquatics website, email Anna directly, or call 843-289-0033.

North Fulton Business Radio” is broadcast from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX®, located inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has grown to become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions with approximately $12.9 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.

Nate Smith with BIP Wealth, Gordon Morse with Morse Corporate Advisors and Mitch Hughes with ViZZ

September 9, 2019 by angishields

Atlanta Business Radio

Nate Smith with BIP Wealth, Gordon Morse with Morse Corporate Advisors and Mitch Hughes with ViZZ

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Nathan “Nate” Smith is the chief operating officer (COO) at BIP Wealth, one of the Southeast’s leading wealth management firms. Prior to bringing his leadership skills to BIP Wealth, Smith completed a nine-year tenure at Hire Heroes USA, where he held C-level positions within the nation’s most effective veteran employment organization.

A former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps with deployments to Iraq, he served from 2003 to 2010 with ranks spanning second lieutenant to captain. He is the recipient of a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, both with Valor devices.

Smith holds a bachelor’s degree from the Virginia Military Institute and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Georgia. Additionally, he is a member of the board of advisors for the National Association of Veteran Serving Organizations.

Connect with Nate on LinkedIn and follow BIP Wealth on Twitter and Facebook.

Gordon Morse, Founder of Morse Corporate Advisors, spent over thirty years successfully building and leading critical businesses for a group of the most prestigious investment firms in the world. He is now dedicated to aiding entrepreneurs in the growth and cultivation of their enterprises.

Connect with Gordon on LinkedIn.

Over the course of forty years of experience, Mitch Hughes has been owner or partner in no fewer than ten successful technology, engineering, and construction organizations, where he has consistently shown himself to be an effective leader and forward-thinking innovator.

As the inventor of ViZZ, Mitch is currently realizing his greatest passion as he leads a unique and talented team to challenge the status quo of technology, with a focused vision of improving lives where we live, work, and play.

Mitch holds multiple board-of-director and committee seats, including formerly held seats or advisory positions with highly acclaimed groups such as the National BIM Standards Committee of the National Institute of Building Sciences, and president of the nation’s largest chapter of the Cold-Formed Steel Engineering Institute.

In addition to civil engineering, Mitch’s education and experience includes an emphasis on business management and computer science. These foci have equipped him with the skills to integrate innovation with positive personal interaction, impacting the individual, advancing business, and providing benefit to the community at large.

Connect with Mitch on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow ViZZ on Facebook.

Stephanie Sokenis, SmallBiz Ally

April 30, 2019 by John Ray

North Fulton Business Radio

Stephanie Sokenis, SmallBiz Ally

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Stephanie Sokenis, SmallBiz Ally

Stephanie Sokenis is the Founder and Owner of SmallBiz Ally. Specializing in assisting new businesses with starting properly, and existing businesses with proactive strategies for remarkable growth, SmallBiz Ally is a small businesses new best friend.

As Accredited Small Business Consultants, their services are reliable and effective, and with the experience of hundreds of consultations, their efforts are always focused on providing a customized strategic road map for clients to meet their objectives and reach their goals.

Dedicated to demonstrating the highest levels of professional integrity, while understanding both the needs and budget of a small business, SmallBiz Ally works to help meet one without exceeding the other.

Whether you are already up and running and unsure what to do next or considering a launch of a new business and feeling overwhelmed, take advantage of a complimentary call to discuss how SmallBiz Ally can help!

For further information, go to https://www.smallbizally.com/ or call (678) 822-3959. For their event calendar, go to https://www.smallbizally.com/events.

Tom Briggette with Pioneer Capital Group and Kyli Owen with 27th and Leo

July 31, 2018 by Mike

North Fulton Business Radio

Tom Briggette with Pioneer Capital Group and Kyli Owen with 27th and Leo

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Tom Briggette/Pioneer Capital Group

Pioneer Capital Group provides alternative financing to small business owners. Through their relationships with numerous lending groups, Pioneer Capital Group is able to assist existing business owners and provide them with short term, uncollateralized, and non-equity financing. The most common use of funds for businesses is to help them expand, hire, bid jobs or fill orders. Traditional bank financing for small business owners is difficult, and the upsurge in merchant cash advance providers has filled a finance gap that has provided over 10 Billion dollars to almost 180,000 small business owners from 2015 to 2017.

Kyli Owen/27^th and Leo

27th and Leo is a retail consulting firm that guides brands and consumer product companies into building long-lasting relationships with their customers through optimal product planning and marketing strategies. The firm takes a holistic approach with each of their clients to understand consumer behaviors and how to make the biggest impact in today’s dynamic retail environments. 27th and Leo steers brands through specific crossroads that are reached through overwhelming growth or a slow down in growth. No matter the path, 27th and Leo develops strategic road-maps to navigate clients through these critical crossroads, and offers brands fully integrated services including consumer trends and analytics, product merchandising and development, and business strategies.

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Beth Copeland with the Georgia Christian Business Network

October 31, 2017 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

TIFFANY KRUMINS SHOW: Beth Copeland with the Georgia Christian Business Network

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Steven Julian, Beth Copeland, Tiffany Krumins

Beth Copeland/Georgia Christian Business Network

GCBN Founder, Elizabeth Bailey Copeland has been self-employed since 1998, empowering people to be leaders in her role as a Leadership/Team Development Coach and Business Consultant. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the Georgia Christian Business Network and God’s People Ministry, Inc.

Beth has a passionate desire to enlighten individuals of their awesome responsibility to walk in leadership. Beth is a magnetic presenter; captivating the audience and stimulating action for positive change. She has been successful in partnering with local and national organizations to facilitate cultural change, acquire next-level leadership skills, and develop a champion attitude.

THE DO’S AND DON’TS OF SMALL BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital

July 30, 2014 by Mike

On the Money

THE DO'S AND DON'TS OF SMALL BUSINESS: Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital

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Phillip Campbell, Joe Moss, Doug Ireland

Successful business owners Doug Ireland with Freeland Painting and Phillip Campbell with Homegrown Capital join Joe Moss to discuss the right way and the wrong way to start and run your very own business.

Doug Ireland/Freeland Painting & Construction

The mission at Freeland Painting & Construction is to bring excellence to their clients through home repairs. Painting, roofing and general renovations are not a unique business, but Freeland Painting & Construction intends to be unique within this industry. They believe that their customer’s fulfillment and happiness is the ultimate goal and the only assignment. They believe that only by serving their customers FIRST can they then serve their employees, suppliers and families.

Phillip Campbell/Homegrown Capital

Homegrown Capital is a private capital firm specializing in residential new construction and renovation loans. Their mission is to provide secured high-yield returns to their investors and supply essential funds to their builders.

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On the Money focuses on topics and issues allowing small businesses to better navigate the financial services minefield, with analysis and opinions from today’s industry experts on banking and loans. On the Money also introduces you to some of the top small business leaders in the Atlanta market.

Hosted by Joe Moss, the president of Embassy National Bank, On the Money airs live every Wednesday at 3:00 PM EST from the Business RadioX studio in Gwinnett.