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Biz Radio U Featuring Turner Levison with CommissionTrac

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Turner Levison / CommissionTrac
CEO

Turner Levison focuses his time and effort in writing, building relationships and growing CommissionTrac. A 2012 graduate of The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, Turner started his career as a marketing associate at JPMorgan. In 2014, he joined David Cummings’ software start-up, Rivalry, as the first hire and was tasked with creating and scaling the sales operations. In his time with Rivalry, Turner grew the sales from one customer paying $0 to over 35 customers and $150,000 in annual recurring revenue. During his time there, the company raised a series A investment of $500K in venture capital from Buckhead Investment Partner (BIP), which showed a valuation increase of $3.2mm in less than 18 months.

In 2015, a unique opportunity was presented that gave him the opportunity to co-found CommissionTrac with long time commercial real estate software engineer, Bill Crichlow of LeasCom. The two launched the cloud based commission management platform to the North American market in 2016.

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KSU Entrepreneurship Center The Shrimp Tank Featuring Dr. Alex Roig and Dr. Craig Taylor

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Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks, Ted Jenkin and Lee Heisman

 

Dr. Alex Roig / Dr. Weight Loss of Atlanta

Dr. Alex Roig is originally from Pennsylvania where he attended the University of Pittsburgh.  After that, he enrolled in Life University in Marietta, GA where he received a Doctorate of Chiropractic, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition.

Throughout his college years, Dr. Roig taught as a Personal Trainer, helping people exercise and diet more effectively while honing his passion for health. After graduating from Life University, he worked as a full-time chiropractor until 2002 when he decided to pursue his passion of helping people change their lives by weight loss. He has been helping people with weight loss for over 25 years.

 

Dr. Craig Taylor / Taylor Chiropractic and Wellness

Dr. Craig Taylor is the co-founder and owner of Taylor Chiropractic and Wellness, whose focus is to provide patient-centered care using a variety of integrative treatments. His Bachelor of Science was earned in Biological Sciences at the University of Georgia and became a Doctor of Chiropractic at Life University. He is certified in a wide range of Chiropractic techniques as well as physiotherapy exercises and modalities.

His expertise is not only helping relieve discomfort, but also finding the actual cause of the pain. He believes that detecting the origin of where the pain is coming from will remove the source of what’s causing the discomfort. He uses a number of highly-effective adjusting approaches to help improve spinal biomechanics and reduce nervous system interference. The approach he uses is based on the latest scientific research.

Growing up in a medical family, he always envisioned himself going to medical school. In college, he experienced a lacrosse injury which lead to two herniated discs in his mid-back. After months of seeing several medical doctors and physical therapists with minimal pain relief, he finally sought out to find a chiropractor. Within a month, his mid-back pain was completely diminished and hasn’t bothered him since. He feels fortunate to have gone through this life changing experience involving chiropractic care.

Being an Atlanta native, he is excited to give back to the community that has treated him so well. On his spare time, he enjoys playing and supporting the local sports teams and athletes. He also enjoys spending time with his family and friends, taking his dogs to the park, weight lifting, water sports as well as eating and living a healthy lifestyle.

Neighborhood Business Radio Episode 1

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Anton Watt / Networth Realty
Wholesale Real Estate Salesman

A licensed agent with Networth Realty of Atlanta 2 years of combined experience. An unsurpassed level of market knowledge, contacts in the industry, and exceptional wholesale opportunities. He knows exactly He conducts business in the most honest, professional, and friendly way. The deal is never done until our investors are fully satisfied and we see to it with the utmost integrity and top-of-the-line customer service.

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Shari Morris / Law Office of Shari Morris, LLC

Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Shari’ Morris developed a passion for the law at the very tender age of nine. Her passion and interest stemmed from her personal experience of going through the aftermath of her parents’ divorce and a difficult child custody and support battle. The experience fueled her desire to not only educate but also to counsel and guide her clients through the stress of difficult matters with the utmost of ease. Throughout the years of practice, Shari’ has represented clients with difficult divorces, child support matters as well as heavily contested child custody disputes; all of which have resulted in the most favorable outcome for her clients as well as ensuring the child’s interest were considerably safeguarded.

Attorney Morris has been a resident of Georgia since 2013. She has been a practicing attorney for five years and she has been a solo practitioner since August 2016. She is licensed in three states(Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi). Her specific practice areas of law are Family Law and Personal Injury Law.

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Digital Marketing Series Episode 7

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Raychel Leong-Sullins / Maid Simple House Cleaning
VP of Operations

Raychel Sullins has been a part of Maid Brigade, Inc., since 1999. Her most recent position as VP of Operations, has provided the opportunity to oversee the Maid Simple concept since the first franchise opened in 2012. Raychel has worked in all aspects of the Maid Simple model, including new franchisee acquisition. Working with the franchise development team, Raychel assisted in locating and selecting AIS Media to be the SEM vendor for Maid Simple.

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Thomas Harpointner (Co-Host) / AIS Media

Thomas Harpointner is founder & CEO of AIS Media, Inc., an Atlanta-based, award-winning digital marketing firm. Thomas is a recognized subject matter expert on digital marketing strategy development and execution.

Thomas has served as a keynote speaker at trade organizations, conferences, and corporate events. He has appeared on Fox Business, Bloomberg Television, CNN Radio, CNBC, The Advertising Show, The Today Show and many other TV and radio programs. He’s been featured in publications such as Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, CFO, AJC, Fortune, and Wired.

At AIS Media, Thomas consults executives at leading companies on digital strategy. He’s led hundreds of digital marketing initiatives for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations such as AT&T, Synovus Financial, Emory Healthcare, Wake Forest Innovations, Pfizer, and Maui Jim Sunglasses. Under his leadership, AIS Media has been recognized with dozens of prestigious industry awards.

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Biz Radio U Featuring Ben and Sammy Amor

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Ben and Sammy Amor / Cloud 9 Smoke and Vape Co.

Ben Amor is graduating in May from Kennesaw State University with a degree in Management, while Sammy Amor is graduating in December of this year with a Management major. They are from immigrant parents that instilled an extreme work ethic and a passion to follow their dreams. Ben and Sammy own and operate Cloud 9 Smoke & Vape Co., SBK International, and Skyline Hookah Lounge. They started their hookah lounge, Skyline, in 2010. At the time, there were no hookah lounges in Cobb County.

In 2011 Ben and Sammy founded Cloud 9. Cloud 9 is a chain of smoke and electronic cigarette retail stores with 6 locations in the metro Atlanta area.  They vertically integrated to a wholesale company when they realized they needed a warehouse to store their products, and it only made sense to use their buying power to sell to their competition.

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David Sheehan with Robert Half Technology, Margaret Lisi with ST!R Marketing and Author Chris Butsch

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David Sheehan / Robert Half Technology
Branch Manager

David Sheehan is branch manager of sales and recruiting for 2 divisions within Robert Half, including The Creative Group and Robert Half Technology. His practice areas include contract, direct hire, consulting, freelance. David’s specialties include UX/UI, design, development, e-commerce, advertising, creative, social media, digital,  and ERP. He finds jobs for technology professionals that consist of software developers, project managers, database specialists, networking and infrastructure specialists, and help desk support professionals.

Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of skilled IT professionals, specializing in consulting services on a project or full-time basis. A combination of online recruiting activities for job seekers and personalized service enables us to identify and provide the talent our clients need – when they need it most. For more information about Robert Half Technology, please visit our website at rht.com.

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Margaret Lisi / ST!R Marketing
Owner

Margaret Lisi owns ST!R Marketing, a communications firm devoted to helping clients define and tell their stories to create a bond between people and business. A combination of disruptor, guide, corporate anthropologist and culture builder, Margaret uses these skills to help companies understand where they are and where they want to go, driving engagement, awareness and loyalty along the way.

Her expertise is around building dimensional programs of work for clients—whether it’s around a new or revitalized brand, changes to people, processes or technology, or simply building a strong culture. A constant learner, she’s touched virtually every aspect of communications and marketing, so she can see how to maximize the impact of a program on employees, customers and partners.

Margaret’s clients have ranged from major corporations to nonprofits and universities. She also has been committed to community service, serving on at least one nonprofit board at almost every point in her career.

Her efforts have resulted in successful marketing and advertising campaigns, millions of dollars in unearned media, and public speaking engagements on what she does and how she does it successfully.

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Chris Butsch / The Millennial’s Guide to Making Happiness
Millennial Correspondent

Chris Butsch is BRX’s official Millennial Correspondent. A Millennial workplace and psychology expert, Chris published The Millennial’s Guide to Making Happiness in January 2017 and now works to reconnect Baby Boomers and Millennials.

 

KSU Entrepreneurship Center The Shrimp Tank Featuring Ben and Sammy Amor

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Where can a young entrepreneur figure out how to turn their dreams into reality? Just take a step into the Shrimp Tank. The Shrimp Tank brings you interviews with some of the most successful business owners in the United States to learn the do’s and don’ts of starting and running a successful business. Then, the fun really starts when we bring in high school and college students to pitch their business ideas to the Shrimp Tank. We don’t fund any business, but we do teach kids how to turn their business ideas into a successful business.

Hosts of The Shrimp Tank Chris Hanks, Ted Jenkin and Lee Heisman

 

Ben and Sammy Amor / Cloud 9 Smoke and Vape Co.

Ben Amor is graduating in May from Kennesaw State University with a degree in Management, while Sammy Amor is graduating in December of this year with a Management major. They are from immigrant parents that instilled an extreme work ethic and a passion to follow their dreams. Ben and Sammy own and operate Cloud 9 Smoke & Vape Co., SBK International, and Skyline Hookah Lounge. They started their hookah lounge, Skyline, in 2010. At the time, there were no hookah lounges in Cobb County.

In 2011 Ben and Sammy founded Cloud 9. Cloud 9 is a chain of smoke and electronic cigarette retail stores with 6 locations in the metro Atlanta area.  They vertically integrated to a wholesale company when they realized they needed a warehouse to store their products, and it only made sense to use their buying power to sell to their competition.

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Women in Technology (WIT) Special Edition

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Since 1992, Women in Technology has had a mission dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in Georgia’s technology community. Through the WIT COMMUNITY, WIT Also educates and encourages girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM.

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Sandy Welfare /  WIT 

Sandy D. Welfare is the Executive Director of Women In Technology (WIT). Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of Cool Girls Inc, an award-winning early intervention after-school program dedicated to the empowerment of girls (2009-2015).

Sandy’s career began in 1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut where she joined Rand Insurance as the Controller. Six years later, she accepted a position with Lucent Technologies, an international telecommunications leader, holding a number of positions including serving as Accounting and Treasury Manager in Singapore (1999-2000) and then as Senior Manager in Australia and New Zealand (2000-2002). Sandy returned to Atlanta in 2002 as Senior Manager of Global Financial Services.

In 2003, Sandy accepted a position as Director of Operations for Xchanging, a business processing outsourcing company. In 2006, her career took her to London, England as Managing Director for professional services, where she managed global business processing services for bank financial transactions, insurance and retail.

Sandy received her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University in New York, and a Master of Business Administration from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. She serves on the board of several non-profits, including Kiwanis Club of Atlanta. Sandy resides in Marietta, Georgia with her husband, Cliff and son, Soloman.

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Richard Makerson / BlueFletch
Managing Partner

As the Co-Founder of BlueFletch, Richard is a Technical Manager with skills in Mobile, Microsoft .NET, and J2EE Application Development. Richard has also trained, deployed, and supported multiple application tiers across complex production environments. He has extensive technical experience in native, cross-platform and web-based mobile application development. Richard holds a BS in Computer Science from Morehouse College.

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Nicole Gatlin / BlueFletch
UX/UI Designer

An ambition to build beautiful and intuitive designs gets Nicole out of bed each morning. At BlueFletch, she works as a User Experience and User Interface Designer. She has a background in visual design and holds degrees in Art History and Global Developmental Studies from Seattle Pacific University.

When she isn’t creating, you can find her rock climbing throughout the Southeast with her husband and pit bull.

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Kira Greco / BlueFletch
Business Experience Lead

Kira has experience in business analysis, user experience, marketing, operations and project management. She has worked in many industries and uses her strong analytical skills to drive process performance and organizational efficiency. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Construction Management and Engineering from Stanford University.

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Larry Kihlstadius with Kinetix HR

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Larry Kihlstadius / Kinetix HR 
Solutions Czar

Larry is responsible for the solution generation of new clients for Kinetix. Kinetix is the leader in recruiting driven by cutting edge recruitment marketing. Kinetix is at the forefront of developing talent once hired. Larry has led sales, consulted, and run P&Ls at several Global 1000 companies. He is a pioneer in the Human Resources Outsourcing market and developed the first Recruitment Process Outsourcing model to become commercially viable.

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