What's Working with Cam Marston
355 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsInterviewing guests to better understand the trends shaping their workplace, workforce, and marketplace with the hopes that something they say will make each of us a little bit better at whatever it is we do.
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Paul Lewis' Commercial Construction Company is a Survivor. Hear how He and His Team Consistently Overcame Challenges and Are Thriving Today
June 19, 2023 12:35 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBRoy Lewis Construction has a reputation for quality building and adding value for customers. It's this reputation that has kept them going when times got tough. For years the phone rang from customers eager to benefit from their quality and reputation. Then there was the Great Recession. Then Covid and supply chain challenges. Paul Lewis, company president, kept going with the firm belief that delivering quality, being an honest man, and a strong faith would pull him through. And, it's worki...
Trey Langus Finds Businesses to Sell and Finds Buyers for Them. Trey Galloway is one of Trey's Customers. Listen How To How the Sale and the Purchase of a Business Works.
June 12, 2023 12:30 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBWhat are the details - the nitty-gritty - of finding a business to buy, valuing it, and finding a buyer? Trey Langus works for Transworld Business Advisors and that's what he does. His customer from a recent transaction was Trey Galloway - now owner of The Health Hut. Hear how Trey Langus found the business and Trey Galloway found an opportunity for entrepreneurship and all the steps in between. The two of them sit down in the studio with me to tell their story. Show Sponsors: E3 Termite ...
Brad Davidson is One of the Nation's Top Athletic Trainers. One of his Niche Clients are Busy and Stressed Executives.
June 05, 2023 12:30 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBWater, walks, and sleep. Those were the three biggest points that stood out when I heard Brad Davidson speak at a recent corporate event. He's trained athletes ranging from high school football teams to NFL left tackles. His recipe for busy executives eaten up with stress is more water, longer walks, and better sleep. It's a foundationally different approach to exercise for people in middle age than anything I've heard. His book on how to do it was a best seller. Show Sponsors: Roy Lewis ...
My 18yo Son Shares His Generation's View of Work and Leadership. Plus a High Schooler's Review of Taylor Swift
May 29, 2023 14:41 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBMeet my son Spencer. A tradition of What's Working is to interview my children upon their high school graduation. He's off to the University of Alabama in the fall. We discuss what skills he predicts will be needed in the job market, his prediction of the impact of AI on tomorrow's workplace and where he hopes to land in the work world. You might hear me choke up a bit when telling him how proud his mother and I are of him. Also in this show is Emma Gage's review of Taylor Swift. Emma, an ...
A Family Cake Recipe. A High School Class Trip. A Fundraiser. Now April McClung's Pound Cakes are in Sam's.
May 22, 2023 12:15 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBApril McClung's sons had a chance to travel abroad as high school students. April needed money to make it happen. A decison was made to use a family member's old pound cake recipe to sell them at farmer's markets. Today those cakes are sold at Sams and have been shipped across the country. Meet April, hear her amazing story, and become inspired by a woman who thought she had it all figured out until this cake recipe became a central part of her faith-driven life. Show Sponsors: Roy Lewis...
ESG is Here. It's in the Background of Nearly Every Product You Touch. Kai Gray's Consultancy Helps Companies Ready Themselves For It.
May 15, 2023 11:37 - 53 minutes - 37 MBESG is not something "out there" or only discussed in political environments. ESG (environmental, social, governance) is here and is shaping the way businesses interact with each other and with customers. Kai Gray and his parters run Motive ESG. They work with businesses to improve their ESG scores, thereby enabling them to compete for business with some of the nation's defense contractors, major manufactorers, building contractors and such. Kai predicts ESG will become a filter through whi...
Heikki Malinen is CEO of Outokumpu. $10B in Revenue and 10k Employees. He's an Influencer in World Business.
May 08, 2023 12:30 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBI met Heikki Malinen at a conference in Point Clear, Alabama for his company, Outokumpu. His presentation showed a grasp of world events like none I'd seen before. He travels nearly non-stop, visiting the company's stainless steel plants across the world. The war in Ukraine has impacted his company's ability to get the affordable electricity he needs to power his plants in Europe. Workforce issues are a challenge to his facilities across Europe and the US. His challenges are familiar to lis...
Domenick D'Andrea Coaxes a Reluctant Middle Age-Man (Me!) to Dig in on Social Media to Generate Leads
May 01, 2023 12:30 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBI've long been suspcious that social media can do anything for me. For kids today, yes. For me, a middle aged guy? Hardly. Domenick D'Andrea and I met at a conference and he assured me that if I learn how and when to post and what subject matters people want to see, it will generate profitable business leads. I commit to try it, postng primarily to LinkedIn, to see what will happen. And Domenick says it can't exclusively be business stuff, it has to be personal, too, like me zipping my suitc...
Matt Barber and I Discuss the Future of Orthopedics as Technology Continues its March
April 24, 2023 12:30 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBDr Matt Barber loves his work as a orthopedic surgeon. It's a combination of of skills that hits his sweet spot, including the advances in technology which peak his intersts. In the studio with me, Dr Barber has a sample of a knee made from a 3D printer of a patient's scan including the slight imperfections caused by the patient's age and wear and tear. Dr Barber and I discuss how technology continues to shape the profession, how people like him stay sharp and how you and I can talk to an or...
Ernesto Perez-Carrillo is the Patriarch of the Celebrated EP Carrillo Cigar Company. And a Stud.
April 17, 2023 12:30 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBCigar Aficionado magazine loves EP Carrillo cigars. And they should. The cigars are fantastic. The patriarch of the company is Ernesto Perez-Carrillo. He's third generation in the business after his (thankfully) failed attempt to become a jazz drummer in New York City as a much younger man. Today he leads the company as they develop new product, supervise the growth of a variety of tobaccos in Central America, train rollers, and market across the world. His son and daughter - both brilliant ...
Customer Service Still Matters. A Lot. Pam Denham and I Discuss.
April 10, 2023 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBCustomer service still matters, though we don't hear about it today like we used to. We know customers are increasingly disappointed in the service they receive. They have no problems blowing up social media when they get treated poorly. But customer service training and eduction is woefully lacking. And cheap, online customer service training...stinks. Pam Denham has trained customer service for years. She and I talk about what's missing today and she offers some simple tips for taking serv...
Scot Hunsaker Returns to the Show with a Message: Don't wait too long...
April 03, 2023 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBScot Hunsaker was on the show last year talking about how to prepare employees to take over once the CEO decided to leave. He has a recipe for the process which we discussed in a very engaging conversation. Scot and his wife then boarded his boat and began a slow ride up the east coast, around Nova Scotia, and down the St Lawrence river. His boat is now in storage near Chicago. He and his wife then flew to New Zealand and then Australia for a six week trip. From Australia, Scott called. "Cam...
Sean Sullivan and I Discuss the Stroke that Nearly Took Me Out March 21st
March 30, 2023 11:41 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBBonus Episode: On 3/21/23, about 8:35am, I suffered a stroke in the right side of my brain. The quick actions of those around me plus the Stroke Code team at USA Hospital in Mobile saved me. This podcast is the recording of the radio broadcast with FMTalk 106.5 Midday Mobile show host (and friend) Sean Sullivan as I recount the story. Take a listen - some things to learn here that my save you or someone else some day.
Real Estate Update with a Focus on the Second Home Market - Angelo DePaola of The Coastal Connection Realty
March 27, 2023 15:19 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBAngelo DePaola keeps up with the second home market via his real estate company in Orange Beach, Alabama. Interest rates have changed but there is still a big demand. Home owners are turning over, too. The Boomers who bought vacation homes to bring the kids while they grew up are getting weary of taking care of those homes since the kids and grandkids are visiting less and less. Angelo is a savvy business man who has been very proactive in spreading his name and serving his clients. He's no...
The Wild West of Check Fraud - A Conversation with Ingo Money's Rusty Pickering
March 20, 2023 18:59 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBThe sophistication of check fraud is something I knew nothing about until chatting with my old friend Rusty Pickering and then, only days later, hearing from two colleagues who had it happen to them. Rusty is President and COO of payment processing company Ingo Money in Alpharetta, Georgia. He and I chat about how check fraud happens, who's at risk, who is at fault, and how to avoid having to constantly replace your credit card or debit card. Special bonus podcast version - an off-script cha...
Richard Jolly - Kellogg School of Business - and I Talk Workplace Culture
February 27, 2023 15:18 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBRichard Jolly believes that the only true differentiator between competitive businesses in the future will be their culture. Every other competitive advantage can be copied. And what is culture? It's the way things get done. It's the "smell of the place." And so much more. We talk "hurry sickness", "reciprocity", manager's new roles, why culture has become so important post-pandemic, etc. This one's jam packed with content. Show Sponsers: Persons Service Corp E3 Termite & Pest Control...
Megan Owens and Live Oak Bank - A Non-Traditional Approach to Dominating Niches
February 20, 2023 13:30 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBLive Oak Bank is a completely virtual bank. Megan Owens serves as one of the bank's M&A experts and her expertise allows her to serve the bank anywhere in the nation where M&A expertise is needed. Need banking expertise for your veteranarian clinic, for example? Your Live Oak expert may as likely be local as from anywhere in the US but they will have deep, deep expertise in the veteranarian business. And that's one example from the 30+ verticles where Live Oak aims to expertly serve clients....
Ben Strout is Adding Second Floors to Homes and Removing the Roof LAST! It's a Patent-Pending System That's a Game Changer.
February 13, 2023 13:30 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBBen Strout thought "there has to be a better way." As a home remodeling contractor, the frantic rush between roof removal and building the new one often leads to hurried work and - worse - rain ruining the house interior. He's designed a patent-pending system that allows the new roof to go up first, then frame the interior of the addition, and the final step it to remove the old roof and add stairs from underneath. It's a game changer. (This episode is a monthly collaboration with Business A...
Marty Strong is Back to Discuss Visionary Thinking and His New Book
February 06, 2023 13:30 - 49 minutes - 34 MBBe Visionary is Marty Strong's new book. In his consulting he found challenges with CEOs who worked to optimize their organizations but did it at the cost of being strategic. Marty says our society's drive towards short term goals often cause busiensses to suffer long term since little effort is put into building a vision and a strategy to achieve it. Marty is a great interview and his background as a Navy SEAL plays into our conversation. Show Sponsors: Persons Services Corp E3 Term...
Patrick Werrlein and his Team Won Business Alabama Magazine's Best Places to Work in Alabama
January 26, 2023 20:58 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBPatrick Werrlein said his company could not have won this award six years ago. The company culture needed a big overhaul. He's president and owner of a Swagelok sales and service center in Birmingham, Alabama. Once he got the right team together and became clear about "who we are and what we do," he went to work on the culture. The strategy? Simple, says Patrick - empathy, care, concern, spontaneity and some fun. Patrick offers a list of tactics that any business leader can apply. Sponsors...
Mel Washington And I Discuss What It Takes to Start Well and Survive as a Small Business
January 23, 2023 13:57 - 49 minutes - 34 MBMel Washington is Regional Director of the Small Business Development Center at the University of South Alabama. He coaches and consults and guides small businesses as they work to become stable, viable businesses. He and I discuss what it takes to get started and where many errors are made by small business owners. If you're thinking of becoming and entrepreneur, this episode offers simple recipees that will mitigate your failure risk. If you're trying to grow to the next level, this episo...
Buddy Persons Runs a Multi-Faceted Commercial Construction and Disaster Recovery Business That Started Long Ago as a Plumbing Company
January 16, 2023 14:42 - 49 minutes - 34 MBBuddy Persons has never seen as much property damage from a hurricane than what he saw in south Florida after Hurrican Ian. He was there representing the disaster recovery division of Persons Services Corp, of the several divisions of his company. Buddy's background includes such work in Haiti, Albania and Hondurus to name but a few. The company began years ago with his father's plumbing business and Buddy has grown it tremendously. Hear his remarkable story and meet this humble entrepreneur...
Cam a Guest on Tony Truitt's News Radio
January 15, 2023 14:20 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIt's a fun experience being on the other side of the mic early Saturday morning for Tony Truitt's News Radio show out of Birmingham. It was a quick chat in which he asked me to tell a bit of the story of my show.
Tulane Freeman School of Business Economist and Professor Peter Ricchiuti Tells Us What the Year Will Bring
January 09, 2023 13:30 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBAll the talk of recession pushed me to reach out to friend of the show Peter Ricchiuti to get his take on things. Always a very entertaining guest, Peter gives us a sense of what to focus on, what "tea leaves" he's reading, and perhaps most importantly, he tells us what the businesses he and his students study do when recession looms on the horizon. The businesses are a part of Burkenroad Reports which has brought him and his classes wonderful acclaim over the years. Want predictions for th...
Lauren Weber, Emmy-Nominated Producer, Sees Stories All Around Her Newly Adopted South Alabama Home Town
January 02, 2023 16:32 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBLauren Weber left LA for LA (lower Alabama). She had a hunch this stretch of the Gulf Coast was home to some great stories that needed to be told. After renting a car in Pensacola, she eventually made her way to Fairhope looked around, and parked the car. Fairhope would become her new home. She relocated her production company, Tremont Road, to town, started meeting people, and eventually made a concept pitch based on what she saw to a well known streaming service. They bought it immediately...
Troy Whetstone, CEO of The Modern House Coffee Shop, was called, obeyed, and now serves the homeless via nonprofit social entrepreneurship.
December 26, 2022 14:50 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBTroy knew nothing of coffee when he heard a call from the Lord, obeyed, and now serves the homeless in Birmingham through his Modern House Coffee Shop (www.CoffeeAndCommunity.com). He employs them at the coffee shop and the profits go to support the homeless in the area. Troy is another example of someone who was guided by a higher power and is finding success much easier now that he's doing was he was told to do. His growth plans include roasting his own coffee in the very near future. Troy...
Jim Cox of Southern Napa Wine and I Chat Up this Year's Wine Trends of the Holiday Season
December 12, 2022 13:30 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBJim Cox is a regular visitor to the show this time of year, bringing wine for us to tase (not drink, it's a subtle but real difference) and discuss. He and his wife own Southern Napa Wine Store in Daphne, Alabama. Jim and I discuss the new popular wines that have emerged over the year (sauvignon blanc) and the soaring prices of Napa cabernets as well as some new "mocktail" mixes that are actually verty tasty - good news for the designated drivers and teetotalers. Jim is always a fun and loqu...
Gabriella Saab Continues Gaining National Attention as a Historical Fiction Author
December 05, 2022 13:25 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBGabriella Saab knocked my socks off with her first book, The Last Checkmate. It was fantastic. Her second book arrives mid-January called Daughters of Victory. Another historical fiction novel, this one is set during the Bolshevik revoltuion and travels in time through to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union. The books are meticulously researched and Gabriella will always feature a female protagonist. I catch up with her as a part of my December reconnects with previous guests. Buy The La...
Bill-E Stitt is Still Makin' Bacon. Lots of it. And Shipping It Nationwide.
November 28, 2022 13:30 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBFairhope, Alabama has lots to brag about. The biggest is that it's the home of Bill-E's Bacon. It's the best bacon in the world. Bill-E Stitt and I sit down to check in on how his business is growing since I first met him a while back. He's now shipping bacon all over the country and the country's top chefs are using his bacon in their masterpiece dishes. His is a story of fantastic growth with new opportunities arriving every day. Show Sponsors: Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) - S...
Keeping Our Best and Brightest - Dr Jim Purcell Works to Retain Alabama's Talent and to Coax Others Back to Our State
November 21, 2022 13:26 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBDr Jim Purcell is Alabama's Commissioner on Higher Education. Each year the state's colleges and universities send students into the workplace and too many of them find work outside the state. Dr Purcell is trying to get them to stay. Alabama has the jobs available and needs the talent. Additionally, Dr Purcell is working to lure those with roots in the state back to Alabama through targeted campaigns. He fights historic deep-south stereotypes as well as the reputation of low pay. Listen as ...
Lane Zirlott and Murder Point Oysters - Extraordinary Growth Continues
November 14, 2022 13:30 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBWhen I first interviewed Lane several years ago he had about 600,000 oysters growing at his oyster farm in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Today it's about 30 million. His distribution is now far and wide but he's still going through the back doors of restaurants, shucking his oysters for the chefs, and taking their orders when they're surprised to learn these tasty delights orginate in the Gulf. Lane's kindness, generosity and optimism stands out each time I speak to him and I learn that it sprin...
RFID is a Ubiquitous Technology that We Never See - Justin Patton Leads the Research
November 07, 2022 13:30 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBJustin Patton leads Auburn's RFID team and has participated in most of the seminal business case research for RFID in the United States for retailers. His client list is full of national retail brands and major manufactorers. The technology is everywhere, from embedded in the tag the airline puts on your luggage to the wristband you wear at a theme park. This tech is changing the way companies interact with their customers - from spending hours and hours counting inventory and finding things...
Office Space Update: Who's Returning to the Office? Who's Not? And How is Office Space Changing?
October 31, 2022 18:56 - 47 minutes - 33 MBJames Lomax manages boatloads of office space in and around Huntsville. He tells me who is returing to tradiational office environments and why, who is not, and how some companies are changing their office design to lure employees back. I then talk with friends of What's Working Johnny Gwinn and Stacy Wellborn who are part owners of a co-working space in Mobile called The Container Yard about the surge of interest in their space since Covid has let up. Show Sponsors: Alabama Center for ...
Buddy & Nikki Cummings - Business Coaches Who Have Been There, Done That
October 24, 2022 12:30 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBBuddy & Nikki Cummings have grown and sold several businesses of their own and put them in position for an early retirement if they wanted. Instead, they keep at it, getting involved with business that catch their eye and coaching entrepreneurs to grow and spread their own businesses. Theirs is an infectious energy and their lessons come from their own successes and mistakes, not business school texts. Common business problems addressed in common-sense, simple ways. Show Sponsors: Alaba...
Auburn University's School of Aviation - Profs Birdsong and Witte Prepping Students for Commercial Aviation
October 17, 2022 12:30 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBThe commercial aviation industry faces a wave of retirements soon and needs new blood. Auburn University has trained college students to become pilots for many years and today their program is bursting with undergraduates eager to help fill these soon to be vacated airline cockpits. Professors James Birdsong and Jim Witte run the Auburn University School of Aviation. Students graduate with a pilot's license and are well on their way to the needed flight hours to begin their careers with a m...
Ellen Douglas Alves is a Geriatric Care a Manager in a Society with a Rapidly Aging Population
October 10, 2022 12:30 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBEllen Douglas Alves sat with my family at a delicate point in the care for my now deceased mother and calmy offered insight and options to a family nearly paralyzed with sadness. She's part of a growing cadré of geriatric care managers who assist families who have very difficult decisions to make - love for a sick person, limited financial resources, lack of knowledge of options, the list goes on. With a rapidly aging society, demands for geriatric care managers are expected to soar. Meet El...
Ellen Douglas Alves is a Geriatric Care a Manager in a Society with a Rapidly Aging Populaition
October 10, 2022 12:30 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBEllen Douglas Alves sat with my family at a delicate point in the care for my now deceased mother and calmy offered insight and options to a family nearly paralyzed with sadness. She's part of a growing cadré of geriatric care managers who assist families who have very difficult decisions to make - love for a sick person, limited financial resources, lack of knowledge of options, the list goes on. With a rapidly aging society, demands for geriatric care managers are expected to soar. Meet El...
Search Ain't What it Used to Be - Tim Dozier of Hummingbird Ideas Ad Agency
October 03, 2022 12:34 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBTim Dozier is CEO of full service ad agency Hummingbird Ideas in Mobile. His clients pay his firm to put them in the best light and make them easily found online. However, Tim tells us, search is changing. No longer is Google the go-to like it once was. And it's today's youth who are disrupting this market - using non-traditional online sites (i.e. TikTok, YouTube) to drive their search. Even though the results are less accurate, today's kids continue to go back, meaning Tim and team have to...
Back Forty Beer Company Survived the Onslaught of Breweries and Is Thriving
September 26, 2022 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34 MBHatton Smith was introduced to a group of young beer brewers eager to learn and to grow their brand. Hatton offered two things: wisdom in the beverage business and access to capital. He joined the young company and today, Back Forty Beer Company is growing, having doubled their production in the last few years. They survived the initial rush of breweries after Alabama changed the laws and many brewers arrived onto the scene and have since vanished. Hear the wisdom he offered and their plans ...
Solving the Inter-Generational Workplace Code - A Case Study of Success
September 19, 2022 12:41 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBTanya Hart Little, a Baby Boomer, admitted that maybe there's something she didn't know. In her new commercial real estate brokerage, Hart Commercial, she needed young, ambitious, and agressive talent. At the time, Tanya was mentoring Allison Johnston Frizzo, a Millennial. Through their relationship, then friendship, and now business partnership, Tanya realized that the historic model of the senior people in the industry know the most, know what's best, and know how to get things done was br...
Kristi Bush Discusses How Social Media May be Influencing Our Next Gen Workforce
September 12, 2022 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34 MBKristi Bush speaks nationally about the threats associated with social media. We discuss what socia media may be doing to our next generation of employees: How might their consumption of it impact them as employees? What new or different behaviors might we see? Is there anything visible right now in today's youth that may be an indicator of what's to come? If you're a parent or employer, this is a conversation you'll want to hear. Thanks to Show Sponsors Alabama Center for Real Estate (A...
Leading Gen Z Expert Tells us What to Expect from this Next Workforce
September 05, 2022 13:22 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBRoughly in their early to mid twenties and younger, Bruce Tulgan has seen what is needed to successfully engage this next generation of worker, known as Gen Z. He's one of the leading voices in generational workplace research and paints a clear picture of how they're different and what you and I can expect as they enter the workplace. It's a fun and energetic convesation and it's great to have Bruce back on the show. Thanks to Show Sponsors: Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) E3 Ter...
Beau Brodbeck - Auburn Extension Specialist focusing on Urban Forests
August 29, 2022 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MB"Urban forest" sounds like an oxymoron unless you're Beau Brodbeck. Beau teaches the finer points of the how, when, where, and why of trees in urban landscapes. I was introduced to him through a listener who had just been in one of his seminars and emailed me to say "You gotta have him on" and when I chatted with him I knew she was right. It's amazing how trees influence the value of commerical property, and how we repeatedly do the wrong things when trying to enhance property by planting tr...
Mike Molyneux is Saving his Self-Insured Healthcare Clients Boatloads
August 22, 2022 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBMike Molyneux - trained as a physical therapist - is now on his second healthcare startup and it's growing quickly. His clients are companies and orgs who self-insure their healthcare and he's taken on their primary care via clinics at their places of employment. Called Symbol Health Solutions, it offers an end-around to the 300-pound-gorilla healthcare giants in Alabama. Symbol has grown from south Alabama to state-wide and is now poised to enter Tennessee. Thanks to Show Sponsors: Ala...
Eagle Scout Candidate John Shell Finds Huge and Unexpected Success with his Artificial Reef Project
August 15, 2022 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34 MBJohn Shell is an Eagle Scout candidate in the Mobile area. He identified a project where small artifical reefs could be used on docks along the Alabama Gulf Coast to create homes for barnacles and oysters to filter the sediments and pollutants and, hopefully, clear the waters and he put his head down and got started. His initial goal of 100 reefs was quickly surpassed as people loved the idea and jumped on board with him. Hear his story and learn how you can help, too. Thanks to Show Spons...
Jeb Brooks Gets Paid to Travel the World and Post About It
August 08, 2022 12:30 - 49 minutes - 34 MBJeb Brooks made a video as a passenger on a flight. He did it again and again and today he's left his old job behind him and gets paid by YouTube to travel and post about his flights. He has over 400k subscribers and his videos have been viewed many millions of times. Learn how he does it, how he's compensated, and what the world looks like (literally) to a YouTube influencer. Welcome New & Returning Sponsors: Burr & Forman Roy Lewis Construction Thanks, always, to our loyal sponsors...
REPLAY: Sam Yates of Eagle Solar Discusses Remarkable Solar Technology Advances
August 01, 2022 12:30 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBSolar technology has made tremendous advancements. Solar panels are getting stronger, lighter, and now capable of extracting much more energy from sunlight. Sam Yates installs the panels in Alabama and in North Carolina where business is booming. We learn that Alabama is a laggard in solar tech and get a hint at why. Thanks to Show Sponsors: Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) E3 Termite and Pest Control Persons Services Corp Allison Horner - State Farm Agent Trey Langus - Tra...
The Most Common Money Mistakes Normal People Make - Arindam Nag of the Finan Literacy site Centsai.com
July 25, 2022 12:22 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBIf a mistake is predictable we should be able to prevent it. However, normal people continue to make the same money mistakes over and over again. Arindam Nag was a reporter for some of the most well-known financial publications and is today educating consumers because he saw so many mistakes being repeated. "There has to be a better way to educate people," he thought. His boot-strapped start-up, Centsai.com, is his answer to his question. Thanks to show sponsors: Alabama Center for Real ...
REPLAY: Marty Strong - Retired Navy SEAL - Teaches Business Success through Nimble Thinking
July 18, 2022 13:49 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBMarty Strong's time as a Navy SEAL taught him how to plan for the unknown, evaluate his assets, and utilize whatever was given to him. This method of thinking then made Marty a business success. Frustrated with the lack of actionable lessons in business books, he wrote Be Nimble to offer the lessons he learned with the SEALs, how they applied to business, and how you and I can apply these lessons to our life, too. Thanks to Show Sponsors: Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) E3 Termi...
BONUS: Cam Marston is Interviewed about his New Book called What Works
July 15, 2022 19:14 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBFM Talk 106.5 Midday Mobile radio host Sean Sullivan interviews Cam about his new book - What Works - and the trajectory of his now five-year-old radio show broadcast across Alabama called What's Working with Cam Marston.