What's Working with Cam Marston
355 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 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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Dr Jeremiah Newell Leads the State's First Public Charter School
March 30, 2020 12:37 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBDr Jeremiah Newell had many job offers after completing his Harvard Fellowship, but he returned to Mobile to work in and on the education system that had prepared him for his life's work. Today he runs ACCEL Day and Evening Academy, the state's first public charter school, where these non-traditional students get the extraordinary attention of a select faculty. In August 2020, the school will be expanded from grades 9 - 12 to grades 6 - 12, reflecting the demand and growth of an idea that's ...
What's Working Special Edition - Live Broadcast - 03 26 20
March 26, 2020 19:39 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBGuests: Terry Harbin - Market President - BancorpSouth, Mobile - Steps for small business when money is tight. Russell Fountain - Global Disaster Solutions - Preparing for crisis. Recovering from crisis. Bill Kraus - From woodworking to making plastic shields for doctors and nurses to use when installing ventilators. Text whatsworking to 44222 to get list from Russell Fountain and other items we prepared for show today. FYI - this text and its attachments change frequently. The sh...
What's Working Special Edition - Live Broadcast - 03 24 20
March 24, 2020 22:09 - 42 minutes - 39 MBEmily Killion, law firm Burr & Foreman, discusses new legal implications of the Covid-19 legislation passed. Tucker Frazer, People Flex Staffing, discusses jobs available now for anyone that needs work. Plus insights into how fear reveals opportunities.
Saunders Yacht Works: A Family Business Caring for a Special Type of Customer
March 23, 2020 14:19 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBA 150-ton boat lift is hard too find. There isn't one on the Gulf Coast between Tampa and the Corpus Christi area unless you go to Saunders Yacht Works. Their 150-ton lift can hoist a 120 yacht out of the water and set it on land for work ranging from new engines, new interiors, refurbished air conditioners, to a cleaned and painted hull. John Fitzgerald runs the show today but the business began in the 1950s on Royal Street in downtown Mobile. Hear his fantastic story of their family busin...
Bear Walker - Making High-End Skateboards Worthy of Riding or Hanging as Art
March 15, 2020 21:21 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBBear Walker made 4000+ skateboards in 2019, up from 1500 the year before. His partnership with Pokemon to make a board featuring Pikachu caught the eye of the skateboarding community and the boards sold out in two days and are now selling on eBay at twice their purchase price. Bear stumbled onto a grip on the boards that's cut into the board during manufacturing, not an adhesive, that he's working to sell to other industries for boating decks or ADA ramps. All things are looking up for Bear ...
The Disaster Recovery Business - Russell Fountain's Global Disaster Solutions Fixes Big Problems
March 09, 2020 12:35 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBThrough tried and true vendors, using next generation technology, and having experience dealing with disasters of all types, Russell Fountain's Global Disaster Solutions counts some of the nation's most recognizable brand names as customers. He consults on disaster preparedness and rushes to the disaster site when tragedy strikes.
David Morris of QB Country: Teaching Play Calling with Confidence to Shaking Hands of Adults
March 02, 2020 12:52 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBDavid Morris set records while a high-school quarterback. At Ole Miss he played behind Eli Manning and seldom touched the field. After college his passion for football never dropped and he began drilling kids on quarterback skills on local fields as favors to their fathers. Ten years ago he began QB Country which institutionalized his processes and today his company boasts multiple NFL players and 171 scholarship quarterbacks with 31 this year alone. But, says David, these are his exceptions...
Brent Barkin is Second Generation President of Shoe Station
February 24, 2020 15:06 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBBrent Barkin was working at Shoe Station as a young boy. The store was a concept his father originated and shortly after the first one was open, the second store opened in Pensacola. Today there are nineteen stores throughout the deep south and Brent is now running the show. Each location sees its own trends in popular shoes and apparel and Shoe Station's customers know they can return to the store year after you and find their favorite brands - it's how Shoe Station builds loyalty.
Brian Garish leads Banfield Pet Hospital: 1000+ locations, 19,000+ associates, and 3+M pets
February 17, 2020 12:57 - 53 minutes - 37 MBBrian Garish leads Banfield Pet Hospitals. One of the Mars family of businesses (think M&Ms), the pet care industry is booming. More pets today than ever before are leading to a major shortage of veterinarians. And the Millennial generation, per Brian, is much more interested in pet preventative health care than previous generations of pet owners which requires more vet visits and better foods. We talk pets, vets, compassion fatigue, and the future of pet care. Plus a Mardi Gras commentary f...
The Under 40 Year Old's View of Today's Workplace
February 10, 2020 20:14 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBCorey James is the Director of Operations for Mobile, Alabama's Innovation PortAL, overseeing startup consulting, community development initiatives, marketing, and communications. Cullen Millsap is a Parter and Vice President of Legal Imaging in Mobile, performing digital forensics and eDiscovery for the legal field. Both are members of Mobile Bay Monthly's 2019 Forty Under Forty class and join me to discuss the workplace in 2020 and what those of us well beyond our fortieth year don't get a...
LuAnn Pappas, CEO of the Scarlet Pearl Casino: Know Your Customer and Know HER Well
February 02, 2020 15:07 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBLuAnn Pappas began her casino and hospitality career in a casino gift shop in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Today she's the CEO of the Scarlet Pearl Casino in D'Iberville, Mississippi. LuAnn recognizes the need to know your customer in HER entirety, and the for the Scarlet Pearl, LuAnn's customer is a fifty-year-old female who's coming to play the slots. This customer demands a clean, safe, and friendly environment, and LuAnn's job is to make sure she gets what she wants. "It's like family here...
David Greene of law firm Greene & Phillips: It's about accountability
January 27, 2020 14:21 - 53 minutes - 37 MBDavid Greene went from owning a landscaping company out of college to deciding to go to law school and starting a law firm. Today they have six attorneys and employ sixty support staff and have opened an office in Atlanta. He's prolific advertiser in our area and the motivation for it? Many people, he says, don't know a lawyer and he wants to be theirs. Yet for all the advertising, most of his business is referral and repeat. It's a great growth and success story.
Reeves Price is Running the Hangout Festival - a Huge Event made up of 10,000 tiny details
January 21, 2020 16:41 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBFirst and foremost, Reeves Price loves music and is a connoisseur of music festivals. He'll hold Gulf Shore's Hangout Music Festival up against any in the world in terms of quality of the acts, fan experience, and the care and attention given the talent. He manages festivals in the deep south for AEG and gives us an insider's look at what it takes to pull it off successfully. Hint: Though he may be rubbing shoulders with today's most popular and in-demand entertainers, it is not an easy or g...
LC May - Brand Ambassador for Clyde May's Alabama Style Whiskey
January 13, 2020 01:27 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBClyde May was never without a still somewhere in the woods of Bullock Country, Alabama. His special Christmas offering, which he only sold to family and friends, was flavored with apple slices and aged in oak barrels. Today Clyde May's Alabama Style Whiskey is sold in all 50 states and is represented by his grandson, LC May, who carries the family's reputation with great pride. We discuss the whiskey business, how social media is selling whiskey, and how LC prefers his whiskey after a long w...
The Yard Milkshake Bar - Beautiful Treats, Huge Growth, and a Shark Tank Deal
January 05, 2020 21:31 - 53 minutes - 37 MBOne would think a milkshake that runs upwards of $10 would have a very limited market. Not true. Begun in Gulf Shores, Chelsea and Logan Green have discovered a robust market for their magnificent creations and are now operating several stores with plans in the works for franchise operations. And the cherry on the top is an offer from Mark Cuban on ABC's Shark Tank to help them grow. Listen to their story.
Gratitude: An Exploration of Post Traumatic Growth
December 19, 2019 16:11 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBDr. Tal Ben-Shahar, PhD is a professor at Columbia University and has a book called Happier in which he explores the topic of gratitude and how exhibiting gratitude makes you more grateful. It's an upward spiral, he says. Following Dr. Ben-Shahar we meet Stephanie Anderton and Rob Stuardi, both of Mobile, who experienced significant illnesses and, as a result, have a true sense and depth of gratitude that only the challenges caused by their illnesses could have awakened. It's an uplifting sh...
Joel Sartore, leader of National Geographic's Photo Ark, is Doing Work that Matters
December 09, 2019 20:12 - 53 minutes - 37 MBJoel Sartore has grand ambitions. Photographing every animal in human captivity requires exhausting travel to the four corners of the earth. But he's on a mission to catalog these creatures, great and small, for human posterity. He's lived most of his life with a camera in his hands and his eye for backgrounds, expressions, and framing the subject matter has gained him accolades throughout his career. And while you'd think he may be over good photography, he's still captivated by a really go...
Joel Salatin's Returned to the Roots of Farming to Great Success
December 02, 2019 13:34 - 53 minutes - 37 MBJoel Salatin took a ragged and depleted farm in Virginia and returned it to a producing plot of land. His methods were very simple yet innovative in today's farming culture: he studied what nature was already doing and followed its lead. Along the way, Joel learned some marketing skills, gave speeches, wrote articles and books, was featured in a documentary, and has built a following of farmers and consumers who have elevated him to nearly celebrity status. Listen as he tells his story, lear...
Scott Tripoli - General Manager of Point Clear's Iconic Grand Hotel
November 25, 2019 12:40 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBScott Tripoli had to have the GM job at the 1000 room Hilton in Orlando to qualify for his current role as General Manager at the 400 room Grand Hotel in Pt Clear, Alabama. The high quality of guest expectations at the hotel can only be met by someone who has experienced the pressure cooker of managing big properties in Orlando, the "hospitality capital of the world." Tripoli has guests return year after year, for generations, to experience the charm of the Grand. They know what to expect, t...
Jeff Brinson is a Professional Sales Coach and Teaches his Clients to Rethink Sales
November 18, 2019 14:23 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBJeff Brinson began selling books door to door for the Southwestern Company while he was a college student. It's tough work, teaching him perseverance and how to overcome lots of rejection. He excelled at the work and today teaches sales managers and sales teams about the right frame of mind to tackle sales. His instruction on how to define your target market, how to mine your contacts for referrals, and finding good sales people is a breath of fresh air in an age old profession. His energy i...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship via Univ of South Alabama's I-Corps
November 11, 2019 21:01 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBDrs Michael Chambers and Andrew Byrd know the questions to ask, the people to talk to, and the processes to explore to get your business idea or invention started. They work with individuals and companies that are trying to break through and offer coaching, feedback, and introductions. If it's going to fail, they want it to fail fast so that you can quickly pivot and take the idea in a different direction where a market may be eagerly awaiting your idea. It's intense and rigorous and not for...
What's Working? CBD is Working.
November 04, 2019 13:04 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBJoe Brown owns Your CBD Store of West Mobile. Dr Jan Roberts teaches at the NYU Silver School of Social Work and has a weekly podcast called New Hemp Times. Between the two of them, they know the chemical composition of CBD, how the body reacts to it, and know how to manage expectations about what it might can do for you. Both Joe and Jan emphasize buying only quality product that has been tested by a third party testers. Listen as they get us up to speed on the potential of CBD.
What's Working? CBD is Working.
November 04, 2019 13:04 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBJoe Brown owns Your CBD Store of West Mobile. Dr Jan Roberts teaches at the NYU Silver School of Social Work and has a weekly podcast called New Hemp Times. Between the two of them, they know the chemical composition of CBD, how the body reacts to it, and to manage expectations about what it might can do for you. Both Joe and Jan emphasize buying only quality product that has been tested by a third party testers. Listen as they give us insight on CBD and what it might can do for you.
Bowden Sarrett - Travel Agencies Remain Alive and Well and Worth Their Weight in Gold
October 27, 2019 23:31 - 53 minutes - 37 MBThe internet has not destroyed travel agencies. In fact, the internet has given travelers so much information, so many choices, that many travelers want someone to hand craft their vacation for them. Bowden Sarrett and her team at Brownell Travel will do just that. Their exclusive process called Discover More asks customers questions designed to get to the root of customer's travel goals. From there, Bowden and her team craft the perfect itinerary. We talk with Bowden about trends in travel,...
Bill Kraus of Page & Jones: Moving Product Across Borders Across the World
October 21, 2019 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBBill Kraus knows the intricate details of moving product across the borders all over the world. His clients hire his company to make sending and receiving product easy. Customs can be tricky and very detailed and Page & Jones' clients leave this responsibility to Page & Jones' to manage for them. The product can arrive or depart via ship at any of the nation's ports or via air cargo at some of the nation's largest airports. Regardless, Bill and his colleagues get it through customs and into ...
Eleven86 Water - Another Conversation with the Incredible Marquis Forge
October 20, 2019 17:39 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBMarquis Forge captured our attention when we last spoke in April. Since then the water company he runs continues growth at a break-neck pace with new distribution in Alabama and now in Houston, Texas in one of state's largest grocery store chains. His humble and matter of fact approach to serving the Lord through his water company is as inspiring as anything we've heard in a long, long time. Happy to have this friend of the show back with us.
Sean Sullivan's Motivation: Get It Right for His Listeners
October 07, 2019 16:45 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBWhen Sean Sullivan took over 106.5FM in 2007, the economy was in terrible shape. Sean saw an opportunity to build a radio station that served listeners of southwest Alabama in a way no other talk station was doing at the time. Today, due largely to Sean's and his team's tireless efforts, FMTalk 106.5 is a key ingredient for information and entertainment in Mobile and Baldwin counties and beyond. Sean continues to push for more. His days start very early as he begins to plan his two daily sho...
Matt Armbruster - A Calling for Putting Folks Back to Work
October 01, 2019 13:15 - 53 minutes - 37 MBMatt Armbruster runs Ransom Ministries in Mobile. Their goal is to simply put marginalized people that we too often overlook back to work and get them off the streets. They learn skills designed to build character, hard work, and loyalty and they learn the skills by being paid to do work that Matt and his team oversee. It's been foodservice skills in the past. Today its large electronics recycling. Matt is a force for good in this community. He's an uplifting man of character. And we could a...
Stanton Moore: A Work Ethic that Never Skips a Beat
September 23, 2019 12:23 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBStanton Moore's dozens of recordings, contributions to other's recordings, appearances on multiple soundtracks, and appearances on late night TV are a testament to two things: talent + work ethic. It's his work ethic, though, that has made him a go-to source for the music industry. Once he proved predictable, he says, the magazines, drum manufacturers, and music industry veterans came calling. Today he tours the nation and performs about 100 dates a year with the band Galactic of which he, a...
You've Likely Been Hacked. And Your Details are For Sale.
September 16, 2019 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBGlenda Snodgrass says you and I have probably already been hacked. Many times. And our information is for sale on the Dark Web - which is a real place - to the highest bidder. Even little ole you and little ole me are targets for these industrious and entrepreneurial criminals. Glenda walks us through what to know, what to do and, most importantly, how things work in the world of internet cyber crime. Also on this episode David Webb talks about a product with no peer, no equal, and a speci...
Not Just Dorms: An Entrepreneurial Business that Makes Dorm Decoration Quick, Pretty, and Lightweight
September 09, 2019 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBWhen Shawn Cushing moved her oldest daughter into college in 2012 she was shocked at what she spent, how heavy it was, and how much work it was. An entrepreneurial spirit, Shawn dove into finding ways to make the whole process quick, easy, less expensive, and light-weight. In 2019 she and Annie Henseler will fill between 500 and 600 orders for their dorm decor and the products will be shipped to campuses all over the USA. Listen to a great story of finding a market need and expertly filling ...
Farm to Table Phenom: Chef Chris Rainosek of Mobile's The Noble South
September 03, 2019 12:42 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBChef Chris Rainosek brought The Noble South restaurant to downtown in Mobile at the beginning of Dauphin Street's recent renaissance. Many restaurants have come and gone since, but The Noble South remains. It's busy every day and night due to ambitiously setting customer's expectations as soon as they walk through the door to consistently providing a quality dining experience day after day. It's not a fluke nor luck that it happens this way. We talk to Chef Chris and learn how he stays curre...
SA Recycling: George Adams leads 2700 employees, 77 locations, $1B in sales
August 26, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBGeorge Adams leads SA Recycling based in Anaheim, California. Don't think glass bottles and aluminum cans. Think shredded automobiles and old railroad tracks. He's grown the company to over $1B in sales and his employees LOVE him. He's a fan of bottom-up leadership: Let the employees who do the hard work make the suggestions for improvement, then follow their lead. His stories and examples clearly show he practices what he preaches.
Perking Along for Four Generations: Matt Saurage and Community Coffee
August 19, 2019 12:20 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBMatt Saurage's great grandfather, Cap Saurage, began Community Coffee in Baton Rouge, Louisiana four generations ago in the year 1919. Matt's vow is to keep the company true to its roots by providing the best, most consistent brew of coffee the company is capable of and keeping the company viable for the next generation of Saurage. Matt gives us details about his coffee business ranging from the two unique markets for coffee with chicory (Mobile is one), the fungus that threatened the world'...
Moondance Adventures: A Summer Camp for Youth that Teaches Lessons for Life
August 12, 2019 13:20 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBHayes Hitchens has created a summer camp experience for youth that takes them all over the globe to push themselves in unexpected ways. Though the destinations may be exotic, the environment, the treks, the goals, and the teamwork forces the participants to work together. And the outcome, according to Hitchens, is a confident child who knows how to support their colleagues and overcome significant obstacles. They learn how to do hard things.
Murder Point Oysters: The Story of a Bayou La Batre Shrimper who Never Looked Back
August 05, 2019 11:56 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBLane Zirlott's passion for the oysters he raises is immediately evident. He gives them names, he talks to them, he treats them as passionately and as carefully as a wine grower treats the grapes in his prize vineyard. And it shows. Lane's Murder Point Oysters are served in the finest restaurants from New Orleans to Charleston and beyond. Delivering 3000 dozen oysters to customers each week, Lane got a toe-hold in the marketplace through no-nonsense guerrilla marketing that demanded that the ...
Manners, Etiquette, and Protocol: Cindy Grosso Teaches the Fundamentals of Confidence
July 22, 2019 12:17 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBCindy Grosso defines manners, etiquette, and protocol as the stuff that allows us to know what to do in uncertain situations so that we'll not be uncomfortable and can focus on what matters. Often, the subtle behaviors a job candidate exhibits or the confidence a sales person displays sets them apart from the pack and allows them to close the deal. What sets them apart is that these people know how to behave in uncertain situations and they don't allow the formalities of meals, introductions...
Daniel Dennis is Attuned to the Needs of his Team, his Company, and his City
July 15, 2019 00:35 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBDaniel Dennis leads. As the president of Roberts Brothers he oversees the company made up of 285 agents, staff, and five different offices. He's also chairman of the board of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, putting him at the forefront of bringing new jobs to Mobile. He was recently at the Paris Airshow recruiting aviation businesses to Mobile to the bustling Brookley Complex. Mobile, he says, needs more homes. The city has such low inventory of homes for sale that people don't want to move,...
Michael Honig of Honig Vineyards and Winery - Spreading the News of Honig for Thirty Years
July 08, 2019 11:20 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBMichael Honig's father was in the wine business and Michael's first job when he took over the family winery at age 22 was to sell his wines door to door in San Francisco. Today he's still selling his wines but now he's traveling to all fifty states and is on the road three weeks each month, spreading the word. His enthusiasm for the winery that bears his family name has not waned, either. Despite the extraordinary expense of running a Napa winery and the perceived glamor of the industry, Mic...
More Cigar Smokers Today Than Ever. And Jeff Zeiders Knows How To Reach Them.
June 24, 2019 16:47 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBJeff Zeiders and his business partner began CigarClub.com in an entrepreneurial bid to match a person's preferred tastes to the cigars they'll enjoy. It began with a simple series of questions to be answered which then led to the company's algorithm suggesting cigars. Today the company continues to grow fueled by Millennial customers who appreciate the hand picked selections, the careful packaging, and the descriptions included in each shipment. Worldwide, more cigars are being smoked today ...
Cockrell's Body Shop is Three Generations into Returning Your Car to Like New
June 17, 2019 12:05 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBFor three generations, Cockrell's Body Shop has served car owners in the Mobile area and continue to do so today. While the technology that we rely on to run our cars has changed, Tim and his team have not been left behind. Tim continues to invest in training for his people and upgrading his equipment to be able to work on the cars the come through his doors. And while insurance companies are critical to Tim's success, Tim is a strong proponent of customer choice and wants us aware, in the e...
Pete Vallas Builds Homes of Beauty
June 03, 2019 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBHire Pete Vallas to be your architect and he's going to want to come to your home and go through your house. He wants to open your closet doors and the drawers in your bedroom. He wants to see how you organize things, how you use your space, and how you prioritize your living arrangements. He's then going to get down to business designing your home using timeless principles of architecture to create a home of timeless beauty. Is he good? He doesn't advertise, has lots of repeat clients, lot...
Workplace Culture - Too Important to be Left to Chance
May 28, 2019 20:45 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBPrior to selling his business, David Friedman's company was awarded seven Best Places to Work awards. Company culture, he says, is too important to be left up to chance or to be side-swiped by a strong personality who may not be the one you want in an influential role. David works with companies to create predictable behaviors through a process of defining what the company does to be successful and inculcates it across the organization. The companies that need his help the most are the ones ...
A Niche Business Importing Exotic Timber for Specialized Uses - the Overseas Hardwoods Company
May 20, 2019 12:30 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBLuckett Robinson's grandfather owned a timber mill on the Mobile River. His father began importing exotic timber fifty years ago. The business is deep in his blood and today he and three of his siblings run the company. They've completed some recent acquisitions that will propel growth westward from Texas and opened some retail stores for customers come to see, smell, and touch the beautiful products they find and import from all corners of the world. The job requires lots of travel and lots...
Airbus is Creating their Workforce of the Future and Honoring their Commitments
May 13, 2019 13:37 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBAirbus has been a fixture in the city of Mobile for fourteen years. During that time the partnership with the city, the community, and the workforce has grown and evolved into something all parties are proud of. Airbus' recent announcement of their new workforce development plan called FlightPath9 takes talented high school kids and gets them hands-on experience in the field of airplane assembly. Upon completion, the students are then immediately enrolled into Airbus' Fast Track training pro...
Has Online Communication Slowed the Printing Business? Not At Gwins.
May 06, 2019 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBMike Payne has survived where others have not. He can rattle off the printers along the Gulf Coast who have closed their doors due to poor bets on the economy and machinery trends that have not paid out. He even lost his largest customer the day AFTER a very expensive piece of machinery was shipped to his facility and he didn't cancel the order. Instead, he sold new customers on what the new printer could do. Mike often references the slow, deliberate pace of turtles to define his success. T...
Keith Glass Can't Shake the Music Business. And Shouldn't.
May 01, 2019 14:49 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBKeith Glass went from successful and popular musician touring the world to a vinyl record store owner in Mobile, Alabama where the world is now coming to him. Just last week a group of guys from France came to Mobile to shop in his store. Originally concerned if he could fill the store with enough inventory, he's now packed to the seams. And the vinyl record business is for real today, much to my own surprise. Not only collectors looking for rare and valuable collector's pieces, but new albu...
A Rigorous Right of Passage that Transforms All Who Enter
April 23, 2019 11:59 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBRights of passage change people, especially difficult ones. And the Mission that young men and women participate in for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just may be the last remaining difficult right of passage since the draft ended in the 1973. Lon Henderson went to Germany when he was a young man to serve on his mission as a member of the Church. It transformed him. Later Lon oversaw the mission in Brisbane, Australia where young men and women from across the world were in h...
A Charismatic Personality Plus a Solid Business Plan Equals Success And Longevity
April 15, 2019 12:42 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBGarrett’s business is not dependent upon him. He does not have a “job.” Instead he’s created a business out of personal training, instruction on healthy living, and coaching others to success. To train at Personal Edge Fitness, candidates must have a degree in some sort of training related field, you must go through an internship, and you must get very familiar with the employee handbook and training manual that focuses as much on lifts and technique as it does the emotional side of the clie...
George Porter Jr. has music pouring forth and is still honing his sound
April 08, 2019 12:30 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBWhen musicians speak one-on-one to George Porter, Jr., they often share that he's a role model of theirs, he's their inspiration for playing the bass or the drums, or even for choosing to play funky music in the first place. George is polite. He smiles and says "thank you very much." But inside he's wondering what they're talking about and wishing they'd sit back down at their instrument and get to work. There's music left to be discovered and to play. His success, he says, comes from giving...