Minding your mental strength
Posted On February 14, 2024
Working on her mental strength helped Amy Morin get through the unexpected loss of her mother and husband. Now she’s helping others work on it too. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” Morin is the successful author of several books on mental strength – all centered on the premise of 13 things mentally strong people don’t do. A therapist by trade, her book series started as a blog post she wrote after losing her mother to an aneurysm and husband to a heart attack at age 26. “It was really my own journey… Read More
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Reusing waste to help protect the environment
Posted On January 30, 2024
Many companies are actively seeking out ways to make their processes healthier for the environment. When your business involves hazardous waste, that can sometimes be difficult and always heavily regulated. But our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” runs a business that has a solution. Ted Reese is President and CEO of Cadence Environmental Energy, a company that supplies alternative fuels to the cement kiln industry. And yes, even hazardous waste can be reused as an alternative fuel. “My father was one of the early pioneers back in the early ‘70s who found that waste… Read More
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Remanufacturing: The answer to helping electric cars reach their potential?
Posted On January 24, 2024
Electric cars are the solution to reducing our carbon footprint, we’re told, and doing something about climate change. No they’re not, we’re also told, because the process required to produce their batteries is also harmful to the environment. What to believe? There’s truth to both statements, but our guests in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” have a solution. Maria Caballero is president of E-Mobility and John Boyer is president of TERREPOWER. They’re both subsidiaries of BBB Industries, a top remanufacturer of automotive, industrial and solar industry parts. Among the parts they remanufacture are electric car batteries…. Read More
Categories: Automotive, Blog, What's Working with Cam MarstonCharles (my real name), Chuck, and Chas – All Present and Accounted For
Posted On January 17, 2024
This week’s Keepin’ It Real as broadcast Fridays on Alabama Public Radio. —– An icicle hangs from the roof of my house. I’m looking at it but still can’t quite believe it. Icicles are very rare here. Usually reserved for the freezer door that was left open overnight. A winter storm blew through and Mobile, Alabama is doing what it usually does when it gets below average cold – we’re freaking out. School is cancelled, quote, “out of an abundance of caution” for the kids. There’s no rebuttal to that phrase. It can’t be argued. Right now, my kids are… Read More
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A cautionary tale of running afoul of ethical behavior
Posted On January 16, 2024
You may think you have a pretty firm grasp on personal and professional ethics, and that you’d never step across the line into behavior that would be considered unethical. Consider, however, that sometimes the pressures of the marketplace, of a demanding boss, or of one’s own ambition might sometimes cause us to take shortcuts we wouldn’t ordinarily take, even if we know they’re wrong. Our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” provides a case study in this very possibility – and a warning of the consequences of failing to recognize and react to ethical red… Read More
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Changing your mindset to effectively manage millennials
Posted On January 13, 2024
Many of the great leaders of the past — Henry Ford, Jack Welch of General Electric, Tom Watson of IBM, to name a few – essentially told their employees: Follow me and do as I say if you want to survive and thrive. Leading today’s generation of employees may not be so straight-forward. In fact, the great leaders of the past may have had a difficult time leading the workforces of today. Our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” was Dr. Kevin McGarry, who did his doctoral research on becoming more effective leaders for the… Read More
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The evolution of the workplace is ongoing
Posted On January 9, 2024
What does the workplace of the future look like? It may be too soon to know. But one thing seems certain: The workplace of the past is gone. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” was Rebecca Swanner, a Workplace Sector Leader at the massive architectural and engineering design firm HED. While some old-school managers still clamor for their employees to be at their desks like the old days, she says the old days are gone – and they’re not coming back. “To be successful, we really need to let go of the baggage and… Read More
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The childcare crisis and how it’s affecting the workforce
Posted On January 4, 2024
Many business leaders around the country say they can’t find enough workforce in today’s economy. While some point to the aftereffects of the pandemic or the idiosyncrasies of the younger generations, one of the main problems doesn’t have anything to do with a willingness to work. It’s childcare – or the lack of it. Our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” was Autumn Zellner, CEO of STARS Early Learning Academy in Fairhope, Alabama. And she says there is a crisis in childcare. “I take phone call after phone call from desperate parents who have either… Read More
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Sometimes, success means hitting the market at just the right time
Posted On December 22, 2023
Sometimes a business model just has to be started at the right time to find success. What wouldn’t have worked at one time may be the Next Big Thing in another. So it was for Josh and Jarred Higginbotham, our guests in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston.” The Higginbothams took about 100 kernels of heirloom corn from a freezer in a barn on the farm that’s been in their family for generations and have built a thriving business, Bayou Cora Farms. There once wasn’t much of a market for heirloom corn – a pre-1940 variety that… Read More
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Stepping back from your passion in order to grow your business
Posted On December 21, 2023
If you’re going to turn your small business into a multi-million dollar company, chances are you’re going to have to step outside your comfort zone and try some new things. You’re also going to have to trust others to do the things you enjoyed doing to get that business off the ground. Marty Grunder, our guest in a recent episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” says learning how to delegate and how to develop new skills and new roles for yourself is important to the growth of any business. Grunder started Grunder Landscaping in the Dayton, Ohio, area while… Read More
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