A Prep High School With Significant Corporate Support Putting Students Straight Into the Workplace

A Prep High School With Significant Corporate Support Putting Students Straight Into the Workplace

Posted On March 18, 2024

Adam Sealey is the principal at Baldwin Prepatory Academy where he oversees the training and development of high school students and readying them to enter straight into the workplace. With enthusiastic support from corportate sponsors, Adam and Eric West – Career Technical Education Coordinator – are on the forefront of developing the skills employers are asking for. We discuss how the next generation of employees is looking for the skills needed but the training and teaching methods must change to appeal to them. We discuss the importance of soft-skills training on top of technical expertise.  Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms… Read More

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Jill Schlesinger Works for CBS News. We Follow Her Trajectory from Financial Advisor to National Media Figure

Posted On March 11, 2024

I met Jill Schlesinger at a conference years ago. We chatted back stage and got along. On my next trip to New York City she took me around the CBS Studios and and introduced me to some of the national personalities you would recognize on TV. She was interested, kind, nice, and generous when she didn’t need to be. Her path to journalism is non-tradiitonal. She started as a financial planner and has landed with a national TV slot, two great finanical books, a national radio show and a very popular podcast. She and I chat about journalism today, how it’s… Read More

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Quarterbacks, NIL, NFL, and David Morris’ QB Country – Training the Best to Get Better

Posted On March 4, 2024

When we last checked in with David Morris, president of QB Country, he was busy training his “bread and butter” client – middle and high school quarterbacks. Now in eleven cities, he’s now taken many of those young QBs into the college and pro levels and they’re staying close. Any any given moment in the offseason, David is training quarterbacks whose names you’d know and who are on the field on Saturdays and Sundays in the fall. He’s gained their and their family’s trust and they seek his counsel on NIL deals which has led him into beginning QB Reps…. Read More

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Catherine Arensberg Decided to Enjoy Landscape Design. She’s Built a Successful Business and Uses Social Media Like a Champ

Posted On February 26, 2024

After a degree from LSU in landscape design, Catherine Arensberg wondered if that career was her calling. She evaluated her options, tried a few things, then doubled down on the parts of landscape designe she enjoyed the most. At the same time she developed a social media profile and grew it relentlesly. Today she’s as busy as she wants to be with her high-end clients and has an online following eagerly awaiting her next post.  Instagram: @catherinearensberg Web: https://www.catherinearensberg.com Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Trey Langus… Read More

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Chancellor Moody and Timaje Porter are Going for the NFL. Hear What They’re Doing to get Ready.

Posted On February 19, 2024

The NFL attracts elite athletes. Chancellor Moody and Timaje Porter think they have what it takes. Timaje is preparing for NFL Day where scouts will look him over. Chancellor is preparing to join a college football team where he expects his skills to shine. They both have lots of support in their corner, they’re doing the work to ready themselves for the tests they’ll soon get, and their attitudes point to success. And, for what it’s worth, they can now count on me being in their corner, too. But…it’s a long, narrow road ahead. Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms –… Read More

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Nick Bloom is the THE Guy Across the World When it Comes to Work from Home Trends and Its Impact on the Workplace

Posted On February 12, 2024

Nick Bloom is an economist at Stanford. He began studing work from home trends long before they became a thing with Covid. Nick gives me the final word on whether work from home is profitable for companies, how it impacts creativity, and what most organizations are doing now that employees are insisting on a work from home environment. He also shares that NOT commuting to work saves a ton of time for all workers and an addiitonal 18 minutes for women. Why? Gotta listen… Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control… Read More

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Applying a Resilience Mentality to Our Business. Author Amy Morin tells us how.

Posted On February 5, 2024

Amy Morin made a name for herself with a blog that caught fire followed by a Ted Talk that caught fire. In both instances she wrote and spoke about what mentally strong people DON’T do. Avoid these pitfalls, she says, and you’ll deal with life’s inevitable adversity much better. In today’s show I ask her to apply this mental framework to work, business, customers, and employees and she offers fantasitc advice. Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors Allison Horner – State… Read More

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Hazardous Waste Disposal – Ted Reese of Cadence Environmental Energy Explains How It’s Done

Posted On January 29, 2024

When huge chemical containers are cleaned at chemical plants, what happens to the left over hazardous sludge? What’s done with the excess from some cosmetic overruns? What about those piles of tires we used to see stacked up behind old tire shops?  Ted Reese is president and CEO of Cadence Environmental Energy. His company destroys wastes that contain energy value by feeding it into long rotary kilns at cement plants that operate at above 2600 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s all high in carbon which reduces fossil fuels needed to generate the heat. The resulting product, now harmless, becomes part of the… Read More

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Myth v Reality in the EV Car Battery World. A Chat with the Leadership of E-Mobility and TERREPOWER

Posted On January 22, 2024

Are electric car batteries an environmental disaster like some would have you think? Or are they God’s gift to planet earth as others would have you think? I speak with Maria Caballero, President of E-Mobility, a division of TERREPOWER and John Boyer, President of TERREPOWER, a division of BBB Industries. TERREPOWER takes used EV batteries and remanufacture them for resale. The execs say that, yes, there is an environmental cost to creating them, like there is for all things, but the benefit of running a car with no emissions outweights their cost. They also do electric storage tied to solar… Read More

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Aaron Beam Was Head of Accounting at Healthsouth When He Decided the Fudge the Numbers. It Was the Beginning of His and Healthsouth’s Downfall.

Posted On January 15, 2024

Aaron Beam says it was his boss’ drive for weath that put pressure on him to fudge the numbers. Aaron admits he liked the wealth that Healthsouth had generated for him, too. But that moment in his boss’ office when things got heated about missing the quarterly numbers, Aaron says he should have said No. His inaction in that moment has shaped his life since. Show Sponsors: Mason Hills Farms – True Farm to Table Meats E3 Termite & Pest Control Roy Lewis Construction Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors Allison Horner – State Farm Agent Angelo DePaola – The… Read More

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