Identifying the trends shaping today’s workplace, workforce, and marketplace. Guests bring insight and lessons into the trends shaping their business, allowing listeners to learn, adapt, and get a little bit better at whatever it is they do.
What’s Working is currently broadcast weekly in seventeen markets across the US, primarily in the southeast. More stations are joining nearly every week.
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Danny Lipford started in TV in Mobile, Alabama, taking calls in the studio about home repairs to fuel his home remodeling business. Upon announcing his retirement, Danny’s Today’s Homeowner was broadcast in nearly every TV market in the nation and over five hundred radio stations. His media empire grew through lots of hard work and through a genuine appreciation by his audience. Danny’s viewers and listeners liked him. Trusted him. And his resignation from the airwaves leaves a big hole in millions of listeners listening and watching agenda. But the streaming world – a new profit center – has found Today’s Homeowner and he’ll be with us for a long time to come via a different source. Hear this amazing story of work, risk, and humility.
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University of Alabama Professor Paul Reed, PhD is the Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Despite the heady title, he’s easy to talk to about accents and the impressions they make on others. I read a quote from him in The Economist magazine and had to reach out. As a guy that travels a lot, I hear many accents and I have been told many times “you don’t sound like you’re from Alabama.” Paul explains where my accent may have gone and why, and what we think about people when we hear other’s accents. Fun, fun conversation.
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Only 187 medical students nationwide graduate into platic surgery any given year. It’s an elite field and those that populate it are constantly curious about new procedures, new products, and better outcomes. Dr Chris Park epitomizes this and continues to bring the newest technologies and treatments to his practice. “You’d be amazed,” he said, “what we can do now that we couldn’t do a short time ago. You’d be amazed by how non-invasive our treatments have become.”
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Martha Underwood’s father fell when helping a neighbor clean up after a hurricane. He was in Florida and for a while he was incapacitated. Martha, in Birmingham, needed access to his documents that are so important in critical moments like this but…where were they? Her story is not unfamiliar. We all have documents that family, doctors, accountants, lawyers may need at critical moments. Martha has a background in technology and has created a safe place to hold documents with secure access to chosen people called Prismm. Hear how it works and what it could mean for you and me.
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AI was predicted to change medicine a long time ago. Little happened. Robert Pearl believes that time has come. A Forbes author, a podcaster, Stanford professor, physician, and former leader of The Permanente Medical Group in California and then leader of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Robert Pearl has unique insight into healthcare due to the transformations he’s led in both organizations. AI is now learning on its own, and Dr Pearl predicts this ability is what will begin a truly radical healthcare transformation. This is worth a listen to greater understand AI’s impact, its ramifications, and what you can expect.
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Kate Teague is committed to making music. She can’t help it; it’s what she does. She lives in the hyper-comptitive music scene of Nashville where every street corner has an aspiring musician or singer-songwriter trying to get noticed and make it big. Kate is doing the things necessary for her career to catch on fire, from performing to writing to shooting music videos (featuring her non-actor father in a role to save money) to keeping a regular job to pay the bills. How does one get the attention in the Nashville music scene? You’ll enjoy hearing Kate tell us and how struggling musicians find a way to survive and, just maybe, earn a buck or two.
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Friend of What’s Working Brent Barkin is back to update us on his journey. After selling the family business about sixteen months ago, Brent had the luxury to spend time and consider his next move. Not ready to stop working, Brent evaluated what he liked doing and what he was good at and made his decision. Hear how he assessed his talent and made his choices and what lessons you and I can take from his journey.
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It’s simple. To do anything you must begin. Joe Calloway understands that one of the many barriers to success for an entrepreneur or any business leader is simply to get started. To begin. We can create lists of reasons to delay, to wait, to push off to tomorrow. Success, however, starts no other way than to begin. Meet Joe Calloway. Hear his enthusiasm. Let it take hold. And lets all…begin.
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AI is changing everything it touches. Why not supply chains and logistics, too? Shashank Rao leads teams of students working with companies to combine the two in unique ways. Shashank gives me some insights into the projects they’re working on and what the results have been and how AI will continue to impact logistics. It’s fascinating stuff to an outsider like me. To Shashank and his team, though, it’s just another day at work. Shashank, by the way, is the Jim W. Thompson Professor at the Department of Supply Chain Management at Auburn’s Harbert College of Business.
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Not being beholden to tradition or industry norms has helped Joey Mason make Mason Hills Farms a premium provider of beef for the discerning consumer. His cattle are grass fed and grain finished on his own farm near Grand Bay, Alabama. Never farming before, Joey has learned the business from the ground up, from how to prepare the cattle to how to process and package them to retain the best flavor in the meat. He’s now selling it direct to the consumer and is adding a line of ready to cook burgers. And with the scraps? A premium dog food. Joey (like his cattle!) is all in.
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