Identifying the trends shaping today’s workplace, workforce, and marketplace. Guests bring insight into their business or their business expertise that allows listeners to get a little bit better at whatever it is they do.
What’s Working is currently broadcast weekly in Mobile, Montgomery, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Gadsden, and Huntsville.
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Hatton 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 for the future.
Thanks to Show Sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE)
The Coastal Connection Realtors
United Bank – New Sponsor! Thanks!
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
Tanya 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 broken. Tanya gave her young team some direction, worked to shape the company goals, and offered lots of leeway and then let them run with it. The result? Overwhelming success in a much shorter amount of time than anyone could have predicted.
Thanks to Show Sponsors:
The Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE)
The Coastal Connection Realtors – New Advertisers! Welcome!
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Kristi 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 (ACRE)
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
Roughly 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)
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
“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 trees. And how we often plant them in such a way that their failue is all but assured.
Thanks to show sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Mike 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:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE)
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
John 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 Sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Jeb 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.
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Thanks, always, to our loyal sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE)
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
Solar 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)
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
If 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 Estate (ACRE)
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
