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James Lomax manages boatloads of office space in and around Huntsville. He tells me who is returing to tradiational office environments and why, who is not, and how some companies are changing their office design to lure employees back. I then talk with friends of What’s Working Johnny Gwinn and Stacy Wellborn who are part owners of a co-working space in Mobile called The Container Yard about the surge of interest in their space since Covid has let up.
Show Sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) – Presenting Sponsor
Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
Buddy & Nikki Cummings have grown and sold several businesses of their own and put them in position for an early retirement if they wanted. Instead, they keep at it, getting involved with business that catch their eye and coaching entrepreneurs to grow and spread their own businesses. Theirs is an infectious energy and their lessons come from their own successes and mistakes, not business school texts. Common business problems addressed in common-sense, simple ways.
Show Sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) – Presenting Sponsor
Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
The commercial aviation industry faces a wave of retirements soon and needs new blood. Auburn University has trained college students to become pilots for many years and today their program is bursting with undergraduates eager to help fill these soon to be vacated airline cockpits. Professors James Birdsong and Jim Witte run the Auburn University School of Aviation. Students graduate with a pilot’s license and are well on their way to the needed flight hours to begin their careers with a major airline.
This episode is in collaboration with Business Alabama magazine.
Thanks to Show Sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) – Presenting Sponsor
Trey Langus – Transworld Business Advisors
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty
Ellen Douglas Alves sat with my family at a delicate point in the care for my now deceased mother and calmy offered insight and options to a family nearly paralyzed with sadness. She’s part of a growing cadré of geriatric care managers who assist families who have very difficult decisions to make – love for a sick person, limited financial resources, lack of knowledge of options, the list goes on. With a rapidly aging society, demands for geriatric care managers are expected to soar. Meet Ellen Douglas, learn about her role as a “professional relative,” and why you may need to reach out to someone like her some day.
Thanks to Show Sponsors:
The Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE)
Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
Tim Dozier is CEO of full service ad agency Hummingbird Ideas in Mobile. His clients pay his firm to put them in the best light and make them easily found online. However, Tim tells us, search is changing. No longer is Google the go-to like it once was. And it’s today’s youth who are disrupting this market – using non-traditional online sites (i.e. TikTok, YouTube) to drive their search. Even though the results are less accurate, today’s kids continue to go back, meaning Tim and team have to become more and more savvy to keep their clients in buyers’ eyes.
Thanks to Show Sponsors:
Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE)
Angelo DePaola – The Coastal Connection Realty
Allison Horner – State Farm Agent
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
