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.
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Lauren Fernandez – Full Course – can spot a restuarant that’s destined to make it. Her years of experience in the industry as an owner / operator and as a promoter has given her the insight. Today she works with owners of small restuarant concepts to get them launched big and fast by helping the owners make smart growth decisions and avoid the pittfalls that she knows can ruin a promising concept. Once the restaurant has its footing, she backs it with private equity money to truly get it soaring. Hear what she looks for, what mistakes too many restaurateurs make, and how she learned her trade.
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Chris Lawrence has focused on the human capital space helping organizations identify, build, financially assess, implement, and manage outsourced recruiting and consulting solutions. His perspective gives a good view of today’s workplace and workforce needs. We discuss how the workforce needs have evolved since the Great Recession and what he predicts going forward. Notably, Chris explains why there is a greatly reduced demand for IT talent and a huge surge in demand for sales and management talent.
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Shadrick Toodle hand-made t-shirts to wear to support his kids’ sports teams. Other parents wanted them, too. Today he’s selling promotional clothing for teams across his hometown area and well beyond. His presence at events is a big deal. Kids and parents want photos with him. He’s a celebrity. And it all transfers into more and more and more sales of his gear, from football parents wearing shits for their kids to cheerleader gear. He’s a nice man and a master of kindness, support, and promotion.
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Facebook: Shadrick Toodle, Sr.
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Tony Tejas stumbled on his salsa recipe one night making something quick for a friend. Today Tony’s Tejas Salsa can be found across the southeast. Tony is working on vegan soups and stews, too. His goal is to simply make the world a better place and his food products are how he’s doing it – healthy food, fresh ingredients, no preservatives. He’s a man on a mission and he wants us all to come along with him.
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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.
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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 changed, and what she might do differently next time.
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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. It’s an exciting business and David keeps a low profile in a high profile industry.
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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
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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.
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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…
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