LuAnn Pappas - CEO, Scarlett Pearl Casino - Pivoting and Persevering
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Release Date: 06/22/2020
From Mass Cancellations to Record Setting Reservations - Brian Harris of Harris Properties Management
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Brian Harris run Harris Properties in Gulf Shores. He rents homes to the vacation market as well as buys and sells vacation homes all in the Gulf Shores, Alabama area. When Covid hit the cancellations flooded in. Brian found ways to not only continue, but found innovative ways to keeps his contractors in revenue. Then the phones rang again - this time for record reservations. "If we have to quarantine," his customers said, "let's do it at the beach." Boom. Record revenues.
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Gregory Robinson Talks Ipe - a Hardwood Famous for its Hurricane Resilience
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Ipe (pronounced "EEE-pay") is known for its weight and density. It sinks. Used as waterfront decking, it survives the storms. Southern pine - the most popular decking material - floats, its buoyancy pulling it upward in a flood, tearing it from its attachments. Ipe suffers none of this, explaining the post hurricane footage showing scores of docks destroyed by the storm surge. The docks that remain nearly entirely intact? Likely constructed from ipe.
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Thom Shea - retired Navy Seal - now coaches execs to be the best version of themselves
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Thom Shea asks his clients and his audiences what is the single thing that prevents them from being the best versions of themselves. Their answer, by a landslide, is drama. Drama in the workplace. Drama in the home. Drama with their kids and with their spouse. So Thom coaches them to deal with drama so their best version of themselves will be available to the world. Thom was a powerful leader in the Seals. He's now a power leadership guide in the corporate world.
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Adam Heisler Teaches Non-Traditional Baseball Skills in a City Steeped in Baseball Tradition
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Adam Heisler uses technology to teach his students how to hit a baseball. The term "launch angle" is taboo in certain circles, but Adam stands behind the technology, the research supporting it and, most importantly, his student's improved at bats. He talks about how he's gone against the headwinds of tradition in a city with deep, deep baseball roots.
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Louise McCown and Cliff Kennedy - Forty Under Forty Winners
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Louise McCown and Cliff Kennedy are 2021 Forty Under Forty Winners from Mobile Bay Monthly's annual tribute. Both lead impressive organizations and, at a young age, have impressive resumés. We talk about the lessons they'd give their younger selves and what those of us over fifty should know about the under forty leader.
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Mike Adams Created a Way to Protect Spray Foam Insulation Buildings from Termites
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Most termite companies want nothing to do with protecting buildings with spray foam insulation - termites go undetected under the foam, leaving the termite companies on the hook for the damages. Enter Mike Adams and E3 Termite and Pest Control and his custom solution to treating spray foam insulated buildings. His product has entered a market desperate for it. I should know. I hired his company for my home, heard his story, and said, "Please let me interview you on my radio show."
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Devin Marks Coaches Experts to Deliver their Powerful Messages Powerfully.
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Devin Marks has a recipe for delivering the spoken word powerfully. Story. Conflict. Resolution. Vulnerability. Empathy. Simplicity. Who new there was a method? Devin discovered the method and now teaches experts worldwide how to organize their message in such a way that audiences will NEVER forget what they heard.
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Jeff Butler is building a mid-century American furniture retail empire.
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Covid forced Jeff Butler to change how he brought his furniture finds to market which began a banner year for Jeff and his team. He's focused today on building his business to scale larger and larger and the top lesson he's learned: sharing the pie will yield bigger results than keeping most of it for himself.
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Holiday Trends in the Wine Business: A Chat with Jim Cox of Southern Napa Wines
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Easy to get excited about recording a radio show when the guest starts pulling out corks before we're even seated at our mics. Jim Cox is no stranger to teaching the neophyte to the most sophisticated palette how to enjoy wine. We discuss wine trends, his story, and how during Covid he and his team went through some reinvention that lead to one of the best years they've ever had.
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Robert Tucker - A Peek into the Post-Pandemic Future
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Robert Tucker is a futurist with insights into how our work world will look once normalcy has returned. He makes big predictions that will impact the way business functions.
info_outlineLuAnn has been on the show before. We loved her. She's open and kind and compassionate and I don't even work for her! She's even more so to her people and her customers and we're glad to have met her. We check back in to see how she's handled the new world, her plans for re-opening (her team has called 100 of their frequent customers per day to check in on them), and what she'll take from Covid, and what she can't wait to leave behind.