BrandBuilders

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BrandBuilders episodes

March 28, 2019 Clem McDavid – Babel Street
In an age where we can have endless information at our fingertips around the clock and from around the globe, how do you make sense of it all? Especially, if some of it is in a different language or many different languages? Babel Street is a data analytics company that works to do that in more than 200 languages, and can chart social media in 18 major world languages. VP Clem McDavid shares the insights Babel Street can learn from all of this data, and social media monitoring worldwide.
31 min
March 21, 2019 Alan Simonini – Simonini Homes
One name that is consistent with luxury homebuilding in Charlotte is Simonini Homes. Alan Simonini and partners started the well-known company in 1994, but like most companies in the great recession, Simonini Homes hit a snag - even announcing it would close down in 2010. But you can't keep a good man down, and they are back in business. Founder Alan Simonini shares what it takes to bring back a brand on this episode of the BrandBuilders Podcast.
34 min
March 21, 2019 Alan Simonini – Simonini Homes
One name that is consistent with luxury homebuilding in Charlotte is Simonini Homes. Alan Simonini and partners started the well-known company in 1994, but like most companies in the great recession, Simonini Homes hit a snag – even announcing it would close down in 2010. But you can’t keep a good man down, and they are back in business. Founder Alan Simonini shares what it takes to bring back a brand on this episode of the BrandBuilders Podcast.
34 min
March 14, 2019 Dick Sesler – Camp Blue Skies
Parenting a special needs child that is all grown up, is a different kind of challenge. Dick Sesler realized his adult son needed the same kind of social interaction and skills-building as many young, special-needs children, but with fewer services available. On this BrandBuilders Podcast, he shares the story behind Camp Blue Skies -- a 5-day, 4-night camp for kids over 21 who still want to play and make friends.
27 min
March 14, 2019 Dick Sesler – Camp Blue Skies
Parenting a special needs child that is all grown up, is a different kind of challenge. Dick Sesler realized his adult son needed the same kind of social interaction and skills-building as many young, special-needs children, but with fewer services available. On this BrandBuilders Podcast, he shares the story behind Camp Blue Skies — a 5-day, 4-night camp for kids over 21 who still want to play and make friends.
27 min
March 08, 2019 Josh Dernosek – Aldo Products
"The ceiling is the ROOF!" according to one of North Carolina's favorite sons. Of course, if you're a Carolina fan -- or just a basketball fan -- you know it was Michael Jordan. BrandBuilders Podcast guest Josh Dernosek also specializes in keeping your roof solid under our Carolina Blue skies -- he is the Southeast Region Sales Manager for Aldo Products, whose roof coatings keep the rain and weather outside your home where it belongs, instead of pouring down from your ceiling into your living room.
30 min
March 08, 2019 Josh Dernosek – Aldo Products
“The ceiling is the ROOF!” according to one of North Carolina’s favorite sons. Of course, if you’re a Carolina fan — or just a basketball fan — you know it was Michael Jordan. BrandBuilders Podcast guest Josh Dernosek also specializes in keeping your roof solid under our Carolina Blue skies — he is the Southeast Region Sales Manager for Aldo Products, whose roof coatings keep the rain and weather outside your home where it belongs, instead of pouring down from your ceiling into your living room.
30 min
March 01, 2019 Brick McDermott – Highlands Residential Mortgage
Buying a house comes with a lot of preparation, and a lot of decisions. Our next guest on the BrandBuilders Podcast might tell you, "Just look for Brick!" No, that's not style advice -- it's a slogan we imagine our guest, Brick McDermott with Highlands Residential Mortgage, could use. He gives us advice on mortgage questions you might have for buying your first home, or upgrading after the recent revaluations.
28 min
March 01, 2019 Brick McDermott – Highlands Residential Mortgage
Buying a house comes with a lot of preparation, and a lot of decisions. Our next guest on the BrandBuilders Podcast might tell you, “Just look for Brick!” No, that’s not style advice — it’s a slogan we imagine our guest, Brick McDermott with Highlands Residential Mortgage, could use. He gives us advice on mortgage questions you might have for buying your first home, or upgrading after the recent revaluations.
28 min
February 21, 2019 Bart Noonan – West Blvd Ministry
Charlotte's "inner ring" has seen a lot of growth and changes over the last 10 years, with areas north, south, and east of uptown being rebuilt into newer, fresher areas. That growth is slowly creeping west, too, but still has a ways to go.

Someone who knows that, as well as anyone, is Bart Noonan of West Boulevard Ministries. Once one of Charlotte's most solid post-war middle-class neighborhoods, West Boulevard has been split by an interstate and dotted with high-poverty enclaves over the last 50 years. Bart is reaching out to lift up the folks living there. Welcome, Bart.
39 min

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The Brandbuilders Podcast with your hosts Scott Dunstan and Brian Young is brought to you by The Dunstan Group, Charlotte’s premier provider of branded merchandise and logo’d apparel. Brandbuilders is…