Building Birmingham Together

Today on Building Birmingham Together, we are chatting with Delphine Carter, CEO and Founder of Boulo Solutions. Boulo Solutions offers professional achievement without compromise for women, creating access to professional opportunities that fit their lifestyles and career goals. Businesses get access to a hidden candidate pool and fill their roles at a faster rate, saving them time and money. Boulo developed a matching process that combines hard and soft skills, effectively re-skilling the existing strengths of a non-traditional labor force and quickly providing businesses with essential help. Delphine realized she had access to a hidden talent pool to solve her own professional challenges of hiring which started her down the path to discovering her true passion and starting Boulo.

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Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

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On today’s episode we’re talking with Deontée (Deon) Gordon whose passion for entrepreneurship, technology, the built environment and culture of the city is a contributing force to Building Birmingham Together! Deon Gordon serves as CEO & President of TechBirmingham, the regional technology council for the seven-county Birmingham metro area, representing hundreds of companies and approximately 30,000 IT professionals. As part of his function, he also serves as the Executive Director for TechBirmingham’s affiliated 501(c)(3), TechAlabama, which recently launched their signature project where he now serves as Advisor, the Education Farm, a coding initiative designed to equip students and teachers across 13 district schools, as well as regional adult learners, with the equipment, curriculum, and resources needed to create viable employment and entrepreneurial pathways for program participants. Prior to joining TechBirmingham in December 2017, he led as the Director of Business Growth for REV Birmingham, an economic development agency partnered with City of Birmingham to focus on place-based revitalization and small business growth. He proudly serves on the boards of the Southern Research advisory body, Alabama Futures Fund, Innovation Depot, TECNA (the Technology Councils of North America), Birmingham Bound Leadership Council, and the Birmingham Business Alliance among others. Gordon was named by the Birmingham Business Journal as a “Top 40 Under 40 for the decade” in 2019 and was selected as one of “Birmingham’s Power 60: The Magic City’s Most Influential Executives” in 2020. He is also a graduate of the 2019 class of Leadership Birmingham as well as the 2019 class of YALP at Harvard Business School.

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This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

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On today’s episode of Building Birmingham Together we’re talking with Madison Kerns Conrad. Madison is Director of Operations for Urban Avenues, a Birmingham nonprofit designed to unite disconnected communities by inspiring people to be curious and make beautiful things together. In 2020, Madison led Urban Avenues’ CareHealth initiative — a response to the COVID crisis. The initiative served two communities that were greatly impacted by COVID: healthcare workers and local restaurants. Raising over $80,000 from the community, Madison and the CareHealth team were able to pour those funds into the restaurant community and serve over 8,000 meals to healthcare teams. Talk about Building Birmingham Together!

You can contact Madison at [email protected]

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This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

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On today’s episode of Building Birmingham Together we’re talking to Haley Medved Kendrick, the Director of Bronze Valley Accelerator, a Gener8tor Program. Haley is committed to building a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Birmingham and recently moved from Innovate Birmingham to Bronze Valley Accelerator. We’re excited to see what she does in this new role!

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Jacqui Jones of One Degree MMM joins Building Birmingham Together to share her passion for marketing and teaching others the tools they need to be successful through her new project Elevation Academy. Jacqui is committed to empowering people to “do more with what they have” and it is evident in all her work!

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Website: onedegreemmm.com, theelevationacademy.mykajabi.com

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You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

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This Episode is Sponsored by Forge

Forge is a thriving coworking space in the heart of downtown Birmingham at The Pizitz Building.  If you are tired of working from home and are in need of a place to be productive as well as be surrounded by a community of entrepreneurs, schedule your tour of Forge today!

Forge Availabilities: Open seating coworking, Dedicated Desk, Private Office, Conference Room Rentals, Event Space, Business Mailing Address

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Today on Building Birmingham Together, we’re talking to David Fleming, President and CEO of REV Birmingham, to hear more about how REV Birmingham helps businesses, creates experiences, and builds authentic places. Throughout his career David Fleming has been committed to building Birmingham up so we were thrilled to chat with him!

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Website: revbirmingham.org

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The Great Receipt Race

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Traction by Gino Wickman

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Lauren and Emily join Building Birmingham Together to share the ethos behind Somerset Advisory and how they launched The Wealth Edit to break down the taboos women experience talking about money. They are committed to serving women well and empowering them to take control of their wealth!

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Russell Hooks joins Building Birmingham Together today and shares the journey of how a hobby sharing free and low cost events in Birmingham to do each weekend turned into the go to social media account for promoting Birmingham events, local businesses and philanthropies. Their love of Birmingham and spotlighting the amazing people of Birmingham has been the driving force behind the success of Happenin’s in The Ham.

If you would like to get in touch with Russell for social media promotion or for social media consulting email [email protected].

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Welcome to Building Birmingham Together: A show where Birmingham’s business leaders' will share their stories as well as their successes, failures and lessons learned to encourage you to remember that dreaming is free, but the hustle is sold separately.  Hosted by Kim Lee, Founder and CEO of Forge.