Circle City Success

Chris Estridge is the Founder & Owner of EDGE Fitness & Strength which is a gym that he started in 2013 and is also in his second year with the Indianapolis Fire Department.

In this episode, you’ll hear Chris tell us about how the closing of the gym that he was working for led him to start EDGE backed by the loyalty of some of the members he was training and help of his sister, about following in the footsteps of his dad who was on the Indianapolis Fire Department for 30 years and all of the adversity that he and his wife faced while starting that journey, and about the lessons that he’s learned from running his business and joining the fire department.

Website: https://edge.fit/

EDGE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edge_strong/

EDGE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/160954807395151

EDGE YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tLzIe4A4fUKmLQvNMpaQ

Mike Andriole is the CFO & Chief Business Officer of Chimerix who worked his way up through the ranks at Eli Lilly before moving to a small biopharmaceutical company and then transitioning to Chimerix in 2019.

In this episode, you’ll hear Mike tell us about how investing in relationships has helped him as he has advanced through his career, why it’s so important to find a profession that you’re so interested in and passionate about that reading a trade journal on a Saturday morning doesn’t feel like work, and how loving what you do will lead to success.

Website: https://www.chimerix.com/

Bernie McGuinness is a nurse who worked his way up to becoming the Director of Operations of a long-term care facility in his early 20s and now is the CEO of the company that he started named Majestic Management.

In this episode, you’ll hear Bernie tell us about his 5 Ss philosophy of shine, smile, start strong, swagger, and show off, how early in his career he worked Monday through Friday as an unpaid administrator in training at a long-term care facility while also serving as the Director of Nursing on the weekends to pay the bills, and how being intentional about building his company’s culture has helped them to scale to 15 locations, 3,500 care team members, 2,300 residents, and 150 kids in daycare in a little over 2 years.

Website: https://www.majesticcare.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/majestic-care/about/

Angi Oakes is a former restaurant manager turned marketer turned real estate agent with Berkshire Hathaway in Greenwood.

In this episode, you’ll hear Angi tell us about how the engine of her car blowing up in college led her to start her career as a restaurant manager, about starting her career in real estate at the same time that her adopted son was born and in the NICU and how that helped her to laser focus, and how networking, building relationships, and connecting others have helped her to be successful along the way.

Website: https://www.bhhsinrealty.com/angi-oakes

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AngiListsIndy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angioakes/

Ron Brumbarger is the Founder & President of Apprentice University which serves high-school graduates and college students who seek more challenging educational opportunities through apprenticeships to help them develop skills for jobs in technology, business, and entrepreneurship.

In this episode, you’ll hear Ron tell us about beginning his career selling CAD systems at an engineering firm and getting fired the Monday after getting back from his honeymoon, starting his own company creating corporate websites and eventually selling it, and starting Apprentice University because he couldn’t find good employees so he focused on growing them, rather than hiring them.

Ron’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brumbarger/

Apprentice University LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apprentice-university-inc-/

Apprentice University Website: https://apprentice.university/

You’re Always Being Interviewed: https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Always-Being-Interviewed-Brumbarger/dp/1458220575

Seth Morales is the CEO of the Morales Group which is a staffing company with a focus on building better futures one story at a time that his dad started in 2003 and that Seth took over in January 2020.

In this episode, you’ll hear Seth tell us about watching his dad start the business while Seth was living at home after college, why they see the Morales Group as a cause disguised as a staffing company and what that means to the company, and why he tells people that they should go get in traffic.

Seth’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-morales-8289943/

Morales Group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/morales-group-inc-staffing/

Morales Group Website: https://moralesgroup.net/

Chris Hendricks is the President of Duncan Supply Company which is a wholesale distributor of refrigeration, HVAC, and food service equipment that has been family-owned and operated since 1940.

In this episode, you’ll hear Chris tell us about making his career decision at age 18 to eventually take over the family business, about some of the things that they do at Duncan to be intentional about taking care of their employees including still offering a fully funded company pension, and about working his way up through each role in the business and some of the lessons he learned along the way, including feeling frustrated that a path wasn’t set for him to work his way into taking over the President role from someone who held the position for 47 years, but later understanding how it was beneficial to him.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hendricks488

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hendricks488/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-hendricks-mid-80754166/

Duncan Supply Website:http://duncansupply.com/

Chip Neidigh is the Chief Catalyst at the leadership consulting firm that he started named Kairos.

In this episode, you’ll hear Chip tell us about his path from the Naval Academy to the Marine Corps to a corporate job and then to founding Kairos, about how he helps build better leaders through individual coaching, working with entire executive teams, and facilitating Kairos Executive Communities, and about how he uses the Enneagram with clients to help them understand where they’re self-sabotaging and to develop a maturity path.

Chip’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neidigh/

Kairos’ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kairos-united-states-/

Kairos’ Website: https://kairosconsulting.com/

Katie is the President & CEO of the national location firm KSM Location Advisors.

In this episode, you’ll hear Katie tell us about how working in the public sector out of college allowed her to develop skills that she wouldn’t have if she would have gone straight into the private sector, about how feeling like she had hit a ceiling on her professional development at a previous firm led her to moving to KSM for less money and a lower title compared to other job offers she had, and about how she has grown as a manager including learning radical candor and how to give negative feedback.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katieculp1/

Katie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatieZCulp

KSM Location Advisors Twitter: https://twitter.com/ksmlocadvisors

KSM Location Advisors Website: https://ksmlocationadvisors.com/

Patrick Keller is the Owner & Managing Broker of CrestPoint Real Estate which is a company that he started based out of Plainfield with a second office in Fishers.

In this episode, you’ll hear Patrick tell us his story of transitioning from starting a cell phone repair business in college to becoming a critical care nurse after college to now owning his own real estate brokerage with over 20 agents working for him, about some of the things that he does at CrestPoint to build the company culture, and how he’s grown as a business leader and some of the lessons he’s learned along the way.

CrestPoint Website: https://www.indyhomeexperts.com/

Patrick Keller Website: https://www.patrickkeller.realtor/

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