Michigan Business Network

Chris Holman talks with Josh Hundt, Executive Vice President and Chief Business Development Officer of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). They cover MEDC’s COVID relief efforts to date including the 23 programs implemented which have provided over $240,000,000 in critically needed relief funds across the state.

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Jeffrey Mosher catches up with Taylor Gast, Associate (business, tax, cyber law lawyer), Foster Swift Collins & Smith Attorneys PC Lansing, MI, with other branches Southfield, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Holland, St. Joseph, MI.

In their discussion they cover points on PPP Loans including:

How are current PPP borrowers affected by the recent federal stimulus legislation?

What new opportunities are available by recent legislation?

Second round PPP loan,Michigan small business grants, etc)

What should interested companies do as a next step?

Dewey D. Steffen is a licensed investment professional with 25 years of experience. He proudly serves as the CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Great Lakes Wealth in Northville, Michigan. Dewey co-founded Great Lakes Wealth on July 1, 2016, and with his entire team’s efforts, has built it into a successful registered investment advisory firm that provides goals-based financial planning, superior asset and wealth management solutions, and concierge-style client services using customized portfolios that meet the unique financial needs of clients of all sizes.

This is an engaging and dynamic interview with Dewey Steffen! He shares his challenging journey and triumphs over adversity. He is extremely grateful to his community, team, and those in his world who have helped him along the way. Dewey shares what it means to be generous! Tune in and hold on! Dewey makes this a lot of fun!

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President and CEO of Cinnaire, Mark McDaniel joins Chris Holman to talk about the company's employee initiative, Cinnaire Cares. Cinnaire Cares was established to provide their team with an opportunity to collectively make an impact and support the communities they serve.

Cinnaire is pleased to announce the most recent Cinnaire Cares donations! With Cinnaire’s matching contribution, a total of $20,991 was raised during this funding round, making this their largest round to date. Each organization will receive $3,498.66 to support their mission. From building wealth in under-resourced communities and youth development programs, to empowering people of color to providing affordable housing, the Cinnaire Cares recipients are once again a diversified group of missions and organizations.

As COVID-19 continues to become a household word, Author Terry Shepherd wrote "Juliette and the Mystery Bug," as well as "Juliette and the Masked Hero", as ways to help children learn how to protect themselves against illnesses. And for Terry, the book was inspired by his own grandchildren, Juliette and Hudson, who struggled with understanding coronavirus restrictions.

John Christian is President and CEO of CAPA Global Education Network. CAPA is based in Boston, but is a truly global organization with employees located all over the world, focused on bringing U.S. students abroad for professional formation experiences. The organization has existed since 1972, but given the global pandemic, has had to pivot quickly to find ways to continue to offer its services. CAPA works closely with several colleges and programs at Michigan State University, as well as other schools and institutions around the U.S., to tailor programs to the academic and experiential needs of its partners.

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Sam Kaplan is the director of the Center of Excellence for Global Trade and Supply Chain Management located at Highline College. The Center works with education and industry throughout Washington on workforce development issues. Previously, Sam ran the Trade Development Alliance connecting Seattle-area businesses with international opportunities, worked on foreign affairs issues for a U.S. Representative and publishes the weekly e-newsletter, International Need to Know.

Given Seattle’s strategic position as a real gateway from Asia and also located so close to the Canadian border (as we are in MI), Sam talks about how tightly its economy is tied into the world’s. The current pandemic has really forced us to consider the global relationships that we take for granted in terms of supply chain as well as how we interact with the world more generally.

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Allie Fox VanDriel is an International Marketing Specialist at the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s International Marketing Program, where she has assisted Michigan companies grow their exports around the globe for five years. Allie is a Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP), a graduate of Michigan State University, and holds an MBA from Central Michigan University.

The program provides all levels and types of assistance to companies interested in beginning or expanding global sales, from market research to consulting to technical information (certificates, labeling) and international trade shows and trade missions. Working with Food Export, financial assistance is in many cases available for Michigan company marketing efforts.

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Stephanie Kelly, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Community Colleges for International Development (CCID). The organization, founded in 1976, has been helping member schools further their internationalization initiatives and develop globally competent workers for the past 40 years.

CCID offers networking as well as online and in-person training to faculty and administrators to create globally engaged learning environments. While some of this work involves study abroad, CCID also assists with other exciting and creative activities that bring global cultures and business into the classroom, like cross-border team activities that engage students at different schools in different countries to solve modern international business issues. While there are currently only 3 colleges in Michigan that are members, the organization is open to engaging new partners around the country to further its goals of modernizing and globalizing the workforce in an effort to strengthen U.S. competitiveness.

Here, Jade and Stephanie talk about programs to bring international education into the classroom, and opportunities that exist even as we deal with limited resources and the implications of the current global pandemic.

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Randy McNeely’s “Why” in life is to transform the world by inspiring as many people as possible to embrace the daily habit of intentional kindness giving and thereby help to restore light, hope, love, unity, and peace to our troubled world.

In business as in life, the key to success is the ability to create and maintain trustworthy relationships. But how? Is there a "recipe," to follow? If there is, what are the key ingredients? The answer is yes there is a recipe and the key ingredients include kindness and the attendant behaviors encompassed in the circle of kindness.

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