Pro Business Channel

Cannabis, A Growing Industry

Interested in Franchise Ownership?

Contact Pamela Currie to receive a COMPLIMENTARY Consultation on Selecting a Franchise.

Pamela Currie, Host of the Franchise Business Radio show and Founder of Franchise Intellect, Inc. www.FranchiseIntellect.com

Mobile: 847-970-8765

Email: [email protected]

To learn more about guest topics, contacting a guest or becoming a guest on the Franchise Business Radio show simply email [email protected]

Cannabis is a topic that some may consider to be a highly debatable, risky topic and others may see it as an area of change, growth and vision of vast business opportunities.

Franchise Business Radio guests and co-founders of Cannabis 10x share their thoughts on cannabis and franchising.

Jason Tropf and Holly A Ford are the Co-Founders of Cannabis10X, the only Cannabis business brokerage that focuses on Franchising. As the founders of Biologic Herbs, Zarian Firm, and 10X Franchising, the duo has successfully conceptualized and created a safe path into Alternative Investments.

Holly Ford is an award-winning franchise developer, best-selling franchise author, contributor to 12 franchise publications; and frequent radio and pod-cast guest.

Jason Tropf ran a successful franchise with over 100 franchisees. He is known as an expert in the Cannabis space and has shared his insights with Forbes and a host of other business insider publications.

Interview Topics:

*Cannabis Industry

*Regulations

*Types of Cannabis Franchise Models

*Cannabis 10x

*Business Trends and More

The Franchise Business Radio show is a platform to bring together franchise professionals to connect, educate and collaborate to serve the franchise community and those considering franchise ownership.

Spotlighting Leaders in the Franchise Industry, experts in funding, legal, marketing and consulting.

Franchise Business Radio hosted by:

Pam Currie, Founder

Franchise Intellect, Inc

Made possible in part by:

Host Pamela Currie, Franchise Intellect, visit: http://www.FranchiseIntellect.com

Also made possible in part by:

Franchise City, visit http://www.Franchise.city

FranServe, visit https://franserve.com/

To nominate or submit a guest request visit: http://www.OnAirGuest.com

To view guest photos from this show, visit: http://www.ProBusinessPictures.com

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Tom Berger Interview, CXO Atlas on Sales Synergistics Podcast

Currently focused on helping start-up companies "start" and "grow up" based on my 45+ years of experience.

Currently running www.CxO-Atlas.com. IT IS FREE! It contains 600 short articles about starting and running a company. Each, single topic, two page article can be read in two or three minutes. Articles are standalone and can be read in any order. Articles are organized in nine volumes and 40 chapters.

Tom has run seven different companies and been a Company Officer/Board Member for various companies since 1990. Although my direct experience has been in high tech, I have found that my "lessons learned" and work experience is equally applicable to all business sectors. All of the variables in the "Business Success Equation" are the same. Different variables need special attention at different times.

Specialties: Coaching companies in a variety of areas including Strategy, Quality, Process Implementation, Sales, Marketing, Risk and Competitive Positioning and Analysis.   Learn more at CXO-Atlas.com

linkedin.com/in/tom-berger-cxo-atlas

Welcome to the Sales Synergitics Podcast, where we arm you with the knowledge, tools, skills, and experts to bring your sales, marketing, and operations teams together, all through your sales process.

Host: Jason Smith, Senior Consultant

ASLAN Training & Development

www.ASLANtraining.com

SellingPower Top 20 Training Company seven years in a row

Lee Haney Eight time Mr. Olympia, Fitness Games and Katrina Julia with FIT Life Creation on the Buckhead Business Show

Lee Haney

Lee Haney Enterprises

Lee Haney has more than 30 years of fitness and nutrition experience with eight consecutive World Bodybuilding Championships to his credit. Over the years, Lee has trained professional athletes and celebrities, serving as a consultant for some of the best nutritional supplement companies in the world and was appointed Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

BECOMING MR. OLYMPIA

In 1991, I Became The First Eight Time Consecutive World Body Building Champion To Win The Covenant MR. OLYMPIA Crown. The Road Getting There Wasn’t Easy. It Took Hard Work, Delayed Gratification, And Above All A Lot Of Prayer.

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to be involved as a consultant with some of the best nutritional supplement companies in the world. Those associations, along with 30+ years of on-the-job experience, have given me a wealth of knowledge – knowledge that can be used in helping you reach your fitness goals. Whether the goal is to lower body fat, add muscle mass, or wanting to tone – I’ve been there, done that!

Why are nutritional supplements so important? Nutritional supplements assist in enhancing valuable nutrients that our bodies need. Nutrients that are lacking in today’s “hurry up and grow it” society. With that being said, it gives me great pleasure to introduce the Lee Haney’s Nutritional Supplement System, formulated with years of knowledge and know how.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Even at age 46, Lee Haney’s Herculean physique mirrors his equally impressive credentials. As the unprecedented winner of eight consecutive Mr. Olympia titles, besting Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seven-file record, Lee is an icon in the fitness industry. Lee was the 1st 8 time Mr. Olympia and the youngest to retire at the age of 31.

Now retired from his historic body building career, Lee’s focus has turned to educating others. Within the sports and fitness arena, Lee is revered among his peers for his comprehensive personal training techniques as well as his contributions to the integrity of exercise in general. Professional athletes and coaches look to Lee for goal-specific sports training and nutrition programs during the off-season and for injury rehabilitation.

Evander Holyfield sought out Lee to run his training programs before fighting in two heavyweight title defenses.

Lee also joined forces with Philadelphia 76er’s Shawn Bradley in order to strengthen and build up the hoopster’s post-injury.

Lee worked with Gary Sheffield to improve his overall performance and transform him from a shortstop into a powerful right fielder.

How does an athlete choose Lee Haney? “I read about him and it was a fantasy of mine to work out with Lee Haney” recalls Sheffield; one of Haney’s many admirers.

Lee’s popularity and respected position within his field have provided him with a lengthy list of awards and recognition including Proclamations from three cities and distinguished acknowledgments from The President’s Council on Physical Fitness, The United States Sports Academy and The International Federation of Body Building.

To Lee, Success is more about fulfillment than trophies or titles, so in 1994, he and his wife purchased a forty acre farm near their home and created the Haney Harvest House, a non-profit retreat facility for children of all races, creeds, and nationalities. “I wanted to be able to give something back. I’ve been so fortunate to have a lot of good things come my way, and it all comes from values I learned from growing up. If we don’t take time now to give some of that back to this generation then when will we?”

Join Lee as he hosts the TOTALEE FIT Radio Show

TOTALEE FIT Radio showcases individuals who were once unhealthy but have now committed to living the TOTALEE FIT Lifestyle. In addition,

World Chamber of Commerce and Veterans Inn and Resource Program on Georgia Podcast

Solange Warner

World Chamber of Commerce

Solange Warner is the World Chamber of Commerce’s Founder, the first President and Co-Chair. Additional WCC Co-Chairmen are U.S. Ambassador, Charles Shapiro and Consul General of France, Denis Barbet. She founded the organization in February of 2008. The World Chamber of Commerce (WCC) is an independent, non-profit, educational, and networking worldwide organization. Thepurpose of the WCC is to promote commercial, cultural/educational, and humanitarian relations globally, and facilitate trade and investment worldwide. The World Chamber of Commerce Mission Statement is to promote/teach international trade, and foster cultural and humanitarian exchange to develop economic opportunity worldwide.

Topics to Discuss: 

WCC Event

The World Chamber of Commerce (WCC) Is creating awareness regarding human trafficking by organizing events with the business community. The WCC Business and Humanitarian Summit will promote humanitarian initiatives , where experts will teach how to become vigilant in our cities and communities. Experts such as Jan Lennon, Director of Security for The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will make a presentation on how to become vigilant regarding human trafficking at the airport. Officer Joanne Southerland, from Clayton County Fire and Emergency Services will discuss many cases and how to protect our children. Furthermore, Jeff Shaw, Director for Out of Darkness, an organization rescuing victims of human trafficking, will provide an overview of their commendable work.

Additionally, the WCC will donate event's proceeds to Gigi's House, organization dedicated to sheltering "Human Trafficking Children Victims". In addition, the WCC is co-producing a documentary regarding human trafficking awareness, which will include scenes from this WCC Event.

Furthermore, the WCC will be presenting the prestigious WCC Global Hero Award to U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, Alex Kendrick, Film Producer, Director and Actor. He and Stephen Kendrick produced "Overcomer", a new film premiering on August 23rd, 2019. Alex Kendrick said... "It is such an honor to receive this award from an organization doing so much good for our culture. The WCC is literally changing lives and strengthening our cities and communities with their efforts. I am grateful to be working alongside you in the film world as we tell stories of redemption and hope." (Trailer).

Additional WCC Global Hero Honorees are: Senator Donzella James; Senator Frank Ginn; Rep. Pedro Marin; Ozzie Areu, Chairman Areu Bros. Studios. Ozzie Areu said: I am honored to accept this award and at the same time humbled to be considered by an organization such as the World Chamber of Commerce for this very special recognition. I fully support their work helping businesses grow all over the world, as well as their social initiatives to end human trafficking. And additional WCC Award recipient is Sabrina Crawford, Founder of Gigi's House, a shelter for human trafficking victims. These WCC Awards of Excellence will be bestowed upon them for their visionary work and accomplishments.

The WCC Awards will be presented during the World Chamber of Commerce Business and Humanitarian Summit, on May 30th, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., at Georgia State Capitol. This will be a truly multicultural event where international/local business leaders and government representatives from many countries will join the WCC, recognizing the awardees and their exemplary work.

One of the World Chamber of Commerce goals is to promote business and stimulate economic development with these events. This WCC event will provide an opportunity to generate global business awareness and networking with business and government leaders.

The World Chamber of Commerce Chairman, Solange Warner said:, "The World Chamber of Commerce is honored to present the WCC Global Hero Awar...

Lara Hodgson, President & CEO

NOW Corp

NOWaccount is the first payment solution for businesses that sell to other businesses and governments.

Guest BIO:

Lara serves as President & CEO of NOW Corp, a company she co-founded to free small businesses from the burden of funding trade credit and to enable small business growth. The concept for NOW Corps NOWaccount stems from the challenges Lara faced when growing her manufacturing business, Nourish. Lara experienced the challenge of managing cash flow in a growing business and having to fund the trade credit required to support growth. Not finding a solution that worked, she partnered with John Hayes and launched NOW Corp and NOWaccount, the first payment solution for B2B. NOWaccount enables businesses to get paid immediately in a way that is not a loan, feels like but costs less than taking a credit card for payment and is largely invisible to their customer. NOWaccount will change the way small businesses manage cash flow, has done over $130M in transactions and aims to turn a portion of the $1.2T of trade credit that small businesses hold into cash. NOWaccounts innovative structure is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.

Lara spent 5 years at Dewberry Capital Corporation, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate development and investment firm, where she served as the companys Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing development, sales & leasing, property management and marketing.

Lara was the Executive Vice President of Dunk, a performance footwear and apparel manufacturing/retail company built on the concept of mass customization and founded with Shaquille ONeal & Mike Piazza. She built the operations, IT and sales & marketing groups..

Lara is an internationally recognized speaker, leading seminars on creativity, innovation and access to capital. Internationally, Lara has worked in Koriyama, Japan with the U.S. Defense Departments EAGLE Japan Program and served as the Ambassador to Lebanon for the 1996 Olympic Games.

Lara received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was featured in USA Today as one of the top 20 students in the US and was the ODK National Leader of the Year. Lara was a scholarship member of the varsity Track & Field team at Georgia Tech.

Lara has served on several Boards including: Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees, Georgia Techs Scheller College of Business, the Georgia Tech College of Engineering, ACE Loans, Atlanta Heights Charter School, Flag Bank, Georgia Techs Alexander Tharpe Fund, and Society of International Business Fellows. Lara is a member of the Leadership Georgia Class of 2005 and the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2004. Lara taught finance as an adjunct instructor in Georgia Techs MBA Program for 10 years. Lara was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to serve on the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) Board. Lara was recently honored by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association with the Total Person Alumnus Award and by the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering as the Alumnus of the Year. She is a member of the Georgia Tech Young Alumni Hall of Fame, was a recipient of a Womenetics 2013 POW! Award honoring Purposeful Women and was named to the 2016 Enterprising Women of the Year.

Topics/Questions:

The challenges of a startup versus a scaleup

How a small business should use the right capital at the right time for the right use or the business becomes a hobby

Work-Life Balance

Why more businesses grow out of business than go out of business

Web Site and Social Media:

www.NowCorp.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/now-corp-

https://www.facebook.com/NOWaccountNetwork/

https://twitter.com/NOWaccount

 

Brian Preston, Founder

Lamon Luther

Custom furniture builder employing homeless individuals in Atlanta.

Topics/Questions:

What is Lamon Luther?

Productizing Talent Functions for the Gig Economy on Georgia Podcast

Tim Visconti - CEO/Founder

PeopleLift 

On-Air Guest BIO:

Tim has over 10 years’ experience in the talent consulting space building 8 startups and working in executive roles for three Fortune 500 companies. Tim has worked primarily in web/ecommerce- organizations but has worked in Auto, Real Estate, Banking, Telecom & hospitality industries. Tim’s passion is solving business problems and helping reframe how HR can positively empower early stage organizations as they prime for growth.

Tim is currently the Founder and CEO of PeopleLift, a talent consulting firm born from the idea of productizing talent functions and helping companies scale as we enter into the gig-based economy. Tim married in 2018, has a 4-legged daughter named Layla (golden retriever) and is an aspiring coffee aficionado.

Topics to Discuss:

My story

Product/service

Industry trends

Business model

Mission

What's next

Web Site / Social Media Links:

www.peoplelift.co

On-Air Guest Linkedin Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyvisconti

More about Georgia Podcast

"Who's Who and What's New Georgia!"

Interviewing industry and thought leaders with compelling stories. In addition to the live broadcast, content is distributed across multiple syndicated platforms with more than 500,000 downloads.

Show Host:

Rich Casanova, Chief Visionary Officer

Pro Business Channel

Rich Casanova began his broadcasting career in California’s central valley at KSKS-FM. While in California he also ran a successful entertainment company whose staff and crew entertained over 100,000 people. After moving to Atlanta and selling his entertainment company, Casanova ventured into publishing as the Publisher and Franchise Owner of Coffee News, headquartered in Bangor, ME.

Later became the Founder and CCO, Chief Connection Officer, of an online platform where local business professionals register to receive a free list of the top 100 networking events in metro Atlanta.

With a name like Casanova and his gregarious personality, Rich was a natural as a music radio DJ. "I got the radio bug early in my career and often thought how great it would be if there was an opportunity to participate in a talk radio format with a pro-business perspective interviewing thought leaders from the local business community." Thus was born the Pro Business Channel where Rich is the CoFounder and Chief Visionary Officer.

http://www.ProBusinessChannel.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcasanova

https://twitter.com/RichCasanovaCom

Check out more episodes at: http://www.GeorgiaPodcast.com

Submit a guest request at: http://www.OnAirGuest.com

View guest photos at: http://www.ProBusinessPictures.com

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Lauren Westbrook-McIntosh, Global Marketing Lead at Facebook Blueprint on Georgia Business Radio

Lauren Westbrook-McIntosh

Global Marketing Lead at Facebook Blueprint

Digital Skills Training Small Business Help

Interviews with:

Lauren Westbrook-McIntosh

Global Marketing Lead at Facebook Blueprint

Nicole Genz

Owner of Rescued Furnishings

MORE THAN EVER, DIGITAL SKILLS ARE CRITICAL TO SUCCESS, WHETHER YOU'RE A SMALL BUSINESSES OWNER LOOKING TO GROW YOUR BUSINESSES OR A JOB SEEKER HOPING TAKE YOUR CAREER TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

TO HELP, FACEBOOK PLEDGED TO TRAIN 1 MILLION US SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND JOB SEEKERS WITH FREE RESOURCES AND TRAINING, SO THEY CAN GET THE DIGITAL SKILLS THEY NEED.

JOINING US TODAY ARE TWO PEOPLE WHO KNOW MOST ABOUT THAT PLEDGE.

LAUREN WESTBROOK-MCINTOSH IS A LEADER FOR FACEBOOK'S E-LEARNING PROGRAM CALLED BLUEPRINT AND NICOLE GENZ IS THE OWNER OF RESCUED FURNISHINGS WHICH IS A GROWING BUSINESS THAT HAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THESE FREE PROGRAMS.

QUESTIONS:

LAUREN - PLEASE TELL US ABOUT THE PLEDGE AND NICOLE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR A SMALL BUSINESS LIKE YOURS?

WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THE TRAINING AND RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE?

NICOLE SOME TOOLS THAT HAVE HELPED GROW YOUR BUSINESS?

PRIVACY IS A CONCERN FOR MANY PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET. WHAT IF PEOPLE DON'T WANT THEIR INFORMATION USED TO SHOW THEM ADS?

WHERE CAN PEOPLE GO FOR MORE INFORMATION:

About Rescued Furnishings

We are a husband and wife team that left our engineering careers when our hobby outgrew our basement. We now have a space in St. Louis where we have a large home decor and gift store plus a showroom. We offer DIY Classes and workshops and have guest hosts in other DIY specialties. We also create one of a kind furniture pieces, custom cabinets and specialize in kitchen renovations. We can use your existing cabinets to paint, reface, or build from scratch!

http://www.rescuedfurnishings.com

http://pinterest.com/nicolerescued

Community Facebook Blueprint Events

www.Facebook.com/blueprint

Denver, CO June 18-19 | Hampton, VA June 26–28 | Phoenix July 9–10 | Buffalo July 9–11

Minneapolis, MN July 18-19 | Helena, MT July 24-25 | Columbus, OH August 1-3

Menlo Park / East Palo Alto, CA August 27-30 | San Diego, CA August 6-7

Pittsburgh, PA August 9-10 | Topeka, KS September 5-6 | Springfield, MA September 10-11

Jackson, MS September 18-19 | Atlanta, GA September 24-26 | Omaha, NE Oct 2-4 | Edison, NJ Oct 8-9

Georgia Business Radio Interviewing industry and thought leaders with compelling stories. Relevant content on current business trends live from the Pro Business Channel studios in Atlanta. In addition to the live broadcast, GBR content is in distribution across multiple syndicated platforms with more than 500,000 downloads.

Show Host:

Rich Casanova, Chief Visionary Officer

Pro Business Channel

Rich Casanova began his broadcasting career in California’s central valley at KSKS-FM. While in California he also ran a successful entertainment company whose staff and crew entertained over 100,000 people. After moving to Atlanta and selling his entertainment company, Casanova ventured into publishing as the Publisher and Franchise Owner of Coffee News, headquartered in Bangor, ME.

Later became the Founder and CCO, Chief Connection Officer, of an online platform where local business professionals register to receive a free list of the top 100 networking events in metro Atlanta.

With a name like Casanova and his gregarious personality, Rich was a natural as a music radio DJ. "I got the radio bug early in my career and often thought how great it would be if there was an opportunity to participate in a talk radio format with a pro-business perspective interviewing thought leaders from the local business community." Thus was born the Pro Business Channel where Rich is the CoFounder and Chief Visionary Officer.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcasanova

Facebook Community Boost Interview with Lori Ann Pope on Georgia Business Radio

Rich Casanova with the Pro Business Channel on site in our own hometown of Atlanta for Georgia Business Radio. We're at a phenomenal event here today with Facebook and their community boost events, bringing the communities together city-by-city. This is a fascinating concept and tour, were excited and proud to be part of it, right now here joining me at the event live is Lori Ann Pope, Facebook's global small business event marketing lead.

Rich Casanova: Before we start talking about the event and your role, actually before we started recording you immediately had a flashback to your radio days, tell me a little bit about that.

Lori Ann Pope: So I started radio in college. I was at Brown University and worked at WBRU FM which was an FM station but a workshop for college students. And so that really instilled my love of radio, music in particular, but I also did news and also exposed me to all sorts of music. I did everything from R&B to Rock to Jazz.

Rich: [00:00:53] Yeah once it gets in your blood right you're hooked, right? So once you once you move on past this Facebook gig we talk about bringing you back in radio one day maybe right?  So you're about three and a half years into this. So what's your role now Facebook?

Lori Ann: [00:01:09] So my role at Facebook has always been the same for the last three years. I'm the global small business event marketing lead and basically what that means is that I lead the team that produces and brings us to life around the world. So we're here in the US but we've also launched in Amea, Europe the Middle East and Africa and also in Asia, we actually launched in Jakarta today.

Rich: [00:01:31] Oh, wow, that's exciting and Atlanta, you know, how often does that happen?  We had a conversation earlier with Katherine Shappley from Facebook talking about what this 50 city tour involves. So, it's 36 cities so far right?

Lori Ann: [00:01:49] It's actually more than that. So Facebook Community boost is really under sort of a larger umbrella of what we call our economic develop initiatives, which is basically how do we help communities boost economies etc. And so it's actually not a new program that we've rolled out. There's really been some version of this for the last five years. I believe you talked to Bess Yount. I call her the Godmother of Facebook Community Boost. It may have started out as Facebook fit and then morphed. So we've stuck with Boost for a long time, so it's either been boost your business or Facebook Community Boost. The whole point has always been connecting with small businesses and their employees to give them the skills and digital tools they need to basically grow their businesses online. I'm passionate about this so many of our small businesses are not engaged in the digital economy.

Rich: [00:02:43] I definitely feel your passion and a shout-out to Bess. I don't know if they still do shout outs or not. So now talk to us about the mission, the idea and the backstory of the community boost events you're doing not only here in the US but around the world and this event in particular, The experiences and some of the takeaways from this three-day event from two different perspectives.  One, the instructors and experts and also from the attendees, what's the exchange here?

Lori Ann: [00:03:12] So when we looked at building their curriculum, it was really filling that gap in what do people really want to know and what don't they know? So a lot of it is one just basics, you know, digital skills and education and then it moves onto introduction to Facebook also Instagram, you may not know that Facebook owns Instagram.

Rich: [00:03:34] There's a rumor about that. That's a pretty amazing story. I'd love to have that conversation one day. It's phenomenal the partnership right?

Lori Ann: [00:03:41] It's great. So one of the things people associate with Instagram is ...

Mark Deal Podcast Guest Academy Founder on Georgia Podcast

Mark Deal, Founder

Podcast Guest Academy

Mark is a nationally recognized expert and local leader in Podcasting. He serves as the Organizer of Podcast Atlanta, the Founder of Podcast Guest Academy, and leads various communities in the podcasting industry. His primary focus is showing people how to take their podcast guest appearances from boring to soaring with measurable impact.

 

Topics Discussed:

Podcast Guest Academy

PodATL - Largest Podcasting Meet-up Group in Atlanta and second largest in the country

Recap and Take-a-ways from Podcast Movement 2019 in Orlando

- Networking with attendees

- Latest news from the exhibit hall

- Sponsor offerings

- Speakers, breakout sessions and panel events

Highlights and insights into upcoming events:

- She Podcast Live in Atlanta

- Podcast Movement Evolutions

-  PodFest Expo

Industry News Services

- PodNews

- Podcast Business Journal

- New PodMov

Current trends and predictions

Web Site:  https://PodcastGuestAcademy.com

Connect with Mark:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdeal

More about Georgia Podcast

"Who's Who and What's New Georgia!"

Interviewing industry and thought leaders with compelling stories. In addition to the live broadcast, content is distributed across multiple syndicated platforms with more than 500,000 downloads.

Show Host:

Rich Casanova, Chief Visionary Officer

Pro Business Channel

Rich Casanova began his broadcasting career in California’s central valley at KSKS-FM. While in California he also ran a successful entertainment company whose staff and crew entertained over 100,000 people. After moving to Atlanta and selling his entertainment company, Casanova ventured into publishing as the Publisher and Franchise Owner of Coffee News, headquartered in Bangor, ME.

Later became the Founder and CCO, Chief Connection Officer, of an online platform where local business professionals register to receive a free list of the top 100 networking events in metro Atlanta.

With a name like Casanova and his gregarious personality, Rich was a natural as a music radio DJ. "I got the radio bug early in my career and often thought how great it would be if there was an opportunity to participate in a talk radio format with a pro-business perspective interviewing thought leaders from the local business community." Thus was born the Pro Business Channel where Rich is the CoFounder and Chief Visionary Officer.

http://www.ProBusinessChannel.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcasanova

https://twitter.com/RichCasanovaCom

Check out more episodes at: http://www.GeorgiaPodcast.com

Submit a guest request at: http://www.OnAirGuest.com

View guest photos at: http://www.ProBusinessPictures.com

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:arrow: :arrow: Ashley Bell SBA Region IV Administrator and Dr. Bruce Berger Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development on Georgia Business Radio

Ashley Bell

SBA Regional Administrator

Ashley D. Bell was recently appointed by the White House to serve as Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration for Region IV, serving Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and Missouri. As a small business owner and entrepreneur himself from the young age of 23, Mr. Bell is committed to the SBAs mission to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Bell served as Associate Director for External Affairs for the U.S. Peace Corps and Special Assistant in the Public Affairs Bureau of the United States Department of State. During the Trump Pence Transition, he served as Communications & Intergovernmental Affairs Lead on the Landing Team at the State Department.

Mr. Bell is also a celebrated attorney, having founded the successful law firm of Bell & Washington in 2005. He is the founder of the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, an organization dedicated to criminal justice reform. He's been named one of America's top 40 attorneys under 40 by the American Bar Association, a National Impact Leader of the Year by IMPACT DC, and was a 21st Century Leadership Fellow at the Harvard University JFK School of Government.

Topics to Discuss

Introduce the new SBA Regional Administrator to the community

Web Site / Social Media Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ ashley-d-bell-5844631

www.sba.gov

@SBASoutheast

Dr. Bruce Berger

Associate Professor and Director Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development

Clark Atlanta University

Topics to Discuss

Small business and entrepreneurship

Web Site / Social Media Links

http://www.cau.edu/school-of-business/faculty-and-staff.html

Georgia Business Radio Interviewing industry and thought leaders with compelling stories. Relevant content on current business trends live from the Pro Business Channel studios in Atlanta. In addition to the live broadcast, GBR content is in distribution across multiple syndicated platforms with more than 500,000 downloads.

Show Hosts:

Rich Casanova, CoFounder

Pro Business Channel 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcasanova

https://twitter.com/RichCasanovaCom

Michael Moore, RainMaker & Chief Storyteller

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sellbyphone

twitter.com/BuckhedgeCEO

Check out more episodes visit:

www.GeorgiaBusinessRadio.com

To nominate or submit a guest request visit:

http://www.meetme.so/GeorgiaBusinessRadio

To view guest photos from this show, visit:

www.ProBusinessPictures.com

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