The Success Paradigm

Thad is a driven and extensively experienced professional highly adept at providing policy development and risk analytics excellence across the investment banking, asset management and equities markets. His history includes investment banking, institutional trading, a professorship, design and launch of business development strategies building B2C supply chains. Outside of work you will generally find Thad surrounded by trees and water with friends and family.

Mark Drummond is the Owner/Operator of Chick-fil-A Irby Street and has been a Chick-fil-A franchisee for over 20 years. Mark has won Chick-fil-A's Symbol of Success 3 times and achieved champions club 2 of those 3 times. He has been married to his wife Kim, for 29 years and they have one son and one daughter who are twins, Abby and Austin.

On this episode of The Success Paradigm, Jay and Greg discuss the dynamics of a successful partnership - personally and professionally.

Mike was born in West Berlin, Germany. His father was in the US Army, so he spent the first 2 years of his life there before relocating.

In the 1970s he was raised mostly in Virginia, Vienna and Warrenton; and moved his senior year of high school, which he graduated from in Elizabeth City, NC

From 1983 – 1987 he went to the University of Virginia, and earned a BA in International Relations and received a Navy ROTC scholarship

In 1988 He married Jennifer Rogers (Burke)

From 1987 – 1992 he was in the US Navy; USS KIDD (DDG-993) from 1987-1990, and shore duty from 1990 - 1992

From 1992 – 1994, he went back to school to get an MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia.

From the late 1990s to 2005 – he worked in a Variety Marketing and sales jobs at AT&T and telecom and internet start-ups

1996 – 2001 – Lived in San Francisco, CA – fun!

His son Sam was born in 1999. And in 2000, his son Alex was born

He's been back in Virginia since 2002

Professionally, Mike has been the Agency Owner and President of Fort Lauderdale Insurance Services, Inc since 2005.

In July 2005 he bought the Laurie Jones agency

In Dec 2007 he bought the Mike & Linda Oliver agencies

From 2008 – 2016 he went through a period of Failure and sadness

But since 2016, he has been "Winning" like Charlie Sheen without the hookers and blow

Vincent C. Crawford currently serve as the Chief Judge of Dekalb County Juvenile Court. He also sits by designation in Superior Court. He graduated with honors from Florida A&M University in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science. He received his law degree with honors from Mercer University in 1990. On April 4, 2020 he was inducted into the Florida A&M University College of Social Science, Arts and Humanities Alumni Gallery of Distinction.

He started his legal career as a staff Attorney for Georgia Legal Services from 1990 to 1993 representing women in that were victims of domestic violence in divorce proceedings. In 1993 he made career change and was appointed Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney for the Augusta Judicial Circuit. During his tenure in Augusta he was the Assistant District Attorney in charge of prosecuting violent crimes with multiple defendants. In 1995 he moved to Atlanta and served as an assistant District Attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit. In 1997 he became a solo practitioner in the areas of criminal, domestic and juvenile law. On February 27, 2005 he was appointed to the position of Associate Magistrate Judge for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit. On March 24, 2006 he was appointed to the position of Juvenile Court Judge where he currently. He is currently a member of the Georgia Council of Juvenile Court Judges, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the American Judges Association. He is the past President of the Dekalb Lawyers Association and a member of the Dekalb Bar Association.

Judge Crawford has received several awards and recognition for his commitment to the youth in Juvenile Court as well as the community, such as a Romae T. Powell Award, the DeKalb County Juvenile Court Service award, the Multi Agency Alliance for children the "Shining Star Award" for his work with children in foster care, and the "Recognition of Outstanding Leadership Award" for his work in the community from Jack and Jill of America, Inc. among many more.

In 2016 Judge Crawford as the appointed Chairman by the Georgia Supreme Court for the Georgia Court Improvement Project. He was the only Judge in the United States to be invited as a guest speaker to the White House by then President Barack Obama.

Judge Crawford is a member of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the American Judges Association. Judge Crawford as a hobby serves as the Chairman and Head Judge in Georgia for the National Judge for the National Physique Committee (NPC). He is also a Judge with the International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB).

Chris Draper, a native Houstonian from humble beginnings started working full time at age 15. His work ethic continued in College, working full time as he put himself through school earning an Information Systems degree from Sam Houston State University.

Unable to secure work in the IT field after the 2000 Dot Com bust, he relied on his sales and service background and experience to land a job in corporate sales for the Cintas Corporation after college and quickly rising to top sales rep in the region in just 2 years.

At the age of 24 he began his entrepreneurial career by earning the opportunity to start his own scratch Allstate insurance office with hardly any money or experience managing a business or employees. After 16 years he has managed to grow to (4) office locations and 20 employees and who help maintain and grow premiums of nearly $30 MM annually for Allstate.

Understanding the importance of diversification, he is in the process of scaling his second seven figure business in the real estate industry concentrating on home renovations and rental property acquisitions.

Chris is married and about to celebrate his 16th anniversary and spends his spare time playing with his two young boys, coaching baseball at the local high school, and doing anything health or fitness related!

This is his story.

Dr. William Bennett is currently the Head of Clinical Research with Durable Medical Device Company.

Dr. Bennet leads a team of Clinical Research Scientist in the US, Europe and Israel, who focuses on the development of novel therapies that treats Pancreatic, Ovarian, Lung cancer, and metastatic brain cancer.

He received his undergraduate degree from Florida A&M University, Masters of Science and MD/PHD from The George Washington University School of Medicine and health science. Dr. Bennett is also a faculty at The George Washington University School of Medicine in Clinical Research.

For the past 10 plus years, Dr. Bennett has worked alongside many talented clinical research and medical affairs professionals designing and implementing early to late phase clinical trials, as well as working with clinicians in the community and academic settings - engaging them in meaningful scientific discussions around a variety of disease states as well as drug indications and safety profiling. Dr. Bennett has worked extensively with other clinicians on designing multiple types of Investigator/Sponsor Initiated Trials, as well as presenting both interim and/or final data to major congresses.

Dr. Bennet has received many numerous awards in academia and for his work and contribution to many philanthropic organizations such as the American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, Charles H. Wesley Education Foundation, Sisters By Choice, just to name a few.

Dr. Bennett also shares a passion for his volunteer work in his community. He currently maintains active membership with the American Society of Minority Transplant Health Related Professionals, the International Society of Biological Environmental Repository, and the American Association of Clinical Oncology and the American Medical Association. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Sisters By Choice, which is a local nonprofit group in Georgia that provides support and medical intervention for patients suffering from breast cancer; and he is a proud Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc.

This is his story.

Danielle Gray MBA has one overall mission. It is to remind people what it feels like to be human and connect with others on a genuine level. Known for her reliability and humor, Danielle began her career as a Marketing Strategist composing proposals, writing content, running email campaigns, and generating leads online at a design-build company. She contributed over $150 million in revenue from leads generated from the website in just three years. As owner of DG Marketing Company for just over five years, Danielle speaks around the country discussing content marketing, passion, and personal development in an ever-changing professional environment. More recently, Danielle created [SafeSpace] to help address the personal and professional challenges that both firms and individuals face. Overall, she is devoted to creating genuine, humanized experiences that listen and solve instead of tell and sell.

Danielle is also the owner of CBD Company, Unoia which is a CBD lifestyle company focused on how CBD assists with mental health, self-care and mindfulness. She is a former Division I Basketball Player at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida and holds both a Bachelor's in Marketing and MBA from the institution. She now resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her partner and two dogs

This is her story.