Luckett Robinson's father began importing exotic timber fifty years ago. The business is deep in his blood and today he and three of his siblings run the company. They've opened some retail stores for customers come to see, smell, and touch the beautiful products they find and import from all corners of the world. The job requires lots of travel and lots of relationship building with land-owners and timber companies from a wide variety of cultures.

Airbus has been a fixture in the city of Mobile for fourteen years. During that time the partnership with the city, the community, and the workforce has grown and evolved into something all parties are proud of. Airbus struggled to find the workforce they needed so they've created their own. It's a story of strong will and workforce innovation.

Mike Payne has survived where others have not. He can rattle off the printers along the Gulf Coast who have closed their doors due to poor bets on the economy and machinery trends that have not paid out. Mike often references the slow, deliberate pace of turtles to define his success. Take things slowly, let others make the mistakes and learn from them, don't take on debt, and make the customer look smart to their customers. It's a recipe that keeps working.

Keith Glass went from successful and popular musician touring the world to a vinyl record store owner in Mobile, Alabama where the world is now coming to him. Just last week a group of guys from France came to Mobile to shop in his store. The vinyl record business is for real today. Not only collectors looking for rare and valuable collector's pieces, but new albums by current artists, too.

Rights of passage change people, especially difficult ones. And the Mission that young men and women participate in for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just may be the last remaining difficult right of passage since the draft ended in the 1973. Lon Henderson went to Germany when he was a young man to serve on his mission as a member of the Church. It transformed him.

Garrett's business is not dependent upon him; he does not have a "job." He's created a business out of training, healthy living, and coaching others to success. To train at Personal Edge Fitness, you must have a degree in some sort of training related field, you must go through an internship, and you must get very familiar with the employee handbook and training manual that focuses as much on lifts and technique as it does the emotional side of the clients as they struggle to achieve their goals.

When musicians speak one-on-one to George Porter, Jr., they often share that he's a role model of theirs, he's their inspiration for playing the bass or the drums, or even for choosing to play funky music in the first place. And having performed with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, John "Papa" Gros, Allen Toussaint, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, David Byrne, and Tori Amos to name a few, he's, perhaps surprisingly, a nice and humble guy.

Heeding a call from God, Marquis Forge began a bottled water company in depressed Autaugaville, Alabama. And whenever questions would arise or expertise was needed, the answers would show up. Sometimes literally. Just over a year old now, the product has distribution throughout the state of Alabama via Budweiser's state-wide distribution network. It's an amazing story.

Blair Fisher, Head of School at St Paul's in Mobile, has a resume that clearly shows he's tracking the learning trends shaping student's today. He's communicating both these trends to the faculty at St Paul's to help them amend their teaching methods to best serve the students. This is a conversation that will strike home to any parent of high school aged children and younger. You'll want to tune in.

Lisa Marston has won at every level of volleyball she's coached and she's been at it over twenty years. She's found a method for working with her players that has proven repeatedly successful.

We then meet Karen Novak, the Chief Operating Officer of Advisor Solutions at BNY Mellon | Pershing who has been a mentor and role model of women for years. Karen offers her insight on female competitiveness and advice for both male coaches and female employees.