Podcast appearances and mentions of Carol Hunter

Craig Simpson is once again joined by Carol Hunter and Jono Langstaff to look at the last month in Stars-land, with news of signings and departures as well as fixtures, tickets and more.Oh and there might be a special guest appearance too.Follow on all social media channels @billinghamstars.

Carol Hunter, Jono Langstaff and Craig Simpson bring you the first episode of Billingham Stars' new podcast.  A summer catchup looking back at 23/24 then reviewing signings to date, announcing another addition to Stars' 24/25 roster and discussing the league changes for this coming season.Follow on social media at @billinghamstars.

♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀ Feminist Question Time with speakers from Ireland and Japan Enjoying our webinars? If you are a position to make a one-off or recurring donation to support our work, you can find out how to do so (and see our financial reports) at https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/donate/ - thank-you! ♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀ This week's speakers: Carol Hunter, Wicklow Women for Women - Update on Ireland Bio: Part of Wicklow Women for Women, one of the biggest groups defending women's sex-based rights. Barbara Bull - American in Japan - Update from Japan ahead of the G7 Summit: Will the LGBTQ bill pass? Bio: I'm an ESL teacher in Kobe. My activism has been limited to being a donor and commenting on Twitter. Shono Yoriko - Japan - Cancel culture in Japan afflicts the novelst Shono Yoriko Bio: Ms Shono Yoriko is a historic figure in the world of Japanese literature, whose work has been translated into multiple languages. She has won several famous awards for Japanese literary fiction, including the Akutagawa Award. (With an update from Uno Ishigami Women's Declaration International (#WDI) Feminist Question Time is a weekly online webinar (Saturdays 3-4.30pm UK time). It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. See upcoming speakers and register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQT. There is also a monthly AUS/NZ FQT, on the last Saturday of the month at 7pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)/9pm (NZ). Register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQTAUSNZ. On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series, Radical Feminist Perspectives, offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics. Register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP. Attendance of our live webinars is women-only; men are welcome to watch/share recordings here on YouTube. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women's sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. Find out more at https://womensdeclaration.com, where you can join more than 30,000 people and 418 organisations from 157 countries in signing our Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights. The Declaration reaffirms the sex-based rights of women which are set out in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 1979 (#CEDAW). Disclaimer: Women's Declaration International hosts a range of women from all over the world on Feminist Question Time (FQT), on Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) and on webinars hosted by country chapters – all have signed our Declaration or have known histories of feminist activism - but beyond that, we do not know their exact views or activism. WDI does not know in detail what they will say on webinars. The views expressed by speakers in these videos are not necessarily those of WDI and we do not necessarily support views or actions that speakers have expressed or engaged in at other times. As well as the position stated in our Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights, WDI opposes sexism, racism and anti-semitism. For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions (https://womensdeclaration.com/en/about/faqs/) or email info@womensdeclaration.com. #feminism #radicalfeminism #womensrights

Rev. Tamesha Mills, Rev. Carol Hunter

No one wants to get old alone and many women who may have divorced or become widowed in their younger years are finding new love after 50 and jumping the broom/tying the knot again. Marrying this time around for some is a bit different, especially when it comes to merging your money with your mate after 50!  This episode, The Money Mender, Carol Hunter will give real talk on Marrying Again After 50 and Merging Your Money.   Guest: Carol Hunter, The Money Mender (www.themoneymender.com)

In this Wednesday Webcast we catch up with Carol Hunter and Aliy Brown from the FASD Hub Scotland to round up what has been a busy #FASD Awareness month.  Aliy updates us on the work of the Hub as well as reflects on the progress that has been made in relation to the general awareness both in the general public but as well as within services. Carol is open and honest both in relation to her own diagnosis and lived experience and the work that she does in education, raising awareness and supporting parents and children who have been impacted by alcohol exposure before birth.  You can access the Hub here as well the resources that they have.  As always if you've experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com Listen/subscribe on iTunes here Spotify here Google here  

Divorce at any age can have a major impact on your money but after your 50's, Money Can Hit You Hard.  On this episode, we will focus on the areas that can have a major impact financially after divorce. Our special guest Carol Hunter "The Money Mender" will discuss How to protect yourself financially before the divorce is finalized and how do you bounce back!  Special Guest: Carol Hunter - The Money Mender (www.themoneymender.com)

We continue our twelve-part series featuring the cities where Dylan recorded his studio albums over the decades. Part eleven features Los Angeles, where Bob Dylan recorded twelve albums. We'll play songs from most of these albums, as well as a few prominent songs that feature L.A. as a subject. In "20 Pounds of Headlines," we round up news from the world of Bob Dylan and in "Who Did It Better?" we ask you who did "Emotionally Yours" better: Bob Dylan as recorded in Los Angeles or The O'Jays?

Meet The Money Mender! Carol Hunter is going to be sharing invaluable information about how to manage our money in uncertain times (or ANY time). Join myself and Carol at the Take Charge Challenge happening next week!

Carol Hunter from the Mobile Downtown Business Alliance tells about Downtown Mobile- the business and commercial hub of the Gulf Coast region. Learn more about this amazing organization and all that is available in Downtown Mobile.

Carol Hunter from the Mobile Downtown Business Alliance tells about Downtown Mobile- the business and commercial hub of the Gulf Coast region. Learn more about this amazing organization and all that is available in Downtown Mobile.

Lois Reitzes talks with Musician John McCutcheon about his new album "Cabin Fever"; and Carol Hunter and J. Olu Baiyewu about gardens and urban agriculture. Producer Summer Evans talks with former Air Force captain Mark Gibson about his book "Served in Silence."

Lois Reitzes interviews Pam Redmon of Emory's Global Health Institute as well as authors Beth Bacon and Kary Lee, winners of the COVID-19 children's book competition held by Emory University; Carol Hunter of Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture and J. Olu Baiyewu of Food Well Alliance about the importance of knowing how food is grown; and filmmaker Joe Talbot along with actor Jimmie Fails about the film "The Last Black Man in San Francisco."

April 5, 2020: Palm/Passion Sunday, the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 26 & 27. Rev. Clark Olson-Smith reading and singing. Carol Hunter accompanying. "My Song Is Love Unknown" and "Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song" used by permission Sunday & Seasons v.20200325.1254 ©2020 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved: Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #SB129866; One License A-724720; CCLI License 11258770. Go deeper http://www.saintpaulclinton.org/ Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/saintpaulclintonELCA/ Invest https://bit.ly/investStPaulClinton

Our leadership is brought to you this week by Carol Hunter! Carol is the Communications Director for the Downtown Mobile Alliance. On this episode you’ll get to hear about the work that is going into creating living, eating, and shopping spaces to transform downtown Mobile! Learn more about The Downtown Mobile Alliance Resources: Carol Hunter - Facebook  |  LinkedIn  Downtown Mobile Alliance  -  Facebook  |  Instagram  |  Twitter    Dennis Sherrin Twitter LinkedIn Allen Cave Twitter LinkedIn Want to know more about Dennis and Allen?  Visit our website, www.hbkcpas.net Thanks for listening and please subscribe & rate Playing Above The Line on iTunes.

Leaders of metro Atlanta's local food movement are extending an open invitation: Come to the heart of the city for a fun afternoon exploring life on the farm - the urban farm , that is. Atlanta nonprofit Food Well Alliance and Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture will co-host the 5th annual Soil Festival at Truly Living Well's Collegetown Farm, 324 Lawton St. S.W., Atlanta, GA 30310 on Saturday, May 4, 2019 from 1-5 PM. The free, all-ages event is open to anyone and everyone interested in learning more about healthy soil, local food, gardening, composting, and earth friendly living. We speak with Food Well Alliance Executive Director Kim Karris and Carol Hunter, executive director of Truly Living Well Center.

Carol Hunter is a financial expert. She will help 20K women become debt free by 2020... It is a large task but she is up for the challenge. Visit www.befreeby2020.com to sign up for 5 complementary sessions with Carol and learn how you can become debt free! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ILoveTheInternet/support

Welcome to Grandmothers on the Move! I’m your host, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, and today, I have the great pleasure to bring you the insights, activism and passion of Carol Hunter - the grandmother behind Grandparents 4Repeal in Ireland. Truly Influencers - the group played an important role in the Irish referendum, that resulted, on May 25, 2018, in the repeal of the Eight Amendment to the Constitution, and, in doing so, made abortion legal. Over a million people voted, and after a tough campaign, the referendum passed overwhelmingly to repeal the constitutional ban on abortion - with 67% voting YES to repeal! Hear how one grandmother decided to launch a campaign for grandparents to join in the struggle, using social media, conversation, information, and determination for change. Grandmothers – from the living room to the courtroom – making powerful contributions in every walk of life. We know them most intimately as loving caregivers, the older women in our lives with a thousand stories about their grandchildren and pictures in their purses. In this podcast, you’ll come to know even more about our Grandmothers – they are galvanized, determined and are guaranteed to get you thinking! What drives them? What are they up to? What is the potential of Grandmother power, and how is it changing the world?! Grandmothers are on the move…you don’t want to be left behind!

Thomas: I'm Thomas Smith, the owner/operator at Cuppa Go Coffee. Erin: And I'm Erin Smith, the co-owner/co-operator of Cuppa Go Coffee. Marcus: Very good. Well, welcome to the podcast, guys. Thomas: Thanks for having us. Marcus: I really am excited to hear your story about Cuppa Go and how you got here, but to get started, normally we get some backstory about where the people are from, where you grew up, where you went to school, did you go to college, kind of what your background is, to give people a flavor of where you're coming from. Thomas: Sure, yeah. I was born and raised in Mobile. I spent my entire life here. I went to University of South Alabama and graduated with a communications degree, which is about as useless as it sounds, and met Erin eventually. We ended up going to the same high school and same college, but never knew each other, and met each other about 11 years ago now at one of the places that we were working, and ended up getting married, and I'll let her ... Erin: Also born and raised in Mobile, went to South, was in the communications department. We had the same advisor, everything. Marcus: How in the world did you guys not meet in school? Thomas: No idea. Erin: And the school that we went to had one hallway. I mean, it was very small. I have no idea. Marcus: Which high school? Erin: We went to Mobile Christian. We're a couple years apart, but ... Thomas: Yeah, so it's a smaller school. Yeah. We were about [crosstalk 00:01:45] years apart. Marcus: Okay, and you weren't necessarily in the same grade? Erin: We weren't in the same grade, but- Marcus: Okay, and were you ... I guess at that point then, you weren't in the same classes at South either then. Thomas: I'm surprised we weren't. Erin: Actually, we might have been. It's possible. Thomas: Yeah, it's possible, but yeah. Marcus: That's too funny. Thomas: It's just we never crossed paths. It was really strange, and yeah. Marcus: So, how long have you been married? Thomas: 10 years. Marcus: Very good. Congratulations. Thomas: Thank you. Marcus: Any kids, or ... Erin: No. Thomas: No, two small chihuahuas, and that's- Erin: They think they're children. Marcus: Fur babies? Thomas: Yeah. Erin: Yeah. Thomas: Yeah, they're a handful. One's two now, and she's crazy, so [crosstalk 00:02:20] Erin: Furry toddlers. Marcus: Yeah, and I can relate. We've got a Pomeranian/dachshund mix who passes as a chihuahua, but she's a little bit bigger, and she's eight pounds or something like that, but yeah. We'll share picture afterwards, but ... So, what made you study communications? Was there something ... Thomas: Well, I had actually started off with pre-law, political science, and found out that was kind of boring, and I've always had a passion for filmmaking and storytelling and that sort of thing, so I got into the communications departments at South, took all the film classes there, TV production, thinking that maybe I would be a camera guy for the new station, something like that, and make some films on the side, and once I got my degree and graduated, realized there's not a lot you can really do with that communications degree, and ended up working at TeleVox Software as a scriptwriter for on-hold messages, which is very strange. Marcus: Weird. Thomas: Yeah, and she actually- Marcus: They have a person that write scripts? Thomas: Yeah, yeah. So, if you call into a doctor's office and you get that automated message that says, “Please hold. Our team is busy, and we'll be with you shortly," someone that writes that, and she recorded some of those messages, and that's actually how we met there. She was a voiceover artist, and so with that communications degree, I still continued to make short films on the side and do filmmaking, and still do that as well, but it was a driving force for me. Marcus: Yeah. Now, you have started a new business called Cuppa Go, and so we'll get into that a little bit, but where are you, where currently as far as jobs go? Thomas: I still have a full-time job as communications director at [inaudible 00:04:19] Smith. Erin: And I am over at TeleVox West doing voiceovers still. Marcus: Still? Erin: Still doing those. It's a really fun little job. I like it. Marcus: I was gonna say, there is not many opportunities for somebody with that skillset, so I have to ask you, were you ever in choir or did- Erin: Oh, yeah. Marcus: Okay. Erin: I started off at South in vocal performance, opera and musical theater, and realized that while that was great and what I wanted to do, I still needed something to kind of fall back on. I always enjoyed journalism and writing and that sort of thing, so I went and got a journalism degree, which is so useful these days, so much. Marcus: Our stories are the exact ... Literally, I went to James Madison, studied voice- Erin: Oh, wow. Marcus: ... and I was a music education major, but I never learned keyboard, and so in order to graduate, I would've had to stay for six or seven years in order to pass the keyboard proficiency exams, and I was paying my way through college, so I was like, I'm not staying around for an additional three years so that I can teach kids how to sing. If it's gonna take me that long, I'm just gonna switch. So, I switched the English, and so it was the closest thing I could do to a business degree without actually going back to business because of the reading skills and writing skills and stuff like that, so that's really cool, though. Yeah. Erin: Yeah. I figured if I wanted to go for a career in performance, I could do that really with or without a degree as long as I had the training. So, I went and got the fallback degree, I guess, and ended up using the vocal performance way more than I never used the communications degree. Marcus: Interesting. Erin: So, that's how I got started doing voiceovers. I did a lot of theater and did a little bit of radio, and they were looking for voiceover artists at TeleVox, and got started there, and it's a really cool gig, so I just stuck with it. Marcus: I've never met a voiceover artist. This is a first. That is so cool. Thomas: She annunciates very well, all the time. Erin: I do. Marcus: And most vocal performance majors do. Yeah, they kind of beat it out of you. So, the short tangent, I don't know where I picked it up. I have a feeling it was because of my love of U2, that With or Without You, so I always said my [chu 00:06:56] instead of you- Erin: Chu, mm-hmm (affirmative). Marcus: ... or whenever you say a T, sometime it comes out with a C-H instead, and so my vocal professor was just like, “Where in the world did you grow up, because ...” Then I was like, “Well, I grew up like two hours away from here.” James Madison is in the Shenandoah Valley, and I grew up, for the most part, in Northern Virginia, and he was just like, “Yeah, I've never heard that,” and I think it was just because of the kinds of music that I was listening to. They just didn't pronounce things correctly. Erin: I did the opposite. I was born and raised here, but I trained a little bit in New York, and they were always asking me where I was from because they didn't believe I was from here, so ... Marcus: Right. Yeah. Erin: But just with the annunciation and- Marcus: Lack of ... Erin: ... lack of Southern accent. Marcus: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Erin: But I still sing all the time professionally, and it's been fun. Marcus: Very cool. Erin: I've enjoyed it, but the day job is basically telling people to press one for English over and over again. Marcus: That's great. Erin: Somebody has to. It's me. Marcus: Somebody has to do it, yeah. No, that's great. Well, go back for me. Go back to your first job. Can you picture that? Thomas: Out of college, or- Marcus: No, first job. Thomas: Very first job? Yep. I was working the lawn and garden section of Target at the mall, Bel Air Mall, back when they actually had one. Marcus: Nice. Yeah. Thomas: Yeah. It was during the summer. I was saving up to pay for a trip to go to London. Marcus: How old were you? Thomas: I was a junior in high school, so 16, 17-ish, something like that. Marcus: Any lessons that you learned out of that? Anything that you took away? Thomas: People. It trained me to deal with people, because you could get a gamut of someone who's really sweet and really nice, and then someone who just wouldn't care if you dropped dead come through that line, and also, it was summer in Mobile, rain and heat and everything, and it taught me to just endure what you had to to do your job, that not every circumstance is gonna be nice and cushy, not gonna be air conditioned with a chair and anything. Marcus: Well, there's some foreshadowing there. Thomas: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Outdoor, rain, heat, yeah. Yeah. Marcus: Yeah. How about you? Erin: First job was senior year of high school. I worked at JC Penny at the mall, Bel Air Mall, upstairs in housewares, and about four other departments, and I learned that people can be awful, but I also learned that ... I had a really great manager. He knew everybody's name. He knew everybody's birthday, what their hobbies were, and was just amazing to work for, and I learned that that really ... It makes people want to work harder when they know that they're working for somebody who actually cares about them, and that was my greatest takeaway from that. Marcus: It's amazing to me how ... I mean, because I also worked for a bunch of jerks, but I also worked for a couple of people that really did care, and it's amazing how that can really shape that positive attitude from a manager, especially if you have worked for somebody who really just, you're like, why is this person the spawn of Satan. I mean, when you finally get to work for somebody that actually shows an interest in you as a person and wants to see you grow and all that other stuff, it's amazing how much that inspires you to kind of do good by that person instead of just kind of half-assing it. Erin: Get through the day. Marcus: Yeah, exactly. Punching the clock. Now, we talked about it just a second ago, but why don't you describe to people what Cuppa Go is? Thomas: It's very unique to the area. We're the only one for I think until ... Montgomery is the only that has a similar situation, but it's a tricycle that on the very front of it has almost like a kegerator mounted on the front. It's just a big box that houses kegs, nitrogen gas, and has taps built onto the very top. So, it serves coffee, cold brew coffee and nitro coffee on tap, and it has a little motor on the back, so I can peddle it around, or if I get too tired, I can just let the motor do all the- Marcus: Just go. Thomas: Yeah. It'll go up to 20 miles an hour, I think, which is kind of fun. Marcus: Wow. Thomas: But it's a very interesting journey with that. Marcus: I want to ask, because I think you have an interesting story in the sense that you had to have some legislation passed or something in regards to ... Thomas: Yeah, very complicated. We've been working on it for about a year-and-a-half now. The initial idea for the business came in like January of last year, 2017, and within two months we had the bike and everything at our house, ready to go. Marcus: Ready to go. Erin: Oh, yeah. Marcus: You're thinking, man, we're gonna be in business in a month or two, and then- Thomas: Yeah, yeah. Erin: Yeah, yeah. Thomas: I'd done all the research, and asked around to some of these other places and- Marcus: Yeah, pump the brakes. Thomas: ... just figured out what we needed to do, and everything seemed pretty simple, pretty straightforward, and so we spent the past year-and-a-half dealing with health departments and city licenses and all this because it's so new. No one knew what to do with this. Marcus: I can imagine the health department was kind of scratching their head like- Erin: Oh, they had no idea. Marcus: ... are your fingers clean? Thomas: Yeah. No, we talked to the Montgomery Health Department, since there was a similar setup up there, and kind of got the rundown from them, and it was pretty basic and straightforward. We passed that information on to our local health department, and we just went back and forth with them. We just couldn't get a really straight answer on anything. So, eventually, January of this year, a year, we were pretty much ready to throw in the towel and just say, “This is-” Erin: We unpacked everything. We were done. Thomas: Yeah, we unpacked everything. We were like, maybe we can put this on the back deck, and it'll be kind of a cool thing for parties, something like that. So, we wrote an email to our City Council representative, Bess Rich, and that night we got an email right back of her wanting to help, trying to get everything situated. She thought it was a cool idea, and so I think a total of like a month, month-and-a-half- Erin: Something like that. Thomas: ... working with her and Wanda Cochran, who was the attorney for the City Council, to get everything situation. We ended up not having to do the legislation- Marcus: Oh, cool. Thomas: ... which was cool, because it could've been, what was it, a franchise agreement between us and the city, and to be able to peddle up and down the street and use the sidewalks and all that, but ended up not having to do that because it's so small. It's not like we've got a fleet of these things out there. It's just one, and- Erin: We're not using any power or water or anything. Thomas: Right. Yeah. Yeah, and so Bess Rich was really instrumental in making this happen. Marcus: Well, and I think the reason why, it's important to kind of talk about that, is because there's oftentimes this idea ... Well, first of all, there's often an idea that starting a business is easy, and it's not. I mean, it took a year for you just to find the person that you needed to talk to as an advocate, but then the second this is when you do run into a situation like that, having an advocate. Right? So, it's important to kind of put your feelers out there and figure out who is that person if you do find yourself ... As a business owner, I'm kind of talking to the audience now, of if you're a business owner and you've run into that wall, find that person that can be your advocate, because otherwise you probably won't break through. Thomas: Right. I agree. Erin: Yeah, we wouldn't have. Marcus: Yeah. Thomas: No. Marcus: There's a number of folks that are put into position for that. I would also just say, if you're dealing with the city of Mobile, then the I-Team, as I always call them ... I don't know. They like to be called the virus for the city of Mobile, but I oftentimes think of them as the vaccine because they're actually fixing the things that are wrong with the city, so they're coming in and talking to people about their experiences, and if the gay guys, if you're listening to this podcast, then here's another example, I mean getting something like this passed. I'm sure it could've been fast-tracked a little bit, but ... So, this isn't a franchise then? It was just an idea that you had? Thomas: No, no. This is just an idea. Marcus: Did you have to have the bike custom made, or was there a provider, or- Thomas: Actually, yeah. So, the whole thing started, it was, like I said, January of 2017, and sometimes I'm the worst about this. I was just like, Saturday mornings while I'm waiting for Erin to get ready, for the hair and makeup, all of that. Erin: To finally come out of the bathroom so we can leave. Thomas: Yeah, just trying to be nice about it. Erin: I admit it. Thomas: Yeah. We'll just sit around and I'll just throw out some of the stupidest idea I've ever had, just to entertain myself or her, whatever, and so I just said, “You know, it would be great if there was this company that would drive around and deliver coffee, and call it Cuppa Go, kind of like cup of Joe.” Erin: Yeah, and I absolutely agreed, because I need the coffee. If they could bring it to me, that would be great. Thomas: Yeah, and so for some reason it stuck, and I'm not even a coffee drinker. She's the one that has the coffee background and the coffee interest, so I'm not even a coffee drinker. So, then I started doing some research online one day, because I was just kind of curious. It was extensively bugging me. I couldn't quite explain it. It just kind of stuck, and so this was before Yellowhammer was in town, so we didn't have the coffee truck in the area. So, I looked at that, and it was really expensive to even start with a coffee truck, but then in that search I found this company. There's two of them. There's one called Bike-In-A-Box, and then one, Icicle Tricycles, that make these, and they're popular out West, places like Portland, of course, and they make them for beer. Marcus: I can see you trying to get that through. Thomas: Yeah, good luck. Marcus: Yeah, good luck. Thomas: Beer, donuts, popsicles, and some of them are also set up to be like little boutique dress shops, which is strange. Marcus: What? Thomas: Yeah, they have these racks that kind of pop out- Erin: A little popup. Thomas: ... and I guess you can't try anything on, but they hang there, and they make them for everything. It's crazy. Marcus: That's interesting. Thomas: So, the entry level for these is pretty inexpensive, and it just looks cool, and there was nothing else like it here. I don't even think New Orleans had anything like this, so that's- Marcus: So, who are you getting ... Or is there a source for the coffee? Erin: Yes. Thomas: Yes. It's a smaller company called Nightbird Coffee out of Jackson, Mississippi, and they've been really great. Marcus: Okay, so someone real local. Thomas: Yeah, yeah. It's regional. Erin: We were trying to keep it as local as- Thomas: Yeah, as local as we could. Erin: Yeah, as we possibly could. Thomas: And they've been really great and very helpful. Craig, I think he's also supplied some other companies down here as well, but he's been really supportive of the whole endeavor. Marcus: I mean, it is also cool because I'm assuming that you're intending on keeping your daytime job and that this is just kind of a side hustle for now. Thomas: Yeah. I mean, I just thought it would be really cool for Downtown Mobile, something like this just peddling around, for the people coming home on the cruise ships, the people hanging out at the fort, tours, just something unique for the city. Marcus: Well, and we love Serda's, and also, we had [Shallure 00:18:44] on. They're getting ready to open up a coffee shop downtown in the Innovation PortAL, but I think that may be a little bit further away, and downtown needs other options for coffee, because it may seem crazy, but to walk from end of Dauphin down to the other end of Dauphin, you're not gonna drive down there because there's no parking, so you're gonna walk or take the electric skateboard or something down there, and it takes time, so it'd be nice if there were other options on this end of Dauphin Street, but ... So, we're actually hopeful that even though Shallure is opening up, they're over on St. Louis Street, so that doesn't help things much, we're hoping that the [PV's 00:19:28] or somebody will open up a coffee shop closer to Moe's BBQ instead, but if you guys are in the area, then that'd be great, too. I don't know when this is gonna be released, but we had an art walk this past weekend, and you all were at that. How was the reception? Thomas: It was pretty good. It was like a soft opening for us. We were at the back lot, and it let us work out some kinks and figure out some issues that- Erin: That you'd never know until you actually get out there and get started with it. Thomas: ... we never would've thought about, what worked, what didn't work, because when we first turned it on, we unloaded the bike from the cart and plugged everything in, it was all set to go, and then this coffee started spewing out of the spigot. We had a tarp over it. When we uncovered the tarp, the handle was just slightly- Marcus: Just slightly ... Yeah. Thomas: ... bent down enough to start pouring, but it smelled great when coming out. Marcus: Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. Thomas: But stuff like that, so maybe we should watch that, but it was pretty good, and people seemed to really enjoy the coffee and liked the taste, and cold brew's kind of everywhere now, but nitro coffee is still rare. I think there's only one other place in town that might have that right now- Erin: Yeah, I think so. Thomas: ... and so that it's new for the area, and it looks cool. Marcus: I am a fan. It's so good. Thomas: It's like Guinness. That's what- Marcus: Yeah, it is very much ... It has that same velvety texture that a good Guinness has, but without the alcohol. Thomas: Yeah. Erin: Which we decided to go with that, and the flavors that we offer are mostly cocktail-inspired- Marcus: Interesting. Erin: ... so we had a lot of people asking if they had alcohol in them. When they took a sip, they were like, “Oh, my god. Does this have alcohol in it?” Marcus: Yeah. No. Erin: No, it doesn't. It's just really tastes like it. Marcus: No, but if you're drinking it at night, you might find yourself organizing your closet at 2:00 a.m. Thomas: Yes. Erin: Oh, when we were testing flavors, I had four cups in front of me because we had to make a full cup in order to figure out ratios and things like that, so I had four cups of coffee in front of me. I did not sleep at all for days. Thomas: Yeah. So, someone came. It was about 6:30 when we set up. They got a cup, and then they came back the next day when we were set up again and got another cup, and said that they were up till whatever the night before, binge-watching Lost in Space on Netflix. Erin: They watched a couple episodes of Lost in Space before they could make it to bed. Marcus: Yeah. I have to watch myself because I will oftentimes go down to Serda's and get an iced coffee with the coffee ice cubes, so that's the kicker, is iced coffee is brewed at double or triple the strength in order to account for the ice that you put into it, but if you get the coffee ice cubes, then it kind of negates that, and so you're drinking three or four cups at the same time. Thomas: Yeah. Erin: And cold brew, really, it has about 30% more caffeine than- Marcus: Caffeine. Thomas: Yeah. Marcus: Yeah. Erin: Yeah. So, yeah, you could get real wired real fast. Marcus: Yeah. You only get a small when you do that. Thomas: Yeah. Marcus: Now, do you remember the first ... Was this the first evening that you were selling at art walk? Thomas: Mm-hmm (affirmative), yes. Marcus: It was. So, my questions is normally, do you remember the first time that you made a sale that you think there might be something to this, but if that was just five days ago, then is there something to this? Thomas: I think so. It took Saturday, I think, because that night, I think we were just exhausted, and South Sounds was going on too, so it was just kind of crazy, so it's kind of a blur, and the mayor stopped by, so it was just super crazy, but then Saturday, we actually got out of the back lot and peddled it around Dauphin Street and took it around the block, and that's when we kind of noticed people going, “Hey, what's that?” We were stopped at a red light, and someone said, “What's this? What's that?” Carol Hunter at Downtown Alliance stopped us, and she had a cup, and then it was just this swarm of people. Erin: We ended up with a line. Marcus: That's so cool. Thomas: Yeah. So, it was like after that, we're like, this is kind of cool. People were- Erin: Yeah, and we've been doing quite a bit on social media, and we found that a couple people came looking for us. They saw where we were gonna be out, and they came looking for us and got a couple of cups to take back to people, so ... Marcus: Yeah. One of the things that Yellowhammer does a good job of is getting word out of where they're gonna be, because you do start to build a following, but if you're just gonna be pretty much downtown, then it'd also be kind of interesting to figure out if there's some way for people to beckon you to their location, like, “Hey, could you stop by 412? We're all kind of dragging.” Thomas: Yeah. That's one of those things that we want to eventually kind of look into. Right now, since it's just the two of us, we're just kind of focusing on some weekends and special events, that sort of thing, but then as we can kind of maybe build onto it, have some folks peddling around downtown in the mornings, maybe, or midday, something like that- Erin: That's the expansion plan. Thomas: Yeah, that's the expansion plan. Marcus: Yeah, it's the 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. kind of thing, because- Erin: Yeah, that 3:00 p.m. slump. Marcus: Yeah, that 2:00 or 3:00 when most people are having another cup, so ... Thomas: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Marcus: Now, if you were talking to someone that wanted to get started in running their own business, even though you are new at this, obviously you've learned some lessons already, so what's the one bit of wisdom that you would impart to them? Thomas: Research, because we found that when we're going to the health department and all these places, they may not know 100% what's needed, but if you can just say, “I've done all the work. Here it is. This is what-” Marcus: Here it is. Make it easy for them. Thomas: Yeah, that makes it a lot easier for them to say yes or no, and also, it's gonna be a lot less stressful on you, too, so just know what you need to do, research, go in prepared. Marcus: Nice. Thomas: Yeah. Marcus: You want to add anything to that, or ... Erin: He took the words right out of my mouth. I guess if I were gonna add anything to it, I would say don't make any large purchases of anything until you know when you're going to start. Have the start date. Otherwise, especially if you're going into something that's food service-related, you may end up having to toss some stuff, and that kind of sucks. Marcus: Yeah. So, in hindsight, wait to buy the bike until approval? Erin: Well, less that, and more like wait to buy creamer and sugar and stuff like that. Yeah. Thomas: Yeah. Yeah, because we had a couple of false starts when we thought we were ready to go, and we just had to end up throwing out a box of creamer. Erin: I mean, I've had really great coffee in the mornings for a while now because we had to get rid of some stuff. Marcus: Eating the product, yeah. Erin: Yeah. Marcus: So, you guys have been through some trials and tribulations over the last year-and-a-half. Are there any books or podcasts people or organizations that have been helpful in moving you forward? Erin: The City Council. Thomas: City Council. Erin: City Council. Thomas: I'm trying to think of any books or websites. Marcus: Obviously, you mentioned the Montgomery Health Department. Thomas: Yeah, the Montgomery Health Department. Erin: Yeah, they were great. Marcus: But outside of that, obviously, when you start the process of running or forming a business, you're obviously looking to other sources. You mentioned Carol Hunter in Downtown Mobile Alliance. Anything along those lines that ... Thomas: Yeah. Locally, people like Carol Hunter, Bess Rich, and Wand Cochran, and then as far as all of the ... We just hit the internet like crazy on doing all the research, so it was everything we could get our hands on, any kind of website, any kind of information, YouTube, just to kind of inform everything that we needed to know. Marcus: You're simplifying that, because you don't think of that as a resource, but the truth is YouTube is an incredible wealth of information. There's not a day that goes by that I'm not watching something on YouTube. Thomas: Well, I think when we got in we just had to put some of the stuff on the bike together, and it didn't quite make 100% sense, so I just went on YouTube found little instructional- Marcus: Yeah, and you would go ahead and figure it out. Thomas: Yeah. It was like, how do you do this, and so yeah, that has been very helpful. Erin: Yeah, and I worked in coffee shops for several years. I've made cold brew. This is not, I guess, my first rodeo, but still, making sure that we had ratios correct, and making sure that we hadn't forgotten anything. I'm still looking at YouTube, how to make cold brew, how to ... Marcus: I mean, Tad, who's my lead developer, Tad and I often say that if it wasn't for Google, we wouldn't have careers, because most everything- Erin: It's true. Marcus: ... that we've learned has been through Googling and finding somebody else that has done something at least similar, so you mentioned you came up with the idea, and then got online and started Googling, and found that there were these companies on the West Coast that make these bikes and stuff like that. I mean, I would just encourage whomever's listening that if you have an idea, spend the time doing that research, and Google and YouTube are gonna be your friend. Thomas: Yeah. I don't know how anyone functioned before Google and YouTube. I don't remember. Erin: I know. Marcus: Yeah. We walk around with ... It's interesting. We could spend another 30 minutes talking about the education system, but there's been a number of talks where it's like, why are we still teaching people to remember rote dates when we walk around with basically a supercomputer in our pocket. So, it's like let's focus on thinking creatively, but again, a podcast for a different time. So, what do you like to do to unwind? Thomas: Something I haven't done lately. Usually, binging Netflix. That's what it's been lately. It's like after this past week of getting everything ready and being out on the street, we just came home and snuggled up with our puppies and watched Netflix. Erin: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Marcus: Documentaries, shows? Thomas: We binged a few episodes of Series of Unfortunate Events, the second season, and- Erin: Just finished Santa Clarita diet. Thomas: Yeah, and then special features on some DVDs. We picked up The Last Jedi and The Greatest Showman- Erin: The Greatest Showman. Thomas: ... and stuff like that. Marcus: Yeah. Thomas: So, yeah, just try to relax, but then even when I'm doing that, my brain is still going on 12 other things, so ... Erin: One of my- Marcus: No, I'm often the same way. So, when I am looking to just kind of relax, it's Netflix or YouTube, and I'm oftentimes watching comedians, just because I like to laugh, like to end the day on a funny notes. So, tell people where they can find you, and I don't mean physically, like in a virtual sense. Where can they find out? Thomas: Yeah. You can go to ​, and that will take you over to our Facebook page. We've got ​, Cuppa Go Mobile, and then a ​ page, and you can find them all right there. They're all linked up, and when we're out and about, we'll post on our social media where we are, so just kind of stay tuned. I think we're gonna try to be back out on the 28th of April- Erin: Mm-hmm (affirmative), for Market in the Park. Thomas: ... for Market in the Park, so kind of keep an eye out for that. Marcus: Nice, and you may want to give Heather [Feffercorn 00:30:49] at The Pillars a call about the market that she does- Thomas: Market at the Pillars, yeah. Marcus: Yeah, she does, because I know a lot of people are gravitating towards that, so ... Well, I want to thank you again for coming on the podcast. Any final thoughts or comments you'd like to share? Thomas: Thank you for having us, and we're honored to be here. Erin: Yeah, really. Thank you so much. Marcus: Yeah, absolutely. Erin: It was too far. Marcus: Well, it's a very interesting business idea, and I'm curious to see in another year where it is, so definitely keep us posted. Thomas: Hope maybe one day we'll have a fleet of these things. Marcus: A fleet, yeah. Fairhope, Orange Beach, Gulf Shores. Erin: Well, this one is- Marcus: Have you thought about Hangout Festival and talking about them as- Thomas: Oh, gosh. I don't even know. I don't even know how we would even deal with that crowd. Huge, huge crowd. Erin: But this bike is named Cuppa 1. Hopefully, there will be a Cuppa 2 at some point. Marcus: Maybe they'll ... Yeah. Well, I appreciate your willingness to sit with me and share your journey as business owners and entrepreneurs. It's been great talking with you. Thomas: Thank you. Erin: Thank you.

This week on the Mobile AL Business Podcast, Marcus sits down with Florida native entertainment lawyer, Gabe Fleet, and a neurosurgeon from New Orleans, Ted Flotte. What brought these two together? Music and Mobile Ladies. With the ever-growing sense of excitement for what Mobile is turning into, Gabe and Ted led the way for an annual community festival called SouthSounds. You can lend an ear or read by following along below! Gabe: My name is Gabe Fleet. I'm an entertainment lawyer at the law firm of Greenberg Traurig and I am also the co-chair of the SouthSounds Music and Arts Festival. Ted: I'm Ted Flotte. I'm a neurosurgeon here in Mobile. I'm the other co-chair of SouthSounds. Marcus: Welcome to the podcast, guys. Gabe: Thanks for having us. Marcus: If you had asked me three years ago that I was going to be sitting in the office talking to a neurosurgeon and an entertainment lawyer about a festival in downtown Mobile, I would have called you crazy. But I'm really excited to have you both here to kind of tell your story and also to share with everyone what is going on with SouthSounds. And I had a chance to talk to you, Gabe, a couple weeks ago and learn a little bit about your story, but I want to get some of that for the audience as well. Why don't we start with you and just kind of give us some background: where you're from, what you do, where you went to school, that kind of thing. Gabe: Yeah, sure. I'm originally from the Gulf Coast. I'm from Fort Walton Beach and I played music since I was a very young ... I was gigging out in little jazz trios at 11 or 12-years-old. Music's always been a big part of my life. After college, I went to Georgia undergrad, after that I played professionally in some jangly, pop rock bands. We slept on couches of friends and kind of toughed it out for a few years, then I went to law school at Vanderbilt and kind of married all of those things together. Marcus: Never heard of ... What school is that? Gabe: Vanderbilt in Nashville. I went there and I had long hair and they were like, "Well, who do we let in? Who is this kid?" But I had gone to the school of life for a few years and that was helpful. Then when I left, I joined the firm that I'm at now. It's a law firm called Greenberg Traurig and I've been with the firm about 10 years. I'm a partner in our global digital media entertainment group. Everything I do relates to the music business in some way. I represent talent, a lot of high-profile talent, lots of [baby 00:02:02] artists we try to bring along as well, digital media companies, large consumer brands, and help them navigate the music business. It's a really diverse practice. We were living in Atlanta and my wife is originally from Mobile. You can take a girl away from Mobile but you can't take Mobile out of a girl or something like that. There's some phrase there, somewhere. But anyway, we eventually were told that we were moving here and the firm was good about allowing me to do this kind of telecommunicating situation. We've been in Mobile for about four years now and I travel a lot for work. I'm in Atlanta for a good bit but for the most bit, at least half the month, I'm here in Mobile and Mobile is definitely home for us since it's where our kids go to school and where we live and where we have a home. Since we've been here, we've become very committed to the community and very involved in the community and tried to do what we can to help the community. I got involved with SouthSounds because I thought it was a way that I could give a little back and bring some skills and some knowledge and some experience that maybe other folks didn't have. That's how I got involved with the festival. Marcus: Very cool. And how about you? Ted: Well, I grew up in New Orleans. I'm from New Orleans. It's got a pretty decent music scene there. One of my friends named Ben Jaffe, he owns Preservation Hall, we always used to go hear local music, a lot of it. Very into that. Then went off to school, lived in Birmingham and Seattle and so forth. I always liked to kind of go and find local bands and what was going on wherever we were living. And then also married a Mobile girl and moved here. Gabe: There's a theme here. Marcus: There's a theme here. Ted: Like I was saying earlier, I was here probably about three or four years. I lived over in Spring Hill and just really didn't come downtown but I think I came to ArtWalk and then started going to the Blind Mule and a lot of us got sucked into downtown Mobile. Eventually, in 2011, I was on the Board of the Crescent Theater, Friends of the Crescent Theater. Working with them and was talking to Carol Hunter about, "Why don't we do a southern music festival?" No one was doing that. Emily Hays, who is a DJ at 92z at the time and I put together what's called "LoDa Live" in 2011. I think we had about 12 bands. Next year renamed it SouthSounds and it took off from there. Just all part of, again, getting involved in downtown Mobile between the late 2000's and now. Marcus: I have to ask the why though? You're a neurosurgeon. Why the hell would you want to start a music festival in downtown Mobile? Was it just like you love music that much or something? Ted: That's a good question. I love music but also the potential of downtown Mobile. You know, as we're coming down here, like we were talking about earlier, more people need to know about this. More people need to come down here. About 2011, it's hard ... If you remember, that's when Alabama Shakes, they played at Callahan's to 50 people. They took off. Then St. Paul and the Broken Bones was taking off. We had them at SouthSounds. They played a little stage, a little pop-up tent and then they took off. It was right at that time when southern music was taking off. We knew there was a niche there, a possibility of that taking off. It was really just a love of downtown Mobile, a love of southern music, wanting to help the venues out, that we all came together. About that time, I'd just been to South By Southwest. Another thought was like, "Why don't we do it, instead of doing a typical big festival, why don't we do it in the venues? Have it more of a group effort?" With the current city budget, or at the time, really the only way to throw a new music festival was to share the cost of it between all the venues. That's how we started. Marcus: It came to be. Now, forgive me, that was 2012 when SouthSounds started but 2011 was when you did LoDa Live? Ted: Right. Marcus: So 2012, we're in 2018. This is going to be the sixth year? Ted: Seventh year, yeah. Marcus: It's grown. You have 70 bands coming this year. You started with 12 and now you've got 70. Even the logistics of figuring out where are those people going to stay, coordinating all that and the production and all that other stuff. Have you stopped to think about? I'm sure you're just kind of in the midst of it all so it just kind of ... Gabe: You should see what our inbox looks like right now. Yeah, it's kind of become this sort of thing on its own right. It's definitely grown quickly, particularly over the last three years or whatever. We were pulling some numbers together last fall because we submitted for this international downtown association award which we ended up winning. We kind of tracked that growth from, I think last year we had 84 acts. By the time it's all said and done, we'll end up about there this year. We had 15 venues last year, we'll be at about the same this year, whereas the first year it was 12. It's three days. It's tough to measure attendance just because a lot of it's free and outside but somewhere between 8,000 and 11,000 people last year. It's sort of become a thing. And particularly when you remember it's an all volunteer effort. There's this great board of community leaders, but they're all volunteers. Nobody gets paid. I mean, the venues, they all do it just basically to kind of break even and just keep money, whatever they can. And the festival, it's just really about having an event that everybody can say, "That one weekend, we're all going to pull in the same direction." Right? You have bars and restaurants, you have maybe squabbles or whatever, but that weekend everybody's like, "No, we're all in the same direction. We're all going to kind of do this thing for the good of the community." It's been fun to watch those things bring everybody together. Now you have club owners at each others clubs watching these bands that they didn't hang out before. I think the idea is really to create this tentpole event. We try to have that tent be as big as it can be, right, and make sure we're representing as many parts of the community as we can represent. I mean, southern music is a big category, right? Marcus: It is a big category and it's growing. Gabe: But the downside of trying to be as inclusive as we can be is that the logistical part of it starts to be challenging. There's some growing pains there and we don't necessarily do everything perfect but I think we do okay. Marcus: So you mentioned all volunteers, nonprofit, a lot of people don't know that. I would imagine all the proceeds go back into the event to make it a success for the next year as well. Gabe: That's right. We operated for the first several years as a special project of the Mobile Arts Council. Then two years ago it had grown large enough, we spun off and formed our own 501(c)(3), SouthSounds Music and Arts Festival, Inc. There's a board and it's a nonprofit and yeah, all the revenue just stays in there. Nobody makes any money. It's all volunteer. We'll pay bands and we pay vendors. Even those guys all do it at pretty steep discounts, particularly the local folks, just to try to pitch in and create this event for the community. Marcus: You're from New Orleans, or Nawlins, how do you want me to pronounce? No, I'm just playing. I'm not from here. I think I've made that pretty well known on the podcast by now, but you and I just met. So one of the things that was extremely surprising to me is New Orleans has this rich history and culture of music and Mobile ... We like to toot our own horn over here, but when you look at the music scene here, it doesn't have that same kind of vibe New Orleans has. New Orleans is known throughout the world, probably, for it's music and jazz and history there and stuff like that. And for whatever reason, Mobile just doesn't have that. So I think it's very cool that you all are bringing back. Is there something that could be done here or is there something that you all see in kind of the midst of all this that Mobilians should know about the music scene that would help foster it? Make it better? Ted: Well, I think it's getting there. I mean, it's not going to happen overnight. I mean, there are a lot of bands in Mobile [inaudible 00:11:25] it ranges from the brass bands like Blow House Brass Band to kind of the Grayson Capps and the American stuff. What helps a lot is them being able to make a living at it. It's getting to where people, I think, appreciate local bands. It used to be that people would automatically dismiss local bands, which was a big difference. But now there are fans of local bands. Local bands are now able to go and tour the Southeast, which is different. The studios in the area and the record labels in the area are helping. There's definitely potential here. The downside of New Orleans is it's very focused on funk, jazz type thing. It's hard for indie, pop, rock bands. They don't get any notice there. So actually, they like to come over here and play, like the Motel Radios. They're probably more well-known here, which is a band from New Orleans. Marcus: He's saying that because he can see the blank look on my face. You said, "the Motel Radios" and I'm like, "Really? Is that a band name?" Ted: Yeah. Gabe: We've had them a few times. They're a great band. Ted: Some of the younger bands, actually, enjoy coming over here. The other part of it is just the venues. More and more venues, again, we've got 10 or 11 now. The last couple of years, we've had The Merry Widow, added Alchemy Tavern. It's just part of it's being able to make a living at it. That's a big part of it. Gabe: I think that's right. I think you have to have sort of a supportive infrastructure there because what happens is, it's not like there's not great musicians. But the problem is, if there's not places to record cheaply, if there's not places to play and make money and sort of start building your crowd, then if you have any talent, you just leave, right? You move to Nashville, or Atlanta, or LA or whatever. I think what we've seen ... I mean, it's interesting. I started coming to Mobile touring in the aforementioned jangly rock band that I was in, and we would come through here in the kind of first half of the 2000's. We would play Monsoon's, right? [Noel 00:13:42] and the Monsoon's were the only guys doing kind of cool, original stuff. There was a ton of just modern rock, sort of Nickleback-type cover bands playing up and down the street. There weren't any great venues. Part of it was an audience thing. If you don't have an audience that likes to hear original music, then you don't have venues that carry original music because they've gotta sell drinks, sell tickets or whatever. And so then you don't have bands. It becomes this sort of vicious cycle. I think it's now going the other way. People now, we've been bringing in enough good, local, regional bands that people now, in town, expect to see great original music. You can get to Callahan's four nights a week and see a great singer-songwriter original act from wherever. So then, local acts get inspired by that. Local acts meet people they can go tour with. Like Underhill Family Orchestra, those guys are a local band. They're great. They've been slogging it out forever. Just now in the last year, there's a local record label they're signed to, they're about to drop a great new record, they've made a bunch of friends through SouthSounds. Now they're touring the region well because they're touring with their friends they met at SouthSounds. It's just all because now there's an infrastructure to actually take a band like that and make them successful outside of the one show they play every three months in Mobile. Ted: Yeah, I mean we had well over 60 bands submit for the Lagniappe Showcase, local bands. You'd be surprised how many good ones there are. As an example, two years ago this band submitted, a couple high school kids out of Citronelle that probably had never played anywhere outside of Citronelle. They submitted via the website. They're called the Red Clay Strays now, but they play all over. People, professionals I know are fans of the Red Clay Strays. Doctors that live out in Spring Hill, they're big fans of the Red Clay Stays now. It's funny how- Marcus: No offense to the doctors in Spring Hill. Ted: No, I was one of them. Marcus: We've got some friends there too. Ted: People that don't usually hang out. Marcus: I get what you're saying. It's not normal. Gabe: I think it's changed a lot in the last two years. To your point, when we were going through the local submissions two years ago, we found six good bands but like- Marcus: You were scraping. Gabe: We had to look. We probably could have filled that six band showcase three times this with good, quality local acts. It feels like it's changing pretty quickly. Marcus: Do you think, and this is self-serving question, but do you think that is a ... There's a problem of having an audience. If a band has an audience and a venue knows they're going to bring their audience to them, then they're more likely to book them. But there's also the idea that these venues also need to have a regular, a culture of bringing regular, good bands in because then people are more trusting that when they say, "Hey, we're having somebody in," that's the Motel Radios, for instance. Gabe: There you go. Marcus: That they're more trusting and willing to go and listen to a band that maybe they've never listened to before. Is that kind of how this works? Is that how we get this to ... Gabe: Yeah, I think some of it, honestly, is about changing the expectation of music-going audiences in Mobile, right? I feel like 12 years ago, the expectation was you would go see a cover band downtown, right? Now, it's really ... The club owners and SouthSound, and the bands, everybody's sort of collectively pushing everybody's sort of cultural bar up a little bit. Now, I mean the run of shows that Brad and Maggie have had over the last few months at Soul Kitchen are on parr with anything you'd get at a good club in DC. Marcus: I've noticed cause when we- Gabe: I mean, they are killing it over there. Marcus: Walking up and down Dauphin Street to restaurants or whatever, I'll see the big posters and I'm like, "Who? Seriously? They're coming here?" Gabe: Yeah! War on Drugs or Spoon or all these Pitchfork acts- Marcus: Well, I mean even Cee Lo Greene was here. Didn't, I could be wrong, but there was some other rap ... I can't remember if it was Snoop or some other fairly big rap artist that was playing there as well. It's not just local ... They're bringing in really good quality people into Soul Kitchen. Gabe: For sure. And David and Ryan are doing the same thing at Merry Widow and sort of the more indie space and the Steeples are doing a bunch of cool stuff in country. JT is always ... JT's got enough clout right now at Callahan's, he'll book an act and just tell people, "You've never heard of this guy. Be here. It's $20." And he'll sell out in four hours because there's so much trust there from his fan base and he's got a good ear. The artists really like him. We're developing enough venues now where, I think the expectation of people going to see music is not that you're going to see somebody play a bunch of modern rock covers. People want to hear local music now. Marcus: That's very cool. Ted: Yeah. I mean, to your point, I think JT, all of them have but that's exactly what JT did as far as being a club that would just bring in good acts and you're just going to go there if he's picked them. It takes awhile for some local bands to get in there but- Marcus: He's a taste maker. Ted: Yeah. I don't want to make his head any bigger than it already is. Gabe: He might listen to this. Marcus: He's listening to this. No, we work with him a little bit on another venue over on the eastern shore and we recognize, he's definitely bringing the heat. Ted: We're kidding, we love JT. Gabe: It becomes this ... It's a downward spiral on one hand, but it becomes this sort of virtuous circle on the other hand. I feel like we're in that place. There are cool local mobile bands right now. It'll be interesting to see whether any of them break out. I think it'll change a lot in the next four to five years because the scene is headed in that right direction. I think what people will start to do more and more is push each other artistically and sort of demand that people do more creative things. As I think Mobile bands start to tour more and see other parts of the world and hear other bands and broaden their horizons, that'll help the quality of local music a good bit too. Marcus: Well, and I'm sure people like the Peavy's opening up Dauphin Street Sounds and having Ben booking acts for some of the events that they do, but also what's the other recording studio that just opened up in the eastern shore? Because I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head. Ted: The Zimmers. Gabe: Oh yeah, the Zimmers thing. And then Rick's got, Rick Hirsch's studio H20, he does [crosstalk 00:20:30] Marcus: Yeah, so I mean there's a lot of different venues for them to go and get the experience of recording, get themselves down tight. But also not just ... I don't know. I see that there's a lot of opportunity here and it's just always surprised me that it hasn't been where it is but I'm glad to hear from guys that are in the scene, that it's kind of heading in that direction. Gabe: They're doing, I mean on a label front, you've got Scott and Kate Lumpkin with Skate Mountain Records. They're great people and they come from sort of outside of town because of their film connections. They're very invested on like, "We want to grow local music." So they signed all these great local bands and they're putting resources behind them that people haven't done, really, locally, maybe ever in terms of distribution and marketing. I'm telling you: this Underhill Record is so good. It's not out yet but I've been listening to it for months and it's going to be really cool. I mean, the Zimmers with Baldwin County Records. We've never had local labels here, that I know of. Ted: What people tell us is that when they come to the festival for the first time, they're shocked how good the bands are that they've never heard of. Really, the music business has changed because you know, when we grew up in the '80s, you had Led Zeppelin or whoever was playing. Gabe: You're dating yourself, man. Marcus: I'm there with you, dude. Ted: You know, everyone knew the same bands. They're all on TV and now the music business is all over the place. The kids find out through YouTube. When someone puts a YouTube ... You're getting Alabama Shakes, one blogger picked them up and that's how they got famous. It's really changed. It's not quite like the old festivals where you look for this band from Los Angeles, the only time they're going to come through here. The people that come and do it, again, they're shocked by how good these bands are. We have them from New Orleans, Birmingham, from Charleston, from Atlanta, from Nashville and we really try to lean on JT and people like that. We lean on some of the agents and music business people in the cities. We lean on some music writers we know. But we really just try to pick some of the best bands all these different cities, be it Charleston or wherever. That's really the main thing. I was kidding earlier when I said, "Well, if you've heard most of the lineup, we're not doing our job," but really we put a lot of effort into finding, even if they're not the next Alabama Shakes, they're good, solid bands that we're happy to have down and that's kind of the point. Marcus: Now, I know that you just got back from South By Southwest. Gabe: Yeah, I was on a panel there. Marcus: Did you go this year or you didn't ... Ted: No, I went early on. And again, that's part of it. That's how we've grown organically, again, like this. We've just grown a little bit year-by-year but that was the idea. Some of the bands were saying they don't want to go out there anymore. It's just gotten too big. Marcus: I would agree with that. As a matter of fact, when we were talking, I haven't been for probably ... It was 2012 was the last time I went, so it's been five years since I went and I stopped going because it was just absolutely ridiculous. The first year I went, you could literally stay in the hotel across the street from the main convention center and then it started getting to the point where you were having to stay way outside of town and drive in and all this stuff. But I guess where I was going with that is, and we may have to strike this, but are there any plans to move SouthSounds into that kind of format where it's like tech, film, music? Gabe: Yeah, I mean I think that we ... Yes. Marcus: There's a lot going on here to push tech. Gabe: So, it's interesting. We're very eager to have other non-music parts of the festival and we do, to some extent, this year. Mobile Arts Council is sort of doing an arts market and there's a more interactive sort of visual arts component that's going on. It's mainly been focused on the music but there is sort of a whole visual arts component that I think is actually going to be much more prominent this year. It happens to be that start-up weekend, that Innovation Portal and Tech Starters and those guys are doing, is that same weekend. So we're partnering with them. I think this year it's just primarily a co-promotion sort of relationship. They're doing it at the Steeple which is, you know, we're close with the folks who own that, and Jenna is on our board so we're co-promoting with them. We're trying to figure out ways to work hand-in-hand with them. I think part of it for us is it's an all volunteer gig, right? To coordinate all those other components is challenging just from an administrative stand point. But I think what we've found is if we have other things that people are sort of running independently, and then we're all just coordinating. Somebody runs a tech piece, and somebody runs a food piece, and somebody runs a film piece, we're very open to that and would love that. So if you're out there and you guys want to coordinate a film piece next year, or whatever- Marcus: Well, we may need to strike this because we may need to talk afterwards. Gabe: Yeah, let's do it! Marcus: But anyway, let's get off of SouthSounds for just a second. Let me get back to some more business related questions. When you think of books or podcasts or organizations that are helpful to you all, are there any that come to mind? Any books that you've read or podcasts that you've listened to on a regular basis that you think deserve some sort of mention? Gabe: I mean, my stuff is pretty niche. I subscribe to all the music blogs. I'll read, but it's all the trades. It's Billboard and it's all that kind of stuff. Hits and things, just to stay up to speed in that aspect of things. There's a book by Don Passman, he's another lawyer, called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Music Business" or "Everything You Need to Know About the Music Business" or something like that, that is sort of the music attorney's bible. That is a really good book. Actually, for anybody who ever wanted to know how the music business works, either they're an artist ... It's written kind of for artists but it's also very detailed and lawyers will use it. By Don Passman, it's "Everything You Need to Know About the Music Business" I think that's the name. It's in its fifth edition or something like that. It's a good read for anybody who ever wants to know how deals are structured, what the money looks like, how things actually work, how the sausage gets made on the deal side. It's a very good book. Marcus: Interesting. You have anything you want to add to that? Ted: No, I mean. In terms of- Gabe: A neurology textbook you want to add? Marcus: Listen, you never know who's listening to this. There may be somebody out there that wants to be a doctor or who wants to run their own practice or who wants to be a music lawyer. Ted: Yeah, I mean from the music standpoint, it's just keeping up with these blogs. We've always joked we need to start a southern music podcast. That's what we need to do next. Gabe: We [crosstalk 00:27:49] on our hands. Ted: All Songs Considered, stuff like that. There's some good new music podcast. We do need to fill that niche with the southern music podcast, I think. Marcus: So what is the most important thing that you've learned over this process of running a large music festival? Ted: Well, I think the main thing we've done is, like I said, we've grown organically. We haven't taken large risks. We've grown a little bit year-by-year. The way we run it, it'd be hard to ... We might have a bad year with weather or whatever, but we run it so we don't take large risks. So we'll always be there to fight another year. I think that's the main thing, really, with any business that I've done. I'm also involved with some other things here, the Old Shell Trolley and some other fun stuff. It's always just grow incrementally, minimize your risks, and just take advantage of the opportunities where you can. That doesn't work for all business models. Sometimes you do need to take a big risk but in something that's like this that Mobile needed to adapt to the concept of having an independent music festival, I think it's been the best for us. Gabe: For me, I think the thing that I've learned or that has sort of been underscored which is probably the same thing I've learned in my career overall, which is the most important thing you have is your relationships, right? Particularly in a business like the music business, your relationships are enormously valuable as currency, on some level. People come to me and our firm because our relationships can open doors for them and can make things happen, make things move along. Similarly, if you're running a music festival or whatever the event is, whatever the business is, your relationships can be enormously valuable, particularly if you're short on cash. This is not a festival that is flush with money. Marcus: Not flush with a million dollars sitting in a bank account. Gabe: It is a nonprofit. And every year it's like, "We got a dollar, how do I turn that into five dollars?" And somehow we've been able to do that and the way is through our relationships. It's personal relationships, it's from friendships, it's people coming to the festival thinking it's a good thing to do. It's whatever it is. You go to somebody and listen, you're not trying to beg, but it's sort of like, "Here's why this makes sense for you. Here's why this makes sense for us. I can pay you this. I'm not trying to be a jerk. You know why I can't pay you more than that and I'll help you out down the road." And then actually help them out down the road when you can. It also makes it more fun, right? It's more fun. We're all going to work for a long time in our lives and I think it's more fun to do it if you're working with people you like and you can open doors for people and make them feel good and do that by calling up a buddy that you've known forever. That starts to become a pretty fun way to fill your working hours. Marcus: You touched on it but I just want to go back and reiterate because the audience is a lot of entrepreneurs and business owners and people that kind of live in that ecosystem. But one of the things that I've found is just relationships are like anything in business. Even if it's just going to a networking event, being introduced to somebody for the first time, or quite honestly, you and I had never met. We're sitting here because of an email I think you sent just kind of out of the blue to introduce yourself and to see what we might be able to put together. And so here we sit. Gabe: You know, it's funny too because I spend a lot of time going to things like South By or going to the Grammy's. I'm in these hyper-networking atmospheres. Everyone's passing out business cards or whatever. It's funny. When people think about networking, when I first started going and stuff like that and trying to get out in the music community, I thought it was about how many people can you meet? How many business cards can I get? Now, it's so different. The real thing is if I go to an event and I make one or two solid relationships like somebody over in the corner that I had a 30 minute conversation with. That is infinitely more valuable than having papered the room with business cards or whatever. I think people kind of miss that. I think if you focus on, just get that one shot. Just that one good relationship and then you can be done. Then you can leave the event. It doesn't feel quite so tiring. You just had that one great conversation and you focus on that and you see what can come out of that. It's been a lot more successful I think, in my world. Marcus: I totally agree. Alright, so to wrap up: I do want to thank you for coming on the podcast. Any final thoughts, comments you'd like to share? Gabe: I'm going to plug SouthSounds for a minute. Marcus: Actually, that's my next question so don't do that just yet. Gabe: Okay. Marcus: Any final thoughts or comments? Ted: Just to reiterate what he just said. I think Ashley Trice may have introduced us but in Mobile, Mobile's not a big town but here I am a doctor trying to run a music festival. Oh, there's this entertainment guy that works in Nashville and Atlanta and you might want to meet him. Some people kid there's only 500 people in Mobile that do stuff but there's a lot of people in Mobile and I think it's just connecting with the people in Mobile to make stuff happen here. Gabe: And then you moved across the street from us. Ted: Yeah, and now we live across the street from each other. Marcus: There is an ecosystem of people that are trying to drive Mobile forward and I think the numbers that are being added to that ecosystem are growing daily. Gabe: Yeah, in terms of a final thought. I was just going to comment, having spent some time here in the first half of the 2000s before my wife and I got married and she moved away, and then coming back 10 years later, it really feels like it's a special time to be here. I mean honestly, I think we spend so much time working on this festival or doing other things in the community. I think the reason for that is just to be part of this ecosystem that you just mentioned. Just to be in a situation where you can look back 20 years and we're like, "Yeah, I was actually part of that. I was part of that growth." It's pretty inspirational and it's a good group of people. You know, [crosstalk 00:34:24] sounds like a fun time. Marcus: So if you're out there listening thinking about, "Wow, I'd really like to be part of that," get up off your butt and do something. There's plenty of places to get plugged in. Alright. So now, SouthSounds. Gabe: Now we can plug? Marcus: Please. Plug away because actually I think there is extreme value in what you guys are doing and I think it's just incredible you're doing it just because ... We do it too but I'm always impressed when I meet other people that are like-minded and do stuff out of the kindness of their hearts but please, plug away. Gabe: Yeah, sure. It's April 13th through 15th, so it's coming up. Tickets are on sale. You can get them on our website which is SouthSoundsFest.com. We just released another 30 acts or so today, which I guess will be a few days ago, whatever it is. You'll do the math. Ticket prices go up April 1st so if you want to still get your early bird price tickets you can go to SouthSoundFest.com. You only have another few days and you can get it. It's a fun time. It's a good family friendly time. There's a lot of shows you can do during the day or you can do outside or you can go to all ages venue so you can bring the kids. You know what we see a lot? People who bring their high school kids who are in band or whatever because it's a good time for them to experience that and to be part of the community. It's a good way to bring everybody together. We would urge everyone to come out and you will find some music you like, you will find some music you don't like. That's kind of the point. That's why your wristband gets you into every venue. That's why we do it downtown where the venues are really close. You'll go hear a band and think they're terrible and then you'll go across the street and you'll find your next favorite act. That's kind of part of the fun. You can go on our website, which is ​, and there's playlists and there's YouTube links and you can listen to bands and do a little homework and find some new acts that you might like. Marcus: Very cool. Gabe: Thanks for having us. Marcus: Yeah, no. I just wanted to say I appreciate you sitting with me and in this case, just sharing who you are, the people behind SouthSounds. Normally I would say "business owners and entrepreneurs" but this was kind of a different episode of our podcast. But I felt that it was very important because while you are all not here representing your businesses, you are representing downtown and you are representing all the businesses that are going to benefit from the influx of you said 10, 11,000 people that attend, coming downtown, eating in the restaurants, staying in the hotels, going to the bars and having a drink. All of those kinds of things. So hats off to you for taking that on. Thank you for being here with me. Gabe: Thanks for having us. Ted: Thank you for the opportunity.

What’s the role of the news media when it comes to covering politics? Is that role different in the eyes of the politicians? Should print reporters be on TV? Are cable news outlets trying to change the government or just report on changes? The tables are turned as a panel of esteemed journalists takes questions from state party leaders and the audience. It’s good stuff! With Michael Gartner, Carol Hunter, Dave Busiek, Erin Murphy, Troy Price and Matt Strawn. Moderators/Hosts Dennis Goldford & Kevin Cooney. Recorded before an audience January 15th at Noce Jazz Cabaret in Des Moines, Iowa.

Preconference Preview Part 3: Combating "Fake News" This week, we have another in our series of Charleston Conference preconference previews! We have an amazing group of preconference sessions that will be held on Monday and Tuesday, November 6 and 7, prior to the start of the main conference. This is the third installment in our series of preconference previews, and we’ll continue that in the future with more episodes that interview the presenters and give a little bit more background and detail on the sessions themselves. You can find registration for these sessions on the main conference registration page, and session details are available on the conference website. As a reminder, there are several applications that are open for opportunities at the conference we’d like to draw your attention to. First, the Charleston Fast Pitch Competition is looking for proposals that pitch a winning idea to improve service at an academic or research library. This contest is designed to recognize and reward new innovation in academic library and information management. The Juried Product Development Forums, or JPDF’s, are designed to offer publishers and vendors a chance to discuss new products in development, or improvements to existing products, and receive feedback from librarians and library workers. The Charleston Premiers are lightning round sessions designed to showcase new products and innovations already in the marketplace but that may not be widely known yet. Details on all of these events are available on the conference website at the links provided in the show notes. Registration for the conference is open now. Be sure to register by September 15 to receive the early bird rate – our regular and late rates have increased this year but the early bird rate stayed the same as the past few years. LINKS: Charleston Fast Pitch Competition: https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/fastpitch/ Juried Product Development Forums: https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/events/juried-product-development-forums/    Charleston Premiers: https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/events/charleston-premiers/  Preconference schedule with session details: https://2017charlestonconference.sched.com/ Registration for the Charleston Conference, including preconferences: https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/conference-registration/ On today's podcast, we’re talking with Judy Luther, Heather Staines, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, and Pierre Montagano who are all participants in the preconference titled “Practical Measures: Combating “Fake News” through Scholarly Integrity, Digital Literacy, and Workflow Tools.” This session will be held on Tuesday, November 7, from 8:30 am – 12:00 pm. The session will be moderated by Judy Luther, President of Informed Strategies. Professionally she’s passionate about good design of content that meets the needs of the users. Personally Judy loves being outdoors in nature and enjoy quiet moments with a good cup of tea. Pierre Montagano is the Business Development Director for Code Ocean, a Cornell Tech incubated startup. He has over 20 years’ experience in publishing but recently left to work with researchers in developing an executable code repository that helps facilities reproducibility and reuse of scientific code. Heather Staines is Director of Partnerships for Hypothesis, a non-profit open source annotation/collaboration technology, working with publishers, educators, journalists, and researchers to bring annotation to conversations anywhere on the web. She has a background in scholarly publishing and educational technology. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is a Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy and affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. A passionate educator, she speaks and writes frequently about library services and impact on library users. Since Judy is moderating the session, she also moderates the podcast interview.   Before we get to the interview, Katina Strauch has some updates to her “If Rumors Were Horses”  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has selected the awesome Elaine L. Westbrooks, associate university librarian for research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, as its new University librarian and vice provost for University Libraries. Approved by the University’s Board of Trustees, the appointment is effective Aug. 15. “Chancellor Carol Folt and I are excited to welcome Elaine to Carolina,” said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost James W. Dean Jr. “She brings more than 19 years of higher education library experience to her role, where she will oversee one of the top-ranked university library systems in the country, including its services and more than 9 million volumes across 10 libraries.” At the University of Michigan, Westbrooks led the library’s support of the research enterprise, facilitated the management of the operations and budget. Prior to her time in Ann Arbor, Westbrooks worked at research libraries at three other universities. She served as associate dean of libraries at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, held several positions in technical services at Cornell University Libraries and worked as a digital research and Latin American Cataloger at the University of Pittsburgh. The co-author of three books, along with several book chapters, Westbrooks lectures at numerous conferences. She also serves on the Association for Research Libraries Visioning Taskforce, was recently the chair of the HathiTrust Rights and Access Committee and also served on the HathiTrust Program Steering Committee. Westbrooks earned a bachelor of arts degree in linguistics and a master’s degree in information and library science from the University of Pittsburgh. She succeeds Sarah Michalak, who retired in December 2016. Carol Hunter, deputy University librarian and associate University librarian for collections and services, has served as interim University librarian since Michalak’s departure. She will retire from Carolina on Oct. 1. It’s been too long since we saw Bill Kane in Charleston! Bill is at Wake Forest University in the Digital Publishing Department. What a dynamo! Anyway, just got an email from Bill who has also worked at Blackwell’s and Alibris, remember? Bill was writing Beth Bernhardt, Rosann Bazirjian and yours truly to tell us that the long-retired Jack Walsdorf left us on July 9, 2017. You might remember that Jack sponsored the Rachel K. Schenck Memorial Scholarship  for the Charleston  Conference for five years (2003-2007). Jack was so generous and he knew everyone back in the day. Jack used to select a book a year to distribute at Christmas from Blackwell’s.  He also ran several evening talks on rare books way back when the Charleston Conference was in its infancy. Back then we were holding the Conference in the College of Charleston Lightsey Conference Center which has since closed and become classrooms. A Memorial Service to honor Jack is being planned to take place in the month of September. In lieu of flowers, please consider a charitable donation in Jack's memory to one of the following organizations that he himself supported:  The Lake Oswego Preservation Society: http://lakeoswegopreservationsociety.org The William Morris Society in the United States: http://www.morrissociety.org or a library of one's choice. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4501&context=atg http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Jack-Walsdorf&lc=7398&pid=186070273&mid=7481936 Bill also sends a link to a wonderful interview with Jack from a few years ago. http://themorrisian.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-morrisian-interview-series-2-john-j.html The incredibly resilient Chuck Hamaker sent me a link to a recent article in the Guardian – Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?. It’s long but is a summary of much of what we in libraries have lived through over the past several decades – the growth of powerful publishing companies, rising journal costs, shrinking budget, the big deal. There are many familiar people and companies we know. Richard Charkin, Albert Henderson, Pergamon, Springer, Elsevier, John Coales, Denis Noble, Bob Houbeck, and last but not least Robert Maxwell. I remember visiting Pergamon in England hoping to get an interview, if not a glimpse of the famous man. Della Sar, Brian Cox, Inge Valentine, Bob Miranda have many reminiscences (favorable and unfavorable). I also remember -- it was during the Charleston Conference in November 5, 1991 that we learned that Maxweil had died when he fell off his yacht in the Canary Islands, leading to much speculation and autopsies. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/archives-old.php So long for now! Katina.

Guest Carol Hunter, Founder of Prosperity Unlimited- "The Money Mender" Today"s Conversation and Topic:  "Write it down, make it plain"  (new episode for a ongoing personal financial management series) About Carol: CAROL HUNTER the Money Mender, is one of the nation's leading Personal Finance Experts, and has utilized her expertise for over 20 years to help women and (a few men) achieve financial freedom and maximize their economic power. Carol is the Founder of Prosperity Unlimited (PUI), a coaching and empowerment entity focusing on financial education and money strategies for wealth accumulation. www.prosperous.org The opinions expressed during this broadcast is for inspiration, information and entertainment purposes only.  Atlanta Life Radio is a nonpartisan radio/podcast station. This show is a production of Atlanta Life Radio and to learn more visit us at www.atlantaliferadio.com

Guest Carol Hunter Welcome to the There is Life After Layoff Radio Show with your Host Ali and tonight's special guest Carol Hunter, Founder and President of Prosperity Unlimited, Inc. Join Ali and Financial Expert, Motivational Speaker and Author, Carol Hunter, as she guides you towards living financially free!  Carol Hunter is a Personal Finance Expert, Author, Strategist, Coach with 25+ years of experience  To learn more visit www.prosperous.org Topic:  "First Things First" this episode is Part III to a financial empowerment series. The opinions expressed during this radio broadcast are for inspiration, information and entertainment purposes only. This show is a production of Atlanta Life Radio and to learn more visit us at www.atlantaliferadio.com      

Welcome to the There is Life After Layoff Radio Show with your Host Ali and tonight's special Guest Co-Host Carol Hunter, Founder and President of Prosperity Unlimited, Inc. www.prosperity.org Tonight's Topic of Conversation:  Prepare for the Comeback! Part II of a Financial Empowerment Series Join Ali and Financial Expert, Motivational Speaker and Author, Carol Hunter, as she guides you towards living financially free! The opinions expressed during this radio broadcast are for inspiration, information and entertainment purposes only. This show is a production of Atlanta Life Radio and to learn more visit us at www.atlantaliferadio.com

Welcome to the There is Life After Layoff Radio Show with your Host Ali and tonight's Special Guest Carol Hunter, "The Money Mender", Financial Expert, Author, Coach & Strategist. Topic: Restoration is Free! Episode Description: Join Ali and special guest, Financial Expert, Motivational Speaker and Author, Carol Hunter, as she shares her personal journey born out of her own childhood poverty and financial bondage. Against almost insurmountable odds, Carol emerged RESTORED and poised to offer unique insight on how you can EXECUTE, ELEVATE and EXCEL your way to financial freedom! As a Personal Finance Expert with 20 years of experience and very humble beginnings, Carol lives by the financial standards that she shares with others. She is totally debt free, and global audiences rely on her ability to teach financial principles and techniques with clarity and understanding. Her transparency is refreshing, and the motivational conferences stimulate your mind and spirit. Carol has an extraordinary communication style, and her audiences are fascinated with the humor that is combined with her technique, which provides comfort and ease. www.prosperous.org The opinions expressed during this radio broadcast are for inspiration, information and entertainment purposes only. This show is a production of Atlanta Life Radio and to learn more visit us atwww.atlantaliferadio.com

Welcome to the There is Life After Layoff Radio Show with your Host Ali and tonight's Special Guest Carol Hunter, "The Money Mender", Financial Expert, Author, Coach & Strategist. Topic: Restoration is Free! Episode Description: Join Ali and special guest, Financial Expert, Motivational Speaker and Author, Carol Hunter, as she shares her personal journey born out of her own childhood poverty and financial bondage. Against almost insurmountable odds, Carol emerged RESTORED and poised to offer unique insight on how you can EXECUTE, ELEVATE and EXCEL your way to financial freedom! As a Personal Finance Expert with 20 years of experience and very humble beginnings, Carol lives by the financial standards that she shares with others. She is totally debt free, and global audiences rely on her ability to teach financial principles and techniques with clarity and understanding. Her transparency is refreshing, and the motivational conferences stimulate your mind and spirit. Carol has an extraordinary communication style, and her audiences are fascinated with the humor that is combined with her technique, which provides comfort and ease. www.prosperous.org The opinions expressed during this radio broadcast are for inspiration, information and entertainment purposes only. This show is a production of Atlanta Life Radio and to learn more visit us at www.atlantaliferadio.com

This week PregTASTIC kicks off Breastfeeding Awareness Month with a four part series about breastfeeding. Carol Hunter, a La Leche League Leader, discusses how breastfeeding benefits both baby and mom, tips on utilizing breastfeeding resources, misconceptions about breastfeeding and Dad’s role.