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What's shaping the future of real estate development? The industry is facing some of its biggest challenges yet: Rising construction costs, tariffs, shifting investment trends, and an evolving residential market redefining how and where we live, work and stay. But with changes comes opportunity. Join us for season four of American Building as we dive into the urgent questions shaping the built environment in the year ahead. I'm Atif Qadir, a licensed architect turned developer and the creator of this podcast, along with Michael Graves Architecture and Design. In each episode, we sit down with the most forward-thinking real estate developers who are actively shaping the built world. This season, we're featuring some of the most exciting voices in development. We'll hear from Ben Weinberg and Michael Weiss of Castle Peak Holdings as they discuss boutique hospitality and the evolution of experiential travel from their hotel in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. We'll also hear from Oliver Carr of Carr Properties who shares the story of his landmark One Congress project in downtown Boston. Beyond the challenges, we'll unpack the creative solutions developers are using to adapt and thrive in this volatile economy, from navigating financing in a high interest rate environment to pioneering new markets and products. These conversations offer an inside look at their projects shaping the future of cities across the US. Subscribe and tune in the first episode of season four on Wednesday, June 11th. More From American Building Grab the exclusive guide: How Eight Developers & Designers Are Responding to The Housing Crisis Learn more on the American Building websiteFollow on LinkedInFollow on InstagramConnect with Atif Qadir on LinkedInLearn more about Michael Graves Architecture & Design
What happens when two childhood friends trade finance careers for a crack at building the next great American hotel brand? You get Trailborn. In this episode, I sit down with Mike Weiss and Ben Weinberg, co-founders and co-CEOs of Trailborn — a vertically integrated hospitality brand reimagining what it means to travel to America's most iconic outdoor destinations. Mike and Ben didn't just set out to build better hotels — they're building an experience-driven brand from the ground up, one that actually reflects how modern travelers want to explore the wild. We unpack the white space they saw in markets like Mendocino, Wrightsville Beach, and Highlands, why they chose the “harder path” of vertical integration, and what it really takes to operate with excellence in places that don't always show up on institutional investors' maps. You'll also hear: Why building brand and operating company and real estate platform was a bet they were willing to lose sleep over How their new partnership with Marriott gives Trailborn scale — without sacrificing soul The early seeds of personalization in hospitality — and how Trailborn plans to lead with both human intuition and machine intelligence Why AI won't replace great service — but it might finally deliver on it This one's for the founders, the place-makers, and anyone who's ever tried to do something the “harder, but better” way. Learn more about Trailborn Behind the Stays is brought to you by Journey — a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that brings together an alliance of the world's top independently owned and operated stays and allows travelers to earn points and perks on boutique hotels, vacation rentals, treehouses, ski chalets, glamping experiences and so much more. Your host is Zach Busekrus, Head of the Journey Alliance. If you are a hospitality entrepreneur who has a stay, or a collection of stays with soul, we'd love for you to apply to join our Alliance at journey.com/alliance.
This week, the guys recap a fantastic weekend at the Azalea Festival in Downtown Wilmington, NC. At Bledsoe Said So/UFO of God's 2nd annual spring meetup, the podcast team and Bledsoe family met many new faces, caught up with veteran Ohmies and hosted a skywatch on Saturday night with over 250 people in attendance! On Sunday, over 100 people joined to witness orbs in the sky above Wrightsville Beach, NC. Thank you to all the Ohmies who made this a weekend for the books! The next UFO of God book signing/Bledsoe family meet 'n' greet will take place in Delavan, Wisconsin at the Contact Modalities Xpo.
Dear Readers and Listeners, We had snow on Thursday. Late March snow! This weekend we Torgs went to Wilmington, North Carolina to watch Kate Sears play in the Carolinas Classic All Start game that features North Carolina versus South Carolina. We stayed at a Holiday Inn on Wrightsville Beach that we recommend. I went from … Continue reading "Iconic Sports Venues, Wrightsville Beach, and Ted Lasso Season 3, Episode 3"
Two seemingly similar parking lots at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, couldn't be more different in the emergent behaviors they foster. From the orderly lines of the 85-space lot to the chaotic dynamics of the smaller 19-space circular lot, discover how price rationing, queue formation, and transaction costs play critical roles in these everyday systems.Things take s a quirky turn with the arrival of a man in a pork pie fedora who disrupts these parking norms, buying spaces directly from beachgoers. This unconventional behavior prompts a deeper discussion on the breakdown of social rules and the challenges of maintaining order when outsiders intervene. Wrightsville Beach Parking InformationLocke and Property Porkpie Fedoras, if you NEED one now!Elinor Ostrom and Property NormsTo Consumers, ALL Costs are Transaction Costs (AIER)Economic Benefits of Beach Access Points(Parking) Life Is A BeachIf you have questions or comments, or want to suggest a future topic, email the show at taitc.email@gmail.com ! You can follow Mike Munger on Twitter at @mungowitz
A Pediatrician's Journey from Clinic to Senate: Dr. David Hill's StoryIn this episode of the Pediatric Lounge, hosts discuss 'A Day in the Life of a Pediatrician Running for Senate' with Dr. David Hill. Dr. Hill shares his journey from aspiring neurosurgeon to passionate pediatrician, his love for Wrightsville Beach, and his career highlights. He explains the challenges faced in pediatrics, such as handling complex family dynamics and dealing with childhood obesity and chronic illnesses. Dr. Hill also talks about his Senate campaign for North Carolina District 7, emphasizing the importance of advocating for children's health policies, supporting independent practices, and addressing the intrusion into medical practice. The episode encapsulates Dr. Hill's dedication to both medicine and public service.00:00 Welcome to the Pediatric Lounge: A Special Episode00:18 Dr. David Hill: A Pediatrician's Journey and Passion01:06 Choosing Pediatrics Over Neurosurgery: A Personal Story04:18 The Challenges and Joys of Being a Pediatrician09:13 From Clinical Practice to Political Aspirations10:42 The Importance of Independent Practices in Healthcare21:59 Addressing the Intrusion into the Doctor-Patient Relationship29:56 Supporting Dr. Hill's Senate Campaign : https://www.hillforncsenate.com/30:46 The Impact of Policy on Practice ManagementSupport the Show.
A missing fisherman's boat was found Tuesday. The boat of missing fisherman Jeff Kale of Clover SC was found today off the North Carolina coast just hours after the United States Coast Guard called off the search. Kale went missing on Saturday, and a widespread search was conducted all of Sunday and Monday with no results. Oak Island police said efforts to find Kale using cellphone location data were attempted but were not successful. Oak Island police said they tried to find Kale using cellphone data were attempted but were not successful. On Tuesday as fisherman in the area spotted the 32 foot Cape Horn boat of Jeff Kale about 80 miles off the coast of Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina. To Visit My Website CLICK HERE: https://dietermelhornfishing.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dieter-melhorn/support
This week we are joined by our friend Ben Wiggins to discuss some spring boating safety tips and to talk a little about the missing boater off of North Carolina. Jeff Kale's boat was found today offshore of Wrightsville Beach, NC. Unfortunately the search for the captain continues and we have some of the pubic info that we know about the boat and what possibly could have happened to Mr Kale. Our thoughts and prayers go out for his family and friends in the coming days as they try to get closure on this terrible accident. We also discuss some great safety tips for both new and seasoned boat owners that will be making that trek to the Gulf Stream over the coming months. We all have made bad decisions in choosing days to fish and to battle the Atlantic Ocean. We can all assure a lot better chance of safely making it home to our loved ones with some simple tips and preparation prior to heading offshore. In the coming days we are going to host a float plan sign up on our website. You can take a few monents to post your info there and we will keep these private unless there is a situation that arses that the info is needed due to a late return of your vessel. Thanks to Ben Wiggins for taking the time and hopping on with me today in short notice. We are also getting a lot of turkey and fish pictures and we are going to be sharing them in the magaxine this month. Please send them to trilogyoutdoorsmedia@gmail.com or send them to our Facebook or Instagram accounts. Enjoy!!!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/trilogy-outdoors--5441492/support.
Episode 71 : How to Elevate Your Bar at Home In this episode of the Happy Hostess Podcast, host Kristie LaLonde invites Laurie Sugg, the talented mind behind The Fab Foo and the Raleigh Cocktail Company, to share her expertise on elevating the home bar experience. This episode delves into the latest trends in the cocktail scene and offers invaluable tips for infusing charm and sophistication into your personal bar setup. Listeners can expect to learn practical advice on how to transform their home bar into a stylish and inviting space. Laurie's passion for mixology shines through as she shares her secrets with enthusiasm and warmth. Whether you're a seasoned cocktail enthusiast or a novice bartender, this episode offers valuable guidance for taking your home bar to the next level! Laurie Sugg grew up in Wilmington, and has been married to her husband, Sam, for thirty-four years. They have a young adult daughter living in Washington, DC. Laurie opened The Fab Foo in the spring of 2017 after a 30 year career in banking. A lifelong collector of porcelains and Asian antiques, she decided it was the perfect time for a career change and put her history degree to use. Starting with porcelains, Laurie added Midcentury, French, Italian, Palm Beach, and other flavors of vintage décor to the shop, and eventually added a full line of gifts and entertaining accessories. Laurie created the brand “Raleigh Cocktail Company” and launched the original first of its kind “cocktail boutique” after years spent building vintage inventory, which started after she bought an “as is” Wrightsville Beach home. The Fab Foo offers the largest selection of vintage barware and bar accessories in North Carolina, with over 500 sets of glassware, plus a full selection of mixers, tools for the home bartender, and cocktail themed gifts, all selected to “Elevate Your Spirits.” Resources: https://www.thefabfoo.com/ Find Laurie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefabfoo https://www.instagram.com/raleighcocktailcompany Find Laurie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefabfoo https://www.facebook.com/raleighcocktailcompany Happy Hostess Social Media Links: https://www.instagram.com/happyhostesscollective/ https://m.facebook.com/happyhostesscollective
This show aired on Thursday, March 14th, 2024 on 107.9 and 980 The WAAV in Wilmington, NC. Guests include Donna King and Hannah Cox. Wrightsville Beach renourishment project complete, Charges Dismissed in GA, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello my friends, today we are headed to the coast. We are joined by author, sea turtle enthusiast, and unofficial tour guide of the Wilmington, NC area, Suzanne Goodwyn. If you have walked along the North Carolina coastline, you have probably seen them on the beach – wooden stakes with orange plastic tape wrapped around them, marking off of a large square space. Every morning, volunteers walk the length of the beach looking for sea turtle tracks in the sand leading to a freshly laid nest.Tracking sea turtle nests is so popular in coastal towns that volunteer organizations have wait lists for people who want to join. It was during one of her visits to Wilmington that Suzanne Goodwyn saw her first nest and became interested in the sea turtles. She was so taken with learning about them that when it came time to determine a career for Jess, a character in her book “Wrightsville Beach”, she chose for her to be a sea turtle biologist. This gave her the opportunity to research sea turtles with experts in the field and to share that knowledge in a fictional format. Suzanne shares her knowledge of turtles, the area of Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, and her novel with me. I hope you stick around. Links for Jacqui Lentswww.JacquiLents.comFB FacebookIG @JacquiLentsYoutube @JacquiLents Here are links for Suzanne Goodwyn, her book, and organizations mentioned in the chat:website is:https://goodwynbooks.com/ Facebook: facebook.com/goodwynbooks Instagram:@smartgirlbooks TIkTok:@authorsuzannegoodwyn For places to find my book and an excerpt of the book:https://goodwynbooks.com/ Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Hospital:https://www.seaturtlehospital.org/ Where to adopt a sea turtle:https://www.seaturtlehospital.org/adopt.html Wrightsville Beach Sea Turtle Project:https://wbstp.org/ Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge:https://www.fws.gov/refuge/archie-carr Facebook: UCF Marine Turtle Research Groupfacebook.com/ucfmtrg #jacquilents #jacquijustchatters #podcast #podcaster #suzannegoodwyn #NC #wilmintonNC #wrightvillebeach #northcarolina #bellamymansion #thalionhall #seaturtles #turtles #beachlife #beach #coast #coastalliving #writer #writing #writingcommunity #writerssupportingwriters #writersofinstagram #bookstagram #book #bookish #booksbooksbooks #booklover #booknerdGracias to Carmen María and Edu Espinalfound's song - Ratatouille's Kitchen, that made up my opening music. Also, merci to Nesrality on Pixabay for their cover of Irving Berlin's tune - Always (a long fav of mine) for my closing music. Special thanks to Emily Clarke for the creation of my logo. Music used for this episode includes -80s Synth Wave – AlexiActionSunshine Jaunt – Top Flow ProductionBossa Dreams Horst Rathmann – KilofonSummer Flings – Greg Fellman
What does it really take to become a successful lawyer? And what are the hidden truths of navigating a legal career that TV shows like Boston Legal and Suits might not portray? In an enlightening chat with Victoria Reading, a seasoned attorney who has walked this path, we delve into the heart of these questions. Victoria not only shares her unique journey and the shifts she made in her legal career but also offers her expert advice on estate planning and the little-known legal requirements of a valid will in North Carolina.Launching a business? We've got you covered. Victoria highlights how necessary it is to seek expert advice, especially in niches like the wedding service industry. In an industry where every tiny detail matters, having the right paperwork in place before you venture into business can make all the difference. Victoria also shares her thoughts on the importance of building trust in business relationships and debunks common myths around estate planning. Plus, if you're curious about her favorite outdoor activities and best walking routes in Wilmington, you're in for a treat!It's not all serious law talk, though. Victoria gives us a peek into her personal life, moving from Phoenix to Wilmington, and how she integrated herself into the local community. She shares how she built her reputation and skills while emphasizing the importance of confidence, especially for young women entering the male-dominated legal profession. Lastly, if you're someone who loves a good laugh, Victoria's humorous takes on court transcripts are sure to tickle your funny bone. Tune in for an entertaining and informative chat where we explore the world of law from a lawyer's perspective.Support the showThank you all for listening to this week's podcast! If you enjoy listening please consider rating, following, and reviewing the show. Want to support the show further? Consider subscribing to the show, HEREHow to find us:Whiskey & Wisdom: @whiskey.and.wisdomChris Kellum: @ctkellum LinkedIn: Christopher KellumTyler Yaw: @tyler_yaw_LinkedIn: Tyler Yaw
Who's up for an unforgettable North Carolina adventure challenge? Picture yourself embarking on a journey through the picturesque towns of North Carolina, where you can fully immerse yourself in the artsy atmosphere and relish the delectable local cuisine. Be sure to make a stop in Charlotte, where you can experience a delightful fusion of historical charm and contemporary allure. The landscape is a mesmerizing sight, with rolling hills and charming farmhouses – North Carolina's rural charm is truly one-of-a-kind. And let's not forget about the exciting adventures in the Outer Banks! Exploring the Biltmore Estate in Asheville? Absolutely iconic. With each mile, you'll weave together North Carolina's rich tapestry of cultures, stunning scenery, and captivating stories. This road trip is all about creating enduring memories and savoring the unique vibes of North Carolina.Also, remember, we have the entire comprehensive North Carolina Exploration Challenge article live on OnlyInYourState!Essential North Carolina Road Trip Stops We Cover This Episode:1. Biltmore Estate2. Land of Oz Theme Park - Beech Mountain3. Linville Caverns4. Mile High Swinging Bridge - Grandfather Mountain5. World's Largest Frying Pan6. Mingo Falls7. Wheels Through Time Transportation Museum8. Cape Hatteras National Seashore9. Sarah P. Duke Gardens x Duke University10. Great Smoky Mountains National Park x Blue Ridge Parkway11. Morehead Planetarium12. Wilmington x Wrightsville Beach x USS North Carolina13. Mount Airy14. Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park15. Chimney Rock State ParkPodcast Timestamps:[00:2:01] Kicking off with a fun NC fact![00:7:52] Starting with the Sarah P. Duke Gardens[00:18:13] The World's Largest Frying PanReady to shop better hydration? Use our special link Stay Hydrated! to save 20% off anything you order.https://zen.ai/notyouraveragebucketlist3Get In Touch!If you have personal experiences with any of the above attractions, call or text 805-298-1420! We'd love to hear your thoughts on these essential NC places and maybe even share your clip on the show! You can also reach out to us via email at podcast@onlyinyourstate.com.
This show aired on Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 on 107.9 and 980 The WAAV in Wilmington, NC. Guests include Mayor Darryl Mills and Dr. Andy Jackson. Target Closing 9 Stores, Wrightsville Beach update, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Freediving, surfing, and open water diving are three activities synonymous with this episode's guest Cayla Parker. She grew up surfing and free diving in Wilmington North Carolina at her beach break, Wrightsville Beach. Since then, she moved to Puerto Rico. In this episode, we dive into what moving looked like, what it looks like to live in the surf town of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. We talk about the surf breaks there, her progression within the sport, recommendations, and the dive master certification process. Hope you enjoy this episode!
This weeks episode we get to sit down with Captain Jot Owens, native to Wrightsville Beach, NC. One of Jot's favorite fisheries is our flounder fishery here in NC. He has seen the good days and the bad days. Like many he would love to see this fishery rebound to what it once was. With that being said, taking a little pressure of these fish has surley helped to rebuild the southern flounder population and Jot has noticed those numbers increasing in his fishing! If you are interested in booking a charter with Captain Jot, Contact info below: Captainjot@yahoo.com 910-233-4139
In this podcast, Eliza and I sit outside of a shaping bay in Jeffrey's Bay also called JBay in South Africa. We discuss her surfing progression since 2020, surf travels, some surf travel hacks and tips, as well as her training regimen and advice to those looking to travel more and progress in their surfing. We touch on El Salvador, Costa Rica, Wrightsville Beach, Hawaii, and JBay among other surf spots. Hope you enjoy this podcast! If your keen on some great post surf grub check out Eliza's recipes: https://thehangrychickpea.com
Segment 3, July 15th, 2023 Reel Recovery is a program that uses fly fishing to help men cope with the diagnosis & treatment of cancer. In 2003, Stu Brown was battling brain cancer but found that fly fishing trips helped him cope. Brown met cyclist Lance Armstrong who's Lance Armstrong Foundation committed to help fund the program. Doug Turner of Reel Recovery joins the program to talk about his experience with cancer & how it led him to the Reel Recovery program. In fact, during that same time he was signed up to lead the program in North and South Carolina. He has found that Reel Recovery position as a cancer support group has been powerful because it provides men with an outlet of escape, fellowship, & a time for courageous conversations, that has been powerful. Of course, there are many programs that utilize the outdoors and fly fishing but Reel Recovery has found a way to provide their retreats free to participants. Turner's first retreat was in 2019 & there is one planned for October 6-8th, 2023 at Springmaid Mountain in Spruce Pine, NC. One challenge are getting volunteers that are willing to spend time with the participants on the creek, river, or lake. Plus, donations are always welcome. If you're interested in joining in with the Reel Recovery team you can note it ONLINE or email or call Doug Turner (573-480-1950) The next Carolina meeting will be a fundraiser at WB Brewery in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Remember Stu Brown's quote, "Be Well! Fish On!"
This show aired on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 on 107.9 and 980 The WAAV in Wilmington, NC. Guests include Terry Schilling and Theresa Opeka. DeSantis Set to Announce 2024 bid today, Wrightsville Beach Renourishment, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hey Listener, grab one of those weird neck pillows you buy at the airport because this week “My Wai-fife!” Lauren Bishop returns to the show to talk about all of the vacations we've taken since we were married a decade ago in 2013. Topics this week include: The first guest in the history of WYI? that thought starting a load of laundry in the next room was a good idea. Getting called out for not going to the rollergirls' game. Where can we go that has good beer and food? Visiting one of the oldest/biggest breweries on the East Coast in the middle of a subdivision. Growlers are not pitchers. The country's smallest Kroger. Evergrain and Zero Day. The Omni Grove Park Inn. Signing the book to get into the bar. The Kaiju Battle of Wrightsville Beach and Stevie Janowski. David Lee Roth kicks and Christmas at Junkers. The worst vacation of all time. Hallway blunts, screaming, and drinking yourself to sleep. Allegedly Pac Man Jones was an issue. A bar district where every college team has a bar. Knowing what time of the year it was because of the sports that were happening during your vacation. The need for escapism as an anxiety filled creative. Experiencing the over the top breweries of San Diego and some that flew to close to the sun. My Wai-fife doesn't understand that she isn't like the guests. Hiking for the first time. Hot take: We don't like Miguel's Pizza. Going to Texas and forgetting Whiskey L'Amour's name. Always have a Bud Light clone. Asheville 2: Now We Know Things. Going to Beer Hogwarts. Going to breweries in Boulder with Bombtrack. Escaping COVID by going to a cabin. The blueprint of a roller derby road trip. Michigan: God, Guns, and Weed. Asheville 3: Canceled by the Cronies. Going to Portland to marry people and hang out at the coolest video game bar ever. Fangirling out and the importance of telling stories in sports. A tale of 2 breweries. Stop playing Sublime at breweries. The KEXP journey. A return to the recent past in Las Vegas.
We're celebrating 16 years of Schedulefly here in 2023. A few notes about our business:BootstrappedWe don't have any sales peopleWe've never spent more than 1% of revenue on marketingWe have five people in our company, the same five we've always hadIn sixteen years, the five of us have only been together in the same place at the same time once, for lunch at Tower 7 Restaurant in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. (I believe that was in 2013)We've never had a company-wide conference callWe've served a total of >17000 restaurants and independent hospitality businesses over the yearsToday we serve ~6000We have ~250,000 end users yet only get ~30-40 support emails per day~800 retaurants have used Schedulefly for 10+ yearsWe relate to the fisherman in the parable of The Fisherman and the MBA (it's worth looking up)We've done >400 episodes of our Restaurant Owners Uncorked podcast, the #6 ranked restaurant podcast in the worldWe've published two Restaurant Owners Uncorked books, selling >20,000 total copiesWe made The Story of Sup Dogs, the most amazing story we've come across in all of these sixteen years of learning our customers' stories
Bevin Prince has had many roles in her life. The best-known may be playing Bevin Mirskey on the still-popular TV show One Tree Hill. As an entrepreneur, she launched Recess by Bevin Prince, a high-intensity cycling center in Wilmington. Bevin is now cast in a role she never wanted, as a widow. On this episode of the 1on1 with Jon Evans podcast, Bevin talks publicly for the first time about the lightning strike that killed her husband, Will Friend, and how the support of family and friends helped her find the strength to move forward, and to keep showing up.
Hurricane Florence, a large and slow moving category one hurricane, made landfall during the morning of September 14, 2018. After the eye crossed Wrightsville Beach, NC at 7:15 a.m. the storm spent the next two days producing record-breaking rainfall across eastern North Carolina and a portion of northeastern South Carolina. Over 30 inches of rain were measured in a few North Carolina locations, exceeding the highest single-storm rainfall amounts ever seen in this portion of the state. A station in Loris, SC recorded 23.63 inches rain, setting a new state tropical cyclone rainfall record for the state of South Carolina. Record river flooding developed over the next several days along the Cape Fear, Northeast Cape Fear, Lumberton, and Waccamaw Rivers, destroying roads and damaging thousands of homes and businesses. A USGS report indicated nine river gauges reported floods exceeding their 1-in-500 year expected return intervals. Although Florence will be remembered primarily for its record-breaking flooding, wind gusts over 100 mph caused significant damage to buildings, trees, and electrical service across the Cape Fear area, and a storm surge of over four feet eroded beaches and damaged property between Cape Fear and Cape Lookout. The state of North Carolina reported 42 fatalities due to the hurricane and preliminary damage estimates of $16.7 billion. An estimated 74,563 structures were flooded and 5,214 people were reportedly rescued from flooding. Nearly 140,000 North Carolinians registered for disaster assistance after the storm. South Carolina Emergency Management reported 9 fatalities across the state; $607 million damage; 11,386 homes with moderate or major damage; 455,000 people evacuated, and 11 dams breached or failed. LEAVE A TIP: https://streamelements.com/carolinawxgroup/tip SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/carolinaweathergroup VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://carolinaweathergroup.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message
The tourists who stay there might not know, but the Holiday Inn at Wrightsville Beach, recently rebranded as Lumina on Wrightsville Beach, a Holiday Inn Resort, sits on the former site of Moore's Inlet. With Ray McAllister, author of "Wrightsville Beach, the Luminous Island," we take a look back at the days when Wrightsville's north end, Shell Island, was actually an island, and when some developers tried to develop a beach for African-Americans during the days of Southern segregation.
Brian Pratt the beverage director at Flying Machine at Wrightsville Beach joins us this week on the pod. We ask him all the questions you want to ask a mixologist. We get the inside scoop on how Brian comes up with cocktail ideas, his thoughts on trendy cocktail themes and where he thinks the cocktail industry might be headed.If you enjoyed it share it with a friend and give us a review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, it really helps!This week we were sippin' on Jameson OrangeWe've branched out and things just got zesty. Introducing Jameson Orange. The smooth taste of triple-distilled Jameson Irish Whiskey, perfectly balanced with notes of zesty Orange flavour.Try it over ice with lemonade and a wedge of orange for a crisp and refreshing drink.How to find Brian:Instagram: @b.intheflowInstagram: @flyingmachinewbFind Whiskey & Wisdom on InstagramInstagram: @whiskey.and.wisdomSupport the show
In 2021 Hurricane Henry sent a long period swell to Wrightsville Beach, NC. This set up the conditions for Brodie Turner to score his most memorable wave at a very memorable spot affectionately named Giant Chicken. Episode Sponsor: Sully's Archery Tag. Played like dodge ball but with arrows. Check them out: www.sullysarcherytag.com Song "Feel the Connection" by Justice James and used with permission
Meet Travis Curie y'all! From a cable park in Houston, TX to living in Ft. Meyers, FL to scoring his most memorable wave in Wrightsville Beach, NC on a pass through sesh from OBX back to Florida you'll be blessed listening to his story. Episode Sponsor: Sully's Archery Tag www.sullysarcherytag.com Song "Feel the Connection" by Justice James and used with permission.
Show Notes Finally, a solution that makes sense. The ladies interview Fritts Causby author of a compelling article in Wrightsville Beach magazine. In the article he discusses an innovative way to preserve our beaches without dumping piles of money…and sand…to preserve the dynamic environment. Fritts uncovers the upside of building artificial reefs offshore in order … Reefs vs. Renourishment with Fritts Causby Read More » The post Reefs vs. Renourishment with Fritts Causby appeared first on Post Session Podcast.
Show Notes Through the lens of Laurel's experiences as both an adopted child and a foster parent Ash and Laurel explore what it means and what it takes to adopt or foster a child. Ash, in her ignorance of the subject, asks the kind of questions the general public might have while Laurel humors her … Exploring Your Creative Side with Wrightsville Beach Artist, Carleigh Sion Read More » The post Exploring Your Creative Side with Wrightsville Beach Artist, Carleigh Sion appeared first on Post Session Podcast.
Eric and I talk about a crazy experience we had fishing right off of Wrightsville Beach, N.C.!
Dr. Greg Postel is the hurricane and storm specialist at The Weather Channel. You'll often see his expert analysis and insight from the network's Lab during severe weather coverage. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Princeton, New Jersey, Postel fell in love with the weather at an early age. His childhood of snow in the winter and coastal hazards in the summer, created a lifelong passion for atmospheric science. He earned an M.S. and Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Postel's strong interest in tropical weather led him to a post-doctoral scientist position in Wisconsin, where he studied the development of tropical cyclones from African wave disturbances, according to his Weather Channel bio. A decade-long stint in the weather derivatives sector-led Greg and his family to Kansas City, where he helped direct weather-risk management operations, focusing on weather predictability and forecast uncertainty. On this week's episode of the Carolina Weather Group, Postel talks about tropical trends seen throughout our recent seasons, including the increasingly common rapid intensification of storms right before landfall. He also discusses whether the Saharian air layer helps or hurts tropical development. Postel also shares his first counter with legendary Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore, who Postel first met hurricane chasing in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina years before the two would become cable colleagues. This episode was available early to Carolina Weather Group supporters on Patreon. Join us today for just $1. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST SUPPORT US ON PATREON VISIT OUR WEBSITE SUPPORT THE FREE CAROLINA WEATHER NET --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message
We made it around Hatteras with a little help from our friends! We're here in beautiful Wrightsville Beach, NC awaiting our much anticipated Ullman mainsail. This episode is brought to you by Buldano Turkish Towels, save 15% on your entire purchase when you go to www.buldano.com and enter the code “O'Kellys”. Also you can save 20% on O'Kelly Style Coffee when you go to www.okellystyle.com and enter “NOJITTERS”.
We meet Wrightsville Beach lifeguard Roxy in this episode. She walks us through an amazing barrel ride at the south end of Wrightsville Beach. It was her first barrel and it sealed the deal on how much surfing means to her life and mental health. Guaranteed to put your mind in a pitching tube as you listen. Music "Feel the Connection" by Justice James & used by permission.
We round out our month-long elections coverage with a look at the races for mayor in New Hanover County's beach towns.
Carly Gee, founder and owner of The Dandelion Fox, is from Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. She graduated from UNC Asheville in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts degree concentration in ceramics, and K-6 teacher licensure.Aside from creating pressed flower art, and pottery, she also love gardening, hiking, her two cats (Lily & Mars) and dancing to music.Carly began The Dandelion Fox over 5 years ago after falling in love with the art of pressing flowers. She is inspired by the idea of preserving the fleeting moments in the garden, and the bouquets given to her by special people. Connect with Carlyhttps://www.thedandelionfox.com/aboutInstagramArtist Date Idea: Take yourself on a nature walk and pick some wildflowers. Be sure to do this mindfully and with sacred attention to the plant itself. When you return home, place these flowers between pages of a book. Check back on these beauties in a month or so. For more info on Artist Dates, check out: https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/artists-dates/ Thanks for listening.xo-JackieP.S.- As a special offering to Elixir listeners, I'm giving away a FREE consultation call to anyone who follows and reaches out either via the Elixir IG or Madre & the Muse IG…and if you aren't on IG (or if you are taking a social media break), feel free to just email me at info@madreandthemuse.com. This consultation call will be a way for us to chat briefly about what Ayurveda is, how we can work together to tune into this ancient sacred wisdom of health and wellbeing using a modern approach, and to answer any questions you may have regarding working together…as well as a sweet discounted offer towards one-on-one sessions for limited time. Support the show
We meet sponsored skater Seth Prevatte in this episode. Getting a later start at surfing, Seth found freedom in surfing that has refreshed his spirit and opened him up to new horizons. Thanks to Aussie Island Surf Shop of Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach for their sponsorship of this episode. Music "Feel the Connection" by Justice James, used by permission.
Fantasy draft week is here! We record remotely down in Wrightsville Beach at the spot of our fantasy draft. We are joined by multiple friends to help drink a few cold beers and talk a bunch of junk to each other regarding fantasy football. We dad rant about the amount of "prep" work we have to put in at home leading up to this weekend. In sports we ask the question who would you rather be on a Super Bowl winning team? QB, Head Coach, GM or Owner? We breakdown who we think will win each division in the NFC and to wrap the show we name our top 5 favorite fantasy football studs. CHEERS!!What are we drinking? (3:04)Dad Rant (12:40)Dad Joke (20:51)Who would you rather? (21:38)Fantasy Football League Trash Talk (28:41)NFC Breakdown (34:50)Top 5 Favorite Fantasy Studs (1:01:43)
Summer McPherson began her journey of dance in 2001 when she was introduced to Swing. Having enjoyed it so much she was anxious to know more. After going out one night to a Latin dance club she was hooked! Through the years, Summer has learned many more dances in all genres. In 2005 she began teaching various classes in Latin, Ballroom and Swing. After a move to Charlotte in 2009, she joined the amazing group, Charlotte Latin Dance and began teaching Salsa with them. When the decision to move back to Wilmington became solid, she asked Heather & Ash of CLD to bring their model with her and become their sister school, Wilmington Latin Dance. Wilmington was ready and poised for some new energy and it's been an exciting journey growing the dance community. Since WLD's Launch Party in 2012, the word continues to spread and the community is growing! Latin Dancing is the choice for nightlife and Wilmington Latin Dance is the choice to learn and connect. Summer has a true passion for teaching and sharing the joy of dance. Performing is another avenue where her spirit can be expressed. She was surprised by the satisfaction of creating choreography and was up for the challenge! WLD's Ladies Bachata Team has been able to perform regionally and share their unique style through their routines. Summer is also the Director of Wilmington Touch, a local Team that is a branch of the internationally known, Island Touch Dance Academy. It is an honor for her to have been chosen to represent and direct a Team here in Wilmington that is a part of a worldwide network of over 65 Touch Teams. Along with dance, Summer also enjoys drawing, painting and traveling. Her husband is one with crazy ideas as well and owns King Neptune Restaurant; an awesome restaurant in Wrightsville Beach. She also has two daughters with self-expression and crazy all their own! Register for the WiLD Coed Edition, October 15-17, 2021 here: https://www.facebook.com/events/362452028818351 (https://www.facebook.com/events/362452028818351) Wilmington Latin Dance website for lessons and other upcoming social events: http://www.wilmingtonlatindance.com/ (http://www.wilmingtonlatindance.com/) Online dance lessons here: https://www.567anddance.com/ (https://www.567anddance.com/)
We meet Ellie & Cason, two Cali girls that regularly surf the cold waters North of San Francisco. Their love for surfing got started at a surf camp at Wrightsville Beach, NC. This episode sponsored by: PT by the Sea. www.ptbythesea.comIf you like the podcast and would like to contribute please feel free to visit www.buymeacoffee.com/mywave and buy us a coffee
Something is stirring in the woods around Secaucus and bubbling to the top in Bridgewater. The New Jersey Devil is a story as old as the state itself, and it's been used to freak out kids since day one. John and Jake dive deep into the history of the Jersey Devil story.But first, the beer!Jake wonders just who the hell Wrightsville Beach think they are to declare themselves the new arbiters of Pale Ale when he samples the Sun Days Wrightsville Beach Pale Ale by Flying Machine Brewing Company.John goes from high to low when he samples the Hi-Pitch Mosaic IPA by Hi-Wire Brewing.If you want to skip the beer, jump to 18:00 and head down to the shore.Find us on Patreon for some special Behind the Scenes content and where we'll be launching our second weekly show later this summer:https://www.patreon.com/brewluminatipodcastChat With Us on Discord! For Real, We're Always There Planning Episodes and Want to Chat About What You Think:https://discord.gg/3u7gXVuvvDStare at us on Instagram - It's Worth It, We Do Short Beer Reviews Over There:https://www.instagram.com/brewluminatipodcast/Follow Us on Untappd! We don't know how to link you, but if you find us, it's awesome!Want a free sticker? Send us your address!
In this episode, artist Sean Ruttkay speaks with legendary surf photographer D.J. Struntz of Wrightsville Beach, NC. Struntz is an internationally award-winning photographer who has traveled the globe to over 50 countries as a staff photographer for Surfing Magazine, Globe International, Hawaii Skindiver and has appeared on NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, and FOX. In this episode, Struntz reviews his trailblazing career, artistic prosses, and philosophy in this hour-long educational session.LINKS:Global Surf Gallery: https://globalsurfgallery.com/pages/d-j-struntzIG: https://www.instagram.com/djstruntz/Website: https://www.djstruntzphoto.com/
From the April 7th, 2021 Program, Segment 3: The Carolina's offer year-round pursuits for the outdoors. Coastal fishing is just one of those pursuits & fly and light tackle fishing in the Wilmington area. We head towards Oak Island, Topsail & Wrightsville Beach & more with Capt. Seth Vernon of Double Haul Guide Service. Spring fills the shad in rivers & redfish & speckled trout inshore. Gear like fly rods in 7 to 9 weights are perfect for catching big fish with Capt. Seth Vernon. Vernon shares how time fishing from his skiff goes about. His skill in finding fish, making the boat work for his anglers & the common challenges for fly fishing in salt water & working on your double haul cast before your trip. Fly line management is also something to work on before heading out. We also learn about Seth's film & brand new podcast, Guidelines. If you're interested in learning to fly cast or chat about fly gear, then contact or call the fly shop, Jesse Brown's Outdoors.
My guest today is DJ Struntz a talented adventure photographer who's passion for a life aquatica has led him on a journey to unconventional places. Classically trained in marine sciences and with a curious mind DJ has travelled the Globe photographing surfers, spearfishermen and elite warriors. I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did as we go beneath the surface with my good friend DJ Struntz.DJ shares his knowledge and experiences with surfing, big waves, marine mammals, sharks, photography, spearfishing and some of the challenges and close calls along the way,
Looking for ideas about cool day trips from Raleigh? One of the things we love about living in Raleigh is its central location to so many other great places. Today we chat about 5 great getaway ideas for everyone, whether you desire a beach break, you’re a foodie, or you’re into history, the arts, or sports. They are easy to visit in a day – but there is no reason why you shouldn’t stay longer. We visit these places near Raleigh often, and will continue to do so. Be sure to join our VIP email community so you don’t miss an update. And follow our current adventures – near and far – on Instagram. For each place, we share some of the best things to do in a day, including places to eat! EP 07: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT Why we think Wrightsville Beach is the best beach in the USA What makes Wilmington – the Hollywood of the East – full of so much Southern Charm The exciting food and cultural destination of Durham and its unique Black History. The college town of Chapel Hill and how it has a very unique personality. (and of course the best basketball team!!) The surprising enjoyable rural (but moving to urban) Johnston County. Full show notes: https://thisisraleigh.com/places-near-raleigh-to-visit-hour-trip/
Coach Chris sits down with Bill Scott, owner of Set Up Events, a Wilmington, NC based race production company that started in 1994. Bill talks about how racing, staffing, communication, and logistics has changed due to COVID-19. He describes how local municipalities are critical to being able to plan and put on races and why this is impeding the production of the popular Azalea Festival Triathlon that typically occurs in March. We talk about how he produced some races during COVID-19, including a 400 person sprint triathlon at Wrightsville Beach, which went really well with time trial starts. He describes some of their protocols, including larger distances in transition areas and mask mandates. One of his most "interesting" races he's doing in September is called the Clash in the Carolinas, which is relay-only iron distance race where everyone starts at the SAME time (that's right, no handing off chips!). It'll be in White Lake in September before the sprint and olympic distance races. The spectators get to see everyone start and finish PLUS there's prize money!Most importantly, we discuss how small, local races are critical to the maintenance and growth of the triathlon community. We also talk about why it's important to race locally, and build your way up from sprint distance triathlons to olympic distance to long course races like iron-distance events. Come see us on May 2 for the White Lake Olympic and Sprint races as The Fueling Edge is providing their delicious gluten-free energy cookies and protein bites post race! Mention that you heard about us on the Find Your Edge podcast and we'll give you a prize :)On the NC Triathlon Series through Set Up Events, Tri Latta has been removed from the schedule, but the other races are still good to go, except Azalea, which is pending approval from the city. Want to race with Set Up Events in NC this year? Try these local races:Pinehurst Olympic Triathlon Apr 17White Lake Half Iron Distance May 1White Lake Sprint & Olympic Distance May 2Lake Norman State Park Sprint May 15Triathlon Triathlon Jun 5 (sprint, mini sprint or aquabike!)Carolina Beach Double Sprint Jun 19 (we talk about why this race is crazy-fun)Azalea pool Triathlon in July (pending)Lake Logan Half Iron Distance, Olympic and Sprint in the mountains Aug 7-8Lake Lure (super pretty!) Aug 14Clash of the Carolinas Iron Relay Sept 11White Lake Olympic and Sprint Sept 12YMCA Wrightsville Beach Sprint Sept 25Sandling Beach Olympic and Sprint on Falls Lake Oct 2Distance Cheat Sheet:Sprint Distance = ~1/2 mile swim, 10-15 mile bike, 3.1 mile runInternational or Olympic distance = 1.5km swim, 40-45km bike, and 10km runHalf Iron distance = 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run*new Mixed Relay format at the 2021 Summer Olympics, which is a 300m swim (not km!), 8k bike, and 2k run involving 2 women and 2 men.We also mention Set Up's series. If you don't know about it, check it out here. Basically, you get the chance to win extra prizes just by racing in at least 4 races. *Side note: doing 4 of Bill's races is about 40% of the cost of 1 Ironman race. So when you race locally, you can race more, save money, meet more people and have more fun! Want to get involved (or get family or friends to come too)? Try relays! Don't run? Try aquabikes (just swim and bike). Want to send some feedback to Bill? Email him at bill@setupevents.com and he promises to get back to you! #RaceLocal
SHAWN O'DONNELL is the greatest surfboard shaper out of North Carolina. Shawn began his professional surfboard shaping career at age 17, and is Production Manager and Head Shaper at Savage Surfboards. Shawn is also lovingly known as former bouncer @ Wrightsville Beach's famous "Red Dogs" bar. Today we sit down to talk shaping, surfing, bouncing, WCW, car crashes and lots more. Find Shawn on IG @shapes_by_shawn_odonnell Check out Savage Surfboards www.savagesurfboards.com ⚡️Savage Surfboards since 1982 @shapesbykennybriel since 72 partners with @shapes_by_shawn_odonnell since 93 Check out Fuzz Jaxx @yourmomsfavoriterapper and Jazz B @djjazzb
Kevin Gould is the founder and CEO of Kombo Ventures. Many people say they're the bridge between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but Kevin's the real deal. We discuss why he outsourced his script coverage as a young talent agent, when he liquidated his IRA to start angel investing, how "sliding into DMs" helped him launch 3 beauty brands with $75 million in sales, and how I misjudged Kevin when we first met.Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com--EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:Chris Erwin:Hi. I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up. A podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Kevin Gould:I did two things. One was I played credit card arbitrage. The second was I think I had forgot what I had in my Roth IRA at the time and I cleared the Roth IRA account and cleared it out, and then took that money and invested in startups. Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Kevin Gould, the founder of Kombo Ventures and three direct to consumer beauty brands. Many people say they're the bridge between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but Kevin's the real deal. He's also acutely aware of the value of his time. As a young talent agent in LA, Kevin actually outsourced his script coverage to his friends so he could fly up to the valley and meet with tech investors and CEOs.Early success drove Kevin to launch his own digital agency, Kombo Ventures. A key player in the YouTube and influencer revolution. At the same time, Kevin also began angel investing through a $40,000 cash advance against his credit card, but in 2018, Kevin wanted to go even bigger in digital. He began sliding into the DMs of up-and-coming beauty execs and pitching new business ideas. With just six figures of startup capital, Kevin launched three beauty brands, and just 18 months later, those brands now generate 75 million in annual sales.At the end of our interview, we talk about why Head of Live will soon be the hottest role in town. Getting called out on a Facebook earnings call by Sheryl Sandberg, and how I misjudged Kevin when we first met. All right. Let's get into it. Chris Erwin:All right. Kevin, let's rewind a bit. Why don't you tell me about where you grew up? Kevin Gould:I was born in Champaign, Illinois. Both my parents went to University of Illinois. I didn't live there for very long. I don't remember any of it. I was probably a year and a half old, and then I ended up moving to Greensboro, North Carolina where I spent pretty much my whole childhood through high school there, and so really call North Carolina home. Chris Erwin:Are your parents still in North Carolina today? Kevin Gould:No. My background on my parents. My dad is a professor of sports psychology. He also had a pretty extensive private consulting practice where he worked with a lot of athletes, and then my mom's a grief counselor. My dad ran the Sports Psychology Department at UNC Greensboro, which was a public college down in North Carolina. Then, after I graduated high school, he ended up going up to Michigan to Michigan State where he leads that department there still to this day. They're up in the cold now. Chris Erwin:Okay. Got it. What was it like growing up with a sports psychologist in the household? Were you like a big sports family? Were you a big sports fan yourself? Kevin Gould:Growing up I was a huge sports family. I think North Carolina is really known for basketball, so outside of Greensboro, you had Chapel Hill, you had Raleigh, you had Wake Forest, you had in that sort of like 90 mile radius. You had Carolina, Duke, NC State, Wake Forest. I also grew up in the era of Michael Jordan and the Bulls. I was a huge Bulls fan. It was really… Looking back it was really interesting having my dad as a sports psychologist. Kevin Gould:It's one of those things when you're a kid you don't fully appreciate it, right? Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kevin Gould:It was a little bit less of like necessarily my dad directly teaching me these things, but it was me picking up just from being around him and being around all these elite athletes the importance of positive thinking and mental toughness, because the really interesting thing and why sports psychologists are in business is primarily for individual sport athletes. He worked with a lot of tennis players, downhill skiers, race car drivers. If you're a car driver and you get in a serious wreck, that's in your head man and it really is hard to get that out of your head. There's a lot of mental work and mental toughness that goes into play. Kevin Gould:I think what ended up happening was sort of learning by osmosis and just being around all that, it really, to this day, I try to have a really positive mindset. Life in business as a roller coaster, right? So, really just being able to fight through that wall and having mental toughness is one of the key takeaways for me out of that. Chris Erwin:Yeah. I played some individual sports growing up like tennis and I remember how often I would get in my own head, and then reading a book called Inner Tennis, which was the psychology of the sport and just how powerful that thinking was. It's interesting that you highlight that. Kevin Gould:100%, and so my dad wrote the textbook for pretty much it's national use for sports psychology. I don't even remember going to the university and sitting in on the college classes and have to stop, I didn't understand. I was 8, 9, 10, right? Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kevin Gould:But the other half I really I think just picked up, again, just by listening and being present and being there. It was a super interesting experience. Chris Erwin:Was your mother in a similar field? Kevin Gould:They're both in the field of helping people. My dad was in the field of education. My mom was a grief counselor and she runs a non-profit still to this day. Quick kind of back story how that came to be. I had an older sister who actually died from a really rare metabolic deficiency before I was born, so I never had a chance to meet her, but for my mom at the time she really became like a pioneer of finding out more information about these metabolic deficiencies and helping educate other parents who maybe either lost loved ones to these or had children with these deficiencies and what was interesting is… Kevin Gould:Never really talked about this before. So, I've had this deficiency my whole life. I have to take medicine every day. I'm completely fine. I honestly don't even really think about it that much, but it is something that if left untreated is super serious. My mom really dove into helping other parents, particularly parents who've lost loved ones through this certain set of metabolic disorders. I think both of them were really, really loved to help other people. Again, my dad through the education lens and my mom's through sort of the grief support and consulting lens. Chris Erwin:Look, we're going to talk a lot about the many different businesses that you founded, but I just have to ask knowing about this condition. You said that you don't think about it often, but if you do take medicine for it every day, does that also cause you to think about your mortality and each moment counts and it's why you've maybe built so fast so early in your career? Have you ever thought about that? Kevin Gould:That's an interesting perspective and take on it I think. Look, I take medicine like three to four times a day and it's so ingrained in me, because I haven't known anything different. So, if you've been doing something your entire life, I don't know anything different than that. We can get into my drive and I think what drives me. I think maybe there's subconsciously some element to that. I don't know how much it plays in, but I mean, look, I think as we get older too, you obviously think about like what's important in life, what are you doing? What's your purpose? Kevin Gould:I think that could for sure have some play in it, but it definitely I don't think was the driving force for what drives me, but I think that's a really interesting take and perspective. I think there's some element of that that probably subconsciously comes into play. Chris Erwin:Yeah. All right. Well, let's talk about some other seeds of entrepreneurship in your early life. Did you know from early on that you wanted to build companies for a living or any other examples of skill sets that you're working on to help make you the entrepreneur you are today? Kevin Gould:I knew I wanted to be entrepreneurial. I just didn't know, one, how to go about it, where to start, what to do. We grew up sort of right around when the internet was starting to come up, but there wasn't YouTube, there wasn't a lot of information and education out there and people to look up to. Again, my parents were educators so they weren't necessarily in business. Kevin Gould:Then, I just didn't really have a lot of mentors when I was younger that I could look up to in North Carolina from a business perspective, but I feel like I just naturally gravitated towards… I was that kid that was the hustler that was always trying to start a side business. I have this memory that comes to mind. I was a swimmer growing up and the South and North Carolina, the community swim club over the summer are big things, and every summer there was this organization, it's called Swim for Cancer. Kevin Gould:The whole premise of Swim for Cancer was you would go raise money in exchange for swimming laps for cancer. The contribution of the young swimmer was go around the neighborhood, raise money, and then you'd swim a certain number of laps in honor of this organization. What it did at the time was I really was thinking back, I developed a lot of my sales skills through this, because I had to, middle of the summer, it's like a 100 degrees, humid in North Carolina, and I'm going around the neighborhood and I really had to figure out what my pitch was, right? Even though it was a non-profit, I was like 8, 9, 10 years old, I'm like, "How am I going to convince these people to give me money for this non-profit?" Kevin Gould:I remember going up to the doors like, "Hey, Mrs. Johnson this is Kevin. I'm swimming for Swim for Cancer, would you like to sponsor me?" Just through that, through knocking on 200, 300 doors over the summer, I started to sort of refine my pitch based on what was working and not working. Again, I didn't think that much into it at the time when I was at 8, or 9, or 10, but it was a really great learning experience that just translated to people skills later on in life, because I had to constantly adapt to the moment and every person was different. Kevin Gould:Mrs. Johnson was different than Mr. Jones who was the hard-ass guy, I'll be like, "How am I going to convince this guy to give me money for the non-profit? He barely wants to open the door." Then, at the end of the summer, you raise all this money, you swim all the laps, they have these awards, and then this is where I kind of learned in life like, "Look, everything in life isn't fair." Because I was like, "Man, I busted my ass all summer. I raised…" I don't know, like 2000 bucks or something from everyone in the neighborhood. I was like, "Yeah. I'm going to be the number one raiser in the city." Kevin Gould:I remember they called up the awards and they're like, "Oh, in second place is Kevin Gould with 2000 bucks." I was like, "Wait. Who could beat me?" Then, this one girl got $5000 flat and it was the check from the rich grandfather. I remember thinking, I was like, "Damn." Look, good for her, but I was like life isn't fair. It was a good… That whole experience was a great learning lesson, and then just throughout life I ended up working at that community pool. Kevin Gould:First started when I was 14 at the snack bar. That was a sales role, and then I became a lifeguard. You had to have a lot of people skills as a lifeguard, so I was always sort of training and not even knowing I was training for what I was doing today through all those things when I was a kid. Chris Erwin:I loved the story about raising money for cancer through the swim marathon. I also did a similar thing where I grew up in the Jersey Shore. In addition, I was also a boy scout and we used to sell Christmas, restoring Christmas. I remember I would take my bike out and go down these different driveways, knock on a random person's door in my town and sell them on a wreath and try and get money from them. Chris Erwin:It was like in the moment you feel awkward, you don't feel any confidence, but you start to develop those reps over time and you get better at it. Then, as you get older like sales is everything. It's not about just getting money from a client, it's about raising investor capital, getting your team excited, recruiting incredible team members to help build the vision that you have, getting buy-in from your friends and family, all the above, so what cool training you had early on. Kevin Gould:Yeah. It was amazing. To your point, every situation in person is different, right? You sort of have to in life and in business, you have to be able to adapt very quickly to the person and to the situation and everyone responds differently. For me, looking back that was amazing. I think that gave me an amazing head start and I didn't even know it at what I was doing at the time. Chris Erwin:Yeah. All right. Now, let's start to fast forward a bit. You go to UNC Wilmington, while you were there, was that a meaningful point in your life? Did you learn a lot or was it just a rapid stepping stone? Kevin Gould:When I was in high school I'd say I was an average to above average student. There was a lot of things that I was disinterested in and I'd always sort of asked my parents, "What am I learning this…" I was like, "Why am I learning this? I can't apply this to my real life?" Kevin Gould:There was always a little bit of that like, "What's the point of school because I don't think this is going to help me in the future?" I think that perspective was half right half wrong. I think I was a 16, 17-year-old kid just like stuck in school and there were a lot of elements that were helpful, but also, for me, there weren't a lot of things that I felt like were helpful for what I wanted to do. Kevin Gould:Anyways, I got into a couple of schools in North Carolina. I don't think I got into Chapel. I can't even remember. I don't think I got into Chapel Hill. I didn't have… Our high school super competitive, didn't have good enough grades. Got into UNC Wilmington, which is a pretty good school. I mean for me, what was important was on the beach. I was like, "All right." Greensboro. I'm going to what I thought was the coolest place in North Carolina, which is Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, and got down there. Kevin Gould:I spent three and a half years there. I graduated a semester early, because I got AP credits. I studied business. I think it was marketing with I think a minor in entrepreneurship and leadership studies. But, again, college I think can lay the foundation, but teaching entrepreneurship is a really hard thing to do and learning entrepreneurship through a book or a class or case studies can maybe you can learn a few things, but really entrepreneurship you just have to jump in and go. Kevin Gould:I think looking back elements of it were helpful, elements of it probably weren't necessarily helpful, but at the time there wasn't an option like there is today for an 18-year-old where if I was 18 today, for me, personally, I probably wouldn't have went to college, but there wasn't any other option back then. It was still like you better go to college and you need a college degree to get a job, and so I had to go. It wasn't really like an option not to go. Chris Erwin:Yeah. I totally agree that that is changing. It used to be, as you said, if you can afford to go to college and you get in, you go to school and that's just what you do right after you get out of high school, but nowadays there's a lot more options. I think people are more open-minded and they don't want to incur the ridiculous student debt. So, questions are, do you take a gap year? Do you travel? Do you go work somewhere full-time, and then go enroll in school with more focus or do you not go to school and maybe do a trade school or learn how to program? Chris Erwin:I think that is very empowering to our new workforce. I agree that for certain people even if you have access to college, it's just… Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Kevin Gould:What's amazing now is there's the power of choice and the power of information that wasn't necessarily there back then for everyone. I think young people have incredible opportunities now and there's still things… If you want to be a doctor, you have to go to school. Specialized things, there's no way around it, but I think for someone who wants to be into business, luckily, there's a lot more flexibility now and you've got a lot more options. Chris Erwin:Speaking of business, after UNC Wilmington you head to LA. Your first job is at talent agency WME, but you were in LA for about a year and a half or so before you started your full-time role there. What were you up to? Kevin Gould:Yeah. Actually, after I graduated, so I graduated in the winter. It was a semester early, so I didn't get out to LA for a few months after that. I had to kind of get my bearings, get everything together, and then I drove out, and then there was a little, maybe a little under a year and a half period where I honestly, man, I was right out of college, I was 21, didn't know what I wanted to do. Kevin Gould:I was in college, so I worked at… I had a bunch of odd jobs. I worked at the Student Rec Center, then I became a certified personal trainer. I thought I wanted to start my own personal training business for a while. I was like, "Okay. This is something like I could be an entrepreneur, do something at the time, which I thought I loved." Then, I moved to LA and I kind of had odd jobs for a while. Kevin Gould:I was personal training. I ended up personal training a lot of people in the entertainment business. I got a lot of referrals, some really high level working actors. Chris Erwin:How does that happen? You show up in LA, you have an East Coast network, and all of a sudden you're training people in entertainment. How does that start? Kevin Gould:I knew a couple people out in LA at the time, and I was always good at sort of connecting. I think it Myspace at the time. I was trying to just connect with people. I knew a couple people out here, and then it kind of like was anything, it was just… I think I was pretty good with people. I was great at getting referrals and kind of built like… It was a very short period of time, but a small book of business for myself. Kevin Gould:I mean, dude, I got a real estate license. I was all over the place. I was like, "I'm going to be a real estate agent to the stars. I'm going to…" I just didn't know what direction I wanted to go in, and then I sort of started reading up on the talent agencies, and then someone at the time, on the client side connected me, and so got into WME probably 15 months after I got out here. It was such an experience, man. There is nothing like going into one of the big talent agencies, and really at the time it was… It still is. It's WME and CAA, right? Kevin Gould:Going in to the mail room where you do anything that they say. It was like a crazy experience, man. I remember you get in the mail room, there's a class of 10 other people that start the same week as you, and so you kind of form this bond with those 10 people that are in the class and everyone's kind of trying to size each other up. It's super competitive, but you have to do anything that the agents say. Kevin Gould:You're not even an assistant, you're not an assistant yet, you're getting called up by an agent, and they're like, "Hey, I need you to go get me a coffee, make sure it's like seven scoops of this. Don't do six. Make sure you stir it. If it's not hot, I'm going to make you go back and get it." At the time, that's the worst job for me, because I don't even drink coffee. I'm literally trying to google like how different coffees are made. I wasn't that sophisticated. I wasn't drinking coffee at 21. Kevin Gould:You literally run errands for all these agents and you're delivering scripts to actors. You have to go deliver scripts. It was like a crazy, crazy experience, man. Chris Erwin:Yeah. When you started, you are signing up to be a yes man. People call you do whatever they need, the talent, the agents, what have you. Just within the first couple weeks, were you energized by that? Being like, "All right. I'm a yes man, but what a cool environment to work in," or was there a little bit of an itch saying, "I really want to have my own path here and this feels limiting?" What was going through your head? Kevin Gould:Yeah. There was definitely an element of, wow. The energy inside an agency is insane. Everyone's moving and shaking and there's information flow inside an agency that you don't get anywhere else, right? You sort of like get plopped into the agency and it's this hub of just information of everything that's going on in the entertainment world and you're like, "Whoa." You're seeing huge actors walk down the halls and you definitely… When you're a 22, 23-year-old, you jump in there, you're like, "Wow. This is really cool." Kevin Gould:At the same time I was already thinking, "Okay. How am I going to quickly get out of the mail room, become this and like the path to become an agent?" I was like, "I got to get out of doing this." How am I going to kind of make the jump to do something else? Chris Erwin:I think that you have mentioned that you started early work in the Digital Department and doing some of the verse like digital and influencer deals out there. What were you up to? Kevin Gould:Yeah. Slightly different though. At the time, there really wasn't that much of a Digital Department at WME. There was one person. I started on a traditional talent agent's desk. I was working with that at the time, all of the young Hollywood type… The CW actors of 10, 12 years ago, right? Those would be digital influencers now. At the time it was like the it people of young Hollywood, which is the stars of the CW or Twilight or whatever, or Glee or whatever it may be. Kevin Gould:Then, I jumped around to a couple different desks over the years, because you become an assistant, you work for an agent for a while, and then you sort of move up to different desks. I worked across the Talent Department, and then I worked across the Non-Scripted TV Department, which at the time was starting to do a lot more digital work. Then, there was literally a one-person Digital Department. I think maybe it added one more person when I was there. Kevin Gould:I wasn't in the Digital Department. I sort of started creating my own universe of what I thought was digital at the time just on my own. I think I was the worst assistant, because I was trying to figure out how do I do the least amount of work I can as an assistant and get by and do a great job for the agent, and then sort of run my side business on the side where I just started naturally gravitating towards what was going on in Silicon Valley. Kevin Gould:Every free minute I had I was reading TechCrunch. I was reading all the Silicon Valley blogs at the time about what was happening there and I started to see- Chris Erwin:This was around 2010, 2012? Kevin Gould:It's like 2011, 2012. The first year I was really just in it just learning the talent agency side of the business and I also learned the things I didn't like to do. When you're an assistant in the Talent Department, you're responsible for every couple of weeks you have to cover a script. The agencies get tons of submissions. The agents aren't going to read it, the assistants have to read it. You get assigned a script to read. I started reading these and I had to write a summary and I'm like, "This sucks, man. I don't want to read scripts and summarize a script." I actually started paying people on the side 50 bucks to do it for me because- Chris Erwin:You're arbitraging time. Kevin Gould:I was arbitraging time. I was like, "I hate doing this. It's not…" That made me really realize, I don't really want to be a traditional talent agent working with actors, because I don't like reading scripts. It's fun to watch movies, wasn't fun to watch scripts. Then, after the first year that's really when I started to get really intrigued by the digital space, and which then sort of led me to after just reading about it for a while, seeing some of these really cool companies popping up. When I'm reading TechCrunch, they raised a little bit of money, and I'm like, "Man, I feel like if they had some entertainment connections, I could be helpful to them." Kevin Gould:I just started emailing these like cold emailing from the WME email address. "Hey, this is Kevin, I work at WME. I'd love to meet with you guys. I think I could be helpful on the entertainment side." Then, on Fridays, I'd kind of fly up once or twice a month to Silicon Valley and just take meetings with these people. Chris Erwin:You're meeting with investors and CEOs, founders of companies? Kevin Gould:This was what I found interesting. I found a gap where people being young, people thought I had something of value that they didn't. I couldn't do shit for anyone in the talent agency. Like, "What am I going to do for an agent that's been there 20 years?" I didn't have a skill set that they didn't have. I would have to try to be them, right? Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kevin Gould:But I saw this gap where all of these founders and even these VC funds, they had no clue how the entertainment business worked. I was like, "Wow. I can be that bridge that sort of sits between both worlds." I really spent a year just getting to know the space, flying up, meeting with people, building the Rolodex, plugging them into relationships and not even asking for anything just to sort of build some relationships. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Do you remember some of these companies? Who are some of your first Silicon Valley clients? Kevin Gould:Well, maybe I'll cut to kind of how it officially kind of came to be, because before it was… I remember at the time I was sort of signing clients on the side. She's a really good friend of mine, Jesse Draper. Do you know Jesse? She runs a VC fund down in LA. Chris Erwin:I think I met her when I first moved to LA in 2012. I don't remember she was like on the cap table for big frame, but she was like around that whole world. Kevin Gould:Yeah. We put her with Big Frame. I signed her on the side as a client and I was like, "Okay. We're going to build out a huge digital show for her." She was plugged into Silicon Valley. She was one of my first clients while I was at WME that I like took on and worked with from a, not a company necessarily, but a person and her and I are still really great, great friends to this day, but then there were just a lot- Chris Erwin:Kevin, to be clear. The business was not through WME, this was through you individually? Kevin Gould:No. Not yet. Jesse was through WME and I signed her, I was at WME, and the agent that I was working for at the time was really supportive, and all the other businesses I was helping at the time, because I was at WME, it was really informal. I wasn't taking money from them. I was just doing it to learn the space. What it allowed me to do was refine my understanding of what made a good company, what made a good founder. Kevin Gould:I mean in the beginning my instinct wasn't as good. I was going after companies that couldn't get to scale, maybe didn't have the right founder, maybe there was a ton of competition in the space, and then at the time, I was working for an agent and the way the agency is laid out is you've got all the agent offices, and then there's a huge row of just like… You've been in the agency. There's a huge row of assistant desks and assistants all sit next to each other. Kevin Gould:I was sitting next to this guy, smart guy, worked at Goldman, gave up everything to come to the agency, and then he was working for Charles King at the time, who now runs Macro. We would sit next to each other and just talk about the tech space and we sort of share the same passion. We ended up leaving together and we started, what was at the time, a company called Startup Agency, which the whole idea was Startup Agency was going to bridge Silicon Valley and the entertainment side of the business. Kevin Gould:One of my first clients that we signed was, again, someone who's become a really great friend to this day. It was a company called Gift at the time, which the whole premise of Gift was a digital gift card app that could buy, send, sell, receive digital gift cards and I met CJ, the founder… I went to TechCrunch Disrupt, the big conference. I saw him present on stage. I went up and said, "Hey, man, I've got this company called Startup Agency…" Chris Erwin:You just approached him cold? Kevin Gould:Just approached him cold. He kind of looked at me like, "Who's this guy?" Kind of blew me off. I said, "Give me your card." I gave him my card. He gave me his card, and then the next week I called him, he was still apprehensive. I got on the phone. I was like, "Look, I can really help you out. If you could get to anyone in the entertainment business, who would it be?" Kevin Gould:He said, at the time, Giuliana Rancic was a new mom on E. Perfect for what they were trying to do as an ambassador for their business. I said, "Okay. Give me a couple days." I came back a couple days later. I said, "Hey, I got a call set up with Giuliana's manager and her team and Giuliana. Let's put a partnership together." Two weeks later, she came on as like a big face and an ambassador to the brand, and then we did a ton of other things for Gift along the way. Kevin Gould:That was one of the first clients, and then so Tim and I is still a good friend. He ultimately wanted to go more in depth with us, a single company, and that's when sort of Startup Agency kind of pivoted. I rebranded and kind of became an element of what Kombo Ventures is today. Chris Erwin:You go full into Startup Agency I think in 2012, right? Kevin Gould:Yeah. I think 2012. Yeah. It's the end of 2012. Right around there. Chris Erwin:Okay. Kevin Gould:It's funny because I think some people have very linear paths. They were like here for three years and here for two and here for a year. Mine was very like it all sort of blended together. I was at WME and I was trying to sign these people on the side and have my own business, and then I sort of moved into Startup Agency, and then that sort of morphed into Kombo. Kevin Gould:There was this constant just evolution of what I was doing as opposed to a hard rigid like, "Here for this year, two years, three years." It just sort of morphed and evolved over time. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kind of like the image that's coming to mind is a plant or a tree that's growing, and then there are these branch offshoots that might be like, "Oh, I'm incubating this idea. See where that goes. Maybe it grows maybe it doesn't." Then, there's this other offshoot, and then it becomes like a through line where the core of your career and all these different things build upon that and reinforce it, but then can take you serendipitously in different directions. I feel like that's what you did. Kevin Gould:Life is all about serendipity and that's a good analogy you made about the plants and different paths. Then, it still ends up all working up to the same place, but it kind of diverges here and there, but it all ultimately, even if you don't think it makes sense and at the moment it ends up making sense. That's life. Chris Erwin:Yeah. 100%. Startup Agency, and then I think that you take on a 10-pole client in Videogram and Cinemacraft for a couple years, but Kombo, what is now known as Kombo Ventures, which is a hybrid talent management, IP, incubation studio, digital agency, consumer brand launcher, that also really kind of takes off at the same time. Kevin Gould:So at the time there's this company called Cinemacraft. They had a product called Videogram, really interesting sort of early video product that they had an algorithm that allowed basically videos to be spliced and diced algorithmically to pull out the most key points of the video. It was mostly like a B2B sales play where you sell into studios and networks and content providers. It was part of Turner at the time had this thing called Turner Media Camp where Turner was funding startups, and so that as a client at the time, I got super involved. Kevin Gould:I was really part of like the founding member of the team there. I wasn't the founder by any means, but was on the founding team and that was a great experience to get a little bit more operational in one company where I still had other clients at the time, and sort of I ultimately realized I wanted to at that time be involved across multiple clients, and really build out Kombo and the whole model of Kombo sort of shifted into a real agency where I was looking for… Kevin Gould:The thesis was go find late seeds, series A, sometimes series B companies that didn't have someone internally that had my relationships Rolodex, know-how of the entertainment business. Go to them and have a sort of hybrid model where I would take a retainer, because I needed to get paid, take sweat equity. I didn't have a formal finance background, so what that allowed me to do was learn all about cap tables, all about financing, learning by just osmosis of just being around it. Kevin Gould:Then, ultimately, what I realized, it's like, "Wait a second. These companies that I'm taking equity in…" Because I'm super particular and I wouldn't just work with any company, they all have zero trouble raising money from top tier funds. I was seeing I had a firsthand view of how well the company was doing, because I was very integrated with the companies. I started negotiating to let me invest in the last round of funding, because at the time, I was cutting small angel checks of what was 10k or 15k or 20k to them, at the time I was taking that consulting money, and then dumping it back in. Kevin Gould:It became this really interesting model where I had a couple wins that really worked. I had some that obviously went to zero, but the ones that worked, worked well and most importantly what it allowed me to do was I basically got to make money and get a really good generalist view of how lots of different companies are run, how lots of different founders work, because they all work different. It was just amazing at that time of my life to be able to do that. Chris Erwin:Well, and I have to say, so a few points. One, that rubric you talked about, flying up to Silicon Valley, starting to get a sense of what companies were meaningful that you felt are worth betting on versus not. You started to create that filter that you likely applied now at Kombo. So increasing your likelihood of success, better return on your time. Second what I'm hearing is that early stage companies, seed series A, getting them to pay you a monthly retainer as an advisor is not easy. Chris Erwin:I run an advisory business myself. I specifically target later stage companies that have cash wherewithal. So impressive that you're able to get them to spend money on you, but then also they want results often, and so you must have been delivering to have maintained those relationships. Kevin Gould:So very, very good point. It's really hard to get startups to pay you money when they're obviously very cash conscious, particularly if they're that series A stage where paying a $5000 retainer a month or whatever it is that I was charging back then was hard to come by. What I did was I always delivered before I asked for anything. I think that's a good thing to do in just life, whether you're someone that's trying to come in a company, whatever it may be. Kevin Gould:Always deliver a little bit, show that you can drive results, and then it makes it much easier to ask for something after you've already done that. At the time, I was like young coming out of WME, it's not like Kombo was kind of I guess what it is today where it's a little bit more established and I had a little bit more of a reputation. I didn't really have much of a reputation. The only way to do that was to deliver before I asked for anything, and some people would say, "Oh, well, that's a waste your time. Well, what happens if they don't compensate you or whatever?" Kevin Gould:I look at it a completely opposite way. It always… At least, for me, it always ended up working out. Even if I didn't end up working with them, I still know those people to this day. I can call on a favor. I've gained a relationship, whatever it may be. Maybe it took me 5 to 10 hours of work to put in to try to gain the client, but that's the only way I could get them was to deliver, and then ask later. Chris Erwin:Yeah. You were looking at it from a long-term point of view, lifetime value the customer. So, by doing the work up front, even if you don't get paid for that say like 5 to 10 hours, that could be a customer for the next 10 to 20 years of your life. They can be paying you cash retainer fees. They give you access to their cap table. They refer you to other advisory clients, because they like you. You're able to make other angel investments. Chris Erwin:It's incredibly valuable to put the work in, which also filters if a company appreciates that, that's someone that you want to work with. You feel them out over time. It's a two-way interview. Kevin Gould:100%, and life is a series of compounding relationships. You put in on that work, you help people out, you do good by people, and all of that over time starts to compound to I think kind of what it is today where I feel like I know a pretty good amount of people. I've put in a lot of favors for people, if I ever need to call in a favor, I probably can. It's just this like network effect that continues to expand over time. Kevin Gould:I try to encourage all these young people that are trying to get in it for the quick money. It's just take a step back and just think a little bit about the long-term and there's other things other than like the quick hit that are going to be ultimately a lot more meaningful and beneficial to you long-term. Chris Erwin:Something else I just have to quickly touch on here. I think you mentioned this when we last spoke, but credit card arbitrage with your angel investments. So, you are making these small cash retainers as far from life-changing money, building a small business, so probably not a lot of extra cash going around, but you're putting money back into your clients, so you're like not diversified. If a client goes away, you lose your angel investment and you lose that retainer, but you're even tripling down in a way because you were going into credit card debt so you can put more cash into these companies, is that right? Kevin Gould:I'll even go one step beyond that. I remembered another thing I did, which was crazy. One was I thought, "Okay. I've got all these access to these incredible deals." For whatever reason in my head, I've never had that risk alarm bell. For me, anything I do I don't think is a risk, because I feel like I've assessed the risk and I feel like if I'm doing it, it's not a risk. I ultimately know there is a risk, but I don't know, my brain has always operated a little bit differently in terms of risk profile. Kevin Gould:I said, "Man, I've got $40,000 of a line of credit on one of my cards and I'm looking at the interest rate, I'm like, "Okay. What happens if I basically go max out this card and basically play interest rate arbitrage where if I can get into a couple of companies there's the…" The downside of it might go under, but there's the upside of, "Look, maybe it's a 15% interest rate a year, but if this thing can 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, whatever it may be, that's a pretty good bet." Kevin Gould:I did two things. One was I played credit card arbitrage. The second was I think I had… I forgot what I had in my Roth IRA at the time and I cleared the Roth IRA account, and cleared it out, and then took that money and invested it in startups. Chris Erwin:Wow. Kevin Gould:For anyone listening, I would never recommend doing that. It's not a strategy I would recommend, but I don't know. It made sense to me. It's hard to explain, because it rationally doesn't make a lot of sense and I'm a pretty grounded rational person a lot of ways, but I'm also willing to take a lot of risk. I don't know, that made sense to me. Chris Erwin:Yeah. I think liquidating an IRA, I think there's like a 10% penalty on top of that too. Kevin Gould:Yeah. I had to pay the penalty to liquidate it too. I had to pull out the cash, you're not earning interest on the money you're gaining, you're also paying the pre-liquidation penalty, but I got enough capital between the credit card arbitrage, the IRA, and the incoming revenue that I had coming in on the agency side of the business, because I was just basically paying my rent. I'm pretty simple. I wear like basic hoodies, t-shirt. I didn't buy a lot of fancy stuff and that's how I did it. Chris Erwin:In these early days, was there ever a point though where there was like a cash crunch? Every founder, and like this is me like every week, "Oh, are we going to make payroll this month? Oh, here's all the things that could go wrong and put us out of business." But you need to think optimistically. Were you ever down on your business? Kevin Gould:Luckily, I kept it really lean at the time. It was more about like, "Am I going to eat or not going to eat?" I always had enough to… Again, I feel like one of my natural skill sets was sales, so there was always enough of a client base to cover. We'll talk about I guess in a little bit the brand side of things, because when you're running a brand, a larger brand there's a lot of moving pieces on cash flow. But because I kept it lean, I was generally okay, but I had to really not live beyond my means, and also always be on the hunt for new clients and new business development. Kevin Gould:I definitely wasn't swimming in cash, because, again, I was taking lower retainers in exchange for these equity stakes, and then when there were some cash crunches, serendipitously, a company exits and I get a payout or I close a bit deal. I don't know, man. It always ended up somehow writing itself and, yeah, it was crazy. Chris Erwin:Yeah. I think that's the success formula. It's hard work having some diversified bets, and then a bit of luck where things just work out, and resilience. In those tough times not hanging up the towel. Be like, "No. We can get through this." Because all startups they just need a little bit of time. With time, the worst that can happen is you go to zero. The best is like the sky is limitless. Kevin Gould:That's exactly the way I think about it. The worst that can happen is it goes to zero, and ultimately, you learn from it and you start over. I know that sounds very simplified, and so a lot of people I think going to zero is that's obviously terrible, but for me, I'm like, "All right. I'll just from scratch and rebuild." That's kind of how I always thought about is the worst that happens is I learned a lesson and I got to rebuild. Chris Erwin:I like how Jocko Willink describes it who's former special forces and he's now an incredible executive and leadership coach and has his own podcast and much more. He's done the scenario. He goes through his worst case scenario planning, which is like, "Okay. If I'm really making pennies, then I will have a blanket on a concrete floor and I will eat beans out of a can." He's like, "That's not that bad." He's like, "I've had worse in combat scenarios." Chris Erwin:It's like when it's uncertain of how bad it can get, you freak yourself out, but when you actually get there logically, you're like, "Oh, I can do that for a few months. I can do that for a year. Sure." Kevin Gould:100%, and obviously, you don't want to do it, but you'll ultimately be okay. Then, it's just a matter of being resilient and getting yourself out of it and coming up with the next thing. Ultimately, that's like all business. If businesses can't get creative and continually be ahead of what's next, they're ultimately going to find themselves in that position anyway, so you have to constantly be coming up with new things to reinvent yourself, get creative. I don't know. That's how I think about it. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Cool. All right, Kevin, let's talk about how Kombo Ventures has evolved over the past couple of years. You've had some very exciting developments in your company where in addition to all of your agency management, IP studio work, you've now launched three very fast growing direct to consumer brands. Let's start out, what was the catalyst to evolve Kombo Ventures, and then specifically get into beauty products? Kevin Gould:Yeah. A couple catalysts, and maybe I'll cut back slightly, and then loop back into how this all kind of came to be. After running the agency side of the business for a few years, I was seeing the rise of influencers and big digital influencers, content creators, YouTubers, and thought there was a gap in the market where a lot of these talent needed to think about their brand as a real scalable business. Kevin Gould:I ended up basically starting another part of the agency where more of a management company where we were just managing and signing digital YouTube creators, big talent, and so for a while it was a split of still working with companies and doing all of the advisory agency services we were talking about, which is one part of the business. Then, the other part was managing these talent. Kevin Gould:On the beauty side, one company probably five, six years ago I got really deep with as an investor. Sort of fell on hard times now with the events, business and COVID and everything was BeautyCon, and through BeautyCon, I really saw, one, the influence that influencers have on the beauty business. Two, the scale of beauty businesses and how much they can scale. I think they were always very forward thinking from an e-commerce perspective. Kevin Gould:Then, the other we're seeing through the influencers that we were managing was like just even at a very basic level when they had their own merch business, the amount of scale that one influencer could get from moving merch. Which then led me to, "Look, I really want to start building my own brands." I'd say in summer of 2018, I had known Sharon Pak and Jordynn Wynn for a while. They were basically like the first two employees over at ColourPop Cosmetics, big cosmetics company. Kevin Gould:I slid in their DMs on Instagram. I DM both of them together and I said, "Hey, what are you guys up to? I'd love to catch up." I schlep over to Calabasas because they were working out of Oxnard, we met in the middle. I sat down. I was like, "Look, if you guys could start a brand and what space would it be?" We sort of just started talking and they were like, "Look, we think the hair space is a really interesting space. We don't think it's been innovated." You're like, "Color cosmetics has. There's a lot of legacy players, but they're not great at social content creative like sort of influencers." Kevin Gould:I kind of went back that night and did a bunch of research. I came back a day later and I said, "Hey, here's all the research on the space. Let's do this." They're like, "Whoa. Are you serious?" I was like, "Yeah. Let's do it." Chris Erwin:You were like jazzed up immediately? Kevin Gould:I was jazzed up immediately. I was looking for co-founders that… It's important to have co-founders that can do things you can't and vice versa, right? Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kevin Gould:I think their core expertise was social, creative, community building online, and so we partnered up and the brand launched. It was a soft launch, but it launched in October of 2018. That was the first brand. Chris Erwin:This is called Insert Name Here. Kevin Gould:Insert Name Here, INH Hair for short. When we started, it was primarily actual hair. Like Ariana Grande style ponytails, like that ponytail she always wears, hair extensions, wigs, lots of hair products. It has since transitioned into overall hair business where we sell blow dryers, straighteners, hot tools. We have hair color now. It's expanded a lot. Then, cut to last year there were two other brands that I launched and co-founded. Kevin Gould:One was also in the beauty space called Glamnetic. It is in the women's eyelash space. I did that with my co-founder Anne McFerrin, who's incredible, and sort of similar in that she is incredible at social, creative content, community building. I think a real visionary from a product development perspective. We launched that. Then, the third brand was called Wakeheart, which I did… This was done a little bit differently. Kevin Gould:It was done with the Dolan twins who were two big YouTubers and digital influencers. It's a fragrance and scent brand, really aimed at like Gen Z and young Millennials. The through line is that with all these brands we're like, "Okay. Look, we need to get these things profitable within six months or less." That was like one goal we set. We're going to run these things lean. I wanted in the beginning a pretty large degree of autonomy. I didn't want to raise capital. So, self-funded the businesses- Chris Erwin:Jointly funded with your co-founders or were you just contributing capital? Kevin Gould:Different on each one. One of them I funded all of it. Two of them, I think we split some of it. Then, I was bringing… Mostly I was bringing the capital, and then I was bringing all the op side, everything on the operational side of the business. Then, I'd say I'm pretty strong on the marketing side as well, and so bringing a lot of that to the table and kind of cut to today. There's these three brands running, we still haven't taken on any capital for any of the brands. Man, there's like 90 something people across everything now. Kevin Gould:The brands grew really, really quickly. It obviously has been a very interesting year with COVID and how sort of everything accelerated from an e-commerce perspective. But it's been a lot of fun. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Going back to meeting the co-founders, how did you sell them on you? Because you show up… I think you kind of knew the ColourPop cosmetics team, but getting them to launch a business, change what they're doing, take on a bunch of risk, sign up for a lot of work. How did you get them excited about these ideas you had? Kevin Gould:You know what's funny is I feel like you'd have to ask Sharon and Jordynn, but they've kind of talked about it before. I think they like did… I don't know if they thought I was that serious at first, right? I was that serious. I literally sat down, and I said, "Hey, if you could launch anything, what should we launched?" Then, literally a week later we're meeting every weekend while they're still working like getting this thing strategized and planned and going. Kevin Gould:Yeah. I don't know. I think it was just an open honest conversation. I was like, "Look, we think there's a big opportunity here and let's take a shot at this and do it." I think to their credit too, I think they wanted to start… It was all serendipitous, right? They wanted to start their own business at the time and I think we all complimented each other in terms of the skill sets that we brought to the table, and so it just made sense. Chris Erwin:Then, you also said that you brought ops expertise to the table, but you don't have a background in launching CPG, e-commerce businesses, in fulfillment, developing relationships with manufacturers, designing packaging, so did you hire a team to help you figure that out or did you do it yourself? Kevin Gould:I've had my right hand guy, Lucas, who's been with me for a while. He's awesome. He also did not have a e-commerce op background. He had a banking background where he was at the Soros fund, and then kind of like do anything figure it out sort of mentality. I kind of just looked at the space and I was like, "We can figure this out." It's like anything, right? You put enough time into it and just dig in and be curious and ask a lot of questions. It's not rocket science. Kevin Gould:We're not building a biopharma company. It's not something completely out of my wheelhouse. I think by virtue of seeing a lot of companies being built over the years and sort of being close to the space, I knew enough as a generalist to be able to go in and figure it out, but you're right. Never cut a fulfillment center, put a fulfillment center deal together, never had to run the back end on the accounting side for an e-commerce business before, but you kind of just figure it out as you go. Chris Erwin:Just learn by doing. Kevin Gould:Learn by doing and the key is one thing with putting up your own money is you are very conscious of making sure you minimize mistakes, right? Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kevin Gould:For me, I'm like super high touch and heavily involved in each of the brands and still am to this day and just the key is, it's like, "How do you scale as quickly as possible to minimize the major mistakes you make?" It's okay to make mistakes and we want people to make mistakes because otherwise they're not moving quick enough and learning and growing things, but from a cash flow perspective going back to the cash flow piece, you need to make sure you don't make too many mission critical mistakes or you'll be out of business, particularly if you're self-funding your company. Chris Erwin:Speaking of the cash needed, how much capital did it take to actually just first launch these brands and get the first product out the door? Are we talking seven figures per brand, was it five to six figures of cash investment? Kevin Gould:I'd say minimum six figures on each brand, and then as they grow the biggest problem was trying to self-finance an e-commerce brand, if you're growing quickly is the inventory constraints. In the hair space, cost of inventory is really high. I had to put out for sure six figures initially to get the thing going. But, again, it seems crazy to do that, but to me at the time I felt like I calculated the risk. I felt like we're going to make this work and was willing to do it. It didn't seem like a… I don't know. I looked at it from all angles and I was like, "I feel like this makes sense and the worst that happens is I'm going to lose my money and I'm going to have to make it up again." Kevin Gould:But the real big challenge wasn't necessarily that I was fortunate to have had some successes with some of the previous exits where I made some money on some of the agency side of the business where I had that capital to deploy, but the most challenging piece comes, again, when you really scale it and you have to continue to deploy capital just to finance the inventory as you go, and you're too early to go to a bank. Kevin Gould:A bank's not going to finance a business that's been up and running for a year. You're almost even too early to go to a lot of the inventory financing solutions that are out in the market today. You kind of really need close to a year for them just to even get them interested, and so at points in time, I had to deploy a lot more than I wanted to. Chris Erwin:Personal capital. Kevin Gould:Personal capital. I had deployed overall a million dollars. I'm not going to break down exactly which one it went to, but across everything, a million dollars of capital, which was, one, way more than I expected. That's a lot of money. I'm not like loaded. That's a lot of money. Kevin Gould:I don't know. I believe in the brands. I believe in what we're doing. I believe in my co-founders. It wasn't like the businesses were losing money. That incremental dollar figure that has went up over time is getting plowed into inventory. It's not like we're a business like some of these other e-commerce businesses that got in trouble where they were just blowing money every month and they were losing money on the P&L. This was for financing growth. Chris Erwin:I like what you said about starting lean with the six-month timeline to prove it out and get profitable. I think what a lot of companies, particularly digital media companies did when I got into the whole game back in 2012 was here's a vision for a business model that we can enter, and then here's how we can make money, but a lot of it didn't come into fruition. Then, it required them to continually raise money from investors, and then a lot of money was lost. That wasn't the approach for you. Kevin Gould:Well, and I think there were, obviously, hindsight for all those guys or women. It's like 20/20 in terms of what went wrong. I think there was like guilty parties on both sides. I think you had entrepreneurs that were coming up with self-justified LTVs of customers, and then they're like, "Yeah. The LTV is a thousand dollars of our customer, therefore, we can spend 500 to acquire them." When there actually wasn't enough data to really understand, what was the LTV? Kevin Gould:Then, you've got investors pumping money into the space encouraging them and basically adding on to that narrative of, "Oh, yeah, yeah, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow." Then, when the growth wasn't there and the LTV didn't back out, the investors were like, "We're cutting our losses. We're not in." You had a bunch of these e-commerce businesses that just fundamentally should have been run a much different way. Kevin Gould:I think the space is now getting reset where there's a lot more e-commerce brands or Omni-channel brands that are being run a little bit more efficiently. I think just the investor base has gotten, has been pushing companies to do that a lot more, but I was like, "We should be able to run this lean." you know, then you got to put up the money for the inventory, you got to test, you got to be in the weeds. Kevin Gould:In the beginning, I always tell early founders of social driven e-com brands, we treated Instagram DM as a sales funnel, right? Anyone that followed us, we'd shoot them a personal DM like, "Hey, thanks for following us. Let us know if you have any questions. We're here for you." That was like warm… If you're in a B2B sales business, that was our version of prospecting new customers. We had warm leads of people that followed us and we were actually going in and DMing them, having conversations with our first few thousand people that followed us on social and actually drove real revenue from that. Kevin Gould:It was just a down and dirty kind of guerrilla marketing style way of getting new customers on not a lot of capital. Obviously, as you scale that doesn't work as you scale as much, right? But in the beginning when you're doing 10,000, 20,000 a month in sales, it was a really great outside the box marketing tool for us. Chris Erwin:Yeah. As they always say in the beginning do things that don't scale. You learn from those tests and experiments, and I also like hearing about the story that you didn't have a specific playbook to follow in the beginning. You kind of learned and made your own. It's crazy I think with the number of e-commerce companies that are out there and you have Shopify and WooCommerce that you would think, "Oh, here's the playbook, here's how you find the manufacturer, here's the margin that you need." Chris Erwin:There are best practices, but you still got to figure it out for yourself and each talent situation, each product situation, each team situation is uniquely different. You just got to start talking to people, trying things out, and taking your ego out of it. One thing I've learned from you because you've given me some advice for some of our clients is you can have clients with billion dollar top line licensing businesses, but you know what? Start out with a small experiment which is maybe just a thousand units and see what works, and then you could build upon that and that's the right way to do it. Kevin Gould:100%. It doesn't all have to come at once. Start small and prove it out, make sure it works, and build from there. I think your point too on ego and I think everyone as an entrepreneur always have to self…. They always have to self-check their ego. You, me, everyone to a degree has an ego and I think to be a founder or a CEO or someone that's leading a company, and I'm certainly guilty of this as well sometimes. Kevin Gould:It's like you have to check your ego, make sure you're an amazing listener, right? You have to listen to everything. You have to listen to your team members, your co-founders, your customers, right? Even though you might have a perspective that you think is right and it might ultimately be right, you still need to take in all the feedback and listen and make sure everyone has a voice. That's always something that you continually have to refine and work on as a founder. Chris Erwin:So fast forward, you launched these brands, three brands within the past couple of years and you had a big moment this year. I think on the recent Facebook earnings call, Sheryl Sandburg, I think the number two at Facebook. She calls out Glamnetic as a great example of a fast-growing small, medium-sized business that's using their advertising platform. This is like you hear Glamnetic and the founder's name on the earnings call. It's amazing. I think you guys posted a video of that. What did it feel like? Did you know in advance that was going to happen? Kevin Gould:We did. I wasn't sure it was a go until the night before. I heard it was going to happen, but I still thought, went listen in on their earnings call… On those earnings calls, things get cut out last minute. I was like, "Who knows if this is going to happen or not." It was a really cool moment, man. I mean I think like, "Look, you got to celebrate the wins." I think that was like… I had a drink that night with my co-founder, and the guys as well. That was really cool. Kevin Gould:The business was super young, it was really a little over a year old. We've been fortunate to scale very quickly and that was just a really cool moment. One of the biggest companies in the world and you're on their earnings call, but you know what? You take the night, you celebrate a little bit. You're like, "Wow. That was cool." Then, you get to work the next day and you just keep building. Kevin Gould:It was an amazing experience. It's something that I think always remember when you're like as an early moment of the end, but I don't know. It's also weird because the brands have scaled really quickly, but at the same time I still feel like they're in their infancy. I feel like we're just getting started and- Chris Erwin:Yeah. Let's put some numbers behind that. I think that you mentioned when these brands like I think last year, run rate across your three brand portfolio, call it around $1 to $2 million of top line revenue. Kevin Gould:A little bit more like four to five last year. This year collectively 75. Chris Erwin:75? Kevin Gould:Yeah. Chris Erwin:That's like 20x. Kevin Gould:Yeah. It's been insane, man. It's been… What's crazy is like, again, it's definitely growing a lot, but I still feel like we're that small startup that's just like hustling to make it happen and the key is we have, again, I've got amazing co-founders in each brand and amazing teams. We have a lot of really young people that love what they do. I think they're learning a lot in these brands. It's been an amazing experience for them. They also put in a lot of hard work though and everyone's really, really passionate about what they do. Kevin Gould:We've got awesome teams on each of the brands. I think we figured out the playbook and the playbook's always changing. It's constantly updating, but to run a really strong e-commerce brand today, you have to do a lot of things right. You have to obviously be with an amazing high quality product, that's number one. You don't get in the door and scale otherwise. Then, you have to be killer at… It's like the flywheel, social content, creative, influencer marketing, paid media, retention, email, SMS, a loyalty program. Kevin Gould:That whole flywheel has to be running in lockstep and in sync in order for the brands to scale, otherwise, what happens is if you only have two or three of those, the barrier to entry to start an e-com brand lower than ever, right? Chris Erwin:Yeah. Kevin Gould:Super easy to get a Shopify site up. Let's say you own a brand, then, it's fairly easy… I wouldn't say it's fairly easy, but it's easier to get a brand to seven figures in sales, right? It's become easier to do that, but still I don't want to discount that that's really still hard to do. Then, take a brand to eight figur
Don't miss Pastor Adam's Podcast for disciples: TheBLAST Podcast SHOW NOTES: A beautifully-crafted message based on the relationship between Adam & Eve. Originally preached in a Marriage Seminar in Wrightsville Beach, NC in 2013. -- Join our bible reading plan: https://bible.com/p/21036256/5e69cf8f678bf7e81329c59d81a8a479 Want to receive text updates from our church? Send the keyword VBPH to 844-990-3380. Please let us know how this message has influenced you by connect with us using one of these options: Email: pastor@vbph.org Voicemail: https://anchor.fm/vbph-sermons/message Facebook: https://facebook.com/vbph.church Instagram: https://instagram.com/vbph.church Twitter: https://twitter.com/vbph_church Website: https://vbph.church Are you in Hampton Roads and want to visit our church? Come join us IRL: 1045 Lynnhaven Pkwy., Virginia Beach, VA 23452 Thanks for listening! Has this message been a blessing to you? Please consider giving a generous donation!
PhunnyBones takes you to heart of culinary expression in Wrightsville Beach. Chef Micheal Overman joins us in a discussion about the importance of supporting the local economy, different trends in food, pandemic restrictions and the effects they have had on our community, and anecdotal reflections of the Wilmington area. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/phunnybones/support
To listen to the interview, scroll to the Player at the bottom of the page. Learn more about coaching with Maia" ...it was a very difficult time but then you know it's when things are falling apart is when you really get a chance to make things happen so as I tell somebody when I took over the position, I'm tenured, I got my citizenship and I don't give a shit." ~Dr. Antonio Puente UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-157707")); UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-173052")); UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-205754")); Show Notes Dr. Antonio Puente’s Website Dr. Puente’s Twitter Feed Blue Mind Research and References Interview with Blue Mind instigator Dr. Wallace J Nichols on The Unmistakable Creative Introduction to Aloha Waves to Wisdom post about Aloha UNCODE.initRow(document.getElementById("script-106519")); Transcript Tony: it was a very difficult time but then you know it’s when things are falling apart is when you really get a chance to make things happen so as I tell somebody when I took over the position, I’m tenured, I got my citizenship and I don’t give a shit. Maia: I’m Maia Dery How do you feel when somebody or something with much more power than you have, knocks you down? Or tells you or maybe even shows you aren’t good enough? What do you do about it? Get back up? Struggle to not believe the naysayer? Or ignore the knock-down? Try to learn something so you can come back with more capacity and strength? When I recorded this interview with Dr. Antonio Puente, who, among other things, is an avid surfer and celebrated neuropsychologist, we couldn’t know how much this pandemic would knock us all down. But I suspect that, had we known about the coming challenges, the interview wouldn’t not have been much different. Surfing and all ocean play, after all, are practices of scanning, of seeking, of developing relationship with something powerful over which you have absolutely no control and, at least for the first umpteen years, of getting knocked down over and over again. The kind of play is also a way to connect, with yourself, with the more than human world, and with other humans. Whether you love waves or weaving, hiking or haiku writing, some kind of passionate, disciplined engagement in an endeavor that allows your body to come into nuanced collaboration with the wider world is, I believe, one of the most rewarding ways to inhabit your time. In Dr. Puente’s case, it seems to have helped him overcome some long odds and some powerful forces that might have kept him from becoming who he is now. In addition to being an inspiring surfing story this tale of an immigrant boy overcoming long odds is, I think, also a great American story. This episode is dedicated, with love and so much aloha, to the memory of Tiko Losano. Welcome to Waves to Wisdom Antonio: I’m Antonio Puente, or Tony as some people call me. I started surfing I believe in 1964, in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. It’s been quite some time. Maia: So, you were just little boy. Antonio: Yep, on a wooden, woody surfboard. It looked more like a battleship than a surfboard. As you paddled out the waves actually broke for you. ..this is not, you know, as you catch the wave, as you paddle out, as you paddle out the waves would part for you. Maia: You had a little Moses effect on them. Would you just talk a little bit about where we’re sitting right now? Antonio: Sure, this is a club called The Surf Club. It’s towards the north end of Wrightsville Beach and it’s a beautiful, small pavilion overlooking the ocean. And we’re very fortunate to be away from the wind but in front of the view...
"Never in a million years did I think that I would be on this stage tonight, and I certainly never thought I'd end up with the last name Trump," said Lara Trump during her speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention. Now serving as senior adviser on the Trump 2020 campaign, the Wrightsville Beach native is working to give voters a behind-the-scenes look at the president and first family. Earlier this year, Lara opened up to Tim and Ben about her first time meeting Donald Trump, what the president is like as a grandpa to her and Eric’s two children, and how life has changed since growing up on the beaches of North Carolina. Listen to that intimate conversation on this week’s bonus episode. JOIN THE CONVERSATION Do you have any thoughts or questions for Tim? Weigh in on Twitter with the hashtag #TyingItTogetherNC. Afterwards, rate the podcast and leave a review to tell us what you think!
Wrightsville Beach is a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. The island is four miles long with Masonboro inlet on the south end and Mason Inlet on the northern end. The island is severn feet above sea level at its highest and there is sand everywhere. Rob walked the entire island with an eight weight rod looking for the best fishing locations during the day and night. Listen as he breaks down the fishiest locations, where to eat, how to keep sand out of your house, and where to load up on some local bacon. Rob did the hard work so you don't have to. Produced by Freestone Productions Blog Images
We had a lot of fun recording this podcast episode and sharing why we resonate so strongly with the beach community vibe of Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina. Thankfully, it's less than two hours from Raleigh so we can visit often. This recording put us into Aussie mode - the connection between those two places is so great. We slip into some funny Aussie language and stories of home. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review and check the show notes for links and related content.
Captain Allen Cain joins Rob to discuss all things fly fishing coastal North Carolina around Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. This episode has it all. The gear you need, the seasons to fish, the types of flies used, and to always expect a bigger fish out there. The show ends with information on where Rob should fish and eat while on vacation. Produced by Jason Reif Brought To You By Traeger Armadillo Egg Recipe
Mason Barnes likes to surf. His specialty and focus is big waves. The bigger, the better. The Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina native has been on a board of some kind since he was 1 years old. He is sponsored by Billabong. Brett and Mason discuss what it's like to surf a 50 foot wave, what breath holding techniques and training methods he uses to prepare being trapped under water by a wave, his journey up until now, and what's ahead. If you've never surfed before, this is a great introduction to the sport. Subscribe, Review, Share! Apple Google Spotify YouTube Connect | Brett Hawke On Instagram @hawkebr on Twitter @insidewithbh On Facebook @insidewithbh Connect | Mason Hyce Barnes On Instagram @masonhycebarnes Special Thanks: SWIMNERD PACE CLOCKS: Swimming's #1 Pace Clock. Fitter & Faster Swim Camps --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brett-hawke/message
Yep, they’re talking about etiquette again. The ladies love to rant about manners so listen up and learn! Ashley and Laurel are in coffee heaven with their respective mixes and dis Maxwell House but hope they don’t offend anyone…too much. They’re mad about mooring limits in Wrightsville Beach. Ash talks about boat etiquette, a must … Episode 21- Etiquette (Part 2) Read More »
Yep, they’re talking about etiquette again. The ladies love to rant about manners so listen up and learn! Ashley and Laurel are in coffee heaven with their respective mixes and dis Maxwell House but hope they don’t offend anyone…too much. They’re mad about mooring limits in Wrightsville Beach. Ash talks about boat etiquette, a must … Episode 21- Etiquette (Part 2) Read More » The post Episode 21- Etiquette (Part 2) appeared first on Post Session Podcast.
Michelle Fogle is the owner of Fleet Feet, Wilmington, NC. She's a super humble person who just loves running so much that she turned it into what she does every day. If you go to Wilmington or Wrightsville Beach on vacation, stop by and show your support to the NC running community. www fleetfeetwilmington.com 910-239-9410
Few partnerships in radio or television have lasted as long as the one forged by John Isley and Bill James. They met in 1980 and are still together today on the wildly successful “John Boy & Billy Big Show”, waking people up with laughter on radio stations across the country. We caught up with John Isley in Wrightsville Beach, where he spends a lot of time away from work, and asked about how he got his start, the crew involved in producing the ‘Big Show’ magic, and how much longer the show will go on.
US birthrates continue to fall, Wrightsville Beach to reopen fully today, Restaurants ad bars to reopen with 50% capacity starting this weekend, and GOP lawmakers look at limiting Governor's emergency powers going forward
Wrightsville Beach to reopen fully today, Restaurants and bars to reopen with 50% capacity starting this weekend, Average teacher salary in North Carolina jumps to over $54K, and Don Spry joins the program
In this episode: North Carolina is one of the first four states to receive federal approval for the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program to help families purchase food for children affected by school closings due to the pandemic; Governor Roy Cooper is asking the White House for more supplies and equipment to fight the coronavirus; the state Department of Public Safety has closed Johnston Correctional Institution in Smithfield and shifted staff there to Neuse Correctional Institution in Goldsboro, which has the largest outbreak of coronavirus in the state prison system; and finally, Wrightsville Beach has reopened, but what restrictions apply?
New debate on how many people have died from COVID-19 begins online, William McGurn writes a great piece explaining how we get our economy back going, Wrightsville Beach adds citation to beach trespassing, Port City Daily wonders why golf courses are still open, and many are wondering how we should be acting during this global pandemic and the good news experts say there is no right way but trying to finding meaning any way you can is helpful
Max Neubauer & Wrightsville Beach Brewery | EP20 Special guest Max with Guild Mortgage joins us for another episode in #mortgagemarch as we talk about how he grew his business in a short time frame primarily through Realtor networking. Max is a top lender in his market and almost exclusively grew his mortgage business by Realtor referral and Realtor events. We also get to open a few cans from a brewery just up the road from Myrtle Beach in Wrightsville Beach NC. Wrightsville Beach Brewery has some unique craft beer that some of us liked more than others at the table. Cheers!
Not long after graduating from N.C. State, Lara Trump packed up her car and took a chance moving to New York City. It was there she met a guy named Eric, the third child of Donald Trump, and the two were married. A few years later, Lara’s new father-in-law announced he was running for president and the rest is history. This week, the Wrightsville Beach native joins Tim and Ben to give an unprecedented look into life as a Trump. She also talks about her first time meeting Donald Trump, what the president is like as a grandpa, and how life has changed since growing up on the beaches of N.C. JOIN THE CONVERSATION Do you have any thoughts or questions for Tim? Weigh in on Twitter with the hashtag #TyingItTogetherNC. Afterwards, rate the podcast and leave a review to tell us what you think!
Jerry Lachman, aka Jerry Allen, is a very humble, low key legend in the Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, NC area. This was so much fun to record, and you will absolutely enjoy listening to Jerry share his story and his philosophies on how to run a successful establishment. Enjoy!
In 1934, Wrightsville Beach was on a high from nearly three decades of immense growth. Massive hotels like The Oceanic brought in tourists, and venues like the famed Lumina Pavilion entertained them, as well as local residents, when they weren’t on the beach. Even the Great Depression hadn’t completely dampened the spirit. It all seemed indestructible until a fire on Jan. 28, 1934, wiped out the entire north end of the island and threatened the beach’s livelihood in a matter of hours. This week on the show, we talk about Wrightsville Beach's history up to the fire, why it was such a landmark moment for the town and how it thrust the tourist destination into a whole new era. Joining the conversation is Madeline Flagler, executive director of the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History. Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram. Additional editing by Adam Fish. The show is sponsored by Northchase Family Dentistry and Tidewater Heating & Air Conditioning. Sources: -- "Land of the Golden River, Vol. 1" by Lewis Phillip Hall -- "Historical Narrative 1841-1972 of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina," by Rupert Benson -- "Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island," by Ray McAllister -- Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, wbmuseumofhistory.com -- Wilmington Morning Star Editions, January to February 1934
Long ago + not so far away a little girl sat in a tiny chair with all of the other boys + girls in her kindergarten class. Soon after the bell had rung, her teacher asked the children to go round-robin around the room to announce their plans. "What do you want to be when you grow up, Jenny?" the teacher asked. When it got to the girl with bangs + brown hair Jenny said, "I want to be an artist, a teacher + a magician." When the little girl was not so small anymore, she realized her dreams were nearly impossible. For one, it is rare that an artist, a teacher nor a writer make ends meet. So throughout high school she settled into what she thought would be an athletic career. She became a track + field captain, even played football on the men's varsity team as the only girl + went to UNCW thinking she'd go for a degree in exercise science. She did for a while until a tragic loss would put her under a tree where for a moment she remembered the little girl -- the artist, the teacher, the magician -- inside. This would change the course of her life. With a major change to Creative Writing Jenny would come back to the story of her life + the stories of others. Upon graduating she started her career as a journalist for a small publication out of Wrightsville Beach where she became the Lifestyles Assignment Editor + Senior Writer + won two first place awards for journalism from the NCPA (North Carolina Press Association). But again, money fell short + drove her to her next career in story-telling as the marketing manager at a historic boutique resort at the same beach. She had no clue what marketing really entailed. She had never taken a proper class on the subject but this is why she could take on the job. It wasn't about selling, the job was about telling the story. Clean + simple. The walls couldn't talk so she leaned her ear to them so that the building steeped in history would come to her + she could talk for them. Later, she became the marketing director at a predominate yoga studio + when that job came to a sudden halt she decided to take work into her own hands + began a creative freelance career that has turned into a creative community where she works with over 20 freelancers on both coasts to create + curate copy, websites, photography, commercials, social media, branding, ads + more for over 50 companies. Three years ago, she established White Rabbit Trips, a mindful events + retreats company that brings meditation to hundreds of men + women each year. Over the years, the group of over 25 teachers from all over the world has raised around $15,000 for charities + individuals in need through fundraisers + events. The group is not limited by time or space as they are here, there + everywhere + have no physical space to bind them to one place more than another. Their mantra is: "The only way out is in". Plans to expand their annual Soul Sisters Sleepover to other cities are in the works + Jenny (otherwise known as Mama Rabbit within the mindfulness community) is in the seed planting stages of adding events + retreats in California. Jenny is also working on a collaboration with artists to pair + curate poetry as art called Vuja De. As she pulls rabbits out of hats, teaches meditation + writes everything from taglines to poetry, it seems she has found her place as the artist, the teacher + the magician.J O U R N A L P R O M P T : Write a letter to yourself from five year old you.L I N K S : www.whiterabbittrips.comwww.itsnotmeitsyou.club deep gratitude to Jared Sales + ALLIN. for the intro/outro music www.tinkmusik.comSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elixirpodcast)
In this episode, I speak with Nancy Fahey of the Wrightsville Beach Sea Turtle Project. We talk the life span, gestational period, and migratory patterns of Loggerhead sea turtles, why North Carolina and Virginia, in particular, are imperative for the preservation of sea turtles, and why we might be seeing some really good trends for the populations of these majestic creatures. In our conversation, Nancy mentions a few resources for people local to the North Carolina area to call if they come across a sea turtle or a sea turtle nest, which I have dropped in below. Hope you enjoy the podcast! Local to Wrightsville beach: 1 833 4 Turtle North Carolina Hotline: 252 241 7367
Ever wonder how drones are used to save people from drowning? Samuel Proffitt is a paramedic,firefighter and lifeguard for the Town of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Sam has been in public safety since 2000, working for multiple agencies in North Carolina and Virgina. He received his Masters of Studies In Homeland Security from the Pennsylvania State University, Hershey School of Medicine, where he conducted extensive research in emerging technology in public safety and homeland security. He also obtained his MBA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School. In this edition of the Drone Radio Show, Sam talks about how drones are used in water rescue situations, their best use and limitations and what organizations should consider when using drones in such situations.
From spearfishing trips to exploring shipwrecks or finding megalodon teeth, marine biologist and diving instructor Captain Chris Slog speaks with the ‘Outdoor Guys’ about the underwater scuba diving adventures he leads. With tanks and suits on, Chris takes listeners through the levels of certification and the ‘lay of the water’ down at Wrightsville Beach which is currently at 86 degrees with crystal clear blue visibility. This summertime water is perfect for viewing sharks, barracuda, tropical fish, spiny lobsters, pompano, and more, and Chris tells Bill and Don how his company, WB Diving, can make all of these dreams come true. If you listen closely, it sounds like this is where Bill will be headed to next!
This week, we are dipping back into the Cape Fear Classics for two stories from the 20th century that could not be anymore wildly different. The first tells of a time when Wilmington invited residents from a small Pennsylvania town overcome by deadly smog to come inhale some fresh air at Wrightsville Beach for a whirlwind trip that made national headlines in 1948. The second is the incredible story of the plane crash in Wilmington that nearly killed legendary wrestler Ric Flair in 1975 and how it helped transform him into the Nature Boy. Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram. Additional editing by Adam Fish. Season three is sponsored by Northchase Family Dentistry and Tidewater Heating & Air Conditioning. Sources: -- "Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island," by Ray McAllistar -- "The Deadly Donora Smog of 1948 Spurred Environmental Protection," by Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 2018 -- Wilmington Morning Star articles, Nov. 2-26, 1948 -- Wilmington Morning Star, Oct. 5, 1975 -- Steve Austin Show, "Ric Flair" episode, June 1, 2016 -- "Nature Boy," ESPN's "30 for 30" (dir. Rory Karpf)
Spring 1928 brought clear skies, calm seas and a massive sperm whale to the shores of Wrightsville Beach. Measuring an astounding 54 feet long, the deceased whale shocked and fascinated the still-growing beach town like no other event in its history. But that was just the start of a laborious two-year journey to give the whale, named Trouble, a second life as a member of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences' permanent mammal collection. This week, Lisa Gatens, the research curator for mammals at the museum in Raleigh, stops by the show to talk about Trouble's incredible story, how whales are preserved for education opportunities and why their bones are best cleaned in horse manure. Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram. Additional editing by Adam Fish. This week's interview was recorded at WHQR Studios in Wilmington. Season three is sponsored by Northchase Family Dentistry and Tidewater Heating & Air Conditioning. Sources: -- "Trouble," the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Digital Archives Project (available online at naturalsciences.org/docs/Trouble.pdf) -- "Land of the Golden River," by Lewis Phillip Hall -- "Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island," by Ray McAllister -- Wilmington Morning Star Editions, April-December 1928
Going to Wrightsville Beach in the early 20th century was like no other attraction in the state thanks to Lumina Pavilion, a grand and glowing venue for dancing, music and merriment. The staple of the coast and the South enjoyed decades of prominence until cars, war and rock 'n' roll brought about its demise. This week, we revisit the Palace of Light with special guest Madeline Flagler, the executive director of the Wrightsville Beach Museum and History. Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram. Additional editing by Adam Fish. Recorded at WHQR in downtown Wilmington. A StarNews Media Production. This season is sponsored by Northchase Family Dentistry. Sources: "Wrightsville Beach: A Pictorial History," by Greg Watkins and the Wrightsville Beach Preservation Society "Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island," by Ray McAllister Cape Fear Museum archive photos Wrightsville Beach Museum of History exhibit UNC-TV’s “Lumina: Remembering the Light,” PBS, 1999
DreZ brings some beers for the beach to drink with Huck! See what they think.
More Wrightsville beach Brewing's beers.
Plenty of legends speak of pirates around these parts in the days when they sailed the high seas, but what's the truth? This week, we start with the legend of a supposed treasure island right off Wrightsville Beach, aptly dubbed Money Island. Then, underwater arcaheologist John "Billy Ray" Morris III joins to discuss fact vs. fiction on the Cape Fear's history with piracy. Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram. Additional editing by Adam Fish. Recorded at WHQR in downtown Wilmington. A StarNews Media Production. This season is sponsored by Northchase Family Dentistry. Sources: "Money Island," Andrew J. Howell "Land of the Golden River: Historical Events and Stories of Southeastern North Carolina and the Lower Cape Fear, Vol. 1," by Lewis Philip Hall "The Inner Islands," by Bland Simpson "Stories of Old Wilmington and Cape Fear," by Louis T. Moore "The Legend of Money Island" in Wrightsville Beach Magazine, by Susan Taylor Block "The Coastal Chronicles, Vol. 1," edited by Jack E. Fryar Jr.
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From The Fayetteville Observer Hurricane Florence came ashore in Wrightsville Beach before 8 a.m. on Friday. It had become a Category 1 storm by that time with maximum sustained winds at 90 mph, according to the National Weather Service. As expected, Florence is bringing lots of rain and massive power outages throughout Gatehouse Media coverage areas.
"General Gridiron" returns with his Week 3 predictions for college football. We have a firsthand report from Wrightsville Beach, N.C., where the eye of Hurricane Florence passed Friday morning. And host Jon Rawl shares info on onion sausage, a delicacy in his native Saxe Gotha.
"General Gridiron" returns with his Week 3 predictions for college football. We have a firsthand report from Wrightsville Beach, N.C., where the eye of Hurricane Florence passed Friday morning. And host Jon Rawl shares info on onion sausage, a delicacy in his native Saxe Gotha.
Bill and Mike Kicked-Off your Weekend with Hurricane Florence EYE Hit Wrightsville Beach, NC-CAT 1 Storm-Indians Magic Number 2-Can Clinch Tonight or Saturday-Browns VS Saints-Buckeyes VS TCU-Staycation-Weekend Movies-TSO Interview-Jeff Plate
When a blockade runner went up in flames off Wrightsville Beach in February 1864, a legend was born about what may have gone down with the ship. Specifcally, a fabled gold and jewel sword bound for Gen. Robert E. Lee from his supporters in Britain. Was the sword real? Histroian Chris E. Fonvielle Jr. joins to discuss in this episode of "Cape Fear Unearthed," a StarNews Media-produced podcast that digs into the history books of Southeastern North Carolina. Cape Fear Unearthed is written, edited and hosted by Hunter Ingram. Additional editing by Adam Fish. A StarNews Media Production. Sources: "The Blockade Runner Fanny and Jenny and her Legendary Gold Sword" by Chris E. Fonvielle Jr., Wirghtsville Beach Magazine, Feb. 2016 "Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island" by Ray McAllister "Stories Old and New of the Cape Fear Region" by Louis T. Moore
In today’s episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast, we talk to David Chandler about running across America and wilderness therapy. When we first learned about David, we had a lot of questions. Did he run or walk across America? Did he do it consecutively? Was it self-supported? What was going on with this guy to give him the tenacity to do it? After hopping on the phone for a quick conversation, we quickly learned the David had a lot of strength both in his running abilities and character that we knew we wanted to share with you. From the planning that took place, to the logistics around food and accommodation, to his hopes of bringing attention to wilderness therapy, there are lessons to be taken away from this episode that can show almost anyone that if you want something badly enough, it is indeed possible. David is a plant-based ultramarathoner. His passions are running, nature and helping others. For the last three years, he has worked as a wilderness therapy guide at SUWS of the Carolinas with kids with mental health and substance abuse struggles. SUWS helps empower kids through the lens of nature and teaches communication and coping skills. As you will hear, David recently spent time running across America. He ran 2900 miles across America from Santa Monica, CA to Wrightsville Beach, NC to raise money for scholarships for low-income students to attend SUWS. He has raised $11,000 so far. David continues to run ultramarathons to raise money for these kids he still works with. In this episode we discuss: David Chandler Running for punishment running Becoming Plant-Based Paleo Ultra and endurance sports Running across America From California to North California The baby stroller Food The deeper meaning Wilderness guide Nature heals people Recovery Actionable tips for helping yourself and others Links to things we mentioned: Thank you to our sponsor . They make drinking mushrooms delicious and easy with a variety of superfood beverages from coffees to matcha to hot cocoa and more! Visit and enter the promo code “planttrainers” for 15% off on your order! David Chandler – , David’s David’s Thank you to this month’s Patrons for supporting us on : “Joe” Millie Pearson Mary Lou Fusi Carmen Fanous Emily Iaconelli Spanish Armada Michele Olender Don’t forget to contact us at with your question for our Plant Trainers Facebook Lives! We hope you enjoyed this podcast! Please take a moment and – we would be grateful! This will help get our podcast out to others who may enjoy it. We promise to read your reviews and consider your feedback. This show is for you. Please subscribe to The Plant Trainers Podcast on , , or so you will know when we release a new episode. We’re also available to and ! Help us by spreading the news about our totally awesome Podcast! Click for a list of our services
Hosts: Krista Voda & Kyle Petty in Stamford. Steve Letarte & Landon Cassill from Burton’s Garage. · Today, we get set for racing’s biggest weekend with the NASCAR America Motorsports Special! We’ll have full reports from Charlotte Motor Speedway, where NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600, goes down on Sunday night. Also: Will the ‘600’ produce another first-time winner after Austin Dillon’s breakthrough last May? · The IndyCar on NBC crew recaps Indianapolis 500 Carb Day from the Brickyard. Danica Patrick’s last ride, Ed Carpenter’s quest to win at his home track, and Sebastien Bourdais’ amazing comeback are just some of the stories they’re following ahead of Sunday afternoon’s ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing.’ · Our ‘Mission 600’ series - showcasing NASCAR drivers and the members of our country’s Armed Forces - concludes today with Alex Bowman visiting the U.S. Coast Guard at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to get a glimpse of the “Coastie” Life. · Plus: Kyle Petty jumps into the NBC Sports iRacing Simulator to explain all the things that can take away a driver’s focus in the Coca-Cola 600.
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Kent, Kirsten and Ben were together in Wrightsville Beach, NC and used the opportunity to talk together about Kirsten's gender discrimination tort claim notice and eventual departure from West Linn, Oregon. They talk about discrimination, the step-by-step process to stand up for yourself, and Kirsten's transition from local government practitioner to ELGL Executive Director.
This week's show looks back at some of our favorite stories from 2015; such as standup paddleboarding in Wrightsville Beach, Seagrove Pottery, the Town Pump in Black Mountain, Juju Asian Tapas in Durham and The Nightbell Restaurant and Lounge in Asheville.
In this week's podcast, I give Valentine's Day travel ideas that are within driving distance of the Piedmont Triad. I highlight places like Wrightsville Beach, Mambo Grill & Tapas and the Biltmore House in Asheville. Locations: Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, John Nesbitt Loop, Fish House Grill, Hops Supply Co., Webb Road Flea Market, Mambo Grill & Tapas, Salisbury, Biltmore House, Asheville, Biltmore Village, the Corner Kitchen and the Blackbird Restaurant. Music: "RetroFuture Nasty" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
On July 23, 2009, Ray McAllister delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks." The Outer Banks have enticed Virginians with the lure of sun, sky, and sea for generations. Despite this idyllic appeal, these once-isolated barrier islands have also witnessed a turbulent past. Pirates, hurricanes, shipwrecks, and U-boats all make their appearance in the varied story of the Outer Banks. Ray McAllister, an award-winning former Richmond Times Dispatch columnist, has become the established chronicler of coastal North Carolina with his latest volume on Hatteras, which follows earlier books on Wrightsville Beach and Topsail Island. (Introduction by Paul A. Levengood) The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
On August 8, 2013, Ray McAllister delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks." The Outer Banks have enticed Virginians with the lure of sun, sky, and sea for generations. Despite this idyllic appeal, these once-isolated barrier islands have also witnessed a turbulent past. Pirates, hurricanes, shipwrecks, and U-boats all make their appearance in the varied story of the Outer Banks. Ray McAllister, an award-winning former Richmond Times Dispatch columnist, has become the established chronicler of coastal North Carolina with his latest volume on Ocracoke, which follows earlier books on Hatteras Island, Wrightsville Beach, and Topsail Island. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
This week's show explores downtown Concord, grabs some air at Hexagon Wake Park in Benson, visits Discovery Place Kids in Rockingham, sample wine at Gregory Vineyards in Angier and Deborah Holt Noel checks out all the things to do in Wrightsville Beach.
This week's show takes us on a culinary bike tour in Beaufort, visits the Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, rides the historic carousel at Burlington City Park, samples wine at Shadow Springs Vineyard and Deborah Holt Noel tours Wrightsville Beach.
This week's show takes us on a boat tour of the Cape Fear River, celebrates the bard with the Montford Park Players in Asheville, previews the Brevard Music Festival, goes gem panning at Castle McCulloch in Jamestown, and tours the Blockade-Runner Resort in Wrightsville Beach.
This week's show takes us on a boat tour of the Cape Fear River, celebrates the bard with the Montford Park Players in Asheville, previews the Brevard Music Festival, goes gem panning at Castle McCulloch in Jamestown, and tours the Blockade-Runner Resort in Wrightsville Beach.
On July 23, 2009, Ray McAllister delivered a lecture entitled "Hatteras Island: Keeper of the Outer Banks." The Outer Banks have enticed Virginians with the lure of sun, sky, and sea for generations. Despite this idyllic appeal, these once-isolated barrier islands have also witnessed a turbulent past. Pirates, hurricanes, shipwrecks, and U-boats all make their appearance in the varied story of the Outer Banks. Ray McAllister, an award-winning former Richmond Times Dispatch columnist, has become the established chronicler of coastal North Carolina with his latest volume on Hatteras, which follows earlier books on Wrightsville Beach and Topsail Island. (Introduction by Paul A. Levengood)
On August 8, 2013, Ray McAllister delivered a Banner Lecture entitled "Ocracoke: The Pearl of the Outer Banks." The Outer Banks have enticed Virginians with the lure of sun, sky, and sea for generations. Despite this idyllic appeal, these once-isolated barrier islands have also witnessed a turbulent past. Pirates, hurricanes, shipwrecks, and U-boats all make their appearance in the varied story of the Outer Banks. Ray McAllister, an award-winning former Richmond Times Dispatch columnist, has become the established chronicler of coastal North Carolina with his latest volume on Ocracoke, which follows earlier books on Hatteras Island, Wrightsville Beach, and Topsail Island.
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