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Marty Gründer Did So Well Developing His Business He's Now Coaching Others on Developing Theirs from 2023-12-11T13:30

Marty Grunder began Grunder Landscaping in 1984 as he was making his way through college, running it from his dorm room to pay his bills. Today it's...

A Career In Home Improvement in Front of the Camera&Mic. Danny Lipford of Today's Homeowner Removes His Tool Belt from 2023-12-04T13:30

Danny Lipford started in TV in Mobile, Alabama, taking calls in the studio about home repairs to fuel his home remodeling business. Upon...

What Does Your Accent Say About You? How Important Is It to Your First Impression? Professor Paul Reed and I Discuss. from 2023-11-27T13:30

University of Alabama Professor Paul Reed, PhD is the Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Despite the heady t...

Plastic Surgery Is Evolving Quickly. Dr Chris Park Shares What's New. from 2023-11-20T13:30

Only 187 medical students nationwide graduate into platic surgery any given year. It's an elite field and those that populate it are constantly curious about new procedures, new products, and be...

Managing and Controlling the Vital Documents of Our (And Our Family's) Lives. Martha Underwood Invented a Solution. from 2023-11-13T13:30

Martha Underwood's father fell when helping a neighbor clean up after a hurricane. He was in Florida and for a while he was incapacitat...

Stanford Professor and Kaiser Permanente Hospital Executive Robert Pearl discusses AI and the Future of Medicine from 2023-11-06T13:30

AI was predicted to change medicine a long time ago. Little happened. Robert Pearl believes that time has come. A Listen

Doing What You Love and Trying to Get Noticed: Kate Teague is Fighting for Attention In the Nashville Music Scene from 2023-10-30T12:30

Kate Teague is committed to making music. She can't help it; it's what she does. She lives in the hyper-comptitive music scene of Nashville wh...

If You Could Pick a Career Based in What you Enjoyed and What You Were Good At, What Would You Do? from 2023-10-23T12:30

Friend of What's Working, Brent Barkin, is back to update us on his journey. After selling the family business about sixteen months ago, ...

"Begin." A Simple Message from Consultant, Author, and Business Leader Joe Calloway. from 2023-10-16T12:30

It's simple. To do anything you must begin. Joe Calloway understands that one of the many barriers to success for an entrepreneur or ...

AI + Logistics. Shashank Rao Leads Auburn University's Harbert College of Business in Combining the Two from 2023-10-09T16:04

AI is changing everything it touches. Why not supply chains and logistics, too? Shashank Rao leads teams of students working...

Bringing a Better Beef to Your Table - Joey Mason of Mason Hills Farms Saw A Need for a High-end, Premium Product from 2023-10-02T12:30

Not being beholden to tradition or industry norms has helped Joey Mason make Mason Hills Farms a premium provider of beef for the discerning consumer...

The Art of Leading a Team of Craftsmen - Hastings Read Runs a High-End Custom Woodworking Shop from 2023-09-25T12:30

A circuitous route delivered Hastings Read from England to Mobile, Alabama where he learned custom woodworking after a successfu...

Commercial Insurance, Cold Calling, and Brian Tanner - Explanations on Rate Increases and Old School Sales from 2023-09-18T12:30

If you buy commercial insurance you've certainly noticed the rate increases. Brian Tanner is Managing Principal at Listen

Expertly Keeping Employees in Historically High Turnover Jobs - Panini Pete&Cheryl Blohme of PP Hospitality Group from 2023-09-11T12:30

Foodservice is typically full of high turnover. Unless you work for PP Hospitality Group. Listen

Revealing Insights into the Labor Market - Elizabeth Crofoot, an Economist with Lightcast, and I Dig Deep from 2023-09-04T13:47

There is a big difference between a skills shortage and a labor shortage. Employers used to worry about lack of applicable skills. Today employers just need people with some of the skills demand...

Inside Out Marketing - The Basics Of Marketing Your Business with Gayle Rogers of The Atomic Agency from 2023-08-28T12:30

There are basics to marketing your business. Before business owners get into the weeds of fancy marketing tactics, they need to make sure the basics are covered. Gayle Rogers of The Atomic Agenc...

Sports Tourism is Big Business. Joel Lamp is the Sports Manager for the Huntsville CVB. from 2023-08-21T12:30

Sports Tourism draws athletes and their families from hundreds of miles to destinations where they can compete. Joel Lamp is the Sports Manag...

Fear of Failure Drove Alan Clark to Grow His Father's Security Firm - DSI Security - into a 33 State Enterprise from 2023-08-14T12:30

Started by a retired sheriff hired to protect construction on a nuclear power plant near Dothan, Alabama, DSI Security Services now has operations in thirty-three states and 5400 employees. Alan...

Keys to Successful Proposals - Jason Cohen, Exec Director at Accor Hotels Walks us Through His Strategy from 2023-08-08T11:07

The proposals are worth millions of dollars each. The clients are major global companies trying to impress cllients, thank teams, generate sales. The proposal has to be right. It has to be good....

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians Went from An Impoverished Tribe to Owning 42 Active and Different Businesses from 2023-07-31T12:30

This month's Business Alabama Magazine interview features Stephanie Bryan, the Chairwoman of the <...

Finding and Keeping Employees: Dr. Josh Duplantis Shares Best Practices in the Tricky Employment Market from 2023-07-25T11:11

Finding and keeping good employees today is very hard. The shortages driven by the Baby Boomer retirement have begun making their mark in the workplace. And even as populous as the Millennials a...

Casey Biehl and Fat Boy's Pizza Carefully Select Their Next Location - It's Less Art, More Science from 2023-07-17T12:18

Casey Biehl is the VP of Operations for Fat Boy's Pizza based in Metairie, Louisiana. This pizza chain is growing rapidly due to the quality of ingredients and the ambience of the restaurants. I...

Philip Burton Saw a Market Opportunity and is Now Pushing Forward with Logistics Parks In Mobile from 2023-07-10T12:30

The intersection of I-10 and I-65, the Port of Mobile, several rail lines, and the reinvigoration of Brookley Field has the potential to futher transform Mobile into one of the nation's largest ...

Matt Peat is VP of Sales of Transhield. They've Been Bought and Sold Many Times. Matt Shares How He's Managed to Thrive in Each Transaction. from 2023-06-26T12:49

Matt Peat is a Gen X'er that has never job hopped. He's been with Transhield many years and has rema...

Paul Lewis' Commercial Construction Company is a Survivor. Hear how He and His Team Consistently Overcame Challenges and Are Thriving Today from 2023-06-19T12:35

Roy Lewis Construction has a reputation for quality building and adding value for customers. It's this reputation that has kept them going when tim...

Trey Langus Finds Businesses to Sell and Finds Buyers for Them. Trey Galloway is one of Trey's Customers. Listen How To How the Sale and the Purchase of a Business Works. from 2023-06-12T12:30

What are the details - the nitty-gritty - of finding a business to buy, valuing it, and finding a buyer? Trey Langus works for Transworld Busin...

Brad Davidson is One of the Nation's Top Athletic Trainers. One of his Niche Clients are Busy and Stressed Executives. from 2023-06-05T12:30

Water, walks, and sleep. Those were the three biggest points that stood out when I heard Brad Davidson speak at a recent corporate event. He's trained athletes ranging from high school football ...

My 18yo Son Shares His Generation's View of Work and Leadership. Plus a High Schooler's Review of Taylor Swift from 2023-05-29T14:41

Meet my son Spencer. A tradition of What's Working is to interview my children upon their high school graduation. He's off to the University of Alabama in the fall. We discuss what skills he pre...

A Family Cake Recipe. A High School Class Trip. A Fundraiser. Now April McClung's Pound Cakes are in Sam's. from 2023-05-22T12:15

April McClung's sons had a chance to travel abroad as high school students. April needed money to make it happen. A decison was made to use a family member's old pound cake recipe to sell them a...

ESG is Here. It's in the Background of Nearly Every Product You Touch. Kai Gray's Consultancy Helps Companies Ready Themselves For It. from 2023-05-15T11:37

ESG is not something "out there" or only discussed in political environments. ESG (environmen...

Heikki Malinen is CEO of Outokumpu. $10B in Revenue and 10k Employees. He's an Influencer in World Business. from 2023-05-08T12:30

I met Heikki Malinen at a conference in Point Clear, Alabama for his company, Listen

Domenick D'Andrea Coaxes a Reluctant Middle Age-Man (Me!) to Dig in on Social Media to Generate Leads from 2023-05-01T12:30

I've long been suspcious that social media can do anything for me. For kids today, yes. For me, a middle aged guy? Hardly. Domenick D'Andrea ...

Matt Barber and I Discuss the Future of Orthopedics as Technology Continues its March from 2023-04-24T12:30

Dr Matt Barber loves his work as a orthopedic surgeon. It's a combination of of skills that hits his sweet spot, including t...

Ernesto Perez-Carrillo is the Patriarch of the Celebrated EP Carrillo Cigar Company. And a Stud. from 2023-04-17T12:30

Cigar Aficionado magazine loves EP Carrillo cigars. And they should. The cigars ...

Customer Service Still Matters. A Lot. Pam Denham and I Discuss. from 2023-04-10T12:30

Customer service still matters, though we don't hear about it today like we used to. We know customers are increasingly disappointed in the service they receive. They have no problems blowing up...

Scot Hunsaker Returns to the Show with a Message: Don't wait too long... from 2023-04-03T12:30

Scot Hunsaker was on the show last year talking about how to prepare employees to take over once the CEO decided to leave. He has a recipe for the pro...

Sean Sullivan and I Discuss the Stroke that Nearly Took Me Out March 21st from 2023-03-30T11:41

Bonus Episode: On 3/21/23, about 8:35am, I suffered a stroke in the right side of my brain. The quick actions of those around me plus the Stroke Code team at USA Hospital in Mobile saved me. Thi...

Real Estate Update with a Focus on the Second Home Market - Angelo DePaola of The Coastal Connection Realty from 2023-03-27T15:19

Angelo DePaola keeps up with the second home market via his real est...

The Wild West of Check Fraud - A Conversation with Ingo Money's Rusty Pickering from 2023-03-20T18:59

The sophistication of check fraud is something I knew nothing about until chatting with my old friend Rusty Pickering and then...

Richard Jolly - Kellogg School of Business - and I Talk Workplace Culture from 2023-02-27T15:18

Richard Jolly believes that the only true differentiator between competitive businesses in the future wi...

Megan Owens and Live Oak Bank - A Non-Traditional Approach to Dominating Niches from 2023-02-20T13:30

Live Oak Bank is a completely virtual bank. Megan Owens serves as one of the bank's M&A experts ...

Ben Strout is Adding Second Floors to Homes and Removing the Roof LAST! It's a Patent-Pending System That's a Game Changer. from 2023-02-13T13:30

Ben Strout thought "there has to be a better way." As a home remodeling contractor, the fra...

Marty Strong is Back to Discuss Visionary Thinking and His New Book from 2023-02-06T13:30

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Patrick Werrlein and his Team Won Business Alabama Magazine's Best Places to Work in Alabama from 2023-01-26T20:58

Patrick Werrlein said his company could not have won this award six years ago. The company culture needed a big overhaul. He...

Mel Washington And I Discuss What It Takes to Start Well and Survive as a Small Business from 2023-01-23T13:57

Mel Washington is Regional Director of the Listen

Buddy Persons Runs a Multi-Faceted Commercial Construction and Disaster Recovery Business That Started Long Ago as a Plumbing Company from 2023-01-16T14:42

Buddy Persons has never seen as much property damage from a hurricane than what he saw in south Florida after Hurrican Ian. He ...

Cam a Guest on Tony Truitt's News Radio from 2023-01-15T14:20

It's a fun experience being on the other side of the mic early Saturday morning for Tony Truitt's News Radio show out of Birmingham. It was a quick chat in which he asked me to tell a bit of the...

Tulane Freeman School of Business Economist and Professor Peter Ricchiuti Tells Us What the Year Will Bring from 2023-01-09T13:30

All the talk of recession pushed me to reach out to friend of the show Peter Ricchiuti to get his take on things. Always a very entertaining guest, P...

Lauren Weber, Emmy-Nominated Producer, Sees Stories All Around Her Newly Adopted South Alabama Home Town from 2023-01-02T16:32

Lauren Weber left LA for LA (lower Alabama). She had a hunch this stretch of the Gulf Coast was home to some great stor...

Troy Whetstone, CEO of The Modern House Coffee Shop, was called, obeyed, and now serves the homeless via nonprofit social entrepreneurship. from 2022-12-26T14:50

Troy knew nothing of coffee when he heard a call from the Lord, obeyed, and now serves the homeless in Birmingham through his Modern House Coffee Shop (Listen

Jim Cox of Southern Napa Wine and I Chat Up this Year's Wine Trends of the Holiday Season from 2022-12-12T13:30

Jim Cox is a regular visitor to the show this time of year, bringing wine for us to tase (not drink, it's a subtle but real difference...

Gabriella Saab Continues Gaining National Attention as a Historical Fiction Author from 2022-12-05T13:25

Gabriella Saab knocked my socks off with her first book, The Last Checkmate. It was fantastic...

Bill-E Stitt is Still Makin' Bacon. Lots of it. And Shipping It Nationwide. from 2022-11-28T13:30

Fairhope, Alabama has lots to brag about. The biggest is that it's the home of Bill-E's Bacon. It's the best bacon in the world. Bill-E Stitt and I sit ...

Keeping Our Best and Brightest - Dr Jim Purcell Works to Retain Alabama's Talent and to Coax Others Back to Our State from 2022-11-21T13:26

Dr Jim Purcell is Alabama's Commissioner on Higher Education. Each year the state's colleges a...

Lane Zirlott and Murder Point Oysters - Extraordinary Growth Continues from 2022-11-14T13:30

When I first interviewed Lane several years ago he had about 600,000 oysters g...

RFID is a Ubiquitous Technology that We Never See - Justin Patton Leads the Research from 2022-11-07T13:30

Justin Patton leads Auburn's RFID team and has participated in most of the seminal busines...

Office Space Update: Who's Returning to the Office? Who's Not? And How is Office Space Changing? from 2022-10-31T18:56

James Lomax manages boatloads of office space in and around Huntsville. He tells me who is retur...

Buddy&Nikki Cummings - Business Coaches Who Have Been There, Done That from 2022-10-24T12:30

Buddy & Nikki Cummings have grown and sold several businesses of their own and put them in position for an early retirement if they wanted. Instead, th...

Auburn University's School of Aviation - Profs Birdsong and Witte Prepping Students for Commercial Aviation from 2022-10-17T12:30

The commercial aviation industry faces a wave of retirements soon and...

Ellen Douglas Alves is a Geriatric Care a Manager in a Society with a Rapidly Aging Population from 2022-10-10T12:30

Ellen Douglas Alves sat with my family at a delicate point in the care for my now deceased mother and calmy offered insight and options to a family nearly paralyzed with sadness. She's part of a...

Search Ain't What it Used to Be - Tim Dozier of Hummingbird Ideas Ad Agency from 2022-10-03T12:34

Tim Dozier is CEO of full service ad agency Hummingbird Ideas in Mobile. His clients pa...

Back Forty Beer Company Survived the Onslaught of Breweries and Is Thriving from 2022-09-26T12:30:06

Hatton Smith was introduced to a group of young beer brewers eager to learn and to grow their brand. Hatton offered two things: wi...

Solving the Inter-Generational Workplace Code - A Case Study of Success from 2022-09-19T12:41:57

Tanya Hart Little, a Baby Boomer, admitted that maybe there's something she didn't know. In her new commercial real estate brokerage, Listen

Kristi Bush Discusses How Social Media May be Influencing Our Next Gen Workforce from 2022-09-12T12:30:10

Kristi Bush speaks nationally about the threats associated with social media. We discuss what socia media may be doing to our next ge...

Leading Gen Z Expert Tells us What to Expect from this Next Workforce from 2022-09-05T13:22:37

Roughly in their early to mid twenties and younger, Bruce Tulgan has seen what is needed to successfully engage this next generation of worker, known...

Beau Brodbeck - Auburn Extension Specialist focusing on Urban Forests from 2022-08-29T12:30:22

"Urban forest" sounds like an oxymoron unless you're Beau Brodbeck. Beau teaches the finer points of the how, when, where, and why of trees in urban landscapes. I was introduced to him through a...

Mike Molyneux is Saving his Self-Insured Healthcare Clients Boatloads from 2022-08-22T12:30:24

Mike Molyneux - trained as a physical therapist - is now on his second healthcare startup and it's growing quickly. His clie...

Eagle Scout Candidate John Shell Finds Huge and Unexpected Success with his Artificial Reef Project from 2022-08-15T12:30:17

John Shell is an Eagle Scout candidate in the Mobile area. He identified a project where small artifical reefs could be used on docks along the Alabama Gul...

Jeb Brooks Gets Paid to Travel the World and Post About It from 2022-08-08T12:30:19

Jeb Brooks made a video as a passenger on a flight. He did it again and again and today he's left his old job behind him and gets paid by Listen

REPLAY: Sam Yates of Eagle Solar Discusses Remarkable Solar Technology Advances from 2022-08-01T12:30:01

Solar technology has made tremendous advancements. Solar panels are getting stronger, lighter, and now capable of extracting much more energy from sunlight. Sam Yates installs the panels in Alab...

The Most Common Money Mistakes Normal People Make - Arindam Nag of the Finan Literacy site Centsai.com from 2022-07-25T12:22:15

If a mistake is predictable we should be able to prevent it. However, normal people continue to make the same money mistakes over and over again. Listen

REPLAY: Marty Strong - Retired Navy SEAL - Teaches Business Success through Nimble Thinking from 2022-07-18T13:49

Marty Strong's time as a Navy SEAL taught him how to plan for the unknown, evaluate his assets, and utilize whatever was given to him. This method o...

BONUS: Cam Marston is Interviewed about his New Book called What Works from 2022-07-15T19:14

FM Talk 106.5 Midday Mobile radio host Sean Sullivan interviews Cam about his new book - What Works - and the trajectory of his now five-year-old radio show broadcast across Ala...

Blake Mobley Teaches Better Interview Skills Using His Training as a CIA Intelligence Recruiter from 2022-07-11T12:30:58

Blake Mobley spent time in the CIA where he studied how to recruit informants who would be willing to help the US. He learned h...

Dr. David Bronner of the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA) - Leading a $50B Retirement Fund and Reshaping Alabama from 2022-07-04T14:19:01

David Bronner was 28 years old when he accepted the top job at the Listen

Bello Nock the Dare Devil Clown - 7th Generation Entertainer Managing Five Other Troupes Across the Country from 2022-06-27T12:30:39

The words enthusiastic and charismatic don't come close to capturing the energy Bello Nock gives away. We had breakfast at the Listen

Marty Strong - Retired Navy SEAL and Author of Be Nimble - on Business Leadership from 2022-06-20T13:30:12

Marty Strong got tired of vapid platitudes about busienss leadership and wrote a book full of simple, actionable ideas called Listen

Eunice Mingo Helps Me Understand all the Violence and What To Do from 2022-06-13T12:30:50

Eunice Mingo is a licensed therapist. I invite her on the show to help me understand the voilence that's escalating...

How to Find and Keep a Rocket Scientist from 2022-03-07T13:30

Susan Whitfield is director of HR at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Rocket scientists are in demand these days, and NASA competes with Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson...

REPLAY: Billy Duren is Threaded Fasteners President and Chief Motivational Officer from 2022-02-21T12:20:51

REPLAY: The "Great Resignation" has not impacted Threaded Fasteners like it has other organziations. Why? Their intentional and methodical cultivation of a culture of service to the customer and, m...

Christina Woerner McInnis Created a Simple, Tech-Driven Soil-Sampling Kit for the DIY Homeowner from 2022-02-14T13:30:31

Baldwin County's Christina Woerner McInnins has made the once cumbersome process of collecting ...

The New World of Orthopaedics with Dr Ramon Rodriguez from 2022-02-07T13:30:13

Dr Ramon Rodriguez explains the remarkable new technology that is shaping orthopedics today. He's second generation orthopedist and today practices at the Listen

Derek Waltchack is Alabama's Commercial Real Estate Futurist from 2022-01-31T13:30

Described as Alabama's commercial real estate's futurist, Derek Waltchack of firm Listen

Edward Dismukes on Growth, Family Business Succession Planning, and Meaningful Customer Service from 2022-01-24T13:30:27

Edward Dismukes' father and grandfather sold fish, then appliances, then small engine lawn and garden equipment (chainsaws, lawn mowers, weed eaters, and such) in an ever evolving attempt find a to...

Alabama Secretary of Labor Fitzgerald Washington Discusses How and Where to find Workers Today from 2022-01-17T13:55:21

When the Alabama economy was soaring in February of 2020, the state's unemployment rate was very low. Today, though the pandemic and government assistance, Listen

Billy Duren of Threaded Fasteners Talks ESOP, Culture&Growth from 2022-01-10T13:07

Threaded Fastener's culture is a retention tool. Billy Duren is the company pres...

Billy Duren of Threaded Fasteners Talks ESOP, Culture & Growth from 2022-01-10T13:07

Threaded Fastener's culture is a retention tool. Billy Duren is the company pres...

Stephen Fitzgerald's Company, Per His Customers, is an "Ethos" - That's BIG. from 2022-01-03T13:30

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Stephen Fitzgerald's Company, Per His Customers, is an "Ethos" - That's BIG. from 2022-01-03T13:30

Episode 200!! WooooHoooo!!

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The Work Life of Two NYC Ballet Corps Members - Mobilians Olivia and Mary Thomas MacKinnon from 2021-12-27T13:30

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The Annual Gratitude Show from 2021-12-23T14:23:22

Michael Ledger runs Mobile's Feeding the Gulf Coast food bank. Kelly Qualls is the VP of Programs for Listen

Mobilian Gabriella Saab's First Novel is a Break Through Hit. Learn How She Did It. from 2021-12-06T13:30

Gabriella Saab's first novel is a smash hit. Her publisher, Listen

Forester Charles Taylor Explains Carbon Offset Credits, the Need for New Forestry Talent, and Who's Making Money and How from 2021-12-02T19:02:25

Forester Charles Taylor must keep up with the trends shaping the forestry business today. That includes carbon offset credits, the need for new talent and skilled workers, and the challenges of ...

Jim Cox Talks Trends in the Wine Business and We Sample a Couple Goodies from 2021-11-29T13:30

It's the annual holiday wine boondoggle. I invite Jim Cox to the studio to sample some great wines to consider for the holidays. He and his wife Carrie run Southern Napa Wines in Daphne, Alabama...

REPLAY: Educator Blair Fisher Discusses the Boy Crisis in Education from 2021-11-22T12:57:10

REPLAY: Educator Blair Fisher discusses the alarming trend of boys performing poorly in school. Boys are responsible for the vast majority of bad grades, discipline issues, and ...

Chef Jule of Fairhope Chocolates - A Primer for High-End Chocolates Just in Time for the Holidays from 2021-11-14T20:39:32

Chef Jule creates extraordinary chocolate delicacies in her shop in Fairhope, Alabama. Knowing nothing about high-end chocolate, she takes me on ...

Scott Tindle Patiently Explains Bitcoin and Blockchain from 2021-11-08T13:30

Scott Tindle's gifts are that 1) he understands the world of blockchain and cryp...

Sandifer Wealth Works with Clients to Help Build their Future from 2021-10-31T18:01

Jamey Sandifer and Marc Salyers at Sandifer Wealth Management offer a variety of services designed to steward and grow client assets to create the f...

The High Pressure Job of Health and Safety Supervisor on a Major Motion Picture from 2021-10-24T11:49:47

It's a rare workplace where one person getting Covid shuts down the entire operation. But that's life on the set of a motion picture. Listen

Author Stephen Cope on Discovering the Great Work of Your Life from 2021-10-11T12:30

I have not been stirred by a book or a message like the one I discovered reading author Stephen Cope's book Listen