My guest this week is Bill Courtney. Bill is the CEO and founder of Classic American Hardwoods, a global company. An 80 Million a year global lumber company based out of Memphis, TN. Bill goes into his tough upbringing, selling cars, learning from legendary entrepreneurs, risk, his Faith, marriage, and everything entrepreneurship plus so much more.
My guest this week is Ryan Pryor. Ryan is an educator with Crosstown High School based out of Memphis, Tennessee.
The Public School system in the United States is broken. To better understand this, I did a podcast with an educator who’s not scared to do something different.
My guest this week is Danny Palo. Danny is the CEO of Vital Records Control. This company started in 1988 at $300,000.00 in annual revenue and today is at $300,000,000.00. Windjammer Capital now owns VRC and is in 80 markets with 2,000 employees.
My guest this week is Andy Heck. Andy is the Co-owner and President of Alpin Haus, an outdoor recreation powerhouse out of Amsterdam, New York.
My guest this week is entrepreneur and founder of Alma Del JaguarMcCauley Williams. McCauley, a former corporate attorney and C.E.O. of Bluenote Bourbon and he went all in on this new tequila company earlier this year.
My guest today is Bill Proctor. Bill is the President of Nexair. Nexair has been one of the largest independent packaged gas distributors in the United States and has a rich 73-year history. In early 2023, Nexair was acquired by Linde, the thirty-three billion dollar global multinational chemical company.
Today’s podcast is one I produced for one of the largest privately owned orthopaedic organizations in the United States. Campbell Clinic is based out of Memphis, Tennessee, and has been a leader nationally and internationally in orthopaedics since 1909. And my guest this week is their Chief of Staff, Dr. Frederick Azar.
My guest today is Oscar Subirats. Oscar is the President of College Prospects of America, a company that has helped over 35,000 students get an education and play college sports in the United States. Many of these students are international students, and as you’ll hear, Oscar grew this company into Mexico and Latin America.
My guest this week is the CEO of the nation’s largest three-service municipal utility service Doug McGowen. Doug’s background includes Former Top Gun Pilot, Navy Captain, the City of Memphis COO (plus more stops along the way), and now CEO of MLGW.
My guest today is Shane Young. Shane co-founded Memphis Inner City Rugby and is a former Teach for America Educator. After working in the inner city school system and knowing there had to be a better way, Shane and his co-founder launched Memphis Inner City Rugby from scratch. As you’ll hear in this interview, they’ve put everything they’ve had into this work.
My guest today is Candace Steele Flippin, DM. Candace is currently the chief communications officer for Acuity Brands- a 4 Billion dollar revenue organization, and previously served as Chief Communications Officer of First Horizon Bank, a 3.49 Billion dollar revenue bank. Acuity has 11,500 employees, and First Horizon has 7,000 plus employees.
My guest this week is Memphis Fire, Chief Gina Sweat. Chief Sweat was selected to be the first female director of fire services in Memphis, TN, and there were only a handful of female fire chiefs nationally when she was selected.
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