218 - Dee Leads The Race

Armed with a refuse to lose sprit, the flexibility of Gumby, and some wise words from her father, Dee has raced to the top of several high performance organizations, including a stint leading revolutionary work at NASCAR.  She shares her story.

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Dee Jetton is the Chief Operations Officer for K2 Scientific, a medical refrigeration and cold-storage solution provider for the life science industry. The company has doubled its revenue year over year for the past 3 years and is one of Charlotte, NC's top 50 fastest growing companies for 2021. The company's mission is to disintermediate the life science cold storage market by selling directly to the end-user via e-Commerce avoiding traditional distribution channels.

Helping break barriers is a theme in Dee's 30+ year career. She founded Health & Sport Works, Inc in 1989. Starting as a sole proprietor, she, an exercise physiologist by training, was Charlotte's first official personal trainer. By 1991 her company had grown to more than a dozen trainers and became the first company to introduce health and fitness services to NASCAR drivers and their pit crews. Training the likes of Dale Earnhardt, Alan Kulwicki, Mark Martin, she and her team laid the groundwork for NASCAR'S transformation to a big-league, professional approach to health and fitness for drivers and over the wall crew members. Over the next 23 years, her company grew to more than 300 employees, and services expanded to broad scope wellness services to individuals, major industry, and government entities in multiple states.

Dee is a mother of two young men, 21 and 23, She is an active mentor to young professionals, and a member of the National COO Forum. She also sits on the board of the Frankie Mae Foundation., Having cared for aging parents, the foundation's mission is near and dear to her heart.

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You can connect to Dee through LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dee-jetton-6500a928

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Music used in this episode supplied by filmmusic.io under standard license (https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)

• Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop
• Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet
• Roll The Intro by Alexander Nakarada - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4793-roll-the-intro
• Loopster by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopster
• Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende® - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/555-total-happy-up-and-sunny
• Summer by Liron - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6907-summer

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