52 episodes

Telling business and community leaders' stories about resilience during the COVID 19 pandemic. Produced by 97 Switch.

Restarting America Restarting America

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    • 5.0 • 6 Ratings

Telling business and community leaders' stories about resilience during the COVID 19 pandemic. Produced by 97 Switch.

    Managing Institutional Investments during a Pandemic: Cardinal Investment Advisors Managing Director Carolyn Carollo

    Managing Institutional Investments during a Pandemic: Cardinal Investment Advisors Managing Director Carolyn Carollo

    In this episode of Restarting America, Josh Gibbs from 97 Switch interviews Carolyn Carollo, a Managing Director at Cardinal Investment Advisors. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Carollo shares how the current health pandemic has affected her company and how she is adapting to new circumstances.

    Carollo joined Cardinal in September 2001 and is a founding partner. She works as a lead consultant for several clients and is responsible for non-U.S. equity research and custody research.

    Prior to joining Cardinal, she worked at Summit Strategies Group in both research and performance reporting. Before Summit Strategies, she was at May Department Stores in the financial reporting department. Carollo currently serves on the Finance Committee at her church. She holds a BSBA from the University of Missouri, an MBA from Maryville University, and received her CIPM designation in 2010.

    • 28 min
    Directing a SBA Partner Organization during a Pandemic: LiftFund Women’s Business Centers Director Tarsha Hearns

    Directing a SBA Partner Organization during a Pandemic: LiftFund Women’s Business Centers Director Tarsha Hearns

    In this episode of Restarting America, Josh Gibbs from 97 Switch interviews Tarsha Hearns, the Director of LiftFund Women’s Business Centers (WBCs), dedicated to supporting business owners, especially women and minorities, through business advising and training services. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Hearns shares how the current health pandemic has affected her, her company and how she is adapting to new circumstances.

    Tarsha Polk is the Director of the LiftFund Dallas Fort Worth Women’s Business Center. As director, Tarsha provides support and guidance to entrepreneurs seeking to start or grow their businesses, and connect them to additional business and financial resources in their community. Tarsha has received numerous awards including 40 Under 40 in Collin County, Business of the Year from the Collin County Black Chamber of Commerce, Women in the Media Award and the Leadership Award from National Association of Women Business Owners. She is the immediate past-president of NAWBO’s Dallas chapter, and currently serves on the Dallas Independent School District’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise Advisory Committee.

    • 42 min
    Running a Life Sciences Consulting Firm during a Pandemic: Trestle Compliance's CEO Steve Vincze

    Running a Life Sciences Consulting Firm during a Pandemic: Trestle Compliance's CEO Steve Vincze

    In this episode of Restarting America, Joshua Gibbs from 97 Switch interviews Steve Vincze, the CEO and Founder of Trestle Compliance, providing risk assessments, compliance programs and software for BioTech, Pharmaceutical and MedTech innovators. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Vincze shares how the current health pandemic has affected him, his company and how he is adapting to new circumstances.

    Vincze, is President & CEO of Trestle Compliance. Prior to forming TRESTLE, Vincze split his private-sector career between service as an in-house or outsourced Sr. VP or VP Chief Compliance Officer for several life science and healthcare companies and as a consultant, forming his own firms as well as serving as a non-equity partner for a “Big 4” firm. Vincze is Counsel to a U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee. He has 25+ years of experience in regulatory compliance matters, from government policy and enforcement to private sector business implementation considerations.

    • 34 min
    Launching a Marketing Technology Business during a Pandemic: LeadKlozer's CEO Steve MacDonald

    Launching a Marketing Technology Business during a Pandemic: LeadKlozer's CEO Steve MacDonald

    DraftIn this episode of Restarting America, Jeremy Greenberg from 97 Switch interviews Steve MacDonald, the CEO and Founder of LeadKlozer, a Facebook growth suite designed for digital agencies and Facebook marketers. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. MacDonald shares how the current health pandemic has affected his company and how he is adapting to new circumstances.

    MacDonald has almost 30 years of branding and marketing experience and has spent the last decade training more than 10,000 entrepreneurs on how to use social media to grow their businesses. Additionally, he’s served as the Founder of a global social media university, CMO of a Hollywood start-up, Director of Client Services for a top ten digital marketing agency, and Director of Strategic Planning for Mazda Motors of America’s agency and was trained in branding by the former CMO of McDonald’s.

    • 28 min
    Founding a Virtual Fitness Platform during a Pandemic: bande's Founder and CEO Rebecca Balyasny

    Founding a Virtual Fitness Platform during a Pandemic: bande's Founder and CEO Rebecca Balyasny

    In this episode of Restarting America, Josh Gibbs from 97 Switch interviews Rebecca Balyasny, the Founder and CEO of bande, an online fitness company. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Balyasny shares how the current health pandemic has affected her company and how she is adapting to new circumstances.

    For many people, a year of at-home workouts removed the personal relationship touch that so many of us crave in our exercise routines. Enter bande, whose mission is to strip down the overdose of impersonal virtual fitness experiences and smart machines by providing real-time, real-people connections through the power of movement.

    Rebecca combined her venture background with executive talent from Exhale, Mindbody and Amazon to bring bande’s boutique fitness experience to people at home. Blurring the lines between fitness platform and social network, bande uses cutting-edge technology to encourage authentic connections between members, their peers and bande’s renowned instructors to celebrate a feeling of togetherness in a virtual world. You can learn more about bande by visiting bande.com. Follow at @webandetogether and webandetogether.

    • 32 min
    Building an Oral Health Challenger Brand during a Pandemic: Twice's Co-Founder Julian Levine

    Building an Oral Health Challenger Brand during a Pandemic: Twice's Co-Founder Julian Levine

    In this episode of Restarting America, Josh Gibbs from 97 Switch interviews Julian Levine, the co-founder and CEO of Twice, an oral wellness company. Throughout the interview, they discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business and society. Levine shares how the current health pandemic has affected his company and how he is adapting to new circumstances.

    Levine, his brother Cody, and musician Lenny Kravitz co-founded Twice in 2018. Levine was inspired to start Twice after a life-changing dental mission trip showed him the power of a smile and how many opportunities there were to create products that help others live better. When he isn't educating on the connection between the mouth and the body, he is exercising, skiing, playing with his Tibetan Spaniel named Bacchus, or relaxing with family and friends.

    • 33 min

Customer Reviews

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6 Ratings

6 Ratings

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A great podcast channel

These interviews are so authentic , sharing real people opening up about their business and personal challenges during the pandemic . It gives me inspiration to push on! Thanks guys!!!!

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Such Great Stories During a Not So Great Time

Very uplifting and informative. It’s so refreshing to hear real stories from different small business owners and others who are being directly affected during the covid pandemic. It makes it seem less lonely.

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An Important Podcast at a Critical Time

Such a wonderful podcast and such an awful time. It is so great to hear the stories of those determined to make it work regardless.

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