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Dr. Nikki Tobias with Grounded Vision and Beau Henderson with RichLife Advisors

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Dr. Nikki Tobias/Grounded Vision

Life, Career, and Executive Coach Dr. Nikki Tobias collaborates with action-oriented people who want more fulfillment personally or professionally by providing clarity, strategy, and ongoing motivation to achieve their goals and aspirations.

 

 

Beau Henderson/RichLife Advisors

Living your own personal definition of the RichLife is easier than ever when tapping into Beau Henderson’s library of bestselling books, online tools and cutting edge courses. Beau’s message of wealth being about the quality of life and not just about the size of your bank account has taken audiences by storm. His authentic approach, fresh philosophy and more than a decade of successful client experience, has allowed him to hone his theories and offer them to eager readers worldwide.

As an early precursor to his unique philosophy, Beau completed a double-major degree in Psychology and Finance from the University of Georgia. Beau became the CEO of RichLife Advisors in 1999 where he now serves as Financial Advisor, Master Certified Success Coach, and Certified Master Behavioral Analyst.

 

Barbara Kvam with LegalShield, Jeff Tormey with SEO Guru Atlanta and Sheryl Dornblaser with Priscilla’s Cottage Alzheimer’s Day Care

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Barbara Kvam/LegalShield

LegalShield is a 45-year-old company dedicated to providing North Americans access to top attorney firms at an affordable price through individual, family, and small business legal plans. LegalShield also provides ID Shield to monitor and restore stolen identities with a $5 million service guarantee.

 

Jeff Tormey/SEO Guru Atlanta

SEO Guru Atlanta is Atlanta’s trusted Search Engine Optimization company. They deliver top ranking results to their clients. Their services include SEO (search engine optimization), social media, mobile websites, business listings, PPC (pay per click advertising), content creation, and more. At SEO Guru Atlanta, they strive to be the best, most responsive SEO firm. They work hard to deliver real results to their clients that they just cannot achieve anywhere else. SEO Guru Atlanta will work to draw potential customers and clients to your website. They will work with you through every step of the process. They will start with website design and content creation to ensure your site is attractive and engaging. They will then work to promote your company using local maps and search marketing, so your site stands out to local customers. SEO Guru Atlanta will keep your customers informed with social media management. They will improve your website’s page ranking on popular search engines, such as Google, through link building. Contact them today to get the results that you need to grow your business. To contact them by phone, please call 678-520-9925.

Sheryl Dornblaser/Pricilla’s Cottage Alzheimer’s Day Care

Priscilla’s Cottage is a social memory care day program. They provide a safe engaging environment for their participants while the primary caregivers get a much needed break. Their hours are 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday. The caregivers choose how much time their loved ones is with us. They can choose a minimum of one hour up to all day. The pricing is flexible, hourly, ½ day or full day. Lunch and snacks are provided as well as hydration throughout the day.

John Orr with Ceridian, Cappi Arneson with Foster & Whitmer Insurance Agency, and Stephanie Duncan with Etiquette Excellence

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John Orr/Ceridian

At Ceridian, they create innovative technology that organizations around the world use to attract, develop, manage and pay their people. Their award-winning Dayforce solution helps their customers manage compliance, make better decisions, build great teams and drive engagement with their employees. Ceridian has solutions for organizations of all sizes. Ceridian. Makes Work Life Better™.

Cappi Arneson/Foster & Whitmer Insurance Agency

Established in 1976, Foster & Witmer specializes in all types of insurance coverage with a focus on hard to place risks. If you or someone you know is having a difficult time with their insurance, give them a call. Their ability to shop your coverage with several companies allows for the best results in the marketplace.

Stephanie Duncan/Etiquette Excellence

Etiquette Excellence provides professional development to K-12, college and beyond

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Patrick & Kelly Kelkenberg with Duluth Fit Body Boot Camp and Michael Hall with The Milner Group

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Bob Patrick and Kelly Kelkenberg/Duluth Fit Body Boot Camp

Introducing the Fit Body Forever program – a fitness program designed for adults 55+ years old and Baby Boomers who want greater health, better physical function, and to stay fit and active for
the long haul.

Michael Hall/The Milner Group

The Milner Group is dedicated to helping financial advisers and insurance professionals protect their clients. They provide a wide range of risk management services including; Life Insurance, Annuities, Long Term Care, and Disability Insurance. Milner’s role is to help each adviser find the very best solution for their individual client. They believe that protecting families and businesses from the turmoil that follows death or disability is essential, and they work hard to help their advisers and agents take care of their clients. Risk Management is a very important part of any financial plan but it is very often overlooked. In life just like in sports it is important to play offense and defense and we serve a vital role in making sure business owners and families have the best defense possible.

Scott Phelan with Morgan Stanley and David and Bobby Kim with Breakers Korean BBQ

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Scott Phelan/Morgan Stanley

Scott Phelan has over 20 years of financial advising and planning experience. Currently, he is Senior Vice President, Portfolio Management Director & Financial Advisor, with Morgan Stanley where his focus is wealth building for high net worth individuals and corporate clients. His core competencies include estate, retirement, insurance and income tax planning. Scott has been part of Morgan Stanley’s prestigious Century Club for the past 3 years, an elite group composed of the firm’s top Financial Advisors that recognizes consistent creativity and excellence in providing a wide range of investment products and wealth management services to clients.

David & Bobby Kim/Breakers Korean BBQ

Breakers Korean BBQ is the number 1 place for Korean BBQ in the metro Atlanta area. Breakers opened its door in the Atlanta area in 2015, and is ranked in the top 50 among all restaurants in Atlanta magazine. Ranked Number 1 Korean restaurant in the area by TripAdvisor and Yelp. Breakers Korean BBQ offers Korean style beef, short ribs, pork belly, chicken, and seafood. Full service bar and private dining options for events are available. Open for both lunch and dinner. Breakers is currently expanding and has opened locations in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. recently.

 

 

Amy & Nate Wilson with Muze Salon Suites and John Moulton with Hundsperg Knives

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Amy & Nate Wilson/Muze Salon Suites

Muze Salon Suites was created By Amy & Nate Wilson from her dream to open a full service salon. Her passion is to empower women to become their own boss and run their own salon business. Being a Beautician herself she aspired to bring a new energy to the industry that offers much more than a suite to her tenants. Muze is not a corporation or a franchise chain, they are family owned and operated with a passion to help others succeed. Muze offers a collection of private luxury salon suites operated by elite beauty professionals offering many services all in one location. Muze is your one stop beauty mall!

John Moulton/Hundsperg Knives

The goal: To make the best possible tools for your specific task and simultaneously spend as much quality time with their family as possible. This, is how Hundsperg was born. Hand forged and hand made kitchen, carry and camping knives located in Marietta GA.

 

A big THANK YOU to Nona and the staff at BAHAMA BREEZE for the outstanding lunch spread!

 

Butch Goldi with QTS Data Centers and Lori Snow with Condor Tours & Travel

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Butch Goldi/QTS Data Centers

QTS Data Centers (NYSE: QTS) is a leading provider of secure, compliant data center, hybrid cloud and managed services. QTS features the nation’s only fully integrated technology services platform providing flexible, scalable solutions for the federal government, financial services, healthcare and high tech industries. QTS owns, operates or manages more than 5 million square feet of data center space and supports more than 1,000 customers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Including centers in Metro Atlanta and Suwanee, QTS has more than five million square feet of data center space. In addition, QTS’ Critical Facilities Management (CFM) provides increased efficiency and greater performance for third-party data center owners and operators.

Lori Snow/Condor Tours & Travel

lori-snow-condor-tours-travelCondor Tours & Travel is a leisure Travel supplier for worldwide travel. Their business model keys in on personalized travel packages for their clients that is about impossible to build online. They do air, hotels, transfers, tours, rental car, rail tickets, cruises on both ocean and river. They work with multiple tour suppliers to offer a turn key travel experience. If you have a special interest travel , they have the resources to suit those as well.  For example, Full solar Eclipse – best place to see it is July 2019 in Chile – Condor has put a group together for that.  How about visiting CUBA for architecture or art, they do that! Birding in Central or  South America they do that!  South Africa Safari and swim with great whites,  wine in France or Italy, Religious touring, honeymoon, destination wedding and the list goes on.  Condor and its team of 6 have the knowledge to make it happen. They spend a great deal of time doing onsite visits as well as extensive webinars to make sure they offer you the traveler the exact experience you  are seeking.

 

 

 

 

 

Tim McCormack with Business Transition 360 and Jeff Cohen with Attack Digital Marketing

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Tim McCormack/Business Transition 360

Business Transition 360 is a new furniture dealership, space planning and design company with expertise in all facets of business transition, renovation, relocation and decommission of a workspace, essentially a single source solution for business transition events. Business Transition 360 specializes in helping clients 6 to 12 months before a transition event with planning, design and furniture concepts for a new office space. Business Transition 360 serves clients like Fiserv ( Decommissioning a 500,000 square foot campus), Jacobs Engineering ( New Furniture, relocation and decommissions as a Master Service Provider), Mark Spain Realty ( New Furniture, Space planning for office expansion, new business furniture, IST Management-space planning and branded solutions for new furniture as they grow and many more clients which include sustaining used furniture for clients looking for cost effective solutions as they start up and grow their operations. New Lines include AIS, Compel, Logiflex, Hyer, Great Openings, Office Star and many more.

Jeff Cohen/Attack Digital Marketing

ATTACK Digital Marketing is an agency that works with sales-driven organizations to connect marketing to the sales process to increase ROI on the marketing investment and to grow sales pipelines. The four key areas that they work in: 1) Aligning Marketing and Sales 2) Implementing Inbound marketing strategies, 3) Website development and 4)SEO and content creation

Rebekah Ratliff with Capital City Mediations, Venus Desai with NuGen Systems, and Stephen Box with Stephen Box Fitness & Nutrition

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Rebekah Ratliff/Capital City Mediations

Capital City Mediations is an alternative dispute resolution firm, based in the Atlanta area, operating nationally. President, Rebekah Ratliff is a credentialed former insurance professional with expertise in complex casualty claims loss matters. Having supervised countless law firms and evaluated thousands of cases, Rebekah is masterful in navigating the negotiation process and remains committed to mediation as a first choice in dispute resolution. In civil matters, Rebekah evaluated and negotiated high exposure cases for top casualty carriers, with settlements totaling in the millions. She offers case evaluation services to assist with early resolution. Rebekah spent 25 years as a claims professional managing civil cases across the country, in numerous areas including, but not limited to Products Liability, Trucking and Auto Liability, Medical Malpractice, Commercial Premises Liability, as well as Personal Injury/Wrongful Death. She is registered with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution as a civil and domestic Mediator and Arbitrator.

Venus Desai/NuGen Systems

NuGen Systems develops and supplies High Power Li-ion batteries for indoor mobile material handling vehicles. Team has done this in the electronics space and is working to do the same for an unmet need in the Material Handling Space. 99% of potential customers, today, use Lead Acid Batteries. NuGen batteries allow these customers to have batteries that are fast to charge, 8x smaller in capacity, better than cost parity on upfront costs, and last 2.5 times longer and in many cases provide for a zero-downtime, lead-free operation.

Stephen Box/Stephen Box Fitness & Nutrition

Stephen Box Fitness & Nutrition is built around client-centered coaching that focuses on efficient, effective workouts and nutrition that fit your lifestyle. Stephen Box is a certified fitness trainer and nutrition coach who understands the challenges of losing weight having personally lost 80lbs. He has proudly spent the past 6 years helping busy professionals in Gwinnett improve their fitness levels leading to increases in energy, strength, and productivity. At Stephen Box Fitness & Nutrition the focus is on creating long-term results instead of quick fixes that don’t last. If you’re ready to commit to taking back control of your health, you’re ready to train with Box!

Monte Ortel & Stan Hall with the Mitsubishi Electric Classic, Ryan Lucia with Aaron Overhead Doors of Atlanta, and Dimitry Mikhaylov with Paranoia Quest Escape the Room

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Monte Ortel & Stan Hall/Mitsubishi Electric Classic

The Mitsubishi Electric Classic will return to the metro Atlanta area April 10-16, 2017 and will feature legends of the game such as Tom Watson, Miguel Angel Jimenez, and Bernhard Langer. The Mitsubishi Electric Classic proudly stands as a premier golf tournament on the PGA TOUR Champions, but this event is much more than a golf tournament. The events and activities associated with the Mitsubishi Electric Classic provide an all-inclusive, entertaining atmosphere and the beautiful views of TPC Sugarloaf serve as a backdrop for world-class golf and provide the perfect venue to mingle with friends and business leaders while watching the legends of the game. The event, which will benefit local charities through the Gwinnett Championship Foundation Inc., has raised over $1 million since the first tournament in 2013. All three rounds of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic will be televised internationally by Golf Channel.

Ryan Lucia/Aaron Overhead Doors Atlanta

There are many choices when searching for a local Atlanta GA garage door company. Aaron Overhead Doors are one of many. However, they believe they are different. They aren’t a garage door company, they are a customer service company who hired the best garage door technicians and installers to work for them. Can you imagine an experience that goes great and if something happens the company stands by you to help take care of it? They are bringing back the old way of doing business. Honesty, integrity, and great follow up is what they are committed to. If you need garage door repair or installation in North Atlanta, don’t hesitate to call or text 24/7.

Dmitry Mikhaylov/Paranoia Quest Escape the Room

Paranoia Quest is escape room. It’s place where teams of 2-12 people try to escape the room in 60 minutes by Solving puzzles and riddles, finding clues and opening secret locks using your logic and teamwork. It’s a fun time to spend with your date, family, friends or coworkers. With locations in downtown of Atlanta and with a Virtual Escape Room in the Mall of Georgia-Buford.

 

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