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TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Lisa M. BordersSend us a text LISA M BORDERS: THE OMNI-PRENEURThere are legacy families in Atlanta, GA. Some are internationally known for the influence they have had on Georgia based businesses. Others have made different types of contributions to the metro area for generations, but most people only know the name of one family member. One of the goals of this podcast series is to look under the hood of success and examine some of the lesser-known components. That’s why you’ll learn a lot about family dynamics when you listen to the podcast episode about Lisa M. Borders. ...
2025-07-2732 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Lonnie A. SaboorSend us a textThe purpose of this audio podcast series is to introduce listeners to successful African American business owners based in Atlanta and Georgia. This episode is different. You’re introduced to one man, Lonnie A. Saboor. But his passion for the last 50 years has been to help small business owners become successful. Most know him as the man who led the City of Atlanta’s economic development department for more than 40 years. The people in that department, rebranded as Invest Atlanta and because of Lonnie produced more than 1,000 profitable business owners. But Lonnie’s t...
2025-06-1230 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Willie WatkinsSend us a textThis episode follows the career highlights of Willie Watkins, a mortician. Willie doesn't like the word mortician. He starts the podcast explaining that he is an undertaker and then provides his definition of what an undertaker does. It is unlike anything you have ever heard because Willie Watkins understands how to grab a person's attention. He does that when he speaks and he does that when he stages funerals because he learned as a child that presentation matters.The ceremonies honoring the dead that he saw as a child in...
2025-04-2826 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Kent MatlockSend us a textKent Matlock’s success is partially based on the fact that he has been guided by extraordinary men and women. Each of those influential people was focused on actions that were for the good of the greater community. But those actions also affected Kent as a developing professional in Atlanta. His first major life event took place at age 13. That’s when he morphed from being an average inner-city young person into a changemaker. Kent’s parents had moved him, and two siblings away from their urban Chicago, Ill neighborhood and into the r...
2025-03-2429 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Janis WareSend us a textThis is a story about storytellers. Janis Ware has published the Atlanta Voice for 42 years. It's a newspaper written for the African-American audience in Atlanta, GA. But there's more to her life's work. It starts with her father, J. Lowell Ware an immensely talented and hardworking man who honored a deathbed request that changed his life. Lowell was far-sighted, creative and had an extremely strong personality. When he paid his only daughter's college tuition at the University of Georgia - she had planned to work with him only long enough to pay of...
2023-12-3024 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Delmarie Griffin and Rodney StrongSend us a textThis podcast is about two legal warriors who have spent the last 30 years protecting the concepts of equity in the courts, through analysis and by helping municipalities create policies that withstand assault. Rodney Strong and Delmarie Griffin are also a married couple who have come together from very different backgrounds. Delmarie was raised in Columbus, GA and attended an HBCU as an undergraduate and the University of Georgia for her law and business degrees. Rodney Strong was raised in Memphis, TN by parents who were active in the NAA...
2023-12-1531 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: William F. Pickard, Ph.D.Send us a textThis podcast is a 30 minute history lesson. When you listen, you'll hear stories about Black entrepreneurs who lived in 1800s, 1900s and 20th century that will make your jaw drop. That's because William F. Pickard, Ph.D. qualifies to be a part of this series for two reasons. He's a very successful Black business owner with more than 50 years of experience that includes owning a McDonald's franchise, a casino co-owner and being a parts supplier to major car manufacturers in Detroit, MI. He's also a researcher and his field of choice is Black...
2023-11-3035 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOS: Jerome and Michael RussellSend us a textThis is an episode about the second generation of an incredible African American family. We describe the topics discussed as generational continuance. Herman Jerome Russell founded his Atlanta based construction company in 1952. He made it one of the largest Black owned companies in the United States and then diversified. He owned a beer distributorship. He managed real estate and he raised three children with his first wife, Otelia Hackney Russell. Those children have run their father's companies for decades. They are not resting on his accomplishments. The awe inspiring futurist...
2023-11-1528 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Milton Jones, Jr.Send us a textMilton Jones, Jr. is one of the most respected business leaders in Atlanta, GA. He has a professional history in finance that spans decades and can trace his family tree back generations in Atlanta. However, there's one characteristic about him that almost everyone knows. Milton's mathematical skills are so formidable that he has a nickname. He's known as the walking calculator. It's an attribute that has impressed many people during his years as an executive banker. But his ability to conduct complicated equations "in his head" started long before that. More than one me...
2023-10-3128 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOS: T. Dallas Smith and Leonte BentonSend us a textThe most important thing to know about T. Dallas Smith and Leonte Benton is that they are not quitters. That shared characteristic has allowed them to make history. T. Dallas broke barriers in commercial real estate by becoming the first African American broker in the Atlanta market and possibly the state of Georgia. He started his career, officially, in 1982 and immediately learned it’s a very insular business. He quickly understood the rules of the game and restructured his resume so that no one would who read it would think about race. That meant de...
2023-10-1630 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsAtlanta Business League's LESSONS from LEADERS: Shirley FranklinSend us a textShirley Clark Franklin is remembered by most people as being the 58th mayor for the City of Atlanta, Georgia. However, she had more than 20 years in various positions of city government that gave her a firm grasp on organizational structure. But her leadership training began much earlier than that. Shirley grew up in Philadelphia, PA. and had unique life experiences. She spent years training with one of the most recognized professional dancers in the world. She attended one of the oldest African American churches in the United States and atten...
2023-09-3038 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOS: Al Edwards interviews Ernest Greer and Christopher WomackSend us a textThis is a special edition of Atlanta Business League DUOs. It features interviews from two Herman J. Russell CEO of the Year award recipients and the person conducting both interviews is ABL Chair Emeritus Albert G. Edwards. These three men are powerhouse leaders. Greer is the Co-President of Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm that has more than 2,500 attorneys. Womack is the Chair, President and CEO of Georgia Power a subsidiary of the Southern Company, it posted assets of more than 53 billion dollars in 2022. Edwards is the Fo...
2023-09-1634 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Roosevelt GilesSend us a textRoosevelt Giles could only attend school, as a child, when it rained. Yet, he was such a talented technology person that a Republican billionaire from South Carolina, USA, sought him out and mentored him. As a result, Roosevelt became an incredible international business owner with technical skills that were so impressive that he was a keynote speaker at major conferences all of the country. He sat on stages that also featured Microsoft computer founder, Bill Gates and the president of communications giant, AT&T. None of these accomplishments inflated his...
2023-08-3133 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOS: Andrella Kenner and Michael Baylis IISend us a textWhen Andrella Kenner was a little girl her mother exposed her to a series of aviation professionals in Nashville, Tennessee airport. That information gave her the foundation necessary to establish an aerospace, information technology and aviation company that operates in three countries and 22 locations. What position did Andrella's mother hold at the airport? She was a waitress. This podcast explains how her mother's job helped Andrella learn about entire industries that most African-Americans didn't know existed. Andrella used that knowledge to create, C1 Square, a company that employs air traffic...
2023-08-1430 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Mack Wilbourn, Jr.Send us a textThere are very lucrative industries that aren't considered glamorous. The fast food industry falls in that category for most people, but not for Mack Wilbourn, Jr. He owns an Atlanta, GA based company named Mack II. It has operated for more than 50 years and has allowed Mack to develop extraordinary business partnerships. He is the franchise operator for more than five fast food brands that operate out of Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He also has a partnership with the Coca-Cola company for airport vending machines. But he started the de...
2023-07-3034 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Gregory and Juanita BarancoSend us a textThe sale of cars, travel and dealerships has a history in African-American communities that is often ignored or unknown. That's why the story of Gregory and Juanita Baranco is so inspiring. They own two Mercedes Benz car dealerships. One is in one of the ritziest zip codes in Atlanta, Ga and the other is in their home state of Louisiana. In this episode of ABL DUOs you will hear stories about three generations of Juanita Powell Baranco's family and learn why Gregory walked away from a guaranteed occupation as a dentist to be...
2023-07-1436 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Peabo BrysonSend us a textThis is the final episode created for Black Music Month, which is in June. This broadcast completes a trilogy of information about the business side of music as experienced by the professionals who are in the industry. Peabo Bryson is unique in this category because, at the time of his interview, he has been a performer for 58 years. His life story is fascinating. It also covers a variety of topics which include the exhilaration of being one of the most recognized R&B voices in the industry; to the abso...
2023-06-2929 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Jacques and Maretta JohnsonSend us a textThis episode takes a look at what structured business planning looks like at the beginning of a person's career in a creative industry. This is the story of Jacques and Maretta Johnson; mother and son. Jacques, in June 2023, is a 26-year-old musician. He's had a mild degree of success, has opened for internationally known acts and has his own reality TV program on a local station. His mother has a locally produced television series, too. But what makes their story a part of the Atlanta Business League's TELLING OUR STORY se...
2023-06-1431 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Frank SkiSend us a textJune is Black Music Month in the United States. This episode of LESSONS from LEADERS actually offers a mini-lesson about the music industry from the perspective of a professional who has been able to experience it from two different views. Frank Ski is the professional name of a radio personality who has been entertaining African-American audiences in major markets up and down the East coast for 20 years. In 2023, he is syndicated with morning shows airing in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, GA. But Frank Ski is also a music...
2023-05-3128 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Wonya Lucas and Dr. Valerie Montgomery RiceSend us a textFriendship and respect, in a challenging academic setting, helped mold two women into history making captains of industries. Before Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice became President and Dean of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA she studied chemical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. That's where she met Wonya Lucas, another chem-E student. Both were young, extremely bright African-American women who needed to escape unpleasant college roommates. They roomed with each other, graduated from GaTech and went on to become life long friends who broke barriers in important...
2023-05-1531 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Lonnie JohnsonSend us a textScience and business are not two topics that ordinarily operate in sync. But this episode of LESSONS from LEADERS focuses on the achievements of an extraordinary man. Lonnie Johnson's name might jog something in your memory that makes you smile. That's because he's the acknowledged inventor of the Super Soaker a powerful water gun that, at one time, was the best selling toy in the world. This podcast allows Lonnie the opportunity to explain why something that became so well liked took ten years to go from concept to the cash regis...
2023-05-0135 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: T.K. Petersen and Ryan WilsonSend us a textThis is a story about friendship. Ryan Wilson and T.K. Petersen met each other in college. However, learning about their lives before they shared a dorm room on the campus of Georgetown University really helps more people understand why Variety Magazine, INC., Wired, USA TODAY, Bloomberg, Black Enterprise, The Guardian, The Root, All the Fly Kids, Buzzfeed and many, many more label them - with astonishment, as super-star entrepreneurs.Ryan and T.K. started a membership club called The Gathering Spot in 2016. In 2023, it has more than 13,000 members and locations...
2023-04-1434 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Egbert PerrySend us a textThis is the story about how a brilliant builder used the life gifts of a stable family upbringing, good education, and both cultural and business mentorship to do more than just benefit himself. Egbert Perry L. J. Perry is the dynamic and articulate chair and president of the Integral Group, LLC. It's described as an Atlanta, GA based real estate development, advisory, and investment management company. However, under Perry's leadership the company has created urban environments with livability scales that were unthinkable before he came along. This podcast allows listener...
2023-04-0230 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Monica Pearson and Justice Leah Ward SearsSend us a textThis episode of ABL DUOs actually aired during one of the Atlanta Business League's signature events, the Super Tuesday conference, in 2021. The event is the largest gathering of Black business and professionals in the United States. It is an all day conference that has several segments and this Q&A session ran as a 45 minute broadcast. The two women who are a part of today's podcast are mold breaking icons in Atlanta, GA. Monica Pearson is the first African American woman to anchor an evening newscast for a local network affiliate tel...
2023-03-1535 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Karen Duckett, J.D., R.D.Send us a textKaren I. Duckett founded , one of Atlanta’s most respected architecture, planning and interior design firms in the metro area, Duckett Design Group. Her company has executed projects totaling more than $1.8 billion in construction costs creating 3 million square feet of space. She was the joint venture partner for the design of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, a 1.2 million sq. ft., $1.3 billion project. Her contract for that project was the largest awarded to an African American woman owned design firm in the world. In addition to blazing trails in her chosen fi...
2023-03-0126 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Daryll and Michael Griffin, JrSend us a textAtlanta Business League Duos interviews two African American professionals from Atlanta, GA about one topic. This episode for the series talks to Daryll Harris Griffin and her son, Michael Griffin, Jr. Their story as Black business entrepreneurs starts with Daryll's grandfather, J.E. Jordan, born in 1888. This podcast introduces Jordan's accomplishments and those of Jordan's daughter, Narvie, nicknamed the Black School Superintendent of DeKalb County, GA. Daryll also tells her own story of entrepreneurial success. She explains how she left corporate America and started a promotional products company, while her husba...
2023-02-1527 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsLESSONS from LEADERS: Thomas W. Dortch, Jr.Send us a textThomas W. Dortch, Jr. spends 30 minutes explaining how his leadership as a student at a Georgia HBCU launched his career into politics. His political experiences ultimately helped him become a successful businessman. Dortch also provides an unique perspective on how his life was impacted by the municipal power dynamics shaped through race relations in his home town of Toccoa, GA.Thomas W. Dortch, Jr. is the founder of TWD-Inc. which is the umbrella company for six separate firms based in Atlanta, GA. He has been a successful entrepreneur for 29 years. He has c...
2023-02-0227 min
TELLING OUR STORY Atlanta Business League PodcastsABL DUOs: Dave and Karla MoodySend us a textIn this episode of ABL DUOs husband and wife, Dave and Karla Moody talk about topics you don't normally hear on a program about African American business ownership. Dave owns a construction company, based in Atlanta, GA, that has generated $3 billion in projects. He bluntly explains the obstacles he and his wife faced when they started his firm out of necessity. But he also has talks about the 30 years he spent fighting debilitating anxiety attacks triggered by one single incident. He discusses how he first ignored, then hid and finally acknowledged the impac...
2023-01-3034 min
Projects – The A440 PodcastSax and Violence on TV (S2, E9)Forrest Covington, Jr.
FORREST COVINGTON, JR. won the 1982 BMI Student Composer Award for his composition, “Chthonic Mass.” He’s a composer, teacher, audio archivist, and all-around deep thinker who once built a Gamelan Orchestra out of junk.
On today’s episode, Forrest and I talk about the possibilities of Jungian archetypes in music; the difference between ridiculous and useful contraints; and the power of being simple, but not simple-minded.
Part 1 of 2!
To hear more of Forrest’s work, click here.
Artists mentioned in this epsiode:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Frédéric C...
2019-12-1932 min
Discover the New Releases Audiobooks in Radio & TV, DocumentariesHome Schools Audiobook by Heather GattucioPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/156 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Home Schools Author: Heather Gattucio Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, Heather Gattucio Format: Original Recording Length: 27 mins Language: English Release date: 04-03-17 Publisher: Soundprint Genres: Radio & TV, Documentaries Publisher's Summary: Imagine that your parent is your teacher, your siblings are your classmates, and your kitchen is your classroom. Plus, you get to study outside, choose your areas of interest, and do your classwork online. The image of the home-school is changing from detached and reclusive, to engaged and mainstream. And not all home-school education...
2017-04-0305 min
How to Download Audiobook in Radio & TV, EntertainmentHome Schools by Heather Gattucio | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Home Schools
Author: Heather Gattucio
Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, Heather Gattucio
Format: Original Recording
Length: 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-03-17
Publisher: Soundprint
Genres: Radio & TV, Documentaries
Summary:
Imagine that your parent is your teacher, your siblings are your classmates, and your kitchen is your classroom. Plus, you get to study outside, choose your areas of interest, and do your classwork online. The image of the home-school is changing from detached and reclusive, to engaged and mainstream. And not all home-school education is alike. Home school parent and producer...
2017-04-0327 min