Coffee & Grit

Human Design

I love when a conversation goes from warm up to 8 minutes into the podcast until we make an official introduction. If you listened you know, but man sometimes the best conversations are the unplanned ones! This conversation with Brigette Patton was one of those conversations where we go really deep and then had a perfect segue into the reason we got together in the first place...To talk Human Design. What would the world look and feel like if your relationships and roles at work or business revolved around your strengths, energy, & purpose?Learn more about Jason's work!Website: https://www.roar.consultingFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jtroarconsultInsta: https://www.instagram.com/roarconsultinginc/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-tracey?trk=org-employeesEmail: jasontracey@roar.consultingPhone: (810) 522-8931

Leaving Your Feathers Behind: Investing In Ourselves to be More to the People Around Us

Whether we realize it or not every where we go we leave our imprint behind.  The question is, drop negativity or did we inspire?  Listen in as Crystal Abitz and myself dive into an incredible conversation around the power of Core Values and leaving a legacy.

This Guy Cleans House: A Corporate Leaders Journey to Small Business Ownership

This conversation with Robert Pierce, Founder of This Guy Cleans House, touches on all the important topics:-Leaving Corporate Leadership in big box retail to start a dream of small business ownership-Solving problems for people.-How to be a great leader-Real men cryAnd so much more that you will want to tune in for!

Rejuvenate, Reinvent, & Retain

As we navigate our way through the Great Resignation one thing is for certain.  Organizations need to find a way to rejuvenate & reinvent their cultures in order to make employees feel seen and heard in order to retain.  Join Michael Padurano and our host Jason Tracey as they discuss innovative ways to help companies move forward with the greatest resources they posses...their People.

Fear Less Live More...It’s Time!

At a very young age Becca Buttermore knew exactly what she wanted to be, and didn't realize that she was the outlier.  Her story is one of success as she graduated college, built a successful ophthalmology business, married a great guy, but one day began to feel like "there must be more."  Sometimes in life when can get tunnel vision building the ladder to climb towards our dreams, and then realize you climbed the wrong building.  Or maybe you just want to experience the view from the other building.  Listen in as Becca shares her story, what she did, and what she is doing now to help others feeling like there must be more.

Health, Wealth, Family, & Community

When it comes to finances who can you trust?  After seeing his parents get bad financial advice that negatively impacted them Jimmie Plaskey became motivated to Be The Difference that people like his parents and so many other people need.  Financial literacy in the US is very low, but it is OK when you have passionate community servants like Jimmie to talk to.  Listen in as he shares his stories and strategies to Health, Wealth, & Family.Jimmie, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® (CFP®) Professional, is passionate about educating and inspiring his clients to make informed financial decisions. His collegiate career included athletic coaches who created a clear vision and brought the best from their teams. Jimmie believes that financial coaching can do the same for individuals and families.  Jimmie is passionate about working to inspire people to take the initiative on financial strategies for themselves and their loved ones. It is especially rewarding for him to help clients create paths toward reducing debt like student loans, having proper insurance coverage, building wealth, and experience the thrill of seeing their wealth-building goals become a reality leading up to and while in retirement.  In the financial services industry and a member of the Executive Wealth Management team since 2011, his goal is to educate his clients on the markets, strategies to maximize what they have saved already, and work toward helping them become and remain financially sound. With that vital foundation, his clients are positioned to work towards achieving their goals, both quantitatively and qualitatively. This foundation of educating, inspiring, and equipping is what his clients can expect from Jimmie.  On April 4, 2020, Jimmie was married to his best friend, Sydney, and they enjoy living in New Hudson, MI, with their Cavapoo puppy, Chief. Jimmie enjoys all sports and being outside; fishing, hunting, hiking, bike riding, and free time with a continually expanding group of family members and friends.

Intelligent Fitness Design

In business you are either copying or innovating.  Our guest this week Tuwan Jones is an innovator within the fitness industry, and the mad scientist behind Intelligent Fitness Design.  What if your fitness program could increase your brain power?  Listen in as Tuwan explains how his program does just that!Bio:Tuwan JonesCertified Personal Trainer (NASM)Fitness Nutrition Specialist (NASM)Behavior Change Specialist (NASM)Creator of Intelligent Fitness Design the Boot camp for Body & Brain LLC.The boot camp where “the Brain is a muscle too.”IFD is a unique fitness program because it focuses on the basic truth at the core of its mindset, “The brain is a muscle too.”  IFD programs and techniques focus on sharpening and strengthening the brain and basic cognitive skills such as mental focus, memory, reasoning, and logic.  This is accomplished by including brain games; progressing through word searches, Sudoku puzzles, memory cards, and other cognitive skill building games. These are incorporated at appropriate timed intervals within a progressive, physically challenging circuit training program that contains balance training, strength training,  power training, and other forms of training.  The physical and cognitive health benefits from this unique approach to circuit training are favorable and positive and will prove to enhance not only our clients’ physical and cognitive fitness, but also their overall way of life.Join the fitness of future with Intelligent Fitness Design as we;Plant the Idea…Cultivate the Vision…Grow the Culture…Revolutionize fitness Intelligently…Website @intelligentbootcamp.com (http://intelligentbootcamp.com/)Facebook@ Intelligent Fitness DesignInstagram @ Intelligent _Fitness_Design

Planting Dreams

How do you overcome the obstacles and naysayers to start your own business?  How do you balance being a mom/parent and entrepreneur?  How do you Be The Difference to your people to grow a thriving business?  How do you give back to your community?  As a female how do you survive and thrive in a male dominated industry?Listen in as local MVP Trisha Turner shares these answers and so much more!Born and raised in Saint Johns, Michigan Trisha is a graduate of MSU Landscape Architecture Bachelor's 2009 (all from taking one plant class my freshman year).  She had difficulty finding a job in 2009 so she started pursing her accelerated bachelors in nursing.  While working on pre-reqs she went to one last job fair in a snow storm that her Dad made her go to, and received five job offers.  From there she worked in Livonia for a landscape design build firm and that really shaped the start of her career.  Trisha wanted to start a family and new the commute from Howell would be too much with a kiddo so she was hired in at a Landscape Design build in Brighton.  Part of her hire in was to buy in and in the winter of 2020 I decided if she buys in was not going to move forward I would start my own business.  In Feb 2021 she started Turner Design Group.  The company started with just Dad, her, and a $70,000 client for that first season.  Now her husband Jonathan is a lead foreman and we are looking for great people for 2022 season.  We do not snow plow but rather interior garden which sets us apart.  My education in landscape architecture paired with extensive onsite experience provides a unique product for our clients.  I'm a Dale Carnegie grad and live my life by many principles!