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Episode: 138
  • Eric Coffie
  • June 29, 2022

138: Meet The SBA Team From Region X Over Alaskan Native Corporations

Hey Govcon Giants Family, in this episode, I pulled down some of the speakers from the 8a Conference, which was recently held at Anchorage, Alaska. So we’re going to meet the gentlemen from SBA to discuss their capacity, what their roles are and how they can help and share with us the things they discussed […]

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Episode: 137
  • Eric Coffie
  • June 22, 2022

137: Carol Craig – From Earth to Space She Isn’t Afraid to Put it all on the Line

Today we are going to take it back, in this episode, we are going to re-introduce an amazing podcast guest that we had back in September we featured in Episode 69 Carol Craig from Craig Technologies. If you guys don’t remember, this was a force that you had to know. Listening to this episode was […]

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Episode: 136
  • Eric Coffie
  • June 9, 2022

136: Travis Mack – How He Pulled Off A Multi Million Dollar Company Acquisition

Prior to doing the podcast, I met Travis at dinner in Las Olas through a mutual friend Patrick Cohen. Travis recently arrived here in S. Florida and had plans for connecting good people in business together. He wanted a community in S. Florida that would connect finance, developers and entrepreneurs in the same room. A […]

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Episode: 135
  • Eric Coffie
  • June 1, 2022

135: ​​Peter Gibbs – Construction Bonding for Infrastructure Projects

Today’s guest Mr. Peter C. Gibbs of Foundation Surety out Maryland is the former Director, Office of Surety Guarantees for the SBA. He served in that capacity for more than 15 years. When he retired last year he went out on his own and started a bonding company. “Any company who is interested in participating […]

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Episode: 134
  • Eric Coffie
  • May 25, 2022

134: Adam Oglesbee – Building a nationwide construction firm from the ground up to winning Oklahoma’s Small Business of the Year Award

Today’s guest was awarded as Oklahoma’s Small Business of the Year by the SBA, he is Adam Oglesbee, the President and CEO of Warfeather, LLC. As the leader of a nation-wide construction services firm, Adam Oglesbee has built a reputation on the safety, quality, and schedule adherence their client projects rely on around the country. […]

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Episode: 133
  • Eric Coffie
  • May 11, 2022

133: Russell Teter III (Part 2) – 16,000 stories of what works and what doesn’t to get your business where you want it to be

Today’s guest Russell Teter blew us away on the last episode. If you missed part 1 go back to episode 132 and listen closely. We covered pitfalls to small businesses, where SMB should focus their energy, why are you working so hard, and building a business that works without the owner. In this episode we […]

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Episode: 132
  • Eric Coffie
  • May 4, 2022

132: Russell Teter III (Part 1) – 16,000 stories of what works and what doesn’t to get your business where you want it to be

Today’s guest is a special person from SBDC. Russell C. Teter III is an Internationally Certified Executive Coach / Director of Training for SBDC at University Of Maryland. He has been with the SBDC for 14 years as of this July. He was promoted to Director of the Northern Maryland Small Business Development Center Network […]

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Episode: 131
  • Eric Coffie
  • April 28, 2022

131: Jackson Dalton – Getting started with no past performance, no experience and a big dream

Jackson Dalton and I met at the VIB Conference in San Diego California last year. During that time he was being celebrated as the VIB Advocate for winning the John K. Lopez Award! Jackson Dalton, a Marine Veteran and owner of Black Box Safety, was providing PPE to government agencies before the Pandemic. As fate […]

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Episode: 130
  • Eric Coffie
  • April 13, 2022

130: Likia Hawkins – Staying secure online with Steel Point Solutions

Likia Hawkins is President and CEO of Steel Point Solutions, LLC, an Information Technology and Business Solutions provider that specializes in delivering digital transformation, cybersecurity, and professional services. Ms. Hawkins possesses a wealth of business ownership, technology, analytics, policy, an economic insight central to positioning the company as a boutique business disrupter in the public […]

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Episode: 129
  • Eric Coffie
  • April 7, 2022

129: Pierce Robinson – How to win IT contracts without traditional RFP process

For the last 7 days I’ve been at conferences here in Miami as it is Miami Tech Month beginning with Miami NFT week. Followed by Solana Miami, NFT CON in the Metaverse, Bitcoin Miami, and we even had time for a Cybersecurity Summit by DarkTrace.  While I did not personally attend Miami Bitcoin I did […]

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