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Episode: Making a Giant with Maria and Alex Omeke. Applying your knowledge to the real world
  • Eric Coffie
  • February 16, 2021

Making a Giant with Maria and Alex Omeke. Applying your knowledge to the real world: A cab driver’s son story of winning his first contract

Hey listeners, this is Eric! As some of you may know from listening to the last few week’s episodes we have a new podcast entitled Making A Giant. The show featured the students of GovCon EDU who recently won their first contract. It is a much different perspective from our traditional podcast format where we […]

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Episode: 082
  • Eric Coffie
  • February 8, 2021

082: Melissa Burant – The free government resource that all small businesses should use, PTAC

For the first time ever we are interviewing someone from APTAC (Association of Pocurement Technical Assistance Centers). If you have never heard of APTAC or PTAC for short, the non-organization has offices around the country in every state that provide free and low cost training and technical assistance for small businesses. They host workshops and matchmaking events, offer one-on-one […]

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Episode: Making a Giant with Maria and Leilani Lacusong. From Accountant to 8a Contractor
  • Eric Coffie
  • January 25, 2021

Making a Giant with Maria and Leilani Lacusong. From Accountant to 8a Contractor

In our second episode of Making a Giant Maria sits down and speak to  Leilani Lacusong. Leilani is an accountant that saw the great opportunities in government contracting. She made some bold moves from applying for her 8a, to contacting Eric for help and driving from state to state “for the love of contracting”. Today […]

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Episode: 081
  • Eric Coffie
  • January 19, 2021

081: My next guest needs no introduction… Steven Koprince of Koprince Law

Today’s guest needs no introduction… Mr. Steven Koprince of Koprince Law founded the blog SmallGovCon, where he has written more than 1,100 posts on government contracting legal issues. The site is viewed by thousands of readers each month and is one of the official must read websites for learning about new rules, changing policies and […]

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Episode: REPOST
  • Eric Coffie
  • January 13, 2021

REPOST: Episode 001: Narjis Ali – Launching a NASA Award Winning IT Security Company

We are taking you back to our very first episode… Narjis B. Ali is the President and CEO of Sure Secure Solutions, an 8a Woman Owned Information Technology (IT) Security company founded in 2004. The companies core capabilities include Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Content Management and Information Management. She has received numerous awards dating back […]

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Episode: Making a Giant with Maria and Chris Facey
  • Eric Coffie
  • January 5, 2021

Making a Giant with Maria and Chris Facey: The mad guitarist lands a 21 Million IDIQ in transportation

Hey GovCon Giants today, we are mixing things up a little bit. Starting this month, we will be featuring an all-new podcast that we call Making A Giant. That’s right, Making A Giant. This podcast will showcase persons, businesses who got their very first win, not their 10th contract, not some large multi-million dollar contract, […]

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Episode: 080
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 28, 2020

080: Robb Wong – Best tips and advice from the Former Associate Administrator, Govt. Contracting & Business Development

In today’s episode. We meet with the man who spent the last four years fighting for the little guy. Robb Wong was sworn in as Associate Administrator Office of Government Contracting and Business Development, GCBD, in March of 2017, where he advocated for small businesses and represents them on behalf of the President of the […]

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Episode: 079
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 16, 2020

079: Judy Bradt – Fierce, Determined and Best Selling Author of Government Contracts Made EasiER.

Judy Bradt needs no introduction in the government contracting world. For more than 32 years, she’s been helping people in federal contracting as a consultant, speaker and author. She’s helped thousands of businesses from solopreneurs to multi-million dollar corporations find their fast track success in the federal arena. Judy says there’s no such thing as […]

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Episode: 078
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 10, 2020

078: Brian Henry – Former truck driver builds successful top contractor company

As a special guest, Mr. Brian Henry, President of Henry General Contractors, who was a former truck driver turned multi-million dollar general contractor. His journey began as a dump truck operator when a good friend approached him about doing more. The business owner was a former employer of his cousin and asked Brian, who’s going […]

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Episode: 077
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 3, 2020

077: Believing in yourself is first step to become what you dreamed for yourselves, INC 500 list champion Kizzy Dominguez proves it

The time that we’ve ever hosted a guest for a back-to-back episode. But when we finished the interview, I had only gone through about half of my questions and we still had a lot of stones to turn over. For those of you who caught my interview with Kizzy Dominguez last week, today will be […]

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