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Episode: 158
  • Eric Coffie
  • February 1, 2023

158: Native Hawaiian Organization with Eugene Tinker – systems engineering, war report, hiring interns, proposals versus relationships, learn from reading dummies books

Our guest for this week’s podcast, Eugene Tinker, was born and raised in Alabama and is building two world class companies simultaneously. He is the CEO/Founder of CTE (Certified Technical Experts) and Creative Tech Group (CTG), a Native Hawaiian Organization (NHO) 8(a) providing Systems Engineering and Program Management Support. He has been in the government […]

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Episode: 157
  • Eric Coffie
  • January 19, 2023

157: Using Ai tool ChatGPT for proposal writing

Today’s podcast was a Youtube live session that I recorded just a few weeks ago regarding the new open AI Platform, ChatGPT. In this Youtube Live, we go over some examples of how to use ChatGPT to help small businesses with proposal writing. As we know, a lot of people have difficulties and challenges with […]

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Episode: 156
  • Eric Coffie
  • January 11, 2023

156: 3x Inc Award Winner provides IT Staffing support to industry and government – Manish Gorawala

In today’s episode, we bring our guest Manish Gorawala, a serial entrepreneur, Technology Expert, and a Chief Visionary and CEO of Tri-Force Consulting Services, Inc., headquarter in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA. Since 2000, under Manish’s leadership, Tri-Force has executed projects worldwide focusing on enterprise application development, business intelligence, process automation and mobile solutions for government and […]

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Episode: 155
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 28, 2022

155: Which Certifications Matter the Most in 2023 and Why?

In today’s podcast episode, we replay a recent Youtube Live interview that I did on the topic of minority certifications. In this interview we featured two guests, Kevin Williams of TekConnX and Heather Cox of CertifyMyCompany. Throughout the interview we discuss the Big 5 certifications that the Fortune 1000 recognize. Now, a little bit more […]

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Episode: 154 – Veteran certified businesses are booming find out how to start for FREE in 2023 – Renona Brown and Raffa Gibbard
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 21, 2022

154 – Veteran certified businesses are booming find out how to start for FREE in 2023 – Renona Brown and Raffa Gibbard

In this episode, Renona Brown and Raffa Gibbard discussed how veterans can get money for starting a business. That’s why I wanted to revisit this episode for those of you who missed out on this because there are a lot of veterans out here, but they specifically were in certain tracks that the government has […]

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Episode: 153
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 14, 2022

153: Woman becomes 8a certified at 6o years old – Contract Solutions Inc President – Corliss Udoema

The reason why I think this is a fascinating story for some of those persons who have not listened to her story is that she received her 8a Certification at the age of 60. Corliss “Mama U” Udoema served for over 20 years in the US Marine Corps, as an Assistant Officer in Charge for […]

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Episode: 152
  • Eric Coffie
  • December 7, 2022

152: Contracting Officer gives away Billions to small business – Donnie Harris

Today’s guest is Mr. Donnie Harris, is a former guest of ours on the show. However, given the fact that there’s so much money put into the infrastructure plan, I thought it would behoove me to bring him back on to let all the listeners out there to listen to the episode once again. Donnie […]

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Episode: 151
  • Eric Coffie
  • November 30, 2022

151: How non citizens can win Government Contracts – Vicky Mangano

Real quick before we get started today, just want to let you know we have reopened Academy 3.0 our flagship program helping small businesses win large contracts, visit giantscourse.com for more info. Now back to our program. Given the current crisis between Ukraine and Russia. What is happening overseas withAmazon in China. The building of […]

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Episode: 150
  • Eric Coffie
  • November 2, 2022

150: Environmental Scientist takes on Government Contracting – Lynn Petrazzuolo

For the last four years, I’ve interviewed all types of companies across various industries and sectors serving the government. But every now and then you will find someone doing something unique in the space. Lynn Petrazzuolo of Avanti Corporation has a unique offering that she’s been providing for the last 35 years, in short, she’s […]

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Episode: 149
  • Eric Coffie
  • October 26, 2022

149: When do I need a CPA for my Small Business? – Staci Martineau

Today’s guest, Staci Martineau is the government contract manager at Diener & Associates. Having been with the company for almost 16 years she is one of the original associates and has a plethora of stories to share regarding the good, bad and ugly side of accounting. In today’s conversation we discuss: Cost accounting Labor Distribution […]

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