What's Working with Cam Marston

I met Jill Schlesinger at a conference years ago. We chatted back stage and got along. On my next trip to New York City she took me around the CBS Studios and and introduced me to some of the national personalities you would recognize on TV. She was interested, kind, nice, and generous when she didn't need to be. Her path to journalism is non-tradiitonal. She started as a financial planner and has landed with a national TV slot, two great finanical books, a national radio show and a very popular podcast. She and I chat about journalism today, how it's changed, and what she might do differently next time.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon
• Harris Vacation Rentals
• Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama
• Bay Business News

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

To get the Top 3 Tips of the show each week and a Free Chapter of What Works, sign up here. 

When we last checked in with David Morris, president of QB Country, he was busy training his "bread and butter" client - middle and high school quarterbacks. Now in eleven cities, he's now taken many of those young QBs into the college and pro levels and they're staying close. Any any given moment in the offseason, David is training quarterbacks whose names you'd know and who are on the field on Saturdays and Sundays in the fall. He's gained their and their family's trust and they seek his counsel on NIL deals which has led him into beginning QB Reps. It's an exciting business and David keeps a low profile in a high profile industry.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon
• Harris Vacation Rentals
• Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama
• Bay Business News

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

To get the Top 3 Tips of the show each week and a Free Chapter of What Works, sign up here. 

After a degree from LSU in landscape design, Catherine Arensberg wondered if that career was her calling. She evaluated her options, tried a few things, then doubled down on the parts of landscape designe she enjoyed the most. At the same time she developed a social media profile and grew it relentlesly. Today she's as busy as she wants to be with her high-end clients and has an online following eagerly awaiting her next post. 

Instagram: @catherinearensberg

Web: https://www.catherinearensberg.com

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon
• Harris Vacation Rentals
• Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama
• Bay Business News

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

To get the Top 3 Tips of the show each week and a Free Chapter of What Works, sign up here. 

The NFL attracts elite athletes. Chancellor Moody and Timaje Porter think they have what it takes. Timaje is preparing for NFL Day where scouts will look him over. Chancellor is preparing to join a college football team where he expects his skills to shine. They both have lots of support in their corner, they're doing the work to ready themselves for the tests they'll soon get, and their attitudes point to success. And, for what it's worth, they can now count on me being in their corner, too. But...it's a long, narrow road ahead.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon
• Harris Vacation Rentals
• Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama
• Bay Business News

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

To get the Top 3 Tips of the show each week and a Free Chapter of What Works, sign up here. 

Nick Bloom is an economist at Stanford. He began studing work from home trends long before they became a thing with Covid. Nick gives me the final word on whether work from home is profitable for companies, how it impacts creativity, and what most organizations are doing now that employees are insisting on a work from home environment. He also shares that NOT commuting to work saves a ton of time for all workers and an addiitonal 18 minutes for women. Why? Gotta listen... Find him on LinkedIn here.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon
• Harris Vacation Rentals
• Roosters Restaurant in Downtown Mobile, Alabama
• Bay Business News

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

To get the Top 3 Tips of the show each week and a Free Chapter of What Works, sign up here. 

Amy Morin made a name for herself with a blog that caught fire followed by a Ted Talk that caught fire. In both instances she wrote and spoke about what mentally strong people DON'T do. Avoid these pitfalls, she says, and you'll deal with life's inevitable adversity much better. In today's show I ask her to apply this mental framework to work, business, customers, and employees and she offers fantasitc advice.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

When huge chemical containers are cleaned at chemical plants, what happens to the left over hazardous sludge? What's done with the excess from some cosmetic overruns? What about those piles of tires we used to see stacked up behind old tire shops?  Ted Reese is president and CEO of Cadence Environmental Energy. His company destroys wastes that contain energy value by feeding it into long rotary kilns at cement plants that operate at above 2600 degrees Fahrenheit. It's all high in carbon which reduces fossil fuels needed to generate the heat. The resulting product, now harmless, becomes part of the ready made cement we use to pave our driveways, secure our basketball goals in the ground, and everything else. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Are electric car batteries an environmental disaster like some would have you think? Or are they God's gift to planet earth as others would have you think? I speak with Maria Caballero, President of E-Mobility, a division of TERREPOWER and John Boyer, President of TERREPOWER, a division of BBB Industries. TERREPOWER takes used EV batteries and remanufacture them for resale. The execs say that, yes, there is an environmental cost to creating them, like there is for all things, but the benefit of running a car with no emissions outweights their cost. They also do electric storage tied to solar panels. Regardless of your point of view, the EV market is here to stay. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Aaron Beam says it was his boss' drive for weath that put pressure on him to fudge the numbers. Aaron admits he liked the wealth that Healthsouth had generated for him, too. But that moment in his boss' office when things got heated about missing the quarterly numbers, Aaron says he should have said No. His inaction in that moment has shaped his life since. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Dr. Kevin McGarry is the CEO of iLeading 360. His research has put him at the forefront of understanding, managing, and guiding the Millennial generation. The focus of much debate over the years, the Millennials remain the most vexxing generation in the workplace today. With a background in leadership in financial services, McGarry's research has led him to developing tools for management and leadership that have proven helpful in the US and abroad. Hint: If they know WHY they're doing something, they're much more likely to buy in. Plus so much more. 

Discount Code: leadingwithcam

Dr McGarry on LinkedIn.

Ebook Link: https://ileading360.com/e

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

The workplace is permanently changed by Covid. Getting team members to return to the office during the work week will require new tactics including mandatory days in the office and a new office design upon arrival. Rebecca Swanner should know. She designed her company's new Los Angeles workspace with the new hybrid work arrangements in mind. She runs HED's Workplace Sector and spends time with her clients learning their challenges, their needs, and their workplace hopes then turns it into reality for her client's workforce. She and I talk about workplace design that fosters collaboration, creativity, the desire to return to the office and much more. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Childcare was in a crisis before the pandemic. Too many kids. Too few spots. Many people who wanted to work were forced to stay home and care for young children and this burden impacted females much more so than males. Not much has changed since. In fact, it may have gotten worse. Many of the grants and subsidies offered during the pandemic are no longer available. 

Autumn Zellner runs STARS Early Learning Academy. She gets multiple calls each day from parents desperate to work and desperate to find a safe place to leave their children during the day. Autumn turns them all away. She wants to grow but the costs of building a new center and finding qualified labor prevents her from taking that step. It's a crisis, and Autumn offers some ideas.

This episode is this month's Business Alabama Magazine collaboration. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Josh and Jared Higginbotham found just shy of 100 kernals of heirloom corn in a freezer in a barn. They were the last of their grandfather's stash and these brothers decided to plant it and see what happened. Today their Bayou Cora Farms non-GMO corn products are purchased across the country from their farm in south Alabama and they're looking for more acreage to try to meet the rising demand. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Marty Grunder began Grunder Landscaping in 1984 as he was making his way through college, running it from his dorm room to pay his bills. Today it's a regional powerhouse in the industry and Marty has taken the lessons he's learn to create The Grow Group which coaches other landscaping companies across the country in their growth. Marty's lessons on leadership transfer across industry. He tells his story and shares his secrets for growing and cultivating a successful company. Marty's connections on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Danny Lipford started in TV in Mobile, Alabama, taking calls in the studio about home repairs to fuel his home remodeling business. Upon announcing his retirement, Danny's Today's Homeowner was broadcast in nearly every TV market in the nation and over five hundred radio stations. His media empire grew through lots of hard work and through a genuine appreciation by his audience. Danny's viewers and listeners liked him. Trusted him. And his resignation from the airwaves leaves a big hole in millions of listeners listening and watching agenda. But the streaming world - a new profit center - has found Today's Homeowner and he'll be with us for a long time to come via a different source. Hear this amazing story of work, risk, and humility. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

University of Alabama Professor Paul Reed, PhD is the Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Department of Communicative Disorders. Despite the heady title, he's easy to talk to about accents and the impressions they make on others. I read a quote from him in The Economist magazine and had to reach out. As a guy that travels a lot, I hear many accents and I have been told many times "you don't sound like you're from Alabama." Paul explains where my accent may have gone and why, and what we think about people when we hear other's accents. Fun, fun conversation. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Only 187 medical students nationwide graduate into platic surgery any given year. It's an elite field and those that populate it are constantly curious about new procedures, new products, and better outcomes. Dr Chris Park epitomizes this and continues to bring the newest technologies and treatments to his practice. "You'd be amazed," he said, "what we can do now that we couldn't do a short time ago. You'd be amazed by how non-invasive our treatments have become." 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Martha Underwood's father fell when helping a neighbor clean up after a hurricane. He was in Florida and for a while he was incapacitated. Martha, in Birmingham, needed access to his documents that are so important in critical moments like this but...where were they? Her story is not unfamiliar. We all have documents that family, doctors, accountants, lawyers may need at critical moments. Martha has a background in technology and has created a safe place to hold documents with secure access to chosen people called Prismm. Hear how it works and what it could mean for you and me. This month's Business Alabama Magazine deep dive. 

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast
• Bill-E's Bacon

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

AI was predicted to change medicine a long time ago. Little happened. Robert Pearl believes that time has come. A Forbes author, a podcaster, Stanford professor, physician, and former leader of The Permanente Medical Group in California and then leader of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Robert Pearl has unique insight into healthcare due to the transformations he's led in both organizations. AI is now learning on its own, and Dr Pearl predicts this ability is what will begin a truly radical healthcare transformation. This is worth a listen to greater understand AI's impact, its ramifications, and what you can expect.

Show Sponsors:

• Mason Hills Farms - True Farm to Table Meats
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Roy Lewis Construction
• Trey Langus - Transworld Business Advisors
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Persons Services Corp
• Seth Cherniak - Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast

Find Cam Marston's book - What Works: The Ten Best Ideas from the First Two-Hundred Episodes on Amazon.com. 

Kate Teague is committed to making music. She can't help it; it's what she does. She lives in the hyper-comptitive music scene of Nashville where every street corner has an aspiring musician or singer-songwriter trying to get noticed and make it big. Kate is doing the things necessary for her career to catch on fire, from performing to writing to shooting music videos (featuring her non-actor father in a role to save money) to keeping a regular job to pay the bills. How does one get the attention in the Nashville music scene? You'll enjoy hearing Kate tell us and how struggling musicians find a way to survive and, just maybe, earn a buck or two. 

See Kate's videos:

• "Actor"
• "Poison Mind"

Kate's music library is here on Spotify.

Show Sponsors:

• Roy Lewis Construction
• E3 Termite & Pest Control
• Angelo DePaola - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Allison Horner - State Farm Agent
• First Horizon Bank's "Bucket List-ening" Podcast
• Seth Cherniak- Jeffrey Matthews Financial
• Persons Services Corp
• Trey Langus - The Coastal Connection Realty
• Mason Hills Farm - True Farm to Table

Find What Works: The Ten Best ides of the First Two Hundred Episodes at Amazon.com.