Lowcountry Revolutionaries

Send us Fan Mail Colin McFaul is a software developer and serial entrepreneur who has built businesses in real estate, hospitality, and marketing. For the past several years he has run Layline, a Charleston software agency where he helps companies ship MVPs and steps in as fractional CTO. The same friction kept showing up: marketing automation tools that were either too rigid or locked teams into...

Send us Fan Mail You may have heard of padel or you may not. Either way, Ben Nichols has spent four years making sure the rest of the world cannot ignore it. Padel is the world’s fastest-growing racquet sport: doubles on an enclosed court, played by roughly 35 million people globally and by names from Eva Longoria to Andrew Schulz to David Beckham. Ben is the British entrepreneur who helped take i...

Send us Fan Mail Rob Keller is a videographer, brand story strategist, international speaker, and coach who has spent more than a decade helping entrepreneurs tell their authentic brand story through the power of video. In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Bill sits down with Rob to unpack a simple idea with hard consequences: in an age of AI-generated content, your story is the one asse...

Send us Fan Mail Lowcountry brothers Logan and Jared Bailey are the co-founders of Bailey Brothers Asset Management LLC and the faces behind Bailey Bros, where hundreds of thousands of people follow their real estate and renovation journey. What started as a hard family decision to sell their late grandmother’s house to pay off debt, or try to turn it into something lasting became the first projec...

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Lykes grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, bouncing between homes without much stability and without a consistent father figure to show him the way. His mom raised the family while living with a medical condition that kept her from working. For a long time Chris thought the answer was a college degree and a cure. After graduation, that plan collapsed, and he hit a low...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Bill sits down with Dr. Laura Glaser, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC founder of AURĀE Modern Medical + Spa and a doctorally prepared, board-certified family nurse practitioner trained at MUSC. In just two and a half years, Laura grew AURĀE from a 145-square-foot treatment studio into a modern wellness destination of more than 2,000 square feet, wi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Bill sits down with 24Kay (i.e., a Brooklyn-born, Charleston-raised independent recording artist, media personality, and community advocate) for the show’s first music-artist conversation. 24Kay has built his career the same way Lowcountry founders build companies: persistence, strategic moves, and creating opportunities instead of wa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Bill Billotte sits down with Jonathan C. Dunsmoor, LL.M., J.D., a lifelong Gamecock (BS ’05) and President of Stand With Crypto South Carolina. Jonathan leads statewide advocacy and education on digital asset policy and responsible blockchain innovation. His work focuses on two pieces of federal legislation that most founders have hea...

Send us Fan Mail William James Menius went from homelessness to creating a luxury fragrance that captures the power of rising. In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, the songwriter of “Ascend” and creator of Roma Ascend shares how faith, purpose, and vision turned adversity into a bold new chapter—and how that journey is being documented in the new reality docuseries Roma Therapy from Char...

Send us Fan Mail Kaitlyn Pickett—known to a lot of people as Kaitlyn Alyss or “Bama”—is a mom of three and the founder of Sun Ink’d Tanning, a South Carolina spray-tan business built for people who never quite fit the cookie-cutter version of beauty. In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, she shares how she turned a wild, nonlinear path into a brand that is edgier, more inclusive, and a lo...

Send us Fan Mail Most Charleston businesses are invisible to AI. When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation, the majority of local companies never appear. Therese Grittner, founder of the ARO Index ( https://aroindex.com/ ), built a live public research platform that measures exactly which businesses those models actually choose and puts small operators on the sa...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Bill sits down with John Henderson, Managing Partner of Henderson & Henderson, the South Carolina law firm built on a simple promise: Dependable by Design. Defined by Care. John leads the firm’s civil litigation, family law, estate planning, and related practices, having litigated hundreds of cases across the state. With offices s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, host Bill Billotte sits down with Chuck Giroux, founder of Giroux Technologies, a fractional COO and Integrator practice based in Mount Pleasant. Chuck was born into his family's logistics business, ran operations across the Southeast for five years, and stayed through the integration after it sold to a PE-backed competitor. Plen...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Bill Billotte sits down with Dr. Alexandra Richmond, founder of Dermhaus, a new Charleston-based practice offering comprehensive medical and cosmetic dermatology. A Virginia native and MUSC-trained dermatologist, Dr. Richmond earned her medical degree and a Master of Science in Clinical Research, then completed her residency and serve...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, host Bill Billotte sits down with Pat Hogan, founder of The Work Society Charleston . A Midwesterner who grew up in Indianapolis and has called the Lowcountry home for 25 years, Pat brings sales and marketing experience—including running six salon suites across the Charleston market and serving as a sales account representative for Am...

Send us Fan Mail Dean Martin is back on Lowcountry Revolutionaries — and this time he’s carrying major momentum. Since we last spoke, the Charleston chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace has hit two powerful milestones: their 800th bed as a chapter and their 200th bed built this year alone. In this update episode, Dean shares what those numbers actually mean on the ground, how the chapter is deepenin...

Send us Fan Mail After eight years in accounting, Casey moved to Charleston in 2020 and founded Custom Vows by Casey with one clear goal: create wedding ceremonies that genuinely reflect each couple’s relationship and the experience they want on their day. In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries, Casey shares how that decision has led to nearly 1,000 ceremonies, spanning elopements, vow rene...

Send us Fan Mail Jack Teitel returns to Lowcountry Revolutionaries for a powerful follow-up conversation on the future of manufacturing in the Lowcountry and beyond. The founder of Title AI (launched 2025) and seasoned AI expert with over a decade of experience joins host Bill Billotte to explore how artificial intelligence — especially when embedded in robots and exoskeletons — is transforming pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries , host Bill Billotte sits down with Lisa Ballesteros, Founder and President of 133 Ministree , to explore her bold vision for stronger families and healthier communities across the Charleston area. With a clear mission to strengthen families through relationship education, emotional wellness, and community outreach, Lisa share...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries , Bill talks with Natasha Walstra — LinkedIn Strategist, Business Coach, and founder of NearPoint Strategies — about how to make LinkedIn actually work for your business without resorting to sleazy tactics or endless cold outreach. Natasha’s REALationship Growth Method™ flips the script: use LinkedIn to build real trust and clarity, th...

Send us Fan Mail Physical therapist turned self-taught AI builder Colin Highland joins us to share the raw journey behind Workforce Wave , a Mt. Pleasant, SC-based enterprise voice-AI company that’s redefining how businesses handle customer calls. Colin designs voice agents that don’t sound like agents — practical AI teammates that truly understand intent, answer calls with confidence, and protect...

Send us Fan Mail Belgian-born entrepreneur and international marketing veteran Fred Pirenne joins us to share how he’s bringing game-changing technology to the Lowcountry as CEO of OhmIQ . With deep experience managing the $1.2 billion AEG brand at Electrolux, co-founding a Swedish martech startup, and consulting for global leaders like Volvo and Scandinavian Airlines, Fred brings a truly global p...

Send us Fan Mail Jada Willis — entrepreneur, CEO strategist, author of Pantless Nation , and co-host of the Lead Through It podcast — joins us to talk about her latest innovation: The Hard Conversations AI Toolkit . After founding and exiting Willis HR and running a recruiting agency, Jada now helps business owners and executives across Charleston, Columbia, Bluffton, and beyond build stronger, mo...

Send us Fan Mail Hey Lowcountry builders — in this special "mixtape" episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries , we’re cutting straight to the heart of what every founder needs: real, battle-tested networking strategies that actually move the needle in Charleston’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Podfather pulls the best advice clips from powerhouse conversations with: Aaron DeBenedetto (Foun...

Send us Fan Mail In this dynamic return episode of Lowcountry Revolutionaries , we welcome back bilingual marketing powerhouse Roxana Massie — Cumulus Media marketing consultant, founder of Spanglish Connector (powered by the Spanglish Small Business Association), and creator of Latina Pitch Live . Roxana is firing on all cylinders with a packed June lineup designed to empower entrepreneurs and bi...