Circle City Success

Chris Gahl is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Visit Indy   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 210, where you'll hear Chris tell us about...   ● How a job posting landed him a start to his tourism career in the state of Hawaii for several years and how that shaped his journey to this day ● On any given week Indy might have 5-6 prospective conventions, conferences...

Youssef Boudarine is the Creator of Epicurean Indy and Founder of J'Adore Pastry   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 209, where you'll hear Youssef tell us about...   ● Why he decided to attend culinary school, his passion for food and the arts, his eperience traveling Europe while working in the food and restaurant industry, and why he moved to Indiana ● His journey to Indiana, gettin...

Cindy Hoye is the Executive Director of the Indianan State Fair Commission   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 208, where you'll hear Cindy tell us about...   ● Her first experience with a State Fair and how and where she got her start, before returning to Indiana ● Some behind the scenes news, fun facts, events other than the State Fair held at the fairgrounds, and the best kept secre...

Kristin Patrick and Andrea Simpson are the Co-Founders of Orangily   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 207, where you'll hear Kristin and Andrea tell us about...   ● Why they changed the name of the business from Loren's Alcohol Free Beverages to Orangily and the meaning behind the name ● How the idea to create a business started, the "why" behind the alcohol free business, and how qui...

Rafael Sanchez is Executive Vice President, Chief Impact Officer & Indianapolis Market President for Old National Bank    Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 206, where you'll hear Rafael tell us about...   ● How his network and relationships helped him get connected to opportunities such as Super Bowl Committee and co-chair for NBA All Star in Indianapolis  ● How to get involved in the...

Michael Lashmett is the Founder and President of Vintage Indy    Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode 205, where you'll hear Michael tell us about...   ● How he traveled to Indianapolis at the age of 18 looking to find a job with an Indy Car team, not knowing anyone, and spent a week knocking on doors of the local racing teams. He was told not hiring multiple times, so he went back home t...

Beth McCarthy Smith is the Founder and CEO of Simplicity Cold Pressed Juice and Cocktails   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​204 where you'll hear Beth tell us about… ● How a door to door sales role early in life helped her discover her passion for sales and why treating people fairly and nice will lead to a successful career. She shares her journey in newpaper and publications and w...

Nikki Miller is an Executive Coach at Kairos    Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​203 where you'll hear Nikki tell us about… ● How a watershed moment in life after college led her to pack up and drive to Washington DC with a couple of Vanderbilt grads to become roommates in Dupont CIrcle ● Working on Capitol Hill in Healthcare policy in the House of Representatives for a couple of Rep...

Joel Thacker is the Fire Chief for the Carmel Fire Department in Carmel, Indiana   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​202 where you'll hear Joel tell us about… ● How growing up his father had influence because of his character, not his career, and the importance character has on impacting the lives of others and the community ● One of the most important yet difficult life lessons he ev...

Nick Reich is the Executive DIrector of Pack Away Hunger and Founder of River + Green   Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​200 where you'll hear Nick tell us about… ● His time as the Head Boys Basketball Coach for Indianapolis Metropolitan High School, how he led that team to the state championship title, and how one of his players made the number 1 play on ESPN SportsCenter Top 10 pla...

Dennis Jarrett is Founder of Indy Far East Magazine and Gary Naylor is President of FrontRunner Media and both co-founders of The Next Generation Initiative      Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​199 where you'll hear Dennis and Gary tell us about… ● Their early career successes and lessons learned through a variety of career opportunities along the way and what brought each of them t...

Morgan Grismore is the Director of Development and Katy Mailey is the VP of softball for  Brownsburg Youth Sports     Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​198 where you'll hear Morgan and Katy tell us about… ● The beginning of Brownsburg Youth Sports and the need for dedicated space to better serve the youth in the Brownsburg community. BYS is s a non-profit, volunteer run organization ...

Olivia West is a Keynote Speaker and the In-Game Host for the Pacers and Fever     Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​197 where you'll hear Liv tell us about… ● She defines the word NO as Next Opportunity and how a few NOs actually landed her with the opportunity as the In-Game host for Pacers and Fever and how the more valuable you become and helpful you are, will result in more YES ●...

Paul Corsaro is the Head Coach of IU Indianapolis Jaguars Men's Basketball   Listen to CCS episode ​194 where you'll hear Paul tell us about… ● How he relates his high school sports career to what he is doing now.  He states: "Everything that you do sets you up for what you do currently." ● The relationships he built in his life and coaching helped get him an introduction to his first D-1 coaching...

16 Tech Innovation District proudly presents Elevate Your Pitch 2024   Listen to this special release episode (1 of 2) with the following 16 Tech Entrepreneurs and Members      ●  Sherri Anderson - SPEDACTS, Inc      ●  Jose Carlos Sarmienta - Vertikal , Inc      ●  Paul Williams - 16 Tech Innovation District Senior Operations Shop Manager      ●  Derek Tuder - A-Team Party Rental, LLC      ●  Kri...

Anna Rohrer Heiny is the Co-Founder of Dreamfuel and 2x back to back women's winner of the 500 Festival Indy Mini Marathon    Listen to CCS episode ​195 where you'll hear Anna tell us about… ● The mindset, dedication, and training to be a successful runner and all the components to being a 5x High School National Champion and an 8x All American for Notre Dame ● The ups and downs of running includi...

Tony Kanaan is an Indy 500 Champion and Deputy Team Principal of Arrow McLaren   Listen to this special release episode where you'll hear Tony tell us about… ● Growing up in Brazil driving Go Karts, how that landed him a job in a Go Kart factory, and eventually competively race Go Karts and win multiple championships ● How his father inspired him to make it to Indianapolis by asking him to promise...

Kevin Bailey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dreamfuel     Listen to Circle City Success Podcast episode ​196 where you'll hear Kevin tell us about… ● How he was the first kid in his high school class to build websites, buiding websites for realtors and car websites including Dodge Viper, with his website ranking first on Yahoo for Dodge Vipers with a million people in traffic visiting his website, a...

16 Tech Innovation District proudly presents Elevate Your Pitch 2024   Listen to this special release episode (2 of 2) with the following 16 Tech Entrepreneurs and Members      ●  Stephen Creech - Stephen Creech Solopreneur (Artist)       ●  Cindy Hawkins - Circle City Sweets      ●  Nancy Wright - Respiratory Health Technologies      ●  Abbi Garvey - 16 Tech Innovation District Director of Corpor...

FrancesMary Loughead is the Founder of BFF Indy    Listen to Circle City Success episode ​193 where you'll hear FrancesMary tell us about… ● How working three jobs at once while still in school helped prepare her for the dedication and commitment that is involved with business ownership and all the tasks required for managing a  successful operation ● The value of taking intership opportunites in...

Brandon Clymer is the CEO of The Alleato Group   Listen to CCS episode ​192 where you'll hear Brandon tell us about… ● How he turned down a job offer out of college because it wasn't what he was passionate about doing and therefore made a financial decision to move to Indianapolis to start a job in sales  ● Taking calculated risks, his personal development journey, mentors, and gathering as much k...

Pete Quinn is National Director of Industrial Business Development for Sansone Group    Listen to CCS episode ​191 where you'll hear Pete tell us about… ● How his experience as a college football player at Purdue University helped him become a big football fan and later landed him back at Purdue as the Color Analyst for Purdue Football Radio Network. He shares that one of his coolest moments was h...

Diana Caldwell is the CEO of Amplified Sciences, Inc   Listen to CCS episode ​190 where you'll hear Diana tell us about… ● Early career learnings taught her the importance of people skills and communication and how those relate to practical people management leadership ● The Indiana Eco-system of VCs and start ups and the challenges she had when trying to get access to capital when raising funds f...

Rebecca Fleetwood Hession is a Keynote Speaker, Author, and the Founder and CEO of WEthrive.live   Listen to CCS episode ​189 where you'll hear Rebecca tell us about… ● How making a decision to leave home at an early age helped her experience life and taught her important lessons that are still applicable today  ● Being curious about her clients and not so worried about the content of a sale but t...

Niki Burt is the Senior Community Director at Yelp Indy   Listen to CCS episode ​188 where you'll hear Niki tell us about… ● How moving to Spain after graduating from Butler to become an English teacher became a major life changing experience including meeting her future husband, then moving back to the states, and her 90 day fiance story   ● Grabbing coffee with a mentor/sponsor eventually helped...