CY6 - Check Your Six

Retired Marine Major Barron Mills stopped by the GRP Studios for Episode 72 of the Check Your Six Podcast. Barron is the current Director of the Florida Association of Veteran Owned Businesses which is just one of the ways he helps give back to both veterans and small business. His involvement with local developmental councils and other non-profits along with his training and experience as an offi...

Episode 71 of the Check Your Six Podcast brought Sean Esler from The Esler Edge and Jerald Huff from My WebSite Spot back into the GRP Studios to talk about a variety of subjects. Both of us trust these two gentlemen and have been the recipient of their services so it was great to have both of them come back in and talk about some of the things that they specialize in for their respective business...

Nathalia Bailey dropped by GRP Studios for the 70th episode of the Check Your Six Podcast. Nathalia has created Nathalia Bailey Consulting and perhaps is somewhat different than other consultants that are in the business. The approach she takes to get to know her clients is a little bit unique in the time she takes with each one before she puts her plans into action. Lots of the typical questions...

Episode 69 of the Check Your Six - CY6 brought Army veteran Matt Wood into the GRP Studios to talk about his company EmpowerEmploy. Matt shared information about his military service, his transition out of the service and his decision to start EmpowerEmploy. Many of the businesses that hire veterans do not always understand some of the benefits as well as some of the challenges in helping them ada...

Episode 68 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast brought Army veteran Dottie Adams into the GRP Studios to talk about the way that she helps veterans prepare for their visits to the VA. Dottie had been a VSO(Veterans Service Officer) but decided to take the the experience that she learned working with the DAV(Disabled American Veterans) to help better equip veterans gather the information they need...

It was great having Neeld Wilson in the GRP Studios for Episode 67 of the Check Your Six podcast. Neeld is a Navy Veteran, FAVOB member and owner of Gator Engineering & Aquifer Restoration or G.E.A.R Engineer. We talked a lot about Neeld's time in the Navy aboard several of the aircraft carriers he served on and what his job was during his course of service...sometimes not as glamorous as...

Today is a bit unusual for the Check Your Six Podcast, we decided to come into the studio and record a short session and release it the same day, to honor the service members that were killed this week in Kabul. Both of us are Air Force Veterans, both of us were cops, Craig retired after 20 years, I got out after 4 and today is just a reminder that there are men and women all over the globe standi...

Episode 66 of the Check Your Six podcast brought Jamie Miller into the GRP Studios to talk about the Art Of Conscious Communication. There was so much stuff to cover that Jamie teaches to groups and individuals that we feel like we barely scratched the surface. Just looking at asking different questions, in a different way to get a specific response was just a very small part of what he was trying...

Episode 65 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast from the GRP Studios had Tony Boni, yes, that Tony Boni, drop by to talk about Tradebank of Orlando. Tradebank Orlando is part of one of the oldest know forms of commerce we commonly call the barter system. Perhaps not as much in play as it was back in the Mesopotamia tribes period in early 6000bc when it was reportedly introduced, barter is still par...

Sgt. Major Tommie Maldonado stopped by for another session about helping veterans work through their benefits programs. Episode 64 of the Check Your Six-CY6 podcast was not only that, but also about potential spouse and dependent benefits as well. It is always great having the Sgt. Major in the GRP Studios to talk about everything that he continues to do for our military here in Central Florida! I...

We finally grounded USAF Captain Anna Tanzilla with the Camaraderie Foundation, for Episode 63 of the Check Your Six podcast. Anna flew in to the GRP Studios from Lakeland, actually she drove so I can't use the very old "and boy were her arms tired" pun, to be on the show and talk about the work they are doing at the Foundation. This in not just for veterans but for anyone that is m...

Episode 62 of the Check Your Six podcast brought Jennifer Rucco into the GRP Studios with the CG Moneta LLC group. Jennifer talked about helping businesses potentially reduce costs with things like tax incentive studies, corporate expense reductions, telecommunication, cloud and IT Service just to name a few. So many of us small, or emerging business owners, often just look at the cost of the prod...

Jennifer Englert from The Orlando Law Group stopped by GRP Studios again and talked about non-profits on the 61st Episode of the Check Your Six podcast. Always enjoy meeting with Jennifer and today was no exception as she walked through some of the topics surrounding the non-profit world. Jennifer and The Orlando Law Group have done so much for local charities both in support, instruction, develop...

We could see clearly after Dr. Farhana Yunus and Jerry Muscadin dropped by the GRP Studios for Episode 60 of the Check Your Six podcast. Dr. Yunus owns My Eye Care in Casselberry and is another of the Seminole Chamber members that we enjoyed having on the podcast. Learning what led Dr. Yunus into the field of optometry, her plan, along with Jerry, to slow grow the business and how they funded the...

Episode 59 brought another Seminole Chamber member into the GRP Studios for the latest segment for the Check Your Six - CY6 Podcast. Andre Kratt came in and talked about the need for property adjusters when dealing with insurance companies and the claims process. When you need to call them, why you should call them, what to expect from them and the results that you could get using them as opposed...

Ken Countess of the Countess Group dropped by GRP Studios for his session on the Check Your Six - CY5 Podcast. Ken  shared some great information with Craig and Tim about all the services they provide at the Countess Group for emerging businesses. Besides being a trainer and a top performer for Constant Contact, he also talked about email marketing, targeting your ideal client, finding your niche,...

Episode 57 brought Jeff and Pam Brown into the GRP Studios for their session of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast. Besides being a Deputy Sheriff here in Central Florida, both Jeff and Pam are impacting the lives of our first responders through the Hometown Heroes Alliance based right here in Central Florida. https://www.hometownheroesalliance.org/events While they are based here locally, they are...

Episode 56 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast brought Tom Keen into the GRP Studios for his podcast. Tom is the current Treasurer of the Lake Nona Veterans Club and also works with The Fisher House at Lake Nona Veterans Hospital, the Lake Nona Veterans Hospital itself and the Central Florida Veterans Memorial Park on the ground of the LNVH. Tom has been working for a lot of years in the veteran c...

Tom Costa with Protective Solutions was in the GRP Studios for Episode 56 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast. Tom and his crew with Protective Solutions are your interior environmental specialists when it comes to mold, water damage, duct cleaning, emergency services and more. He talked through his work journey from his start in the construction industry through to his becoming a certified mold r...

Episode 54 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast had Air Force Veteran Sylvester Terry in the GRP Studios for the  Memorial Day episode airing today. Thanks to Sylvester, who does own a company called The World Golf Center virtual golf simulator, but today he talked about his ties with the local chapter of the Tuskegee Airman Inc. Back in WWII when these individuals were part of the Army Air Corps,...

Season 2 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast jumps out of the gate with Kristina Peacock from the Seminole Chamber dropping by the GRP Studios for her session. Kristina has been with the Seminole Chamber for quite a few years now and has watched it continue to grow and expand into a tremendously large an impactful chamber. It really is not your daddy's chamber with multiple councils throughou...

Considering we started this on Memorial Day weekend last year, we decided to recap the last half of year one for the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast. We have had some great guests on and have learned a lot, maybe even more than the first half. It really has been an honor for business owners to come on and share their stories, talk about the issues and challenges as well as the success that they have...

Actress and voice over artist Amanda Powell stopped by GRP Studios for Episode 51 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast. For those of you that listen to the podcast on a regular basis, she is the voice that you hear on many of the commercials that are in between the segments. Amanda has been in the studio on other projects but today she stopped by to give her story about the business, being an actre...

Episode 50 of the Check Your Six - CY6 podcast had Dave Kramer of Dave Talks Business,  https://www.davetalksbusiness.com/About-Dave/  in the GRP Studios. Dave has been a lifelong entrepreneur, has started numerous businesses and helped launch even more. His focus is now on helping those just starting or are growing their business to learn how to better use the tools of the business trade. His You...

Episode 49 of the Check Your Six podcast has Adrian Thacker stopping by the GRP studios to talk about the necessity of pre-screening potential employees. Adrian owns Proficiency Background Services,  https://proficiencybackground.com/  now with two locations in Orlando and Tampa, that provides various levels of background checks for potential employees. Before you bring someone in as an employee,...