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Open Streets 704 powered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is the fastest-growing, family-friendly event in Charlotte. It’s a day of car-free, or care-free, streets with games, activities, and an opportunity to connect with purpose. For four hours on a Sunday afternoon, people can walk, dance, play, ride bikes, and basically do anything but drive — along the city streets.

Here on the BrandBuilders Podcast are two people who talk the talk, AND walk the walk about Open Streets 704. Welcome John Short and Melissa Brokaw!

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If the phrase “corporate training” doesn’t get you excited, how about beaches, tropics, and surfing? Brian Formato moved his training skills from Charlotte to the beach for a new form of leadership training — one that takes students out of their buttoned-up surroundings to an unfamiliar place. He joins the Brandbuilders Podcast to tell us all about learning to lead through surfing and service at “LeaderSurf.”

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Every one of us relies on technology in our lives, whether it’s our phones that keep us connected through texts and social media, or online shopping, or banking. But how would you get along without any of it? Or worse, could your business keep running in the case of a cyber attack? Mick Marlier of SeedSpark explains what it takes to get the most out of technology in your business — and how to protect it — on this episode of the BrandBuilders Podcast.

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If you follow political or education reporting in the Charlotte area, you’ve probably read Andrew Dunn’s stories in The Charlotte Observer or Charlotte Agenda. Now he’s offering a weekly newsletter that digs deeper into how and why laws are made — with context that makes the stories easy to understand. He’s our guest on the Brandbuilders Podcast to talk about how you can follow news and politics in a way that matters to you, in the land of Longleaf Politics.