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Spring is in the air — along with the pollen— but that still has us ready to get outdoors after so much cold & rainy winter weather. It’s hard to argue that North Carolina golf courses aren’t some of this season’s favorite destinations. And anyone who loves golf knows one of the best, and “most storied,” courses in the world is right here in North Carolina at Pinehurst. Eric Kuester of Pinehurst Resort and Country Club tees it up with the BrandBuilders Podcast and the coming season.

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Cam Marston is the President and Owner of Generational Insights which provides clients the link between the generational and demographic shift in the workplace and marketplace. He’s also the host of his own podcast, What’s Working with Cam Marston. Cam provides specific actions which change the way businesses sell, market, manage, and lead, all while throwing in some big doses of humor to make the pill easier to swallow.

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In an age where we can have endless information at our fingertips around the clock and from around the globe, how do you make sense of it all? Especially, if some of it is in a different language or many different languages? Babel Street is a data analytics company that works to do that in more than 200 languages, and can chart social media in 18 major world languages. VP Clem McDavid shares the insights Babel Street can learn from all of this data, and social media monitoring worldwide.

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Parenting a special needs child that is all grown up, is a different kind of challenge. Dick Sesler realized his adult son needed the same kind of social interaction and skills-building as many young, special-needs children, but with fewer services available. On this BrandBuilders Podcast, he shares the story behind Camp Blue Skies — a 5-day, 4-night camp for kids over 21 who still want to play and make friends.

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“The ceiling is the ROOF!” according to one of North Carolina’s favorite sons. Of course, if you’re a Carolina fan — or just a basketball fan — you know it was Michael Jordan. BrandBuilders Podcast guest Josh Dernosek also specializes in keeping your roof solid under our Carolina Blue skies — he is the Southeast Region Sales Manager for Aldo Products, whose roof coatings keep the rain and weather outside your home where it belongs, instead of pouring down from your ceiling into your living room.

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Buying a house comes with a lot of preparation, and a lot of decisions. Our next guest on the BrandBuilders Podcast might tell you, “Just look for Brick!” No, that’s not style advice — it’s a slogan we imagine our guest, Brick McDermott with Highlands Residential Mortgage, could use. He gives us advice on mortgage questions you might have for buying your first home, or upgrading after the recent revaluations.

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Charlotte’s “inner ring” has seen a lot of growth and changes over the last 10 years, with areas north, south, and east of uptown being rebuilt into newer, fresher areas. That growth is slowly creeping west, too, but still has a ways to go.

Someone who knows that, as well as anyone, is Bart Noonan of West Boulevard Ministries. Once one of Charlotte’s most solid post-war middle-class neighborhoods, West Boulevard has been split by an interstate and dotted with high-poverty enclaves over the last 50 years. Bart is reaching out to lift up the folks living there. Welcome, Bart.

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Back in the old days, there were a few things an office needed to run effectively – the coffee maker, the phones, and the copier. Well, times have changed! We all share data without paper, make calls and answer e-mail on our phones, and … oh yes… suffer when the network goes down. Today’s guest on the BrandBuilders Podcast is Sam Lograsso of Sharp.

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Modern business can be full of sharks — but one North Carolina company embraces that! Actually, it’s their company name and logo. Mako Medical Laboratories is a full-scale medical lab serving business, doctors, urgent care facilities, and hospitals around the U.S., all from its headquarters in Raleigh. Mako Medical has won a dozen major awards and has been named the fastest-growing company in the Raleigh-Durham area for 3 years in a row. But even more than that, it’s known for charity outreach, supporting missionaries, and even a whole division of the company that hires ONLY veterans.

Welcome to the podcast, Justin L’Ecuyer and Jimmy Coleman!