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CBF Archives
by Columbus Business First
The lifetime archives of the Columbus Business First podcasts, featuring older episode series such as Newsmakers, Crisis Management, The Wrap, and News & Brews.
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72. Live from the Inaugural Women Of Influence Awards - Women Of Influence
For nearly five years, our Women of Influence podcast has featured conversations with some of the most influential female executives in Central Ohio. This year, Columbus Business First decided to take things a step further with the launch of our inaugural Women of Influence Awards. We fielded 126...
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Newsmakers #11: Robotics company's path from basement to $56 million VC investment - Women Of Influence
The client wanted the impossible: Give a robot all the skills of a human welder. Five years ago a custom automotive and marine supplier in Cleveland asked what was then an engineering consulting firm to help him with a labor shortage, and Path Robotics Inc. was born. "The tolerances are…
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Newsmakers #10: 30 years of evolution for Crimson Cup Coffee and Tea - Women Of Influence
It’s almost hard to believe there was a time when good coffee just wasn’t a thing. But it wasn’t that long ago. Greg Ubert was working in computer software in the late 1980s, but what really captured his imagination was coffee — real, good coffee; the art and science of roasting. And, of course,...
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Newsmakers #9: North Country Charcuterie builds a broader, better balanced business - Women Of Influence
Count North Country Charcuterie among those businesses that are wiser and more efficient at this point in the pandemic. The Columbus-based maker and processor of salami, fresh sausage and other products has used new offerings to make a better-balanced business and refigured production space to...
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Newsmakers #8: Harley Blakeman's journey from homeless criminal to startup founder - Women Of Influence
Harley Blakeman's LinkedIn profile is one of a kind, but he's working to change that. The founder of Columbus tech company Honest Jobs LLC lists one prior job and the book he wrote, then drops this attention grabber: "Drug dealer, January 2009 - November 2010." "Started with $500 and grew the...
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Crisis Management #47: Comune on weathering the storm and what it needs to see to reopen - Women Of Influence
Comune will reopen for business, but that was never a sure thing. Co-owner Joe Galati said he met with his accountant in November. The accountant asked him what Galati believed his chances of going bankrupt were. Galati said 20%. The accountant said 90% “That hit the hardest,” Galati said.…
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Crisis Management #46: Why North High Brewing stopped worrying and became a restaurant operator - Women Of Influence
Business in times of struggle often talk of getting back to their roots. Not North High Brewing. Like many breweries and other businesses, the last year was one of big changes in the face of challenges, but the North High of today doesn’t resemble the one first dreamed up by co-founders Gavin...
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Newsmakers #7: Reviving a startup to tackle a growing wire fraud problem - Women Of Influence
The startup he co-founded based on his original idea was running out of money, and he'd long since left day-to-day operations, but Chris Sauerzopf couldn't let go of the growing wire fraud problem it was trying to solve. SafeWire is back in business and growing, after investor and adviser Pete...
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Crisis Management #45: CoverMyMeds' Veronica Knuth on translating in-office perks to a remote-work world - Women Of Influence
What's a company known for providing free daily staff lunches do when everyone has been sent to work from home? At CoverMyMeds, the culinary staff wrote a cookbook, which was mailed to employees and business contacts over the holidays. But mostly they're busy planning how to move into a new...
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Crisis Management #44: BTTS' John Brooks on events during the pandemic and undeterred expansion plans - Women Of Influence
John Brooks knows how to throw a party. As managing partner of BTTS Holdings, he runs some of the city's biggest events venues that you've likely visited for work or leisure including The Estate at New Albany; Brookshire, in Delaware; and WatersEdge in Hillard. But the pandemic was a buzzkill –…
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Crisis Management #43: Wilcox Communities on the surge in residential demand - Women Of Influence
Covid-19 has pushed us all to work from home. So naturally, people are thinking about where they live, too. The housing market is exploding in Central Ohio as people rush to move to larger spaces, be they homes or apartments. And that's meant a change of business for Jonathan and Jamie Wilcox, of...
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Crisis Management #42: Capital University's Dave Kaufman on applying a business mind to higher education - Women Of Influence
Capital University’s interim president Dave Kaufman doesn’t have a background in higher education, but the former Encova Insurance CEO is leading the university during one of the toughest periods for colleges and universities: the Covid-19 crisis. Kaufman, who talked with Columbus Business First...
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Newsmakers #6: Matrix Meats addressing future food supply issues here in Dublin - Women Of Influence
Can meat move from pasture grazed to lab raised? That’s a problem Dublin-based Matrix Meats is helping companies around the world try to solve. The Dublin-based start-up received some seed-stage backing late last year and is growing, adding staff and looking for new opportunities. CEO Eric…
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Crisis Management #41: Expanding Andelyn Bioscience on becoming for-profit, navigating pandemic - Women Of Influence
Even before starting construction on a $100 million facility, a biotech affiliate of Nationwide Children's Hospital had to adapt to two huge changes simultaneously: Switching into for-profit mindset and securing safety in a pandemic. Andelyn Biosciences Inc. is building a 185,000-square-foot...
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Crisis Management #40: Nikola Labs on the Covid 'fog of war' and changing CEOs - Women Of Influence
As of January, Nikola Labs Inc. was headed for its best year ever. By April, like many businesses shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, the startup was in "the fog of war." In the latest episode of Crisis Management, Columbus Business First's podcast about steering a business through the…
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Crisis Management #39: Simple Times Mixers on e-commerce, to-go cocktails and what growth looks like now - Women Of Influence
Simple Times Mixers’ big problem prior to 2020 was space. Its first two years of business were spent building its brand and then trying to keep up with demand as it used rental kitchen space. Last year it finally moved into a home of its own, not just giving it a retail storefront and space for...
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Crisis Management #38: Cameron Mitchell on lingering Covid questions and what's next for his business - Women Of Influence
Cameron Mitchell wasn’t sure he restaurant company would still be around. The founder and CEO of Cameron Mitchell Restaurants was just as scared as anyone in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic that the event might lead to the end of the company he’s spent nearly three decades building. Now...
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Crisis Management #37: Columbus Food Adventures on why it'll emerge stronger from the pandemic - Women Of Influence
Columbus Food Adventures thought its business was done when Ohio shut down dine-in restaurants in March. After all its business was based on going into restaurants. In groups. That’s two things that couldn’t be done then and are still limited today months later. “In a sense, we were starting from...
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Columbus Business First Future of Health Care Forum - Women Of Influence
One of the industry's most affected by the coronavirus pandemic has been healthcare, with hospitals not only serving on the front lines of the response to COVID-19, but also seeing their finances up ended by a temporary ban on elective procedures. The pandemic has also accelerated the adoption of...
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Crisis Management #36: Yellowbird Foodshed's Benji Ballmer on growing and sustaining amid the pandemic - Women Of Influence
Benji Ballmer would like nothing more than to put himself out of business. That’s how he’ll know he did a good job. The founder of Yellowbird Foodshed started his produce and food delivery business in 2014 connecting a handful of Ohio growers with a couple hundred customers. Today the company is...
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Crisis Management #35: Alliance Data's Ralph Andretta on Great Recession learnings and the company HQ - Women Of Influence
Even though retailers may be struggling through the coronavirus pandemic, few of their customers are defaulting on their credit card bills. As the crisis unfolded, Alliance Data Systems Corp. managers looked back to the 2008 recession for credit management models to follow and what to avoid, CEO...
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Crisis Management #34: Watershed's Greg Lehman on 10 years of distilling and the upside of 2020 - Women Of Influence
Watershed Distillery started 2020 hot — posting two of its best months of business ever. But by mid-March the coronavirus pandemic scuttled all those aspirations for the year. And it was a high hopes year. Watershed marks 10 years of business this month and though it is celebrating, the plan is...
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Crisis Management #32: Mike Abrams on the pandemic's long-term impact on hospitals - Women Of Influence
Central Ohio's hospitals have teamed up for years to try to reduce high rates of infant mortality, and the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare even more disparities in healthcare. Statewide, hospitals are redoubling examination of how to reduce inequity, not only through public policy but their…
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Newsmaker #5: Origin Malt's Victor Thorne on the business case for diversity - Women Of Influence
Origin Malt’s mission is more than bringing barley back to Midwest farms. Co-founder Victor Thorne also wants to increase diversity in an industry of farming, malting and making beer and spirits where there aren’t many people of color. Thorne is multiracial. His father’s family is from Barbados...
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Crisis Management #31: The Royce's Walter Carpenter on opening a restaurant in the pandemic - Women Of Influence
Walter Carpenter is a first-time restaurant owner, but he’s doing so with decades of experience. The owner of The Royce, which is now open at Polaris Fashion Place, has more than 30 years in the industry starting as a cook at historic Columbus brand G.D. Ritzy’s and more than 20 years with…
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Crisis Management #30: Hen Quarter's Ron Jordan on a #BLM sales bump and how he built his business - Women Of Influence
Sales are up at Ron Jordan’s Hen Quarter restaurant. But will that gain sustain? The owner of the Bridge Park dining spot said the combination of a new menu and a surge in support related to the Black Lives Matter movement are driving that increase. “I do think that some of it, unfortunately, is...
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Crisis Management #29: Hal Paz on steering Wexner Medical Center through the pandemic (and more) - Women Of Influence
When Dr. Hal Paz stepped into a newly created role at Ohio State University last June, he told Columbus Business First, “I want to be at the place that defines the next century of what healthcare looks like.” No one could have imagined this century. "What has happened in the past year is...
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Crisis Management #28: Mount Carmel's new CEO Lorrain Lutton on tackling they system's many challenges - Women Of Influence
When Lorraine Lutton started as CEO of Mount Carmel Health System in early April, Ohio had just passed 100 deaths and 1,000 hospitalizations from Covid-19, and the region's hospitals were almost finished building a field hospital in the Greater Columbus Convention Center. A lot had changed in the...
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Crisis Management #27: One Columbus' Kenny McDonald on job creation amid Covid-19 - Women Of Influence
One Columbus entered this decade with a sense of accomplishment and a revised mission to do better: Instead of "growth for growth's sake," the organization wants to build equity in every economic development project. Then a worldwide pandemic opened wealth gaps into chasms – making the work of…
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Crisis Management #26: Stephanie Hightower on Covid-19's impact on minority-owned businesses - Women Of Influence
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on small businesses from across the Columbus community – but Columbus Urban League CEO Stephanie Hightower says that “We may be in the same storm, but we’re not in the same boat.” Minority-owned businesses have been disproportionately impacted, Hightower...
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Crisis Management #25: Drive Capital's Mark Kvamme on finding opportunities despite the economy - Women Of Influence
Paradoxically, many technology companies have been historically wary of running their business in the cloud, connecting only through technology instead of face-to-face. Working from home was seen as a temporary or emergency fallback, say when a child was home sick. Then the coronavirus pandemic...
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Crisis Management #24: Kelley Griesmer on the 'shecession' and why now is a moment for change - Women Of Influence
Kelley Griesmer recently found herself chatting with a male colleague who found himself struggling to find balance amid the pandemic. With his kids home from school it was hard to start working until midday, and he worried that coworkers would be questioning his commitment to his job as he dealt...
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CBF Forum: Restaurants talk the good, the bad and the rainy of reopening patios - Women Of Influence
Ohio restaurants can open up for dine-in seating Thursday. But there’s bound to be a learning curve as operators welcome customers back in to an environment where there are new rules. Social distancing, masks and other new processes and procedures are the new standards in place by the state…
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Crisis Management #23: Gramercy Books' Linda Kass on being nimble with ecommerce and events - Women Of Influence
Amazon.com is known for a lot of things these days, but books are no longer top of mind when you think of the ecommerce giant. For the nation’s independent booksellers, that presents an opportunity as welcome as it is unexpected. The coronavirus pandemic has upended the business models of…
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Crisis Management #22: Lt. Gen. Michael Ferriter on lessons veterans offer at this trying time - Women Of Influence
Lt. Gen. Michael Ferrier, who is president and CEO of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, said veterans have many important lessons to offer during the global coronavirus pandemic. For instance, Ferriter said, there are several corollaries between veterans that have been…
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Crisis Management #21: Debra Penzone on reopening salons and why Penzone is going a step beyond - Women Of Influence
It’s been a long two months for Charles Penzone Inc. but the salon chain is going to take an extra two days before welcoming customers back. Although the state is allowing hair and nail salons to reopen Friday, the six Penzone Salons + Spa locations around Central Ohio will take two days for...
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Crisis Management #20: Finite State's Matt Wyckhouse on scaling up and growing despite Covid-19 - Women Of Influence
With funding and major customers in hand, cybersecurity startup Finite State Inc. is in the rare position of hiring aggressively and growing by as much as 10 times despite the coronavirus pandemic. The Columbus company raised $12.5 million in venture capital before much of the investing world…
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Crisis Management #19: Seventh Son's Collin Castore on reopening plans, challenges - Women Of Influence
EDITOR'S NOTE: After this podcast was initially published, Seventh Son revised its reopening plan. The brewery is now holding off on reopening until a date that is still to be determined. Delivery has been a hit for Seventh Son Brewing — but it can only do so much. The Columbus craft brewery…
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Crisis Management #18: Piada's Matt Harding on reopening, moving past the industry's 'dirty secret' - Women Of Influence
Covid-19 has Piada Italian Street Food reconsidering more than just sanitation and cleanliness. The Columbus-based restaurant chain, which has 40 restaurants in seven states including Texas. That means it’s been able to open some of its dining rooms, albeit under capacity restrictions. The bulk…
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Crisis Management #17: Randy Schoedinger on shifting business, the roller coaster of securing PPP - Women Of Influence
Schoedinger Funeral and Cremation Service like other businesses has had to adjust to operating under the shutdown in place about to slow the spread of Covid-19. With the ban on large gatherings and the guidelines on social distancing, many families are opting for small, private ceremonies or are...
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Crisis Management #16: COTA's Joanna Pinkerton on free rides and difficult decisions - Women Of Influence
Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, Joanna Pinkerton and her team and her team at COTA realized they had a problem. At a time when public health officials were encouraging people to keep their distance, entering a bus and paying a fare required passing within 6 feet of a driver. The COTA team...
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Crisis Management #15: Pelotonia's Doug Ulman on adapting the fundraiser for now and beyond - Women Of Influence
There's an irony about decision-making during times of crisis, Pelotonia CEO Doug Ulman says. "You have to make tons of decisions with imperfect information," Ulman told Columbus Business First in the latest episode of our Crisis Management podcast. "That can be really challenging, but the…
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Crisis Management #14: Updox's Michael Morgan on how business has surged due to Covid-19 - Women Of Influence
Dublin-based Updox LLC added video chat to its secure physician communications network last year, but adoption was middling, about 220 telehealth visits per day. In the coronavirus pandemic, it's soared to 45,000 a day. The health IT company signed on 10,000 clinician users in the space of just...
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Crisis Management #13: MediaSource's Lisa Arledge Powell on running a business while having Covid-19 - Women Of Influence
Lisa Arledge Powell started to journal at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic to track her learnings and leadership at this trying time. She ended up with quite a story. The president of MediaSource, a Columbus-based communications agency, didn’t just have to figure out how to best serve the...
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Crisis Management #12: IGS' Scott White on refocusing amid Covid-19 - Women Of Influence
Faced with pandemic-related restrictions that make its traditional direct-sales model unworkable, Dublin-based IGS Energy opted to retrain its employees for different roles rather than laying them off. "Our first concern was for our employees and heir safety and our customers," CEO Scott White...
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Crisis Management #11: YWCA's Christie Angel on how coronavirus is highlighting racial disparity - Women Of Influence
It didn't take the coronavirus pandemic for Christie Angel to become aware of racial disparities in public health. Angel and her team at YWCA Columbus were already studying the ways that racism is considered a public health crisis in itself. So the racial disparities playing out in the…
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Crisis Management #10: Gary Lovely of The Book Loft on selling mystery, fighting Amazon - Women Of Influence
How can customers experience a treasure hunt when they can leave their house to go hunting? That’s the quandary that face The Book Loft, the historic German Village book shop known for its 32 rooms filled with potential finds for voracious readers. In our latest episode of Crisis Management, Gary...
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Crisis Management #9: Jonathan Moody settles in as CEO during Covid-19 - Women Of Influence
Covid-19 has disrupted many businesses across Columbus, but the pandemic poses a unique challenge for those with new leaders. Jonathan Moody was named CEO of Moody Nolan Inc. January 1 after several years as president, taking over management of the 230-employee firm his father founded in 1982.…
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Crisis Management #8: Wolf's Ridge Brewing's Bob Szuter on delivery success and stimulus questions - Women Of Influence
Wolf’s Ridge Brewing had been anticipating its biggest year ever. It expanded production in January but by March — like all breweries and restaurants — business restrictions caused by Covid-19 sent it scrambling. A new home delivery program for beer went live right as the state closed dine-in...
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Crisis Management #7: Geben Communication's Heather Whaling on managing clients and her own team - Women Of Influence
Heather Whaling founded her businesses during the Great Recession, so running a business amid an economic crisis isn't totally new for her. But the coronavirus pandemic and its ensuing economic impact have forced her to take steps she never had to before – including laying off a few team members…
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