The CommunityBriefings Podcast

Pros and Cons on Running a Successful Restaurant & Catering Business in 2022

The Community Briefing, Today's guest: 

Los Angeles native Gregory A. Dulan: An example of a Business Leader who has turned his passion into profit and is dedicated to giving back. Raised in the View Park area of Los Angeles, Dulan often found comfort in the kitchen helping his mother with family meals, while his father started a career in the restaurant business.

A second-generation Los Angeles Businessman, following in the footsteps of his father, the King of Soul Food, Adolf Dulan. 2014 marked Greg Dulan’s 28th Anniversary in the restaurant and catering business. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Community Business Briefing is a weekly Zoom webcast that streams live on Facebook. The Community Briefing was inspired by Crystal Mitchell, President of Mitchell Business Solutions and Co-Director of Recycling Black Dollars in April of 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic economic impact on our minority businesses.

This is a platform that is powered by our community. Powered and Sponsored by Recycling Black Dollars and the Black Business Association, Southern California Edison, and Sempre Energy.

Our goal is to provide small and minority businesses in our region with the most relevant information on various relief programs and initiatives. Since then, the webcast has expanded to not only help minority businesses by bringing stakeholders in our community to the table to keep the community informed.

Moderators: Crystal Mitchell, Co-Director of Recycling Black Dollars | Business Coach | Educator | Entrepreneur | Speaker

Robin Billups, The Connector | The Billups Group

Gregory Sneed, Financial Advisor | The Lifesaver Financial Services Producer: Steven D. Turner | The Slaton Group

Preparing Your Business for The Future?

Today's Guest: Darrell Brown, President, and CEO of The Rewirement Project, LLC, and Retired SVP & Regional Manager at U.S. Bank

Darrell Brown, a native of Los Angeles and retired executive who has managed $20 billion in assets and over 2 million customers while navigating the ups and downs of the global business economy.

As someone with over 47 years of extensive experience in diverse leadership and management roles within the banking world, I’m an outspoken advocate for identifying new markets for business customers with diverse financial needs.

With a clear, focused direction, I’ve been recognized as a proven change agent with expertise in revitalizing organizations, building brand equity, and affecting positive growth.

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The Community Business Briefing is a weekly Zoom webcast that streams live on Facebook. The Community Briefing was inspired by Crystal Mitchell, President of Mitchell Business Solutions and Co-Director of Recycling Black Dollars in April of 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic economic impact on our minority businesses.

This is a platform that is powered by our community. Powered and Sponsored by Recycling Black Dollars and the Black Business Association, Southern California Edison, and Sempre Energy. Our goal is to provide small and minority businesses in our region with the most relevant information on various relief programs and initiatives. Since then, the webcast has expanded to not only help minority businesses by bringing stakeholders in our community to the table to keep the community informed.

Moderators: Crystal Mitchell, Co-Director of Recycling Black Dollars | Business Coach | Educator | Entrepreneur | Speaker

Robin Billups, The Connector | The Billups Group

Gregory Sneed, Financial Advisor | The Lifesaver Financial Services Producer: Steven D. Turner | The Slaton Group

Community_Briefing_Ashley_Garner_Community_Outreach_Coordinator_State_of_California

Ashley has nearly a decade of experience in the housing industry, she has played an instrumental role at the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA). Actively working at CalHFA in the marketing and communications department serving single-family and multifamily real estate and lending, where she coordinated and hosted events focused on ownership strategies for homebuyers throughout California. I am also responsible for the design and execution of CalHFA’s urban outreach initiative which consists of advocating for minorities in the low to a moderate-income population with the intent of changing the narrative of homeownership through education.

 

Contact: Ashley Garner, Community Outreach Coordinator, State of California Email: agarner@calhfa.ca.gov https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homebuyer/borrower.htm#education ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Community Business Briefing is a weekly Zoom webcast that streams live on Facebook. The Community Briefing was inspired by Crystal Mitchell, President of Mitchell Business Solutions and Co-Director of Recycling Black Dollars in April of 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic economic impact on our minority businesses. This is a platform that is powered by our community. Sponsored by Recycling Black Dollars and the Black Business Association. Our goal is to provide small and minority businesses in our region with the most and relevant information on various relief programs and initiatives. Since then, the webcast has expanded to not only help minority businesses by bringing stakeholders in our community to the table to keep the community informed.

Moderators: Crystal Mitchell, Business Coach | Educator | Entrepreneur | Speaker

Robin Billups, The Connector | The Billups Group

Gregory Sneed, Financial Advisor | The Lifesaver Financial Services

Producer: Steven R. Turner, Managing Partner | The Slaton Group

Resources and tips from today's show. The WINTER SHELTERS have open from Nov.1, 2021- Mar. 31,2022. Please see the below link for locations and other information. Overnight shelter, meals, showers, and case management services are provided to all Winter Shelter Participants.

For any inquires please email.wintershelter@lahsa.org.

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Community Briefing, Ashley Garner, Community Outreach Coordinator, State of California,

Today guest, Ashley Garner, Community Outreach Coordinator, State of California.

Ashley has nearly a decade of experience in the housing industry, she has played an instrumental role at the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA). Actively working at CalHFA in the marketing and communications department serving single-family and multifamily real estate and lending, where she coordinated and hosted events focused on ownership strategies for homebuyers throughout California. I am also responsible for the design and execution of CalHFA’s urban outreach initiative which consists of advocating for minorities in the low to the moderate-income population with the intent of changing the narrative of homeownership through education. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Community Business Briefing is a weekly Zoom webcast that streams live on Facebook. The Community Briefing was inspired by Crystal Mitchell, President of Mitchell Business Solutions and Co-Director of Recycling Black Dollars in April of 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic economic impact on our minority businesses. This is a platform that is powered by our community. Sponsored by Recycling Black Dollars and the Black Business Association.

Our goal is to provide small and minority businesses in our region with the most and relevant information on various relief programs and initiatives. Since then, the webcast has expanded to not only help minority businesses by bringing stakeholders in our community to the table to keep the community informed.

Moderators:

Crystal Mitchell, Business Coach | Educator | Entrepreneur | Speaker

Robin Billups, The Connector | The Billups Group

Gregory Sneed, Financial Advisor | The Lifesaver Financial Services

Producer: Steven R. Turner, Managing Partner | The Slaton Group

Subscribe so you don’t miss our shows: http://www.youtube.com/c/BusinessZone... LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cymitchell/

 

The Community Briefing: Marcelo Bermudez, CEPA, Shōkunin, Inc.

Marcelo is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business & Lusk Center Ross Program in Real Estate. He has over 25 years of business, commercial real estate, ϔinance, and management experience working with investors, entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, family offices, and Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries.

He is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) to help business owners create a strategy that maximizes their business, personal and ϔinancial goals. He is currently obtaining his mediation certification with the State Bar of California to build consensus in difϔicult situations.

Community Briefing - Everett K. Sands, CEO & President Lendistry

Everett K. Sands, CEO & President, Lendistry says the memory of his grandfather is the fuel that inspires him to make Lendistry the largest African American lead community lending institution in the country. Sands graduated high school from the prestigious college prep school, St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received a BA in Japanese Economics. This educational foundation equipped Sands with the knowledge necessary to lead a traditional lending institution, but Sands says it is his personal and family experiences that drive him to make Lendistry the largest and Black-lead lending institution in the country.

Lendistry, is the perfect formula combining the speed and convenience of technology, the knowledge and guidance of responsible lending professionals, and the investment capital of social impactors and national banks. Our mission is to provide economic opportunities and progressive growth for small business owners, and their underserved communities, as a source of financing and financial education.

Community Briefing, Guest: Hilda Kennedy, Founder/President AmPac

Kennedy is the President and Founder of AmPac Tri State CDC; a nonprofit economic development corporation certified by the United States Small Business Administration to provide SBA guaranteed 504 loans for new and growing small businesses.

AmPac is the SBA’s first faith-based certified lender in the country. AmPac Tri-State CDC is a member of the National Association of Development Companies (NADCO), a Board Member of the Risk Management Association – Inland Empire Chapter, Past President, National Association of Women Business Owners – CA – Public Policy Director; National Association of Women Business Owners – Inland Empire, and has strong relationships with a number of banks, investors and non-traditional lenders.

Contact:

AmPac Capital 

https://ampac.com/

(909) 915-1706

 

Community Briefing, Guest: Dr. Sharon Peterson, Alumni Goldman Sachs

Dr. Sharon Peterson, Alumni Manager- Southern California Regional Center for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. Dr. Sharon Peterson is Alumni Manager for the Southern California Regional Center for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. She supports the Southern California alumni and is a liaison to the national 10,000 Small Businesses alumni program.

Prior to becoming Alumni Manager for the 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative, as President of Goldberg Consulting, she worked with small to medium size companies. She has worked as a consultant with several Small Business Development Centers and business owners over the past decade, helping small businesses achieve economic impact in their communities. Her expertise is in loan packaging and developing marketing and sales strategies.

Goldman Sachs, 10.000 Small Business

https://www.10ksbapply.com/

Community Briefing - Bryce Fluellen, Executive Dir. Social Equity Franchising EveryTable

EveryTable Taps Food Justice Veteran to Lead Social Equity Franchise A community changemaker, Fluellen has fought for food justice and social equity for more than 20 years developing and implementing strategic programs at Starbucks, Magic Johnson Enterprises, and the American Heart Association to drive systemic change to benefit underserved populations and communities.

As Community Impact Director at the Los Angeles chapter of the American Heart Association, he was instrumental in developing and implementing a multi-year, million-dollar regional campaign with the National Football League Foundation to transform and improve youth physical activity, building a collective impact blueprint for the League to scale across 30 team markets.

https://everytable.com/

Community Briefing - Meet: Mike Feuer, Candidate for Los Angeles Mayor 2022

Guest: Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer has long been one of California's leading lawyers and lawmakers.

As LA's chief lawyer and prosecutor since July 2013, he has brought an innovative, problem-solving focus that combines fair and effective prosecution with initiatives to improve public safety and the quality of life throughout the city.

City Attorney Mike Feuer has announced that he is running for mayor in 2022, and has filed papers for a campaign and launched the website mikefeuerformayor.com. He said he will begin reaching out to community leaders and potential donors, and that this week he will embark on a listening tour. He said his campaign will be “neighborhood centered.”

“As City Attorney, I have taken great strides to change the nature of our office and make it more focused on how we make neighborhoods throughout the city safer and improve their quality of life,” Feuer told Los Angeles this morning. “I’m going to take that same approach to the mayor’s office and embed members of the mayor’s staff, of my staff, in neighborhoods throughout the city to tackle the priorities that matter most in communities.”