The Beers & Careers Podcast

Chief Consulting Officer, Lori Jones

From running a day care from her home to starting a manufacturing company with her husband Lori explains why “Life is all about how you handle Plan B” and how she has embraced that quote as her career evolved. She shares stories about being a woman running a manufacturing company in the energy industry and how responsible she felt for her employees and worried about their success. Now as a professor and start-up coach she shares why she stresses volunteering to learn new skills, meet new people and the importance of business exploration classes for students. Enjoy listening to our conversation with Lori Jones aka Lorraine Jones. 

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Director of Finance and Accounting, Tieg Bean

Tieg and I explored his path after college, which included starting at a smaller firm, going to Deloitte and then realizing the big 4 and big business wasn’t the best fit for him, and since then his desire to be at smaller companies. He spoke about the assessments he took to figure out what his career would be, describing it more as a process of elimination, the need to fail!  Lastly we discussed what we think office environments will be like post pandemic!

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Greg Lazarus, Chief Revenue Officer

Greg Lazarus: His journey from German National Lacrosse, to cold calling local businesses, to Chief Revenue Officer. He moved 8 times in 12 years, all for new opportunities and growth.  He talks about having “Imposter Syndrome", why he’s practicing being fearless and how he passed out before going bungee jumping. This 30 something has made the conscious decision to take more risks and it seems to be paying off as he is embarking on starting his own business.  Check out our convo with Greg Lazarus.

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Photographer and Filmmaker, Chris Cardoza

Photographer & Filmmaker: Hear stories about Chris’s first job making pizza boxes at a pizzeria in Fall River, MA to making videos with Pro Football Player JJ Watt at his house. One of his favorite projects is “Shooting Touch” a video docu-series he shoots and supports in Rwanda. This program’s goal is to promote equal access to physical activity and wellness. He talks about the amazing athletes he’s worked with, famous and not, and the challenges of starting his own company. He shares why he doesn’t want to be tied to a studio but prefers to work his own projects and documentaries and how he’s undaunted by failure.

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Owner Pure Drive Golf, Adam Kolloff

Adam is someone who followed his dream and it led to other opportunities along the way.  We talked about how good parenting and mentoring were vital to his current success.  Why Tiger Wood’s father Earl was a great motivator and mentor and why today’s parents get it wrong! Learn why someone who was successful decided to take the risk and go out on their own and the role that personal brand can play in your success. And yes he has played @PGA section events and won Golf Digest's Best Young Teacher's Award. 

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Sr Talent Acquisition Manager, Clean Harbors, Tim Therrien

Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, Clean Harbors Tim Therrien

A mini podcast with Tim Therrien, a former DAVIS employee, joins us to talk about his employer Clean Harbors.  Their employees are on the front-line providing decontamination services and they need to hire over 300 people serving 50 locations nationwide.  Learn about what it’s like to do this type of work and why armed forces, fire fighters and construction workers succeed in this environment.  Join us for this short episode and help us spread the word about the good work they’re doing and help them find more top talent to help them.

 

Learn more about current openings: www.careers.cleanharbors.com

 

Stand Up Philosopher, Michael Zildjian

This self-proclaimed stand up philosopher is focused on kindness and how he can contribute to that. From being a record and concert promoter to stories about Dave Grohl, the nicest guy, to some music legends who weren’t so nice, Michael shares his stories and his unique journey.  He tells us about his “Kindness Matters” bracelet and how the Boston Marathon Bombing affected him so deeply that he moved back to the Boston area and is focusing on how he can be of service to his community and to the world. Also, he wrote a very interesting book that talks about the parallels between life and golf, called Zilosophy on Golf: Observations on the Parallels Between Life and Golf. Enjoy this podcast.

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Chairman/CEO Bob Davis

CEO/Chairman The DAVIS Companies.  From starting a business in his basement to growing it to over $50MM, Bob Davis shares his thoughts about his journey, his feelings on leadership and why relationships are so important to him. Hear his views on managing, making decisions and what traits to look for and why he deliberately let’s people make mistakes. This amazing CEO (and yes we’re biased) shares his story about his first job delivering newspapers in Camden, NJ and what gets him fired up.  Enjoy this episode with Bob Davis CEO The DAVIS Companies

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Radio Host, Mark Dondero

“Pay attention to what brings you joy”. From college baseball to hosting radio and tv sports shows, Mark Dondero has had a pretty cool career so far.  He‘s asked Patriots coach Bill Belichek tough questions, skated with the Providence Bruins and Jimmy Kimmel used one of his clips on his show. Learn why he wrote his high school athletic director a thank you note and why he tells the kids at career day “Pay attention to what brings you joy”.  Check out this episode with Mark Dondero

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Wakefly CEO Dean Dorazio

From the Marine Corp to how he became CEO of his own tech company, Dean shares the scariest day of his life- when he got fired.  Learn about why his “Lead by example” mantra is intentional, why he focuses on working smarter and how he turned his biggest failure as a business owner into daily motivation! Enjoy our conversation with this interesting guy who loves Saturday am soccer and really good BBQ. Dean Dorazio, CEO of Wakefly.

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