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It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch

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OUT TO LUNCH finds Baton Rouge Business Report Editor Stephanie Riegel combining her hard news journalist skills and food background: conducting business over lunch. Baton Rouge has long had a storied history of politics being conducted over meals, now the Capital Region has an equivalent culinary home for business: Mansur"s. Each week Stephanie holds court over lunch at Mansur"s and invites members of the Baton Rouge business community to join her. You can also hear the show on WRKF 89.3FM.

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27:35

By Design

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/04/21

There’s a lot of focus these days on STEM professions—science, technology, engineering and math—but those who were born with an artistic or creative temperament, really have no choice but to follow their passion. How do you turn a creative spirit into a profession that will support you for life? Colleen Waguespack has the answer to that question. In her case it's Colleen Waguespack Interiors. Colleen is a graduate of the LSU School of Interior Design, and started her career in

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27:00

Recovery

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/04/14

Over the next few years, the disaster management industry in the United States alone is expected to top $122 billion dollars, which points to a lot of problems with our climate, but also to the many opportunities that exist for companies able to respond to the needs of city, state and local governments when they’re hit hard by natural disaster. Louisiana has a growing expertise in the disaster management arena and is home to a handful of companies that are carving out a space in the field and

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The Ideas Market

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/04/07

With the technology explosion that seemingly never ends, there’s never been a more exciting time to be an inventor, an innovator or a creator. But the same tech that brings an inventor’s ideas to life also open us up to complications, and challenges that make us vulnerable to threats from competitors who may want steal our great ideas. And that’s why we have Intellectual Property laws. Michael Leachman is an attorney withJones Walkerwho specializes in Intellectual Property:

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27:00

Pork and Shrimp

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2021/03/24

Food is such an important part of our culture in south Louisiana and there’s no shortage of entrepreneurs who try their hand at launching a food-related business. But just because you can make magic in the kitchen, doesn’t mean you can run a successful restaurant, catering operation, or packaged food company. In fact, 80% of restaurants don’t make it five years. What makes it so tough, and how do some people managed to pull it off? Stephanie's guests on this edition of Out to Lunch

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27:00

Building A Better Mousetrap

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/03/17

One of the keys to successful entrepreneurship is figuring out how to build a better mousetrap. It’s not so much about inventing something new or different but just doing it in a new or different or better way. The impetus for this kind of ingenuity and creativity is finding a novel way to exploit a known market, but how do you (a) do that exactly and (b) convince people who already have an established purchasing preference that they ought to dump their old habit and switch to your

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27:46

Alternative Healthcare

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/03/10

As healthcare becomes more complicated, complex, and expensive, some providers are getting frustrated and fed up. Others are finding opportunity in the challenges and creating new ways of delivering care, providing benefits, and making sense of the industry for those who are stuck paying the premiums. Whether it’s through holistic health and wellness programs or sophisticated consulting firms, the business of healthcare is booming for free-thinking alternative healthcare entrepreneurs in Baton

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29:36

Mentorship Matters

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/03/03

There’s an old adage that says: If you catch someone a fish, you feed them for a day, if you teach them how to fish, you feed them for a lifetime. Mentorship matters, especially today, where there are so many needs and so many people are looking for role models. Trey Godfrey is executive director of 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge, a nonprofit organization that mentors and empowers young Black men, starting in middle school. Through a variety of programs, 100 Black Men helps boys and young

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27:44

No Debt No Broker

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/02/24

Have you ever pondered the awesome power of the Internet and wondered, "How can I use this tool to come up with something that will revolutionize a certain sector of the economy?" If you were born before the internet era, like a lot of us, you probably have. And you probably haven’t been able to come up with anything. Which is what separates you, and the rest of us, from Stephanie's two guests on this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge. Stephanie Hoskins created Debtle. It's a cloud-based

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29:50

I Hate Paper

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/02/17

Although we live in a digital world today, most of us – both at home and at work - have too many pieces of paper still stored in file cabinets, boxes, and in piles that we have promised ourselves we’ll go through one day soon. But, as we all know, "one day doesn’t" always come. And that’s a problem that not only puts us at risk for information theft, but also clouds our ability to organize our finances, and our lives. Jay Babb has a solution for you. Jay is the owner of

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29:00

That Camo Aroma

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/02/10

Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. And while it may be a quaint adage it’s as true as ever today. Whether it’s brewing a better homeopathic cough syrup or designing duck hunting garb for female duck hunters, local entrepreneurs are building successful startups around products that the market was crying out for. Andrea Leyerle is a Baton Rouge-based entrepreneur who has created an online and retail nutraceutical business, Andi Lynn’s Pure and Custom Formulary

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27:00

Ambrosia Blooms

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/02/03

According to latest estimates, the U.S. wedding industry is worth over $60 Billion annually, and the average wedding sets the happy couple – or their parents – back by a whopping $44,000. Weddings are big business today. And this has created all sorts of opportunities for creative entrepreneurs who have figured out how to offer goods and services to satisfy the fancy and both the modest and lavish budget of every bride. Blooms Lauren Bercier is co-founder and CEO of Something Borrowed

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Matt Flynn Means Business

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/01/27

It’s not unusual on Out to Lunch to have a guest who’s a star in their own world. Someone who’s well known and highly regarded in a particular field.It’s much less common for me to have lunch with someone who’s a real star. Someone whose face and name is known nationwide. But that’s who I’m having lunch with today. My guest on this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge is Matt Flynn. Matt was a football player who first found fame as a quarterback for the LSU

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27:00

The Great Outdoors

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/01/20

Louisiana, for all its man-made foibles and imperfections, is blessed with a lot of lush greenery, natural wildlife, and a temperate climate that allows for outdoor recreation. We also take our great outdoors for granted, and as a result, have one of the worst environmental records in the state and a host of regulations to deal with it. Diane Baum is owner of Baum Environmental Group, a contract and consulting firm that specializes in helping commercial and governmental clients secure environmental

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That Baton Rouge Style

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/01/13

One of the most exciting and interesting aspects of entrepreneurship is that there are so many niches, fields and areas of specialty that didn’t exist as recently as just 20 years ago but today provide opportunities for the creative and ambitious to build entire lifestyles and careers. What’s also unique and special about these emerging fields is the way they blend entrepreneurship and business know-how with a higher mission – to help others or to help the environment or just to do

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Healthcare Heavyweights

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2021/01/06

Although we’re living in an age of hyperbole where headlines and politicians are apt to cast everything in terms of absolute disaster or unprecedented achievement, it might be surprising but no exaggeration to claim that there are institutions and scientists in Baton Rouge that are world leaders in healthcare. Dr. John Kirwan is Executive Director of thePennington Biomedical Research Center.“Pennington” as it is mostly referred to locally, is a 30-year-old facility in Baton Rouge

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Chef Motto Meets Spuddy

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/12/30

The petro-chem sector may be Louisiana’s largest industry in dollar terms, but food is no doubt number one in the mindset of the collective culture. Louisiana is blessed with so many regional cuisines, restaurants and food entrepreneurs. On this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge two colorful, local food entrepreneurs share their unique journeys, including how COVID has impacted the way they do business. Spuddy Spuddy Faucheaux is owner and chef ofSpuddy’s Cajun Cooking, a local

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Yes, You Can Go Home Again

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/12/23

There’s an old saying about how you can never go home again. Which means, actually, that once you’ve moved away from a place and you come home, it’s different than it was when you left. But sometimes, what has changed is for the better and creates new opportunities for those who return. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Stephanie meets two young entrepreneurs who left town but are now back home in Baton Rouge with new companies and concepts that a new Baton Rouge is ready to

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Back on Our Bikes

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/12/16

You probably noticed during the COVID-19 pandemic that people started spending a lot more time enjoying parks, public green spaces and the great outdoors – whether walking, jogging, hosting socially distant backyard gatherings, or riding bikes. When the pandemic hit in early 2020, those of us in south Louisiana were just beginning to enjoy the best of a lovely, cool spring and, based on anecdotal observation and hard data about bicycle sales, a lot of us started took to do it on two wheels,

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27:36

Land and Sea

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/12/02

We’ve all heard the alarming statistic: Louisiana loses a football field of coastline every 30 minutes. And we know a lot of money and resources is being put towards the problem. But, is it too late to really change the trajectory we’re on? And what does that mean for where Louisiana’s citizens will live in the years to come? Sea Dr. Craig McLain is Executive Director of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, or LUMCON, a research institute based on the coast that promotes,

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The Kids Today

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/11/18

If you’re like a lot of parents with school age children, you’ve probably spent a lot of time in 2020 juggling your career with taking care of your kids, who were off school, and then helping them with online school. Perhaps it’s given you a better appreciation for what educators and people who otherwise wrangle children, go through every day. On this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge, Stephanie talks with two local entrepreneurs who have built successful businesses taking care

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