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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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31:18

Aging Vs Anti-Aging

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/02/05

Aging is a hot topic in America these days. So is anti-aging. On the one hand, the Baby Boomer generation are now in their late 50s which means big changes to our workforce, retirement system, and healthcare delivery system, all of which are creating business opportunities for companies that meet the needs of the aging population. On the other hand, the relentless desire to remain youthful has created a desire to stay and look young, which to some degree is setting up a question we're going to have

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Health and Wellness Industry

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2020/01/29

According to the Global Wellness Institute, the global health and wellness industry is now worth $4.2 trillion. The industry has been growing with 12.8% between 2015 and 2017 and represents a whopping 5.3% of global economic output. For local entrepreneurs, that is creating a lot of opportunities – but that also means there’s a lot of competition. Nicole Cummins is owner ofBarre 3, a boutique fitness studio that’s part of a Portland, Oregon-based chain with more than 130 locations

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Down On Silicon Bayou

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/01/27

Down on Silicon Bayou, local Baton Rouge companies are carving out an amazing space in the tech sector. They’re designing impressive software platforms and tools that are attracting worldwide attention. Steve McKinney is the Chief Operating Officer ofCell Control, a Baton Rouge company that, in 2009, came up with technology to help eliminate distracted driving. In the years since, Cell Control has become the global leader in this field by selling its services to companies—big Fortune 500

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29:15

Ready For Take Off

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/01/15

It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve flown across the country or around the world, for that matter. There’s something that continues to dazzle and fascinate us wingless, human creatures every time we get in an airplane, whether a single prop or a jumbo jet, and get ready for take off. When cars were invented, they were originally known as "horseless carriages." In the same way, a few years ago we started talking about "unmanned aircraft" - the contraptions we now call

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29:13

Silicon Swamp

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/01/08

If you think "Silicon Valley" sounds cool but "Silicon Swamp" doesn't, you're probably not from South Louisiana. Here in South Louisiana we love the swamp, it's a part of who we are. The reason "Silicon Swamp" might sound weird is that we are less inclined to identify ourselves as the home of tech innovation. Well, maybe it's time for an altitude adjustment! There are impressive start-up businesses here that maybe you've never heard of but that are turning heads around the country. And beyond. Casey

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29:13

Fine Art and Movies

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2020/01/01

There aren't many occasions to talk about fine art and movies in the same sentence. And you'd be forgiven for thinking there's even less occasion to consider the financing of movies and fine art as having anything to do with each other. And that's why we have lunch! So folks from what might seem to be disparate endeavors can talk and find out they actually have something in common. Ann Connelly is a legend in the art world. Ann is founder and owner ofAnn Connelly Fine Artwhere she is a curator,

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29:16

Keeping Baton Rouge Beautiful

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/12/25

Every place has a history and a past, but preserving the best of it and keeping it relevant doesn’t just happen, you have to work at it. On this show we're very bullish on keeping Baton Rouge vital economically and socially, but today we're talking about looks - keeping Baton Rouge beautiful. We're not being shallow and fixated on appearance, cities can be more attractive economically and socially as they age - with the right approach to beauty and preservation. Michael Desmond is an architect

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A Sharp Suit And Shiny Shoes

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/12/18

Time was, every town had cobblers and tailors. Fairy tales and history books alike are replete with references to these noble tradesmen, who kept people "shodded" and clothed. Today, you can still look good in a sharp suit and shiny shoes. Commerce has evolved from local service providers to department stores, big box retailers and online sites, but, here in Baton Rouge, although old fashioned businesses have become fewer and far between, they haven't completely disappeared. Clyde Lawrence is owner

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On The Front Line of the Retail Apocalypse

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/12/11

"Retail apocalypse" is a term we’re starting to hear frequently. It suggests a coming meltdown of retail reality due to the impact of Amazon and other online retailers on brick and mortar stores. Stephine Riegel's guests on this edition of Out to Lunch Baton Rouge are, in two very different ways, fighting it out on the front line of retail apocalypse. Chris Russo Blackwood is co-owner of Russo Ross, a popular women’s boutique on Jefferson Highway here in Baton Rouge. Chris didn’t

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29:15

Virtual Reality & The Uber of Medical Care

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/12/04

Technology is all around us today, making possible things we never even imagined. Here's two: an app that is the Uber of medical care, and Virtual Reality that makes it possible to train employees to work in a chemical plants or recreate the battle of Okinawa. Perhaps an equally surprising fact about these innovations is that they are being created here in south Louisiana. Vashon Craft is Director of Community Relations at a company called Ready Responders, a New Orleans-based startup that expanded

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29:13

Meet Omnidek and Sellswipe

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/11/27

As the tech industry evolves and matures, all sorts of new opportunities are created for entrepreneurs, who see where existing technologies don't meet a need or don't go far enough to deliver what customers demand. If you listen to national shows like "How I Built This" or Freakonomics, you're familiar with the type of wildly creative person who doesn't take no for an answer and comes up with a great idea that at the outset might seem odd or impossible. Those kinds of ideas are not all born in

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29:06

Principle versus Profit

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/11/20

We talk a lot about business on this show, and what it takes to be successful in business. On this edition of Out to Lunch Stephanie focuses on an aspect of business that doesn't typically get so much attention: ethics. Aaron Beam is a former executive who travels around the country lecturing on ethics in business. It's a topic he knows well. In the late 1990s, Aaron participated in a 2 billion securities fraud scandal at Health South, the extremely successful Fortune 500 company he had co founded

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High School Entrepreneurs

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/11/13

We hear a lot on this show from entrepreneurs — some successful, some just starting out— about what they do and what makes them tick. On this edition of Out to Lunch we turn our attention to a whole new breed of business people: high school entrepreneurs. Deborah Sternberg is founder and chairperson of the Baton Rouge affiliate of a nationwide organization called Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA). Deborah founded the local chapter of YEA in 2018, after more than a decade as President of

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29:14

Teach For America

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/11/06

Teach For America is a nationwide initiative to address the shirtage of teachers in the US. A recent study estimated that the nationwide shortage in 2018, which was around 110 thousand, is expected to nearly double to 200 thousand by 2025. Teach For America is an organization that seeks to enlist and mobilize bright, motivated future leaders and put them to work for two year stints, helping improve some of the nation’s poorest performing and most under-served public schools. Laura Vinsant

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Baton Rouge Art

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/10/29

Kelli Scott Kelley is a leading light in the world of Baton Rouge art. Kelli is an artist and a professor of painting in the LSU School of Art. Kelli has exhibited and lectured throughout the United States. She specializes in mixed-media narrative paintings, drawings and objects, and has authored a book featuring her narrative artwork entitled Accalia and the Swamp Monster in 2014, for which she received an ATLAS (Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) grant . Kelli’s work is featured in

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IT Disasters

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/10/10

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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Orange CBD - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/09/26

Because you live in Baton Rouge, you might be familiar with the Albert King lyric, "Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die." We want to stay alive as long as we can, and we keep finding new ways to do it. On this edition of Out to Lunch we're talking about two of the newsest and most popular: CBD, and Orange Theory Fitness. Heather Carter is owner of Mountain Pure CBD, a Baton Rouge-based company that produces and sells a line of CBD products designed to cure everything from back

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Yes You Can - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/09/19

Teaching skills and imparting knowledge are perhaps the greatest gifts and tools we can give to the young, and the young at heart, hungry to learn. Local Baton Rouge entrepreneurs are coming up with creative ways to turn the act of teaching and educating into small businesses with limitless potential. Jacques Hopkins was an electrical engineer whose desire to be an online entrepreneur led him, five years ago, to walk away from his day job and create a local company that promises to teach even the

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Bees and Crickets - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/09/12

Agriculture is one of Louisiana's major industries. But while we know a lot about the rice, sugar cane and cattle farms around the state, there are other types of farms and aspects of farming you may not be so familiar with. For example, bees and crickets! David Fluker is a second gerneration cricket farmer. David owns and operates Fluker Farms, a Port Allen based family farm company that grows live crickets and sells literally millions of live crickets very year to customers around the country

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29:13

King and Queen Makers: The Power Behind the Power -...

It"s Baton Rouge: Out to Lunch ·

2019/09/05

In politics there are the kings, and then there are the king makers political consultants who are the power behind the power. In business, it s not that different. There are the companies, and then there are the consultants, experts and industry associations who lobby on their behalf, help them shape their image, and guide them through crises with messages that will resonate with an increasingly skeptical public in an increasingly divisive time. It might not surprise you to know that women are

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