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The holidays are a great time to take stock of our mental health! While our hosts take a break, please enjoy this episode with Stacey Winter, epac CEO, as she shares ways we can see that our friends and colleagues need support and help. Winter shares with Don and Ebony how her EAP brings that help directly to businesses, where we and our employees spend the majority of our time.

Justin Eklund's primary goal with Grove9 is helping businesses and organizations focus on their mission and the good they provide the community. He shares with Don and Ebony his journey through ministry and how it eventually led him to take a new approach in a profit driven world.

Molly Edwards, senior manager for global community relations and corporate giving for Spirit AeroSystems, spoke about the best way to build lasting partnerships between nonprofits and businesses at The Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce's December Sunrise Scrambler. 

Tevin Manual has had a clear vision of his future for a long time, and he’s chasing it with Tandem Cyber Operations. He explores his past with Don and Ebony and how it led him to provide services to schools and universities to fulfill an unmet need.

Arthur C. Brooks, a social scientist, economist, and author, was the speaker at the 2022 Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting. “We act like we hate each other in America,” Brooks said. “Really, we have bad communication habits." 

For this special occasion, we are putting our producer behind the microphone. How do you accidentally become an entrepreneur? Bryan Steele will tell you it happens one day at a time. He talks with Don and Ebony how the creation of Forge Podcast Co. was a long journey that he never saw coming.