Darin Myers

Free Access: Three basic cybersecurity needs for your business

Darin Myers is the local facilitator of The Alternative Board (TAB), a peer-to-peer advisory board designed to help company leaders maximize their opportunities and work through challenges. Darin recently retired after a 30-year career in the nuclear industry as the leader of Plant Vogtle I and II. He has proven success in strategic planning and alignment, employee development, organizational performance improvement, accountability, and coaching. Recently, he started a family business in Augusta focused on home health care, providing him the knowledge and experience surrounding small- to medium-sized business operators. Here’s

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Consumer Stories

Business Lunch Review: Groucho’s Deli

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Thursday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad, and tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”. Food

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Office Support

Free Access: Tracy Conlon helps businesses navigate the sea of health insurance plans

Health insurance is not easy to navigate for most businesses. Tracy Conlon of TLC Health Insurance, tells Amy Richardson of Richardson Professional Solutions about the array of services she provides for businesses, including everything from those aging out of traditional health insurance to those aging into insurance when they come off their parents’ plans.

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Free Access: Expo Preview: Life lessons help Kurt Mueller understand client’s needs

The quote, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care,” has been attributed to many people over the years, from President Theodore Roosevelt to successful author and business coach, John Maxwell. It could easily describe Kurt Mueller. The designations he’s earned for financial planning show he knows his business and he’s had a lifetime of lessons that have shaped how he cares. Early on, Mueller lived abroad. His dad was in the Peace Corps in American Samoa and later served as president of a

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Consumer Stories

Smoke signals: Cigar lounge opens in downtown Augusta

James Lee enjoys smoking cigars and meeting people, so he launched a business in downtown Augusta that allows him to do both at the same time. Lee owns Augusta Cigar Club, 722 Broad St., the former home of Ice Lounge & Restaurant. Large crowds visited the business during its soft opening on Friday, Sept. 16, thanks to the 2022 Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival. “We didn’t sell much, but we did some good community work,” he said. “That was a cool weekend.” Lee, a U.S. Air Force veteran,

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B2B Stories

Local veteran to give away bottles of his barbecue sauce this weekend

After retiring from the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Douglass developed his own line of barbecue sauces, and he plans to give away more than $10,000 worth of it this weekend. Douglass is the founder and owner of Warrior’s Choice, a company that creates and sells sauces in a variety of military-themed flavors, including Defender, Spartan Heat, and Patriot’s Pride. He will give free bottles to the first 1,080 people who attend Papa Joe’s Banjo-B-Que Music Festival, which will be held tomorrow and Saturday at the Columbia County Fairgrounds in

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Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned: Team strength shows up in unexpected emergency

Twelve years ago, I opened Trendz Salon with a childhood dream, an encouraging husband and a clear answer to very specific prayers. At the time, I had many years of experience behind the chair but zero knowledge of what it took to run a successful business. Through trial and error, good ideas and bad, valleys and mountain tops, I slowly learned how to run a business. One key component of it was the team I was building. I continuously tried and sometimes failed to piece together a salon family –

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Free Access: Expo Preview: Comcast serves up fast internet for business connectivity

Twenty years before Jeremy Gill joined Comcast Business Services, he was a professional chef. That experience led to hospitality sales and finally to his work as the Director of Sales for Comcast Business. His background fits well with what Comcast has on the menu for businesses in the Augusta area. Recently, Comcast launched an additional multi-gig Internet speed tier for residential and Comcast Business customers. Augusta is the first community in Georgia where Comcast is now delivering download speeds of 2 gigabits per second (Gbps) over the connections already existing

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B2B Stories

Great leaders are Wizards of AHs!

For those of you who read my previous columns in the Augusta Chronicle, you know that I like to write about leadership. Although I have been in a number of leadership positions across my two careers in the military and higher education that does not necessarily make me a great leader. One thing I do know that I have in common with great leaders is that I am always looking to improve my leadership ability. Therefore, I read about leadership, and listen to others speak about leadership, but most importantly,

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B2B Stories

Name change approved, Fort Gordon to become Fort Eisenhower

It’s official – Fort Gordon will be renamed and become Fort Eisenhower. Last week, Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin approved a proposal to rename nine Army bases that had been named after Confederate Army soldiers. As reported in ABD in August, that includes Fort Gordon, which had been named for Confederate Army officer, John Brown Gordon. The new name, which is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2024, honors World War II hero and 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s name is already on the

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