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  • BISCUITVILLE'S BURNEY JENNINGS (PART 2)
    2025/08/22

    For the third year in a row USA Today readers have voted Biscuitville as having the best fast food breakfast in the United States. Not bad for a company that gew out of a pizza restaurant in Burlington, North Carolina in 1975. While Biscuitville may be a relatively small company in the world of fast food, it's quickly become one of the most recognizable brands in the business. In this episode, Biscuitville Executive Chairman Burney Jennings discusses with Neill McNeill the company's best-selling biscuit, the fairly recent update of the company's brand and the keys to his and his company's success.

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    28 分
  • BISCUITVILLE'S BURNEY JENNINGS (PART 1)
    2025/08/15

    For the third year in a row USA Today readers voted Biscuitville as having the best fast food breakfast in the United States. Not bad for a company that grew out of a pizza restaurant in Burlington, North Carolina in 1975. While Biscuitville may be a relatively small company in the world of fast food, it's quickly become one of the most recognizable brands in the business. In this episode, Biscuitville Executive Chairman Burney Jennings talks about how his dad founded the company--in part--using something he received from his great-grandmother on her death bed.

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    23 分
  • JOEY CHEEK PART 2
    2025/08/08

    After Joey Cheek grew up in Greensboro, NC and won 3 Olympic speed skating medals, he--among other things--dabbled in the business world where he started or helped start a couple of companies. One of those companies he calls a "miserable failure." Now, he's taking what he learned in all those experiences helping others start their own businesses through his job as Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship for the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. In this episode, he describes to Neill McNeill--in detail--what he believes is crucial to starting a successful business. It's truly a 29 minute entrepreneurship master class.

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    29 分
  • JOEY CHEEK PART 1
    2025/08/01

    Before he won gold, silver, and bronze Olympic ice speedskating medals, Joey Cheek grew up in Greensboro skating with skates that had wheels. Today, he's back in his hometown working as Executive Vice President of Entrepreneurship with the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. In this episode, Cheek reflects on his athletic career: the switch from wheels to blades, the practice, the competition, the fame, the emotional challenges he faced after winning it all and his charity work that followed. It's an inspiring story that includes a lot of information you may not know about this fascinating person.

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    25 分
  • BOB BROWN, WORLD CLASS POWER BROKER (PART 3)
    2025/07/25

    In this episode, world-renowned author, philanthropist, public relations executive and power broker Dr. Robert J. Brown describes to Neill McNeill how he, as a registered Democrat, began work in Republican President Richard Nixon's White House while offering a perspective of the former president you haven't heard before. Dr. Brown also talks about the key role he played in freeing former South African President Nelson Mandela from prison. And finally, he talks about what he believes has been the key to his success during his last 90+ years!

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    22 分
  • BOB BROWN, WORLD CLASS POWER BROKER (PART 2)
    2025/07/18

    In this episode, world-renowned author, philanthropist,public relations executive and power broker Dr. Robert J. Brown describes to Neill McNeill how he became a close friend and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the early days of the civil rights movement. Hear—among otherthings--- how these two met, some of the things Dr. Brown believes most people don’t know about Dr. King, how Dr. King essentially predicted his own death, how Dr. Brown learned of Dr. King’s assassination and Dr. Brown’s description of what he believes is Dr. King’s true legacy.

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    19 分
  • BOB BROWN, WORLD CLASS POWER BROKER (PART 1)
    2025/07/16

    Many have called him the most influential person you’venever heard of. From being a close friend and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to working in the Nixon White House to helping free Nelson Mandela from prison in South Africa, Bob Brown has had a complex, inspiring and “connected” life. But it all started growing up in a segregated southern city(High Point, North Carolina). Here he tells Neill McNeill about his youth and the influence his grandmother had on his life.

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    27 分
  • PETER VOORHOEVE, VOLVO TRUCKS NORTH AMERICA (PART 2)
    2025/07/16

    Peter Voorhoeve is not only one of the world’s leadingauthorities on trucking and moving things from one place to another (what many call “logistics”), he’s also one of the leading proponents and innovators of building zero emission large trucks. In this episode, he discusses with NeillMcNeill how navigating this mission is difficult in the current political environment. He also talks about how his company, Volvo, is leading the industry in trucking safety and how soon we could see autonomous trucks on the roads and highways.

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    20 分