Always Be Cool (ABC) Podcast - Bobby Kerr & Darren Copeland of SummitLendingUSA.com - #148 Tori Fugate | Chief Operating Officer, KC Pet Project | LIVE! from Boulevardia Festival 2023

#148 Tori Fugate | Chief Operating Officer, KC Pet Project | LIVE! from Boulevardia Festival 2023

06/28/23 • 13 min

Always Be Cool (ABC) Podcast - Bobby Kerr & Darren Copeland of SummitLendingUSA.com

Tori Fugate joined the KC Pet Project team in March 2012 – shortly after the organization took over the Kansas City, MO, animal shelter in January 2012. She is a graduate of Drury University in Springfield, MO, with a B.A. in Advertising and minors in Global Studies, Sports Management, and Women & Gender Studies. Tori’s past work experience includes working with the St. Louis Cardinals’ Double-A affiliate, the Springfield Cardinals, the Kansas City Chiefs, and various retail management positions. Her past non-profit experience includes working with the Missouri Restaurant Association and the Greater Kansas City Restaurant Association, and she served on the Kansas City Restaurant Week Committee in 2011.

Tori’s role with KC Pet Project has enabled her to build the organization’s brand and promote its mission from inception to what it is today. She oversees all marketing, events, web management, social media, retail sales, education initiatives, and media relations, and she recently served on the design and construction committee of the KC Campus for Animal Care, Kansas City’s new animal shelter. She enjoys the opportunity to promote KC Pet Project and its pets through social media and in print, radio and television appearances on a local and national level – including People Magazine, The Dodo, The Huffington Post, CBS News, USA Today, Queer Eye, and The Rachael Ray Show.

Tori also serves on the Drury University Regional Board of Directors for Kansas City and is an alto in the Kansas City Symphony Chorus that performs with the Kansas City Symphony at the Kauffman Center of the Performing Arts.

In her free time, Tori is a runner, an avid music lover, record collector, and food, wine and craft beer enthusiast.

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#147 Barry Habib | World's Foremost Authority on Mortgage & Housing Industry | Lead Producer of "Rock of Ages" 27th Longest Running Show in Broadway History

Barry Habib Bio

Barry Habib, CEO of Highway.ai, is an American entrepreneur and frequent media resource for his mortgage and housing expertise.

· Amazon #1 bestselling author for his book “Money in the Streets”
· Widely credited with saving the Mortgage Industry in 2020 from Margin Calls due to Fed Actions. His presentation to the Fed created stability at a critical time.
Notable Awards

· Three-time Crystal Ball Award Winner by Zillow and Pulsenomics for the most accurate Real Estate forecasts out of 150 of the top economists in the US
· 2019 Mortgage Professional of the Year
· Finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
· Named to Mortgage Global 100 List
· The St. Armand Ventures Businessman of the Year 2021
· Named to the list of 100 People to Watch in 2023

During his mortgage sales career, Barry personally originated over $2 Billion.

Lead Producer and Managing Partner for “Rock of Ages” – the 27th longest running show in Broadway history.

Produced Criss Angel’s “Mindfreak” at Planet Hollywood in Vegas.

Highest rated speaker and trainer for over 25 years in mortgage and real estate.

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#149 | Matt Anthony, President and CEO, Y&R North America | Founder & President of Head For the Cure

As President and CEO, North America, Matt Anthony is the driving force behind Y&R’s continued evolution as a modern agency in the United States and Canada. As a founding partner of Y&R’s digital agency, VML, Matt possesses an entrepreneurial fervor, a deep knowledge of the complex digital landscape for brands, and long-standing relationships with many in the Y&R Group and WPP networks. Since taking the helm as President and CEO in 2013, Matt has been integral in the attraction of new clients throughout the North American network and the strengthening of the alignment between Y&R and VML.
From 2011 to 2013, Matt served as Chief Digital Officer of Y&R, responsible for strengthening and optimizing the digital competency of the global Y&R Advertising network.
Concurrent to his role as Chief Digital Officer and prior to joining Y&R, Matt Anthony was the catalyst behind the explosive growth of VML. When Matt joined the small Kansas City-based agency as its fourth partner in 1994, VML had one major client and fewer than 10 employees. Since then, Matt has led the formerly small shop’s expansion to a formidable global digital agency with more than 1500 employees across 22 offices on five continents, turning out difference-making, award-winning work for some of the world’s most famous and respected brands.
In 2001, Matt guided VML’s decision to join the WPP Group of leading communication agencies, and then managed the agency’s alignment into Y&R Group four years later.
Matt is a passionate, tireless supporter in the fight against cancer. In memory of his brother Chris, whom he lost at age 37 to a glioblastoma brain tumor, Matt and his family established the Head for the Cure Foundation to raise awareness and funding for brain cancer research. Proceeds from Head for the Cure 5K Run & Walks, now in 15 markets, are directed to the Brain Tumor Trials Collaborative, a consortium of 24 brain cancer centers across North America.

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