Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev

This episode contains themes that may be distressing to some listeners: including child loss, death, extreme weather events and other content that is not intended for children. We understand if this episode is too overwhelming for you to listen to at this time. We hope all our audience will read the Collin's Family Story and consider making a donation to The Magnolia Foundation.

Join Kosta and his guest: Matt Collins, Founder of The Magnolia Foundation.

On March 3, 2020, the Upper Cumberland changed forever. For the community, it was an indescribable loss - for Matt, it was an unimaginable one. The tornado that ravaged the Upper Cumberland took the one thing we can never replace, 19 members of this community, including Matt and Macy's beautiful daughter Hattie Jo.

To honor Hattie Jo, the Collins family started the Hattie Jo Collins Memorial Scholarship, an endowed scholarship at Tennessee Tech University that benefits students in the nursing program. In 2023, they founded The Magnolia Foundation which seeks to serve families who have also experienced the pain of child loss.

Find out more and donate to The Magnolia Foundation:
https://www.themagnoliafoundation.com/

Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is a product of Morgan Franklin Media and recorded in Cookeville, TN.

This episode of Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is made possible by our partners at Miss Sallie's Market.

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Join Kosta and his guest: Matt Brown, Certified Financial Planner, Branch Manager and Generational Wealth Planner at 304 Family Wealth of Raymond James.

In this episode: Money is the last taboo topic. We’d rather talk about almost anything than how much money we make or have. That’s helped create a society of people who don’t really understand how money works - or how it could work for them. What do you wish you could tell everyone about their own wealth and financial success? Thinking about the future is intimidating. As someone that works in long-term care, I know firsthand how much we’ll do to not think about the future. But when it comes to retirement, and building wealth especially for Gen-X, Millennials and Gen-Z, what do we need to be doing now? We live in economically uncertain times. Whether it’s tariffs, inflation, interest rates or egg prices, every day brings new excitement. How is this changing the way you’re advising clients and what should we prepare for next?

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Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is a product of Morgan Franklin Media and recorded in Cookeville, TN.

This episode of Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is made possible by our partners at Volunteer State Community College.

Find out more about Volunteer State Community College:
https://www.volstate.edu/campuses/cookeville

PSA: If you get a random Dropbox Link from Kosta, please don't open it! 😬

Join Kosta and his guest: Dr. Muhammad Ismail Director of CEROC and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tennessee Tech University.

In this episode: This goes without saying, but we use the internet for everything. Even my washer and dryer are hooked up to Wi-Fi. That being said, a cyber attack on the United States could be devastating. In your opinion, would a major cyber attack be more catastrophic than a conventional on-the-ground attack? Generally speaking: in real life, what does a cyberattack typically look like? Who does it normally impact? Who fixes the problem? How do they know how to fix the problem?

Find out more about CEROC and Dr. Muhammad Ismail:
https://www.tntech.edu/ceroc/

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Join Kosta and his guest Tanner Cox, Field Representative for Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty as they explore the key issues facing Tennesseans and our path forward together.
Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is a product of Morgan Franklin Media and recorded in Cookeville, TN.
Find out more about Kosta and all the ways we're better together:
http://kostayepifantsev.com/

Find out more about Tanner Cox and Senator Hagerty:
https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/

Join Kosta and his guest: Tyler Buck, Owner of Baskin Robbins Cookeville, and coming this fall, Baskin Robbins Algood. Tyler is the youngest Baskin Robbin's franchise owner in the company's history.

In this episode: Our Baskin Robbins isn’t just in the community, it’s part of the community and that’s something you’ve championed since buying the store. What does it mean to you as a business owner, especially a young business owner to be part of this community? For those that don’t know, Baskin Robbins created the franchisee model and while you don’t own the name you do own the business. How has that helped you develop your locations and what do you wish people knew about franchises? If you’d never got a job at Baskin Robbins what kind of business did you want to open? Where do you think you’d be right now?

Find out more about Baskin Robbins Cookeville:
https://locations.baskinrobbins.com/tn/cookeville/1265-interstate-dr-358846-br
https://www.instagram.com/cookevillebr/

Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is a product of Morgan Franklin Media and recorded in Cookeville, TN.

This episode of Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is made possible by our partner Sabrina Brazle, The Realty Firm.

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