Covid-19 Series: Brittany Stovall and Paulina Sandoval of Assured Quality Systems

06/22/20 • 48 min

"You can't be afraid of change. What you look like at $750,000 is not what you're going to look like at $2 million.”
Being an entrepreneur isn't easy, so having a partner can be an essential component to success. Brittany Stovall and Paulina Sandoval founded Assured Quality Systems with one goal in mind: give manufacturers a faster, better, more cost-effective process for ensuring manufacturing quality. AQS is committed to not being a staffing company that dispatches “warm bodies” to a manufacturing site, but rather a crew of quality assurance professionals who have been meticulously screened, vetted and trained to miss no detail and waste no time. Prior to the founding of AQS, Brittany served as liaison representative for TRW Automotive and as director of operations at the Private Company. Before AQS, Paulina served as VP at the Private Company in San Antonio.
What are the challenges of working with a partner? And how do mentors play a role? Learn more about Assured Quality Systems at assuredqualitysystems.com
Learn more about Chanel Christoff Davis at www.ddhtax.com or on social media @SalesTaxHelp @FollowTheLeaderPod
Outro music: "Everyday Sunshine" by aneleh

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Covid19 Series: The Party in a Ball with Merrilee Kick of BuzzBallz

"They break down walls, they don't follow rules..."
While the whole country faced lockdown because of COVID-19, Merrilee Kick found herself in a unique position: she could supply people with something that was desperately needed. And not just the usual need for her delicious BuzzBallz cocktails, but for something that could help keep essential workers healthy and safe. So she put her head together with her family (all of whom help run the Texas-based distillery) and sent out their own hand sanitizer to workers around the country.
What is the surprising inspiration for BuzzBallz? How has the lockdown affected them? What are some of the new products on the horizon?
Merrilee Kick is the CEO and Founder of BuzzBallz/Southern Champion LLC, the only woman-owned distillery and winery in the United States. They specialize in making ready-to-drink cocktails (BuzzBallz), as well as premium spirits with their Southern Champion company which makes vodka, rum, gin, and bourbon. They import/export wines and spirits, and also manufacture private label brands. BuzzBallz sell in over 46 states in the US to grocery, liquor stores, convenience stores, arenas, and airlines. Major customers include Walmart, Total Wine & More, Meijers, Ralph's, Kroger, American Airlines Center, and Spirit Airlines.
Learn more at buzzballz.com
Learn more about Chanel Christoff Davis at www.ddhtax.com or on social media @SalesTaxHelp
Outro music: "Everyday Sunshine" by aneleh

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Covid-19 Series: President of the DFW/MSDC, Margo Posey discusses The New Now

Covid-19 has changed the game for a lot of industries, and what do you do if your business is to supply larger businesses that aren't back to full strength? It's not enough to be unique or check a box - solutions are needed now more than ever.
How do you find the right person to talk to? What are they looking for? How will business be different even when things return to something that looks like normal? Margo Posey is doing her best to answer those questions for minority-owned suppliers. She is the President and CEO of the Dallas/Fort Worth Minority Supplier Development Council.
Posey represents the Dallas/Fort Worth affiliate relationship with the National Minority Supplier Development Council. The D/FW MSDC, based on performance, was ranked Council of the year in 2011 and 2015 and ranked in the top percentile of all Councils in all other years. She also bid and was awarded the grant to operate the Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency Business Center-Dallas in 2011. The Center specializes in procurement assistance, access to capital and import and export opportunities for its clients locally and nationally, resulting in new job creation, retention, and true economic impact
To learn more about the D/FW Minority Supplier Development Council, go to https://dfwmsdc.com/
To learn more about the National Minority Supplier Council, go to https://nmsdc.org/
Learn more about Chanel Christoff Davis at www.ddhtax.com or on social media @SalesTaxHelp @FollowTheLeaderPod
Outro music: "Everyday Sunshine" by aneleh