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Most of you know me as the owner of Family Martial Arts in Edmond and Enid and a stay at home dad in the meantime. However, I am excited to announce that I am the new Director of Business and Entrepreneurial Services at Meridian Tech!

In this position, I will be the director overseeing the Stillwater and Guthrie Business Incubators at Meridian. If you’re unfamiliar, the Business Incubator is a place where startups, or soon to be startups, can lease commercial space (office, culinary, or light manufacturing), get business consulting, conference room access, help with a business plan, get connected with bankers, insurance agents, lawyers, accountants, etc.

The incubator is designed to get startup small businesses to and past the 3 year mark and help them graduate to their own spaces which we can help with as well. We also do startup coaching services for businesses that do not need tenant status but would like help navigating the startup world and are interested in the other services we offer, even if you don’t live in Stillwater or Guthrie!

There are also plenty of other great benefits of being part of the incubator such as networking amongst other small business tenants, tax incentives, use of conference rooms, use of training rooms, etc, and of course, bottomless coffee.

We have business coaches with expertise from product development and sales, hiring and training, packing and shipping of products, to membership/service-based businesses, strong system development, commercial leasing, small business marketing strategy, and finance.

I am still the owner of Family Martial Arts and you will still see me at the studios and teaching like normal! I am very fortunate that Martial Arts in general is an evening activity! I love martial arts and all of the things it taught me and I will continue to use that to build leaders in our communities.

We got 1st place Martial Arts Facility for Stillwater as well as Runner up for Best Employer under 100 employees!  I’m so grateful for our incredible families and staff.  Less than a week later we received a Century Martial Arts Gold Excellence Award.  Big thank you to our community and all of the blessings we have to work with.

Stillwater Martial Arts

With just three days remaining in the vote, here are your leaders for the 2018 Greatmats National Martial Arts Instructor of the Year Award!

John Mogart Jr.

Erich Podbielski

Alex Evers

Angie Wilson

Jason Gehring

Roadster - unraced 2yo colt.

QUALITY ROAD - GHOST DANCING

I was recently accepted to be a board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters Oklahoma!  I am thrilled to be able to help build up local kids confidence and self-esteem through this program.  The better we equip our youth the better our citizens will be in the future. Looking forward to recruiting more Big’s to help out more little’s.  We have a backlog of kids who are looking for mentorship and a helping hand to show them all the possibilities their life holds.  We’re looking for strong role models, but keep in mind, if you’re reading this you are probably already one.

The program can seem intimidating from the Big’s perspective.  “What can I do to help a little?  I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to impact their life.  I’m not sure I’m role model material.”  If any of those questions are you, I think you’ll be surprised by the answers. Weekly obligations mean only spending a few hours per week with your little!  Although this amount of time might seem insignificant to you, the statistics don’t lie.  Little’s who go through the program see amazing results compared to the national average of their counterparts.  Don’t know what do to with a little?  Think about taking them to work to see what a healthy work environment might look like, take them to ice cream after school and show them what a caring relationship can be.  Take them on a hike and show them places they might have never been before, essentially help open their eyes to possibilities.

I have just been accepted into Payne County Leadership Class 8!  I enjoyed all of the learning opportunities Leadership Stillwater Class 23 provided me with and all of the great connections I made.  I thoroughly understand so much better how the city functions and how to help our community.  I am very much looking forward to learning more about our county as well as getting connected with the people who run it.

Here is a little information from:http://oces.okstate.edu/payne/rural-development/payne-county-connections/

PCLC is a county-wide leadership program that emphasizes that city boundary lines don’t necessarily matter when it comes to growing our communities. It is a nine month program beginning in September and running through May.

Participants in the program will meet once a month at different locations throughout the county—at least once in each of our six communities. In each community, participants will learn about many facets of the host community.  Actually, we hope to surprise the participants with some of the fascinating things that we uncover in each of our communities.

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