CEO day 26: A Visit to the The Cubby Hole Paul Boente and Jason Kessinger gave a tour of The Cubby Hole. Paul shared how Dale and Nancy started the business after Dale filled ...

Letties Nuñez, my mom, came in and shared her journey coming from Cuba then to Spain, to Romania, then throughout South America and finally the US. She found herself in Standard City ...

CEO Day 23: COC Mastermind at CAH! Brian Burnside, CEO of Carlinville Area Hospital, explored leadership strategies to grow an organization / business. The Ps: People, Partnerships ...

Day 22: New Leaf Coffee Shoppe with Morgan Haycraft 😀 We served a small business that serves our county’s “northsiders”. Great lessons in… “Start small” (learn first!) Channels: ...

CEO Day 17: With JT and Central Machining in Carlinville! JT explored the business of part creation for big companies who don’t want to invest their time and resources in machining ...

Day 16 of CEO: Visiting UCB of Carlinville! Missy Haley, Kennen, Trevor, and Skyler offer a first bank visit to introduce several key concepts for a startup business. Curious ...

Dennis Pickerel returned to CEO and this time brought a friend, CEO alum, Ethan Siglock (class of 2022). Dennis was (and still is!) Ethan’s mentor during CEO. The two shared about ...

We love making phone calls 😬, wait, connections 😀!

CEO Day 12: Visiting McKay Auto! The team drank from the fire hose on this one! A business visit with a host of financial and operational strategies revealed - cash flow, insurance ...

Day 11: Time for our first Business Venture! The team invited Katie Ashworth with Heartland Bank and Trust to speak on marketing and evaluate their value props and sales fliers as ...

Let the first Business Venture begin!

Two weeks in and our CEO team is officially hitting its stride! Wednesday was a big day for us as we focused on team building and learned what it takes to build a standout brand. A ...