There is a difference between a house and a home. A house is a structure that provides shelter. It has the right number of bedrooms and baths, check off walk-in closets and two car garage. But home is much different. A home is the center of the family, the repository of our history, the foothold […]
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Hilarie is a Senior Vice President with BancFirst. Her clients include high net worth individuals, businesses, commercial and consumer real estate. Her expertise includes advising medical students, seasoned physicians, small businesses and large corporations in all facets of money management. In addition to her banking expertise, Hilarie holds certifications from The Protocol School of Washington® in […]
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By: Sherry L. Dale, CPA – Partner, The Mettise Group What is SendaRide and how did it start? The transportation barrier – a significant hurdle to accessing health care. Annually, seven million people do not receive medical care because they don’t have transportation to the hospital or doctor’s office. In addition, 43 million Americans care […]
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With a multi-million-dollar pool, manufacturing and retail business, Rusty Britton is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. I met Rusty through my CEO class which his wife Bethanie participated in (probably with aspirations to contain him!) and we worked together on their company Playbook™. Rusty is one of the most natural leaders I’ve come across – with a […]
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Mettise Posse member Sarah Bytyqi doesn’t see the same barriers that some of us do. When she has a good idea, she makes it happen. From starting Verbode, a concierge residential and commercial real estate company, five years ago to building a flour mill in her husband’s native-Kosovo, Sarah doesn’t just sit around thinking about […]
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It’s rare to find family businesses successfully passed down to the second generation, however 3rd generation owner Bob Ford is now working on passing down the family company to the 4th generation of Fords. Bob’s grandfather founded Shawnee Milling Company in 1906. As a teenager, Bob spent his summers working in the mill – learning […]
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Debbie Anglin launched Anglin PR in 1999 with the goal of offering clients powerful and effective ways to communicate with target audiences. “Businesses struggle to know who their audience is and how to reach them,” Debbie said. She loves to find out what challenges a business is facing. The Anglin team applies extensive knowledge and […]
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While visiting Belfast, Ireland, Andrew Gipson and his friends discovered and played an intriguing one room escape game. After his return to the states, Andrew could not stop thinking about his experience with the game. He developed a few business plans and one was for The Escape. The Escape OKC opened in June of 2014 […]
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Norris Graves started WasteSolutionsLLC as a waste consulting business in 2002. He helped businesses figure out where to cut out excess efficiently and economically. “Anything that doesn’t add value is trash,” he said. Within 5 years, more people were leaving the waste consulting business than entering. So, Norris decided to expand his business into services […]
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