Regan Brown, Host, and Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting, interview Robert Browning, President of Browning Reserve Group, about national reserve study standards.

EPISODE#163: Dead Inventory: A Journey to Building Material Savings

10 days ago 33m 55s

Regan Brown, Host; Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting; and Kelly Zibell from Divergent Consulting interview Sean Hann, the CEO of Dead Inventory Store, discussing their approach to providing savings on building mater

EPISODE#162: Constructive Conversations: Celebrating National Women’s Month – Part 2

17 days ago 37m 12s

Regan Brown, Host; Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting; and Kelly Zibell from Divergent Consulting interview Meagan Svendsen, the Director of Marketing at AVELAR, and Wendy Miller, the Vice President of Sales at CAM C

EPISODE#161: Redefining Roles: Celebrating National Women's Month - Part 1

24 days ago 30m 42s

Regan Brown, Host, and Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting, interview Linda Cunningham, a senior estimator at The G.B. Group Construction & Painting, she shares her experience and challenges as a woman in estimating.

EPISODE#160: The Evolving Workplace

Mar 19th, 2024 32m 15s

Regan Brown, Host, and Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting, interview Lisa Triplett, President of Bay Area Property Services. They discuss the challenges of managing remote employees and the transition to a hybrid wor

EPISODE#159: Legislation Updates

Mar 12th, 2024 32m 57s

Regan Brown, Host; Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting; and Kelly Zibell from Divergent Consulting interview Jennifer Wada, the principal owner of Wada Government Relations and a lobbyist for HOA legislation. They dis

EPISODE#158: Pickleball Paradox

Mar 5th, 2024 28m 10s

Regan Brown, Host, and Kelly Zibell from Divergent Consulting, engage in a compelling conversation with Mandi Newton, Vice President of Marketing at Varsity Painting. She shares her experience as a homeowner and board member dealing with the in

EPISODE #157: HOA’s Responsibility to Support CLAC

Feb 27th, 2024 41m 8s

Regan Brown, Host, and Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting, interview Kieran Purcell, an attorney and the managing shareholder of Epsten Law Firm, as well as the chair of CLAC. They discuss the importance of HOA parti

EPISODE#156 SB 326 – The Final Year

Feb 20th, 2024 33m 40s

Regan Brown, Host; Bill Mann, Russell Brown, and Lauren Caliz of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting have a conversation discussing SB 326, the final year in meeting the inspection requirements.

EPISODE#155: Artificial Intelligence and How it is being used for HOA's

Feb 13th, 2024 30m 6s

Regan Brown, Host, Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting and Kelly Zibell, Owner of DC Group interview Andrew Hay, CEO of Helsing Group, about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in homeowners associations.

EPISODE#154: Management in Paradise

Feb 6th, 2024 34m 55s

Regan Brown, Host, interviews Claudia Farias Jimenez, manager of a large master with three sub communities in a high-volume tourist destination.

EPISODE#153: Insurance Crisis - Part 4

Jan 23rd, 2024 36m 17s

Regan Brown, Host, and Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting interview Steve Severaid, President of the Greenspan Company Adjusters International, about the insurance crisis in California and the role of public adjuster

EPISODE#152: Emotional Intelligence

Jan 16th, 2024 34m 28s

Regan Brown, Host, and Kelly Zibell, Owner of DC Group, engage in a compelling conversation with Melissa Ramsey, the owner of Mosaic Community Consulting. The discussion revolves around the significance of emotional intelligence in community ma

EPISODE#151: Common Sense Community Management by Marcy Kravit

Jan 10th, 2024 33m 20s

Regan Brown, Host, Bill Mann, President of The G.B. Group Construction & Painting and Kelly Zibell, Owner of DC Group interview Marcy Kravit, author of the book Common Sense Community Management. She discusses the inspiration behind her book an

EPISODE#150: How to Recruit and Educate Your Board

Jan 2nd, 2024 44m

Regan Brown, Host, and Kelly Zibell, Owner of DC Group, sit down with Michael Johnson, CEO of the HOA Living Family of Companies.

EPISODE#149: Mental Health Matters – Part 4

Dec 19th, 2023 37m 43s

Regan Brown, Host, Bill Mann, President of G.B. Group Construction & Painting and Kelly Zibell, Owner of DC Group sit down with Bill Overton, Executive Director of Toscana HOA to discuss how his story led him to writing articles on mental healt

EPISODE #148: Insurance Crisis – Part 3

Dec 12th, 2023 40m 53s

Regan Brown, Host, sits down with Charlotte Allen, CIRMS of Socher Insurance Agency and Terri Guest, CIRMS of Berg Insurance Agency to discuss the current insurance crisis facing HOAs and what new developments have occurred.

EPISODE# 147: What’s Wrong with HOAs?

Dec 5th, 2023 31m 15s

Regan Brown, host, sits down with Erica Brynes, Partner at The Rock Law Firm, Inc. to discuss what is going wrong with HOAs – what they were meant to be, how they are living up to that original vision, and where they are headed. Make sure to st

EPISODE#146: AB1033 The ADU Bill

Nov 28th, 2023 32m 3s

Regan Brown, host, and Bill Mann, President of G.B. Group Construction & Painting sit down with Colin McCarthy, Partner at Angius & Terry LLP to discuss the recently passed assembly bill AB1033 on ADU’s and how this could affect your HOA.

EPISODE#145: Motivational Speaker Matt Jones

Nov 14th, 2023 44m 5s

Regan Brown, Host, and Bill Mann of G.B. Group Construction & Painting sit down with Matt Jones, Top Ranked National Motivational Speaker who has written several books on motivation and happiness and worked with several top tier companies and c

EPISODE #144: Smart Property & Reserve Studies

Nov 7th, 2023 32m 6s

Regan Brown, Host, sits down with Damian Esparza and Rich Adams Barrera and Company, Inc. to discuss their proprietary software system but also how it works with Reserve Studies and what the future of that will look like.

EPISODE#143: Mentorship Versus Leadership

Oct 31st, 2023 35m 5s

Regan Brown, Host, Bill Mann, President of G.B. Group Construction & Painting and Kelly Zibell of DC Group sit down with Ted Ma, motivational keynote speaker to discuss mentorship versus leadership and how to help your company grow its leadersh

EPISODE#142: Manager Certification

Oct 24th, 2023 28m 10s

Regan Brown, Host, and Kelly Zibell of DC Group sit down with Debbie Griffith, Director of Education and Certification with CACM to discuss the managers certification offerings with CACM.

EPISODE#141: AB648 - The Newest Email Election Laws

Oct 17th, 2023 37m 23s

Regan Brown, Host, Kelly Zibell from DC Group and Russell Brown, Owner of G.B. Group, inc. sit down with returning guest Zer Iyer, Esq. of Hughes Gill Cochrane Tinetti PC to discuss bill AB648 and the new laws regarding HOA email elections.

EPISODE#140: Co-Habitative Living in an HOA Co-Housing Environment

Oct 10th, 2023 24m 27s

WELCOME TO SEASON 4: Regan Brown, Host, Bill Mann, President of G.B. Group, Inc. and Kelly Zibell, Owner of DC Group sit down with Bryan Syverson, Former Board member of a co-housing property to discuss the challenges faced by members within th