Welcome to Business Buzz, a whole new name and look for the Brunswick Community College Small Business Center monthly newsletter. We hope you enjoy and continue using this content to build your business! As always, we are here for you and for others you may know who are branching out with a new business. Call or email us anytime and be sure and share this newsletter with co-workers and friends. Have a great September.

The BCC Small Business Center offers FREE learning resources monthly. Some are in person but most are offered online making them available to you wherever you are. Take a look at July's lineup and let us know what you think.

Amanda Ward is a Certified Health Coach in Leland that provides support, accountability, and resources for those seeking help with their health challenges such as weight loss, digestion issues, metabolic syndrome, and hormonal imbalances. She has been practicing since 2021.

Before then, Amanda suffered from mysterious gut and autoimmune issues for years despite being an obsessively healthy person. She was able to heal after learning about the dangers of dietary oxalates, and decided to pursue a health coaching certification in order to help prevent others from suffering unnecessarily like she did.

Amanda started her own health coaching business, Primal Point Health, in 2022, to help others transform their health and address habits that don't serve them. She built her very own program around ancestral health and plant toxin awareness. While she is passionate about both plant toxin education and promoting the benefits of a primal lifestyle, she also wants to help her clients understand the power of balance. And that good nutrition isn’t about perfection – it’s about living a good, full and meaningful life too. 

Now she is an agent of change for her clients, helping them heal from inflammation and bad relationships with food, filter the endless barrage of overwhelming health information, and get the results they dream of and deserve. Amanda has a personal collaborative relationship with her clients, and that's the secret sauce to her program. It's client-centered, not coach centered, so it's never one size fits all. Her program focuses on nutrient density, never calorie restriction. Because nourishment and abundance can actually address a ton of issues, from cravings and binging to fertility to chronic disease.

Her program is also holistic. If you go to her for weight loss, she doesn't only focus on nutrition. If you come to her for fitness, she doesn't only focus on physical activity. Instead, she looks at your life as a big picture.

It's Amanda's mission to help clients break free from what's holding them back, live fully, and feel their best. She loves giving practical tips, easy recipes, and supportive strategies to show that real healthy living is totally doable, so sign up for her newsletter at https://www.primalpointhealth.com/newsletter

Or if you'd like to get in touch with Amanda for a free consultation, go to her website, PrimalPointHealth.com.

The WilmingtonBiz Expo is your business’s opportunity to personally connect with more than 2,500 potential clients – all in one day.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

2023 WilmingtonBiz Conference & Expo

Thursday, October 5

Wilmington Convention Center

Join the Greater Wilmington Business Journal at Wilmington's largest business conference, where professionals come to network and grow their businesses!

This year's event will include a Keynote Lunch, featuring the annual Economic Outlook program from UNCW’s Swain Center, the Expo Hall with more than 100 exhibitors and unlimited networking opportunities, and FREE business strategy seminars.

Visit WilmingtonBizExpo.com for a full breakdown of the 2023 agenda.

Join Brunswick Community College Small Business Center as a guest by using the discount code, BEOURGUEST2023 to waive the registration fee.

The 45^th Annual U.S. Open King Mackerel Tournament is right around the corner. This year’s tournament will be October 5^th – 7^th at Brunswick County’s Dutchman Creek Park. The U.S. Open is one of the largest king mackerel tournaments on the East Coast of the United States and part of the SKA (Southern Kingfish Association) Tournament Trail. In 2021, the tournament attracted 561 boats and paid out over $423,600. The Tournament has an all cash guaranteed prize structure that is not based on participation numbers. It pays 55 places in its primary prize category including $25,000 for the largest king mackerel. There are also forty sponsors who add supplementary cash prizes to the event.

Tournament details are available on our website, www.usopenkmt.com, or for a brochure contact the Southport-Oak Island Area Chamber of Commerce, 4433 Long Beach Road, SE, Southport, NC 28461. (910) 457-5787 or (800) 457-6964 or e-mail us at events@southport-oakisland.com.  

Power Connections is a venue for North Brunswick Chamber Members to build productive, meaningful professional relationships that lead to referrals and generate new business.

Power Connections meets at noon at Brunswick Beer & Cider, on 1313 S. Dickinson Drive, on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 12:00. If you are interested in being a featured speaker, click here to email Zach Drennan (10-minute speakers must be Chamber members).

Upcoming Meetings:

September, 13 & 17th, October 11 & 25th.

Brunswick Community College does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, age, political affiliation, genetic information, sexual orientation, or disability.