We are thrilled to announce and welcome our newest Champion Sponsor, Turtle Creek Financial Group! Turtle Creek Financial Group is an independent firm providing financial strategies as well as wealth management and they have a very unique approach to managing money,...

Upon our founding last summer, we proactively condemned the extensive government mandates and regulations surrounding COVID, saying that such extreme measures did not remediate the virus to the extent they believed and also stressing the likely damage to the business...

At The McGraw Council Membership, we have been pushing digitalization since our founding last year because we knew and recognized the significance of the “COVID economy” and how it changed consumer spending habits. We all know that going virtual changed the way we...

The Virginia Attorney General labeled a small business in Virginia an “imminent threat” because they did not follow various mandates regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, but the courts ruled in favor of the small business (Lanum, 2021). This type of attack against small...

Everyone wants to go back to normal; the vast majority of small business owners want to go back to the way we used to do things. Normal gatherings, foot traffic as a metric, face-to-face communication for closing deals, so and on and so forth. Relying on the old...

This is a short podcast discussing a few takeaways from our mentor groups this past week. During this week’s meetings, a few things that really stood out were the “I think” vs “I know” thought process, the importance of continuous learning, and the importance of...