Chris Schroder – Moments

Rolling Stones’ Chuck Leavell’s Moment happened 40 years ago … Could it have been Ladies’ Night?

Date: March 5th, 2012, 1:24 pm

Chuck Leavell leads a musical life that most guys would trade everything to have – playing keyboards for the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton the Allman Brothers and later next month with John Mayer – but his Moment was one all the ladies will love.

Now at age 59, looking back on all that rock ‘n’ roll, Chuck really wants to talk about his true loves: his wife, family and his deep abiding care for the environment, support for which he is spending an increasing amount of his time and treasure.
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Bill Nigut’s Moment led him from TV reporting to serving the community

Date: February 27th, 2012, 12:13 pm

For more than 20 years, Bill Nigut was a mainstay of Atlanta’s WSB-TV’s political coverage and it looked like he would end his career there – until the day in 2002 when his Leadership Atlanta class walked into a non-profit taking care of international refugees in Clarkston. That was the Moment that changed his life.

“Compared to what those people are doing in Clarkston, all I do is blab on television every day,” he thought. “I really need to make a change. I need to get across the wall that separates reporters who are observers from the leaders who are making a real difference in our community.” Today he’s Southeast director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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Evelyn Wynn-Dixon’s Moment was a vision others had for a life she’s living

Date: February 20th, 2012, 2:53 pm

As I watch Dr. Evelyn Wynn-Dixon glide into her stride, telling her life story, I try to brush away a nagging premonition that we might soon see her firing up a Monday night crowd at a national political convention – but then again, other people’s premonitions is how she ended up in the mayor’s chair of Riverdale, Georgia.

Evelyn was driven to find a way out of her situation for both her and her children and serves now as an inspiration to her seven grandchildren and others who meet her.
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Steve Nygren’s Moment ignited an old love and a place called Serenbe

Date: February 13th, 2012, 8:52 am

Steve Nygren’s decades-long work amidst the rolling farms and forests of Chattahoochee Hill Country in south Fulton County is akin to a sculptor carefully studying each sliver of stone before slicing it from an eventual masterpiece.

Steve’s Moment occurred in 2000 when he and his daughter were jogging along the property line and their bucolic run was disturbed when they came upon bulldozers tearing down trees in the forest next door. Many in his situation would have shrugged their shoulders and planted a long row of leyland cypress. Others might have bought a different farm, further from Atlanta. Steve decided to stay and fight. His life changed, again, that instant.
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Chris White’s IBM Moment started his lifetime mission to lead men to God

Date: February 6th, 2012, 12:10 pm

If a boss in Philadelphia hadn’t called Chris White into his office one moment 35 years ago, hundreds and perhaps thousands of men in Atlanta would be a lot more spiritually adrift today. Count me as one of them.

Within a few years, a hundred men were walking into an Atlanta restaurant at 7am each Friday to hear Chris lead them through a a few passages of the Bible. Chris can look back on a brilliant case study of word of-mouth marketing, counseling men to be leaders in the office and servants to their wives and children at home.
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Josh Starks’ Moment helped him find ‘you have to be present to be blessed’

Date: January 30th, 2012, 1:49 pm

The economic downturn has been tough on millions of Americans and 24-year-old Atlantan Josh Starks was just one of the recession’s many casualties. By the afternoon of October 13, 2010, Josh said he had “pretty much lost everything that I worked hard for in life. You name it I lost it, or had to get rid of it to pay a bill or because I couldn’t find any work.”

When he woke up that Wednesday morning, Josh didn’t plan on that being his last day on the planet and he certainly didn’t plan to be on that night’s TV news, eventually attracting headlines around the world. Continue reading →

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Ryan Gravel’s Moment wasn’t conceiving the BeltLine, it was when others embraced it

Date: January 23rd, 2012, 10:55 am

I thought BeltLine visionary Ryan Gravel would say his Moment was when he looked at a map of the city of Atlanta, saw the 1800s-era railroad tracks outlined and had an “ah-ha” moment. He says he’s often asked if the idea came to him all at once, but it actually marinated slowly, sparked during his senior year in college when he rode trains all over Paris and later when he returned to the traffic-clogged streets of metro Atlanta.
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When Sam Massell got fired, it set him on a path that helped shape Atlanta

Date: January 16th, 2012, 10:44 am

When a young Sam Massell went in to see his boss, the future mayor of Atlanta thought he was in line for a big raise. Instead he got fired for all the right reasons and it was one of the best things that ever happened to him – and our city.

As Sam recalls, “I went in shock. At 24, those were heavy words.” He tried talking his boss into keeping him, reciting all his excellent work, but it was all for naught. Instead his boss urged him to go into real estate, “the real market in this city.” Please watch our 2-minute video of Sam’s moment.
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Moments: Shirley Franklin’s most amazing moment just might be her next one

Date: January 9th, 2012, 11:06 am

When we sat down with former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin in the conference room of her new office at Purpose Built Communities where she is now the CEO, she was clear she wanted her Moment to be “strategic.” It wasn’t until we were packed up and leaving a little later that we truly understood her meaning – giving us a sense that she’s been strategic since she was a young child in a Philadelphia dance class.
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Clark Howard’s teenage Moment changed his life and saved millions

Date: January 2nd, 2012, 12:34 pm

Consumer expert Clark Howard is heard on more than 200 radio stations, seen each weekend on HLN, has published nine books and is an Atlanta native and resident.

Clark Howard came home for Thanksgiving from his sophomore year in college and faced a very grim household. From the sad faces he found around his family’s dinner table, he knew something bad had just happened. What he didn’t know is that something very good and life-changing was about to spring from that very same moment.

Please see our video.
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