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Great Quarter, Gals

FreightWaves, Kaylee Nix, Grace Sharkey

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Great Quarter, Gals covers the state of freight from a data driven research powered approach. FreightWaves FreightIntel Research Team dives deep into the numbers, surveys, and people who drive the decisions behind the nation's movement of goods and the surface transportation of freight.
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Grace reviews several women in the workplace surveys to address what leaders should focus on within their business to increase diversity measures. She also invites the Tenney Group’s Meghan Meurer to discuss the challenges of M&A deals in 2023 and what to expect in 2024. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more abo…
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Kaylee Nix and Grace Sharkey chat with Danielle Bansch, a national account manager at TransForce, about the group’s "Barbies in Trucking" campaign. They discuss its inspiration and how it aligns with TransForce's commitment to diversity, aiming to break gender stereotypes in the male-dominated trucking industry. The hosts explore the impact of enco…
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Grace and Kaylee talk about a new initiative to get the world’s most iconic doll behind the wheel of a truck. They also welcome on Courtney Muller to talk about Manifest, the second most poppin’ freight conference (second only to F3 of course). Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…
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Emily Feliton joins the gals to talk TMS on this episode of Great Quarter, Gals. Her, Kaylee Nix, and Grace Sharkey dive into raises, conferencing, and mentorship! Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh FreightWaves, Kaylee Nix, Grace Sharkey
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Grace Sharkey & Kaylee Nix host Delanie Thurlow from Grounded Packaging to talk sustainability, using resources efficiently, and getting the most out of your packaged goods. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh FreightWaves, Kaylee Nix, Grace Sharkey
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Grace describes various supply chain patches awarded to the Girl Scouts and invites Kelsey Scott of Legacy Trucking Consulting to discuss common compliance hurdles. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh FreightWaves, Kaylee Nix, Grace Sharkey
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Kaylee Nix and Grace Sharkey chat with SmartHop’s Courteney McDonnell about investments in FreightTech, investments in career growth, and investments in yourself. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesOleh FreightWaves, Kaylee Nix, Grace Sharkey
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Kaylee Nix and Grace Sharkey discuss female purchasing power and how girl math is driving current discretionary spending. They also invite Sworkz’ Maria Cardenas to discuss how to build a powerhouse marketing team. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Thursday, 1st July, 2010. The blue doors of His Majesty’s prison Durham open widely to reveal the outline of a large imposing figure. At six feet, three inches tall, and weighing about 240 lbs, thirty-seven-years-old Raoul Moat was an intimidating figure who was prone to random aggressive outbursts. Support the show…
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Kaylee Nix and Grace Sharkey invite Amy Mack, partner at Venture53, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on FreightTech. Amy shares stories from her career, challenges she had overcome and what it takes to pivot into the venture capital space. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. V…
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24th May 2010. Bradford, England. A building caretaker sits reviewing CCTV footage as part of his regular duties. But this would not be any ordinary shift. A shadow appears just meters from the camera lens on what would normally be a deserted corridor. Approaching the camera with ill-deserved confidence and a sick grin, was a man of medium build wi…
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Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. A sleepy little town in the country with a tight-knit community. But those community bonds would be stretched to the limit when in August 2002, two ten-year-old girls would go missing somewhere in the area. The two girls were at a barbecue hosted by the parents of Holly Wells but left the home without telling any of …
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Grace Sharkey promotes the 2nd annual International Day for Women in Maritime. She is also joined by Rebecca Tisbe, owner and CEO of JVR Freight, a logistics company that focuses on last-mile, dedicated services. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Kaylee Nix sits down with Haley Fazio from FreightWaves to talk about Taylor's record setting Era's Tour, the spectacle of live events, and how FW plans to blow the event scene out of the water in June. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Grace gets the opportunity to sit with Carolyn Roach, chief human resources officer at XPO. With four months under her belt, we will learn how the LTL company continues to grow its employee's skills along with its LTL offerings. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…
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Kaylee and Grace chats with entrepreneur and industry content creator Blythe Brumleve about bringing more women into our workforce. We break down a number of websites that leverage AI to help grow your business to success. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Kaylee Nix and Grace Sharkey host FW Deputy Editor Brielle Jakel to talk about her show, Tracks Through Time. The three look at her journey to freight, the pasta of becoming a history buff, and some of the best parts of writing about the past. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…
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Grace and Kaylee speak with Ellen Voie, founder of the Women in Trucking Association (WIT), about the group’s new CEO, Jennifer Hedrick, and why she was Ellen’s pick for the role. Hedrick also tells us her goals for WIT and its role in promoting diversity and inclusion. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more abou…
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This is the face of Karen Matthews. Her little girl; Shannon, just nine-years-old, has been missing for over a week at this point. She was last seen at 15:10 on the 19th February, 2008, leaving Westmoor junior school in the small town of Dewsbury, in Yorkshire, England. This case will take you, as it took the police, on many twists and turns that w…
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This case we are about to bring you, is not for the faint-hearted. It is like nothing else you will have heard before. The 24th July 1967, would, in hindsight, turn out to be a bad day for many people, when a wicked woman was brought into the world. This is a case murder of cold, calculated murder by a person who would stop at nothing to get what t…
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September 27th, 2007. In Sydney Australia, the night air is filled with the usual sights and sounds. Stars light up the sky and crickets fill the air with their endless chirps. On a quiet rural road in Waratah nature reserve, a green Toyota Corolla is parked with nobody inside and signs of life. The car belonged to 20-year-old Matthew John Leveson …
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August 18th, 2000. New South Wales, Australia. A forty-eight-year-old man sleeps peacefully in his bed as if it was any other night. But this would not be an ordinary night, it would soon become extraordinary as a man slowly slipped through his bedroom window with one objective. Murder. In the following case, we investigate the chain of events that…
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Grace celebrates #DressForSTEM Day and shares women in STEM facts. She also welcomes Tiffanie Stanard of Stimulus to discuss how her platform is making it easier for diversity-led businesses to compete for your business. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Going viral on the internet is no easy feat and staying viral is even harder. Today Kaylee and Grace sit down with Cait Gillespie to talk TikTok, breaking down difficult info, and the ruthless world of the internet. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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This disturbing case of betrayal, greed, and an unquenchable thirst for power started in the summer of 2021 in Hampton, South Carolina, USA. A young man and a middle-aged woman were gunned down by an unknown assailant. The police made no arrests, how could they? Officially there weren’t any suspects. Strangely, the only statement law enforcement ma…
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23rd February 2022, a mother is awoken by the sound of footsteps and a door slamming shut in the early hours of the morning. When she goes to investigate, what she finds will stay with her for the of her life. Far from finding a body, she finds only one body part left out in the open in her home. Family, friends, and police investigators alike are …
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Willoughby Hills, Ohio, United States. A leafy and normally quiet suburb of Cleveland. That is until the 16th November 2012, when police receive a 911 call at 1:15 am from a young girl asking for help, hysterically telling dispatchers that her mother was being stabbed. Police arrived at the scene, entered the home, and were pointed in the direction…
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Grace and Kaylee discuss the incredible shippers participating in FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. They also chat with Lorena Camargo, founder and chief executive officer of courier service provider PearlTrans Logistics. Lorena shares the risks and rewards that come with the courier side of supply chains. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podca…
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In the rural countryside of Knoxville Tennessee, normally a quiet, close-knit community, one woman strikes fear into local residents. Nobody dares to cross her. Her name is Raynella Leath. These days, a grey-haired older lady, but underneath her grandma-like exterior, beats a heart, that controls a mind, which holds many secrets. Two deaths, one at…
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Grace and Kaylee introduce you to another wonderful, behind-the-scenes woman at FreightWaves, deputy editor Brielle Jaekel. They discuss her journalism career, time covering supply chains and how she would be supporting supply chains if she wasn’t writing. They also take time to honor amazing black women in our industry. Follow the Great Quarter, G…
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Tallahassee, Florida, is normally a quiet, rural suburb. But when a university professor is left bleeding uncontrollably on his driveway, that would all change. The man’s name, is Dan Markel, a seemingly popular man with two young sons and all to live for. Police are left with no clues, suspects, DNA, and only one vague witness. This case would not…
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When a thirty-nine year old woman disappears without trace, the police are left with no witnesses or clues. The successful business woman had apparently made her way to the airport to return to work, however, mysteriously, she never made it. The last time anyone had seen Ana Walshe was on New Year’s Day. Why would this woman who seemed to have it a…
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Kaylee Nix and Grace Sharkey welcome Priyanka Ann Saini for a conversation about the differences in consulting for logistics companies outside of the US. They talk about emerging trends and technologies and look at how global culture differences drive differences in industry representation. Follow the Great Quarter, Gals Podcast Other FreightWaves …
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November 16th, 2011. A young woman is going about her daily life, making her way to a class, minding her own business. Through the corner of her eye, she notices a pickup truck following her down the road at a close distance, before she knew what was happening, the driver had leaped from the vehicle, grabbed her from behind, thrown her to the floor…
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To prepare for National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Kaylee and Grace share with drivers the red flags that signal human trafficking behavior. We also invite industry veterans, Debbie Sparks, executive director of NMFTA, and Linda Hagopian, to discuss their book series that introduce children to the wonderful world of trucking. Follow the Gr…
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Austin Texas is known for many things, barbecue food, the American Formula 1 Grand Prix, and is the self-proclaimed live music capital of the world. But on March 11th, 2022, it would be the center of attention for a much more sinister reason when a talented athlete, Moriah Wilson, is found dead having suffered multiple gunshot wounds and the hunt b…
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