Lisa Stephens

LISA STEPHENS: The Woman at the Center of a Thriving Business

When you meet Lisa Stephens, you Lisa loves working alongside Travis and will instantly notice her calm and watching her kids learn the business and cool demeanor. She has to be. She how to balance work and family life. and her husband, Travis Stephens own Total Lisa works hard everyday, making sure Services Heating and Air, a growing HVAC their service technicians have what provider serving Effingham, Chatham and Brian they need to go out in the field, that counties. And she has a full house with four the office staff can serve customers children; two boys, twin girls over the phone and and a dog named Ranger. that everything in the

Travis and Lisa both business and in life is started out working at Lisa’s running smoothly. family business over more Travis says, “Lisa than 22 years ago. They balances me and explain that how they were reminds me to blessed to learn the heating breathe when and air conditioning business things get from Lisa’s father and (912) 728-6720 hectic.” grandfather, who instilled totalserviceshvac.com Lisa knows into them both the values of what it takes to hard work, honesty and treating people with build a successful business respect. Those are the values Lisa and Travis with the values passed carried into their own business. Customer down from her parents and satisfaction is what they strive for and what grandparents. She is a role they both find most rewarding about owning model for her children Total Services HVAC for the last six years. and for women thinking

“We love helping our customers with expert of going into business for service at a fair price. We just can’t operate themselves. any other way,” Lisa says.

A Realtor® Who Knows Effingham County

Being a Native of Effingham county, Alice Hurst Alice loves what she does as an agent, having was born and raised here and continues to live the ability to help others sell their home, find their at her childhood property to this day. She can dream home, buy their first investment property walk into any restaurant, store, or event and know a or purchase their first home. She works with resale friendly face or two. This was an advantage as she grew properties, new builds, and land purchases. up, whether it was family, friends, or colleagues, she With her love for people, construction, and has never met a stranger. She uses this trait today in her marketing Alice is able to help many people in career as a real estate agent. the real estate industry from home buyers to

The real estate industry is competitive and tough, but fellow agents. Alice never let this stop her from making connections No matter how busy Alice gets, every and networking with others in the industry. client gets her full attention and care. She

She worked for a warranty ensures every day that company traveling and her clients are happy working with new home and taken care of. She builders from Augusta, GA isn’t motivated by to Jacksonville, and all areas money or pay, she is in between for 14 years. motivated by the During her years there, alicehurst.com | (C) 912-665-0755 people she works Alice gained a wealth of with and the knowledge about new home warranties, new home drive she has by doing something construction, and remodeling. When she decided to she truly loves. go into real estate, her background knowledge and Alice is ready to lend a business connections helped her significantly. Alice helping hand to fellow continued to keep these connections tight and also agents and new aspiring build new ones over time with other agents. agents. If you are looking for a Realtor that knows Building Success the area, will listen to

There are many agents—new and seasoned—that what you need, and has the come to Alice asking how she has been able to gain connections to make your so much success in the area. Her answer is simply— home selling and buying easier, Alice network with other agents. is the woman you need!

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People often say “never go into business with your friends.” However, it can be one of the most exciting, fun, adventurous, challenging, supporting and satisfying things you can do if you have the right partner. Tammy Leggett and Donna Horton are friends first, business partners second and have been enjoying building Hortons General Store together and keeping it running like a well-oiled machine.

Tammy is the face you see when you walk into the store and she manages the day-to-day operations for the store. She is very personable and is great at communicating with all of the customers and vendors. She also maintains the store by keeping the shelves stocked, creating gifts and baskets for the customers. She enjoys interacting with the customers and listening to their stories.

Donna is more behind the scenes, she works full time in Savannah and balances her time between her job and the General Store.

Hortons General Store opened May 18, 2020. Donna’s husband Van operated Hortons Deer Processing and opened up Horton’s Quality Meat in 2015. In 2016, Horton’s Quality Meat closed down to focus on wholesale and retail of Hortons’ Beef Jerky. Donna and Van would travel around on the weekends going to large events promoting the Horton Products.

When COVID shut down large events in 2020, it was a hard blow since large events were where they promoted most of their products. This led to the idea of opening the General Store to help with their retail business and also to help out friends that were affected by COVID.

Friends and fellow festival vendors across Georgia and South Carolina were contacted to see if they were interested in selling their products in the store. The response was overwhelming!

Horton’s General Store is overflowing with local products from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida. Horton’s fresh sausage is now available everyday in the store. They also carry local and small batch company items such as BBQ sauces, marinades, pickles, jams, jellies, dressings, soups, spices, coffee and more

Gifts are a big part of the store with T-shirts, soaps, jewelry, candles and more. They create gift baskets upon request from items chosen by the customers.

Tammy and Donna also created their own brand that perfectly describes their business, Southern Rooted. This is a lifestyle company “rooted” in faith, family and friendship. Donna is working on many t-shirt designs for Southern Rooted, and they have expanded into selling soaps, candles and coffee with more products to come.

Horton’s is a women-owned small business focused on making their business successful and also helping out other businesses be successful as well. Check them out in Rincon or online at hortonsgeneralstore.com

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B’RENEWED WITH BONNIE J. SMITH

It can be frustrating when you have pain or medical issues and every doctor you go to can’t seem to find the solutions. They run tests and still come up blank. Bonnie has heard on multiple occasions from clients that they “wish they had come to her sooner.”

Many people don’t think too much about massage therapy or holistic healing when an issue arises, and Bonnie J. Smith wants to change that perspective. She wants people to use massage therapy as a second or third option to receiving help.

Often massage is the last resort or is thought of to be a luxury service, but in reality, it has a lot of physical and mental benefits. Massage therapy should be a necessity and not a luxury.

Bonnie worked at the Westin spa for ten years before moving to a chiropractor office. When she worked for the chiropractor, she was fascinated by the clinical and medical side. She wanted to approach massage therapy as a clinical means of addressing physical issues. At B’Renewed, Bonnie offers a variety of services including body scrubs, hot stone, nutritional testing, and coaching. When her clients comes in with a physical issue they can’t seem to solve and leaves happy and pain-free, that is when Bonnie knows that what she is doing for her clients is working. Bonnie has been getting her message out to others in the surrounding areas so much that she has now opened a second location to accommodate more clientele.

B’Renewed has been in business for only two years and she has already shown her customers success in being pain-free, and they share their experience with others in their lives.

If you are looking for something different to try and you feel like you have tried everything, give Bonnie a call! She offers much more than just massage therapy and has had lots of success with relieving pain for clients who thought they had no other options.

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