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Padgett Raleigh is proud to support the success of a diverse group of clients, including both individuals and businesses of various types and industries. We enjoy partnering with clients who:

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Finding Balance in Life and in Business

In the blink of an eye, Rick Mathes’s life changed. At the age of 36, he was in a near-fatal automobile accident that his doctors told him would forever alter how he lived. His medical team said he’d never play competitive tennis again and that he’d likely need a wheelchair by the age of 50…

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Communication & Counsel Simplify Selling Shoes

Shawn Langton has considered himself a “sneakerhead” since he was a kid, dreaming of working in the shoe industry for as long as he can remember. It just took a pair of soggy old tennis shoes to convince him to take the leap into a new life.

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Lee 3 Team - Nest Realty

Triangle real estate firm Lee 3 Team began more than a decade ago with a family partnership led by Jordan Lee. In 2017, Lee 3 became Nest Realty Triangle and continues to dominate the local real estate market. Having sold more than $200 million since its founding, Jordan tells us how his team achieved overwhelming success.

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Blount Creations

Blount Creations

Samantha Blount, the queen of “getting stuff done,” is the owner of Blount Creations, a small business where she gets to wear many hats as a virtual business manager, business coach, leadership coach and virtual assistant.

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Royal Wealth Management

Royal Wealth Management

Mike Palmer is proof that it’s never too late to become an entrepreneur. He founded Raleigh financial advisory firm, Ark Royal Wealth Management, at age 50. It was a risk that paid off, and this month he shares with us his tips for success in advisory services.

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Unity Digital Agency

Unity Digital Agency

Durham web marketing firm Unity Digital Agency is celebrating its one year anniversary. Founder Alisa Herr reflects on what brought her to this point and shares her insights for other budding businesses.

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Arkham Comix

Husband and wife business partners Bill and Tiffany Young first bonded over their love of comic books. For the past year and a half, they have brought Rocky Mount together with Arkham Comix. Now they want to do the same for Wilson.

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Blue Moon Estate Sales

While your parents were taking you to the park or the zoo, sisters Morgan Breakey and Mariah Cope spent much of their childhood at estate sales. This month, the owners of the Durham/Chapel Hill Blue Moon Estate Sales franchise share how they turned a longtime fascination into a successful business.

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Triangle PC Geek

Triangle PC Geek

Cary small business owner Alfredo Caceres has never been afraid to make his own way. From immigrating to the United States as a young man to building his own business from the ground up, he tells us a few things he’s learned along the way.

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Duke Diving

Duke Diving

Fresh off a plane from his first time as an Olympic coach in Rio, Durham business owner Nunzio Esposto talks about going for gold in diving and in business.

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Nido

Nido

Many new mothers are forced to choose between focusing on raising their children and having a career. Durham small business owners, Tiffany Frye and Lis Tyroler have come up with an innovative small business that could not only do both, but help other working parents at the same time.

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East Durham Pie Company

Durham Small Business Owner, Ali Rudel, stumbled on to her passion for baking very much accidentally. Find out how a life-changing diagnosis inspired her to follow her heart.

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The North Carolina Hammock Company

The North Carolina Hammock Company

The North Carolina Hammock Company has been in business more than 25 years. But from the beginning, owner Leonard Wagner, has kept up with the times. This month, local Raleigh business owner, Leonard Wagner, reveals his secrets of long-lasting small business success.

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Bombar's Beemers

Bombar's Beemers

This month, Durham small business owner Peter Bombar talks about the path to owning his own motorcycle repair shop and how he learned to steer around the bumps in the road.

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Fiesta Grill

Fiesta Grill

This month, Chuy and Irene Bravo of Fiesta Grill share with us how small business networking turned their Mexican restaurant into the American dream.

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The Glosserie

Today, Brielle Chapman is a role model for entrepreneurs. But success didn’t come overnight.

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Big Island Smoothie

The call of entrepreneurship is heard by many, but not everyone is cut out to follow the path. Learn how a local entrepreneur shares his insights for small business.

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Thin Line

Thin Line

Her love of horses turned a difficult time into an opportunity for a new equestrian saddle pad business venture.

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Lepage Associates

Lepage Associates

In life, we all face many challenges in which introspection and internalized problem solving may not be enough to help us get through our most difficult issues.

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JD Floor Store

JD Floor Store

John Daniell, small business owner of JD Floor Store, has been a fan of wood since a young age. While in high school woodworking class, he was quoted in the year book as saying that he would one day work with wood for a living.

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Chick-N-Que

Chick-N-Que

In the Old North State, where chopped pork BBQ has long reigned supreme, veteran food truck owner-operators and restaurateurs, Queen and Ernest Harris of Chick-N-Que, are creating buzz

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Ultimate Comics, NC Comicon and Oak City Comic & Toy Show

Ultimate Comics, NC Comicon and Oak City Comic & Toy Show

Alan Gill has a genuine passion for comics and spreading that love onto everyone he meets.

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Dr. Tina Lepage Finds Confidence Partnering With Padgett

TINA LEPAGE, PSY.D.

After 12 years living in Washington, D.C., a move to North Carolina led Dr. Tina Lepage to open her psychology and psychiatry practice, Lepage Associates. Though she now has three offices in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, starting a new business in a new city wasn’t easy at first.

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