Our guest today is Dr. Pedro Villegas, a worldwide renown expert in avian virology, vaccine inventor, and a retired professor from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. He has been bestowed countless honors for his legendary work in his field, including one by the Georgia House of Representatives, and in 1999, he was the co-recipient of the University of Georgia Inventor Award for the discovery of the Villegas-Glisson/GA strain of Newcastle disease virus vaccine. In 2013 he was elected to the Ha...
Aug 31, 2022•28 min
With gratitude and grace, Sumit Roy leads Realty Income, a $58 billion San Diego-based company, as its CEO & President. Realty Income owns and manages a portfolio of over 11,200 commercial properties located across the United States as well as in Puerto Rico, the UK, and Spain; and since being promoted to his current roles, he has overseen the doubling of the company’s assets from approximately $28B to $58B and with his team of employees. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Roy was an Executiv...
Aug 11, 2022•38 min
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a Michelin starred chef? Well you’ll find out today because my guest is Michelin-starred Chef Drew Deckman! Drew grew up in Peachtree City, GA. After graduating from Rhodes College with a degree in Philosophy, he embarked on a culinary journey that took him thru Europe, and that journey included working with some of the biggest names in the culinary world, and earned him a coveted Michelin star for his work in Restaurant Vitus in Germany as well as ...
Jul 13, 2022•38 min
Joining us today are Will and Catherine Ostick, foreign service officers within U.S. Department of State and UGA Grady School of Journalism college sweethearts! Will is a career Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State. He has served as Public Affairs Officer for the U.S. Consulate in Kabul, U.S. Consul General in Tijuana, Director for the Office of Brazilian and Southern Cone Affairs for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs and as information officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ma...
Jun 29, 2022•35 min
Joining us today is Shelton Wilder, a UGA graduate with a Bachelor in Business Administration. As a savvy serial entrepreneur, she has started a luxury lifestyle management company, a celebrity fashion stylist business, and invented the Shemie, which she debuted on Shark Tank. She is now the CEO of the Shelton Wilder Group and has become one of the top luxury real estate agents in Los Angeles. The Shelton Wilder Group has achieved a staggering $300 million in total sales, putting her in the top ...
Jun 22, 2022•36 min
Jay Bailey, President and CEO of the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs (RICE), commands a $40 million dollar project that is the largest center in America, dedicated to empowering African American entrepreneurs and small business owners. Jay is an Atlanta native and die-hard Georgia Bulldog, He has been recognized by 3 U.S. Presidents for his leadership and community efforts. In 2012, he was one of eight Americans honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change: Following in the Fo...
Jun 15, 2022•30 min
In this episode, meet Doug and Jane Root, UGA college sweethearts and co-founders of Rustic Roots Wood in Monroe, GA! Doug started their reclaimed wood business after embracing his entrepreneurial spirit and finding the courage to walk away from his long-time family business, Atlanta Lightbulb. In changing careers, he went from the known to the unknown to become an incredibly successful purveyor of reclaimed wood and wood products. And in it he has found more than just success, but also renewed ...
Jun 01, 2022•35 min
In this episode UGA alumnae Dr. Mila Shah-Bruce takes a break in between surgeries to join us and talk about how she manages life as a mom of 2 boys, a wife, an MD at Ochsner LSU Health with 2 American Board certifications – one in Obstetrics and Gynecology and another in Obesity Medicine, and a focused practice designation in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (in which she is among the few elite doctors in the state of Louisiana with that designation). She is also an Assistant Professor and t...
May 11, 2022•27 min
Today’s guest is back by popular demand – Darrell Blocker! Darrell is a UGA alumni and former CIA agent. We spoke with Darrell over a year and a half ago, and since then he has expanded his portfolio as a successful Hollywood creative consultant, ABC News Contributor, and as of recent he joined the elite group of speakers for TedxUGA 2022. He was also President Biden’s short list to be the Director of the CIA. In our catch up with Darrell, he talks about his TedxUGA talk on how being in the CIA ...
May 06, 2022•37 min
Joining us today is Terrel Sanders, MD and Lieutenant Commander with the U.S. Navy, Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 working as Lab Director in Infectious Diseases and with the Navy’s Global Health Engagement, currently stationed in Ghana. He was named to UGA’s prestigious 40 under 40 list in 2021, and was a graduate of UGA's Franklin College of Arts & Sciences. During the pandemic, LCDR Sanders took on the additional role as a health ambassador, helping to combat Covid-19 while in Ghana. H...
Apr 27, 2022•34 min
In this episode Suzanne Yoculan Leebern, former head coach of the women's gymnastics program at UGA from 1983 to 2009, shares her secret sauce for becoming one of the most decorated coaches in the history of collegiate gymnastics. During her tenure, she turned the UGA gymnastics program into a national powerhouse. Named the NCAA coach of the year 5 times, she led the team to 10 NCAA championship titles, 16 Southeastern Conference titles, 22 NCAA Regional crowns, and produced 37 NCAA individual c...
Apr 20, 2022•35 min
On this episode, Polina Marinova, a graduate of UGA's Grady School of Journalism is back to talk about some of her latest dossiers on The Rock and Dolly Parton! She writes about and interviews some of the most successful, fascinating, and compelling people in business and life. She shares with us the lessons that she learned from writing about the Rock, Dolly Parton, and Martha Stewart; and on her captivating interviews with Brandon Stanton (author, Humans of New York; UGA alum) and Sidra Qasim ...
Apr 07, 2021•30 min
In this episode meet Karen Lichey Usry, 1999 Gymnast of the Year! The story of her and her husband Mike Usry, former UGA football player, is one of love, athletics, 2 national championships, 1 touchdown, and a family of 4. Karin Lichey Usry is a former GymDog from 1996-1999 and was part of the undefeated and national champion 1998 and 1999 teams. In her days as a collegiate gymnast, she was the SEC Freshman of the Year in 1996 and the Gymnast of the Year in 1999, and the She won the Honda Sports...
Mar 27, 2021•36 min
In this episode Dan DeLamater takes us inside the Touchdown Club of Athens, a club that was established in 1946 for UGA football fans and that now hosts well-known speakers from ESPN sports broadcasters to UGA football greats at its coveted member meetings at the Athens Country Club, and has the patronage of the legendary Loran Smith among many others. Dan is the clubs most recent past president, and he shares with us some private stories about some of its patrons and speakers including one on C...
Mar 19, 2021•39 min
In this episode, Michael Cheney, President of the UGA Alumni Sports Industry Council, tells us all about the new Council, its mission, and how he was able build it from an idea he had to an illustrious board of advisors of sport industry veterans and providing scholarships to students within the UGA Sport Management and Policy Program in only two short years. The Council currently includes the likes of Vince Thompson, Founder and CEO of MELT; Percy Vaughn VP at Kia Motors America and Chairman of...
Mar 12, 2021•32 min
Actress and UGA grad Jamie Gray Hyder joins this episode to talk about all things UGA and what it's like to be the new bulldawg in blue on Law & Order: SVU! As the new series regular, she talks about what it's like work with Ice-T or "Uncle Ice" as she thoughtfully refers to him as and Marsika Hargitay. She also reflects on her days at UGA, being on the international sensation True Blood, and how she became the star of one of the most successful video game franchises ever - Call of Duty. As ...
Aug 13, 2020•37 min
Not many people get to have on their resume: National Championship, Heisman Trophy Candidate, Super Bowl Champion, and successful wine maker. But Terry Hoage is one of the rare individuals who do, and on this episode, Terry talks about how he went from winning at Sanford Stadium to making touchdowns in the wine industry in Paso Robles, CA, and also the effect covid-19 has had on the local wine industry. He also talks about his longtime relationship with Coach Dooley, who once said he had the mos...
Jul 21, 2020•41 min
A UGA graduate who becomes a spy and shatters cultural barriers to rise thru the ranks of the CIA to become the Deputy Director of the Counterterrorism Center, Chief of Africa Division, and Chief of CIA's iconic operational training facility. Today's guest is someone that I met at an alumni reception in Beverly Hills years ago, and at the time he handed me a business card that stated he worked for the State Department, but I had a feeling there was more than meets than eye. And I was right! My g...
Jun 09, 2020•1 hr 12 min
While school is ‘remotely’ in session and spring football practice for the Bulldogs has been on hold, Josh Winnett is doing his best to keep current with life during the unprecedented pandemic. Josh is a current student and the new walk-on place kicker at UGA. Having never played a day of football before, on January 17, 2020 he bravely tried out for the UGA football team, and to his excitement he received the good news that he made the team. However, making the team does not mean that he made th...
May 09, 2020•56 min
Loran Smith needs no introduction as most longtime UGA football fans will recognize his voice. It’s the voice that has been heard from the sidelines of UGA football for decades. The late legendary play-by-play commentator Larry Munson, used to pass the broadcast to Loran by asking, “Whattayagot, Loran?” On this episode of 33N83W, he reflects on life in Athens in the 1960’s as a track star and Grady School student and his inspiration and path into broadcasting. As a Masters aficionado, he also re...
May 09, 2020•50 min
Learn from the most successful people and companies every week with Polina Marinova’s The Profile, a popular weekly newsletter that features stories and dossiers on people and companies across areas of business, entertainment, tech, sports, and more. Take for example, in a recently published dossier, The Profile highlights Kenneth Feinberg, the Master of Disaster, and his life as the man who oversees the funds that compensates victims of events such as 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Sandy Hook Elem...
May 09, 2020•30 min
#1 Ranking! We're not talking football. We're talking forestry! Learn the power of timber, the many high tech applications of wood products, including your phone, and the importance of consumption to a healthy industry. You'll also learn that 200 million trees were planted in Georgia in 2019! Did we beat Florida and Alabama? Listen in and learn how Andres Villegas (Georgia '98), the President and CEO of the Georgia Forestry Association, leads the 22 million acre, $37 billion industry that is dri...
Mar 19, 2020•56 min
In this episode, listeners will hear from two honored alums, John Noell, a lawyer for 50+ years and a member of the Sigma Chi Order of the Constantine, and Claudia Noell, President of Tri Delt and honored by the College of Family and Consumer Sciences as among their 100 most influential graduates during the school's first 100 years. Claudia and John, who met on campus in October 1962, talk about how to live life well, represent the University of Georgia in stellar fashion and to embrace all with...
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 1 min
UGA Swimming and Diving Head Coach and 2008 Team USA Olympic Head Coach for the Women’s Swim Team Jack Bauerle; 2-Time Olympian and UGA alum Nicolas Kintz; and his wife and alum Molly Kintz join 33N83W for a no-holds-barred and candid conversation about all things UGA swimming, past and present. Coach Bauerle is the man responsible for putting UGA swimming and diving on the international map. Due in large part to him, UGA is one of the most represented universities at the Olympics and other majo...
Feb 07, 2020•53 min
David Kramer is “One of the Most Powerful People in Entertainment” per The Hollywood Reporter. He's Co-President of United Talent Agency, one of the top talent agencies in the world, and he took time out of his busy schedule to talk to 33N83W and his fellow UGA Bulldog community! He's a true ambassador to the UGA brand and a testament to the caliber of alumni within the UGA community! He talks about his start in the mail room, his rise to becoming Co-President of UTA, and how the agency stays ah...
Dec 06, 2019•53 min
Meredith Dean is the founder of The Dean’s List, Studio Coordinator and On-Air Personality for Ryan Seacrest Studios at Levine Children’s Hospital, and former Executive Assistant to Deborah Norville at Inside Edition. She joins the show to talk about starting her own company right out of college, working for Ryan Seacrest Studios, and her work with her family’s nonprofit, Habitat Aid Initiative, a thriving non-profit in Western Kenya. She is a UGA Grady School of Journalism graduate and 2018 ind...
Nov 08, 2019•33 min
Coach Chris Haack reveals that UGA alumni have raked in approx. $175M in pro tour winnings and that UGA is the most represented university on the PGA Tour for 2019, more than any other university. He shares his stories about former players including Kevin Kisner, Bubba Watson, Keith Mitchell, and more; gives us inside access to the secret to his success as a coach, what he looks for in a recruit, and to the current men's and women's team.
Sep 28, 2019•56 min
Polina Marinova, UGA Grady School of Journalism grad and Editor-in-Chief of Fortune Magazine’s Term Sheet, dishes on her journey to her dream job at Fortune, the growth of female founded startup unicorns ($1B startups), and her conversation with billionaire Steve Schwarzman, CEO and founder of Blackstone. Also, former UGA Track and Field star, Danny Soule, comments on the freshman phenom on the Track and Field team, Matthew Boling, who shot to international stardom earlier this year.
Sep 28, 2019•1 hr 4 min
Guests Buck Belue and Greg McGarity join the show. Buck Belue, former QB of the 1980 team and host of Buck and Kincade on 680 The Fan in Atlanta, talks UGA football and the incoming freshman class in segment 2. In segment 3, we get to know the real Greg McGarity, UGA Athletic Director, as he talks candidly about what it’s like to be the AD, scheduling non-conference games, student-athlete stipends and resources, and the naming of Dooley Field.
Aug 10, 2019•1 hr 7 min
33N83W officially launches with a special interview with the legendary Coach Vince Dooley on his passion for gardening, the naming of Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium, and the 2019 football team. The show also features a conversation with Frank Ros, the 1980 National Championship Team Captain, who still wears the title of captain among his teammates, 39 years later, by keeping them connected throughout the years. Frank also discusses what made the 1980 team so unique, Herschel Walker, and his tak...
Jul 12, 2019•1 hr 7 min
