Visit Gainesville, Florida and Uncover the Unexpected
Uncover the Unexpected in North Central Florida! Gainesville offers 30+ miles of biking and hiking trails while spotting wildlife in 7 nearby Florida State Parks. Canoe scenic rivers, or take a dive into one of our crystal clear springs. Spend your afternoon antiquing in surrounding small towns, and grab a bite with some of the best local farm-to-fork dining around. Quench your thirst at any of our 3 local breweries and enjoy downtown public art and nightlife!
Thanks to everyone featured in this video: Boca Fiesta, DriftSUP, Ginnie Springs, Lachua Trail, San Felasco Preserve State Park, Sweetwater Branch Inn, Micanopy, Santa Fe Canoe Outpost, 352walls, First Magnitude Brewing Company, Dragonfly Sushi, High Dive, The Great Outdoors Restaurant
Florida Travel: 5 Things to Do in Gainesville
Ready to have an adventure in the Sunshine State? Come explore 5 spots around Gainesville, Florida that are perfect for those looking for excitement on their vacation.
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Ginnie Springs Outdoors
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park
Deep Spring Farm
Cade Museum
First Magnitude Brewing Company
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A visit to Gator-founded First Magnitude Brewing Company in Gainesville
Science on Tap: Secrets of Seagrass Pt. 1 (Facebook Live)
The free event titled “Science on Tap: Secrets of Seagrass,” took place Thursday, June 13 from 6:30 to 8:80 p.m. at Cypress and Grove Brewing Co. located at 1001 NW 4th St in Gainesville, Fla.
Attendees enjoyed discussion led by Savanna Barry, Florida Sea Grant Agent with the UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station. With a background in fisheries and aquatic sciences, Barry is responsible for educating the public about topics including sustainable coastal activities, citizen science and habitat restoration.
This is part 1 of the presentation.
Florida Travel: 4 Places to Find Adventure in Florida
Ready to have an adventure in the Sunshine State? Come explore the 4 spots around Florida that are perfect for those looking for excitement on their vacation.
Learn more about the places featured in the video:
Jacksonville Surf and Paddle
Little Talbot Island State Park
Kelly Seahorse Ranch
Big Talbot Island State Park
Kayak Amelia
Ginnie Springs Outdoors
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park
Deep Spring Farm
Cade Museum
First Magnitude Brewing Company
Weeki Wachee Springs State Park
Anclote Key Preserve State Park
SunWest Park
TreeHoppers Aerial Adventure Park
Skydive City
Subscribe to see our latest travel videos about top Florida destinations, some of the best Florida food hotspots, amazing beaches, and how to do an epic family trip to the Sunshine State. Then head to the VISIT FLORIDA website and plan your next Florida vacation. Follow VISIT FLORIDA on social media for more amazing photos and videos to find your sunshine. #LoveFL #Family #Travel
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Science on Tap: Sea Turtles and Red Tide
The free event titled “Science on Tap: Sea Turtles and Red Tide,” took place Thursday, April 25 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at First Magnitude Brewing Co. located at 1220 SE Veitch St. in Gainesville.
Attendees enjoyed discussion led by Justin Perrault, director of research at Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Perrault has 13 years of experience working with sea turtles and has published 25 papers on a wide variety of topics dealing with red tide, toxicology, and marine organismal health.
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Science on Tap: Secrets of Seagrass (part 1)
NOTE: Presentation begins at minute marker 22:07
The free event titled “Science on Tap: Secrets of Seagrass,” took place Thursday, June 13 from 6:30 to 8:80 p.m. at Cypress and Grove Brewing Co. located at 1001 NW 4th St in Gainesville, Fla.
Attendees enjoyed discussion led by Savanna Barry, Florida Sea Grant Agent with the UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station. With a background in fisheries and aquatic sciences, Barry is responsible for educating the public about topics including sustainable coastal activities, citizen science and habitat restoration.
This is part 1 of the presentation.
Its Only Love by Wild Blue Yonder band
From our Bolt Out Of The Blue CD, this original song about a woman's emotional strength features a mellow string arrangement and intuitive lead acoustic guitar. Visit wildblueyonder.band for more info and WBY music.
Local Discovery: Explore Florida & Georgia - FULL SHOW
Guaco Taco Festival 2018
Atlanta Beer Festivals hosted the first Guaco Taco Fest on November 10, 2018 at Atlantic Station. Thanks to RSVP for the video production and Cadilac Jones for the song.
The Best BBQ Pitmasters of the South | Southern Living
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FULL BROADCAST | 2019 Gate River Run
The 2019 Gate River Run
Learning Entrepreneurship in the Real World with Wrap Spot | WHOA GNV Podcast
What better way to learn entrepreneurship than to experience it first hand? Garrick Crocker and Taylor Wright from Wrap Spot are here to tell us what taught them the most about entrepreneurship and what they do now to make their businesses better and better every day. We announce a surprise giveaway at 7:00, get the details and share with your favorite business!
Our guest host this week is a University of Florida student Maria Alaez, who has co-founded a startup called Unbox.ed. A subscription box that sends out a care package with items that will help a student keep energized during stressful times.
2:00 Guest host Maria Alaez co-founder of Unbox.ed
7:30 Special giveaway from Wrap Spot!!
11:30 Wrap Spot event with First Magnitude and Adams Rib Co.
13:30 How Collin and Garrick know each other.
17:30 Garrick's origin story.
29:10 Taylor's origin story.
36:30 What has been the biggest challenge in your business?
39:30 The importance of cash flow in running a business and making payroll.
45:00 Learning experience of starting a business.
49:30 Relationships are everything in business.
1:00:30 Loving what you do and taking time to celebrate successes.
1:08:40 When owning multiple businesses, how do you know when to move on from a business?
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THE PODCAST BRINGING YOU BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHOA!
Collin Austin, founder of New Scooters 4 Less, and Ty Rucarean, founder of Best of Gainesville, have come together to bring you incredible and inspiring stories of entrepreneurs and other awe-inspiring leaders. Hear the fascinating challenges individuals have had to persevere through. Soak in the wisdom of talented men and women that have had the grit and focus to get to glory. Reflect on their life-altering stories. Join in and celebrate the wins with them (and us) as well. If it makes you go “WHOA!”, it’s on this podcast! Educate yourself and grow as we come together EVERY Monday at 8am to learn from the BEST.
Ty and I are SUPER passionate about Gainesville, FL so we decided to create a podcast CENTERED here in Gainesville. Of course, we will bring in guests from other places and have a ton of fun learning from those outside our realm, but we want to have a heavy focus on showing off Gainesville's talent and what makes this place so special. We are on a mission to KEEP our talented students coming out of UF, a top ten public university HERE in Gainesville. We want to help Gainesville businesses recruit top talent to Gainesville, FL. We want to help Gainesville bring in new businesses. We want to help the small businesses in Gainesville learn from others and from one another in order to grow and be more fruitful.
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The Power and Madness of the Food Truck Business with Halo Potato Donuts | WHOA GNV Podcast
Today on #whoagnv we talk to Drew Stuerman the owner of the Halo Potato Food Truck in Gainesville, FL! He tells us all the amazing opportunities that have come from having a food truck and a loyal following of #potatodonut lovers.
He also shared the frustrations of having a product affected by the cold weather and exposure in a food truck. Our guest host Joe Lowry Jr and Collin dig deep into the #foodtruck lifestyle!
1:13 Our guest host Joe Lowry Jr from Junior Achievement Alachua County
3:00 Financial Literacy, Biz Town, and JA Goals
8:10 How can you volunteer for JA?
11:38 Drew Stuerman’s Origin Story
21:25 Seeing Funding and Gator Hatchery
23:10 When Collin met Drew
24:25 Starting the Halo Potato Donuts food truck
26:35 Ken Eats Gainesville article and UF Football University Ave food truck spot
30:20 Utilizing brick and mortar location and mobile food trucks strategy
36:18 Most fascinating part of food truck life?
43:20 Knowing your entrepreneurial value and personal branding
46:10 What's the most valuable lesson you’ve learned since starting?
48:25 How do you decide your hours and availability?
51:00 Do you plan to partner with local eateries to sell your donuts?
57:45 Starting a food truck association and food truck park in Gainesville
1:06:00 Let us know how the podcast has impacted you!
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REPAINT THE WALL - A DIGITAL MEDIA UN-AGENCY
ABOUT THE WHOA GNV PODCAST:
THE PODCAST BRINGING YOU BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS THAT MAKE YOU GO WHOA!
Collin Austin, founder of New Scooters 4 Less, and Ty Rucarean, founder of Best of Gainesville, have come together to bring you incredible and inspiring stories of entrepreneurs and other awe-inspiring leaders. Hear the fascinating challenges individuals have had to persevere through. Soak in the wisdom of talented men and women that have had the grit and focus to get to glory. Reflect on their life-altering stories. Join in and celebrate the wins with them (and us) as well. If it makes you go “WHOA!”, it’s on this podcast! Educate yourself and grow as we come together EVERY Monday at 8am to learn from the BEST.
Ty and I are SUPER passionate about Gainesville, FL so we decided to create a podcast CENTERED here in Gainesville. Of course, we will bring in guests from other places and have a ton of fun learning from those outside our realm, but we want to have a heavy focus on showing off Gainesville's talent and what makes this place so special. We are on a mission to KEEP our talented students coming out of UF, a top ten public university HERE in Gainesville. We want to help Gainesville businesses recruit top talent to Gainesville, FL. We want to help Gainesville bring in new businesses. We want to help the small businesses in Gainesville learn from others and from one another in order to grow and be more fruitful.
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Gator Great James Bates & Brad Gamble, Selling Factory | WHOA GNV Podcast
In this second episode of the WHOA GNV Podcast, Ty and I sit down with Gator Great James Bates and the CEO of The Selling Factory, Brad Gamble. James went from University of Florida Gator Football to broadcaster, broadcast professor at UF, and artist here in Gainesville. Brad went from crushing things at Infinite Energy to starting his own business around his passion... Selling... with a focus of teaching entrepreneurs that going out and selling product and making money is a much better method than 'raising' money and giving the company away. Join us for this EPIC discussion.
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Ty and I are SUPER passionate about Gainesville, FL so we decided to create a podcast CENTERED here in Gainesville. Of course we will bring in guests from other places and have a ton of fun learning from those outside our realm, but we want to have a heavy focus on showing off Gainesville's talent and what makes this place so special. We are on a mission to KEEP our talented students coming out of UF, a top ten public university HERE in Gainesville. We want to help Gainesville businesses recruit top talent to Gainesville, FL. We want to help Gainesville bring in new businesses. We want to help the small businesses in Gainesville learn from others and from one another in order to grow and be more fruitful.
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2018 Business of the Year Awards by the Gainesville Greater Chamber | THE VLOG | COLLIN AUSTIN | E31
My friend Carlee Marhefka and I got to emcee the 2018 Greater Gainesville Chamber Business of the Year Awards! Let's give away some awards!
Date: November 17, 2018
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Repaint The Wall is a digital media agency that builds brand and ultimately... LEGACY. We make sure we understand your long-term vision and work from that vision to create a customized strategy to execute upon your vision.
We work in a variety of ways to help you accomplish your goals, but our strengths are:
- Video [Promotional / Vlogging]
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- Personal Branding
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Early in 2004, an opportunity presented itself that would forever change the direction of my life and the culture of an entire community. I would sit at a bus stop day after day trying to catch an RTS bus to campus and this bus would pass me by with the words FULL BUS displayed across the top. This opportunity merged with a drop shipping and importing opportunity with one of my best college friends and ultimately led to the creation of New Scooters 4 Less in March of 2004. 14 years later, New Scooters 4 Less (NS4L) is one of the largest scooter dealerships in the United States and continues to break its own records and the sales records for some of the top scooter distributors in the country. NS4L has provided jobs to tons of amazing people, reached millions of dollars in revenue, sold thousands of scooters, and has serviced thousands more.
NS4L has become well known within the business community for it’s unique, eccentric, and innovative culture developed around a single core value: Create and recreate the Ultimate Customer Experience, or UCE.
Since the birth of NS4L, the University of Florida and the Gainesville Community have forever been changed.
Our vision is to be the most trusted, go-to scooter dealership in existence and to revolutionize the entire scooter industry through our core values, innovation, and by creating that ultimate customer experience. We want to make Gainesville, FL the scooter capital of the world!
Over the years, New Scooters 4 Less has been recognized with several community awards including Purpose 20 Award (2015), Impact Award (Collin, 2015), Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year (2015), and many national awards including Gator 100 (2015), Top 3 Dealer for Bintelli Scooters (2014, 2015), Number 1 Southern Dealership for Bintelli Scooters (2016), Top 5 Dealer for Wolf Brand Scooters (2017), Top Ten Dealer for Genuine Scooter Company (2015, 2016), and Number One Dealer in the Country for Genuine Scooter Company (2017).
Today, the dealership is being run by my amazing team as they free me up to build our next company, a customer experience digital media agency. With our number one core value being to create and recreate the ultimate customer experience, we wanted to help other businesses that share our values do this exact same thing. We will help businesses do these things in a multitude of ways that are completely custom to help them achieving their goals.
My team and I also launched the WHOA GNV Podcast that is becoming increasingly popular. The podcast focuses on highlighting people and businesses that make you go “WHOA!” To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, visit:
It’s been 14 years, but hold on… this entrepreneurial journey is only getting started!
Knowledge is Power, Give It Away and Don't Be Afraid | Disrupt Gainesville | Collin Austin
Recently, I got to speak at Disrupt Gainesville. This was an interesting talk for me and a bit outside my comfort zone, but that is what I loved about it. Every 15 seconds, the slide automatically changes, sooo... my slides literally have nothing to do with my talk, lol, because I wasn't going to touch that game! Listen to the talk itself and if you want to see a presentation around the slide show, check out this talk here which is similar:
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Repaint The Wall is a digital media agency that builds brand and ultimately... LEGACY. We make sure we understand your long-term vision and work from that vision to create a customized strategy to execute upon your vision.
We work in a variety of ways to help you accomplish your goals, but our strengths are:
- Video [Promotional / Vlogging]
- Social Media
- Personal Branding
Repaint The Wall
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T H E J O U R N E Y
Early in 2004, an opportunity presented itself that would forever change the direction of my life and the culture of an entire community. I would sit at a bus stop day after day trying to catch an RTS bus to campus and this bus would pass me by with the words FULL BUS displayed across the top. This opportunity merged with a drop shipping and importing opportunity with one of my best college friends and ultimately led to the creation of New Scooters 4 Less in March of 2004. 14 years later, New Scooters 4 Less (NS4L) is one of the largest scooter dealerships in the United States and continues to break its own records and the sales records for some of the top scooter distributors in the country. NS4L has provided jobs to tons of amazing people, reached millions of dollars in revenue, sold thousands of scooters, and has serviced thousands more.
NS4L has become well known within the business community for it’s unique, eccentric, and innovative culture developed around a single core value: Create and recreate the Ultimate Customer Experience, or UCE.
Since the birth of NS4L, the University of Florida and the Gainesville Community have forever been changed.
Our vision is to be the most trusted, go-to scooter dealership in existence and to revolutionize the entire scooter industry through our core values, innovation, and by creating that ultimate customer experience. We want to make Gainesville, FL the scooter capital of the world!
Over the years, New Scooters 4 Less has been recognized with several community awards including Purpose 20 Award (2015), Impact Award (Collin, 2015), Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year (2015), and many national awards including Gator 100 (2015), Top 3 Dealer for Bintelli Scooters (2014, 2015), Number 1 Southern Dealership for Bintelli Scooters (2016), Top 5 Dealer for Wolf Brand Scooters (2017), Top Ten Dealer for Genuine Scooter Company (2015, 2016), and Number One Dealer in the Country for Genuine Scooter Company (2017).
Today, the dealership is being run by my amazing team as they free me up to build our next company, a customer experience digital media agency. With our number one core value being to create and recreate the ultimate customer experience, we wanted to help other businesses that share our values do this exact same thing. We will help businesses do these things in a multitude of ways that are completely custom to help them achieve their goals.
My team and I also launched the WHOA GNV Podcast that is becoming increasingly popular. The podcast focuses on highlighting people and businesses that make you go “WHOA!” To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, visit:
It’s been 15 years, but hold on… this entrepreneurial journey is only getting started!
FULL BROADCAST | 2019 Gate River Run
The 2019 Gate River Run