22: PR with a Personal Touch - Alexis Davis Smith
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With 20+ years’ experience, Alexis Davis Smith is a solid communications strategist, a leader in Atlanta’s public relations industry. She is responsible for creating breakthrough and strategic communications programs for all Precise Communications clients, including leading global companies such as Coca-Cola and Toyota. “I’ve learned that I don’t have to be afraid, and shouldn’t be shy about expressing my strengths, and good work generates referrals. My first client was Coca-Cola Company, working on Super Bowl 34. Coke has been with us 15 years. Most of our current clients come from referrals.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:28.3 | Today, I'm delighted and honored to bring you our featured guest, Alexis Davis Smith. |
| 0:34.1 | Alexis, how are you? |
| 0:35.4 | I'm great, Don. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so glad you're |
| 0:38.9 | here. Thank you. A question before we get into the interview. Are you using your talents doing work |
| 0:43.3 | that you love? Yes, every single day. That's the best answer yet. With more than 20 years of |
| 0:51.2 | experience and a reputation as a solid communications strategist, |
| 0:56.2 | Alexis Davis Smith is a leader in Atlantis public relations industry. |
| 1:01.0 | She's responsible for creating breakthrough and strategic communications programs for all PR-precise clients, |
| 1:08.5 | including leading global companies such as Coca-Cola and Toyota. |
| 1:13.4 | Alexis, that's a brief overview. |
| 1:15.5 | Take it away and tell us what you're doing now that has your fired up. |
| 1:19.7 | I am very excited, Don, about what I do every day. |
| 1:23.8 | My company, Precise Communications, we are actually celebrating our 15th anniversary this year. |
| 1:31.1 | Hurrah. Hurrah. That's wonderful. Thank you so much. We are very, very excited about it. But what |
| 1:36.4 | makes me the most excited, Don, is the fact that I have been able to combine my love for communications and marketing with my passion |
| 1:48.4 | for entrepreneurialism and giving back and especially cultivating young people. So every day |
| 1:56.4 | when I come into my office, what I'm most excited about are the young people that sit in front of me |
| 2:01.7 | and that I'm able to help them grow into some of the best communications practitioners out there. |
| 2:09.5 | And I'm also very proud of the type of clients that I have the opportunity to work with. |
| 2:16.3 | You asked me a little bit about our history. |
| 2:18.9 | Yes. Prior to starting Precise, I was with one of the top 10 PR agencies in the world. |
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