EPIC Lunching Outside the Box: Igniting Your Enthusiasm

Explore the challenge and excitement of finding your passions through the eyes of several community leaders and entrepreneurs. Together, we will explore the complexities of loving your craft. Our panelists will expose what it meant to each of them to discover a craft and pursue a path toward this as a career. Sometimes the most difficult challenges to overcome are learning to take a new perspective on things and embrace failures as learning opportunities. Our panelists will reflect on past experiences, how these built the foundation for where they stand today and igniting passion within their team members.

Presenter Information:

Michael Urban

Owner, Harold’s Doughnuts

Michael is originally from Washington, Missouri and came to Columbia to attend the University of Missouri in 2001. Michael graduated from Mizzou in 2005 with a degree in political science and went on to begin his career in politics and government in Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. He returned to Columbia in 2008 to join a marketing and technology start-up. 

Michael and his wife Karli began to make homemade doughnuts in 2010 when he found a yeast-raised family doughnut recipe. After several years of continuing to make doughnuts as a fun hobby, Michael and Karli decided to commit to the craft and start Harold's Doughnuts in June of 2014. Harold's started as a delivery business last year and has been open at 114 South 9th St. since January 16, 2015.

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Sabrina Lambrecht

Executive Director and Founder, Como Cares

Sabrina is the Executive Director and founder of Como Cares which she launched in 2012.  She serves on the Parents as teachers advisory committee.  Sabrina completed her Bachelor of Social work in 2005 at Columbia College and received her MBS from William Woods in 2013.  She has two children, Pierce, 6, and Britton, 3, who serve as daily inspiration for her and drive her passion to improve the lives of our community members.

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Erica Pefferman

President, The Business Times Company

Erica Pefferman was born and raised in Joplin, MO.  From a very young age, she was immersed in the family retail clothing business…beginning with wrapping presents during Christmas time at 9 years old all the way to managing the store and buying at markets across the country while she was still in college.

Erica attended both Missouri Southern State University as well as Columbia College in pursuit of a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with minors in Marketing and Management.   After leaving college, Erica worked at an advertising agency until she started her own business in 2001.  Erica became a part of Zimmer Radio Group in 2003, starting as an assistant and working her way up to Director of Sales in 2010.

Erica again had the desire to create something of her own and started The Ruckus Group in June 2012.  Her company was conceived as she realized the great need of small businesses to stay relevant in today’s world by being authentically engaged. Thus, she designed Ruckus’ core areas of competency being in organizational health, multimedia communications and sales consulting.

A short year later, Erica became so passionate about one of her clients that she opted to put The Ruckus Group on the back burner and become a full time part of her client’s organization.  She is now President of The Business Times Company which owns and operates three local magazines, four websites, seven signature events and a multitude of social channels. 

Erica has been married to Brad for 10 years and has five children ranging in ages from 7 to 17 years old. 

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The lunch will be held from 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Dulany Hall Banquet Room on the Columbia College Campus (600 N 8th St). Cost is $10 if you register online by Friday, July 10, 2015 or $13 at the door.

Click here for a map with parking and event specification.

If you have any dietary restrictions, pleaes let us know. We will try to accommodate as much as possible.