Founder
I’m Billie Tucker Volpe
Billie Tucker has worked in the CEO world for more than 30 years and was the Chief Operating Officer of Vistage Florida, a think tank for CEOs. She started her own consulting practice, CEO Service Bureau, in 2001 and earned a reputation for her keen understanding of the motivations, challenges and goals of people and became a life-long student and teacher of leadership principles. She craved anything leadership related and enjoyed being around the world of entrepreneurial CEOs. She watched as they made decisions; pondered how they would make payroll when cash flow was tight; and appreciated how they created career opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people. Because of her experiences, she has emerged as a key resource for the media and others who want to understand important insights about executives, management teams and board dynamics. In 2008, Billie became discouraged as she watched some of her clients struggle with the political economic impacts on their businesses. The same CEOs who mortgaged their home and charged up their credit cards to make ends meet to build a business and keep others working, now watched as their government bailed out the big banks who had mismanaged their resources.
She cringed as most of her clients laid off employees for the first time and she vowed she would help them… somehow…someway. That somehow…someway showed up in the Tea Party Movement in America. She formed one of the largest tea party group’s in America (more than 9,000 members strong) and helped bring attention to America’s debt problem, out of control spending, over taxation and regulation strangulation on companies. With her background in working with leaders and her influence in the political and leadership world, Billie has continued her dream to help CEOs navigate these troubling waters that permeate the world of capitalism in America. She has been an active participant in the media as a guest on CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, Bott Family Network Radio and co-hosts a political/financial radio show in the Northeast Florida market entitled, Smart Money. She was the first speaker at the House of Representatives Tea Party Caucus inaugural event and was invited by Heritage Foundation to speak at their prestigious annual Heritage Resource Bank, and on their National Security Panel live broadcasts. She spoke at the Congressional Republican House Retreat in Pennsylvania in 2012. She was also the co-host and co-producer of the CNN Tea Party Express Debate in the 2012 Presidential Election. She is a firm believer that America needs more entrepreneurs and more opportunities for people to use their God-given talents and passions to better themselves, their communities and America.
Her favorite quote has become her mission to help CEOs succeed:
“Vision without execution is hallucination.” – Thomas Edison
Lloyd "Scoop" Brown
Senior Editor
Lloyd was born in Jacksonville. Graduated from the University of North Florida. He spent nearly 50 years of his life in the newspaper business …beginning as a copy boy and retiring as editorial page editor for Florida Times Union. He has also been published in a number of national newspapers and magazines, as well as Internet sites. Married with children. Military Vet. Retired. Man of few words but the words are researched well, deeply considered and thoughtfully written.
Patti Levine Brown
Contributing Author
Patti Levine Brown was born in Miami Beach and raised in Jacksonville. She is a retired college professor who earned her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and spent more than 40 years in the higher education arena as well as doing correspondence work for newspapers, magazines, and educational journals. Patti is married and a proud mother to Amanda and grandmother to Abbie and Emma who renamed her Mimi.
Lindsey Roberts
Contributing Author
Lindsey Roberts graduated from the University of Florida where she studied history and journalism. She was a multimedia producer at First Coast News for five years and then pursued her career as a Mommy to two beautiful children. She has always followed political news and anything specifically related to issues affecting the family and the American way of life.
She is ready to get back to her roots by writing for Eye On My City. We are thrilled to have her onboard!!
Jeff Childers
Contributing Author
Jeff Childers is the president and founder of the Childers Law firm. Jeff interned at the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Orlando, where he helped write several widely-cited opinions. He then worked as an associate with the prestigious firm of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward & Woodman in Orlando and Winter Park, Florida before moving back to Gainesville and founding Childers Law. Jeff served for three years on the Board of Directors of the Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Eighth Judicial Bar Association, and on the Rules Committee for the Northern District of Florida Bankruptcy Court. Jeff has published several articles as co-author with Professor William Page of the Levin College of Law (University of Florida) on the topic of anti-trust in the Microsoft case. He also is the author of an article on the topic of Product Liability in the Software Context. Jeff focuses his area of practice on commercial litigation, elections law, and constitutional issues. He is a skilled trial litigator and appellate advocate. http://
www.coffeeandcovid.com/
Dr. James O'Leary
Contributing Author
Jim recently retired as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist. He grew up in Chicago and holds both Irish and American citizenship. With a family of eight children the value of hard work and education were stressed in his home and he was able to pay his own way through a private university. He attended Loyola University of Chicago School of Medicine on a Navy scholarship and served four years as a General Medical Officer before completing his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He was a partner at a private practice for 25 years in Wisconsin and relocated to Florida in 2019 to be closer to his grandchildren. He practiced for an additional 3 years in Florida and decided to retire to spend more time with his two grandchildren. Jim’s passions include conservative politics, personal finance, and family. While in Wisconsin, Jim collaborated to form Physicians for Responsible Government (PRG), a group to recruit congressional candidates to overturn Obamacare and flip the 8th Congressional district in Wisconsin.