{"id":1421,"date":"2013-07-08T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2013-07-09T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:53:24","slug":"jess-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/jess-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 68: President of Olympico Strategies Jess Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a068
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0June 29
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Jess Knox
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jess Knox grew up in York, Maine.\u00a0 He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned his Bachelor\u2019s in Government.\u00a0 Knox then returned to Maine and attended the University Of Maine School Of Law and earned his Juris Doctorate in 2004.\u00a0 Knox was the recipient of the University of Maine Law School Outstanding Public Service Award, and was the President of the University of Maine Student Bar Association.<\/p>\n

Knox has been involved in many facets of Maine\u2019s political infrastructure.\u00a0 Stevoe and Knox discussed how in 7th grade Knox was\u00a0inspired by his parents to be involved within the local community and he helped gather signatures for York Town Council.\u00a0 He went on and served as the Special Assistant to the Maine Speaker of the House, and spearheaded the effort to create Maine\u2019s Consumer and Commercial Court Docket, a specialty-court docket dedicated to resolving business-related litigation.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) is joined in the studio by President at Olympico Strateis Jess Knox (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2009, Knox served as a member of the Obama Administration where he was appointed to the Small Business Administration to serve as the Associate Administrator for Field Operations.\u00a0 Knox explained to Stevoe that he believes Obama’s 2009 campaign was so successful due to the grassroots, neighbor-to-neighbor approach that was taken, and that you’re more often to believe what you hear from someone you trust than what you hear on t.v.<\/p>\n

Knox founded Olympico Strategies<\/a> in July of 2012. Olympico helps companies and organizations manage growth and change by taking a system-wide personal approach to growth, change and performance.<\/p>\n

Knox lives in Portland with his wife and their son and enjoys craft brewing, soccer and traveling.\u00a0 Knox also writes a blog for the Bangor Daily News called, \u201cDisruptive Growth\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio, host Steve Woods and President of Olympico Strategies Jess Knox discussed at length the political landscape currenlty at play in Augusta. They also talked about how Knox became inspired by his parents in the 7th grade to be involved in political activisim and how success breeds success, and what that will mean for Maine’s future. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}