The newest member of the Dynasty Financial Partners network, Cyndeo Wealth Partners in St. Petersburg, is a startup. But with a team that previously managed $1.2 billion in client assets, Cyndeo already ranks near the top of the list of largest independent financial advisory firms in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area.
Continuing their tradition of support for the University of South Florida’s St. Petersburg campus, retired businesswomen Kate Tiedemann and Ellen Cotton have made a $1 million donation to establish a new endowed professor position at the Kate Tiedemann College of Business.
On this episode Chris Steinocher, CEO of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, talks with his co-host, St. Pete Catalyst publisher Joe Hamilton, about the ways in which St. Pete businesses are affected by COVID-19, and how they can go about easing into a future that won’t look so familiar.
“I was born to be a reporter,” Mike Deeson says, and he’s got 12 Emmy Awards that would seem to bear this out.
Deeson, whose 35 hard-hitting years of investigative work with Tampa Bay’s CBS affiliate WTSP-TV also led to the Society of Professional Journalists naming him Florida Journalist of the year – the only time that’s ever happened to a broadcaster – has just published a memoir through St. Petersburg Press.
But as the coronavirus wears on, economic reopening moves forward, and a second spike in cases begins, even those who took the pandemic and the social distancing required to mitigate its spread seriously from the start are growing weary. This very real phenomenon has been dubbed quarantine fatigue.