Auto Care ON AIR

"Auto Care ON AIR" is a candid podcast dedicated to exploring the most relevant topics within the auto care industry. Each episode features insightful discussions with leading experts and prominent industry figures. Our content is thoughtfully divided into four distinct shows to cover four different categories of topics, ensuring collective professional growth and a comprehensive understanding of the auto care industry.

The Driver's Seat: Navigating Business and the Journey of Leadership

To understand organizations, you need to understand their operators. Join Behzad Rassuli, as he sits down for in-depth, one-on-one conversations with leaders that are shaping the future. This show is a "must listen" for how top executives navigate growth, success, and setbacks that come with the terrain of business.

Carpool Conversations: Collaborative Reflections on the Road to Success

Hosted by Jacki Lutz, this series invites a vibrant and strategic mix of guests to debate and discuss the power skills that define success today. Each episode is an entertaining, multi-voice view of a professional development topic and a platform for our members to learn about our industry's most promising professionals.

Indicators: Discussing Data that Drives Business

This show explores data relevant to the automotive aftermarket. Join Mike Chung as he engages with thought leaders in identifying data that will help you monitor and forecast industry performance. Whether global economic data, industry indicators, or new data sources, listen in as we push the envelope in identifying and shaping the metrics that matter.

Traction Control: Reacting with Precision to the Road Ahead

Every single day, events happen, technologies are introduced, and the base assumptions to our best laid plans can change. Join Stacey Miller for a show focused on recent news from the global to the local level and what it may mean for auto care industry businesses. Get hot takes on current events, stay in the know with timely discussions and hear from guests on the frontlines of these developments.

Guest

Kathleen Long

Sr. Director of Business Operations & Strategy at RepairPal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yelp, Inc. In doing this work, Kathleen was honored as Women In Auto Care’s Woman of Excellence for 2022, and by Babcox Media as a member of the 2023 class of AMN Women at the Wheel. In 2024, she earned a Women Paving the Way award from CDK Global and her podcast, Coffee with Kathleen, won an award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Several of Kathleen’s teams and service offerings have also won awards, including her Marketing and Car Genius teams. She has been described by some as the literal voice of the company, and is proud of having a laugh that once set off glass break alarms in a conference room. Kathleen sits on the Auto Care Association Women in Auto Care council, and is a general volunteer and Liaison to Ghana for African Library Project. She is also a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher.

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