Host Dave Fiore sits down with Jim Hunt, founder of Serve Strong and a familiar presence in Tallahassee’s business and civic community for nearly three decades. Jim will tell you he is a relationship person first. The job titles just kind of followed. Jim grew up a military kid, moving every four or five years before his family settled in Melbourne Beach. He came to FSU planning on law school and took a part-time teller job at Capital City Bank that turned into a career that lasted two decades. Then one thing led to the next — the commercial internet before most people knew what a website was, time in marketing at the Moore Agency and 223, and even a stint helping bring cloud computing to Tallahassee.
Along the way he chaired United Way of the Big Bend, led Leadership Tallahassee and served on boards across the city. Not because it was good for business, but because he watched his parents serve their community growing up.
Last year he launched Serve Strong, a leadership and strategic advisory, and landed his first client before he had told anyone what he was doing.
Dave and Jim talk about service, community and what it looks like to build a career around other people and then figure out what comes next.
