Josh Jones, Principal/Director of The Career Academy, joins Jason Ball, President & CEO of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce in the AOI Podcast Studio for the first BusinessLNK podcast of 2026. Josh and Jason talk about the continued growth and success of The Career Academy (TCA), which partners with Lincoln Public Schools and Southeast Community College to offer career and technical education course offerings, how they look at success established at TCA and how local businesses can get involved to help transform how students in Lincoln prepare for college and their future careers. TCA recently celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2025.

David Kamran, Administrative Director of Industry and Workforce Partnerships, Southeast Community College, joins Luke Peltz, Vice President for the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development in the AOI Podcast Studio on this edition of BusinessLNK. David and Luke talk about David's role with Southeast Community College (SCC), how higher education connects with employers and the workforce, what programs offered at SCC help bolster local workforce efforts and the best ways for businesses to get involved with not only the Lincoln campus, but also the Milford and Beatrice SCC campuses.

To get in contact with David, his email is dkamran@southeast.edu.

Jenna Vitosh, CEO and Founder of Chloey Wealth and Founder of Arrive Business Center, joins Jason Ball, President & CEO of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce in the AOI Podcast Studio. Jenna and Jason talk about how Jenna came to her journey as an entrepreneur, how Arrive Business Center helps women take important steps throughout their business careers and why their south Lincoln location continues to grow.

Jenna and Jason also discuss 402 Days, an upcoming event held April 2-5, 2026 that focuses on celebrating women-owned small businesses--for more details, visit arrivebusinesscenter.org.