A Better Way - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

How many times have you thought, "There s got to be a better way"
to do any one a thousand tasks Stephanie s guests on this edition
of Out to Lunch had the same thought. Then they went and did
something about it. And in the process created a better way to get
from A to B, to publish a book, to find a job, to save your
precious photos and raise money for your school. Two years ago most
people in Louisiana had never heard of Uber. Today, the company
that makes the popular ride sharing app is a household word here in
Baton Rouge, where we didn t just embrace Uber we begged the
company to bring its services to town. Uber is perhaps the epitome
of the new better way of doing business in the digital economy. Tom
Hayes is Uber s General Manager for the South. Jeffrey Marx is an
acclaimed author of six books, including two New Yorks Times best
sellers and a Pulitzer prize winner. His latest book, Walking with
Tigers, is an unconventional collection of LSU sports stories but
it s also unconventional in the sense that Jeffrey self published
it, which is certainly not something he had to do but something he
chose to do. Jeffrey outlines his whole new better way of
publishing. Travis Broussard is CEO of Impression Works, a company
that has started doing doing business in a whole bunch of new and
better ways. Impression Works apps change the way you apply for a
job on a phone app and upload your photos, print them, and raise
money for your school in the process. Not just a better way, this
is bordering on revolution. Also on this show, Stephanie unveils
something she calls, "I ve got a question about your brother in
law." Photos at Mansur s on the Boulevard by Ken Stewart.

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