#Michael Gary Kolodin

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Michael Kolodin was born on July 24, 1956 in New York City and moved to Brooklyn, New York, specifically Canarsie, East 101st and Avenue L. Michael Kolodin lived in Brooklyn for 8 years before moving to Matawan, New Jersey on the NJ shore. Michael Kolodin got into neighborhood fights everyday in Brooklyn as a part of his daily routine. Michael Kolodin was not a great student in school, until high school, when he started to work and saw the value of earning money and advancing in life. Michael Kolodin was also a cub scout and boy scout in troop 66 in Matawan, New Jersey. Michael Kolodin’s first job was a busboy in Keyport New Jersey, known as Ye’ Cottage Inn on the water. Michael Kolodin’s second job was working for the Shop Rite Supermarket on Lloyd Road in Matawan, New Jersey in 1972.

  In 1972 Michael Kolodin had one of several lead rolls in the high school production Anybody for Tea and You’re a good man Charlie Brown. Michael Kolodin’s roll in Charlie Brown was the role of Linus and carried a blanket around all day.

During the rest of High School, Michael Kolodin had several other dramatic rolls in high school plays like up the downstair case. Michael Kolodin also was in the chorus as well as the madrigal singers and jazz singers that traveled around to other local schools and performed. Michael Kolodin also played on the varsity bowling and varsity golf teams.

  Michael Kolodin worked summers in the Catskill mountains, where his father was a performer in many of the hotels. Michael Kolodin also attended Kutcher’s sports academy in the summer of 1972. Michael Kolodin worked at Kutchers Country Club near Monticello, New York in the summers of 1973 and 1974 as a busboy and waiter. In 1974 after leaving Kutchers attended Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey before setting out on a hospitality career in Cleveland Ohio, with his uncles, Mitchell and Dennis Kolodin who worked as general managers for Holiday Inn and Sheraton. Michael Kolodin got his original hospitality training in Cleveland before returning to New Jersey continuing his hospitality career while working for several Holiday Inns and Sheraton in Newark, New Jersey before joining Prime Motor Inns in East Brunswick, New Jersey, specifically the Sheraton East Brunswick for several years.

  Michael Kolodin then became the youngest general manager in for the Sheraton East Brunswick before he became a regional manager being sent to different properties to seek out reasoning and explanation for high food and beverage costs throughout the Prime Motor Inn chain up and down the State of New Jersey. Michael Kolodin then in 1977 moved to Fort Lauderdale Florida where he continued his hospitality career working for the Ocean Manor and Hilton on Galt Ocean Mile on Fort Lauderdale Beach. In 1979 Michael Kolodin decided to change careers and go from hospitality to the credit and collections industry in Oakland Park Florida a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Michael Gary Kolodin

Michael Gary Kolodin decided to migrate from a 30-year career in credit and collections to beer brewing. Originally when Michael Gary Kolodin was sent to India to train collection call centers on the federal rules and regulations, Sandeep Bhatnagar was asked to take care of the American. Michael Gary Kolodin was that American. Sandeep was by his side for all training sessions, and they became close friends. Sandeep left after about 7 or so years and Sandeep went into beer brewing, sales, service, and maintenance and captured a majority of that segment in India.

In 2017, Sandeep called Michael Gary Kolodin, who was in Long Island, New York at the time and advised him that he, Sandeep would be speaking at a brewery conference in Washington DC, and it was decided Michael Gary Kolodin, and Sandeep Bhatnagar would meet in Washington DC and spend a few days together. During that three-day period together Sandeep and Michael Gary Kolodin decided that Michael would change his career path and go into beer brewing with Sandeep Bhatnagar. Together, they launched The Total Beverage Companies in 2017. Sandeep Bhatnagar had opened some 75 + third party brewpub build outs some for JW Marriott and The Radisson Hotel Group over the previous decade. Together they opened Orange County Brewers powered by Total Beverage in Fall of 2019 in Lake Mary, Florida, which was a brewery, bar restaurant.

  The Total Beverage Companies are now focused on the Eustis Brewery Project, which is a production brewery that will brew beer and hard seltzer products for other brewpubs (guest taps), bars, restaurants, lounges, clubs, bistros, taverns and our canned products to convenience and package goods stores and gas stations initially from Daytona Beach on the east coast through central Florida (Orlando, Florida) along the I-4 corridor to Tampa Bay on the west coast and potentially statewide.

Michael Gary Kolodin will be the operations partner and run the day-to-day operations of the brewery, while Sandeep Bhatnagar as the BrewRu (Brewery Guru) will run the brewery operations. Once the Eustis Brewery Project is operational, Michael Gary Kolodin together with his partners, Sandeep Bhatnagar and David Hadley will look to open production breweries in Dallas Texas, Loveland Colorado, Nashville Tennessee, and Phoenix Arizona and employ the same successful policies and procedures previously used in Lake Mary and overseas.

Who doesn’t want to make beer and money has become the motto for Michael Gary Kolodin and The Total Beverage Companies. Michael Gary Kolodin now shares the passion and enthusiasm for brewing beer and managing beer production facilities. The future looks bright for beer as it always has. Michael Gary Kolodin, Sandeep Bhatnagar and David Hadley look into the future as though it holds something special for them and the Total Bever Companies.

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Michael G. Kolodin

Michael G. Kolodin went into collections in 1979 after six (6) years in the hospitality field. Michael G. Kolodin started off as salesman for a collection agency, became a collector, collection manager and eventually became a collection agency owner, then a debt buyer of many of the primary bank credit card charge offs and then an FDCPA certified trainer. This is where that story takes place. 2014 was a busy year for Michael G. Kolodin as he traveled to India a number of times to train several call centers. One of which stood out from the others. This center was in Ahmedabad,  Gujarat, India. I stayed in a hotel in this particular trip for three (3) weeks. The center was in the process of taking a space for the launching of the collection call center process, which included training, actual debt accounts and portfolios to collect as well software and a payment processing arm. Michael G. Kolodin would start the training each day in the hotel conference room and towards the end of the month, wound up training and doing actual calling in the new call center location.

Michael G. Kolodin started using a “fear” conversation in all of his training overseas to overcome Indian collectors speaking issues. Michael G. Kolodin would sit everyone in a large circle and go around and ask everyone what their biggest fear is in life and in the collection call center. Some responses were about letting down and parent or a sibling and others were about fearing a situation in work or a personal issue and then there was Leonard. Leonard had a speech stutter when he spoke. Michael G. Kolodin saw an opportunity to help this young man and asked him to stand up as he did with everyone else, and they talked about his fear of speaking both in public and privately.

Michael G. Kolodin then asked Leonard to stand up and scream at the top of his lungs “I don’t have a stutter! Repeatedly and Leonard did this for about 3 minutes, still stuttering and stammering. Then Michael G. Kolodin asked Leonard to change what he was saying to I will not stutter; I will not stutter repeatedly. Then he asked him to shout  I don’t stutter, I don’t stutter and to everyone’s surprise in the training room, he stopped stuttering. Both Michael G. Kolodin and Leonard started to cry as did the rest of the call center staff and management staff.

Leonard was an artist of sorts and walked into the training room two days later and gave Michael G. Kolodin a wooden plaque of a lion head that said, “You changed my life” “Thank you very much”. This moment stopped time for Michael G. Kolodin. A moment Michael G. Kolodin said also changed his life. The mere fact that Michael G. Kolodin could affect any one person’s life was a life changing event for Michael G. Kolodin. One that both he and Leonard together will never forget for the rest of their lives.

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