Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev

Updated: 24 Nov 2025 • 239 episodes
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Better Together with Kosta Yepifantsev is a podcast about business, parenting and living life intentionally. We're here every week to bring you intentional conversations on making your own path to success, challenging the status quo, and finding all the ways we're better. Recorded in Cookeville, TN, Kosta joins guests from all walks of life to bring fresh perspective and start your week with purpose. We're better together.

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Join Kosta and his guest:  Seth Melton, Realtor at the Real Estate Collective Company. This week we're celebrating Thanksgiving, biscuits and gravy, and all the ways we're better together. We’re honored to host Seth on this special Thanksgiving episode, because he makes this community better everyday. Thank you to our

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Crowns with Michael Ruff

Join Kosta and his guest: Michael Ruff, Actor, Producer, and Director of Upcoming Cookeville Theatre Company Production: Crowns. In this episode: For our listeners who aren’t familiar, how would you describe Crowns to someone hearing about it for the first time? What makes this story feel alive and necessary today? Cro

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Join Kosta and his guest: Dr. Jeffrey King, Director of Nuclear Engineering at Tennessee Tech University. In this episode: The word nuclear carries a certain gravity - no pun intended. Nuclear bomb, nuclear winter, the nuclear option: when we go nuclear, there’s no going back. When you hear the word nuclear what does i

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Join Kosta and his guest: Stacye Choate, Attorney at Law and Candidate for Putnam County County Commission District 2. In this episode: Stacye, you’re officially our first candidate interview of the 2026 election cycle and the first Democrat running in a local election that we’ve ever hosted on the podcast. It’s an hon

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Join Kosta and his guest: Will Roberts, Executive Director of Cookeville Rescue Mission. In this episode: Most people know the Cookeville Rescue Mission in theory. They drive by the building or they see a billboard - they know it exists, but they might not know more than that. What do you wish our community knew about

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Join Kosta and his guest: Dr. Troy Smith, Author, Historian and Professor of History at Tennessee Tech University. In this episode: In 2021 you started writing an opinion column in the Sparta Expositor called “A Liberal Dose”. This column began at the request of the Expositor’s Editor looking to add more progressive co

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