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This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus
by This is Capitalism
Welcome to This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus the podcast that brings capitalism to life through stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and academics. Here we explore the power of capitalism in driving economic growth and creating opportunities. This podcast is a part of "This is Capitalism", a branded content series sponsored by Stephens Inc., aims to educate and inform the public about the free market. Stephens Inc. is a full service investment banking firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Since its inception in 1933, privately held Stephens Inc. has served a broad client base which includes corporations, state and local governments, financial institutions, institutional investors and individual investors throughout the United States and overseas. For more information, visit www.stephens.com or www.thisiscapitalism.org. Member NYSE, SIPC.
Episodes
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This Is Capitalism: Dean Brent Williams
Dean Brent Williams of the Walton College of Business shares how the school emphasizes industry connections, experiential learning, and growing graduate programs. He highlights student interest in fields like supply chain, finance, and marketing. The college promotes a deeper understanding of...
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This Is Capitalism: CatLadyTails, Mauren Kennedy
Mauren Kennedy shares the story behind Cat Lady Tails, a content brand that blossomed from her love of photography and unexpected journey into cat ownership. She discusses how her authentic, relatable approach to sharing cat content led to rapid social media growth—especially on TikTok—and how...
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This Is Capitalism: Dan Menelly, CEO of The DoSeum
Dan Menelly, CEO of The DoSeum in San Antonio, speaks about the museum's innovative approach to hands-on, inclusive learning for children. Menelly discusses how the DoSeum fosters creativity, neurodiverse engagement, and access through initiatives like dynamic pricing and outreach programs. He…
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This is Capitalism: Heartland Forward CEO, Ross DeVol
Ross DeVol, CEO of Heartland Forward, discusses the organization's mission to boost economic growth in America's heartland through applied research, entrepreneurship programs, and policy initiatives. He highlights key focus areas including talent development, regional competitiveness, and health...
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Grace Williams, Co-host and Author of Give Her Credit
In this episode of This Is Capitalism, co-host and author Grace L. Williams discusses her book Give Her Credit, which explores the history and impact of the Women's Bank of Denver—a pioneering, women-led financial institution formed in the 1970s to serve underbanked communities, especially women....
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Kathryn Leary, Founder of OneFirelight
Kathryn Leary shares her inspiring journey of blending spirituality, fitness, and business, rooted in a deep commitment to health and well-being. One Firelight is a platform that merges holistic wellness with the empowering message of Bob Marley's music. Kathryn discusses insights into...
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Hunter Hastings, Author of Aberrant Capitalism
Author Hunter Hastings explores capitalism's evolution, highlighting current challenges like bureaucracy and financialization. He shares his optimistic vision of a more decentralized, customer-driven future, fueled by digital innovation.
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Trey Thaxton, Owner of Goldmill Co. and Greenwood Ave.
Trey Thaxton, founder of GoldMill, discusses his creative agency's focus on meaningful design and Greenwood Avenue's celebration of Black entrepreneurship. He emphasizes Greenwood's lasting legacy beyond the Tulsa Massacre, the importance of access to capital for Black businesses, and a…
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Mandy Richardson, Publisher of Little Rock Soirée, founder of the Women's Leadership Symposium
Mandy Richardson, publisher of Little Rock Soirée and founder of the Women's Leadership Symposium & Summits, discusses how the Little Rock Soirée evolved from a monthly magazine into a platform for women's leadership, professional development, and fostering community connections.
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Darren Magarro, President of DSM
Darren Magarro founded his marketing agency after opting to realign his priorities. Over 17 years, he built a culture centered on work-life balance, strong relationships, and community involvement.
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This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus with Roger Steele, golf personality, advocate and entrepreneur
Roger Steele, a golf enthusiast turned entrepreneur, shares his journey from reluctant golfer to passionate advocate. He discusses golf's positive impact during the pandemic, the challenges of inclusivity, and his transition from engineering to storytelling. His story emphasizes community,...
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Ryan McSpadden, Intersport's Chief Revenue Officer
We sat down with Ryan McSpadden, Intersport Chief Revenue Officer, to discuss pickleball's surge in popularity, its unique appeal, and its potential for growth. Ryan highlights factors like community, accessibility, and multi-generational appeal driving its success.
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This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus with Dr. Victoria Ramirez, Executive Director of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Dr. Victoria Ramirez discusses the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts' history, community engagement, and future initiatives. We touch on the role of women in shaping the museum, its outreach efforts, successful fundraising, and programs tailored for younger generations. Ramirez emphasizes honoring the...
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Sarah Hurst, CEO of Bella's Kitchen and Wellness
Sarah Hurst, owner of Bella's Kitchen and Wellness, started with a focus on healthier eating for kids, evolving into family meals and wellness classes. We discuss challenges, expansion plans, and advice for entrepreneurs.
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This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus with Lily Cochrane, a board member at the Wake Forest Center for Private Business.
Lily Cochrane is the former executive director for the Wake Forest Center for Private Business. The Center assists privately owned businesses in North Carolina, providing resources for various industries and ownership structures. Cochrane discusses the Center's evolution, business challenges,...
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Meet Your Hosts
Welcome to This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus the podcast that brings capitalism to life through stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and academics. Here we explore the power of capitalism in driving economic growth and creating opportunities.
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CEO Stories with Brian Lipton, Cititour.com
I'm Patricia O'Connell for This is Capitalism. Today I'm talking with Brian Lipton, who is the Chief Theater Critic for Cititour.com and the former editor-in-chief and currently a contributing editor to TheaterMania.com. He is going to take us behind the scenes at Broadway and give us a little…
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Kathryn Tully, Freelance Journalist on the Art Market
The art market is big, unpredictable, and endlessly fascinating, not just to potential buyers and sellers but to art lovers the world over. The art market is also big business. One estimate put the sales number for 2021, the third-best year for sales on record, at $65.1 billion. Here to paint us…
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Gabrielle Kurlander, CEO at The All Stars Project
Like a lot of aspiring actors, Gabrielle Kurlander came to New York City at 18 with stars in her eyes and a dream of making it big. It turns out, there were stars in her future and she did make it big, though her dream got a rewrite along the way. She's still active in theater but the best part...
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Kait Hill, Founder and CEO at Rock City Digital
Kait Hill faced a tough decision in 2021 — finish college or start her own business after two years of doing corporate sales. She chose to start her own business, and thus was born Rock City Digital. The digital marketing agency leverages its young staff's familiarity with new ways of creating…
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Laura Swanton, Founder at Laura Michael Wines, Inc.
A couple walks into a real estate office in Napa Valley, looking to buy a second home. If you guessed the next sentence would be, "And instead, they bought a winery!" you'd have the story of Laura Swanton, owner of Laura Michael Wines. Laura, a former high-tech exec, knew nothing about producing...
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Mac Gardner, CFP®, Founder and Chief Education Officer at FinLit Tech
Patricia O'Connell interviews Mac Gardner, CFP®, Founder and Chief Education Officer at FinLit Tech about teaching children financial literacy to help eliminate the wealth gap. Mac shares his vision of financial literacy for elementary school students, and how parents can teach it in the home. He...
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Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer at AchieveNEXT
Patricia O'Connell interviews Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer at AchieveNEXT® about the 2022 CFO-CHRO Sentiment Study. They discuss the top concerns of middle-market companies. Listen in to learn more about middle-market company plans for 2022. Key Takeaways: [:36] AchieveNEXT® specializes…
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Drew Russell, EVP of Sports Properties & Media Assets at Intersport
Patricia O'Connell interviews Drew Russell, EVP of Sports Properties & Media Assets at Intersport about how the recent rulings that permitted Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals directly between collegiate athletes and sponsoring brands have affected college sports and individual branding for...
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Ron Jaworski, CEO and Co-Founder of Trinity Audio
Patricia O'Connell interviews Ron Jaworski, the CEO and Co-Founder of Trinity Audio about how a website can be "audified," how audio increases the stickiness of a website, and some of the other use cases of audio powered by AI. Listen in to learn more about engaging your audience with a new…
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Beverly Behan, author of Becoming a Boardroom Star
Patricia O'Connell interviews Beverly Behan about boards. They discuss Beverly's books, her work with boards and directors, and her advice for newly recruited directors who want to become stars in the boardroom. Beverly's experience with boards and directors has given her the knowledge of what...
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Ramy Gafni, Founder and CEO, Ramy Cosmetics, LLC
Patricia O'Connell interviews Ramy Gafni about Ramy Cosmetics, LLC. They discuss how he began in law school but realized his heart was in beauty school, how he started his career in photoshoots and retail and moved to an upscale salon until cancer and chemotherapy changed his appearance and cost...
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Mac Gardner, CFP®, Author, and Founder at FinLit Tech
Patricia O'Connell interviews Mac Gardner about FinLit Tech. They discuss Mac's two books, and how his career in financial planning led him to write these educational books and start FinLit Tech to promote financial literacy for children. Mac discusses the lack of financial education in the...
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Nick Childs, Filmmaker, and Co-Founder at DIRT
Patricia O'Connell interviews Nick Childs about DIRT. They discuss what the company does, why it was started, how it relates to Nick's earlier careers, and how biometric neuroscientific testing can help you connect deeply with your audience through content that reaches them emotionally. Listen in...
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Nick Araco, CEO of AchieveNEXT, and Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer
Patricia O'Connell interviews Nick Araco, CEO of AchieveNEXT, and Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer, about AchieveNEXT and recent data they have collected from middle-market CHROs and CFOs regarding where they see business heading for the rest of the year. Listen in to learn more about...
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Dee Brown, President and CEO of The P3 Group
Patricia O'Connell interviews Dee Brown, President and CEO of The P3 Group about what a Public-Private Partnership (P3) is, and what impact P3 development projects have on under-served communities. Dee talks about his career in real estate, infrastructure development, and P3 real estate...
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Kevin Dawidowicz, Co-Founder of CoachMePlus
Patricia O'Connell interviews Kevin Dawidodicz, serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of CoachMePlus. They discuss the CoachMePlus product in its market, the limitations of fitness apps used alone, and how CoachMePlus developed from a high schooler's workout notebook. Listen in to learn more about...
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Cher Grant, CEO and Founder of Wazzio, Inc.
Patricia O'Connell interviews Cher Grant, CEO and Founder of software development company Wazzio. They discuss how Wazzio was launched, how it serves schools and parents teaching at home, and how Cher became a technology provider after being a sales rep. Cher stresses the importance of financial...
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Christina Elson and Patrick Reasonover: They Say It Can't Be Done
Patricia O'Connell interviews Christina Elson, Executive Director for the Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest University, and Patrick Reasonover, the lead producer of the movie, They Say It Can't Be Done. They discuss the movie, innovation, and the proper role of regulation in a…
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Tiki Barber, Football Star and Co-Chairman of Thuzio
Patricia O'Connell interviews Tiki Barber, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Thuzio, on how his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut evolved into playing for 10 years with the NY Giants, entering broadcasting, and co-founding Thuzio, a sports events and media company. Tiki discusses his varied...
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Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting
Patricia O'Connell interviews Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting, about passion and purpose. They discuss how passions express purpose, the ten archetypes of passion, and about learning your top three passion archetypes. They explore how to link an organization to a meaningful purpose....
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Howard Breindel, Co-CEO at DeSantis Breindel
Patricia O'Connell interviews Howard Breindel, Co-CEO at DeSantis Breindel. Patricia and Howard discuss the meaning of brand, how companies may need help clarifying their brand story, and why brand matters. They also touch on some of the changes the COVID-19 epidemic has forced onto B2B…
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Cortney Stapleton, Partner at Bliss Integrated Communications and Founder of Exponent Women
Patricia O'Connell interviews Cortney Stapleton, Partner at Bliss Integrated Communications and one of the Founders of Exponent Women. Patricia and Cortney discuss why women in the dealmaking community benefit from networking and having a place where their voices are heard and their power is…
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Jill Houghton, President and CEO of Disability:IN
Patricia O'Connell interviews Jill Houghton, President and CEO of Disability:IN. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Patricia and Jill discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the variety of Disability:IN programs promoting inclusion of people with…
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Joe Strechay, Consultant for Blindness and Disability Employment Initiatives
Patricia O'Connell interviews Joe Strechay, an entertainment media consultant for blindness and disability employment initiatives. They discuss Joe's childhood, his interest in representation and inclusivity for persons with blindness, low vision, and disabilities, his career, and the…
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John Byrne, CEO and Founder of Poets & Quants
Patricia O'Connell interviews returning guest, John Byrne, CEO and Founder of Poets & Quants and CEO of C-Change Media, Inc. They discuss what is happening in business schools and what applicants, students, and graduates can expect in the near future and beyond. Listen in to learn about the...
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Sara Hurst, CEO of Bella's Kitchen
Patricia O'Connell interviews Sara Hurst, CEO of Bella's Kitchen, on the origin of Bella's Kitchen, how Sara runs it, and Sara's plans for it. Sara shares more about her family background of successful entrepreneurs in El Salvador. Sara is grateful for her family, friends, and professional...
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Tom Stewart, Executive Director of the National Center for the Middle Market at the Ohio State University, Returns
Patricia O'Connell interviews Tom Stewart, Executive Director of the National Center for the Middle Market on their latest survey of middle-market businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tom describes the work of the National Center for the Middle Market and then explains how the middle market…
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Tom Stewart, Executive Director of the National Center for the Middle Market at Ohio State University
As this is being recorded, on the 11th of April, 2020, what good news we see and hear is almost entirely in the context of people making extraordinarily good things happen in the face of what, for most Americans living today, is the worst crisis we've ever faced. So, especially now, it's good to…
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Rachel Klausner, Founder and CEO of Millie
Rachel Klausner would agree the first thing you need to know about her is that she's a millennial — a 30-year-old product software designer from Boston, who has found her calling with an app called Millie, as in millennials. In the world of 2020, it's a vehicle for her fellow millennials to make...
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Dr. Geoff Tabin, Co-Founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project
It would be hard to get an accurate count of the number of lives that Dr. Geoff Tabin has either saved or improved, often by his own hands. The figure is in the thousands because he and Dr. Sanduk Ruit are co-founders of the Himalayan Cataract Project. As its website name, cureblindness.org...
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Karla Mora, Founder and Managing Partner at Alante Capital
Karla Mora fully expects to have a major impact on the apparel industry, the clothes we wear, and where we dispose of those clothes after we wear them. She is a self-described impact investor, and her venture capital fund, Alante Capital, co-led by former JP Morgan executive, Leslie Harwell, and...
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Natalie Mangrum, CEO, Maryland Teacher Tutors
To equate the world of entrepreneurism with football, most of the cheering comes when a quarterback throws a touchdown pass to a wide receiver. In business, those are the billion-dollar IPOs that gain most of the media attention. But entrepreneurism — capitalism – is mostly a ground game. Put…
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Welcome to This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus the podcast that brings capitalism to life through stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and academics. Here we explore the power of capitalism in driving economic growth and creating opportunities. This podcast is a part of "This is Capitalism", a branded content series sponsored by Stephens Inc., aims to educate and inform the public about the free market. Stephens Inc. is a full service investment banking firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Since its inception in 1933, privately held Stephens Inc. has served a broad client base which includes corporations, state and local governments, financial institutions, institutional investors and individual investors throughout the United States and overseas. For more information, visit www.stephens.com or www.thisiscapitalism.org. Member NYSE, SIPC.
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