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Some of the hottest neighborhoods in Dallas are located in downtown, Oak Cliff, northwest and West Dallas. These areas can get about 12 degrees hotter than other parts of the city during the summer, according to Dallas' latest urban heat island effect study. In other news, the federal government has until March 18 to pay Catholic Charities Fort Worth millions in grant funds that have been withheld since January; a 5-year-old boy reported missing in Grand Prairie over the weekend has been found dead, police officials confirmed Monday. Santiago Aburto Gonzalez was reported missing after he was seen Sunday evening leaving his home at the Ashton Park apartment complex; and a Dallas city official is set to get time with Saks Global as the date for the closure of the downtown Neiman Marcus nears. Dallas city manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert is slated to have a conversation with the department store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A massive blaze broke out at a recycling plant in West Dallas Sunday afternoon, sending a plume of black smoke into the air that was visible for miles. Dallas Fire-Rescue's HazMat team was called to the scene, however they confirmed that “no hazardous materials were involved in the fire.” In other news, on Saturday Gateway Church held its first weekend service since its founder and former senior pastor Robert Morris was indicted Wednesday; a man was in police custody after a hit-and-run collision involving pedestrians Saturday evening in Garland that left one teenager dead and another with serious injuries; and several Texas teams are headed to the NCAA and NIT postseason tournaments this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus, fire crews responded to a large fire at Cham Star Recycling in West Dallas on Sunday, and Garland police say they made an arrest in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 14-year-old girl.

Allow him to reintroduce himself. Billy White pulled up to talk about his journey, his music, and what's next. We got into his West Dallas roots, his name change from Spike Chester, and whether his sound has evolved.WithMilk N Honey turning five, he's re-releasing the project and going direct to consumer. He broke down why he's taking that route and what it's like revisiting the tape now. Plus, we talked about his writing process, dream collabs, and what's coming next.Don't miss this one.Follow Billy White on Instagram:@billywhitemusic

Amid cold, wet and gloomy weather conditions, hundreds of people gathered Sunday at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in West Dallas to protest changes to U.S. immigration policy adopted by President Donald Trump last week. The demonstrators convened at the Trinity Skyline Trail and the intersection of Singleton Boulevard and Beckley Avenue to demonstrate against Trump's policies. In other news, a Fort Worth teacher's social media post is under investigation after the individual urged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to come to Northside High School; Next up, an executive minister at Highland Park United Methodist Church resigned and turned himself in to police on solicitation of prostitution charges in October, according to court records and church statements. 72-year old John Fiedler had been a leader of the Highland Park church since 2013; And reaction to Brian Schottenheimer being named the Cowboys next head coach has gone...well, about the way you'd expect for a piece of news the club chose to drop a little before 9 o'clock on a Friday evening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An existing program is Whole Home Dallas, which connects residents with resources for essential home improvements, including weatherization, to improve home resiliency and reduce energy costs. Also, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham invited President-elect Donald Trump to build an immigrant detention center on a state-owned 1,400-acre ranch less than a 10-minute drive from Rio Grande City, the county seat; a Mesquite officer shot a person multiple times early Monday after police responded to sounds of gunfire and witnessed a vehicle crash, officials said. Shortly before 3 a.m., officers near Interstate 30 and Sorrento Boulevard heard gunfire from near the interstate, according to a news release from the police department; And, seafood restaurant Pesca opened in Trinity Groves, the restaurant park in West Dallas last week. It comes from Jesus Carmona, whose erstwhile restaurant Tacos Mariachi got a high-profile visit from Guy Fieri for an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Summary In this episode of the Supa Dre Podcast, host Dre sits down with comedian Chris Guzman, who shares his incredible journey from growing up in West Dallas to finding his voice in comedy. Chris opens up about the challenges she faced, including the loss of loved ones and her time in prison, and how these experiences shaped his perspective on success and personal growth. she discusses the importance of communication, showing up for oneself, and redefining success on her own terms. Chris also delves into her venture into real estate, explaining how flipping houses has provided her with financial stability and freedom to pursue his passion for comedy. This conversation is a testament to resilience, the power of mindset, and the journey of self-discovery. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Superdrake Podcast 01:55 Meet Chris Guzman: A Comedian's Journey 04:50 Growing Up in West Dallas 09:48 Life Choices and Consequences 16:43 Navigating the Legal System 20:44 Finding Love in Unlikely Places 24:05 Identifying Your Superpower 26:21 Overcoming Life's Challenges 28:33 The Importance of Showing Up for Yourself 32:37 The Intersection of Comedy and Life Experiences 33:05 The Journey to Comedy 37:10 Finding Success in Comedy 42:15 Redefining Success 44:34 The Real Estate Venture 56:26 Lessons Learned and Future Aspirations

Michele Andre Dallas' next director of the police oversight office. Andre has served as a top watchdog over officers in Albany, N.Y. and has more than eight years of experience in public administration and police oversight. Andre begins in the position Sept. 3; also several West Dallas activists feel hopeless after a commission agreed to send the City Council a recommendation stripping residents of the ability to petition to close businesses that have proven harmful to the community. The City Plan Commission on Thursday approved an amendment to the Dallas Development Code to align its amortization process — where the city closes down a business that affects the community negatively — with Senate Bill 929, a new state law that adds protection for business owners; COVID-19 cases are on the rise throughout the Southwest, including Dallas County, but the latest vaccines will soon be on the way to pharmacies. Dallas County had 109 positive COVID-19 cases reported daily on a seven-day rolling average last week, according to the Dallas County Health and Human Services website, which was last updated Aug. 23; and Election Day is Nov. 5 with early voting starting even sooner on Oct. 21. Election clerk positions tend to be the most common way citizens help work the polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Building Texas Business, I sit down with Rob Holmes of Texas Capital Bank. Rob shares the bank's dramatic turnaround story since he became President and CEO in 2021 amid challenges, including a failed merger. Rob explains how Texas Capital improved its standing through strategic moves like fortifying capital levels and attracting talent from global institutions. We explore Texas Capital's community focus through initiatives increasing volunteerism and launching a charitable foundation. Rob highlights how their junior program brings diverse talent while nurturing a vibrant culture. Wrapping up, Rob discusses maintaining liquidity amid regional banking stress, their strong capital position, and diversification that sets them apart. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Rob and I discuss the transformation of Texas Capital under Rob's leadership since 2021, highlighting the strategic moves that improved the bank's financial standing and attracted top-tier talent. Rob explains how Texas Capital's strong capital position and strategic diversification helped it navigate the regional banking stress of 2023. We explore Texas Capital's commitment to community engagement, including extensive volunteer hours, the founding of a new charitable foundation, and various philanthropic activities across Texas. Rob elaborates on the bank's innovative junior program, which has attracted diverse and talented professionals to Texas Capital. We discuss the importance of maintaining a respectful, collaborative workplace culture and the value of in-office collaboration for fostering a strong, healthy culture and achieving better customer outcomes. Rob shares insights on the challenges facing the banking industry, such as regulatory inconsistencies, the inverted yield curve, technology integration, and commercial real estate risks. We discuss Texas Capital's strategic initiatives to expand services, including public finance and equity research in oil and gas. Rob reflects on the lessons he has learned from his career, emphasizing the importance of candor, transparency, and servant leadership. Rob recounts personal anecdotes about his first jobs and leisure pursuits, offering a glimpse into his personal life and leadership style. We touch on the role of media in shaping perceptions of regional banks and the distinct advantages of regional banks in serving local communities and businesses. LINKSShow Notes Previous Episodes About BoyarMiller About Texas Capital GUESTS Rob HolmesAbout Rob TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Chris: In this episode, you will meet Rob Holmes, President and CEO of Texas Capital. Rob shares an inspiring story on how Texas Capital has rebuilt itself and become the first full-service financial services institution headquartered in Texas. Rob, I want to thank you for joining me here on Building Texas Business. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Let's start. I know you're the CEO Building Texas Business. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Let's start. I know you're the CEO of Texas Capital. Tell the listeners a little bit about what Texas Capital is and the type of services it provides here in Texas. Rob: Great. Well, thank you very much for having me. So Texas Capital had a very proud founding in the late 90s by Texas business people to found a bank to serve Texas businesses with local decision making. After all, the banks failed in the late 80s and they had a very proud run and 05 went public and did very well. Then about the mid teens we kind of started going a little sideways and by the time I got there the bank needed to be kind of rebuilt and so we had a failed merger with a bank about a third our size and that tells you anything, and really because of COVID. But after that they needed new leadership and so what we did was we started over and we went fast. So we raised a perpetual deferred deal with sub-debt securitization, got out of a line of business correspondent banking that attracted a lot of capital and improved the capital by about 270 basis points in about eight weeks, and that's my bet as we run the bank very conservatively. We also brought in a lot of new talent. So the entire operating committee is new. We have a new junior program we can get into that later. But then we started on the journey to build and this is kind of interesting. I think you'll find it interesting. We're the first full service financial services firm ever to be headquartered in Texas and if you think about it it makes perfect sense. So in the 80s you had Glass-Steagall and stuff. You had a lot of big banks. They failed. They were replaced by larger institutions from out of state that saw this as a very attractive market. But the in-market banks never went into the full service direction. So regional banks are made from community banks and they get bigger and they didn't have the products and services. They just had NIM banks, if you will Sure. Chris: Well, that's an impressive thing to have a claim to being the only one headquartered in Texas. I would not have thought that, you know, given some of the other Texas yeah. So I mean you're not kidding when you said a full restart just a few years ago. Rob: Full restart. So we have think about who we're able to attract, and this says more about Texas than Texas Capital. But the woman that runs treasury services for us ran treasury services for JPMorgan Chase globally. Our chief risk officer was the head of risk for JPMorgan's investment bank and then chief risk officer was the head of risk for JP Morgan's investment bank and then chief risk officer for the commercial bank and then head of risk for real estate globally. Our head of ops was a head of ops and tech for Stan O'Neill at Merrill Lynch. The CEO Started in the mailroom, ended up reporting as CEO head of ops and tech for Merrill Lynch. I think he can do it here and that so and that just kind of it keeps going. Our CHRO came from Cilindes and our CIO has an impressive background. Our head of commercial banking all of them had bigger jobs at much larger institutions. Chris: Yeah, what that tells me, Rob, is that those people saw a bright future in the business climate in Texas to make those kind of moves to join you and the Dallas headquarters. Rob: There's no doubt about it and, by the way, I wouldn't have tried this anywhere else, I mean for sure. So, as you know, texas is eighth largest economy in the world, second largest workforce, youngest workforce, fastest growing. We've created 46,. We've created more jobs in 46 last 48 months, so it's a very attractive place to be overall? Chris: What was it about just speaking to you? I know you joined in 2021, that based on the career you had built to that moment where you saw this as the right opportunity for you. Rob: I was very happy where I was. So I was primarily in the investment bank at JPMorgan Chase, but my last 10 years I ran the large corporate bank and the commercial bank ended up taking that to 22 countries. So I ran that business. Globally it was over $180 billion in assets. It was a third treasury, a third lending and a third investment banking. Great business, great people. But when this bank kind of went sideways, I had two or three people call me and say, hey, I'm thinking about this, would you come run it? And it surprised me. I'm like, why are you calling me? But then I started looking at it and, like you, I'm from Texas. I commuted to New York for 25 of the 31 years that I worked for JP Morgan. But people kind of said, why don't you come home and build something special with where you're from? And that, through more and more dialogue, became very appealing to me and I did not know and shame on me that as bad a shape as a bank was when we got there. But it ended up being a blessing because you know like today it'd be very difficult to do what we did. I mean to have a board, investor base, regulators, constituents. Let you reinvest. We reinvested over a third of our non-interest expense and then more, and we said to the investor community and the board and others that we're going to have negative operating leverage for about a year and a half. That'd be very hard to do in this climate, right? And so the other thing we had to do became a blessing because you had to do it all at once, and so I'm glad that's behind us. Today the bank is. It used to have just mono banking, like a community or regional bank. Today we have segmentation, so you have business banking for small businesses, middle market banking for a little larger businesses, a little more sophistication, and then we have a corporate banking group like a money center bank. And when you have a corporate banking group you have to have industry expertise. So we have energy, diversified FIG, government, not-for-profit healthcare, tmt and mortgage, so we have the industry expertise of any money center bank right here in Texas. And then we have private wealth and then we rebuilt all of treasury. So it's a brand new bank. We have a new payments platform, new lockbox, new card, new merchant, new digital onboarding that we came up with. And so we people say the banks can't compete on technology like with the big bank, but we can because we have one platform. Those big banks have many platforms because they're a combination of many banks. We can go in that if you want. And then we have one platform. Those big banks have many platforms because they're a combination of many banks. We can go in that if you want. And then we have, as I said, private wealth, investment banking, and we can go into as many of those areas as you want. Chris: So you basically built it like you said. As businesses are coming to Texas, you're ready to serve whatever need they have. Rob: For sure. So we want to be very relevant to our clients and we are a one-stop shop, so you won't outgrow us. We were a top 10 arranger of bank debt for middle market companies in the years. We've done about $110 billion of notional trades in about 18 months. Wow, it's profitable. Chris: So what's your vision for the future, then for Texas Capital, and kind of, how are you working to achieve? Rob: that it's actually pretty simple. It's maturing the platform that we built. So we are the number one lender to Texas-based businesses of any Texas-based bank. Now that's new. We've had tremendous success. Business owners and decision makers love the local decision making. They love the fact that when they hire us, they're getting a very talented, experienced MD working for them instead of maybe the money center bank, whatever, a VP or something assigned to it. They just like the local decision making, local access. But the go forward strategy is People ask me this all the time what's next? And they think that we have a big bang answer. The big bang answer is delighting clients and banking the best clients in our markets, and we've always said, or I've always said we'll be defined by our clients, and so we have been blessed to have clients be attracted to the strategy and platform. So we're going to just do more of what we've done. Chris: So what I like about that strategy is the simplicity. I think there's a lesson there for entrepreneurs and other business owners in what you've done in the last few years, and that to me is get the foundation right and your core right Correct, and then do the fundamentals really well. Right, it's blocking and tackling is what you're doing. Rob: It's executing now for sure. And I had one CEO of a very renowned New York financial firm ask him to come see me. They had heard about what we were doing and he wanted to understand it because we actually we took what he would say was the very best person from his sales and trading floor who had been there 18 years. He didn't understand how we could attract that person because that person drove a U-Haul to Dallas with his wife and kids before we were even open. And he said tell me your strategy. And I went through it and, to be honest with you, I was hoping he would like it because I was pretty long the strategy. And so he did. And I said what do you think? He said I think y'all are going to be very successful. And this was early on. And I said why is that? He said do you have a differentiated strategy with differentiated talent in a differentiated market? And I think that's true. But then he said what do you think? And I said well, our talent's really. This is back in 21. Now we've done all these things, but I said that the talent is really good, but we've got to do everything with this jersey on now and delight our clients with TCB jersey, not another jersey. And he said look, rob, do it once, it'll be hard, do it three times, you'll be good. The fifth time you're an expert and I kind of he kind of and he's pretty renowned. It was a pretty simple lesson but it's kind of true. And now we have done it and we are good at what we're doing. But we still can mature the platform, that treasury platform we talked about. It's literally second to none. We're doing open banking for clients. We're doing a digital onboarding. You can open a commercial account tomorrow at a money center bank. That take eight weeks or six weeks. But that platform to scale to get the most out of it, I mean we could run it without any more investment for five years. So we got to scale the business and, by the way, it's happening. So that treasury platform is it's called P times V, price times volume that's how many transactions are going through the factory or warehouse financial transactions. That's usually for a bank it's a 2% business at best. It grows the economy, it grows the GDP. We're going 17%, quarter over quarter, year, quarter after quarter. That's remarkable Because of new clients moving to the platform. So it is scaling but we just need to continue to do that Right. Chris: So you talked about the platform a couple of times. What type of I guess technology or emerging technologies do you see having the biggest impact in the banking industry over the next, say, three to five years? Rob: I think real-time payments, I think open banking, and people don't really understand what open banking is. What open banking is? It's actually very simple, so think well, here's, here's one simple way. Part of it is you don't have to leave your internal financial platform to go to our platform. We'll put an API on yours and so you can just push a button and be into our system and send ACH or wire or what. So I think AI, I think open banking and I think real-time payments. Okay. Chris: Well, I can speak from experience, as we transitioned to Texas Capital a year ago and, to your point of the ease of that transition and being able to deal with decision makers made it seamless. Good Well thank you. It's been a great relationship for us, for sure. Rob: Good Well thank you. Chris: What you're saying is true, Well, thank you. It's been a great relationship for us for sure. Good, Well, thank you. I can attest to that. What you're saying is true, Well, thank you. Let's talk a little bit about where you see corporate leadership whether that's your C-suite or just the company as it exists and community impact. What type of initiatives is Texas Capital working on to be a meaningful member of the community? Rob: Yeah, well, that's a. Thank you very much for the for the easy pitch. So I think we do. We bat way above our weight in community impact. So we do tens of thousands of hours of employee volunteer in the community. We, as part of this transformation, when we were investing in the platform, we took time to also found our first foundation. We never had a foundation before. So we have a foundation and we do volunteer hours and we just were part of the group that bought Opal Lear Newhouse. We were the first one to open a branch in West Dallas. We gave the founding seed money for Southern Gateway in Dallas. We're big supporters of Rodeo here in Houston. Last year I think we sponsored the opening night, so I think you're going to see us pretty much all over the state of Texas in terms of giving and more than just money but time, resources, expertise to philanthropies. We hosted a great event about three weeks ago. People came from all over the country and it was for veterans and we had veteran not-for-profits and we had veteran-owned businesses and we just brought them together and talked about issues and how they could work together and synergies between the two and advancing veterans on a go-forward basis, and the people that came would just blow you away and the feedback of it. I happened to be out of town on a three-day weekend afterwards out of the country and somebody approached me and I didn't know them and they didn't know me, but I guess they'd seen my picture or something and they thanked me for having that veteran event. Wow, and so it had a far, far impact. It will do things like that. We have a nonprofit event in every city, getting nonprofits together, helping them learn how to raise money and trade best practices, and we do that and we'll do that in every city during the summer. So you know, our giving is good, Our volunteer hours are fantastic, Our sharing of expertise is good. Our investment in the community is great, Good. Chris: Let's circle back to because that kind of made me think of team building, right, so you talked about basically a wholesale change with the team around you. What are some of the things that you look for to make sure you're you know, through that recruiting and hiring process, that you're getting the right person for the position? Rob: Yep, so this is a great question and this was the key to what we've done so far and how we're going to reach our 25 goals. So in September of 21, when we announced a strategic plan, which was pretty dramatic, we said we're not going to achieve our financial goals until 25. With that came a lot of change and a lot of talent. So 80% of the people at the firm are new since I got there. That's 80% of over 2,000 people. So that's a lot of change, managing through a lot of change through a transformation, through a regional quote, unquote regional banking practice that I'd love to talk about, regional banking practice, regional banking stress that I'd love to talk about transformation. So there's a lot going on there, both internally and externally, that we had to manage through. And what we did is we started at the top and the bottom, so we put new leadership with new skill sets and new expectations and new goals of banking the best clients in our markets instead of just being a bank, etc. And we also started a junior program. It was the first junior program in the history of the bank. Chris: You mentioned that earlier, so tell us a little more about the junior program. Rob: It's awesome If you have a kid and they want to get into finance and they don't want to go to New York but they want to work at a great financial services firm to have them join us. So we post in. So I got there in January of 21. It so I got there in January 21. It's COVID Nobody's in the office. We'd just been through this internal stress with the failed merger, new CEO, the whole bit. I said we need a junior program. We posted 60 positions. We got 800 applications. We hired 60-something. A third of those had their masters. That wasn't required. The average GPA was over 374. So people love what we're doing right. The next year there's over 2,000 applicants and our junior program is great. And, by the way, I helped build one in the investment bank in my last firm and one in the commercial bank in my last firm. I thought they were both very good. This one's awesome. So you come in, you go through four or five months of training and then you go into your line of business. But we probably hired you after your internship the summer before, if that makes sense. Sure, the program has some of the diverse classes I've ever seen in banking and we didn't do that. This may be controversial. We do that on purpose. We did that because we hired the best people Exactly and they're the most diverse classes, and so we're really excited about that. And then the attrition rate there isn't nearly what we thought it would be. We built it for a higher attrition rate because those kids usually leave a large percentage after third year. Sure. They're not leaving. Rob: They like it, so that's been kind of fun. It's a good problem, right, it's a great problem and we'll use all of them. And, by the way, after that change you should just know the attrition stuff has dramatically slowed as the transformation slowed. We got all the talented people in place that we needed so we are ahead of corporate America, finance and Texas companies for attrition and excited about that in the new culture here. ADVERT Hello friends, this is Chris Hanslick, your Building Texas business host. Did you know that Boyer Miller, the producer of this podcast, is a business law firm that works with entrepreneurs, corporations and business leaders? Business law firm that works with entrepreneurs, corporations and business leaders. Our team of attorneys serve as strategic partners to businesses by providing legal guidance to organizations of all sizes. Get to know the firm at boyermillercom and thanks for listening to the show. Chris: Well that you know that low attrition rate leads to what you talked about earlier better customer experience, more stability. Rob: We need stability. Chris: Everybody needs stability. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so you mentioned regional banking stress. Tell me what you're referring to about that. Rob: Yeah, last spring of 23,. Eb failed, first Republic and the like. We were fortunate. So, november of 22, we sold a business to Truist for $3.5 billion with a very big premium on it. With the sale of that we became if you compare us to any $100 billion bank or above in the country or any Texas public bank we have the third most capital and I think in the next quarters we'll have the second most but third and we're number one in equity tangible common equity assets. So we're the least levered. We have third most capital. Our highly liquid assets are like 29% our cash and securities. Our AOCI problem, which is the mark on the bond portfolio. Banks are struggling with that. We're very good there. So our capital, our liquidity, et cetera, was very strong. So we didn't experience outflows of deposits or anything. What we did experience was a rotation, like every bank in the country, from non-interest-bearing deposits to interest-bearing deposits. So all banks if you want to call this cost of goods sold went up. But the regional banks for us the reason I wanted to come back and talk about that people call it a regional banking crisis. It was not. It had to do with certain banks were of the size that they define regional banks that had the wrong strategy, the wrong concentrations, and they failed, right. That's not because they're regional banks, right, they just happen to be that size. By the way, credit Suisse failed too. It is a global bank, right. So you know, I think this is sometimes where the media gets the message wrong and puts fear into the market, and they love it, and they love it and so I'm really proud of what the regional banks do and how they serve their clients in market and their local communities, giving back to their communities, being Main Street lenders, and I'm really proud of. You know how we do that. I think I told you before we went on the air. We're the number one lender of Texas-based businesses, of any Texas-based bank. That's a big deal because these money center banks they may be in the state or super regionals in the state or even regionals in the state but, if they decide, oh you know what, it's not okay to bank an energy company, they don't Well, guess what? We have those decisions here. We don't have somebody else deciding our social norms. Chris: Right, right, that's a great selling point. Going back to the kind of the junior program and this new team, let's talk about culture, I mean. So how would you define the culture at Texas Capitol and kind of, what do you think you've done to kind of foster that and what do you see as necessary to keep it growing? I think? Rob: the culture is transparent, curious, candid and relentless dissatisfaction, as my general counsel calls it. So, look, we've made a lot of change. We'll continue to make a lot of change. We just hired somebody to run public finance for us. We didn't have that before. Lot of change we just hired somebody to run public finance for us. We didn't have that before. We started into the foray of public equity, research and oil and gas. We're going to keep growing and building, doing things that serve our clients and our clients' needs. But the one thing that we kind of talk about a lot is and I'll say it little softer is you know just no jerks allowed. You could talk about, you can talk about Ivy League. You know culture and they have you know big words, but the simple thing is like we're gonna treat people with respect, period. Right now. You can be tough and you can be hard, but you gotta be fair, right, and you gotta be polite. And you know you can be hard but you've got to be fair and you've got to be polite and you can have high expectations while being compassionate. So we have high expectations, we are moving fast, but we do treat people with respect and we like working with one another and that's been part of the fun is, we've been in office because we think that's how you build a career and not a job, and that's how you collaborate to serve your client and that's what's best for our clients and best for employees. And we like being with one another. We don't want to work remote from a beach and not share life's experiences with our colleagues. Chris: Yeah, couldn't agree more. I mean, we got back to the office in May of 2020. I believe, and my partners here, you're a part of an organization for a reason. Organizations are a group of people together, right, correct, and we learn from each other. We can collaborate in a customer service-related industry. Like you and I are in the customer does better when we're collaborating to serve them, you and I are in the customer does better when we're collaborating to serve them, and we do that when we're together. Yep Hands down, no question. And we've been like you. We've been in office in person for a while now and you read as much as I do for the last six, seven months. You just see the pendulum swinging back because the other organizations are realizing they're losing customer satisfaction, they're losing engagement with their people. You can't have a culture if you're not together. In my view, or you can. Actually, you can have a culture. It's just not a healthy one in my view. Yeah, it's really bad, that's right. Rob: So, look, looking back, it seems like a really easy decision and, by the way, I was back in the office in 2022. But at this room, I didn't get there until January 21. Nobody's back in the office. You meant 22 as well. Yes, I did. I did. Excuse me, I did, but you know I got here in 21. We went back to office Memorial Day the Tuesday after Memorial Day of 21. And it was a harder decision then. It seems easy now Because, like even the day before, there was rumors of everybody in our ops organization that they were going to protest and walk out. You know at 901 and we decided, we made a conscious decision that this is what they're going to do and we wanted the people that wanted to be in the office right, and we may lose some people, and that's fine, and it would be harder in the short term, but the people that would be attracted to the platform and the business and us would be people that wanted careers, not jobs, and, by definition, those are the better employees, right, and I think those people attract those people and that's how we were able to transform so much while other people were sitting at home. Chris: Yeah. Now to your point. I mean, if you have a long-term strategy right, then you're willing to go through some short-term pain to get the right people that are going to help you achieve that For sure. A little bit about just your thoughts on what are some of the biggest challenges you think facing the banking industry as we sit here today and maybe for the foreseeable future. Obviously, for the last couple of years, every month everybody's watching the Fed, so that may be part of the answer. But just what do you see as the challenges? Rob: Yeah, so there's plenty for most industries though, too. So one is, and this is an excuse, but it is a challenge. The regulatory body needs to come together and be consistent and apply things consistently. That'd be helpful. We have an inverted yield curve now for the longest time, one of the longest periods in history, you know the two years four, seven something. The 10 years four two something. That makes banking very hard for a lot of technical reasons we can go into. For most banks, technology is a problem. Most banks are an aggregation of multiple banks. They're not like us that has one technology platform. That's, by the way, brand new and totally modern. Banks have not been willing to. It's been a cost cutting game because a lot of banks this is why our strategy is so good NIM banks. So net interest margin, which is loan only, the model of taking a deposit and making a loan and achieving a return above your cost of capital through cycle, I think is very difficult and that's why we supplemented our platform. You know loans, investment banking, private wealth. You know all the different things we do for a client so that we can achieve that return, because a lot of the banks to have that return would have to maybe make a riskier loan to get a higher spread or what have you? So I think the NIM banking model to get a higher spread or what have you? So I think the NIM banking model especially after spring of 23, is hard. I think the technology spend is hard. I think there's a lot of banks that have too much commercial real estate. So our commercial real estate is a very small percentage of our total capital. Regulators want you to be maybe 250 or 300%. There's a lot of banks that are 400. That's too much, yeah. And when you have that much commercial real estate, remember a lot of its construction loans, and so the construction loans. You made that decision today and you're funding it in two years. So you're going to you're that that concentration, because those paydowns are, you know, like a five-year low and commercial real estate is going to keep growing. So banks marginal loan the dollar to make the next loan. The cost just went up, so they're going to slow down their lending while the commercial real estate gets absorbed. They can't be relevant to their clients with anything other than the loan product and if they're not doing that, they're going to slow down their growth and slow down lending. They can't be relevant to their clients with anything other than the loan product, and if they're not doing that, they're going to slow down their growth and slow down lending. They don't have the margin to spend on technology. Chris: And those are some of the problems. Yeah, there's cascades, right, totally. Let's turn a little bit to just kind of you and leadership. How would you describe your leadership style today and maybe how you feel like it's evolved over your career? Rob: I think you've got to do what you want other people to do. So I'm in Houston today. We're seeing six clients we talk all the time about it's about the client, not us. Ops exists to serve a client, technology exists to serve a client. It's not for the bank. And so we have become pretty client obsessed at Texas Capital, delivering the best outcomes for our clients. I mean, like the one deal I think I told you about, we sole managed the largest debt deal in the country last year. The largest sole managed debt deal in the country last year. That's after a money center bank failed doing it. We gave the client the best advice, knowing they'd probably go with the other bank. They did. The other bank failed them. They came back to us and we did it. Now we have a client for life. So give the client the right advice, do the right thing for the client, but your people have to see you do what you want them to do. So I'm with clients. We are aggressively serving clients, but we've managed the place very conservatively. And then I think candor and transparency is really important. Chris: I think those are great qualities, anything that you could point to. I always think people I'll speak for myself, but I think I hear it in others as well a setback or failure that you encountered, that you learned from, that made you better as a leader, as a business person, anything that comes to mind, that where you look back and go, wow, that was transformational. Because of that, how long do you have? Rob: No, I think we talked about junior program, one that always comes to mind because there's early on the program of what early on my career was. When I was a junior, you know, I talked to that junior class a lot and one of the things I tell them is be careful, because you know, building your brand sometimes is too easy, like you know, if you do something great, like I had some successes early on as being a good client guy, then I was the client guy, but also my brand that I got early on was, as a junior was I wasn't very good at details and as a junior an analyst associate your only job was details Right, and so I learned the hard way that maybe I needed to focus on the details. Now I would suggest that the people that work with me think I'm too focused on the details. But that's because I learned the hard way as a junior and people corrected me Right and I'm not sure if they corrected me the wrong way or right way. That was the old days, but they certainly made an impression. So I think that was one of the things I learned is details matter and details are important, and I learned it as a junior and that stayed with me throughout my career. The other one was one I think is interesting is later on, when we were talking about a promotion, one of my bosses told me that I think this is really important for people to know, because I think it's true. He said rob, I don't it, my vote doesn't matter. The vote that matters is everybody else on the floor that works with you, because I'm not promoting you unless they want you promoted, right and so I do think that you know that's a pretty good lesson too. Chris: Yeah, kind of well servant the well, servant leadership, for sure, and that kind of team mentality For sure, team mentality. And I've said forever, I think the lessons you remember the most are the ones you learned the hard way. For sure, so the details right. Chris: So he's like I'm not going to let that happen again. For sure, that's great. Well, I appreciate you sharing those up, but I think it's a great quality leadership to have that vulnerability and humility about you for sure. So I'm going to kind of move away from the business stuff. Okay, to wrap things up, I want to know what was your first job, my? Rob: first job was uh bagging groceries and stocking grocery shelves in high school I did the same thing, did you? Chris: yeah, uh, it was hot and yeah, I tell people we had to wear like black pants. Oh, yeah, these kids get to wear shorts. Now I'm like this is going easy on them. Rob: Yeah, I think one day one of the guys got mad at me because they made me restack all the remember when people used to return the glass bottles. Yeah, and it was in a cage in the back of the alley of the grocery store. It was about 110. And nobody had organized them for about three months and I got fine job. Chris: Very good. All right, you're born and raised in Texas, so do you prefer Tex-Mex or barbecue? Rob: Both Like a brisket taco. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I like that All right. And last thing if you could take a 30-day sabbatical, where would you go and what would you do? I'd probably spend half of it fly fishing in Montana and half of it quail hunting in South Texas. There you go, Just not this time of year. Not this time of year. That's right. Chris: Rob, I want to thank you for taking the time. I mean, I had no idea the details behind the transformation at Texas Capital and obviously what you and your team are doing and have done is nothing short of remarkable. So thanks for sharing that. Rob: Well, thank you, I think you know. We think Texas does deserve its own full-service financial services firm. Chris: Well, I'm glad you're delivering it. Thank you, take care. And there we have it another great episode. Don't forget to check out the show notes at boyermiller.com forward slash podcast and you can find out more about all the ways our firm can help you at Boyermiller.com. That's it for this episode. Have a great week and we'll talk to you next time. Special Guest: Rob Holmes.

In this episode of Deconstructing Dallas, Shawn and Ryan are joined by Heather McGhee, an expert in economic policy research and the author of the book "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together." Heather discusses her journey exploring the intersection of racism and economics in America, highlighting the impact of racism on public goods, wages, and inequality.Heather reflects on her time at Demos, an organization focused on economic justice, and how her thinking on race and racism evolved during her tenure there. She also discusses the adaptation of her book into a Spotify podcast by Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as the upcoming theater adaptation in Dallas.Shawn and Ryan also talk about the upcoming Banned Book Festival at Bishop Arts Theatre Center, inspired by "The Sum of Us," and Heather's thoughts on the book being used as inspiration for a play festival. They discuss the role of arts organizations like Bishop Arts Theater Centre in addressing inequality and promoting social change.Shawn and Ryan also reflect on the 2024 Dallas Bond Campaign and the passing of West Dallas community activist Raul Reyes Jr.

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Zach Wiegert, Founder & Managing Partner, Goldenrod Companies joins KRLD's David Johnson on this episode of CEO Spotlight.

“A Front Row Seat to Life”  ATO Family today we are celebrating our milestone 75th episode with a true piece of Dallas Police and ATO history with David Rodriguez. David was born in 1948 and grew up in a segregated West Dallas and joined the Vietnam War right after high school. At this time Dallas PD had their recruiting doors wide open for veterans of this war and David walked right through those doors and into DPD's open arms in 1969 and graduated in academy class #107. He made his name as a legendary FTO in the Northwest Division and was awarded an award for Trainer of the Decade. At age 46 years old David wanted to try something new ventured to the growing Narcotics Unit to battle the deadly drug wars in Dallas in the 90's David fell in love with the high speed dynamics of the Narcotics Division and embraced this new role and this new war on drugs. But life being what it is- a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control changed David's life and career. In January of 1994, while executing a Narcotics Search Warrant. David was shot four times by a suspect and became paralyzed from the chest down. After a lengthy period of rehabilitation, David found himself unable to perform his duties and was forced to retire. David did retire from Dallas PD but he did not stop working. He recognized the need help his fellow officers who found themselves in similar circumstances and focused on his new mission. He helped Bill Carollo, Eddie Crawford and Tom Popken create the Assist the Officer Foundation. Sit back and listen to a true story of resiliency and determination.  Badge #2776 the ATO is yours…… Critical Incident:  January 1994 Narcotics officer involved shooting that left Detective David Rodriguez paralyzed.  

It is my joy to share our next episode with a remarkable woman of God!⁣ ⁣ Ms. Annie Roberson was formerly president and founder of a nonprofit ministry — Women Who Fear God, International. She is a graduate of Southern Bible Institute and served on staff at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship for eleven years — eight years as administrative assistant to Dr. Tony Evans and three years as Director of Evangelism. Ms. Annie was a contributor in the book Women to Women: Perspectives of Fifteen African-American Christian Women by Dr. Norvella Carter, she served as an instructor with Prison Fellowship, and Mentor Coordinator at Mercy Street. Ms. Annie is currently on staff at Disciple City Church as Community Liaison and continues to serve in a variety of capacities within her community in West Dallas. She has three daughters, five grandchildren, and she loves Jesus. ⁣ ⁣ Take some time to glean from an amazing uplifter and minister of the Gospel!⁣ Check out Uplifting Gospel Transformation with Ms. Annie Roberson... ⁣ Subscribe to the Mission: Uplift YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MissionUplift Scriptures Romans 3:23 Romans 6:23⁣ Romans 5:8⁣ Romans 10:9-10⁣ 1 John 5:11-12⁣ 1 Peter 2:2⁣ Hebrews 4:12⁣ Proverbs 31⁣:10-31 Romans 10:17⁣ Matthew 5:14-16⁣ John 3:16⁣ Resources Women to Women: Perspectives of Fifteen African-American Christian Women by Dr. Norvella Carter: https://amzn.to/3nj7zXa⁣ Connect with Mission: Uplift!

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BIPOC communities are most likely to bear the effects of climate change, but BIPOC-led environmental justice groups are severely underfunded in climate philanthropy. In this episode, Abdul Dosunmu of the Climate Funders Justice Pledge talks about his group's aim to challenge big donors to give more equitably.(PDF transcript)(Active transcript)Text transcript:David RobertsWhether it's suffering the effects of fossil fuel pollution or fighting back against it, black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) are on the front lines of climate change. Yet they are starved for resources. More than a billion dollars a year goes toward climate philanthropy, but of that amount, little more than 1 percent goes to BIPOC-led environmental justice groups.The two-year-old Climate Funders Justice Pledge, run by the Donors of Color Network, is trying to change that. It challenges big donors to a) be more transparent about where their grants are going, and b) within two years of signing the pledge, raise the amount going to BIPOC-led groups to 30 percent.The pledge, featured in a just-released report from Morgan Stanley and the Aspen Institute on how to increase the impact of climate philanthropy, has already led to more than $100 million in annual commitments to BIPOC-led groups.I talked with Abdul Dosunmu, who runs the pledge campaign, about why BIPOC leadership is important to the climate fight, how transparency changes the behavior of foundations, and how to improve the relationship between environmental justice groups and big funders.Alright. Abdul Dosunmu. Welcome to Volts. Thank you so much for coming.Abdul DosunmuThank you so much for having me.David RobertsThis is an interesting topic to me with lots of ins and outs, but let's start with just, I'd like to get a sense of what is the pool of philanthropic money available to climate and environmental organizations? And then how much of that currently is going to EJ groups?Abdul DosunmuThe Morgan Stanley-Aspen report, that we were honored to be part of, and was just released really details a stark challenge in terms of what the author of the report, Randall Kempner, says is both the quantity of climate philanthropy and the quality of climate philanthropy. So, on the quantity side, according to the report, only about 2% of all global philanthropy is focused on climate.David RobertsThat's wild to begin with, honestly.Abdul DosunmuInsanely wild. And what's interesting about that, what's hard to square about that is the fact that if you ask philanthropists how urgent the crisis is, 85% of them say it's extremely urgent. So they're talking one game but walking another game.David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuSo, of all global philanthropy, only about 2% is focused on climate. And then of that 2%, only about 1.3% of it is focused on BIPOC-led environmental justice organizations. So if you think about the quantity versus quality framework that Randall has, the Morgan Stanley-Aspen report is really focused on the quantity side of it. The climate funders justice pledge, which I lead, is focused on the quality side of it.David RobertsRight. We'll get to that in just one second. I got a bunch of questions about that, but I just want to in terms of quantity, do we know that 2% that goes to climate related stuff. Do we know what that number is? I don't have any sense of scale at all.David RobertsIs that a billion dollars? A few million?Abdul DosunmuSo our data, and I'm not sure Randall goes into this in the report, but our data is really focused on about 1.3 billion or so of climate funding.David RobertsGot it.Abdul DosunmuSo we're looking at single digit billions. But we also know that in recent years, frankly in recent weeks, that number is steadily escalating as new Climate Funders come onto the scene with last names like Bezos, and Powell, Jobs, and others. And so we really don't have a solid sense of what that new number is.David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuBut in terms of the 1.3% number that we focus on at CFJP, we're looking at about 1.34 billion of that which was awarded to National Climate Funders. And of that, only about 1.3% is going to BIPOC-led environmental groups.David RobertsSo that's less than 20 million. Say something in that neighborhood, right?Abdul DosunmuAbsolutely.David RobertsOne other distinction on this is I know that there is giving that gets categorized under EJ activities, which is separate from money actually going to EJ led groups.Abdul DosunmuThat's right. So that's a critical distinction, and you've really just jumped in on the core part of the work that I do. We believe that it's important that EJ work is funded when it is BIPOC-led just as much as it's funded when it's not. And currently what we have is a system where EJ work led by communities of color, conceptualizing communities of color is not funded at the same scale that other work might be funded. And the reality of that is that there are deep consequences because as we often say, the communities that are closest to the problem are closest to the solutions, but they're also the furthest away from the resources.David RobertsSo let's get right into that then. I guess probably a lot of listeners will take this as self-evident, but when you go to big funders, people sitting on big endowments and stuff, and you are trying to make the case that BIPOC-led groups are important to tackling climate change, what's the case? What's the evidence? What do you tell them?Abdul DosunmuWell, we start with a basic concept that says that the climate does not discriminate, people and systems do. And the reason we start there is that we really want to drive them to the data that most of your audience will probably be familiar with around the fact that most frontline communities, the communities that are hit first and worse by the effects of climate change are Black and Brown communities. Most fenceline communities are Black and Brown communities that when it comes to the ways in which this crisis is manifesting itself on the ground and in people's lives, it disproportionately impacts BIPOC communities. So we start there.That if you're actually interested in mitigating the effects of this crisis, by necessity, you would start with BIPOC communities, right? The second piece is if you're actually interested in shifting the systemic landscape that has led to this crisis, you would start with BIPOC communities. And here's what I mean by that. Power differentials in society is what has created the condition for exploitation, extraction, and pollution. It's the power differentials that have created the foundations of this crisis. It's the fact that certain communities have been politically disenfranchised and subjugated and those are also the communities that have been impacted by environmental exploitation and extraction.David RobertsYeah, I feel like this is an important point because sometimes what you hear from, I don't know that they'll say it publicly a lot anymore, but sometimes what you hear in private from climate people is climate is about emissions. And we should attack emissions, right? We should be lowering emissions. And insofar as you are being distracted by other social, like you're mixing your ice cream of peanut butter or whatever, like you're letting your social issues get involved in your emissions issues, you're just going to be less effective at reducing emissions. I think that mindset still has quite a hold on quite a few people.So this point that they're linked is important, I think.Abdul DosunmuYou said. You don't know if people will actually share it publicly. I hear it almost every day.David RobertsSo they still do say it publicly.Abdul DosunmuThey still do say it publicly.David RobertsRight, that there is a sense that you can somehow disconnect the climate crisis from the social and racial inequities that exist in our society, when in fact, the communities that have been the most exploited and the most extracted have been communities that have been denied political voice, right. And they've been BIPOC communities. I often tell the story of a neighborhood in my hometown, Dallas, Texas, called the West Dallas neighborhood. And it's largely Black and Brown, historically has been as a result of housing segregation. And this community was home for 50 years to a lead smelter plant. And this lead smelter plant obviously polluted the environment.Abdul DosunmuIt also poisoned generations of young Black and Brown kids growing up in that community. And it was the political powerlessness of that community, it was the political subjugation of that community that allowed that lead smelter plant to operate with impunity for 50 years. And this is the critical point that we make. It was the rising up of that community. It was the mobilization of that community that ultimately booted that lead smelter plant from the community. And so it's important for us to see that these things are linkedDavid RobertsJust to sort of restate, the whole problem of environmental pollution generally, including climate, is this ability to basically produce waste and impacts that you don't pay for.Abdul DosunmuThat's right.David RobertsBut you can't do that unless there's some community that's disempowered enough that it can't stop you from doing it, right? I mean, the whole setup relies on there being disempowered communities that have no choice but to accept this junk.Abdul DosunmuThat's exactly right. I have a dear friend in the movement, Felicia Davis from HBCU Green Fund, who says we don't just have a climate crisis, we have a power injustice crisis.David RobertsRight. And relatedly, I think, another old piece of conventional wisdom, though, this I think has been changing in recent years. But if you go back I've been doing this for close to 20 years now, and if you go back like 15 years, I think the sort of conventional wisdom was climate is something that educated, affluent, White people worry about because they have the luxury and time to worry about it. And BIPOC communities, vulnerable communities, EJ communities have other things to worry about that are more proximate and more difficult and they don't have time to worry about climate change.And thus those communities are not going to be a big part of a social movement for climate change. And of course, now the data shows that that's wrong, like almost inversely wrong. So what is the level of kind of knowledge and engagement among these communities on the subject of climate change?Abdul DosunmuWell, and this is a key point that I like to make. The first part of that that I would like to deconstruct is this notion that climate is separate from the other issues that impact these communities, right? That in many ways, part of the innovation and the imagination that these communities are bringing to the fight is to recognize the interconnections between climate and housing, climate and labor policy, climate and transportation, right? That they are uniquely positioned to see that climate is connected to a whole range of other systems that decide and define how we live. So that's part of the deconstruction that has to be made.David RobertsAnd you might also say that a White affluent businessman is uniquely positioned to want to not see those interconnections, right? Like there's a lot of incentive not to see them if you benefit from them, basically.Abdul DosunmuRight. There is a desire to focus the fight against the climate crisis on a little intervention here, a little technology here. And the reality is that the crisis is the result of systems that shape how we live. And in order to fight the crisis, we've got to actually change those systems, right? And communities of color are uniquely positioned to be able to understand that and to lead that fight.David RobertsAnd that shows up in the data, and surveys, and polls and stuff. Do you feel like that sentiment, that knowledge is pretty widely dispersed in those communities at this point?Abdul DosunmuOh, absolutely. I think one of the things that we do at CFJP is we actually look at and profile a lot of the movement work that is happening on the ground in communities. And so we're not just talking at a level of theory, we're talking at a level of understanding the movements that are being led by communities of color. So there is a reason that billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions are disrupted every year by indigenous organizers. There is a reason that it was the BIPOC-led organizations that pushed President Biden on Justice40, and that conceptualized the New Jersey and California environmental justice laws that preceded Justice40.There is a reason that the Climate Justice Alliance, for instance, has had a massive impact on shifting away from extractive energy practices. And so it's important for us to see that we don't need a poll to tell us, all we need to do is look at the work and the organizing that is happening in these communities and see the ways in which it is moving the needle on this conversation.David RobertsYeah, and I'll just say, from my perch, my perspective, like, I remember when the climate bill was being put together back in 2008 and 2009, I don't know if you were unfortunate enough to be in this area when that was happening, but EJ was it wasn't absent, but it was clearly an add on, right? It was like an amendment. It was like a thing you stick on at the end as an afterthought. And it's been remarkable to me just to see, over the years, EJ just becoming much more assertive and having a much bigger place at the table.David RobertsTo the point now that the Democratic, official sort of Democratic Party climate agenda has it right there at the core, and it's included in a lot of these Inflation Reduction Act grants. So it's like night and day in terms of the engagement on both sides. To me, obviously there's a long way to go, but I've seen the change.Abdul DosunmuThat's absolutely right. And that change was led by BIPOC-led organizations. And here's why that's important, right? Obviously, you know this better than I do. We're dealing with a movement that has historically excluded and alienated the voices of People of Color. And there are organizations out there that are doing this work around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the environmental movement, right? And the data has never been good. It's always been bad. And here's the core point that we make. I draw an analogy. One of my favorite football teams, I'm a great Texan, I'm a great Dallasite.So the Dallas Cowboys, what we're doing right now in the climate movement is the equivalent of the Dallas Cowboys finally making it to the Super Bowl but fielding only about a 10th of a team on the field. That's what we're doing right now in the movement. Our best players, our most imaginative players are not on the field because we have historically excluded them.David RobertsLet's talk about that. So the Climate Funders Justice Pledge, what is it specifically? What is it asking of large philanthropies?Abdul DosunmuSo it's pretty simple, which is not to say that they always receive it as such.David RobertsNot easy. Easy and simple are different.Abdul DosunmuEasy and simple are different. But it's pretty simple. It says two things. Number one, it says commit to transparency. So we call on the nation's top climate funders, primarily institutional funders, so we're talking foundations, big foundations to commit to transparency, right? And what that means is we ask them specifically, "how much of your current climate giving is focused on BIPOC-led environmental justice organizations? Not just environmental justice organizations, but BIPOC-led EJ organizations." And we define that very concretely.We say 50% of your board has to be People of Color, 50% of your senior staff has to be People of Color, and you have to have an explicit mission of serving communities of color. So how much in dollar amounts of your current climate giving is going to BIPOC-led environmental justice organizations? That's a transparency component.David RobertsAnd that information is not available today.Abdul DosunmuIt's not easily available. And to be honest with you, most funders have not asked themselves those questions, right?So one of the things that has been a learning journey for us is actually getting feedback from funders that have taken the pledge. And what they tell us is that for them, the most transformative part of it has been the transparency component because they had never actually looked at the data.David RobertsI bet they're not finding out good things, right? They're not pleasantly surprised.Abdul DosunmuNo, they're not. In the main, they are not pleasantly surprised. I mean, the data is what it is, right, nationally. And part of what we wanted to do with this pledge is we wanted to make that data available to communities and movements so that they could actually hold these funders accountable, right? And so that the funders who are committed to environmental justice can hold themselves accountable. So it matters that a Kresge Foundation, for instance, says, "you know what, what has been most imaginative about this for us is that it has forced us to go internal and look at our data."So that matters. And we don't just ask for the data, and hoard it, or put it in a report that we release annually. We actually post that number on our website. So if you go to our website, you can find that number for each of the funders that have taken the pledge. And then we do a whole bunch of media amplification around it because we actually want communities to organize around this data.David RobertsWhat's a typical number, like Kresge or whatever, once they looked, what are they finding?Abdul DosunmuWell, Kresge is actually, they're an anchor pledger of ours, which is great. And I don't want to misquote their number. If I'm remembering correctly, they were under the 30%, probably in the 20s range. And it's important to note that, again, they have had this as a commitment for a very long time. So actually challenging them to, "okay, let's look at the data," has been super helpful for them.David RobertsInteresting. Okay, so transparency is step one.Abdul DosunmuStep one is transparency. And I actually looked at the number. They're actually at 33%. Let me give Kresge their credit, they're at 33%.David RobertsI'm going to guess that's unusually high.Abdul DosunmuThey are one of the leaders in the field, no question about it. It is very high for the pledgers that we have, and they are making continued strides. So the transparency piece is very important because it allows us to have conversations like this one. "Where is this funder? Where is that funder, and how can we hold them accountable to the commitments that many of them have?" Right? So let me just put a pin in this and say after George Floyd, we saw a number of funders make new commitments around environmental justice, around BIPOC communities. And in the couple of years since, we've seen most of those commitments fade into the background, right?And so this has become a tool that communities can use to actually hold funders accountable to what they say they're going to do.David RobertsGot it.Abdul DosunmuAnd then the second component of the pledge is the 30% requirement. So what we say is after you tell us your number, if you're not at 30% and a good number or not, we challenge you to within two years of taking the pledge to get to 30%. So scale your grant making to at least 30% going to BIPOC-led environmental justice organizations over the course of two years.David RobertsCan I ask where 30% came from? I mean, is it just sounds reasonable or is there something more to it than that?Abdul DosunmuYou know, if you look at it, BIPOC communities, about 40% of the population, what we said was 30% seems like a good floor. It is not intended to be a ceiling. And what we hope to see is that over time, that number is far exceeding 30%. But at least as a floor, 30% felt right to the networks of movement organizers and leaders that we pulled together to help develop this campaign.David RobertsAnd so this funders pledge has been going on for how long, and what's the state of play? Are foundations signing on? How much money have you shifted? How long has this been running?Abdul DosunmuSo you're talking to me pretty much on the eve of our two year anniversary. And so we've been around for a couple of years. And to date, twelve of the Top 40 climate funders have taken the pledge.David RobertsInteresting.Abdul Dosunmu32 foundations overall have committed to at least one portion of the pledge. And so some of them will say we'll do transparency, but we're not quite ready to go to 30%.David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuAnd we accept that because sunlight is the best disinfectant.David RobertsYeah, I think you're right that transparency is the big piece here. It's like that dream where you wake up in school, and you're naked in school or whatever, all of a sudden everybody can see ... that alone, I think is going to create a lot of push.Abdul DosunmuRight. Nobody wants to be at the bottom of the list, right. Nobody wants to be in single digits when everybody else is in double digits. And the ones who are in double digits, like Kresge, they want to do better, right? They want to get more shine. They want to tell their story, more impactfully. And so we offer the transparency piece not just as stick, but also as carrot to those who are doing well in this fight, and want to help us tell the story, and amplify the mission. And so what we have seen is that there is momentum around the pledge.And we're very proud to say that we have helped to catalyze a new baseline, funding baseline through the pledge for BIPOC-led organizations of around $100 million in the two years that we have been around. But $100 million is really just a drop in the bucket because right now we're seeing, again, as I said earlier, new funders come into the field every single day.David RobertsWell, this was my very next question, is do we have any sense of what sort of dollar figure we would be talking about if this succeeded, if all the big philanthropies signed on, and if all the big philanthropies actually did it? Do we have any idea sort of like, what the ultimate pool of money is?Abdul DosunmuSo I don't have that hard number, but I can tell you that our campaign has a goal, right? An aim of catalyzing $500 million. So if we could get to $500 million, we feel like we would be radically transforming the possibilities for BIPOC-led environmental justice organizations. But that's going to require that we make the transition, the pivot, from what I would call the legacy funders, right? So legacy funders like Pisces, and Kresge, and Schmidt, and Rockefeller Brothers and Hewlett and ... a number of the ... MacArthur, a number of the others that have Heising-Simon's Energy Foundation, Packard Foundation, a number of those that have taken the pledge.We've got to make the transition from just those to now some of these more entrepreneurial startup funders in the space, like a Bezos, like a Waverley Street, like a Sequoia.David RobertsHave you talked to any of them? I mean, I assume you're reaching out. I guess one of the questions I'm sort of curious about is, is there a big difference in culture that you found between these established groups and the new ones coming in?Abdul DosunmuThere is. We are outreaching every day to the new funders. One of the reasons I make the distinction between legacy and entrepreneurial is that when you're a legacy funder, you have deeper roots in communities because you've been funding them for a long time, or at least you've been giving lip service to funding them for a long time, right? And so you're more susceptible to their accountability, right?David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuYou're more accountable to them than a new funder who's coming in, who is somebody who's made a bunch of money in tech and just wants to give it away out of a good spirit and a good heart. But there isn't the same level of connectivity there to communities, and so that has been the biggest challenge. And then the other piece of this is when you're an entrepreneur and you've come in right on the heels of having made a lot of money, a lot of money in business, you tend to think you know how to do things.David RobertsWhat? Tech guys?Abdul DosunmuI know, it's a crazy thought, right?David RobertsYeah. I was going to say I don't want to cast aspersions, or use any stereotypes, but when I think about tech-bros fresh off making billions of dollars like sensitivity to racial justice is not what leaps to mind.Abdul DosunmuWell and they may have the sensitivity, some of them, but they also have the kinds of neurosis that come from having made a lot of money and been very successful, and you think you kind of know everything, right? And so oftentimes they will come into the field and say, "here is what I want to do on climate," and it has no relationship to what communities actually are doing and need to do. That's really probably the biggest culture challenge that we face is that it's both the accountability piece, and it's the part of this that understands that, ultimately, this is a learning experience both for the funder and for the broader field. This is not top down, it's bottom up, and the best solutions come from the bottom up.David RobertsAs you've talked to foundations, have you received any straight up kind of disagreement about your goals?Abdul DosunmuWell, we mostly don't get that, right. We mostly get, "well ... we're going to work on ... " That's my impersonation. "We're going to work on it, and we're going to see, and talk to us in six months and ..." that sort of thing. But every now and then you do just hear "no, we're just not going to do it."David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuBut generally that doesn't come from a disagreement with the goals or the objectives of the campaign because it's hard to disagree with the goals and objectives of the campaign. It generally comes from a sense of, "you know what, this is just not part of our agenda. This is not what we do, and we're not going to have anybody external to our organization directing our strategy."David RobertsYeah.Abdul DosunmuAnd so that's generally where most of the resistance comes from.David RobertsIf you imagine a huge new flood of money descending on these groups, over the course of the next two or three years, you can imagine ways that that could go poorly. That's a big disruptive thing. And one of the things I was thinking about is when you talk to these small groups, often what they'll tell you they need is just operating expenses. Like they need to be able to pay decent salaries, right? Just to begin with. Trying to run a whole movement on underpaid people is difficult, and they need sort of just like cost of living, cost of operations, operations money.Abdul DosunmuRight.David RobertsAnd what you often find, or what they tell me they run into when they talk to funders is, of course, funders are wealthy, and therefore overestimate their own cleverness, and often have their own ideas about what they want groups to do. So I worry, like, is this going to be the right kind of support? And you can certainly imagine a big new pot of money coming with a bunch of sort of big footed demands about how these groups do things, right? Like, you can imagine big funders trying to sort of dictate the strategies of these groups rather than listening and learning from them.So I don't know how you go about, I mean, I don't know exactly what I want you to say in the switch, but are we confident that this support is going to be the kind of support that these sort of small struggling groups need most?Abdul DosunmuRight. You are really touching on a critical part of this that our campaign is going to be doing more work on. It hasn't been a core part of it thus far because we really see ourselves as the accountability mechanism in the field, but we do think there's an opportunity for us to engage on these questions. So to start, what we really need is a shift in the culture of philanthropy, right? And so part of that shift is a shift in the "philanthropy knows best" mindset. And we've been talking about that. Part of that shift is a shift in the desire of philanthropy to really dictate all of the terms of engagement. And they do that primarily by focusing most of their grant making on program grants.Right.And so you might get a grant to run a specific program, but you're not going to get a grant to actually scale your organizational capacity.David RobertsRight. This is a notorious complaint from nonprofits across the board from time immemorial, right. They're like, we can get a grant to do a specific thing, but we just need, like, printer paper,Abdul DosunmuRight! "We can get a grant to do a specific thing, but we need to hire people to do the thing, and we need to be able to offer them insurance, health insurance, and we need to be able to keep the lights on in the building." And that is a part of this conversation that, again, we have not touched on, but we see there's an opportunity for us to touch on as we continue to move forward. So those are really the two of the areas where there's room for additional intervention. The other thing I'll say is this. It's a bit of a vicious cycle that these groups are in because they don't get the funding, so they can't build the capacity. And because they don't have the capacity, that lack of capacity is used as a pretext to deny them more funding, right?So it's a vicious cycle. And now we're in a moment where there's some $500 billion coming down from the federal government, on climate related resources. And a lot of that is sort of focused on, or earmarked on a climate justice lens. And we're happy about that, right? We fought for that, the movement organized for that. But the concern that we have now is that because of this disparity in funding and private philanthropy, many of the organizations that are BIPOC-led, that are going after these grants won't be able to successfully compete because they've been locked out of the private funding, right?And so a lot of work is being done on the ground, and movements, and organizations to actually try to help organizations build capacity over time to be able to compete for these new dollars that are coming down and to actually be able to fulfill the spirit of Justice40, but we need more funding to do that, and the private funding market is critical.David RobertsYeah. And another thing I've heard from these groups, these are most often pretty small under-resourced groups. And another thing I've heard is that even the process of applying ...Right ...For these things, is burdensome, and difficult, and expensive. Like, if you're a two, or three, or four person operation, it's nothing for a Kresge to sort of send someone out to hear your pitch. But for you to make the pitch is a lot of hours of labor which you can't really well afford. And I've heard from groups where they say, they'll come consult with us and ask us how to do better in their EJ funding and et cetera, et cetera, and we make these elaborate presentations and then they vanish and we never hear from them again.So I just wonder, are there broader ... you could imagine a regime where a big wealthy funder pays some small stipend to a group to offset the cost of consulting, the sort of free consulting they do, or the cost of applying for grants or something like that. And that would just be can you think of are there larger ways that we need to change the relationship between small EJ groups and big funders, beyond just the monetary beyond just giving them money, in terms of just the kind of social aspects and cultural aspects of their interaction? Are there larger reforms we need in that aspect?Abdul DosunmuHow much time do we have?David RobertsI thought you might have something to say about that.Abdul DosunmuRight. I have the privilege of wearing a bunch of hats in my work.David RobertsYeah, I meant to say, I read your LinkedIn page. I had to take a nap halfway through. You're a busy man.Abdul DosunmuI'm a busy man. I do a lot, and I sit across a lot of different buckets, right. And so on the CFJP side of things, obviously, I'm wearing a bit of a philanthropic hat. We don't necessarily consider ourselves philanthropy, but we're not movement. We're somewhere in between, right. But we definitely wear a philanthropic hat. And then in my other work, I actually lead a grassroots voting organization of Black lawyers and law students. And so on one side of my work, I am challenging funders to do more. And then on the other side of my work, I am living every day the ways in which this system is inequitable toward founders of color and leaders of color.And so I see this from both sides. Really, I think the first place to start in this conversation is with a conversation. And so typically the exchange between funder and organization is a one-way conversation, right. It's a one-way street.David RobertsYeah. Speaking of power differentials.Abdul DosunmuExactly. These broader power differentials in society are being replicated in how foundations engage with organizations. "And so you can apply for a grant if we invite you to apply, we want it in this 60-page application format."David RobertsAnd then you get the grant. And like we need a 60-page report every year.Abdul DosunmuThat's right, "we need the 60-page report every year. Oh, and by the way, you probably won't get the grant in time to actually do the work you need to do with it because we're going to take our time delivering the grant to you, and you interface with us and interact with us when we invite you to."David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuThat has to change. And so part of the culture change that you're talking about that so many organizations are advocating for, starts with making that one-way conversation, a two-way conversation, and actually listening to organizations on the ground and having those organizations inform your grant making practices, right?So let me go back to Kresge for a minute. One of the other things that they have said to us has been impactful for them is actually the transformation that the pledge has wrought in their grant making practices, in their day to day grant making practices, and how they engage, and how they interact with grantees.David RobertsSo that just means they've been learning by doing, they've been learning by interacting with these groups?Abdul DosunmuThat's right. That's right. Absolutely. And we've heard that from multiple funders. And so really what has to happen is that the funder has to become a learner, right. And that's what we're pushing through this pledge. We're challenging funders to become listeners and learners and actually hear from the organizations on the ground about what needs to change in their grant making practices in order to be more equitable. And a lot of them are making changes. I think that's really where this starts is the conversation, shifting it from one-way to two-way.And one of the things, by the way, that we have tried to do is that a number of these funders have said, "well, how do I actually get this data? How do I actually get the demographic data information? How do we kind of navigate that?" And what we have done is actually provide resources for them, so that when they're seeking out this data, they're not creating more layers of burden on these groups, right? So we have tried to incorporate that even into our own program.Right, so these groups don't have to sort of do another report on our demographic makeup, et cetera, et cetera. So that's a little bit more public. And it also occurs to me I mean, maybe this is even too obvious to point out, but it also occurs to me that it would be nice if these big funders going to these groups were not like 18th century British royals visiting the islands like strangers in a strange land. Like, it might be nice if they were composed if the makeup of the actual big funders changed.Well, there you go. There you go. I mean, you've made exactly one of the critical points, which is that the work that Green 2.0 and so many other organizations are doing to actually change the makeup of these funders is directly connected to our work. Because you're absolutely right. You should not be visiting these communities as though you're visiting from Mars. You should have people on staff in senior positions who are deeply rooted in these communities, that know the work that's happening, that know the challenges facing these organizations and are directly invested in this work, right? Part of what I have seen in the time that I've been doing this work is that there are so many brilliant folks across the country who are directly and deeply invested in this work, and they are the people who have been laboring in obscurity.They are the people who've been laboring without resources. And in order for this system to change, the system of philanthropy to shift, part of what we've got to do is bring those voices from the outside in and make sure that they actually have the ability to transform these funding institutions. And that last point is critical because it is not enough to have People of Color faces in high places if they do not have the ability to actually engineer change.David RobertsI used to work for a nonprofit. The first journalistic organization I worked for, Grist, was a nonprofit. And especially back when I first started, we were very small. There's like four or five of us. So I became intimately familiar with the grind of begging foundations for money. Luckily, I didn't have to do that part for long, but I saw enough of it. And one thing that just struck me immediately and overwhelmingly is that we were an organization that was specifically targeting young people. We wanted to be sort of irreverent, and funny, and just all these kind of things that appeal to young people.But the people we're talking to and begging for money are, to put it bluntly, White boomers. They're older White people who are not necessarily who you'd go to to learn about what the youth of today want out of a journalistic outlet, right? And so I wonder if you have gotten any sense that younger people in general are hipper to this issue than their elders?Abdul DosunmuIn some ways, yes, and in some ways, no, right. And so what's clear is that younger people just generally understand the climate crisis better than their elders. So we start there, right. You have less of a case to make to younger folks about the urgency of this crisis, but I think it's important for us to be clear that when it comes to age, that does not necessarily portend more enlightenment on racial justice issues.David RobertsYes.Abdul DosunmuAgain, I work in sort of the democracy space, and I think there's always this assumption that the younger the electorate gets, the more progressive it's going to get, just because younger people have grown up in more diverse environments. On some level, I think that is true, but I would not want to bet the house on that. And I think we have to continue to be more intentional about cultivating, even among younger people, an understanding of the racial justice implications of this crisis. And so, as a case in point, I was in Miami for the Aspen Climate Conference last week.David RobertsYes.Abdul DosunmuAnd I did a number of panels during the week, and most of the programming had a climate justice angle to it, right. Most of the speakers referenced it. It was rare that you would sit through an hour long panel, and it wouldn't come up.David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuBut I'll be honest, there were still rooms that I walked into where I was the only Black person in the room. And I don't want to put any blame on anybody. This is not me trying to do that. This is not about assigning blame. But it is about recognizing that even among the cool, hip kids who are invested in the climate movement, that investment in racial justice still needs to be intentionally and actively cultivated. And we cannot assume that it is going to happen by osmosis.David RobertsRight.Abdul DosunmuOr that it will happen just because younger people are younger people, right.David RobertsJust because the arc of history right.Abdul DosunmuThe arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice. I firmly believe that. But I also believe that we have to bend it.David RobertsYeah, there's a reason it bends towards justice, because all the people are working to bend it, right?Abdul DosunmuAll the people are working to bend it. And so I think there is more consciousness than ever about climate, and there's more consciousness than ever about racial justice, but we still have to do the work to actually translate that consciousness into action.David RobertsWell said. Well said. Thank you. Abdul Dasumo, thank you so much for coming on. This is very illuminating. I'm glad you took the time.Abdul DosunmuThank you so much for having me. Thank you for the platform. It was an honor to be with you.David RobertsThank you for listening to the Volts podcast. It is ad-free, powered entirely by listeners like you. If you value conversations like this, please consider becoming a paid Volts subscriber at volts.wtf. Yes, that's volts.wtf, so that I can continue doing this work. 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New Season, New co-host!! In this interview we chat with Daisha Board inside of her gallery located in West Dallas. We touch on how she got started in the art world, how to begin your collection, why it's important to invest in art, the importance of BIPOC representation in the art world and more. Daisha Board is the owner of Daisha Board Gallery in Dallas, TX.DAISHA BOARD GALLERY is a Contemporary Art Gallery representing BIPOC ARTISTS locally and abroad in various mediums mixed media, sculpture, performance art and digital. She's a high functioning Cultural Liaison to the new collector, community & artists. She's an educator of contemporary art, investing and making art spaces accessible by displaying more representation of BIPOC ARTISTS in traditional and non traditional spaces. Follow us on Instagram at @cosignmag @daishaboardgallery --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cosignmag/support

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Thinking of joining a service organization on campus? Mustangs for Hope is the perfect way to get involved. In this episode of Ask the Expert, Ariana Aswari talks to Lily Hendricks, a senior at SMU and president of Mustangs for Hope. Hendricks talks about her position in the organization, communicates the challenges she's faced, and gives advice to anyone aspiring to be in a leadership position. The senior is a third-year member at Mustangs for Hope, a non-profit organization that tutors kids virtually over zoom. The organization has seen its impact within the South and West Dallas schools. In the club, a tutor and a student are paired and meet once a week for an hour over zoom. SMU students serve as mentors to give these kids educational skills and guidance outside of the classroom to help further their academic skills.

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Marcella is the only girl on this all power guys podcast with the Founder's Flock of Gallery Defi and our super cool co host Cruz. Get to meet all the incredible business and artists brains behind this insanely amazing new business model that you do not want to miss.Not only is the story how it all came about super intriguing and interesting - but it is even cooler to get to know every one of these powerhouses better and learn what they are all aboutand how they got to this point. Buddy DiFonzo, owns an incredibly successful women's contemporary apparel boutique and label in Fredricksburg, Texas called Buddy Love. https://buddylove.com/pages/fredericksburg-storeTheir label is now in over 1000 boutiques all over the country. You can find them on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/shopbuddylove/Buddy always wanted to collaborate with an artist to create a mural to honor the 7 police officers that were assaulted in downtown Dallas by machine guns in 2018 by a deranged man. What an incredible piece of art that was created first by James Goldcrown from Los Angeles, originally from London and then finished by the incredible Travis, NOT Travis McCann. Once Buddy and Travis met they were brainstorming and they knew they would create some sort of magic together and Buddy told Travis about The Museum Of Ice Cream that was made famous by the Kardashians. Buddy had the vision that they could do something like that only way cooler with an artist driven vision. They put on their very first show in 2018 with 20 world class artists and bigger than life sculptures and paintings and the show was super successful right out of the gates. With the team they have now they have been able to bring this concept back with the amazing 17.000 sq ft building in an incredible location in West Dallas, that is being developed and made beautiful. The City Of Dallas itself is putting 60 to 70 million Dollars into developing the infostructure. Travis McCann the artist who has a very iconic "2 hearts" signature is behind the incredible art in a lot of famous landmark restaurants and nightclubs in DFW and Austin, TX, for example the most Instagramable building in Dallas the XOXO restaurant. He tells us how he went from Travis to becoming NOT Travis. Fascinating story. Kyle Sauter is the operations guy and manager of the team and keeps everything together and running. Buddy says that without operations you can be the most creative and you can have a million concepts but to successfully deliver the mission and the product you have to have a director of operations and that is what Kyle does best. He is the glue that holds it all together. Kyle tells us how he started and ended up in this position at this time. So interesting and it even involves a zoom call with the Pope. He also talks about how challenging it can be to work with artists. Trey Swofford is the real estate genius and financial backer of this project and he says that as a long time friend of Travis he would always go to his shows and was so impressedby his friends work. He always knew they would work together in some form - they had talked about a clothing line before. As a group they now own another piece of property which will become the House of Defi.We found out a little secret that the real reason Trey wanted to get involved with all this, is because very beautiful women love art. :) Kyle says that Trey is also a General Contractor in this whole project and that is helping him a lot. They have such good vibes and they believe in each other and will do special things for sure. They are still awaiting one permit from the City of Dallas and then they can finish and open to the public. We are incredibly excited about it and cannot wait. https://www.instagram.com/buddylovexoxo/https://www.instagram.com/not.travis/https://www.instagram.com/ksaut/https://www.instagram.com/trey_gallerydefi/https://www.instagram.com/gallerydefi/Question Of The Day Segment:If you could be a fly on the wall who would you listen in on?WOW - some VERY interesting answers from the panel. Party With Miss Polly Segment:YES, NO, MAYBE SO????? Sex QuestionsWHOAH they get right to it Gossip Segment:Trey tells gossip about a girl he used to date that is a mutual friend of his and Marcella from 15 years ago and that she was dating another guy at the same time and he had no idea and found out through Facebook.

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In April, a property formerly owned by the family of outlaw Clyde Barrow was demolished. The plan to tear it down began in 2020 and when it was done, the Barrow filling station in West Dallas was reduced to rubble and the remains were taken to the landfill. On this episode of the CobCast, I talk about the history and demolition of the Clyde Barrow filling station. This episode was adapted from reporting I did for the Dallas Observer. This episode also features music by artists other than myself. Thank you to Monroeville Music Center and Kevin MacLeod for uploading their stuff to Free Music Archive. Monroeville Music Center (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monroeville_Music_Center), CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Monkoto Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Slow Heat Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons For more on this story, visit DallasObserver.com.

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Jack Thursday - Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steven and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about beating the odds at getting rich. I found a very, very interesting summary of millionaires and billionaires and percentages and what really is going on out there in the world about getting wealthy in this country. Jill K DeWit: I love it. Steven Jack Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Drew wrote, "Hello all, and Steven Jack Butala, sorry in advance if I'm missing something, I'm rewatching Land Academy 3.0 and it seems like I'm having trouble determining what Jack says are the percentages of each. I'm not finding what the range is. So what's the range in categories and what's the percentage range for the red, yellow and green for days on market, new list of soul and parcels on the market? This is our red, yellow, green test. Does the Excel file that you made for this lesson auto-populate or do we have to mainly make the adjustments ourselves to determine what is accurate for red, yellow and green? Steven Jack Butala: Land Academy 3 this is a very good question, which is why I put it on Jack Thursday instead of Jill Friday. Jill K DeWit: What the heck? None of my stuff's intelligent. Thanks very much. Steven Jack Butala: Jill comes at this from a different way, which is [crosstalk 00:01:40] Jill K DeWit: My questions tomorrow's going to be what color should I pick my website background? Thanks a lot. Steven Jack Butala: Jill and I just come toward this edit from a different angle. What do we teach in the Land Academy 3.0 program is you need to find a place to send mail. It works everywhere, but why not make it easy on yourself and go through this process I call trolling to see where there's properties that fit your acquisition criteria and all that. And when you find some places that make sense, or you think it makes sense to send mail, test it. And that's what Drew's asking about, this red, green, yellow test that you're asking about, or that you're telling us to use, where on a red, green, yellow test I look at maybe five adjacent zip codes. Maybe let's say, just for example, in West Dallas, which is a hot market, and I pit them against each other and see who's got the best days on market. Steven Jack Butala: There's several statistics in there, how much property's been listed, how much property's been sold in the last month. So you're not shooting blind, you're doing this. So what Drew is asking is how do I know what is all green and I should send mail there? What's all yellow or what's red where I shouldn't send mail and which percentages work? And my answer is, and everybody answered in Discord the same way I'm about to answer, it's all relative. You can't take a look at Alaska, let's say, and a couple of zip codes outside of Anchorage and apply the same percentages for red, green, yellow that you can in West Dallas, it's apples to oranges. You can apply those types of apples to apples comparisons if they're all in the same market. And so he's asking me what are the percentages? What makes it green? If it's 30 days or less days on market, then I send a mail? No, it's not like that. It's all relative. Steven Jack Butala: What happens in Alaska is relative to Alaska and maybe specifically Anchorage. And what happens in Dallas is those five zip codes are going to tell you where to send mail in Dallas. Oh my God, Jack, can you make this more complicated? This is not a easy button.

Jack Thursday - Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steven and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about beating the odds at getting rich. I found a very, very interesting summary of millionaires and billionaires and percentages and what really is going on out there in the world about getting wealthy in this country. Jill K DeWit: I love it. Steven Jack Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Drew wrote, "Hello all, and Steven Jack Butala, sorry in advance if I'm missing something, I'm rewatching Land Academy 3.0 and it seems like I'm having trouble determining what Jack says are the percentages of each. I'm not finding what the range is. So what's the range in categories and what's the percentage range for the red, yellow and green for days on market, new list of soul and parcels on the market? This is our red, yellow, green test. Does the Excel file that you made for this lesson auto-populate or do we have to mainly make the adjustments ourselves to determine what is accurate for red, yellow and green? Steven Jack Butala: Land Academy 3 this is a very good question, which is why I put it on Jack Thursday instead of Jill Friday. Jill K DeWit: What the heck? None of my stuff's intelligent. Thanks very much. Steven Jack Butala: Jill comes at this from a different way, which is [crosstalk 00:01:40] Jill K DeWit: My questions tomorrow's going to be what color should I pick my website background? Thanks a lot. Steven Jack Butala: Jill and I just come toward this edit from a different angle. What do we teach in the Land Academy 3.0 program is you need to find a place to send mail. It works everywhere, but why not make it easy on yourself and go through this process I call trolling to see where there's properties that fit your acquisition criteria and all that. And when you find some places that make sense, or you think it makes sense to send mail, test it. And that's what Drew's asking about, this red, green, yellow test that you're asking about, or that you're telling us to use, where on a red, green, yellow test I look at maybe five adjacent zip codes. Maybe let's say, just for example, in West Dallas, which is a hot market, and I pit them against each other and see who's got the best days on market. Steven Jack Butala: There's several statistics in there, how much property's been listed, how much property's been sold in the last month. So you're not shooting blind, you're doing this. So what Drew is asking is how do I know what is all green and I should send mail there? What's all yellow or what's red where I shouldn't send mail and which percentages work? And my answer is, and everybody answered in Discord the same way I'm about to answer, it's all relative. You can't take a look at Alaska, let's say, and a couple of zip codes outside of Anchorage and apply the same percentages for red, green, yellow that you can in West Dallas, it's apples to oranges. You can apply those types of apples to apples comparisons if they're all in the same market. And so he's asking me what are the percentages? What makes it green? If it's 30 days or less days on market, then I send a mail? No, it's not like that. It's all relative. Steven Jack Butala: What happens in Alaska is relative to Alaska and maybe specifically Anchorage. And what happens in Dallas is those five zip codes are going to tell you where to send mail in Dallas. Oh my God, Jack, can you make this more complicated? This is not a easy button.

Jack Thursday - Beating the Odds at Getting Rich (LA 1741) Transcript: Steven Jack Butala: Steven and Jill here. Jill K DeWit: Hello. Steven Jack Butala: Welcome to the Land Academy Show, entertaining land and investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill K DeWit: And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from The Valley of the Sun. Steven Jack Butala: Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about beating the odds at getting rich. I found a very, very interesting summary of millionaires and billionaires and percentages and what really is going on out there in the world about getting wealthy in this country. Jill K DeWit: I love it. Steven Jack Butala: Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. Please don't forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like. Jill K DeWit: Drew wrote, "Hello all, and Steven Jack Butala, sorry in advance if I'm missing something, I'm rewatching Land Academy 3.0 and it seems like I'm having trouble determining what Jack says are the percentages of each. I'm not finding what the range is. So what's the range in categories and what's the percentage range for the red, yellow and green for days on market, new list of soul and parcels on the market? This is our red, yellow, green test. Does the Excel file that you made for this lesson auto-populate or do we have to mainly make the adjustments ourselves to determine what is accurate for red, yellow and green? Steven Jack Butala: Land Academy 3 this is a very good question, which is why I put it on Jack Thursday instead of Jill Friday. Jill K DeWit: What the heck? None of my stuff's intelligent. Thanks very much. Steven Jack Butala: Jill comes at this from a different way, which is [crosstalk 00:01:40] Jill K DeWit: My questions tomorrow's going to be what color should I pick my website background? Thanks a lot. Steven Jack Butala: Jill and I just come toward this edit from a different angle. What do we teach in the Land Academy 3.0 program is you need to find a place to send mail. It works everywhere, but why not make it easy on yourself and go through this process I call trolling to see where there's properties that fit your acquisition criteria and all that. And when you find some places that make sense, or you think it makes sense to send mail, test it. And that's what Drew's asking about, this red, green, yellow test that you're asking about, or that you're telling us to use, where on a red, green, yellow test I look at maybe five adjacent zip codes. Maybe let's say, just for example, in West Dallas, which is a hot market, and I pit them against each other and see who's got the best days on market. Steven Jack Butala: There's several statistics in there, how much property's been listed, how much property's been sold in the last month. So you're not shooting blind, you're doing this. So what Drew is asking is how do I know what is all green and I should send mail there? What's all yellow or what's red where I shouldn't send mail and which percentages work? And my answer is, and everybody answered in Discord the same way I'm about to answer, it's all relative. You can't take a look at Alaska, let's say, and a couple of zip codes outside of Anchorage and apply the same percentages for red, green, yellow that you can in West Dallas, it's apples to oranges. You can apply those types of apples to apples comparisons if they're all in the same market. And so he's asking me what are the percentages? What makes it green? If it's 30 days or less days on market, then I send a mail? No, it's not like that. It's all relative. Steven Jack Butala: What happens in Alaska is relative to Alaska and maybe specifically Anchorage. And what happens in Dallas is those five zip codes are going to tell you where to send mail in Dallas. Oh my God, Jack, can you make this more complicated? This is not a easy button.

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Anthony Dewberry after 18 years incarcerated was able to figure it all out but it wasn't easy. Anthony Dewberry from West Dallas is one of the real community activist that now provides structure for our youth and has really made a impact on our culture Antony Dewberry along with Charleston White came up with HYPE which is a Youth organization that helps afford the children a opportunity out of tough situations in life It wasn't easy but Anthony Dewberry figured it out.  Anthony Dewberry Boss Talk 101 APPROVED  #AnthonyDewberry #CharlestonWhite #Hype Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e_ceo_/?hl=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosstalkpod... Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yD2UzY...

BFG Straap is a dope up and coming Artist with great music like Outta Love, BFF, Everyday 420 and much more BFG Straap has. been on Say Cheese, Dallas Global, Dirty Glove Bastard and he dropping great content BFG Straap has a great team around him is looking like he could be next up . BFG Straat is BOSS TALK 101 APPROVED  #BfgStraap #DallasTx #Boosie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/e_ceo_/?hl=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosstalkpod... Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yD2UzY...

Anthony Dewberry started off in West Dallas as a Young Child doing what children do but. things Changed quickly after being convicted and sentenced to 28 years at the age 15 Anthony Dewberry takes us down memory lane and Explain how it is to be Locked up at a Early age and doing so much time and being able to get out after so many Years and adjust back into Society Anthony Dewberry Now part of HYPE which stands for (Helping Young People Excel) and he is very. active in the community and also Juvenile Facilities where he spends his time explaining to the kids how to get their life back on track.  Anthony Dewberry BOSS TALK 101 APPROVED #AnthonyDewberry #CharlestonWhite #HYPEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/e_ceo_/?hl=enInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bosstalkpod...Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yD2UzY...

In this episode, our co-hosts take the show LIVE at Steam Theory Brewing Company in West Dallas. There they give an update to the postseason baseball action happening in the ALDS & NLDS. They then bring on the co-owner of the brewery, Chuck Homola, to talk about his special fandom of the Chicago Cubs. Chuck then tells the story of how Steam Theory Brewing came into fruition, including how former Bachelor/Bachelorette host Chris Harrison became an investor of the company. The show caps out with a live addition of Pour & Score where Chuck Homala provides four of his beers for our co-hosts to try, and they bring on a very special guest from the audience to join this segment. Pour & Score Drinks: Vamanos Hermanos Mexican Lager, Unhinged Imperial IPA, Cosmik Debris American Pale Ale, & Monsters From The ID Baltic Porter. Follow us on social media: Facebook - No Doubter Podcast Twitter - @NoDoubterPod Barret Boom Bostick - @boombostick21 Travis Lofley - @travislofley Instagram - @nodoubterpod Barret Boom Bostick - boom.bostick21 Travis Lofley - @tlofley Check out our Patreon page for even more access to the show and the No Doubter community: https://www.patreon.com/nodoubter Submit mailbag questions to our business email: nodoubterpodcast@gmail.com Get yourself some awesome No Doubter gear such as t-shirts, baseball shirts, mugs, phone cases, etc from our Merch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/no-doubter/mug?ref_id=23188 You can listen to all of our episodes, as well as access our social media links all on our website: https://anchor.fm/nodoubter Wanna record high-quality remote interviews for your podcast? Definitely consider using Squadcast, like us, as a solid meeting platform designed specifically for podcasters: https://squadcast.fm/?ref=nodoubter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nodoubter/support

On this special episode of the House of Machismo Podcast, we have special guest Mean Mauri! We talk to about what it was like for him growing up in West Dallas, creating DMX-tv and working the airwaves in the DFW area. Trust us, this is one show you want to listen to. 

Abbott asks Biden to declare federal emergency, provide help with migrant surge near Del Rio, Texas; Texas doctor who says he defied state's near-total abortion ban is sued; Trial date set for former Fort Worth officer accused of murdering Atatiana Jefferson; DMN, UT-Tyler poll: 1 in 4 Texans say they likely won't get COVID vaccine; Rental home project in the works in booming West Dallas neighborhood

In January of 1930, in West Dallas, Texas, Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow.  It was love at first sight.  Over the next four years, they would go on what would become one of the most well known crime sprees across America that ended in a hail of gunfire in Sailes, Louisiana.  They were the original Ride or Die couple.  Sources for this episode:Wikipedia - Bonnie and ClydeFBI.gov - Bonnie and ClydeFBI Records: The Vault - Bonnie and ClydeThe History Channel - 10 Things You May Not Know About Bonnie and ClydePBS - Bonnie & Clyde in PicturesSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CWMCpod)

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Simply put, sports is a haven for Reyno Arredondo '87. From his days playing soccer to his time on the wrestling mat, Arredondo says that athletics was crucial to keeping him focused on the tasks at hand. Sitting down with Luke Nayfa (1:28), Arredondo described his journey from the neighborhoods of West Dallas through the military to where he is now. As for Cory Martin (23:00), soccer has been more than a hobby. It's been a passion, a lifestyle for as long as he can remember. Whether it was youth leagues or walking on at SMU or a brief stint in Europe, no time is a bad time to talk soccer with Martin, and Peter Orsak took advantage of the opportunity to do so. Hosts: Luke Nayfa, Peter Orsak, Siddhartha Sinha Guests: Reyno Arredondo, Cory Martin Producer: Siddhartha Sinha

Do You Grocery Shop at ALDI? Jeanette Has a Cookbook You'll Love with Jeanette Hurt Calling all ALDI shoppers. There are 60 delicious recipes made with fan favorites in this unique cookbook. Jeanette Hurt has designed her recipes based on ingredients that are available at budget-friendly ALDI Grocery Store. She has even provided a shopping list for each of her recipes. On some specific recipes, Jeanette has provided a list of optional ingredients. About Jeanette Award-winning author Jeanette Hurt explores culture through the lens of drink, food, and travel. Award-winning author Jeanette Hurt explores culture through the lens of food, drink, and travel. Whether she’s delving into the history of gin and tonics, developing healthy yet tasty cauliflower recipes, or interviewing a distiller on the lochs of Scotland, Jeanette takes readers on a delicious journey that inspires them to create a good life. Jeanette regularly contributes stories to dozens of magazines and websites.  Additionally, she is the main recipe developer for several publications and content companies, and she also is a skilled ghostwriter, who helps coax stories, garner inspiration and hone the words of would-be authors and experts. THE UNOFFICIAL ALDI COOKBOOK: DELICIOUS RECIPES MADE WITH FAN FAVORITES FROM THE AWARD-WINNING GROCERY STORE Fans of ALDI, it’s time to celebrate your love of the best-ever grocery store with a cookbook dedicated entirely to your favorite products. You’ll find creative and mouth watering ideas that take simple, budget-friendly ALDI-brand ingredients and turn them into fantastic dishes.   WISCONSIN COCKTAILS Beyond delving into mythic origins of several classic creations, Jeanette Hurt introduces a new generation of cocktails that offer a spin on standard concoctions. She explores the state's unique farm-to-table ethos influenced by an abundance of locally sourced ingredients. Also included are a wealth of interviews with notable mixologists, sharing numerous favorite recipes for specialty pick-me-ups that connoisseurs and home bartenders alike will be clamoring to try. A definitive account of the beverages we love, Wisconsin Cocktails insists we order our Old Fashioneds the right way—with brandy.   CAULIFLOWER COMFORT FOOD: DELICIOUS LOW-CARB RECIPES FOR YOUR CRAVEABLE CLASSICS Jeanette's latest book, Cauliflower Comfort Food: Delicious Low-Carb Recipes for Your Craveable Classics, takes your classic guilty pleasures - from mac and cheese to brownies - and gives then a more nutritious spin thanks to delicious and nutritious cauliflower. Discover what a versatile vegetable this is by boosting your breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and even desserts with delicious cauliflower-based recipes. THE JOY OF CIDER: ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MAKING AND DRINKING HARD CIDER The Joy of Cider: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Making and Drinking Cider, is a fun and festive guide for both enthusiasts and bar professionals. This book takes a smart, pop-culture drive look at the hard cider revolution - the what, how, and why of this fantastic beverage   DRINK LIKE A WOMAN Jeanette’s critically-acclaimed book, Drink Like a Woman, shakes up barroom expectations, stirs up some new ideas, and pours a lively collection of feminist cocktails that are just as varied, flavorful, and as strong as women are.  It. is available at many retailers and independent bookstores.   www.jeanettehurt.com www.feedingfatty.com Full Transcript Below Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (00:00): This is Roy. This is Terry. So, uh, you know, this is a podcast that we Chronicle our journey, uh, you know, through this weight loss, wellness, getting healthy, all the good stuff, but we also bring guests on from time to time. Uh, today we're fortunate enough to have Jeanette hurt. She is, she was actually our number two episode long seem like forever ago, but it had been about six months ago. And I think we just passed the 40th episode. So first off, welcome back. Um, I'm gonna let Terry intro you right quick. Terry - Feeding Fatty (00:31): Yeah. Jeanette hurt is an award-winning author of 15 books on food and drink. And she's a recipe developer for both publications and agencies. She regularly contributes to numerous magazines, including Forbes, Huffington, post eating well and Chicago health. When she's not writing or developing recipes, you will find her walking along the lakefront with her family and their dog in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeanette, welcome back. We're so happy to have you. Jeanette (01:00): Well, thank you for having me. It was fun talking with you the first time and I didn't realize I was your second guest. So I feel really awkward. Terry - Feeding Fatty (01:10): And we talked about your cauliflower, um, book last time. And this time you have a new book, the unofficial all the cookbook. That is awesome. Jeanette (01:23): Well, I'm very excited about that. I've been a long time. All these shopper. I grew up with a mom who shopped at all the back in the days when the stores didn't have much lighting and the brand, the generic brands were just bland looking on the shelves. And the produce section was pretty sad with a couple of slimy heads of iceberg lettuce, but now of course, all the has changed. And if anything, all the has become sort of a hip and fun discount grocery store, and they are growing like crazy. And they are doing a lot of sustainable things, but of course they always did some sustainable things. Like the fact that the goods are just put on the shelves in boxes and you have to actually buy bags or bring your own, or what I think is ingenious. Some, all the nerds actually just bring laundry baskets. So you stick it in the cart and then they fill it up and then you're ready to go. And I thought, I need to do that. That's easier to carry all the groceries than in bags, which sometimes have things spilling out of them, especially if you pack them yourselves. Right. We do it all day. So, and I'm not an expert grocery packer by any means. I'm pretty good. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (02:47): Yeah. Now it's going to say just for those that don't know, uh, cause they're, they've been here for a while, but Aldi is a grocery store and um, I don't go there a lot, but what I will say is they have small footprint. So when you need to just dash in, get something, uh, it's just not overwhelming. I think they I'll let you confirm this Jeanette, but I think they have like mostly their store brand. So there's not a huge selection of choice. You kind of get what they have, but again, uh, maybe like three aisles in the store, the one you walked down, the second one, you know, just not that much Jeanette (03:24): More, but there's not. There's about three or four Isles and it's, you don't have to spend hours wandering through the store trying to find the tomato paste switch. That's a good example because I've been buying tomato paste back when I was a young, just out of college newspaper reporter and I was working part time and I couldn't afford things. And their, their, their tomato paste was 27 cents. I still remember this because I make homemade spaghetti sauce and it wouldn't cost me an arm and a leg. Now that same can of tomato paste used to be 33 cents up until about a month ago. And they raised it to 41 cents, which is still cheaper than the 75 cents or a dollar you're going to pay at most other grocery stores. And I don't know how you feel about tomato paste, but I think tomato paste is tomato paste. You don't need a brand name. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (04:23): The other cool thing I noticed is that they let their checkers set on a stool when they check you out. I don't know if that's everywhere here, but it's like, yeah, that's kind of cool. You don't, they don't make them stand up, you know, for something that they can do, just passing them over the scanner. Jeanette (04:38): No, and they're the fastest check, the fastest scanners or checker outers of any grocery store I've been to. And even if you, you go in while you first, if you're, if you're just running in for a couple of things, you might just throw them in your bag. But if you need a cart, you need to bring a quarter because they have this ingenious system, you stick in the quarter and you get the cart and then you get your quarter back when you hook it up. And that saves them on labor costs because they don't have people who have to go and catch the stray carts in the parking lot or move them around. Everyone brings them back and you get in a few more steps. If you're, you're trying to get in more steps because you have to bring the car back. But again, their parking lots aren't as big there, their footprints aren't large. Jeanette (05:26): So you're not going to have this huge, like I'm thinking about the times when I go to Walmart and the parking lot is just ginormous and I can get 300 steps just going across the parking lot. Right. Um, so you check in and then you bag your own groceries. And if you don't have bags, you can buy them, which some people do, or you can just do what I've often done when I forgotten or more likely, my husband has forgotten to put the bags back in my car. So I'll just grab a box off the shelf. And that's what I'll use to take my groceries to the car, especially if it's only a few things. So that is one thing. The other thing I think people need to know besides the good prices and the fact that you're not going to spend many times, because there aren't usually 20 brands of Manet's there's one or two, right there. Aren't 20 kinds of balsamic vinegar. There's just one. The quality is high enough unless you have really specific tastes. But what I think is kind of funny, there are some people on these, all the Facebook groups will, who will say, well, my husband only likes such and such catch-up, but then I buy the Aldi catch-up and I put it in the, the name brand. Jeanette (06:43): I might have to do that. [inaudible] so there's that. But then of course, there's the AOS there I'll ILS specials, or as people call it the isle of shame, which is sort of shame on you. If you don't go there, um, you wanted, I could take you on a tour of my house, the things I got in the AOS aisle, including most recently for my son's birthday, a waffle maker, which costs me 26 bucks. And it's the nicest waffle maker I've had. I've had other ones, but this one is fantastic. Wow. And that was just a recent thing, but I've seen espresso machines. I've seen, I've gotten a bathing suit there. That was actually one of my favorite bathing suits. Oh gosh. Um, just unusual things that are food or home goods, but they're kind of fun. And usually around the beginning of the year, you'll find fitness equipment. Now the fitness equipment is mostly sold out, but you might find a few things that didn't sell at reduced prices. Um, around Christmas, starting in November, they will have their advent wine calendars, which sell out really fast. They also have advent cheese calendars. So cheese a day for 25. Oh my gosh. Little tiny ones. Um, and they've had things like, uh, 10 days of sparkling wine after Christmas or things like that as well. And those are, you know, they're fun. Terry - Feeding Fatty (08:17): We need to go back there. I mean, we, you know, I, I can tell you, I've probably only been in there about five times. I know that it's changed. We just get set in our ways and, you know, go to the same place. Yeah. Jeanette (08:32): I don't think about it. And there were frequent conversations on all the Facebook groups and other social media groups about, well, what are the things you wish Aldi had or sometimes they'll have special things. Like, for example, my son absolutely adores seaweed chips, and they're only there, you know, maybe once a year, so you buy them up, but they're instead of a dollar, a tiny package, they're a dollar for three. Wow. So you buy them off. Um, but so sometimes you can't get things there like at, you know, you can always get certain things at your regular grocery store. Now that's one thing about my cookbook. You can make every single recipe with just going to an all day. And there are some things like, I'll say, for example, my pot roast soup. It tastes better. If you add some fresh herbs, all the only sells fresh cilantro. Jeanette (09:30): I maybe once in a while, they'll sell other fresh herbs, but not really. They do have a good substitute of herbs in a two, which are, I think the next best thing. But if you want fresh Rosemary or fresh time, you're not going to get it at all day. So there are some things that you can't get, but for everyday basic cooking and everyday basic needs, you know, Kleenex for 75 cents a box or not Kleenex it's it's facial tissue. It is not the name brand, unless it's a special item, which they sometimes have, but I don't need name brand facial tissue. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (10:10): So, uh, I just was going to ask, are the, is the inventory consistent from store to store or are they like, you know, we have some stores down here that each one may vary a little bit different. What you're going to walk in and find Jeanette (10:24): It's pretty consistent. There is some variation. Um, I've seen Hellman's, Manet's in some, all these stores and I've seen Dukes in others, but they're name brand is Berman's and I'm not sure what the difference is. I probably need to buy all three and tasted individually to actually see. But, um, so there is some things like that. And I don't often shop in all these outside of my state. I've shopped a lot in Wisconsin and my family's down in Illinois, so I've shopped there and my parents have a condo down in Florida. So I've shopped in one all the there, but I can't like, for example, I know every, all the we'll have a good cheese selection. Now that changes, there are some that I've noticed are not specials. Like you can get imported Spanish manchego cheese, and it's there year round. Right. But you might not get Irish cheddar. You only get it usually starting in February through March and maybe a little bit of April around St. Patrick's day. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (11:36): So that's a ringing endorsement from not only somebody from Wisconsin, but also somebody that's written three books on cheese that when you say that they have a good selection of cheese, then they have a good selection. Jeanette (11:49): Did they do? I found things like thousand day Gouda from the Netherlands, and that was a special or car Valley, fontina cheese and things like that. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (12:02): So now, you know, um, of course one of your latest books was the Wisconsin cocktails. Uh, in the last time that we talked to you just released the cauliflower comfort food, which is awesome because we definitely try to do more, uh, with cauliflower again, away from, you know, rice and just trying to make it a staple of my diet. And, uh, you know, I'm, I'm still working up to some of the, uh, vegetables, uh, vegetable categories, but yeah. So what, um, what made you go out and, uh, decide to write this cookbook that specifically aimed at all D and the, uh, the foods that they, that they sell at their stores? Jeanette (12:44): Well, it was two-fold after I wrote my cauliflower comfort food cookbook, my publisher wanted another book idea. So I was tossing around different things. And my publisher actually has published a series of books on trader Joe's cookbooks. And I thought, and I also knew that all the in trader Joe's at the way, way corporate level in Germany has a connection. I think one of the two brothers that owns all the, also owns a stake in trader Joe's. So I thought, well, that's kind of interesting, there's that connection. So I suggested it. And my editor who is based in Brooklyn, that's where their publishing offices are. And Brooklyn does not have a lot of all these, I might tell you share how popular and all the cookbook would be. So they asked me, they hired me to write, to develop two recipes, to test market and on social media. Jeanette (13:41): And of course they were well received. So then I, I got my contract for my Aldi cookbook just before the pandemic. So that's kind of how that came about. But the other thing is, is I've been shopping at Aldi for years. And usually I live in the city of Milwaukee and in my neighborhood there isn't an all day I could travel 15 minutes or out to some suburbs that have it. But usually the, all these I shop at are the ones near where my son practices gymnastics. When he was on a team in West Dallas, Wisconsin, I shopped at the West Dallas all day. Now he's up at infinite gymnastics in Brown deer. So that's I go to the Brown deer or the Glendale all day, because they're near his, his gym and like busy mom. I don't have time to go to a lot of different things. So a lot of the times when I'm cooking, you know, I will just make it on what I can get at all the, and in the summer I go to farmer's markets. So that's pretty much, and once in a while, I go to trader Joe's, cause there are a couple of things I absolutely adore there. So that's pretty much where I do my shopping. I don't have a lot of time to waste. I, I work and I'm a mom and I'm also now a learning coach for online school. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (14:59): Oh gosh, not to make a pun, but your, your plate is full. I couldn't resist. So I like the way that you have this laid out. And it's interesting too. Of course you, uh, you led with the beverages, the wine slushie, the Sangre. So, you know, my background. Yeah. Right, exactly. So no surprise there. Um, so were there some surprises that you came across as you tried to put this together pleasantly or are displeasant? Jeanette (15:35): There were definitely some surprises because I looked at some of the things for recipes that I've been making for my family for years. Like, um, the roasted asparagus, I have done different versions of roasted asparagus for years. And since we're entering spring and asparagus is in season, I definitely recommend that recipe. And if you're trying to get more vegetables in your diet, it's the most delicious asparagus in my opinion. So there's some recipes like that. And like many of the fish dishes, I cook a lot of those, but then there are some things, you know, my editor said, I'd like a recipe with this in it. So then I had to develop things like the pot roast soup and the Swiss steak was the recipe. I grew up with my mom making her own version. So I had to come up with my own for the Aldi cookbook. Jeanette (16:30): And it was, it was definitely fun. And some of, one of the other interesting things is my sister's shop at all the, in my one sister, it, Karen is a big cook and she would tell me, Oh, I went to this party and my friend Lisa made this pizza dip. That was so good. And she described it to me and I'm like, well, then I have to try this. I have to recreate it. This is the kind of thing I was like, Ooh, this is really good. And then I have, um, one of the things that did happen, of course, after I finished sending in all my recipes and my publisher and editors have edited it and it went to press, of course there were other recipes that I thought, Ooh, this would be perfect. Yeah. So I have an entertaining with all the cook booklet, which I'll send you the link for, if you buy my book, you can get a free copy of it. And it has some of these recipes, like, um, my friend Beck made this, we call it Beck's crack dip because it's addictive. It's blue cheese, Africa, preserves cream, cheese, and green onions and bacon. And it is just to die for, and that was like, I was like, Oh, that belongs in my book. But it doesn't, it's not in my book. I had to write a little free booklet for people. And, um, that was also kind of fun to do. So it's 12 extra recipes. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (17:58): Awesome. Yeah. And that was my next question. It sounds like that you took some familiar recipes and you kind of adapt it to what you could buy at Aldi, but then maybe also threw in a couple to say, like, these are, um, going into the store to look at what's available and then developing a recipe based off of that. Jeanette (18:18): Yes. Some of it were things like I, um, use my AU gratin potatoes. One thing people talk about on all the Facebook, which I had never buy bought in my life were canned potatoes. Cause I don't think it's that hard to boil potatoes and peel them. Right. But I tried them and actually for certain things like hash Browns and Oak rotten potatoes, they're simple because they're already peeled, you just rent some slop, chop them up, throw them in a pan. And they were really, really good at it's something I definitely think is great to have on hand in your pantry. If for example, you're making something and you're like, Oh, darn it. I don't have any potatoes. And then you can whip up a potato dish that actually tastes pretty good. Okay, cool. Or depending on the dish, the rotten ones, of course you throw a bunch of cheese on anything and it's divine. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (19:18): So how hard was it as you went through the process, testing all the recipes, the family reaction, how did all that go for you? Jeanette (19:26): It went really well. And it's funny because the other day my husband was looking through the book. He's like, I'd like to have this and I'm like, you have had this stuff real time Terry - Feeding Fatty (19:36): Pay attention. Jeanette (19:39): Oh yeah, I did. I remember that. Which is kind of funny, but, you know, um, and it was interesting to me to also adapt because I think some of it were sometimes I bake from scratch, but sometimes I don't. And I know a lot of people who shop at all day, you don't have a lot of time. And some of these recipes, like the cake mix, sugar cookies are for things like when it's nine o'clock at night and your child reminds you that you have to bring the treats for Scouts practice or whatever. Terry - Feeding Fatty (20:17): Been there done that. That's terrible. It's like, okay, now I have to wake up at 3:00 AM to get there. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (20:25): So, um, you know, as you went through, I guess how much trouble, and I'm not the, uh, I'm not the chef Terry should be asking this question probably cause she had understand, but like ha was there that big of an issue adapting to you, like take a recipe into the store and then be like, okay, they don't have this, I need to substitute this and that kind of, how did that process go? Well, that's kind of how Jeanette (20:48): My mind works all the time when I'm developing recipes for my clients is they'll tell me I want a recipe. That's this. And usually sometimes for example, um, I do develop some recipes for, um, hospital and healthcare systems and one of them is a bariatric clinic. So they'll tell me I want X, Y or Z recipes. So I'll give them some ideas and we'll negotiate. We'll figure out which ones they want. And then I'll start thinking, well, how can I make this healthier? Okay. And usually then I'll go into the recipe, the, the store with a list. And also I've just been cooking long enough and I've taken enough classes that I know how things work and how you can make substitutions. How do you can make it healthier? Um, if we're talking about healthier things, if you want to make a recipe healthier with less spoil using an olive oil spritz or, or spray, whether it's one that you fill the olive oil in yourself, or you buy it already in a spray can, that's an easy way to lower the amount of oil in a recipe. Terry - Feeding Fatty (22:04): Yeah. We're, we're, you know, we've been discussing, uh, getting on more of a, plant-based trying the plant-based foods out. So I'm trying to figure out some recipes for that. Jeanette (22:18): Well, um, one of the things I will say, all the has a very good vegetarian and vegan selection. Some of it is permanent. Some of it is not, um, if you need unsweetened almond milk, that tastes great. It's, you'll find it there. Um, what, I've, what I would say with replacing things with plant protein, you can go all the way completely, but you can also do things like even my, my meatloaf recipe, it always has vegetables in it. Right. You're getting a serving of vegetables when you don't realize it. Especially if you make a homemade tomato sauce on top for it, instead of just putting catch-up it's, it's got more vegetables that way. I think the other thing is taking things that you think that you really like and looking for a good substitution. There are some, um, you can do like, um, instead of burgers, I've seen mushroom burgers and vegetable burgers. If you add some nuts to it or mushrooms and um, you add enough spices, it's still got a little bit of that umami flavor and it's really satisfying. Okay. Terry - Feeding Fatty (23:35): Okay. Okay. That's awesome. So enough of the small talk let's get right to the desserts. Oh, I remember the chocolate chip cookies with the cauliflower. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (23:46): Uh, so, um, there's one, two, three, there's about 10 desserts on here. You know, it's wide ranging from the cherry surprise chocolate chip banana bread. So which one of these was, uh, yours and your family's favorite? Jeanette (24:02): Um, my husband loves banana bread and I think banana bread tastes better with chocolate chips. Actually. I think almost any dessert taste chocolate chips. And when I was actually developing the cookbook just before I had to turn it in, I realized, oops, I don't have many non chocolate dessert recipes in the books. I had to come up with a couple. Um, and I think in the, the cherry surprise filled cupcakes with chocolate ganache is definitely one of my personal favorites. The poop emoji cupcakes are my niece's favorite cause she loves poop emojis first grader. And she just thinks the poop emoji is so funny. Um, and that was a fun one to come up with because usually if you make these cupcakes, you'll see on Pinterest in places like that, they'll have the candied eyes for the cupcakes, which you can't even get them. Usually at regular grocery stores, you have to order them online or go to a baking store. Right. I don't know about you. I don't have time for that. So I thought, well, what would taste better marshmallows and chocolate chips for the eyes. It tastes better than candy hard candy. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (25:23): Yeah. So, uh, right. So, uh, what else? The interesting one I found here was the brownie oranges. Jeanette (25:33): Oh, that one is so good. Um, and it takes time and I adapted a recipe that I had found a Safari company in Africa does out, out on Sofar for you. They grill them, they make them and they grill them in the fires, in their camps. I thought, well, you can do that in your oven. And it's easier than doing it on a Safari camp. And so, and it's so good and I love chocolate and orange. And I think there's a note that says, you can add some orange, the core, like [inaudible], which you can't get at all the right now, but you might have in your, you might have it in your liquor cabinet at home. I'm a big fan if you can't tell if baking with booze. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (26:26): Yeah. And it's, um, uh, it's just an interesting combination. I've never really thought about the orange and the chocolate together. Yeah. So that's cool. Jeanette (26:35): It's, it's a good dessert. Also, if you want to take brownies and upscale it for a party and it makes the presentation, and if you wanted to get extra fancy, you could just take chocolate ice cream or sorbet and scoop it and put it on the side and then throw on a piece of chocolate. And there you go. You've got this gourmet presentation. Oh my God. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (27:01): Yeah. The other thing I was just skimming down through some of the recipes. I think it's awesome. You know, like in a, I'm looking at the slow cooker oats that you've got notes down at the bottom where you can, you know, make different substitution, you know, like I said, somebody in experience like myself may not, uh, may not be able to figure that out on our own. So it looks like you have, you know, documented some different things that people can do as well. Jeanette (27:27): Well, I try to make everything in it when I'm developing a recipe, I try to write it, not just for the most experienced cooks or chefs. I like to spell things out because way back when, when I would test recipes for the newspaper that chefs developed very often, the chef would forget to include the first step, which is cheat the pan with nothing in it for one to two minutes. Because if you want to get a proper sear on meat or, or fish, or if you want to caramelize vegetables, if you don't heat it up first, you're going to end up with a mistake, which is what happened to me when I was testing a caramelized brussel sprouts recipe. And the chef didn't include that step when I was more of a novice cook. And it, I ended up instead of caramelized brussel sprouts. I have Burt Brussels sharp, which not smell good in your kitchen. Yeah. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (28:24): That doesn't smell. I think that is one takeaway that we have put into practice since we talked to you last, as we have started heating our pan before we put butter or oil or anything like that, just one of those little tricks I never, never, ever thought about. Yeah. Jeanette (28:41): And it's one of those things that makes it easier and it speeds the cooking process up. You can throw things in the pan, but it's going to take longer. Right. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (28:49): Right. All right. Well, we appreciate you taking time again, out of your day to come in and talk to us. So any, um, any other thoughts on the cookbook before we wrap this up? Jeanette (29:02): Well, I think the, the, there are three things. Number one, if you haven't been to all the, in awhile, check it out and go with an open mind. Um, I would say when you go through the things that I love there, besides things like staples, like tomato pace, their produce is usually very fresh. I love their cheese, their meats. There's always an organic section. My family loves the organic grass fed ground beef. I love the fact that all of their seafood is sustainable. And then of course, check out the aisle, the AOS, the ILO specials. And if you're a wine or beer drinker or cider drinker checkout the liquor aisle, because usually that's really, they've got some really, really good wines there at very, very reasonable prices. Okay. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (29:55): Yeah. We're going to make a commitment to swing by there and check them out again and see what we can do. We'll take the cookbook along with us where, uh, we'll have it handy where we could throw together some of these good recipes here, Terry - Feeding Fatty (30:07): Just such a genius idea for a cookbook and just, you know, anything where you can just go and do one stop shopping and then make sure, you know, everything is fresh and, um, available. Just what a great concept. I love it. Jeanette (30:25): Well, I'm so glad you do. And let me know, after you've tested some of the recipes, which ones are you? Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (30:30): Okay. So, uh, you know, we ask everybody, what is it, a habit that you have, and it could be in the kitchen or just personal, but what is something that you do every day that really adds a lot of value to your day? Jeanette (30:45): Well, I try to pray. I think that's important whether I'm driving or walking. Sometimes that's the only time I get to center my mind and focus on what it's, what's important. Um, I have a dog, so most days I have to walk her, even if I don't get in, uh, a personal workout where I'm actually sweating, I have to walk the dog. Yeah. And I think it's also important for your health and wellbeing to get outside and get in some vitamin D if it's available, because sometimes it's not sunny, but even if it's not sunny, it's good to get outside in nature, even if it's just your city block. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (31:25): Yeah. All right. Well, thanks a lot. So tell everybody, how can they reach out? And I, I, that's one thing I forgot to ask you, has this book released already? Yeah. Jeanette (31:34): Yes, it has. It has. And we can say it's the best-selling book because it was for one week, the number one in its category on Amazon. Thank you. It was, that was very exciting. Um, so it is available and I will send you the link where people, if they buy my cookbook to actually pick it up, pick up the free, um, the free entertaining with all the booklet, which I'll also send you since besides vex cracked up the two recipes there that did not make the book that I would have loved our, my glazed bacon recipe, which my son loves. And then there is an ingenious cheese trick for pairing with red and white wine, which is you take a fresh cheese like ricotta or Bharata or fresh mozzarella or Chev, and you grate pepper on it. And you also zest lemon on top and the lemons us and the black pepper pairs, both red and white wines together. Absolutely perfectly. And it's something you should definitely try. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (32:47): Awesome. That sounds good. So, uh, tell her, can, uh, tell everybody how they can reach out and get ahold of you. And of course we can go to Amazon, but I'm sure that you have these available on your website as well. Jeanette (32:59): My website is Jeanette hurt.com and the book is available. A good place to go as to Ulysses press, which is my publisher. Okay. And that's also where you can go to get the free copy of entertaining with all day. And the other place you can find me is Jeanette hurt author is a web, a web page on Facebook. And I also am on Twitter and Instagram, not as often as I'd like, but it's by Jeanette, hers. Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (33:31): Okay. Yeah. Cause not only, you know, do you want to pick up the, uh, the Aldi book, but also look through these others, the West concent, cocktails, cauliflower, comfort food, the joy of cider, a lot of good stuff that, uh, Jeanette has put out there. So we appreciate that y'all stopped buying a pickup. One of these it'll enhance your dining and entertaining experience for sure. Yes. All right. Well, that's going to do it for another episode of feeding fatty. Of course I am Roy Terri Janette. Thank you so much. Jeanette (34:04): Thank you so much for having me back, Roy - Feeding Fatty - Do You Grocery Shop at Aldi Jeanette Has a Cookbook You’ll Love  (34:06): But you can find us of course, at www.feedingfatty.com. We're on all the major social media networks and a video of this interview. We'll be up. Um, once the, uh, episode is released, you can also find us on all the major podcast platforms, iTunes, Stitcher, Google, Spotify. If we're not on one that you listen to regularly, uh, please reach out. We'll be glad to add you. So until next time, take care of yourself. www.jeanettehurt.com www.feedingfatty.com

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We're starting off 2021 with a theme and focus of Uplifting Prayer. On Monday nights we have live teaching on prayer on YouTube and we're also sharing weekly podcast episodes with interviews and testimonies on prayer. This week's Uplifting Prayer interview is with Lisa Ogide. Lisa is a Georgian who moved to Dallas, TX in faith and found the greatest purpose and joy in gathering people to pray! Lisa desires all to have an intimate and fervent prayer life! She's a Physical Education teacher in West Dallas and loves her community. You can find her leading prayer at Disciple City Church, spending time with her family and friends, or telling a corny joke, which is her favorite hobby. Check out Uplifting Prayer with Lisa Ogide… Connect with Lisa! Instagram: @prayinohgoodday Scripture References Ephesians 1:17 Romans 8:26, 28 Joshua 1:9 From the Show Uplifting Prayer Teaching Series Disciple City Church Fervent by Priscilla Shirer Let's Connect Facebook: Mission: Uplift Instagram: @missionuplift Website: www.missionuplift.co Patreon: Mission: Uplift Email: missionuplift@gmail.com Subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/missionuplift/message

About a month ago, Damany came to David Rodriguez (AKA Dr Gorilla) with an idea- to create a pop-up, drive-through, holiday arts experience that married massive murals, technology, large scale sculptural installations, and live entertainment and presented it in a massively public, but completely safe and "Pandemic Friendly" way. What was born out of that was tinsel Dallas, a brand new immersive arts experience that highlighted and celebrated the unique culture and inherent dopeness of West Dallas, and brought it to life through the eyes of some of Dallas' most respected artists. With David at the helm as the co-producer, this brand new experience shattered expectations during its two evening run, welcoming almost 1,500 people in just 8 hours. A multi-medium artist, David prides himself on not only his ability to create, but also his ability to facilitate creation and to provide platforms for other artists to walk more fully in their passions. In tinsel, David's expertise in this shone bright. We talk comics as a language, graffiti as an art form, and tattoos of Byron's face- all in just over an hour. It's the lunch break you always wanted but never knew to ask for. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/casuallycrtve/message

Leaving New York is a tough choice for many artists, but it was a no-brainer for this week's guests. Returning to Texas allowed Tamara and Trey to realize their dream exhibition space, an outdoor sculpture park. Founded in 2018, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park is located on a one-acre lot in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of West Dallas, TX. Their program highlights emerging and mid-career artists from around the world. In our conversation, they talk about how they've built a pandemic-friendly art venue that has become a refuge for many and how "The Great Postponing" affected their exhibition program. These projects include Black Power Naps (Navild Acosta & Fannie Sosa), Ssalute (Marina Rosenfeld) for the 10th Aurora Biennial, The Staff of Aslecpias (Erik DeLuca) The Philosophy of Goo, their first collaboration that received an NEA grant in association with Wassaic Projects, and Tamara's solo exhibition How to Fold a Fitted Sheet all of which opened during the pandemic. Their ability to balance their vision for a "Socrates of the South" with their artistic practice and teaching positions is inspiring. In a post-COVID-19 age, when viewing art safely is not guaranteed, the need for more spaces like Sweet Pass will continue to grow. These two are true leaders and changemakers in the art world, and what Artroverted is dedicated to showcasing.This episode was recorded on October 30, 2020Find out more about Sweet Pass here: sweetpasssculpturepark.comOn Instagram @sweetpasssculpturpark @tamarajohnson @treyburns @ourmuttVisit www.ourmutt.com to purchase the Duchamp inspired dog bowl for the contemporary art lover who has everything. Music credit: Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F major - II. Assez vif, très rythmé produced by the Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum (issued under a Creative Commons License).

Erin Cluley is the owner of Erin Cluley Gallery, a contemporary art gallery presenting a provocative program of artists from Texas and the East Coast. Cluley opened in 2014, igniting a creative movement in West Dallas, and recently moved her operation to the Riverbend development in the Design District. Prior to opening her gallery, Cluley served as the Director of Exhibitions for Dallas Contemporary.Erin and I discuss the appropriateness of purchasing art during a pandemic, business planning for creatives, social media & new technologies, and why it is important for the artist to be informed. Cluley is a native of Wichita Falls, Mommy to a 3-year-old boy named Lachlan and Wife to film industry executive Tearlach Hutcheson. Mentions:El Mercado: An Exhibition of Art and Design Artist, Riley Holloway Originally recorded on October 1, 2020Host, Earlina Green Hamilton

Children have and will always look for heroes and role models in the world around them; from relatives and teachers to celebrities and fictional characters. Donald Harris, a West Dallas native, cousin and childhood influencer of The Vintage Gentleman, calls in to discuss his upbringing and the experiences that shaped him into the man he is today. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/vintage-gentleman/support

Jasmine Crockett is The first black woman attorney to represent District 100 which stretches from West Dallas to Mesquite. Social media IG https://instagram.com/jasminefor100?igshid=1nd9xgv5jcacq Website www.jasminefor100.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/QueenCole/support

I talk about some topics in the NBA. Like, "Are the clippers in trouble?", "Can the Mavericks become title contender?". Then I cover the news of Earl Thomas being kicked off the Ravens, "Who can take or contend for the division against Kansas City?", "Are the Dallas Cowboys NFC East contenders?". --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/michael-fletcher4/message

Readings from: Matthew 5:8 Psalm 24:3-5; 51:10 2 Timothy 2:22 Hebrews 10:19-22 Today's passages were read by Kevin Garcia, who works in a mentoring ministry in West Dallas and is a future church planter. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

The Hue is brought to you by Pholio Co, a Dallas-based interior design rep agency led by Jessica Pinzon. Keep up with The Hue! Website: pholioco.com Instagram: instagram.com/pholioco We would love to hear from you! To reach out to us directly, email our team at: hello@pholioco.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

Readings from: Job 2:1-10 Today's passages were read by Kevin Garcia. Kevin works in a mentoring ministry in West Dallas and is a future church planter. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

Readings from: Genesis 15:1-6 Romans 4:23-25 Today's passages were read by Kevin Garcia. Kevin works in a mentoring ministry in West Dallas and is a future church planter. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

Readings from: Psalm 8 Today's passages were read by Kevin Garcia. Kevin works in a mentoring ministry in West Dallas and is a future church planter. One Minute With the Bible is brought to you by the Christian Standard Bible. New episodes published every weekday.

We talked one on one with the West Dallas legend who took his Dallas sound to the West Coast to add to N.W.A.'s & Eazy E's sound. Then became a legend out there with his so platinum album. After Ruthless Records became a founding member of DeathRow Records. Now known for the biggest songwriter in the West Coast History. With Multi Platinum hits! DaRealistRadioShow Hosted By: George Lopez & Zstar. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/darealistradioshow/support

Episode No. 446 features artists John Edmonds and Tamara Johnson. This month the Brooklyn Museum had planned to open "John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance," an exhibition of 25 new and recent pictures including portraits and still-lifes of Central and West African sculpture, including works in Brooklyn's own collection (some of which were donated by writers Ralph and Fanny Ellison). Edmonds is the first winner of the Uovo Prize, a new annual exhibition award for an artist living or working in Brooklyn. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition's opening date is to be determined; it is scheduled to be on view through August 8, 2021. The Brooklyn exhibition was curated by Drew Sawyer. A mural-sized Edmonds, "A Lesson in Looking with Reverence," is installed at Uovo's forthcoming storage facility in Bushwick, where it will remain on view into November. John Edmonds is also included in "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition" at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. The museum has extended the show through January 3, 2021. "Riffs and Relations" offers works by African American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries alongside works of the European modernists whose work they engaged. The exhibition includes art from Edmonds's "Tribe" series, which examines early modernism. The exhibition was curated by Adrienne L. Childs, who was recently on Episode No. 444. On the second segment, Tamara Johnson discusses her installation of Deviled Egg and Okra Column (2020) at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The Nasher is temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has scheduled installations for its new "Nasher Windows," series of exhibitions sited within the Nasher’s entrance vestibule on Flora Street. ("Nasher Windows" installations may be seen from outside the institution's Renzo Piano-designed building.) Johnson's sculpture goes up Friday, May 22, and will remain on view through Wednesday, May 27. Johnson is a Dallas-based artist who has previously exhibited her work at CUE Art Foundation, New York, in Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick in partnership with the NYC Parks and Recreation Department, at Wave Hill in the Bronx, and at and in partnership with Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. Along with Trey Burns, she operates the Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in West Dallas. Sweet Pass presents the work of early and mid-career artists in an outdoor setting, and on a rotating basis. Johnson and host Tyler Green mention Paulina Pobocha's 2018 presentation of Brancusi at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pobocha discussed the exhibition on Episode No. 353.

We take a look at the latest developments for the 15 teams that did not make significant moves for the trade deadline. From the East: Boston (0:59), Brooklyn (16:00), Charlotte (24:18), Chicago (33:13), Indiana (43:45), Milwaukee (50:43) and Toronto (1:17:18). From the West: Dallas (1:31:57), Lakers (1:38:41), New Orleans (59:18), Oklahoma City (7:18), Phoenix (1:03:13), San Antonio (1:11:18), Utah (1:25:10). Please subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player.  And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux.  Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

Aujourd’hui nous allons vous parler d’un véritable mythe, le couple criminel le plus notoire d’Amérique, Bonnie Parker et Clyde Barrow. Une histoire d’amour légendaire entre deux jeunes voyous qui ont choisi de se rebeller contre l’autorité implacable, de s’échapper d’une vie misérable sans perspective d’avenir et de vivre ensemble deux années intenses main dans la main jusqu’à la mort. Voici la véritable histoire de Bonnie et Clyde !En janvier 1930, Clyde Barrow rencontre Bonnie Parker. Il a 20 ans et elle en a 19. Elle est serveuse dans un bar à Dallas et lui est un voleur déjà condamné cinq fois pour vols de voiture. Peu importe, ils ont immédiatement un coup de foudre et  puis de toute façon Bonnie n’a pas peur des voleurs car son mari est un voleur lui aussi… Eh oui, Bonnie est marié depuis 1926, avec un certain Roy Thornton. Déjà, sans le savoir donc , son cœur penche pour les hommes dangereux. Mais son mari est soit absent, soit en train de la battre. Il finit en prison en janvier 1929 pour braquage de banques à main armée, et détenu dans une prison de Dallas, il y purge une peine de 5 ans. Cinq longues années et Bonnie ne compte pas l’attendre.. La vie est trop courte. Elle retourne donc vivre avec sa mère et devient serveuse dans un bar à Dallas. Clyde Barrow est originaire, lui aussi, de la banlieue de Dallas. Il vit avec ses parents paysans et 6 frères et soeurs à West Dallas, dans un bidonville sobrement surnommé «l’antichambre du Diable », où la famille possède une roulotte. C’est peut-être cette enfance où la pauvreté est le mot d’ordre qui le poussera à devenir hors la loi. En 1926, le jeune Clyde n’a que 17 ans : il est pourtant déjà bien connu de la police locale, vol de voitures et braquages rien ne lui fait peur et par deux fois entre 1928 et 1929, Clyde se fait attraper par les forces de l’ordre. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Restoration of the post office in downtown Pasadena....the Eagle Scout building step stools for the Ballard House in Katy...and another Eagle Scout who started a GoFundMe to save the historic cemetery on West Dallas...

The guys take some take to discuss church planting and share their experience with planting a church in West Dallas. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/solacast)

This week we here about what it took for Phil and a group of investors to breathe life in a part of town that had almost been forgotten. After Dallas decided to build a bridge from downtown into West Dallas, Phil began to ask his friends if investment in the area could someday payoff.

Discourse among American Jews has become more polarized in recent years. Issues ranging from the Iran deal, to Israel, to how to define and respond to anti-Semitism have divided our community. How can we manage these tensions and keep people together amid differences.Rabbi David Stern is Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas. He joined Temple Emanu-El in June of 1989, serving as Assistant and then Associate Rabbi until his appointment as Senior Rabbi in August, 1996. Rabbi Stern is a social justice advocate on local, national and international issues. In 2005, he participated in a study mission to the Darfuri refugee camps on the Chad-Sudan border. In the summer of 2013, he served as rabbi-in-residence for an American Jewish World Service Study Mission to Nicaragua. Locally, Rabbi Stern is on the Advisory Board of the Budd Center at SMU, which is committed to helping build strong communities with high-quality neighborhood schools in West Dallas.

Kenny & Michael’s visit to Off-Site Kitchen in the chique new Trinity Groves district of West Dallas is a simple reminder that this unique burger joint is one of the best. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In response to millennials being labeled noncommittal, cynical, entitled, slacktivists, Grant Skeldon started Initiative Network in order to shift the culture of Dallas by training millennials to be Christ-loving, city-changing, church-investing, disciple-making, local missionaries. Initiative has impacted thousands of young leaders from over 540 different churches across the metroplex. Grant has traveled the world, speaking to thousands of pastors, parents, and business leaders on the topic of engaging and empowering millennials. His book, The Passion Generation, has been a bestseller in multiple categories. Grant serves on the advisory boards for Harvest America in Dallas and Movement Day. He is a member at Mercy Street Church, a multicultural, urban church plant in West Dallas.

In February of 1971, deputies from Dallas and Ellis Counties converged on a house in West Dallas to serve what should have been a simple arrest warrant for the burglary of a home. What ensued was a night of terror and one of the biggest manhunts in recent history in North Texas. What happens when five lawmen are met by two criminals with nothing to lose?Be sure to subscribe to the show, and please leave a rating and review if possible. We would love it if you shared it with someone who enjoys fascinating cases of true crime!

Si bien la educación es el gran ecualizador, no todos los niños inmigrantes pueden acceder a ella y aún si lo hacen, tampoco toda la educación es de calidad. La periodista Jenny Manrique entrevistó a Gloria López, directora ejecutiva de Trinity River Mission, una organización del vecindario de West Dallas que ofrece becas para niños inmigrantes de bajos ingresos. Ella misma, como beneficiaria de este programa, llegó a completar su maestría.

When bodies started turning up in West Dallas in the winter of 1990 and 1991, police were stunned at this killer's calling card. This is story of the seedy sides of the big city, its inhabitants, and the overlooked victims of society who were thrust into the spotlight when they crossed paths with a genuine serial killer. What happens to the eyes of those who stop looking?Be sure to subscribe to the show, and please leave a rating and review if possible. We would love it if you shared it with someone who enjoys fascinating cases of true crime!

This week we have Grant Skeldon joining us. It's one of my favorites and as you can see we've got some new things going on around here with our second ever GUY! — In response to millennials being labeled noncommittal, cynical, entitled, slacktivists, Grant Skeldon started Initiative Network in order to shift the culture of Dallas by training millennials to be Christ-loving, city-changing, church-investing, disciple-making, local missionaries. — Initiative has impacted thousands of young leaders from over 540 different churches across the metroplex. Grant has traveled the world, speaking to over 40,000 pastors, parents, and business leaders on the topic of engaging and empowering millennials. His book, The Passion Generation, will be published by Zondervan in November of 2018. — Grant serves on the advisory boards for Harvest America in Dallas and Movement Day. He is a member at Mercy Street Church, a multicultural, urban church plant in West Dallas. — In this episode, we talk about millenials and the bad rap we get! Grant is out to change the conversation! You can listen to the episode using the link in our profile!   CONNECT WITH GRANT: WEBSITE INSTA GRAB YOUR COPY OF THE PASSION GENERATION!   CONNECT WITH KELSEY: INSTA // FACEBOOK  The Radiant Tribe Facebook Group   *This post contains affiliate links – read full disclosure here.*  

John Marshall and Steven Agen review three terrific results and one mediocre one for our Cascadia sides before previewing Seattle's showdown with top-of-the-West Dallas as well as a pivotal Cascadia Cup derby.   

Effie Dennison, Senior Vice President, Director of Community Development & Corporate Responsibility at Texas Capital Bank is on the latest episode with Shawn and Ryan. Effie discusses Texas Capital Bank's commitment to and experience with investing in Southern Dallas. She specifically talks about investments in the Red Bird development, Trinity Groves, West Dallas and the Mayor's Grow South Investment Fund.Sponsored by SMU (smu.edu) and Buck Brush (buckbrushco.com). Deconstructing Dallas theme by www.bensound.com.Break Music by incompetech.com/music/royalty-free.

Taking a look at the lives of residents in West Dallas so we can better see and understand ourselves.

Have you seen the news about two low performing schools in West Dallas closing? Well, it actually has to do with a lot more than test scores. And one may not even need to close after all. So go behind the headlines and into the history with this month's edition of Miseducation.

In 1987, Jeffrey Young was robbed and killed, and his body was left on a street in the poor neighborhood of West Dallas. Benjamine Spencer was tried and convicted for the attack. Spencer was black, 22 years old, and recently married. Young was 33 and white, and his father was a senior executive for Ross Perot, one of the most prominent businessmen in Dallas. No physical evidence connected Spencer to the murder. Instead, he was convicted based on the testimony of three eyewitnesses and a jailhouse informant who claimed Spencer confessed to the crime. Spencer has now been in prison for most of his life. From behind bars, Spencer amassed evidence to support his claim of innocence, and secured the assistance of Centurion Ministries, a group that re-examines cases of prisoners like him. Together, they were able to convince a Texas judge of Spencer’s innocence. In investigating this story, not only did we confirm Centurion’s findings, but we’ve gathered new, exculpatory evidence, some of which appears first in this special, three-episode series of Radio Atlantic. --- Key individuals mentioned in this story (listed in order of appearance):Benjamine Spencer, the prisoner, convicted in October 1987, retried and convicted in March 1988, given life in prisonJeffrey Young, the victim, murdered in Dallas in March 1987Jay Young, Jeffrey’s son, the elder of twoCheryl Wattley, Spencer’s current attorneyTroy Johnson, a friend of Jeffrey Young’s, who tried calling him the night of his murderHarry Young, Jeffrey’s father, a senior executive in Ross Perot’s companyJesus “Jessie” Briseno, a detective for the Dallas Police Department, the lead investigator on the murder of Jeffrey YoungGladys Oliver, the prosecution’s star eyewitness in the trials of Benjamine SpencerRobert Mitchell, another man convicted a week after Spencer in a separate trial for the same crime, now deceasedFaith Johnson, the current district attorney in DallasFrank Jackson, Spencer’s defense attorney in the original trialAndy Beach, the prosecutor in the trial that sent Spencer to prisonAlan Ledbetter, the foreman of the jury that convicted SpencerDanny Edwards, the jailhouse informant who testified in Spencer’s original trials that Spencer had confessed to himDebra Spencer, Benjamine Spencer’s wife at the time of his convictionChristi Williams, the alibi witness who testified in Spencer’s defense at his trialsJim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion Ministries, the group that has aided Spencer's quest for exonerationDaryl Parker, a private investigator who has helped re-examine Spencer’s case and Young’s murderJimmie Cotton, one of three eyewitnesses for the prosecution in Spencer’s original trialsCharles Stewart, another of three eyewitnesses for the prosecution in Spencer’s trials, now deceasedSandra Brackens, a potential witness in Spencer’s defense who was not called to testify at his trialsSubscribe to Radio Atlantic to hear part two in the “No Way Out” series when it's released. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mega March on April 9th was another powerful demonstration of the positive change that is happening in North Texas as people from across the region step up to fight for a fairer, freer, and safer community. During the demonstration at Dallas City Hall, we were able to catch up with a few of the speakers and a couple of activists who have been working to protect immigrant rights in the Dallas area. Rafael Anchia represents Northwest Dallas County in the Texas House, and took some time away from his work on behalf of District 103 in Austin to take part in the Mega March. Catch up with him on Twitter (@RafaelAnchia) to learn more about his efforts during the legislative session. www.house.state.tx.us/members/member-page/?district=103 Esseiny Alanis is a teacher in Dallas ISD and one of the Mega March organizers. She attended the 2006 version shortly after she arrived in Dallas from Mexico with her family. Learn more about her story: www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Dallas-Teacher-Motivated-to-Attend-Dallas-Mega-March-for-Second-Time-417915753.html Beto O'Rourke shocked the political world when he unseated a 16-year incumbent in his first congressional race in El Paso five years ago, and he's now trying again in his run again Ted Cruz. Learn more: www.betofortexas.com/ Marc Veasey represents West Dallas and Fort Worth in the United States Congress, and has been at the forefront of the fight for voting rights in Texas. Learn more about his efforts on behalf of District 33 on his website: www.marcveasey.com/ Fernando Rojas is the president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) chapter in Mesquite, and has been active in Dallas County politics for many years. If you're interested in finding out more about LULAC, check out the link below: www.lulac.org/ Thanks for listening to the IndivisibleDFW Podcast. Please subscribe on iTunes to get the latest episodes and write us a review if you like what you hear. itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/indiv…d1202524959?mt=2 Stay in touch: www.indivisibledfw.org www.facebook.com/indivisibledfw www.twitter.com/dfwindivisible www.instagram.com/indivisibledfw

Pastor David Vaughn run a reentry program for X-offender near Houston,Texas. Apostil G. Crawford  well be talking about his up coming Hundred Men march to take back his community of West Dallas ,from drug dealers and prosititutes in Dallas,Texas. Help Change A Life  James 5:20

In this episode, we have the good fortune to have Jeff Dietzman and Ned Steel from LUCK in studio with us to talk about beer and food pairing and cooking with beer—a topic near and dear to every homebrewer and craft beer lover’s heart. LUCK stands for Local Urban Craft Kitchen and is the end result “dream restaurant”  of co-owners, Dietzman, Steel, and Chef Daniel Pittman. It is located in the Trinity Groves area of West Dallas and offers a variety of craft beer inspired dishes, along with a 40 tap craft beer selection that focuses specifically on local breweries. Their food is also locally sourced when possible and can be described as American comfort food with a Texas twist, which includes dishes that range from the delicious Signature Pastrami (unlike any you’ve had before) to beer ice cream made with beer from their tap wall. We hope they can help educate you on the great potential of combining good beer with good food, whether it’s preparing, serving, or simply enjoying with good folk.

Wow! I've got something to say about West Dallas. All captured while I was on my way to the great Bishop Arts where I had my first Mardi Gras and good times while prospecting new location for live shows. CREDITS: 1. "Come Alive" (https://thedangits.bandcamp.com/album/7-split-w-perdition) by The Dangits (https://thedangits.bandcamp.com) 2. "Tangled" (http://soundcloud.com/argoncowboy/tangled) by http://soundcloud.com/argoncowboy 3. "Bond" (http://soundcloud.com/soliti/mumrunner-bond) by http://soundcloud.com/mumrunner 4. "The Ghost Of Leland Palmer" (http://soundcloud.com/waveshaper-2/waveshaper-the-ghost-of-leland-palmer)by http://soundcloud.com/waveshaper-2, as featured on http://soundcloud.com/retropromenade's Next Peak Vol. 3; tribute to Twin Peaks 5. "Confidence" by The Bright House (Official Music Video: http://youtu.be/TPUBktShWOY) 6. "Mid Night" (http://soundcloud.com/dreamysoundz/the-fibs-mid-night) by http://soundcloud.com/preston-newberry 7. Epiphany" (https://melancharliestephencholy.bandcamp.com/track/epiphany) by Melancharlie Stephencholy (https://melancharliestephencholy.bandcamp.com) 8. "All I Have To Do Is Dream (Everly Bros. Cover)https://soundcloud.com/lewbusa/all-i-have-to-do-is-dream-everly-bros-cover" by https://soundcloud.com/lewbusa

Our Church In Our City: What God Did In West Dallas

Empower American Children is a non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas. The organization's mission is to create opportunities for kids by igniting the imagination, so that they will become Dream Builders. The work began in West Dallas and will continue to expand to include urban and rural areas across the country. They offer opportunities in places where young people have lost the power to imagine and instill in them the power of possibility. They facilitate experiential learning in a team environment that gives them the power to create their own dreams. Imagination is the central point of all the parts of their program. Candace Henry, the founder of Empower American Children will be my special guest, as we discuss the impact her organization has already made in our community. Please call 347.327.9995 to join Candace and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.