For as long as Anthony Robinson can remember, he's loved being outside. No, like really loved it. While other parents may have had to encourage, cajole, or even threaten their kids into outside hanging compliance, Anthony was always in the cree

Keisha Whaley: On Creating Space and Emptying Conference Rooms, Babies Potty Training Babies, and Changing the Creative Services Industry

Feb 26th, 2021 1h 34m

Keisha Whaley got tired of waiting. A veritable wunderkind in the marketing and advertising world, Keisha looked around the room at pitch meeting after pitch meeting and knew something wasn't right. Sitting in chairs ringing the room were brigh

Imani Daniel: On Connecting Dots, Supporting Visions, and Bringing Creative Dreams to Life

Feb 10th, 2021 1h 6m

Imani Daniel is one of those rare and amazing creative souls who can live comfortably in many worlds. As a trained dancer and choreographer, she spent much of her young life deeply immersed in the art and culture of performance, while simultane

Tynesia Boyea-Robinson: On Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, Institutional Giving as a Change Agent, and Reshaping the way the World Gives

Feb 2nd, 2021 1h 18m

Tynesia Boyea-Robinson is brilliant- full stop. Byron says that she's one of the top 5 smartest people he knows...and that's saying something. An alumnus of both Duke and Harvard, her ability to make intellect approachable and complex concepts

MacKenzie Green: On Side Steps, Progress, and Translation as a Creative Super Power

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 38m

MacKenzie Green's story has been many things, but boring is NOT one of them. This Ivy League-educated, would-be Olympian, Miss USA top contender, marketing maven, sports (and Marvel) aficionado, daughter to an icon, and icon in the living's sto

Chequan Lewis aka Chequonce: From Haltom to Howard to Harvard to The Hut

Jan 14th, 2021 1h 23m

Chequan Lewis is funny. But he's funny in the low-key kind of way where his humor is infused with extremely poignant bits of wisdom that if you're laughing too hard, you'll completely miss. As the CEO of Pizza Hut (Chief Equity Officer- don't g

Sasha Souza: On Excelling at the Details, Designing for the Impact, and Keeping your Chairs Straight- ALWAYS

Jan 7th, 2021 1h 15m

Google "Sasha Souza" and prepare to head down a rabbit hole of some of the nation's most beautiful weddings and events. Sasha stands at the top of her craft and has built a several decades career out of her signature style, impeccable design ta

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David Rodriguez: on Co-Creating tinsel Dallas, Being a Creative Wrangler, and Collaboration as an Art Form

Dec 28th, 2020 1h 8m

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 an

Amanda Austin: On Being Funny in a Pandemic, Chasing Dreams and Knowing When to Take a Bow

Dec 21st, 2020 1h 34m

Amanda Austin's story is proof that class clowns do get ahead (yes, you can tell your mom you told her so). As a child, Amanda had the unique combination of both natural born entrepreneur and innate entertainer- starting her first business by t

Michael Thomas: On Entrepreneurship as an Engine for Social *and* Economic Impact

Dec 3rd, 2020 1h 23m

Michael Thomas sees things that other people don't (or won't) see. No, he's not clairvoyant and doesn't speak to unseen forces or anything like that. Michael sees things that other people don't see because he's dedicated his life to seeing the

Dope Black Women - Activists, Executives, Writers, and Lawyers

Nov 20th, 2020 53m 10s

This week, we're taking a look back at some of the dopest Black women we've had the privilege of talking to since we started. These world-changing, boundary-pushing, genre-destroying women have inspired us, challenged our perceptions, and made

Veronica Torres: On Resilience, Relationship (and movement) Building, and Growing Up Narcos

Nov 12th, 2020 1h 12m

A dynamic national speaker, community connector, and founder of the Hey Chica! movement, Veronica Torres has consistently been at the forefront of championing for the community of Latinx women who don't have access to the same opportunities tha

Molly Rasmussen: On Creativity as a Muscle, Knowing Your Purpose, and Pursuing It

Nov 5th, 2020 1h 6m

Molly Rasmussen is a bit of a Unicorn. She's one of those rare people who, since high school, has known exactly what she wanted to do and is, you know...actually doing it. Her passion and skill for bringing people together through their most ce

Renée Diresta: On Online Conspiracies, Anti-Vaxxers, Hunter Biden, the 2020 Election, and Social Media Manipulation

Oct 29th, 2020 1h 12m

Renée Diresta spends most of her life looking online for conspiracies. Within the half-truths and outright lies online, she and her associates at Stanford Internet Observatory are on a mission to investigate and understand "the spread of malig

Jessica Burnham: On Civic Engagement, Community (and communication) Building, and Design that Changes Lives

Oct 22nd, 2020 1h 19m

Jessica Burnham is and has been many things in her storied career- college professor, executive director, graphic designer, and above all, full-time advocate of the power of design to impact and change communities. After an unexpected series of

Mike Baughman: On Beards, Beer, Leadership in a Pandemic, and Cursing as an Art Form

Oct 15th, 2020 1h 11m

Mike Baughman kept getting fired. Let's be more precise- Rev. Mike Baughman kept getting fired from the churches he was leading. He never quite fit in and never felt like he really got how other people "did church." An ordained minister in the

Byron and Damany: On Origin Stories, Awkwardness, and Putting People Back to Work

Oct 8th, 2020 1h 27m

After over 25 episodes (or as we like to say- "a quarter hundo"), Byron and Damany sat down to reflect on Damany's journey from an awkward Brooklyn Black boy to an awkward Dallas Black man (some things don't change) Damany's journey has led him

Erica Felicella: On Creating in a Pandemic, Overcoming and Celebrating, and Explaining WTF Performance Art is

Oct 1st, 2020 1h 8m

Erica Felicella has always felt called to the acts of creation and discovery. As a child, you'd find her building life-sized "log" cabins out of the sticks she could gather, or cutting down trees with nothing more than a pocketknife just to see

Brittany Barnett: On Intentionality, Daddy's Wisdom, and Imagination that Creates Prison Reform

Sep 24th, 2020 1h 10m

Brittany Barnett's effortless wisdom comes from years of sitting at fishing holes and on front porches with her granddad and her father. These early and formative moments communicated to her a way to view the world that left her open to its pos

Jeremy Biggers & Sam Lao: On Creating Together, Trying What's Inspiring , and Being a Super-Villain

Sep 17th, 2020 1h 20m

Sam Lao and Jeremy Biggers are precisely what you think of when you hear the word "creative." Endlessly inquisitive, aggressively competitive (with each other and themselves), and seemingly unwilling or unable to believe that "good enough" is a

Michelle Williams: On Equity, Access, Mission Building, and Living your Best Bey Life

Sep 10th, 2020 1h 25m

Michelle Williams goes beyond defying the odds and has, at every stage of her life, defined them. Her passion for economic and entrepreneurial equity comes from years working alongside business owners, CEOs, and non-profit leaders to push them

Chike Aguh: On American Identity, Questioning, and Fostering the Work of the Future

Sep 3rd, 2020 1h 26m

Every now and then you stumble into a conversation that holds your attention in such a way that you look up and don't realize how much time has passed. That's what happened the entire time we sat down to chat with Chike Aguh. A Harvard Fellow,

Jennifer Burns: On Never Saying "No," Creating Companies, and Playing with Fire(works)

Aug 27th, 2020 1h 15m

Jennifer Burns' creative approach to problem-solving, question asking, and collaborating has been a large part of what has elevated her to being one of the top event production professionals in her industry. Her commitment to "never say no" to

Jerry Hawkins: The One that goes from Chi Town to Dallas by way of Books

Aug 23rd, 2020 1h 21m

Sitting down with Jerry Hawkins is like getting a master class in, well...everything. Equal parts storytelling historian and unapologetic activist, Jerry deftly weaves in and out of narrative and policy discussions with a skill that speaks to t

Kimberly Rhodes: The One with all the Weddings and the Importance of Creating

Aug 13th, 2020 1h 17m

Luxury wedding planner, design guru, podcaster, instructor, semi-serial entrepreneur, professional dancer (ret), and multiple URL owner (you can catch your breath now) Kimberly Rhodes has been focused on creating beautiful experiences for clien