Podcasts by This is Capitalism: CEO Stories
“This is Capitalism: CEO Stories”, the intersection of the free market and entrepreneurial success stories. Here we speak with leading CEOs, academics, philanthropists and up and comers on their contributions and perspectives on the American economy. This podcast is a part of “This is Capitalism”, a branded content series sponsored by Stephens Inc., aims to educate and inform the public about the free market. Stephens Inc. is a full service investment banking firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Since its inception in 1933, privately held Stephens Inc. has served a broad client base which includes corporations, state and local governments, financial institutions, institutional investors and individual investors throughout the United States and overseas. For more information, visit www.stephens.com or www.thisiscapitalism.com. Member NYSE, SIPC.
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CEO Stories with Brian Lipton, Cititour.com from 2023-01-09T20:54:24
I’m Patricia O’Connell for This is Capitalism. Today I’m talking with Brian Lipton, who is the Chief Theater Critic for Cititour.com and the former editor-in-chie...
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Kathryn Tully, Freelance Journalist on the Art Market from 2022-11-28T12:31
The art market is big, unpredictable, and endlessly fascinating, not just to potential buyers and sellers but to art lovers the world over. The art market is also...
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Gabrielle Kurlander, CEO at The All Stars Project from 2022-09-29T07:01:15
Like a lot of aspiring actors, Gabrielle Kurlander came to New York City at 18 with stars in her eyes and a dream of making it big. It turns out, there were star...
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Kait Hill, Founder and CEO at Rock City Digital from 2022-09-27T22:07:31
Kait Hill faced a tough decision in 2021 — finish college or start her own business ...
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Laura Swanton, Founder at Laura Michael Wines, Inc. from 2022-07-20T23:45:09
A couple walks into a real estate office in Napa Valley, looking to buy a second home. If you guessed the next sentence would be, “And instead, they bought a wine...
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Paul Sullivan, Founder at The Company of Dads from 2022-06-24T20:00:11
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Mac Gardner, CFP®, Founder and Chief Education Officer at FinLit Tech from 2022-05-04T08:01:13
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Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer at AchieveNEXT from 2022-04-22T09:10:46
Patricia O’Connell interviews Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer at AchieveNEXT® about the 2022 CFO-CH...
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Drew Russell, EVP of Sports Properties&Media Assets at Intersport from 2022-03-30T22:30:19
Patricia O’Connell interviews Drew Russell, EVP of Sports Properties & Media Assets at Intersport about how the recent rulings that permitted Name, Image, and Lik...
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Ron Jaworski, CEO and Co-Founder of Trinity Audio from 2021-12-29T17:07:28
Patricia O’Connell interviews Ron Jaworski, the CEO and Co-Founder of Trinity Audio about how a website can be “audified,” how audio increases the stickiness of a...
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Beverly Behan, author of Becoming a Boardroom Star from 2021-12-14T18:50:07
Patricia O’Connell interviews Beverly Behan about boards. They discuss Beverly’s books, her work with boards and directors, and her advice for newly recruited dir...
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Ramy Gafni, Founder and CEO, Ramy Cosmetics, LLC from 2021-11-10T19:40:53
Patricia O’Connell interviews Ramy Gafni about Ramy Cosmetics, LLC. They discuss how he began in law school but realized his heart was in beauty school, how he st...
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Mac Gardner, CFP®, Author, and Founder at FinLit Tech from 2021-10-27T12:38:48
Patricia O’Connell interviews Mac Gardner about FinLit Tech. They discuss Mac’s two books, and how his career in financial planning led him to write these educati...
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Nick Childs, Filmmaker, and Co-Founder at DIRT from 2021-09-21T02:09:05
Patricia O’Connell interviews Nick Childs about DIRT. They discuss what the company does, why it was started, how it relates to Nick’s earlier careers, and how bi...
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Nick Araco, CEO of AchieveNEXT, and Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer from 2021-09-09T15:43:35
Patricia O’Connell interviews Nick Araco, CEO of AchieveNEXT, and Tom Stewart, Chief Knowledge Officer, about AchieveNEXT and recent data they have collected fro...
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Dee Brown, President and CEO of The P3 Group from 2021-08-18T01:20:18
Patricia O’Connell interviews Dee Brown, President and CEO of The P3 Group about what a Public-Private Partnership (P3) is, and what impact P3 development project...
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Kevin Dawidowicz, Co-Founder of CoachMePlus from 2021-08-07T13:31:26
Patricia O’Connell interviews Kevin Dawidodicz, serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of CoachMePlus. They discuss the CoachMePlus product in its market, the limitat...
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Cher Grant, CEO and Founder of Wazzio, Inc. from 2021-07-01T13:23:50
Patricia O’Connell interviews Cher Grant, CEO and Founder of software development company Wazzio. They discuss how Wazzio was launched, how it serves schools and ...
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Christina Elson and Patrick Reasonover: They Say It Can’t Be Done from 2021-06-23T12:25:30
Patricia O’Connell interviews Christina Elson, Executive Director for the Center for the Study of Capitalism at Wake Forest University, and Patrick Reasonover, th...
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Tiki Barber, Football Star and Co-Chairman of Thuzio from 2021-06-01T18:06:15
Patricia O’Connell interviews Tiki Barber, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Thuzio, on how his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut evolved into playing for 10 y...
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Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting from 2021-05-12T20:18:23
Patricia O’Connell interviews Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting, about passion and purpose. They discuss how passions express purpose, the ten archet...
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Howard Breindel, Co-CEO at DeSantis Breindel from 2020-12-01T16:18:30
Patricia O’Connell interviews Howard Breindel, Co-CEO at DeSantis Breindel. Patricia and Howard discuss the meaning of brand, how companies may need help clarifyi...
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Cortney Stapleton, Partner at Bliss Integrated Communications and Founder of Exponent Women from 2020-11-09T14:27:52
Patricia O’Connell interviews Cortney Stapleton, Partner at Bliss Integrated Communications and one of the Founders of Exponent Women. Patricia and Cortney discus...
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Jill Houghton, President and CEO of Disability:IN from 2020-10-29T22:17:21
Patricia O’Connell interviews Jill Houghton, President and CEO of Disability:IN. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Patricia and Jill disc...
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Joe Strechay, Consultant for Blindness and Disability Employment Initiatives from 2020-10-07T14:11:14
Patricia O’Connell interviews Joe Strechay, an entertainment media consultant for blindness and disability employment initiatives. They discuss Joe’s childhood, h...
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John Byrne, CEO and Founder of Poets&Quants from 2020-09-22T16:37:38
Patricia O’Connell interviews returning guest, John Byrne, CEO and Founder of Poets & Quants and CEO of C-Change Media, Inc. They discuss what is happening in bus...
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Sara Hurst, CEO of Bella’s Kitchen from 2020-08-25T15:44:34
Patricia O’Connell interviews Sara Hurst, CEO of Bella’s Kitchen, on the origin of Bella’s Kitchen, how Sara runs it, and Sara's plans for it. Sara shares more ab...
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Tom Stewart, Executive Director of the National Center for the Middle Market at the Ohio State University, Returns from 2020-08-06T16:38:51
Patricia O’Connell interviews Tom Stewart, Executive Director of the National Center for the Middle Market on their latest survey of middle-market businesses duri...
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Tom Stewart, Executive Director of the National Center for the Middle Market at Ohio State University from 2020-04-20T13:11:31
As this is being recorded, on the 11th of April, 2020, what good news we see and hear is almost entirely in the context of people making extraordinarily good thin...
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Rachel Klausner, Founder and CEO of Millie from 2020-03-24T15:09:52
Rachel Klausner would agree the first thing you need to know about her is that she’s a millennial — a 30-year-old product software designer from Boston, who has f...
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Dr. Geoff Tabin, Co-Founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project from 2020-01-28T14:40
It would be hard to get an accurate count of the number of lives that Dr. Geoff Tabin has either saved or improved, often by his own hands. The figure is in the t...
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Karla Mora, Founder and Managing Partner at Alante Capital from 2020-01-02T16:07:41
Karla Mora fully expects to have a major impact on the apparel industry, the clothes we wear, and where we dispose of those clothes after we wear them. She is a s...
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Natalie Mangrum, CEO, Maryland Teacher Tutors from 2019-11-04T17:03:03
To equate the world of entrepreneurism with football, most of the cheering comes when a quarterback throws a touchdown pass to a wide receiver. In business, those...
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Chris Farrell, Senior Economics Contributor for Marketplace from 2019-08-15T07:43:24
It was probably inevitable that as his career as an economics and finance writer evolved, Chris Farrell would be drawn, ever deeper, into matters of age. After al...
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030: John Byrne, Founder and CEO of C-Change Media from 2019-07-09T00:07:21
Ray Hoffman introduces the guest for this episode. John Byrne and Ray Hoffman have known each other for so long that they refer to each other as Listen
029: John Rossman of Amazon and Rossman Partners from 2019-06-25T16:41:10
Ray Hoffman introduces the guest for this episode. How did Amazon do it? And how is Amazon going to continue to do it? John Rossman has the answer to both questio...
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028: Thibault and Lola Manekin of Seawall and Movement Lab from 2019-06-12T14:33:18
Ray Hoffman introduces the guests for this episode. “Is there such a thing as entrepreneurial love? After visiting Thibault and Lola Manekin, I’m inclined to thin...
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027: Veronica Dagher on Successful Women from 2019-05-06T13:19:44
Ray Hoffman introduces his guest Veronica Dagher in the form of a note: “I like your work, Veronica Dagher. I like your Listen
026: Tom Stewart and the Middle Market from 2019-04-29T14:18:58
Tom Stewart is Executive Director for the National Center for the Middle Market, which is part of the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. It’...
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025: Darrah Brustein, Entrepreneur and Financial Literacy Advocate from 2019-04-22T15:43:25
Darrah Brustein asks a lot of good, pointed questions of herself as well as others. In part because of the questions she has asked herself since graduation from E...
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024: Charles Morgan, Former Chairman and CEO of Acxiom Corporation from 2019-03-08T15:54:48
Charles Morgan is a lot of fun to be around and to learn from. He learned about business first from working with his father, starting when he was a little boy. As...
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023: Stacy Lewis, LPGA Leader and Brand Ambassador from 2019-03-04T16:01:04
There aren’t many 32-year-olds in any profession who have assumed the kind of leadership role that Stacy Lewis has in the world of professional golf. Not only by ...
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022: Oculogica and the Objective Diagnosis of Concussions from 2019-02-12T16:14:41
For Rosina Samadani, New Year’s Eve — the fireworks, the ball drop, the champagne — came on December 28, 2018. That’s when her company, Oculogica, received FDA ap...
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021: Joe Gilliland and Larry Lemons of Anth3m from 2019-01-17T21:33:09
They’ve only been business partners since January 2017. When they’re not on the road, usually in two different cities, their homes are about 1,200 miles apart. Ye...
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020: Ken Bentsen, CEO of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association from 2018-11-23T16:20:48
The organization known as SIFMA goes back to 1912. It is a trade group which was first known as the Investment Bankers Association of America, then for many years...
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019: Mike Iiams, CEO of Alcohol Monitoring Systems, aka SCRAM Systems from 2018-11-20T16:08:30
Ray Hoffman interviews Mike Iiams. The first thing you should know about this particular entrepreneur CEO is that his name isn’t what you think it is. If you’re l...
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018: Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud, Founder&CEO of Cadenza Innovation, Inc. from 2018-10-30T17:51:25
Ray Hoffman interviews Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud. You might say there’s electricity in her blood. Long before her reputation was established as one of the world...
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017: Jennifer D. Collins, President and CEO of JDC Events from 2018-10-11T15:52:24
Ray Hoffman interviews Jennifer Collins, President and CEO of JDC Events. Jennifer’s first events were her own family reunions which she evolved from cookouts to ...
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016: Steve Odland, CEO of The Conference Board from 2018-10-03T14:16:53
Ray Hoffman interviews Steve Odland. Steve Odland’s career has taken him from oatmeal to auto parts, from Sara Lee to the U.S. Commission on National Transportati...
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015: Kara Trott, Founder and CEO of Quantum Health from 2018-08-22T22:46:24
Ray Hoffman introduces Kara Trott. Kara Trott does very well by her clients and very well by her clients’ employees. She’s the Founder and CEO of Quantum Health, based in Columbus, Oh...
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014: Kathleen Lawson, Executive Director and Marsha Masters, Associate Director of Economics Arkansas from 2018-06-28T15:16:55
Ray Hoffman introduces Kathleen Lawson and Marsha Masters. It’s amazing how little most of us really know about the economic miracle that supports and nourishes the USA. After all, on...
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013: Doug Clark, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Corcentric from 2018-05-15T14:21:12
Ray Hoffman introduces Doug Clark. It’s only about a 30-mile drive from where Doug grew up to the Cherry Hill, New Jersey headquarters of ...
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012: Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, Inc. from 2018-04-17T15:54:41
Ray Hoffman introduces Darrin Williams. Darrin Williams practices capitalism in places where capitalism is sorely needed — some of the poorest towns and neighborhoods of Arkansas and ...
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011: Erik Olsson, President and CEO of Mobile Mini Solutions from 2018-03-15T16:54:34
Ray Hoffman introduces Mobile Mini Solutions and its CEO, Erik Olsson. Between 1980 and 2000, the metropolitan population of Phoenix grew by 45%. As amazing as that might seem, consid...
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010: Moms as Entrepreneurs from 2018-02-22T18:47:04
Ray Hoffman introduces Tammira Lucas and Keisha Ransome. When she was growing up on the West side of Baltimore, Tammira Lucas didn’t have any interest in entrepre...
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009: The Future Cities Accelerator from 2018-02-20T16:07:19
Ray Hoffman introduces the topic. It was in late 2016 when the Rockefeller Foundation went looking for entrepreneurs — social entrepreneurs to build businesses intended to solve some ...
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008: Margaret Hoover, American Commentator from 2018-01-18T19:16:56
Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, his wife of nearly 45 years, were two of the most significant, most influential Americans of the entire 20th Century. Unlike any president and fir...
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007: Scott Ford, Founder of Westrock Coffee from 2017-11-28T20:53:17
When it comes to turning great businesses into philanthropic legacies, there are two Ford families of note — the one from Detroit, and the one from Little Rock. It was Joe Ford, and l...
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006: Scott Svenson, CEO of Mod Pizza from 2017-11-02T07:00
It was Ally Svenson’s desire to find a good cup of coffee in London that made an entrepreneur of Scott Svenson, her husband. Each of their three companies has been genuinely successfu...
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005: Tana Greene, CEO of The Greene Group from 2017-10-19T07:00
It’s only about 300 miles from Chesapeake, Virginia, to Charlotte, North Carolina — a six-hour drive — but in the life of Tana Greene, going from an abusive relationship in Virginia t...
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004: David Callis, Co-Founder and CEO of Hiatus from 2017-08-23T16:00
David Callis was young rising star in the insurance industry. His specialty was global risk. One day, he realized he was being hit by bills and charges for things that he’d forgotten ...
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003: Sandy Hillman, Founder and CEO of Sandy Hillman Communications from 2017-08-16T16:00
Sandy Hillman has been burnishing her reputation as one of the nation’s top communications professionals for over three decades. Her Baltimore-based firm helps speak for brands such a...
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002: Marc Gorlin, Founder and CEO of Roadie from 2017-08-09T18:35:17
Marc Gorlin is a serial entrepreneur, whose entrepreneur father started him hustling with the advice, right out of college, not to find a job, but to find a deal he could grow and dev...
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001: Warren A. Stephens, Chairman, President, and CEO of Stephens Inc. from 2017-08-09T18:32:47
Ray Hoffman interviews Warren Stephens about the history of Stephens Inc., and Northwest Arkansas. The difficult effects of the Great Depression on a rural community sparked the rise ...
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