CEO's You Should Know - Dallas Podcast Por Talk Radio 1190 (KFXR-AM) arte de portada

CEO's You Should Know - Dallas

CEO's You Should Know - Dallas

De: Talk Radio 1190 (KFXR-AM)
Escúchala gratis

CEOs You Should Know DFW is a leadership podcast featuring candid conversations with the executives shaping North Texas and national business.

Hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth, the show goes beyond titles and headlines to explore the real stories behind today’s most influential leaders.

Each episode dives into career journeys, pivotal decisions, leadership philosophy, and the challenges of building brands, teams, and cultures that endure.

From founders and CEOs to industry-defining innovators, CEOs You Should Know DFW offers practical insight, perspective, and inspiration for anyone interested in leadership, growth, and the business of influence.

New episodes available wherever you get your podcasts.Copyright Talk Radio 1190 (KFXR-AM) Ciencias Sociales Economía Política y Gobierno
Episodios
  • CEOs You Should Know - Peter Simek - Earth X

    CEOs You Should Know - Peter Simek - Earth X
    Apr 17 2026
    Peter Simek's path to leading one of the world's premier environmental platforms started with poetry, couch surfing in Rome, and tracking down an ecstasy kingpin on a mountaintop in Georgia.

    In this episode, iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth Region President Chris Long sits down with the CEO of EarthX for a conversation that moves from investigative journalism to traveling the world with a giant dinosaur puppet for the United Nations to reimagining what an environmental organization can be from its home base in the heart of Texas oil and gas country.

    Peter shares how nearly two decades as a journalist taught him the leadership skill he leans on most: shutting up and listening. He talks about why founder Trammel Crow says you can't preach to the choir if there's no choir, how EarthX evolved from a 120,000-person Earth Day street festival at Fair Park into a global convening platform, and what it means to lead a fifteen-year-old startup through its next chapter, including a new policy institute focused on nuclear energy and an urban biodiversity plan for Dallas.

    Plus: a first concert that might crack the all-time rankings (Page and Plant at Madison Square Garden), and the nineteenth-century botanist story he's told enough people about that now he has to finish writing it.


    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond, hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth. Follow, Rate, and Subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on!
    Más Menos
    38 m
  • CEOs You Should Know - Rick Welts - Dallas Mavericks

    CEOs You Should Know - Rick Welts - Dallas Mavericks
    Apr 9 2026
    Rick Welts has one of the most remarkable careers in professional sports history, and it began at age 16 as a ball boy for the Seattle SuperSonics. In this episode, iHeartMedia Dallas–Fort Worth Region President Chris Long sits down with the CEO of the Dallas Mavericks for a wide-ranging conversation spanning five decades of basketball, business, and leadership.

    Rick shares what it was like to be the 35th employee at the NBA league office in 1982, making cold calls no one returned, and helping transform a struggling league into a global marketing powerhouse.

    He takes us inside the creation of NBA All-Star Weekend, the 1984 Slam Dunk Contest that changed everything, and the challenge of marketing the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team to the world. From leading the Phoenix Suns through one of the greatest single-season turnarounds in NBA history, to helping build the Golden State Warriors dynasty and opening Chase Center, to answering the call to come to Dallas, Rick breaks down what it really takes to rebuild culture, earn a fanbase’s trust, and build something that lasts.

    Plus, Rick shares where he was sitting during the 2024 NBA Draft Lottery, what Cooper Flagg means for the future of the Mavericks, and why a new arena in Dallas is more than a building. It is a district designed to create lifetime memories.

    A Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer. A pioneer. And now, a Maverick.

    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond. Hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas–Fort Worth. Follow, rate, and subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on.


    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond, hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth. Follow, Rate, and Subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on!
    Más Menos
    55 m
  • CEOs You Should Know - Shannon McLinden - FarmHouse Fresh

    CEOs You Should Know - Shannon McLinden - FarmHouse Fresh
    Mar 25 2026
    Shannon McLinden was selling crocheted towel holders door to door, trading stickers like a Wall Street broker, and puff painting LL Cool J lyrics onto vases before she ever set foot in a college classroom.

    In this episode, iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth Region President Chris Long sits down with the Founder and CEO of FarmHouse Fresh, the McKinney-based natural skincare company that grows its own micro green ingredients on an organic farm and uses the profits to rescue abused and neglected animals.

    Shannon shares how cracked heels from jogging at TCU led her to create a homemade body polish she mailed to Oprah, landing on the O List and launching a career she built from a laptop by the pool. She talks about staying family-owned so no one can tell her she can't rescue three starved draft horses on a Tuesday, pivoting during COVID in three days to keep every employee on payroll while drop shipping for wholesale partners across the country, and why the spreadsheet your team built today just funded a barn for four horses that wouldn't be alive without it.

    Shannon also opens up about surviving her darkest chapter as a teen and how it fuels everything she builds, from products that help women feel good when they look in the mirror to a rescue ranch where the whole team comes out to the hill to sing when an animal passes on.

    Plus: first concert memories (Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle!), which rescue donkey would run the company for a day, and the brand new composting initiative that literally launched the morning of recording.

    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond, hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth. Follow, Rate, and Subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on!
    Más Menos
    51 m
Todavía no hay opiniones