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This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus

This is Capitalism

Welcome to This Is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus the podcast that brings capitalism to life through stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and academics. Here we explore the power of capitalism in driving economic growth and creating opportunities. This podcast is a part of “This is Capitalism”, a branded content series sponsored by Stephens Inc., aims to educate and inform the public about the free market. Stephens Inc. is a full service investment banking firm

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33:22

021: Joe Gilliland and Larry Lemons of Anth3m

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2019/01/17

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. Yet, Joe Gilliland and Larry Lemons have a knack for finishing each other’s sentences. They share a vision of a somewhat disruptive, more comprehensive approach to sports management. They call their company Anth3m because they and their affiliated firms give voice and management to the longer term of-the-field and off-the-course interests of

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13:27

020: Ken Bentsen, CEO of the Securities Industry and...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/11/23

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, the Securities Industry Association, and now, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). SIFMA may be best known for a game played by middle school and high school students that represents the only economic education that some of them ever get before going out into the working world — The SIFMA Stock Market Game™

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34:09

019: Mike Iiams, CEO of Alcohol Monitoring Systems,...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/11/20

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 looking casually at an article about the important social work being done by a Denver-based company known both as SCRAM Systems and Alcohol Monitoring Systems, you’d probably think the CEO’s name was Mike Ilams. Mike Iiams has a long list of credits working for the accounting firm Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in Alaska, during the building

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27:11

018: Dr. Christina Lampe-Önnerud, Founder & CEO of...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/10/30

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’s foremost experts on power storage, her father, Wolfgang Lampe, was world-renowned for building power stations and power transmission lines. After earning her doctorate in her native Sweden, Christina came to the U.S. and started her first company, Boston-Power, in 2006. In 2012, she and three of her former colleagues, one of whom is her

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21:13

017: Jennifer D. Collins, President and CEO of JDC...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/10/11

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 city tours and dine-arounds. She worked on social events while in college, and when she started working at PR firms, she saw how they were handling events and felt that she could make a business of it. She turned to business events, and then to government contracting. Jennifer has taken what she has learned through planning purposeful

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23:13

016: Steve Odland, CEO of The Conference Board

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/10/03

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 Transportation Surface Policy. Today, he’s CEO of one of the nation’s premier business research organizations, The Conference Board - year after year, the source of a lot of great insight into the economy and human behavior. Key Takeaways: [:44] Ray Hoffman welcomes Steve Odland to the podcast. Steve reflects on his career path. He views it as a long

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23:49

015: Kara Trott, Founder and CEO of Quantum Health

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/08/22

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, Ohio. For companies like Hertz, Dillards, and American Honda, and hospital systems like Houston Methodist, Quantum offers a remarkably personalized approach to healthcare cost containment. It is personalized in the sense that when any of Quantum’s 700,000+ members encounters a medical problem, Quantum steps in almost

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21:46

014: Kathleen Lawson, Executive Director and Marsha...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/06/28

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, only 22 states require high school students to take even a single course in Economics. Only 17 states mandate a high school level course in Personal Finance. Bessie Moore of Mountain View Arkansas, whose life spanned the years from 1902 to 1995, would not have been pleased to know that that’s the state of the American

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16:38

013: Doug Clark, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Corcentric

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/05/15

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 Corcentric, the company that he has been building over the last two decades. Corcentric’s proprietary technology helps companies optimize their back office transactions, as in the way they purchase, make payments, and get paid. It’s also only about a 30-mile drive from where Doug grew up, in a slightly different direction, to center-city Philadelphia, where, as a

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17:06

012: Darrin Williams, CEO of Southern Bancorp, Inc.

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/04/17

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 Mississippi, particularly in the Mississippi Delta. Darrin Williams left a promising career in law and politics to be the CEO of Little Rock-based Southern Bancorp, a bank on a mission, a mission to create economic opportunity. To learn about Darrin Williams, it may be best to go back about three decades. Key

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16:12

011: Erik Olsson, President and CEO of Mobile Mini...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/03/15

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, consider the growth in the exurban city of Chandler, Arizona — 22 miles from downtown Phoenix — it grew by 460%. Peoria, Arizona — 14 miles out — grew by 740%. This formed perfect conditions for the growth of a company called Mobile Mini to provide contractors and other jobbers with mobile secure space for storing their stuff

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17:17

010: Moms as Entrepreneurs

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/02/22

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 entrepreneurism. An entrepreneur, to her, was a hustler. Keisha Ransome, growing up in another part of town, had a slightly less negative view of entrepreneurism, but thanks to television, she too, had no particular interest in how businesses are built and grow through capitalism. That started to change, however, in their college years, and today

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19:21

009: The Future Cities Accelerator

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/02/20

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 of the problems of American cities. Within just four months, not only did the foundation identify 10 of these social business builders, but each of them had $100,000 in funding and a whole lot of new connections and mentoring as part of a program called The Future Cities Accelerator. On this episode of This is

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21:07

008: Margaret Hoover, American Commentator

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2018/01/18

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 first lady who came before and only a handful who came after, they were true partners. Considering how this adventurous couple came of age in the late Victorian years, this indicates something quite extraordinary — almost singular — about each of them. So, if all you know about the Hoovers is the fact that he was president

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19:04

007: Scott Ford, Founder of Westrock Coffee

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2017/11/28

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 later his son, Scott, who built a little telephone company in Sheridan, Arkansas — population 1,338 in the 1940 Census — into a $30-billion player in wireless — Alltel. After selling Alltel to Verizon, Scott Ford started Westrock Coffee and the Rwanda Trading Company as an exercise in capitalism. By paying Rwandan

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15:30

006: Scott Svenson, CEO of Mod Pizza

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2017/11/02

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 successful, but their most recent one may turn out to be legendary — maybe as big as the fast casual restaurants it was modeled after, Chipotle and Panera — only in the pizza category; a fresh, on-demand, artisan-style, six-minute pizza. But there’s more to the story of the fastest-growing restaurant company in the U.S. in 2016,

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15:52

005: Tana Greene, CEO of The Greene Group

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2017/10/19

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 to a considerable entrepreneurial, and now, inspirational success, in North Carolina, it represents a much longer journey. She’s the CEO of one of the fastest-growing, woman-led businesses in the U.S., The Greene Group, which has two staffing firms — Strataforce and Road Dog Drivers — and her latest company, Blue

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15:28

004: David Callis, Co-Founder and CEO of Hiatus

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2017/08/23

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 he’d ever signed up for. That was the genesis of his entrepreneurial idea — a company called Hiatus, which uses big data to see what you and I are being billed for, compared to the average consumer. David explains how Hiatus went from an idea to a finished product in a short time, and how they are improving it daily as

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14:43

003: Sandy Hillman, Founder and CEO of Sandy Hillman...

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2017/08/16

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 as Under Armour, Caesars Entertainment, and Walmart, but Sandy Hillman is even better known in the world of travel and tourism for her efforts in attracting visitors to major cities that didn’t use to attract many tourists. Time Magazine called her the Impresario of Urban America. As Executive Director of Baltimore’s

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14:07

002: Marc Gorlin, Founder and CEO of Roadie

This is Capitalism: Inspired, Explained, In Focus ·

2017/08/09

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 develop. Marc did so, four times to date, with great success in each venture. Marc explains how Roadie, his latest and current venture, came to be, how he secured funding, and where he expects it to grow. Tune in for the moving startup story. Key Takeaways: [1:02] Marc Gorlin, Co-Founder of PGP Corporation, VerticalOne,

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