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This week Kevin and Stewart sit down and rewind the latest meeting of the TEXO Executive Development Committee which featured the guest speaker, Mike Sarraille Founder and CEO of Talent War Group and ATTA , Co-Author of The Talent War, Men's Journal The Everyday Warrior Series, and podcast host.  The team took pages and pages of notes and believed it was worth circling back to pass along some...

This week 17Twenty returns to Episodes 7 and 8, to reintroduce our listeners to an episodic anomaly where we split an interview in to two parts.  In this reprise of the interview with Meloni Raney, the CEO and President of TEXO, the construction association, the team talks about being a woman in construction, value of community, the act of balancing, leadership development, discipline and adaptabi...

This week Kevin and Stewart talk through a few articles they read and studied that were found as a resource on the Watermark Community Church website.  These articles focus on being a Godly employer and Godly employee, and are rich with gospel, verses, and truth around being faithful, honoring God, and pointing others to Him. Also, a quick apology for the  sound quality this week.  Stewart was out...

This week Kevin and Stewart sit down with Justin Parscale, the managing partner at Parscale Group, an architecture & planning firm which creates exceptional projects and unites communities through purpose-driven planning and design-forward architecture. The in-studio chat with Justin explores his story starting with the come-up on the East Side of Enid, Oklahoma, travels through his journey th...

This week the 17Twenty crew is back in the studio with a special guest, Javier Huerta.  Javier is the President of CARRCO Painting, a contractor who specializes in paint and finish services for commercial projects in the DFW area.  Our conversation with Javier was genuine, humble, insightful, and inspiring.  And it reminded the 17Twenty crew that there is a lot of work and sacrifice that goes in t...

This week, Kevin and Stewart sit down to reflect on the season of the 17Twenty podcast where they were radio DJs with a spot on Jessie Itzler's Build Your Life Resume radio station.  This reflection brings back some of their favorite segments from the show, with Preston Pressley, Matt Fisher, David Fultz, and Daniel Harris. You're going to love this rewind episode.  We'd love to hear...

This week the 17Twenty crew talks about strategic retreats, why they are important, how to go about executing them well, and some times/strategies for conducting or participating in your next strategic retreat to get the most out of this valuable time together with your teams. We'd love to hear from you! Send us a text message here! || Connect with Us || Check out all our episodes on all major...

Bond.  James Bond. This week the 17Twenty team sits down with Dean Stott.  In 16 years of service, Dean rose to the top of Britain’s fighting force, taking part in some of the most daring and dangerous operations in the war on terror.  He's the closest thing to a real James Bond you're ever going to meet.   Now a speaker, author, double World Record holder, security specialist, husband,...

This week Kevin and Stewart sit down to talk about the process of setting, keeping, managing, and celebrating goals.  The conversation revolves around how Kevin goes about doing this with his teams, and the guys talk through pros, cons, strategies, and implementation ideas to help make 2022 the best year ever, for you and your team.   We'd love to hear from you! Send us a text message here! ||...

This week the 17Twenty crew is back in the studio with another man who is investing in to the lives of the men around him on the gridiron.  Coach Shane "Tolly" Tolleson sits down and talks through the come up in football, winning state titles at Denton Ryan, the move to Waxahachie as their head coach, building a first class program, and all the details along the way the show a commitment...

In our season three premiere, the crew sits down with head strength and conditioning coach at Georgia Tech, Lewis Caralla. We have talked about Coach Lew many times, including an entire BYLR hour dedicated to the powerful impact that he is having on people, and the motivational mindset that  permeates his social media.  The conversation with Coach Lew is poignant and impactful, stretching from men...

In this week's episode, Kevin and Stewart sit down and look back at and review the year.  Lots of shout-outs this week as the 17Twenty crew talks through cool moments of the year, being trusted with the stories of people, the questions that gets asked the most about the podcast, the reach of the podcast in 2021, and other thoughts, musings, and thanks as the 17Twenty crew closes out another y...

Hey Mountain Movers!   This week Kevin sits down in the 17Twenty studio with Lauren Shields from the American Heart Association.  Lauren and her family face incredible challenges in her youth including the need for immediate heart surgery and 18 months full of follow up procedures. This experience builds up her passion for serving and pursuing a career with AHA.  At the AHA, she is living out her...

This week we sit down in-studio with Lauren Abeyta, founder & COO at Construction Discovery Experts.  As usual, the conversation winds around Lauren's story of growing up, the impact of sports in her life, ending up in Dallas, and the resulting journey to entrepreneurship.  Striking in today's episode is the conversational pace with Lauren which feathers in-and-out of humorous bits a...

This week the 17Twenty crew sits down with Heather Stokes to hear about and learn from her story of recovery.  A story of trauma, addiction, abuse, and incarceration is restored by the redeeming power of Christ. As the story unfolds, you'll hear something this week that you usually don't hear ... just the story.  Very few questions.  Very few interruptions.  The story just told itself in...

Today Kevin and Stewart sit down with Ollie Chandhok, Market President & Publisher for the Dallas Business Journal.  For those of you who know Ollie, you know him as a great connector of people and our conversation with Ollie was no different.  The guys talk through his story from growing up in Toronto, playing  golf on a college scholarship, selling nuts and bolts, and eventually landing with...

This week Tracy Timm joins the 17Twenty crew, in studio.  Tracy is the CEO and Founder of Thrivist, a professional training company helping individuals find a "thrive-worthy career."  This episode walks through Tracy's background (Division 1 athlete at a Ivy League school, career on Wall Street, etc.) and really drill down on what  it looks like to have clarity in your career. Tracy...

This week the 17Twenty team sits down with Jeff Leach, an old friend of Stewart's who has gone on to do great things including representing District 67 in the Texas House of Representatives.  With Kevin out this week, Jeff and Stewart sit down and talk about growing up in Plano, Texas, the role of his parents in his story, growing up in the church and the lessons and importance of that in his...

Kevin and Stewart sit down this week and talk about lessons learned from a recent trip to NYC for the World of Business Forum, and a few buzzwords that very hot right now, empathy and uncertainty.  The conversation centers around how these ideas around empathy are implemented  both internally and externally, and information management around these ideas to make sure that when the questions are ask...

Kyle Kelly joins the guys at 17Twenty in studio this week.  If you're in the DFW construction market, you know Kyle as the nicest guy in the room.  But if you don't know Kyle, you'll learn about his journey from Boerne, to Texas A&M, a stint as the president of the student body, lessons learned from a season of door-to-door sales, and the eventual travels to Dallas to join the c...

This week, we've got a great episode where the guys sit down virtually with Tyler Coston, the owner of SAVI Performance and Managing Director for PGC Basketball.  The guys talk about the value of a community, how to get our of a rut of playing status games,  the value of sport to teaching human identity, leading teams by meeting them where they are, being a loving truth teller as a leader, et...

This week Kevin and Stewart sit down to talk about a couple of topics including teasing a long list of upcoming guests, unpacking what success looks like (and how a right definition of success helps set priorities), and difficulties in hiring and adding to your teams in this environment (and how doing that offers opportunities to show corporate culture and lean in to vulnerabilities). Hope you can...

Jason Evelyn, the Chief Operating Officer at MMC Corp, sits down with the 17Twenty crew this week.  The conversation centers on Jason's career at the MMC Corp companies, starting with MW Builders, and including lessons learned through the climb of the ladder, what COVID-19 taught Jason-about-Jason, implementation of core values, and all things in between. ... also, there's a little weed...

This week Kevin and Stewart sit down with Preston Poore, the author of  Discipled Leader, a book that provides struggling, stuck, or merely surviving Christian business leaders with a framework to grow their influence through becoming a redemptive (i.e., change for the better), Christlike presence in the workplace and living a more fulfilling life. Dan Cathy, Chairman and CEO of Chick-fil-A, Inc.,...

The 17Twenty crew sits down this week to tackle a few issues and ideas, including Kevin's marathon training, a few leadership lessons learned from Kevin and Quinn's recent trip to the theatre to watch the new Paw Patrol movie, and some chatter around a few Harvard Business Review articles about burnout and adapting leadership style. While the guys jokingly talk about how the listeners ar...