MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs

Since Sept. 1984, Greg has served 35+ years with the Louisville Redbirds, Louisville RiverBats and now Louisville Bats. He has held roles as diverse as now Senior Vice President, Assistant General Manager, Marketing Director, Sponsorship Sales Director, Promotions Director, Sales Manager, Group Sales Manager, Redbirds Ticket Manager, Redbirds Public Address Announcer & Director of the 1991 & 2008...

As President of Texas Roadhouse, Inc., which owns & operates more than 575 restaurants in 49 states & 9 countries, Scott joined Texas Roadhouse in 2002 as the Chief Financial Officer and was promoted to President in 2011 and retired on June 20th, 2019.  Before joining Texas Roadhouse, Scott was employed by YUM! Brands, Inc. & Burger King Corp. where he began his career in 1987.  Scott earned his b...

Joe Herron is a South African born beverage entrepreneur who has founded 3 beverage companies; Nutrisoda – sold to PepsiAmericas in 2006, Crispin Cider – sold to MillerCoors in 2012 & now Copper & Kings. All 3 companies have their roots in Louisville, Kentucky and he feels fortunate to finally be able to establish their first company actually based in Louisville. His family has lived in South Afri...

Teddy Abrams is a widely acclaimed conductor, as well as an established pianist, clarinetist, & composer.  As Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra & Music Director & Conductor of the Britt Classical Festival, Teddy also served as Resident Conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, which he first conducted in 2011. A tireless advocate for the power of music, he continues to foster i...

Born to Ira & Ambie Kilburn in 1991, Caleb Kilburn was raised in Salt Lick, a rural eastern Kentucky town, on his family's dairy farm. These years taught him the meaning of hard work and endowed him with an impressive array of mechanical skills which would prove invaluable later in life when he was called on to help build Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. After graduating Valedictorian of his high...

Shug McGaughey began working as a trainer in 1979 and to date has won more than 240  graded stakes races . In 1986, he got his big break when  Ogden Phipps  hired him to train his stable of horses. In 1988, he won the  Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer  in the United States. Among his many wins, Shug has captured the  Jockey Club Gold Cup  and the  Travers Stakes  three times each and won the...

Born August 10, 1965, Mike Smith is an American  jockey  who has been one of the leading riders in U.S.  Thoroughbred   racing  since the early 1990s, was inducted into the  National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame  in 2003, and has won the most  Breeders' Cup  races of any jockey with 26 Breeders' Cup wins. Smith is also the second leading jockey of all time in earnings with over $312 million. ...

Born August 14, 1966, in  Louisville, Kentucky, Dale Romans  is an  American   Thoroughbred   racehorse trainer , best known for winning the  2011 Preakness Stakes  with  Shackleford  and the  Breeders' Cup Turf  with  Little Mike . He also upset  American Pharoah  in the 2015  Travers Stakes  with  Keen Ice . He won the 2012  Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer .

Dick Wilson's philanthropic history starts in the late 1980s when he co-founded the Louisville Dream Factory at the request of Jane Eubank & 5 other friends of her: BANKER, (CHESTER MISBACH) LAWYER (CARSON PORTER) HAIR STYLIST (CAROL SANDERS) & 3 OTHER FRIENDS INCLUDING DICK Today they now have over 33 chapters nationally with over 25,000 dreams granted & 1500 locally. Another local charity which...

Jay Davidson was born in Denver in 1942. At age 12, he went to work cutting grass and started paying rent to help cover living expenses, due to an absentee father. When he was 14, he started work at an amusement park. There he began his drinking career, consuming glasses of leftover liquor from the patrons who partied the night before, but still made good grades and became a leader in his high sch...

Rebecca & Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe are singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist sisters creating their own brand of Roots Rock 'n' Roll: gritty, soulful, and flavored by their southern heritage. Originally from Atlanta and currently living in Nashville, they are descendants of tortured artist and creative genius Edgar Allan Poe.

On the seventh day of a ten-day retreat at a Vipassana meditation center outside the historic Indian city of Kolhapur, Phoebe Hunt intrinsically felt the life leave her namesake's body on the other side of the world. The story of how she came to be known as Phoebe — a tale woven subtly into the whimsical threads and spiritual contradictions of  Shanti's Shadow , her new record — has the humor and...

The 4 band members of Swimming with Bears-( Joe Perry- Lead Vocals / Bass, Alec Conte- Lead Guitar, Jonny Boy Kerr- Rhythm Guitar, Ryan Hannasch- Drums)-favor a musical genre of Alternative / Soul.   Swimming with Bears hail from the great musical city of Austin, Texas!

The world tends to look at accomplishments in the form of accolades and although only in his mid-30's, Michael Cleveland has plenty to his credit. After picking up the fiddle at age 4, Michael's musical momentum began to propel him forward towards early success. "When I started taking lessons at age 4," he remembers, "I told the teacher right up front that I wanted to learn how to play bluegrass a...

My name is Fawn and I "love my life as K. Weaver's wife" (exactly what is written on my car license plate frame).  My husband, Keith, and I were married in 2003 and like fine wine, our relationship just gets better with time.  I've loved being a wife from the moment I said: "I do."  I'm not a stay-at-home wife. I'm an investor in real estate, the tech sector, and lifestyle brands, currently operat...

Trained as a mechanical engineer, Shawn, and in turn, IQS Research, bring precision & scientific rigor to the process of conducting social science research. During his tenure, he has overseen 100's of projects, ranging from qualitative studies involving select high-value respondents to projects interviewing several thousand respondents, conducted in multiple languages, & across multiple continents...

Born in 1957 as 1 of 14 children to the late Mel & Norma Meiners, Terry attributes his success to a strong German Catholic work ethic-oriented childhood, which laid the foundation to his now legendary 1985 move to WHAS-Radio. Prior to WHAS, Meiners worked with Ron Clay as the co-host of "The Show With No Name," a morning drive-time program on Louisville rock station WQMF-FM. These 2 provided edgy...

He is a licensed marriage & family therapist (LMFT) & COO & Co-Founder of The InnerView Counseling & Consultation Services. He has spent much of his career counseling children, adolescents, couples, & their families & has spoken regionally & nationally on marriage, parenting, & adolescent issues. His areas of focus center on addiction, marriage & family struggles, infidelity, parenting, & assistin...

Kirt Jacobs is the host and producer of MoxieTalk, a talk show that gives an intimate look into the courage, character and defining moments of today's most inspiring individuals. In 2005, Kirt Jacobs conceived an interview talk show to showcase the vision and influence of local leaders and launched Leadership Landscape in partnership with MetroTV. Over 250 guests have been featured on this unique...

Jack Hughes Jacobs was born on March 31st, 1935 in Grayson, KY. to Ira Gee "Big Jack" Jacobs and Elizabeth Pryor Hughes. He became a lifelong Louisvillian and was a life-long member of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral where he began singing in the choir during the mid-1940's and becoming an altar boy. Jack was a 1953 graduate of Manual High School and went on to serve in active duty with the U.S....

As Pres. of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, (the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention) & 1 of the largest seminaries in the world, Dr. Mohler has been recognized by such influential publications as Time Magazine & Christianity Today as an American evangelical leader. In fact, Time.com called him the "reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S." In additio...

Born in 1943 in Kingsport, TN., he graduated from Kingsport-Dobyns-Bennet HS & was on the Honors Society & lettered in track. In 1965, Parsley graduated from Wake Forest Univ. having lettered again in track & being on the Dean's list. He then interned in 1969-70 at the Univ. of Southern CA. & completed his residency @ the Univ. of Lou's School of Medicine from 1972-1975-becoming Chief Resident in...

Dr. Tad Seifert is a neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Norton Children's Hospital and Norton Women's & Children's Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and has been in practice for 20 years. He is one of 30 doctors at Norton Children's Hospital and one of 7 at Norton Women's and Ko...

Prior to serving as KY.'s 61st Gov. overseeing basically a $10 billion enterprise with over 30,000 employees, Steve served as Attny. Genl. from 1979 to 1983 & LT. Gov. from 1983 to 1987, as well as a KY. House of Reps from 1973 to 1979.  In, 1987, prior to his 1st  term as Governor in 2007, he joined the Stites & Harbison law firm & supervised the firm's Lexington office. As Governor, Steve succes...

Since 2001, when Ouita & her husband, Chris, opened the Holly Hill Inn in Midway, KY., she has made locally grown ingredients a priority in her world-class cuisine within her family of rests. where many a bourbon aficionado will find her restaurants along the KY. Bourbon Trail-such as Holly Hill Inn or Wallace Station Deli & the Midway Bakery ALL in Midway, KY. or the Windy Corner Mkt. & Rest. or...