Seay the Future Podcast

Lyndsay M. Keith co-hosts "The News on Merit Street," a weeknight news program on Merit Street Media, the new network from Dr. Phil McGraw. Previously, she hosted news shows on Trinity Broadcasting Network and Newsmax.

David McCloskey is the author of spycraft thrillers "Damascus Station" and the  recently released "Moscow X." He is a former CIA analyst and former consultant at McKinsey & Company, and now, a very accomplished author.  

Jennifer Jehl is a life coach who helps high performers create next-level confidence by discovering a deeper identity, so they live a life of clarity and fulfillment. In particular, she assists men understand Biblical masculinity and how to apply the truth in their lives. 

Jimmy Abegg is a musician, songwriter, writer, photographer, painter and artist based in Nashville. He was a significant contributor to American contemporary Christian music including being a key member of Rich Mullins' A Ragamuffin Band. 

Dr. Lloyd B. Potter was appointed Texas State Demographer on May 5, 2010. He also serves as the director of the Texas Demographic Center housed at The University of Texas at San Antonio. The Texas Demographic Center program produces population estimates and projections for the State of Texas, serves as a data archive for Texas, and offers technical expertise in demographic and socioeconomic resear...

Marc Eliot is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books on popular culture, most recently "The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard." Other highly acclaimed biographies of Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, the award-winning Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince, Down 42nd Street, Take It from Me (with Erin Brockovich), Down Thunder Road: The Making of Bruce...

Cindy is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter who has won thirteen Dove awards, is a two-time GRAMMY nominee, as well as a recipient of the prestigious Songwriter of the Year trophy. Ms. Morgan has twenty-one #1 CCM hits to her credit. She recently published "The Year of Jubilee," a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s, her first w...

Justice Evan Young was appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas in November 2021 by Governor Greg Abbott; he subsequently was elected in November 2022 to a term that expires December 31, 2028. We spoke about the importance of the judiciary, international rule of law, elections, and much more.

Over the holiday season, I had the pleasure of speaking with Grayson Padrick, owner of Central Florida Trophy Hunts! Grayson is a patriotic Floridian with a great family, running a small business that rivals even the most interesting of day jobs. You won't want to miss this fun conversation. 

 On the most recent episode of Seay the Future, I welcomed Penny Guthrie, Franchisee SONIC Drive-In CEO. We discussed Penny's accomplished career from its early beginnings, the challenges and triumphs of balancing work and personal life, and much more. 

Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair, Clements Center for National Security; Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs William Inboden joined the LBJ School faculty after many years of working as a policymaker in Washington, DC, and directing a foreign policy think tank overseas. He is the William Powers, Jr. executive director of the Cl...

Governor Mike Dunleavy arrived in Alaska in 1983 as a young man looking for opportunity, and he found it. His first job was working in a logging camp in Southeast Alaska. Later on, Governor Dunleavy pursued his dream of becoming a teacher. He earned his teacher’s certificate, and then a master of education degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He spent nearly two decades in northwest Arc...

On this episode of Seay the Future, I had the great pleasure of hosting The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dr. Nicole Myers, and Emma Ward, Co-Founder and CEO, Ward-Moretti. We discussed their esteemed careers, how their interest in art was sparked, and more. We even chatted about their perspective on the relationship millennials and Gen-Z have w...

Mario Zandstra is President and CEO of Family Legacy and is the Keeper of the Vision, Culture, Talent, Work with the Board of Directors.  Prior to joining Family Legacy, he served as the President & CEO at Pine Cove Christian Camp, the President at East-West Ministries, and the Executive Vice President at Transwestern Commercial Services. Mario has a Bachelor of Science, Business Administratio...

Cappy McGarr is an Emmy-nominated author, a creator of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize, the National Award for Humor, and The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize. McGarr serves on the boards of The Foundation for the National Archives and The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He serves on The Better Angels Board of Directors,...

Becky Powell is an insurance agent. She and her three children live in Austin, TX. Her eldest, Madison, and Boone have graduated from Baylor University and her youngest, John Luke, is currently in college. Alongside her career, Becky remains active in her church and volunteer work, including the Helping Hand Home and Young Life.

Neil is married to Louise and they have four children. Together they have planted three churches in Scotland, the latest of which is Cornerstone, Edinburgh. Neil is also Director of Church Planting for the Free Church of Scotland which is an evangelical Presbyterian denomination. Neil and Louise both love live music, good food, movies, books, and being by the ocean. Their life ambition is to see h...

David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $301 billion from 26 offices around the world. Mr. Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV;...

Over the holiday season, I had the great privilege of speaking with my friends from Cambridge, Helen and James Orr! We chatted about Helen's experience going from professional singer to priest and James' work as a Cambridge professor and free speech advocate.   

Now published in 97 countries and more than 33 languages, Jeffrey Archer is firmly established as one of the world’s bestselling authors, with international sales passing 275 million copies. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction ( The Prison Diaries ).

Jonathan Aitken's career has spanned the worlds of books, newspapers, television, business, politics, Parliament, prison, theology, charitable service, prison reform and offender rehabilitation.  He was ordained on June 30, 2018 and is now a Priest and part-time prison chaplain at HMP Pentonville.

Sewell Chan is an American journalist who was named editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune effective October 2021. Prior to that he was the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times. In this role, he oversaw the editorial board and the Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times.

Tyler Goodspeed is the Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2020 to 2021 he served as Acting Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, having been appointed by the President as a Member of the Council in 2019. In that role he advised the Administration’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as subsequent economic recovery...

Tim Heis has been named the next President and CEO of Goodwill Industries of Dallas. Most recently Heis was at Neiman Marcus Group, where he served as Vice President of Transformation. Prior to that, he led growth strategy at Bath and Body Works, part of L Brands, and helped the brand achieve multiple years of industry-leading growth and profitability. Heis began his career at Deloitte Consulting...

Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump. Eric Edelman served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well a...