Seay the Future Podcast

Senator William Frist, M.D. is a nationally-acclaimed heart and lung transplant surgeon, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, founding partner of Frist Cressey Ventures , and chairman of the Executives Council of the health service investment firm Cressey & Company . He is actively engaged in the business as well as the medical, humanitarian, and philanthropic communities. He is chairman of bot...

Josh Good is the director of Ethics & Public Policy Center's Faith Angle Forum, which aims to strengthen reporting and commentary on how religious believers, religious convictions, and religiously grounded moral arguments affect American politics and public life. Tim Schultz is the President of the 1st Amendment Partnership. In this role, he directs all aspects of the organization’s work,...

Jay Hartzell is the President of The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to serving as President, Hartzell served as the 12th dean of the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, one of the largest and most distinguished business schools in the country. As dean for over four years, Hartzell launched the Goff Real Estate Labs, elevated the Canfield Business Honors program and opened Rowling Hall,...

Kevin Roberts, Ph. D., is executive director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. A lifelong educator, Roberts earned his Ph. D. in American history from The University of Texas, thereafter serving as a history professor, and ultimately starting his own K-12 school, John Paul the Great Academy in Louisiana. He was then hired as president of Wyoming Catholic College, which the New York Times desc...

Timothy P. Carney is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Carney’s latest book, “ Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse ” (HarperCollins), was published in February 2019. His previous books include “ Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, C...

William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair at the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin.  He also serves as Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas National Security Review . Inboden’s...

Todd Olsen has extensive experience in strategic communications and political consulting gained from more than two decades at the highest levels of government, politics, and business.  His clients have spanned the gamut: from local non-profit start-ups, to providing strategic and creative communications skills to business leaders, to implementing highly personalized communications strategies for f...

Vance Ginn, Ph. D., is the Chief Economist at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Previously, Dr. Ginn served as the Associate Director for Economic Policy of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the Executive Office of the President during the Trump Administration.  Dr. Ginn earned his doctorate in economics at Texas Tech University and has an accomplished career as a policy director and...

Admiral William McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and the former University of Texas System chancellor. Adm. McRaven oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. His book Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice , published in several languages, is considered a fundamental text on special operations strateg...

Brendan Steinhauser is a Partner with Steinhauser Strategies, a public affairs firm based in Austin, Texas. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Government from The University of Texas in 2004 and earned his M.A. in Statecraft and International Affairs from The Institute of World Politics in 2013. He is an adjunct professor of Political Science and Global Studies at St. Edward's Univers...

David Springer is a former DIA agent, a former counterterrorism specialist at the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, a cybersecurity expert, an attorney, and a former law clerk for Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Brown.  David is an Austin native that attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. for his B.A., earned an M.A. in Communication from Johns Hopkins University,...

Toba Hellerstein is the CEO of the Texas-Israel Alliance , an economic diplomacy organization that creates strategic relationships between the U.S. and Israel. Prior, she had a career in global business development and foreign market advisory, with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa. In this episode of Seay the Future podcast, Toba and George discuss her experience working in the...

General Hagee served as the 33rd Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. His military career took him to innumerable foreign countries in combat and peace. He now serves as the President and CEO of the National Museum of the Pacific War in his hometown of Fredricksburg, Texas. In this episode of Seay the Future , George and General Hagee discuss his background, how the military shaped his life, forei...

Rod Dreher is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative and one of the most influential conservative opinion-makers in the U.S.    In this episode of Seay the Future podcast, George and Dreher discuss his perspective on current topics, his background, his writing career, and much more. 

Seay the Future is a podcast hosted by George Seay, a nationally recognized businessman, philanthropist, and civic leader in Dallas, Texas.  George interviews influential people in business, politics, academia, the military, and the media. Topics include national security, foreign policy, American history and politics, Texas history and politics, religion, society, and culture.