The Jeff Crilley Show

One of the fastest-growing categories of books in America is romance novels. However, when you think about a typical romance novel author, you picture a woman. It's somebody who spent their whole life writing romance and watching romantic comedies. My next guest has written a bestselling book. It's called For Years Until Ever After. Don Cox is in the studio.

I think you'll agree with me that we've all had struggles with God. You lose a loved one, have a divorce, or lose a job, and we ask, "Why me? Why, God? Why would this happen to me?" Scott Gaulden is in the studio. He's a very successful entrepreneur.

As the owner of a PR firm. I recognize great talent when I see it. I had my next guest's client on my show a couple of weeks ago, and I was just so impressed with her. I said, "I need to meet your PR person," and so in studio today, we have KJ Blattenbauer. She's the founder and CEO of Hearsay PR.

I think you'll agree with me that we know more about how the body works than ever before in the history of mankind, and yet we're getting more and more obese. We're wired. We're tired. We're taking caffeine to get up, and we're taking alcohol to wind down.  We have a very sick nation, and to talk about that today is Dr. Richard Drucker. He's the author of Carbon Cure.

I am 62 years old. I can't even believe that, because when I think about myself, I think about myself in my 20s. There are a lot of people my age who are winding down, and then there are other people who are winding up for their next great adventure. That describes my next guest: DeeAnne Meece. She's Miss Texas Senior America.

One of the highlights of my news career is that I freed an innocent man from prison 20-plus years ago, and so I've always had a soft spot in my heart for people who are in prison. A lot of the time, the story goes that a prison becomes a place where you learn your craft better and become a better criminal going out. That is, unless you meet somebody like my next guest. Patricia Harper-Pollard is i...

If I think of some of my fondest childhood memories, it's cooking with mom and grandma in the kitchen. Healing happens in the kitchen, and no one knows that better than my next guest, Debra Peek-Haynes. She's the founder and CEO of Debra's Healing Kitchen.

I think you'll agree with me that it's become a much more dangerous world just in the last couple of years. We weren't thinking about rooftop threats just two years ago, and now everybody is starting to wonder whether we are protected against the violence that could happen from a sniper on a rooftop. To talk about that today is Mark Herrera, a good friend. He's the president and chief security str...

Today, we're going to talk about the Dallas Ski Club. You heard that right: the Dallas Ski Club, and it's the second-oldest ski club in the nation. I mean, you think about all of the wonderful places to ski in the country, and you don't think about Dallas. Joining us today are Bill Baillie and Vince Hrenak. They are both with the Dallas Ski Club.

When I think about the words to Amazing Grace, "I once was lost. But now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see," I think that just describes so many of us. You could have a great job and a great marriage, but you could be drifting through life. Then you wake up one day and find yourself lost. Karen Michelle is in the studio. She's with Shades of Success, and she helps the lost be found.

Dallas is a very fickle place when it comes to restaurants. We all know famous restaurants that opened, and you couldn't get in for a year. Then, the very next year, they were closed. It takes a very special artist to create a restaurant concept that stands the test of time, and that describes my next guest: Mico Rodriguez. Everybody knows him as Mico.

Every morning at 5 a.m., I begin my day by listening to the great Clayton Neville and his co-host, Sybil Summers, on KLIF. It's a dominant station here in Dallas, and I just finally worked up the courage to invite Clayton into my studio. Let's hear his journey on this episode.

I'm a big fan of the book When God Winks. It was written some 30 years ago. Essentially, the book says God's not parting the Red Sea anymore to prove that he or she exists, but all these little doors that open or don't open, that's God winking at us, saying, "I got you." My next guest is Chef Jennifer Bajsel. She has found her passion, but she has had several reinventions of herself to get there.

I'm so excited about my next guest because he suggests that we're all in a prison of our own making. It could be reliving trauma from the past, or it could be negative self-talk: whatever you're going through, we're all in a prison of our own making.  This is a man, Deric Durden, who inspires me. He's a speaker, author, life coach, and my friend.

I'm a big fan of The Andy Griffith Show. If you think about it, that show was set in the 60s, and the biggest problem Opie ever had was maybe getting bullied at school. Now we have all this social media with 24/7 access to the internet, and young people are struggling right now. That's why I have my next guest in the studio: Jenn Brown. She's a certified life coach.

It says in the Bible, "Don't hide your light under a bushel," and unfortunately, I think life has setbacks. We all have this light that glows from us. If you're born a healthy baby, your light is as bright as the sun, but different setbacks can cause us to lose that glow. To get our sparkle back, the great Suzanne Castle is in the studio. She's with the Sparkle Factor.

My baby birds flew the nest a while ago, and I remember how quiet the house was when they left. I'm so proud of my son and my daughter. They both work for me now at Real News. However, there are a lot of parents who work their whole lives, and their whole identity is tied up in their kids. So what happens when the baby birds have flown the nest? That's why I invited my next guest into the studio....

This show is all about residential architecture. If you think about it, you can drive through a neighborhood and have a very similar look of a home, and you can drive through another neighborhood and have a completely different style. Styles go in and go out, and then they come back in again. To talk about that today is Larry Paschall, the CEO of Spotted Dog Architecture.

My next guest is on a journey to discover herself, and she's helping others do the same. Dr. Courtney Gowin is a good friend, and we've known each other for several years. Shout out to Dr. Fab Mancini who introduced us. She has been an expert for many years in all things motherhood and babies, and now she's leading mastermind groups around the planet. I'm honored to have her back in my studio.

If you think about the journey of a butterfly, it is a journey of resilience, always starting as a cocoon and then emerging from the cocoon and hopefully soaring. As we look at a lot of young people around the country in different companies, however, they're struggling.  It's almost a failure-to-launch situation. To talk about that today is Shelly Rexroat, the author of the upcoming book Uncocoone...

Let's confess that we're all broken people, and sometimes, if you put yourself through this downward spiral of feeling broken and feeling sorry for yourself, you never get out of that funk. That's why you need to bring in somebody like my next guest. She's a Certified Christian Life Coach. Gladys Perez Hilty is in the studio.

I remember when I was in high school in Detroit, Michigan, and the news bug bit me. I knew that I had to go for this with gusto, and I love other people who find their calling early on. That describes my next guest. Kay Van Wey is in the studio. She's one of the top medical malpractice attorneys in the state of Texas.

I think about confidence and showing up to the world with your best self, and so much of that depends on how you show up in the mirror. Are you proud of the person that you're looking at? That's why I invited my next guest in the studio, Dr. Jordi Bostock. She's the author of the bestselling book Change Your Hair, Change Your Life.

There's an old saying in networking that you've got to circulate to percolate. We have a lot of Gen Zs who have 5,000 to 10,000 acquaintances on LinkedIn, and they don't know any of them very well. There's an art to networking, and the queen of networking in America is in the studio right now: the great Shelli Howlett.

It's unique on this planet that mankind has had relationships with horses for thousands of years. There's a special relationship there, and I'm interviewing two of the driving forces behind Equest because the relationship that people of all walks of life have with horses is so therapeutic. Eric Lindh is the CEO of Equest, and Melinda Knowles is the co-chair of their Blue Ribbon Gala.