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Welcome to Tulsa Talks, presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.   My guest on this episode is Kristin McQuaid, who has danced through life, and is now also exploring all the other opportunities that are out there for her YouTube series “Kickin it with Kristin.”  Kristin is a lifelong entertainer. She started dancing when she was kid and quickly became a professional. She dan...

TulsaPeople Art Director Georgia Brooks shares her passion for delivering curated staff picks to readers’ inboxes each month. Click here to sign up to receive our e-newsletters, including Fab Finds.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  This time last year it was an arctic tundra outside for weeks. The weather was so bad for so long, there was the implantation of an overflow shelter for those experiencing homelessness. That wasn’t enough. People experiencing homelessness were moved into any hotel that rooms available. That still wasn’t enough....

TulsaPeople's editors take a cue from three Tulsans interviewed for our February education issue and discuss the benefits of lifelong learning. CORRECTION: Our February 2022 College Guide is not, in fact, a comprehensive list of colleges and universities in the state of Oklahoma. It includes the Tulsa area, the area east of Interstate 35 and the Oklahoma City suburbs for the most part.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  President Barack Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance in 2014 to build safe and supportive communities for boys and young men of color.  Eight years later, under the purview of ImpactTulsa, Tulsa has accepted the My Brother’s Keeper challenge, with native Tulsan BerThaddaeus Bailey taking the lead. Be...

Senior Editor Morgan Phillips and her 8-year-old review the new children's museum at 31st Street and Riverside Drive. Plus, A&E Editor Blayklee Freed provides a peek into Tulsa's art community spotlighted in the January issue of TulsaPeople Magazine.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes and the digital editor here at TulsaPeople Magazine. Before we get into the new episode, I wanted to let you know that on TulsaPeople.com we have original content almost every day of the week. There are the Oklahoma Best Sellers lists on Sundays, Tulsa music listings every Monday afternoon (that’s where you can fi...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber! I’m your host Tim Landes.   Happy New Year! It’s also a new podcast season, and new you maybe?   My guest on this episode is Ali Hanson of Ali Made Food and the new Bon Broth Bar at 81st and Harvard. She recently popped into the studio to let me try some of her broth options and talk about how it changed her life. She’s also featured in o...

Our editors recap the history of the Tulsa Voice newspaper, review a new Cherry Street bar and find out how Topeca Coffee’s Ian Picco traded in the stage for the coffee shop.

Our editors talk Tulsa’s best cinnamon rolls, foodie zines and memories of the Woodland Hills Mall carousel.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. For this month’s issue of the magazine, I wrote about the staffing issues that are impacting our first responders in policing, fire and EMSA and how they’re trying to fill the gaps in protection.  I also took part in a ridealong with TPD patrol officer John Shelton, who works in the Mingo Valley Division, which i...

About Town, Ep. 10: The mirror fail and other tales from 2021 Editors Morgan Phillips and Blayklee Freed provide a brief year in review from TulsaPeople Magazine.  

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  Like many people these days, I have a love/hate relationship with social media. I've taken month long breaks from my personal Facebook and Twitter. Even today, I find myself more of a lurker and heart giver than posting random thoughts that will be misunderstood by Aunt Gertrude. I do still love to look at...

TulsaPeople editors Morgan Phillips and Blayklee Freed preview December's holiday issue and share stories about local pets, some of which even have jobs.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. Through my writings for TulsaPeople, I often get to share stories of people from all walks of life. For the past two years I wrote a monthly piece called I Am. I’ve shared the stories of Tulsans who are trans, blind, gay, Buddhist, and the list goes on. If you’re a longtime listener to this podcast, you’ve heard...

Our editors discuss why they never know what day it is and what it’s like to fly in a World War II-era aircraft .

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. For this episode all I had to do was ask my guest Deborah Laker to walk across the office to have this conversation. Deborah is our fall intern. She’s in her final semester as an international student at Oral Roberts University, where’s she’s majoring in journalism and political science.  She’s from Uganda, which...

A rundown of Halloween haps in Tulsa this weekend, plus embarrassing costume stories from TulsaPeople editors Morgan Phillips and Blayklee Freed.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  Kate Barnard should be a household name in Oklahoma. There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of her. She was the first woman elected to state office before women had the right to vote. In her role as Charities and Corrections Commissioner, she created compulsory education laws, child labor laws and uncovered th...

Longtime TulsaPeople photographer Michelle Pollard discusses how her job has changed over 20+ years, as well as some of her favorite photo shoots. Then CEO Gail Lapidus tells about an unexpected role in her early career with Family and Children’s Services.  

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  Late next year OKPop Museum is slated to open across the street from Cain’s Ballroom. Once the doors open museum visitors will walk past an authentic Bob Wills tour bus as they begin learning about our state’s rich and diverse history in pop culture and how it connects to today’s famous Oklahomans. Blake Ewing i...

About Town Editor Blayklee Freed and City Editor Morgan Phillips preview the October downtown issue of TulsaPeople. Blayklee gets in the Halloween spirit with ghost tours, and Morgan talks about visiting a local neon sign shop for a story.  Read all the October articles at TulsaPeople.com beginning Friday, Oct. 1. 

Our editors share online exclusives and how Elizabeth Frame Ellison wants to help more women reach the C-Suite.

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. In this month’s issue of TulsaPeople, our cover story is about being mom. There are profiles of women who became moms during the pandemic. The importance of shifting the mental load. We also share snapshots of what motherhood looks like for a group of women spanning the metro. One of those women is my guest on th...

Listen now for our editors’ favorite September stories, what happens when a source becomes a friend and Elliot Nelson’s weekend ritual.