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Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  It wasn’t that long ago that Tulsa and Oklahoma were living in the dark ages. It was a time when we were a land of 3.2 Bud heavies and Bud Lights, so people had to travel long distances to get certain strong beers. Some may have even died from dysentery on the trail. The year was 2007.  It was then Eric Marshall...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. My guest on this episode hasn’t let anything slow her down. Not even a pandemic. Premadonna Braddick is the founder and director of Soaring Eagle’s Youth and Family Services, which engages, educates and empowers at-risk youth families. Premadonna is a mentor to several young women through her Girls Teen Summit. S...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The week this episode debuts is also the one Restaurant Week occurs for the 14th year. Each year diners visit restaurants across the city to enjoy a great meal and help support the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma.  There’s never been as important a time to support local restaurants and the food bank. This...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. My guest on this episode is Nehemiah Frank, publisher of The Black Wall Street Times.  Nehemiah started the digital news site as a side hustle three years ago while working as a middle school educator. Due to the success of his media business, Nehemiah stepped away from the classroom, but I was still interested t...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes, and I really miss going to the movies. I’ve been going to the movies most my life. Sometimes it was multiple times a week. The smell of popcorn. The faint rumbles of a movie playing in a screening room. The half hour of previews and then the show.  My guest on this episode is Clark Wiens, co-founder of Circle Cin...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  Back in November, I started working on a feature about the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Task Force that is now available in our July issue and online at TulsaPeople.com .   The task force was created in 2016 after Vic Regalado was elected sheriff. He turned to his old boss Mike Huff, a retired Tulsa P...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  On May 30, I snapped photos as Rev. Robert Turner stood in the street of the Brookside commercial district as he led a “We Can’t Breathe” protest. It was the first of three weeks of protests in Tulsa in what became global response to the killing of George Floyd. For many Tulsans, it was a reminder of the recent...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. I’m really excited to share this conversation with you. For over 50 years, Bell’s Amusement Park was the spot for fun for many Oklahoma kids, including myself. Growing up in Claremore, the trips to Bell’s were among the biggest highlights of my summer for many summers. There was the Zingo and the Wildcat. The Him...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  My guest on this episode is Mary Beth Babcock of Buck Atom’s Cosmic Curios on 66. It’s a quirky, fun little retail operation based out of an old 1950s gas station on 11th near Peoria. You’ve maybe seen Buck Atom. He’s hard to miss. Buck is a space cowboy and a big fan of Route 66. He’s also a big statue based on...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  It has been two months since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most of Tulsa. It’s been one year since historic flooding created an ongoing crisis in Tulsa.  On this episode Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum discusses how last May’s flooding prepared him to lead the City’s response to the pandemic. He also reflects on the pa...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  Tulsa and most of Oklahoma is reopening. For some it’s as if COVID-19 is a thing of the past and they’re ready to move on.  For others, it’s too soon. They have found safety in their homes and developed a routine. They could be working from home, seeing coworkers faces on a screen. Having virtual hangouts when n...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. Our April issue features some local environmental heroes. We share five stories of Tulsans working to make a positive difference. Among those is Nathan Pickard, and his wife Kristin, who have been hard at work creating The Joinery. It’s a regenerative building located in the Heights, just north of downtown. It’s...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. Oh boy was I excited to do this interview. My guest on this episode is Chad Rodgers, who co-owns and operates the legendary Cain’s Ballroom. It’s a place I consider a second home. I’ve seen hundreds of concerts at Cain’s over the years, yet I’d never talked to Chad until we sat down for this conversation the seco...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. My guest on this episode is Rustic Cuff founder and CEO Jill Donovan.  Jill was an attorney and adjunct professor at TU when she started making bracelets as a side hustle. That quickly turned into a full-time operation, which allowed Jill to grow as a business leader, an author, a podcast host of CEO-ish and gave...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. My guest is Case Morton, co-founder of Clean Hands Army.  Nearly a decade ago, a group of artistic friends decided to launch a business. One of their early projects was painting a couple of murals in downtown, including the Woody Guthrie Center.  Today they have more than 35 murals across Tulsa. Their work sparke...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. I’m thrilled to share this conversation with you. The voice you heard kicking this off is my guest, Onikah Asamoa-Caesar. She’s the founder of soon-to-open Fulton Street Books and Coffee located in the Heights, which is just northwest of downtown Tulsa. Onikah’s story is incredible. We shared it in our February i...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. There’s been a lot of news lately about legendary director Martin Scorsese coming to northeast Oklahoma to film Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon. It’s just one of many movie and television productions to film in our area in recent years, and there are more to come. The voice you just heard a moment...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. You just heard Lisa Becklund. She’s a chef turned farmer back to chef. Friends have told me she offers one of the best dining experiences they’ve ever had. I have yet to enjoy it for myself. It’s like trying to land a seat at a Saturday Night Live taping. Nearly impossible. We talk about the sudden and continual...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The voice you just heard is our TulsaPeople Tulsan of the Year, Jeff Martin. I’m a huge fan of Jeff and the work he does for our city. At the end of our conversation we recorded in early December, I mentioned to Jeff that his work has helped keep me in Tulsa, and that’s definitely true. I’m a bookworm and a regul...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The voice you just heard is Maggie Hoey . For the past few years, she’s served as the executive director of TYPROS, one of the largest, most organized young professional organizations in the nation. In that role, she she’s worked to provide young professionals from all professions with opportunities to build rela...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The person you just heard is Matt Pinnell , the Lt. Governor of Oklahoma. Since he announced his 2018 campaign to run for office, Matt has been going nonstop. It’s like he took a brief break to be sworn in and then kept on bouncing around the state. It seems like every day he’s in a different Oklahoma community,...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  The voice you just heard is Ben Alexander, Vice President of Culinary Operations for the McNellie’s Group. You know how crazy the kitchen gets at your family holiday gatherings? Just imagine that times 20 in nearly 20 kitchens serving different styles of food every single day. As you heard in the intro, it can g...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I'm your host Tim Landes. The voice you just heard belongs to Jennifer Loren. She's a co-creator, producer, director, and the host of the Emmy winning series, "Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People." It's a weekly documentary style program airing nationwide and online. Currently in its fifth season, OsiyoTV allows...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes. The person you just heard is Regina Goodwin. Her family instilled in her the philosophy that “Service is the rent we pay for our room and board on earth.” In 2015, Goodwin became the state representative for District 73, which covers downtown and north Tulsa. It’s the area where Goodwin was born and raised and no...

Welcome to Tulsa Talks presented by Tulsa Regional Chamber. I’m your host Tim Landes.  The voice that just kicked this is off is Jeff Stava. Jeff is the chief operating officer for Tulsa Community Foundation and the executive director of Tulsa’s Gathering Place, which just celebrated its first birthday after a phenomenal opening year. Park officials expected around 1 million visitors, but it was a...