This is a show in which you will meet surprising business people. The nun from Corpus Christi who founded the top microlender in the country. The black man who grew up in Jim Crow Mississippi who - to his surprise - took over the chairmanship of the nation’s 2nd largest bank following the 2008 crisis. A 17 year-old girl in Round Rock Texas who has cracked the code of 2 different social media platforms, on the way to building her multi-million dollar business, a business which she runs in between studying as a junior in high school and going to band practice. A San Antonio restaurateur whose roots go back to the earliest days of settling the Panhandle of Texas, and whose favorite days are when his restaurant is empty.
This is also a show in which you will hear about the complexities of business - business not about announcing the latest earnings, and certainly not the latest product pitches. But I mean the complexity of business as a calling, as a life-project. Business as a way to make a living, yes, but also where failure might be - and often is - just around the corner. Business as a project that makes us ask ourselves. What is success? And also, what do I still not know?
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Paula Harris smashes expectations like it's her life mission. We talk about what it was like as the only African American woman in the Texas A&M Petroleum Engineering Department, and then again as an outlier on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Paula later led ESG efforts for oil and gas services company Schlumberger, and we talk about the industry's authentic need to evolve and support the energy transition to renewables as well as transition to being more inclusive. In the end, she considers her success in building a different kind of pipeline, one that would make it easier to build a more equitable and just world. -
Working at the outer limits of our physical capacity is a goal Dan Kachtik sets for himself and his fitness customers. Working at the outer limits of his entrepreneurial endurance is something Dan has been forced to do, to build his gym from the ground up since 2013. We talk about those struggles, whether he ever wanted to quit along the way, and how that struggle interacts with his personal philosophy. Dan's biggest supporter on this journey is his wife Janelle, with whom he owns King William District Crossfit. Subscribe to No Hill For A Climber on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast app. -
A new podcast from Texas Public Radio about overcoming challenges in business and surprising stories of entrepreneurship. In Texas, there's an old saying, "That's no hill for a climber." It means that a task that looks daunting to most is a welcome sight to someone who wants to challenge themselves. In this podcast, you'll meet people who fit that mold and pushed through hardships to follow a dream. New episodes out weekly starting December 10. Made possible by Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
