Jenna Jackson, Founder and CEO of P+R Creative Group, joins the podcast to tell us how she took 20 plus years in TV production and built her company with a focus on telling great stories.

P+R is a Texas based full service creative agency that helps its clients around the world through the entire creative process

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Special Guest: Jenna Jackson.

In today's episode, you will meet Eddie Martin, president and CEO of Tilson homes. Tilson is one of the oldest family owned and operated home builders in Texas celebrating its 90th anniversary this year.

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Special Guest: Eddie Martin.

As we celebrate the One Year Anniversary of the Building Texas Business podcast, we are taking it back to Episode 1 with Houston legend, Johnny Carrabba. Johnny is the founder of The Original Carrabba’s Restaurant on Kirby Drive in Houston, Texas and the inspiration for the nationwide chain of restaurants.

Johnny talks about his passion for culture, humility, and good old fashioned courtesy as he shares his ups and downs with the evolution of the restaurant industry and his original vision for expansion.

Johnny believes the keys to success are in the Carrabba's fundamentals: food, service, cleanliness, energy and enthusiasm.

Johnny compares running a restaurant to coaching a football team and find shares if he really was destined for this role prior to birth.

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Special Guest: Johnny Carrabba.

In today's episode, we celebrate the Houston Zoo's 100th anniversary with the Zoo's President and CEO, Lee Ehmke.

Lee discusses the conservation efforts and improvements undertaken by the Houston Zoo and how contributions and partnerships are leading to worldwide efforts to save animals in the wild.

This episode is an exciting venture into the world of global animal welfare and the efforts being undertaken to protect all the amazing creatures we share this planet with.

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Special Guest: Lee Ehmke.

June Dively, CEO of SiEnergy, a gas utility company based in Austin, Texas, joins the podcast to let us into the mind of a trailblazer and we explore what it means to build a customer focused business that has no use for the word "No".

Si Energy are committed to delivering efficient, clean-burning natural gas at reasonable costs, and June has successfully grown the company over the past 10 years by eliminating the word "no" from her vocabulary and building a team that, above all else follows through on their word to the customers.

You can take a listen now at BoyarMiller.com/podcast/029.

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Special Guest: June Dively.

On the latest episode of the Building Texas Business podcast, we talk with Josh Jacobs, Co-founder and CEO of the Blue Ox group, a commercial real estate brokerage based in Houston, focusing on tenant and landlord representation, investment sales, and land brokerage.

Inspired by the fable of Paul Bunyan, the larger-than-life lumberjack who could achieve the impossible, he started his company in June of 2020 in the middle of the pandemic.

Josh details the business principles he applied to help set the foundation for his company and how its core values support the way they work.

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Kelly Hall joins the latest episode of the Building Texas Business podcast. Kelly, CEO of Harvey Builders, a full-service general contractor whose true mission is creating relationships that lead to spaces where great things happen.

Starting as a project manager 29-years ago, Kelly worked his way up to become CEO in 2018. He discusses the importance of leaders being visible, listening to their employees and demonstrate empathy.

This episode is valuable to anyone in a leadership position, and Kelly's experience and perspective demonstrate why Harvey has a great reputation.

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Special Guest: Kelly Hall.

On the latest episode of the Building Texas Business podcast, we talk with Ali Nasser, CEO and founder of the wealth and life planning company AltruVista and author of a new book, The Business Owner's Dilemma, looking at the 3 dilemmas we face as business owners.

This is a great conversation. Ali shares insights from his career, how he started AltruVista, and the lessons he's learned over the years that led him to write the book.

Entrepreneurs are fundamentally different from non-entrepreneurs when it comes to wealth and legacy planning and how to apply the concept of purposeful wealth to your business and life.

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Special Guest: Ali Nasser.

On the latest episode of the Building Texas Business podcast, we're speaking with Ralph Vasami, CEO of Universal Weather and Aviation, headquartered here in Houston, Texas.

Ralph has a unique and inspiring story. He started at Universal Weather and Aviation as a high school intern in their meteorology department, rising to the position of CEO in 2007, a role he still holds today.

Ralph credits being a lifelong learner and staying curious as two of the qualities among many that have helped him lead Universal for the past 15 years. In our conversation, he details how he preserved the company's culture despite the tough times presented by the pandemic.

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Special Guest: Ralph Vasami.

I'm excited to introduce you to two guests on the latest episode of the Building Texas Business podcast. Chef Kiran Verma, Chef and Owner of Kiran's restaurant here in Houston, and her daughter Puja Verma, Director of Operations and Development.

Chef Kiran is known as the Godmother of Indian fine dining, and you will hear how, at the age of six, she learned to cook in her mom's kitchen in New Delhi, India, and then on coming to the US, she was inspired by early visits to Luby's for the recipes she still uses today.

Puja's background is also interesting, as she shares how she draws on her experiences learned working in finance for the oil and gas industry to drive the future of the restaurant.

Kiran's is a beloved restaurant in Houston, and this is a great opportunity to get to know the family behind its success.

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Special Guests: Kiran Verma and Puja Verma.