Frances Smith-Dean is the Executive Director of the Zan Wesley Holmes Jr Community Outreach Center. Frances is responsible for the creation of over 5000 jobs for low-income individuals during this pandemic. She is an adjunct professor of Mathematics at Richland College and owner of Financial Educator, LLC.

Frances and I discuss upskilling, the fourth industrial revolution, and our individual roles to safeguard our finances and provide stability for our families in a changing world.

In 2012, Frances was instrumental in establishing a foreign exchange trade business trip between the US-China Business Council, Southern University A & M of Baton Rouge, and The City of Baker Louisiana. Through her work, The City of Baker signed a Friendship City Agreement with China and the Southern University Agricultural Center signed a partnership agreement with Dr. Walter Chen, one of the most influential Chinese American Economist for the top 100 businesses in China.

Frances is a former registered investment advisor for Nationwide insurance where she managed over 1000 employees with the city of New Orleans, Regional Transit Authority, and seven other municipalities within the New Orleans River Region’s PublicEmployee Deferred Compensation plans.

Mentions:
The Great Reset
The Big Short
Seven Stages of Empire

Originally recorded on August 13, 2020

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Blake Kimzey founded and directs Writing Workshops Dallas & Writing Workshops Paris and is a co-founder of The Big Texas Read. Named one of D Magazine's Artists to Learn From, he is a graduate of the MFA Program at UC Irvine; Blake also sits on the Board of the Elizabeth George Foundation and received a generous Emerging Writer Grant from the Foundation.

Blake discusses self-censorship, giving yourself permission to write, and the value of consuming other people’s lived experiences.

His fiction has been broadcast on NPR, performed on stage in Los Angeles, and published by Tin House, McSweeney’s, VICE, Longform, The Los Angeles Review, and The Masters Review, Booth, and selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler for inclusion in The Best Small Fictions 2015. Blake’s collection of short tales, Families Among Us, an Indie Bestseller, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014. He is working on his first novel and is represented by Ryan Harbage. He has taught in the Creative Writing Programs at SMU, UT-Dallas, and UC-Irvine. Follow him on Twitter @BlakeKimzey.

Originally recorded on September 17, 2020

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Arthur Peña is a Bronx based artist, curator, and writer. He is the co-founder of Dallas’ Deadbolt Studios, founder/director of experimental art space WARE:WOLF:HAUS, and grant-funded, roving music venue/music label Vice Palace.

Arthur discusses his evolution as an artist, his Dallas upbringing, and time spent in the studio.

Peña has shown throughout Texas, including exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary, Oliver Francis Gallery, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Fair, and a solo exhibition at Dallas Contemporary; additional exhibition venues in New York include Et Al Projects, This Friday or Next Friday, and Couples Counseling. In 2019, Brigitte Mulholland (currently a director at Anton Kern Gallery) presented a solo booth of his work at the Spring/Break Art Show.

His work has been featured in Art in America, Vice, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, Art Maze Magazine, New American Paintings, and Dallas Morning News. Additionally, Peña is a prominent contributing writer with a storied archive of artist interviews including conversations with Stanley Whitney, Joyce Pensato, Nina Chanel Abney, Katherine Bradford, Sterling Ruby, Michael Rakowitz, and many more.

Peña received his Post- Baccalaureate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design.

website: ArthurPena.com

Originally recorded on October 2, 2020

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Paula Schneider is president and CEO of Susan G. Komen®, responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day operation of Komen’s research, community health, public policy advocacy, and global programs. Schneider brings a personal perspective to Komen’s mission as a breast cancer survivor whose mother died of metastatic breast cancer.

Paula discusses her journey from fashion to philanthropy, her personal story living with breast cancer, and the future of Susan G. Komen. 

In 2016, Schneider was a  featured speaker at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. Paula was also named one of the Los Angeles Business Journal’s 500 Most Influential People and garnered the National Association of Women’s Business Owners Inspiration Award in 2010.

Originally recorded on July 29, 2020

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Hance Taplin is a designer, photographer, and creative director. In 2015, Taplin found his way out of corporate design, and into, at the time a novice streetwear market in Dallas. The shift developed into his brand & platform – By Way of Dallas.

Hance discusses his Colorado origins, how Texas shaped his future, and connecting community through disruptive design. 

Taplin earned his degree in Design from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.  He did an overseas study in the history of architecture, onsite drawing, and film photography throughout Europe and Spain. Hance decided to plant his roots in Dallas, TX, starting his professional design career at Simmons Design Associates. While also building his personal relationship with the culture of Dallas through digital photography under the alias Kiddrae254.

website: https://bywayofdallas.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bywayofdallas/

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Teresa Mackintosh is the Chief Executive Officer of Trintech, a technology company that specializes in enterprise software for finance professionals. Trintech has over 3,500 clients across the globe including the majority of the Fortune 100.

Teresa discusses her background, thoughts on resiliency during the current global pandemic, binge-worthy television shows, and the future. 

Mackintosh was recognized as one of the “Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth” in D CEO’s Dallas 500 (2019, 2020) as well as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 award winner in the southwest region. In prior roles, she was honored several times on both of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting,” and “Most Powerful Women in Accounting” lists over the last decade. Mackintosh received both her BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Samir Dhurandhar is the head chef at Nick & Sams Steakhouse Dallas.
 
Samir discusses his upbringing, how he met world-famous chef Julia Child, the utility of food during a pandemic, adaptability, and instagramable food moments. 
 
Dhurandhar’s attention to detail and strive for excellence earned Nick and Sam’s Steakhouse the International “Five Star Diamond Award,” in 2008, and his dedication caught the attention of culinary enthusiasts, such as Julia Child, Rachel Ray, T. Boone Pickens, and Troy Aikman.

website: https://nick-sams.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickandsams/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickandsams/

Host, Earlina Green Hamilton 

Introducing the Dallas Business Podcast a show about Dallas's leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs and the work that fuels their lives.

Website, Dallas Business Podcast
Host, Earlina Green Hamilton