Legends - Extraordinary Lives

Texas born songwriter Mark James first came to prominence penning Hooked on a Feeling, a top hit for B.J. Thomas and later for Blue Swede. However, his biggest career mark occurred when Elvis Presley cut his song "Suspicious Minds" landing a monster #1 hit around the world. Enjoy this Legends show with this exclusive conversation with Hall of Fame Songwriter Mark James as he unpacks the song and writing collaboration of Always on My Mine, Song of the Year and Grammy winner.

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One of our true heroes in journalism, Bob Philipps, graces our studio for our 3300th show. Bob celebrates his 50th year on television as Texas Country Reporter. He recalls some of the golden moments with special memories of his best guests and funniest moments. And Bob reminisces about Waxahachie with our mutual friend, Larry Telford, Austin music producer.
Enjoy Bob as we put him through the paces of a Texas Reporter "Lightning Round."

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Gordon Segal is cofounder and former chairman and CEO of Crate & Barrel, an internationally recognized, multichannel home furnishings retail chain. He led the company as CEO from 1962 until his retirement in 2008. Today, he is managing director of Prairie Management Group, a private investment firm. But it all started in 1962 with his wife Carol. Their vision altered the way America decorated their homes. Listen to the inside story of this successful man who now lives a life of significance.

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Legends welcomes David Sanger, six time Grammy winning drummer, songwriter, engineer, and record producer. Hear the inside story of his 35 year journey with Asleep at the Wheel. He has appeared on The Tonight Show, Austin City Limits, Willie Nelson's CBS Special and a television movie starring Dollie Parton. Today, he is focused on being a Dad, husband, with ultimate focus on his family. Enjoy listening to David's new life of significance...learning how to cook, speak Italian, and playing piano. It's an inspiring story of a renaissance man.

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David Baldwin has moved from success to significance in his advertising career. We think he is a futurist and a polymath. He leads Baldwin&, a leading ad agency in North Carolina. Co-owns a micro brewery. Plays lead guitar for The Gumby's. To learn more about Baldwin&, visit Baldwinand.com
Learn about his Ponysaurus Brewing Co. at Ponysaurusbrewing.com
Hear and book The Gumbys....click on: https://open.spotify.com/album/4qwIcmxNfNTcs5crYmvJSk?si=1mT44-kEQIKfz3QOtXFKQA
On a bigger scale, he is into creating oneness and building communities. At Baldwin&, they are designed from the inside-out. And he co-founded Take Your Seat, that promotes Black Americans to the Boardroom. Visit takeyourseat.co for more information. It's an equity accelerator. Listen to David's broader perspective and enjoy hearing his vision supported by great mentors like Jerusha Stewart, co-founder of Take Your Seat.

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Ray Lane is a storied technology executive and venture capitalist. He was the President & COO
of Oracle, the Executive Chairman of HP, a Managing Partner at Kleiner, Perkins, and the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon. He is also a recipient of the David
Packard Medal of Achievement Award, whose other notable recipients include Reid Hoffman,
Marc Benioff, and Ross Perot.
Ray is responsible for creating over $19 billion in enterprise value in the last 5 years. Those
investments include Beyond Meat (2019 peak of $14 billion; Ray was the first institutional
investor), UpWork ($2.3 billion1), Uptake (currently valued at $2.3 billion) and Kinetica.
Ray is best known for leading the turnaround of Oracle in the 1990’s. During his tenure as
President and COO, Ray helped grow Oracle’s market cap by more than 114x from $2.1 billion
to $236 billion2, and he expanded the company from 7,500 to 40,000 employees.
After Oracle, Ray was a Managing Partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers from 2000-2014, a firm noted for investing in many of today’s industry leaders during
Ray’s tenure, such as Google, Amazon, Spotify, DocuSign, Slack, Twitter, Nest, Arcsight, Beyond
Meat, Facebook, Square, Slack and Snap.
Earlier in his career, Ray was the Managing Partner of the technology practice for Booz Allen
Hamilton, led a Division of Electronic Data Systems Corporation working for Ross Perot, and was
a Sales/Product Manager for IBM.
Ray is also a US Army Veteran, has served as the Vice Chairman of the Special Olympics
International since 2012, and holds multiple honorary PhDs.
Outside of GreatPoint Ventures, Ray is an avid outdoorsman, and spends time with his wife,
Stephanie, five children, and five grandchildren.

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Success Made to Last Legends honors one of favorite authors of all time...Thomas Moore. With warmth, intimacy, and rare depth of wisdom, Thomas guides you through each of aging stages. Grounded in years of psychological research and spiritual reflection on the human enterprise, Thomas will help you focus on the deepest joy. Graze on the memories of the biggest milestones, like the birth of your children. It's time for personal renewal. Pursue revitalization NOW. Visit www.thomasmooresoul.com

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It's been nearly 40 years since Lee Greenwood wrote his signature "God Bless The U.S.A." — a patriotic anthem informed by his veteran father, his experiences traveling across the country in a tour bus, and one of Elvis Presley's late-period classics, among a lifetime of other experiences.

In a conversation with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International, Greenwood traced the four-decade path to "God Bless," and the journey the song has taken in the decades since.

Learn what inspired Lee to write God Bless the USA. Hear about Lee's upbringing.

Lee Greenwood: I was raised on a farm in Sacramento, California. My parents were divorced when I was a year old, so my grandparents were my guardians. My father joined the Navy after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, so you can see I was born about a year later. My mom had to work several jobs in order to support me and my sister, so she really couldn’t afford to have childcare while she was working so that’s why I was raised by my grandparents, Thomas and Edna Jackson, who I love dearly.

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Legends with Otis Chandler, founder of Goodreads reaching 100+ million people who love books. From the family that started the Los Angeles Times. Otis talks about the start of Goodreads. With a background as a software engineer from Tickle, he and his wife Elizabeth had a vision to build a community around the passion of reading the best books.

After visiting a friend's home, he experienced their personal library and talked to his friend about hsi favorite book recommendation. So that led to let's put our favorite book recommendations online.

Hear Otis' wisdom -"everyone needs at least five to six people to move you forward."

Enjoy this incredible conversation with Otis, now coming off a sabbatical. He has figured out his nest chapter.

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Success Made to Last featured The World's Strongest Man Chris Duffin. He is also a Father. Husband. Champion. Entrepreneur on Fire. Engineer. Coach. Author of The Eagle and Dragon. and The only man to squat 1000 lbs reps.. Hear the inside story on what drives this mere mortal to significance.

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