Current Mayoral Candidate and former Mayor Mesa Scott Smith joins the podcast to talk about the current election and what he sees as the future for Mesa and how he plans to support Mesa for the next 10 years.

Development Services Directors Nana Appiah, PhD, AICP from the City of Mesa and Land Attorney Brennan Ray of Burch & Cracchiolo discuss how deals get done with zoning and land use transactions and how they negotiate the deals to find common ground on stitpulations development agreements and can still remain civil and get along wiht everyone they go up against in cases.

Mesa Mayor John Giles talks with us about how he got on the track to be the Mayor of Mesa what his proudest moments of being Mayor are and what is he going to do after his term is up? He talks about the positions challenges and who has helped him succeed along the way.

Mesa Councilmember and Mayoral Candidate Mark Freeman joins the podcast to talk about his lasting impact as a Mesa native and a first responder to being elected to the City Council and now as a candidate for Mayor. Mark goes over his priorities for Mesa's future and what you can expect from him as continues to serve the citizens of Mesa.

Kelly Bell from KBell Engineering talks about Civil Engineering as a small women owned business and we get into a little Upfront therapy for both of us as being small business owners

Danson Construction Melissa Johnson and Gilbane Construction's Michelle Rousseau and Ken Grothman join the podcast to tell us what it really takes to construct a project and all that goes on behind the scenes and why the earlier in the site development process the better to get them involved to tell you what its goning to cost.

The second episode with Jessica's current ULI Next group leader Jason Hersker talking about the commercial market and what he has seen recenlty in the ups and downs of development with a little postive before the drama.

Adam Baugh and Jason Morris of the Dirt to Development podcast and Withey Morris Baugh join the podcast to talk a little smack, stir shit up and talk about what a Planning Booty Call is from Clients.

ULI Next members Kirk Fonfara and Jim Bulsiewicz joins the podcast to talk about how their industry is going in title and multi family development and all things random and fun.

Jessica is joined by Shelby Duplessis of Diversified Future and Passion to PowHer and Ryan and Jamie Blakeman of Lokahi Teams to discuss their non profits and why they started them and how they are able to continue to give back while working their regular full time jobs. Hear how thier passion has grown into amazing opportunties to support the communities they live in and more through simple deeds one at a time.