Pinal Partnership's Rina Rien joins us to talk about her life as a developer in California with the Irvine Company and more before moving to Arizona and being on the lobbying side and education with Pinal Partnership helping rural communities.

Andrew Spurgin, former AZ Planner, now Colorado Planner talks about the transition to planning in a new state and learning whats important there and how to make the transition smoothly and build a new network and planning support base while in the middle of your career as well as the similarities and differences between planning in other states he has worked in from the east coast to the west coast and in-between.

Michelle Dodds formerly from the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office and Arianna Urban with the Arizona State Preservation Office talk about what gets reviewed when you submit plans for a designated historic properties.  Hear the good and the bad of what is able to be preserved and what unfortunately can fall through the cracks sometimes.  Learn how it all works and why it's beneficial to have a property on a historic list.

Todd Skoro from Lennar homes talks being a single family homebuilder nationwide and the current status of homebuilding in Arizona.  What is the current status and will we see homebuilding like we did in the early 2000's ever again?  Hear how long a builder takes from looking at acquisition to development and why some projects get moved ahead of others and how they are staying strong.

Jessica is joined by a few of the repeat guests we love to talk to (Amber, Jamie, Melissa and Parker) as they have a mini in studio party recording and reflecting on the last  years or so and What has and what hasn't been said on the podcast yet!  Hear us shoot the shit and talk randomly with these lovely motivating ladies and hear how everyday things work into our lives and how things have changed since the first episode in May 2023.

Matrix Design Group's Chief of Strategic Development Celeste Werner, FAICP tells us about her amazing planning history and how she got involved in military airport planning, redevelopment projects and Guam!  Jessica also asks the scary question why does she come across so tough and always down to business.

Melissa Johnson joins the discussion for a 4th time to talk about BD and what it entails.  GOLF!  Hear about when they started learning golf, the best way to network golfing and more and how you decide what to invest in for business development.  Hear their experiences and why you should always invite someone into a networking circle.

 New Jersey Planner, Chris Dochney joins us to educate us on what its like as a planner in New Jersey.  The processes, the requirements, do they really require AICP to be a planner and all the things that are hot buttons like warehouses and pet shelters.  He tells us all the dirty planning entitlement details and why Jessica's hometown back east makes the list of Nimbyism... you know who you are.

Tempe Mayor Corey Woods gives us a debrief of his session at the National Planning Conference this year about saying "No" to Nimbyism, what housing discussions he is hearing that he feels will help and which ones need some work and follows it up with a fun discussion on being a foodie and his possible music podcast discussion.

Jason Jarvis with National BTR Solutions joins the podcast to talk about his experience in homebuilding and what he has seen over the years.  Hear about his experience on the the single family home building side and how it prepared him to be at the forefront of the National Build to Rent market providing needed housing opportunities to not only Arizona but multiple states.  Hear what he has seen in the market and what he thinks are the future trends in build to rent housing and why it is here to stay.