Latest Amarillotexas Podcast Episodes
Sharla Valdez
Hey Amarillo - July 01, 2024 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Sharla Valdez, president of the Crown of Texas Hospice Foundation. As a young hospice nurse and entrepreneur, she became one of the founders of Crown of Texas Hospice, which operated in Amarillo from 1991 to 2004. Then in 2000, she launched Valmed Home Health & Pharmacy and s...
Toby Giddens
Hey Amarillo - June 24, 2024 21:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Toby Giddens, the president and co-founder of Run Business Solutions (RunBiz), which provides technology services for local companies. He tells host Jason Boyett how RunBiz grew from a small team in a local accounting firm into a firm that offers IT support for small to mid-s...
Kristin Key
Hey Amarillo - June 17, 2024 21:37 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Kristin Key, a nationally headlining musical comedian who performs in sold-out shows across North America, appeared in Last Comic Standing and Bring the Funny, and got her start in Amarillo. She's bringing her Lesbian Army Tour back home to Amarillo on June 27 at the Globe-Ne...
Jamie Fleck
Hey Amarillo - June 10, 2024 21:51 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Jamie Fleck, the travel photographer, writer and custom fine art baker behind Flecks of Love. While living in Oklahoma, Fleck spent a weekend in Amarillo, stayed in a charming Airbnb, loved the local vibe, saved the house on Zillow and then—after getting an alert that it was ...
Chris Israel
Hey Amarillo - June 03, 2024 21:53 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Chris Israel, the executive director of Homeless Heroes, an organization serving homeless veterans in Amarillo. Chris is a formerly homeless veteran himself. He grew up in New York City and Florida before joining the U.S. Navy. After serving as a submarine sailor, he spent se...
Kashion Smith
Hey Amarillo - May 27, 2024 21:47 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Kashion Smith, the executive director of the Amarillo Convention & Visitors Bureau. After several years in the hotel industry—including a stint as wedding specialist at the old Ambassador Hotel in Amarillo—Smith has spent the past decade with the CVB. She took over leadership...
Dirk van Reenen
Hey Amarillo - May 20, 2024 22:57 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Dirk van Reenen, the founder of Merus Adventure Park in the Texas Panhandle. Born and raised in South Africa, Dirk moved to Texas during his teen years. While attending WTAMU, he became the owner/manager of the former Lifts West ski shop at Western Plaza, launched Caprock Auc...
Dr. Vanessa Fiaud
Hey Amarillo - May 13, 2024 21:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Vanessa Fiaud, Ph.D., an associate professor of sports and exercise science at the WTAMU College of Nursing & Health Sciences. Fiaud was born in France, where she studied business law, and continued her education in Oklahoma and Texas. She arrived in the Texas Panhandle and a...
Devin Barnett
Hey Amarillo - May 06, 2024 22:11 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Devin Barnett, owner of Renu Painting, which recently was awarded the 2024 Torch Award for Ethics (Medium Business) by the Better Business Bureau of Amarillo. Barnett grew up in Abilene and has worked in a variety of industries, from petroleum to nursing to self-employed reta...
Megan Reed
Hey Amarillo - April 29, 2024 22:06 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Megan Reed, the communications and public affairs manager at Bell, and a former communications manager for Make-a-Wish North Texas. Reed, an Amarillo native who played Division II soccer for WTAMU, tells host Jason Boyett how she found her way into a career at the manufacture...
Cindi Bulla
Hey Amarillo - April 15, 2024 21:58 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Cindi Bulla, the broker/owner behind Realty Central Services and a recent primary candidate for Texas House District 87. Bulla shares the story of how she ran away from home at age 15 and ended up in Amarillo, how she found her way into careers in banking and construction be...
Tate Atkinson
Hey Amarillo - April 08, 2024 21:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Tate Atkinson, one-half of the husband-wife duo behind Free Cheese Prints, a custom screen printing shop in Amarillo. Known for their Amarillo-focused souvenir t-shirts and constant presence at local popups and community markets, Free Cheese has an intense loyal following and...
Micha Boyett
Hey Amarillo - April 01, 2024 16:14 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Micha Boyett, Jason's youngest sister and the author of the new book Blessed Are the Rest of Us. Micha is a poet, writer, pastor and podcaster whose work includes advocacy for individuals with Down syndrome. She's the cohost of the popular podcast The Lucky Few and will be pr...
Isaiah Flores
Hey Amarillo - March 25, 2024 21:47 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Isaiah Flores, a 2023 Caprock graduate who is currently completing his first year as a student at Harvard University. As profiled in the July/August 2023 issue of Brick & Elm, Flores is one of two Caprock students accepted last year into Harvard’s freshman class. Home for Spr...
Gina Woodward
Hey Amarillo - March 18, 2024 21:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Gina Woodward, the Regional Director of America's SBDC at WTAMU. Gina is a Canyon resident who grew up here and has earned multiple degrees from WT. At the SBDC, she helps clients in the top 25 counties of the Texas Panhandle start and expand small businesses. She shares with...
Scott Houdashell
Hey Amarillo - March 11, 2024 21:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Scott Houdashell, the inventor of the Eggmazing Egg Decorator and, with Curtis McGill, the owner of the toy and game company Hey Buddy Hey Pal. A former Farmers Insurance agent, Houdashell had always worked with his hands, and in 2015 came up with an idea for decorating Easte...
Darlene Martin
Hey Amarillo - March 04, 2024 22:51 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Darlene Martin, a retired Amarillo ISD first-grade teacher, reading instructor, community volunteer and the founder of Westminster Presbyterian Church's Bear PAWS program, which serves students at Austin Middle School. Martin shares with host Jason Boyett about her teaching c...
Britten Ratcliff
Hey Amarillo - February 26, 2024 22:25 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Britten Ratcliff, a Tascosa High School senior. Host Jason Boyett starts this interview by explaining that he is typically uninterested in interviewing high school students for the show, but Ratcliff changed his mind about that rule. A member of the FirstBank Southwest Bankin...
Robert Altman
Hey Amarillo - February 19, 2024 22:36 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Robert Altman, who is retired from two prominent local careers, first as a manager at the women's clothing store Kline's of Amarillo and then as an assistant scout executive with the Golden Spread Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Altman, whose family owned and operated m...
Sonja Gross
Hey Amarillo - February 12, 2024 22:43 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Sonja Gross, a Public Involvement Specialist with the Texas Department of Transportation and a former Public Information Officer for TXDOT. Gross arrived in Amarillo from Georgia around 20 years ago, and embarked on a communications career that took her from the local newspap...
Mark D. Williams
Hey Amarillo - February 05, 2024 21:35 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Mark D. Williams, an Amarillo educator and author who has fly fished all over the world, written a variety of fishing and travel books, been published in dozens of national magazines, and taught for nearly 30 years at North Heights Alternative School. He's also an entrepreneu...
Kori Cooper Clements
Hey Amarillo - January 29, 2024 21:53 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Kori Cooper Clements, a speech pathologist with Canyon ISD and a local volleyball legend. Kori was inducted into the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame last year with her father, former WTAMU basketball coach Rick Cooper—making them the first father-daughter duo to be inducted. On...
Joseph B. Peterson Jr
Hey Amarillo - January 22, 2024 22:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Joseph Peterson, an Edward Jones Financial Advisor serving Amarillo, and the city's 2023 Black Man of the Year. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Peterson moved with his family to Amarillo when he was a child. He played football for WTAMU before opening his office in Amarillo. Sin...
Diane Dick
Hey Amarillo - January 15, 2024 22:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Diane Dick, a legendary model and agent who opened the Diane Dick International Modeling and Talent Agency in Amarillo more than 50 years ago. Her agency currently places local models in films, magazines and runways all over the United States and around the world. Now 80, she...
Dr. Andrew Hay
Hey Amarillo - January 08, 2024 22:09 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Andrew Hay, Executive Director of the Cultural Foundation of the Texas Panhandle, which provides oversight for Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation. Before taking the reigns of the CFTP and PPHM, Hay served as executive director of th...
Katharyn Wiegand
Hey Amarillo - January 01, 2024 20:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Katharyn Wiegand, the President and CEO at the Mary E. Bivins Foundation. A product of the Texas Panhandle, Wiegand has spent the past few decades in leadership roles in the nonprofit world, including 15 years with Opportunity Plan and another 12 years with the Amarillo Area ...
Rep. Four Price
Hey Amarillo - December 22, 2023 19:16 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with State Representative Walter Thomas "Four" Price IV, who has decided not to run again after he completes his 7th term representing Texas House District 87, which includes Potter County. Price is from Amarillo and has been instrumental in creating significant legislation relate...
Dr. Alan Keister
Hey Amarillo - December 18, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Dr. Alan Keister, an internal medicine specialist and partner at Amarillo Medical Specialists. An Amarillo native, he had the opportunity to take over a large practice in Tennessee after completing his residency, but chose to return to his hometown. In addition to his work as...
Becky Murphy
Hey Amarillo - December 11, 2023 22:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with Becky Murphy, a social worker with Amarillo ISD who assists families in transition and students who qualify as homeless. Before finishing her education and receiving a Master of Social Work degree, Murphy spent 16 years employed at Dillard's. In this episode, she tells host J...
John Harris
Hey Amarillo - December 04, 2023 19:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 121 ratingsA conversation with John Harris, the Chief Meteorologist for KAMR Local 4 News and Fox 14 News. John is an Amarillo native who almost went into a business and marketing career, and then after being captured by meteorology, figured he'd land at the National Weather Service. But he soon found hims...
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