Emerging Texas Strong

As it is now officially the 1 year anniversary of Covid changing our lives, we get arm-chair philosophical in an episode I’m calling “Groundhog Day” after the 1993 movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. This episode is a practical guide to a philosophers dilemma. How do we find meaning in chaos - and how do we find the footing to stay actively present and continue to take on challenges in the face of the unknown. Bios and business information for all the guests featured in Season 1 can be found on EmergingTexasStrong.com. Find out how you can work with them and support your Texas small businesses.

In Episode 5 we explore the other side of Hotels, Hospitality and Survival - but in Part 2 we go "micro" and look at the topic through the real life stories of Texas business owners and CEOs. These voices reflect a small slice of the gorgeous mix that is the Texas melting pot. Learn from them as they give insights into their journey.  Bios and business information for all the guests featured in Season 1 can be found on EmergingTexasStrong.com. Find out how you can work with them and support your Texas small businesses.

We're taking a macro look at the state of hospitality and tourism in Texas. Out-of-town tourism brings a City money that is paid in food, rented rooms, goods, services and taxes. That money generates more wealth for the City, and it requires thousands of invisible hands to put together a conference or make a flawless visit to any city. In this episode we look at the ripple effect that Covid-19 has had on the Texas tourism industry, what DMO's are doing to pivot and what's in store for the future of Texas travel the fate of the hospitality industry as we carry on.

Bios and business information for all the guests featured in Season 1 can be found on EmergingTexasStrong.com. Find out how you can work with them and support your Texas small businesses.

We’ve devoted an entire show to the powerful advice gathered from our TX business owners on the skills they’ve needed to make “The Tough Decisions” and we’ll introduce Executive and Entrepreneurship Coaches, Dr. Stephie Althouse of Top Notch CEO and Marcel Brunel of The Brunel Group, who will help break down the skills we all need to become better leaders in our current reality and beyond. This episode is chock full of ideas that you’ll use both now and throughout your professional career, so get ready for some gold nuggets to be dropped in your lap.

Bios and business information for all the guests featured in Season 1 can be found on EmergingTexasStrong.com. Find out how you can work with them and support your Texas small businesses.

There are so many ways to pivot your small business during this pandemic economy. Each guest on today's show quickly embraced the chaos and learned to do business with a big grey elephant in the room while they worked hard to stay afloat. Learn from them as they give insights into their journey.

Bios and business information for all the guests featured in Season 1 can be found on EmergingTexasStrong.com. Find out how you can work with them and support your Texas small businesses.

Small business is at the heart of the Texas economy.

Emerging Texas Strong is a podcast for us; small business owners who need practical advice. We’re here to have those conversations, document the recovery, and to hear the voices of actual Texas small business owners across this great State as they tell us in their own words how they’re doing, with host Linsey Lindberg.

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