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CEO's You Should Know - Dallas

CEO's You Should Know - Dallas

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 CEOs You Should Know DFW is a leadership podcast featuring candid conversations with the executives shaping North Texas and national business.

Hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth, the show goes beyond titles and headlines to explore the real stories behind today’s most influential leaders.

Each episode dives into career journeys, pivotal decisions, leadership philosophy, and the challenges of building brands, teams, and cultures that endure.

From founders and CEOs to industry-defining innovators, CEOs You Should Know DFW offers practical insight, perspective, and inspiration for anyone interested in leadership, growth, and the business of influence.

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  • CEOs You Should Know - Mark Faber - Texas Motor Speedway

    CEOs You Should Know - Mark Faber - Texas Motor Speedway
    Apr 29 2026
    What does it take to go from cold‑calling with a typewriter to leading some of the most recognizable venues in sports?

    In this episode of CEOs You Should Know Dallas, iHeartMedia Dallas Market President Chris Long sits down with Mark Faber, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Texas Motor Speedway, to explore a career built on persistence, mentorship, and navigating change at the highest levels of sports and entertainment.

    Mark shares his path from Kansas City to an Orange Bowl internship, a front‑row seat to the legendary Herschel Walker trade with the Dallas Cowboys, and leadership roles helping develop major venues including Kansas City’s Sprint Center and Las Vegas’s T‑Mobile Arena. Now back in North Texas, he breaks down what it takes to lead a legacy facility through transformation, grow new audiences, and build a culture grounded in respect and accountability.

    Along the way, the conversation touches on musical influences, formative mentors, lessons from selling through losing seasons, and why long‑term success is built in the “cracks and gray spaces” long before the wins show up.


    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond, hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth. Follow, Rate, and Subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on!
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    48 min
  • CEOs You Should Know - Jack Griffin & Fred Gans - Garages of America

    CEOs You Should Know - Jack Griffin & Fred Gans - Garages of America
    Apr 22 2026
    What happens when a real estate developer who built 75 storage facilities teams up with a former race car driver who once competed against A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti? You get Garages of America, one of the most unique and fastest‑growing concepts in the automotive enthusiast world.

    In this episode, iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth Region President Chris Long sits down with co‑founders and co‑CEOs Jack Griffin and Fred Gans for a conversation that moves from suburban office buildings in the 1970s to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and ultimately to building a thriving business around one simple truth: hobbies are social.

    Jack shares how a post‑career leap into professional racing shaped his approach to risk, community, and the car culture he knows inside and out. Fred talks about surviving the S&L crisis, building dozens of storage facilities across the country, and why replicable design and disciplined development became the backbone of their partnership.

    Together, they break down how Garages of America grew from an idea discovered in Denver into a multi‑market business built on community, camaraderie, and the booming collector‑car lifestyle. They discuss navigating COVID‑era construction delays, learning to manage outsourced teams, and why their buyers often regret only one thing: not getting a bigger garage.

    Plus: the first concerts that set the tone for two very different career paths (Kansas for Fred, The Lettermen for Jack), the surprising social science behind car collecting, and what it means to launch a company at 69 and still be improving it every day.

    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond, hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth. Follow, Rate, and Subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on!
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    45 min
  • CEOs You Should Know - Peter Simek - Earth X

    CEOs You Should Know - Peter Simek - Earth X
    Apr 17 2026
    Peter Simek's path to leading one of the world's premier environmental platforms started with poetry, couch surfing in Rome, and tracking down an ecstasy kingpin on a mountaintop in Georgia.

    In this episode, iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth Region President Chris Long sits down with the CEO of EarthX for a conversation that moves from investigative journalism to traveling the world with a giant dinosaur puppet for the United Nations to reimagining what an environmental organization can be from its home base in the heart of Texas oil and gas country.

    Peter shares how nearly two decades as a journalist taught him the leadership skill he leans on most: shutting up and listening. He talks about why founder Trammel Crow says you can't preach to the choir if there's no choir, how EarthX evolved from a 120,000-person Earth Day street festival at Fair Park into a global convening platform, and what it means to lead a fifteen-year-old startup through its next chapter, including a new policy institute focused on nuclear energy and an urban biodiversity plan for Dallas.

    Plus: a first concert that might crack the all-time rankings (Page and Plant at Madison Square Garden), and the nineteenth-century botanist story he's told enough people about that now he has to finish writing it.


    CEOs You Should Know DFW features candid conversations with leaders shaping business in North Texas and beyond, hosted by Chris Long, Region President of iHeartMedia Dallas/Fort Worth. Follow, Rate, and Subscribe on the podcast platform you are listening on!
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    38 min
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