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Dr. Phillip McClure on Building Healthy Team Culture | Discover Fort Smith (opens the original)
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Dr. Phillip McClure, founder of McClure Professional Services, joins hosts Emily Horn and Josh Buchfink to break down what separates healthy workplace culture from "command and control" leadership. He shares his path from music school and 30 years in pastoral ministry to full-time leadership coaching, unpacks his "tell-ask ratio" framework for delegation, and weighs in on personality assessments like Birkman and Myers-Briggs. The conversation closes with his 21-year involvement in Leadership For
Crystal Eckles on Fort Smith's Ronald McDonald House (opens the original)
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Crystal Eckles, Strategic Partnerships Lead for Ronald McDonald House Arkansas & North Louisiana, joins the Discover Fort Smith podcast to explain how the Fort Smith house has offered families a free home away from home since 2021. Hosts Emily Horn and Josh Buchfink hear personal stories from families who stayed there during NICU and ICU hospitalizations, plus how the nonprofit relies on donors, volunteers, and its annual Red Shoe Shindig fundraiser. A lifelong Fort Smith native, Crystal also sh
TK Rakoski on Building a Dance Community in Fort Smith (opens the original)
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TK Rakoski, owner of River Valley Art and Dance (and founder of the River Valley Dance Society), joins Emily Horn and Joe Cline to talk all things ballroom dancing in Fort Smith. TK shares how a Houston dance studio closed by COVID led him to fall in love with Fort Smith five years ago, and breaks down what ballroom dancing actually is — from two-step and swing to salsa and bachata. The conversation covers the health benefits of dance, the importance of dance etiquette and consent on the floor,
Kara Branton & Joyce Simpson on the Nurses Honor Guard of the River Valley (opens the original)
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Kara Branton and Joyce Simpson join the podcast to share the story of the Nurses Honor Guard of the River Valley, an organization Kara founded in 2021 after seeing a Facebook video and losing her grandmother, a lifelong nurse. The group performs Florence Nightingale tributes and lamp-extinguishing ceremonies to honor nurses at their funerals, has completed over 130 tributes since becoming independent in 2023, and also shows up for Nurses Week, pinning ceremonies, and community service at Hope Ca
The McGill Family Legacy: Service, Mentorship & Fort Smith History (opens the original)
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Herbie McGill has spent his life in service to Fort Smith — as director of the Elizabeth McGill Drop In Center, a nonprofit his grandmother founded in 1961, and as the driving force behind the Charlotte Tidwell Community Garden (Antioch Discovery Garden), a free 2.9-acre garden he took over after a 27-year friendship changed his life. Joe Cline and Emily Horn talk with Herbie about mentorship, growing up a McGill (nephew of Mayor George McGill), and how gardening became an unexpected outlet for
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