HeyJaredDynamic Decisions Podcast
🎙️ Welcome to Dynamic Decisions – where the best decisions start with great conversations.Hosted by Teasha Cable, CEO of CModel, this show dives into the stories, strategies, and decisions behind some of the most innovative leaders in business today.
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After 25 Years at Amex, One Big Bet on Bank Partnerships (opens the original)
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David Blaha spent 25 years building relationships at American Express before becoming Chief Revenue Officer at Extend, a virtual card platform banks and fintechs use nationwide. His take: the smartest fintechs don't compete with banks, they arm them. How COVID turned virtual cards from a niche fix for interviewees and non-carded employees into an everyday bill pay tool for small and mid-size businesses Why Extend builds the capability and lets banks sell it, instead of competing with neobanks li
Forget the Deal. Build the Relationship First. (opens the original)
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Damien Denmark became Yukon, Oklahoma's first-ever economic development director in January 2026, He arrived from Olathe, Kansas with one rule: build the relationship before you need the deal. At only 30 years old, he's already moved a $100 million development through approval in 60 days and built his own incentive tool from scratch. Read that 2x. Learn how Denmark moved a $100M TIF district through approval in 60 days by getting bond counsel, developers, and attorneys in one room instead of six
Revitalize...or Die (opens the original)
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Your City Is Sick...and More Jobs Isn't the Cure... Jeff has spent more than two decades helping downtowns recover, first as a Main Street manager running Ohio's statewide program, then as founder of Revitalize or Die and author of Your City is Sick. He joins Teasha to argue that economic development has solved for the wrong problem for forty years. Jeff's five points of civic pride: identity, aesthetics, community, standards, and engagement, and why "aesthetics" still gets dismissed as lipstick
What's the Real Currency of Economic Development? (opens the original)
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Mandy White, Chief Economic Development Officer for the Greater Jackson, TN Chamber , has spent nearly three decades helping turn Jackson, Tennessee into a manufacturing hub home to 60 to 70 companies, including several Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 brands. In this episode, she breaks down what actually won the region's largest single investment ever, and how she keeps the workforce pipeline growing to match it. Spoiler alert, it wasn't incentives. How Jackson won a $425M Georgia Pacific plant, th
Not All Growth Is Good Growth: The Case Against Chasing Every Deal (opens the original)
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Not All Growth Is Good Growth: The Case Against Chasing Every Deal Maurice Harris has sat on both sides of the site selection table: first as a researcher at Greater MSP and Transwestern Real Estate, now as an economic development specialist at JLL working with BNSF on rail expansion across Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana. He's also a Golden Valley, Minnesota city council member and the first African American to win a second term on that council, giving him a rare view into how research actu
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