POWERS
Chris Powers
Conversations with the best founders, entrepreneurs, and investors.
POWERS brings you inside the minds of world-class leaders who have built, battled, and succeeded at the highest levels.
POWERS digs beyond the surface with questions driven by curiosity, uncovering stories and insights rarely shared publicly. Each episode delivers timeless wisdom and hard-earned lessons that apply across business and life.
The show has earned a reputation for asking the right questions at the right moment. The focus is on timeless principles, proven through years of discipline and risk, not on shortcuts. Each conversation is direct, deliberate, and designed to leave listeners sharper than when they arrived. The aim is simple: to deliver insights that matter and can be carried into business and life.
Since its launch, POWERS has drawn a high-caliber audience of builders, investors, and decision makers. Past guests have represented companies such as Starwood Capital, JLL, Hillwood Capital, Chick-fil-A, Morning Brew, Founders Podcast, Tiny Capital, Permanent Equity, Fort, Matthews REIS, Bonobos, and ConvertKit.
At its core, POWERS is a celebration of leadership, of work that matters, and of the American spirit that makes it possible.
POWERS brings you inside the minds of world-class leaders who have built, battled, and succeeded at the highest levels.
POWERS digs beyond the surface with questions driven by curiosity, uncovering stories and insights rarely shared publicly. Each episode delivers timeless wisdom and hard-earned lessons that apply across business and life.
The show has earned a reputation for asking the right questions at the right moment. The focus is on timeless principles, proven through years of discipline and risk, not on shortcuts. Each conversation is direct, deliberate, and designed to leave listeners sharper than when they arrived. The aim is simple: to deliver insights that matter and can be carried into business and life.
Since its launch, POWERS has drawn a high-caliber audience of builders, investors, and decision makers. Past guests have represented companies such as Starwood Capital, JLL, Hillwood Capital, Chick-fil-A, Morning Brew, Founders Podcast, Tiny Capital, Permanent Equity, Fort, Matthews REIS, Bonobos, and ConvertKit.
At its core, POWERS is a celebration of leadership, of work that matters, and of the American spirit that makes it possible.
Episodes
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May 12, 2026 • 1h 23min
The Most Powerful Land Broker in North Texas with Rex Glendenning (# 414)
Rex Glendenning, fourth-generation land broker and founder of REX Real Estate, known as the 'King of Dirt' in North Texas. He recounts brokering massive land deals, the public-private plan that brought the Cowboys to Frisco, and why he always reinvests in dirt. He explains why cities grow north, the power of small-town decision-making for big projects, and his long-term timing on market cycles.
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May 5, 2026 • 1h 35min
Building a $100M CPG Brand With Only 10 Employees - James Beshara (# 413)
James Beshara, founder of Magic Mind and prolific angel investor, built a $100M CPG brand with just 10 people. He discusses scratching your own itch, wave selection and when standing still wins, an asynchronous no-meetings culture, the Palmer Lucky founder lane, retention over growth, and how spiritual reading and AI shaped his next company.
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Apr 28, 2026 • 1h 28min
The High School That Refunds Your Tuition If You Don't Make $1M with Nat Eliason (#412)
Nat Eliason, entrepreneur and founder of Alpha High and creator of Felix, is building a high school that guarantees students hit $1M in gross profit or get tuition refunded. He talks about compressing academics so teens build real businesses, using AI agents like Felix to automate launches, rapid hands-on learning, and why teenagers can outpace adults when given real responsibility.
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Apr 21, 2026 • 1h 33min
Building a $3B Family Office From Scratch with Matthew Ogle, Co-founder & CEO of Legacy Knight (#411)
Matthew Ogle, co-founder and CEO of Legacy Knight, built a multi-family office from $2.5M seed capital to billions while leading strategy and operations. He talks about why big banks miss UHNW needs. He explains building the right team from family-office talent, the tech and reporting required, onboarding families, and why Legacy Knight refuses growth-by-acquisition.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 1h 22min
#410 - Austin Tunnell - Founder of Building Culture - The Power of Developing Beautiful Buildings
Austin Tunnell, founder of Building Culture and former mason-turned-developer, champions durable, beautiful masonry and walkable mixed-use infill. He recounts apprenticing with a master mason, contrasts true structural masonry with veneer, and explains simple brick details that transform façades. He also critiques zoning, codes, and financing that favor ugly, large-scale projects over human-scale, missing-middle neighborhoods.
Apr 7, 2026 • 1h 49min
#409 - Jason McCann - CEO @ Vari - How a Simple Product Became a Global Brand
Jason McCann, co-founder and CEO of Vari, turned a cardboard-box standing desk into a global workspace brand. He discusses prototyping and product iteration, using AI for design and ops, scaling manufacturing and fulfillment, adding design and installation services, recruiting top HR leadership, and the future of work and reindustrialization.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 1h 43min
#408 - Jordan Levi - The Largest Cattle Feeder In America
Jordan Levi, founder of Arcadia and operator of Five Rivers, blends market trading savvy with large-scale cattle operations. He walks through how cattle markets move, the biological and financial drivers of profit, why herd dynamics lag supply, and how AI and data are reshaping trading and feedlot workflows.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 2h 56min
#407 - JB Mauney - The Greatest Bull Rider That Ever Lived
JB Mauney, legendary professional bull rider and founder of BuckTown, reflects on riding, training bulls, and career-defining risks. He talks mentality, relentless practice, reading bulls, brutal injuries, chute strategy, and building BuckTown as a rider-first, old-school refuge. Short, vivid stories bring the culture, carnage, and camaraderie of top-level bull riding to life.
Mar 17, 2026 • 1h 26min
#406 - Carl Edwards - From a $1,500 Race Car to the Hall of Fame (and Why He Walked Away)
Carl Edwards, former NASCAR star and two-time Xfinity champion who left racing at his peak, tells the unlikely tale from a $1,500 dirt car to the Hall of Fame. He talks racing strategy, pit crew precision, the risky moves that launched his career, and the pivotal moment that made him walk away. He also covers rebuilding identity, faith, and returning to the sport on his own terms.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 1h 32min
#405 - Christopher Zook - Founder of CAZ Investments - Building An $11B Alternative Investment Platform
Christopher Zook, founder and CEO of CAZ Investments who built an $11B alternative investment platform, talks about building a firm by investing his own capital first. He recounts a locker-room turning point that reshaped capital formation. Conversation covers designing fee-aligned offers, GP stakes strategy and underwriting, thematic investing like media rights and sports, and democratizing access to alternatives.
