Subscribe
Share
Share
Embed
Welcome to 'Living in Tulsa Oklahoma,' the podcast that dives deep into the heartbeat of Tulsa Oklahoma! Whether you're a long-time Tulsan, a new resident, or just Tulsa-curious, join us as we explore the hidden gems, cultural hotspots, and community dialogues that make this city unique. In each episode, we'll feature interviews with locals and transplants who share their stories, experiences, and perspectives on life in the former Oil Capital of the World. From historical insights to modern-day musings, 'Living in Tulsa Oklahoma' is your guide to living and thriving in Tulsa Oklahoma. Tune in, engage, and celebrate this vibrant community with us.
I am here with our special guest today Becky D'Or and I am so excited to have her on and you guys getting to experience Tulsa through her eyes she has very special eyes she gives Tulsa tours um she has been she was highly involved in the Tulsa Press Club executive director um and she has got some amazing stories that I cannot wait to unfold and share so welcome and I'm so glad to have you oh gosh thank you so much glad to be here now you said um you are a tulson through and through like born and raised born and raised uh went
00:41
to Tulsa Public Schools went to Nathan Hill High School I even went to the University of Tulsa I love Tulsa absolutely love Tulsa now so you have been in Tulsa like your entire life right so I left um for briefly like 2 years and I was just in still water so I wasn't too far away family was still here so you know weekend trips back home Christmases Thanksgiving so but you know my time there was shortlived and came right back home so what brought you what brought you to Still Water was it school college College college so OSU to I'm a
01:13
poke so I'm I'm a golden hurricane and a poke yes H go we always have the go pokes I'm OU got um we have two kids that are at OSU so our house is we pay we pay OSU now so we have so the house divided yeah but we have to you know we have to get them some love too so oh she's become more dear to my heart now than before so tell us a little bit about your time at the Tulsa Press Club wow so yeah for about six years I was at the Tulsa Press Club it's an absolutely amazing organization nonprofit here in
01:48
town um it my favorite part was getting to meet a lot of our Civic leaders and we did a lot of activism through that we give Awards to journalists every year um tens of thousand of dollars in scholarships have been given out since I was there and it just a place for people to gather and it wasn't just for journalists that's how it all started back in 1906 I mean this club has been around forever um the first uh Tulsa Daily World came out in 1905 so you can tell that this is a very old Club um but it was really at then it was a it was a
02:20
place for journalists gather but throughout time and throughout the years it's been a place for a lot of philanthropists and PR people and pretty much downtown enthusiasts and anyone anyone 's welcome to be a member there but uh it's rooted in journalism and uh the mission is to build engaged communities through the pursuit of ethical journalism so yeah I was really happy to be involved it was one of those things where I could stay up to date on everything that was going on in town and then of course everything going on in
02:45
the world so it's pretty incredible experience that is incredible and I H I'm not even that familiar with it um now did it shut down or is it still going so organization is still thriving um but we just couldn't hold on to the location now there are there are hundreds of press clubs in the United States and uh we were actually up until uh the the club closure in September of last year and we were one of three remaining so uh Atlanta was the one to to um close their location in 2021 and um so it's pretty big deal for us to be
03:20
one of the last three um but it's very difficult now the other two are of course uh in Washington DC the national press club they're not shutting their doors they own their building and so and is Denver the Denver Press Club as well which I'm actually going to visit in just a couple weeks so I'm excited they are honoring Ann Curry as their Damon runion Awards and they've invited me to go oh my goodness that's so exciting so your time there you said it was very um a lot of downtown tossa so tell me a
03:47
little bit more about that right so um many of our members were through the community I mean a lot of them were one Oak Williams b a lot of anyone downtown and it was a place for those people to really gather and to kind of discuss just like they would in the old days to discuss current events I mean that's kind of what it was there for is just a space to do that and we had a little area a lounge area where you could come and have lunch and a lot of times the Mayors would be there or public officials would be there and so you know
04:17
it's kind of a place to be seen and see people so yeah it was neat kind of tucked away in the atlas life building that's exciting um so did that give you so you do Tulsa tours now did that give you a lot of your knowledge and experience so yeah exactly so um my my tour boss uh Jeffrey he and I met each other through the Press Club and he was designing the tunnel tours and our building is right there through the tunnels and so he and I got together and said wouldn't it be great to do this for some private tours and and end at the
04:52
Press Club and they could experience some of the history and you could tell them about that as well and I said that's fantastic so we did that quite a few times um and then this last December he just said hey what are you doing and you want to come do this with me and I was like what a perfect opportunity I absolutely love talking about Tulsa it'd be great to learn more about the history learn more especially about the big oil boom and and why the buildings were built to begin with and so and that's
05:16
mainly what I do which is it's fantastic I love going and the tunnels for me at the Press Club it was like a way to not get you know rain Dawn or or be cold you know I'd shoot over to the bank through the tunnels just like they would the 1940s and 50s which is pretty neat okay that is so amazing and I have I haven't done the tour with you but I did it with um the the Tulsa Foundation of architecture the Tulsa tennel tour and it was amazing like tell us tell us a little bit about the tennel I mean that
05:46
is incredible yeah so uh so the tour starts our tour starts at the Hyatt Regency and so if you're unfamiliar with that it's kind of close to the Pac and we start right through there and we it seems like we're walking um through a parking garage but we're really walking underneath the Williams green and so we just we guide folks through the tunnels and we pop up in each one of the lobbies and then share a little bit about the history of the building what style it was built in who built it who was in
06:13
charge in the times um some interesting tidbits about who those folks were and then um there's one private tunnel the weight Phillips private tunnel that we end on and that's really the one that's spectacular that you've got to have the private tours to go see and and that's pretty neat so so is there when you're giving those tours is there a certain time like you're allowed to do those or as long as you get um as long as you've booked it and given the notice right so with our tour company be because uh the
06:44
building owners don't want people just roaming around and and all of that um so every Friday we give tours for sure and we can book them at any time during the week usually if we have tour guides available um but definitely on Fridays so if you're looking to do that Fridays are a great day we also give Art Deco tours which are kind of similar but it's more of an outside and we go in through a couple other of the buildings as well I'm actually starting those in a couple weeks so I'm excited to expand my
07:10
knowledge of many of the Tulsa the Tulsa buildings um but yeah it's it's it's a fantastic tour it lasts about an hour and a half and it's it's so much fun I have some really unique stories that I share um some kind of behind the scenes stories about Harry Sinclair and wait Phillips that you can't hear unless you go on our tours oh we can't even get a little sneak you know maybe I'll tell you this I'll tell you this um it's kind of incredible to think the amount of money that was coming through our town
07:40
at the time and it said that weight Phillips was depositing an average of $25,000 a day oh my goodness so just to you can kind of understand then why they were importing marbles from Italy and you know all of these kind of extravagant things and building these huge buildings at the time so the money was definitely flowing and how quickly Tulsa had grown I mean even in the population in 1907 was around 7,000 people and by 1910 we're up to like 14 15,000 people by 1920 we're up to 70,000 people I mean so it's it really is like
08:14
it was a big rush a big kind of you know black gold rush to get here and with all of the oil money then merchants and you know other that's how the town grew at the time so it's it's a neat well and I don't know you know I certainly don't know the history like you know the history but just the fact of you know how like I knew we had the huge Art Deco collection as far as buildings go um in our downtown and the buildings are just magnificent um but just thinking about you know we didn't have the normal
08:44
migration it was because of you know the oil boom so we got all this money like right in you know the Midwest right so really thinking about the culture of the 1920s you think about the flapper hairstyles and you kind of think about the progression of America in that time you know there was a lot of old traditions kind of being pushed aside and like these New Traditions coming in and in 1922 is is when King tets tomb so that was all the rage so a lot of the art deco style comes from Egyptian influence and so that's that's why you
09:15
see a lot of the zigzag lines and and the colors really are kind of attributed to that okay I had no clue um I love that I'm going to I'm definitely going on your tours you definitely have to do the art deco tour so studying up right now which I had no idea I was going to be this novice historian as a kid you know it's one of those that my dad's dragging me around to these museums and I'm just like come on and of course now it's like I can't get enough of it what what book can I go buy next like who's
09:45
whose especially locals locals that have written about our history that's that's been incredible to find and so um it's been interesting a lot of a lot of former journalists or current journalists um they have books out about it and so it's nice to actually know those people that wrote the book you know so it's kind of incredible that's so cool so like in your spare time when you're reading you're reading Tulsa history I'm reading a lot of Tulsa history I can't get enough of it because
10:09
I want these I want my tours to be exceptional and I want them I want my guests to have the best experience and I want to kind of shock you a little bit I want to I want to give these interesting stories that those are the ones you're going to remember you may not remember that you know the the bank was built in a bow art style but you're probably going to remember the story I tell you about Harry CLA and how he got his money you know those kinds of things okay well I think we're all on pins and needles so
10:35
we're definitely going to go to hear that story good and okay so how what do you do to how does someone book with you guys tulsa. tours go online um you can see any of the open availability that we have that's the easiest way to do it and if you don't see um maybe you're looking for a more private tour or something at a different time easily just to email us and we'll get right on and see if we have a tour guide available and we're happy to do it um even just this last Monday it was the eclipse and um I got a
11:06
phone call at 9:00 a.m. saying hey I have this couple they're in town for just today can you swing by and do an art deco and tunnel tour and I was like absolutely I'm free I'm not doing anything until the eclipse H you know so of course I just ran downtown and spent some time with this lovely couple from Boston oh okay so it can be as little as two people sure and you can do both tours at the same time it kind of depends we're we're there to customize a lot of time um if you're looking for the straight
11:31
tunnel tour every Friday if you're looking through for just artco every Saturday we also do brand new tours on Greenwood and Black Wall Street in conjunction with the Black Wall Street chamber which we're excited to pair with them because a lot of the proceeds are going directly to the chamber um to build up uh that area in town and we're also be going to start doing um the arts district tours in about a month okay wow so there's a lot of variety but you know we get requests for like a Tulsa King
12:00
tour or a tour of the Mayo and we're happy to oblige we just then reach out to um the folks that we need to and coordinate things together and so we we're we're here to give you the best experience so just let us know what you're looking for okay awesome so as far as notice goes like what's the like the minum amount want if if if it's open okay then snag it snag it yeah and a lot of times we might have one or two spots left on Friday morning so snag them up okay yeah okay super yeah okay so I'm
12:30
interested with all your knowledge of Tulsa and everything that um your experience and your history and all that you know like what are your favorite things about Tulsa my favorite things about Tulsa the green space for sure the driveability the walkability even though most people don't walk anywhere um but it's just the space the space in Tulsa and I think mostly um tulson are very friendly if you ask anybody from out of town or folks that have just moved here everybody is so kind in town and I think that is a Hu that that's
13:03
what makes a huge impact is that you know people feel like they're your friends after just meeting him shortly so that's what I love about Tulsa yeah I mean and that's kind of like how we met we met at you know the tree house we met the treeh house started a conversation absolutely yeah it's so easy to talk to people it really is we we hold doors open for each other and we smile at each other on the street I mean I I can't walk downtown without running into to somebody that you know I mean that's
13:31
that's just the beauty of Tulsa is that it has kind of a a bigger city feel sometimes but um it's really what we've quainted is smsa you know like yeah you're going to you're going to run into somebody that you know in you know any day right any day of the week you could be out eating you could be out walking shopping doing whatever and you'll probably run into somebody that's so funny what you said about you know everybody's Smiles I was in Dallas a few weeks ago and I went into this parking
14:00
lot and it was a mistake I was trying to find where I was and Dallas is just overwhelming and crazy anyway um and the security guard just like came out and like was not smiling I was like this is the weirdest thing like you didn't even tell me with a smile I mean in Tulsa we might tell you to move but we're going to be nice about it yeah absolutely a grump and you know that's that is the beauty of a thing and and there's a lot of times I can tell when people are from out of town or or or they might be
14:26
visiting here if you if you look a little lost I'm going to stop and and ask you if you need help that's what tulson do I me we can see it it's like oh well let me help you get over there let me show you where you need to go I mean I think the city is just so kind and so friendly it is I love that okay so what are your okay so you gave us the pros what are the cons you had to pick any cons of the city cons road work although I know although I know we need it but it's it's and it's not really our
14:53
fault it's the ground that we built our city on come on you know but that that can get a little frustrating and a little annoying because I I like to tell people all the time especially you know if I have friends from from bigger cities like Austin or Denver or something um their commutes are ridiculous right and and I'm like oh it takes me like 15 minutes it doesn't matter what side of Tulsa you're on it takes you 15 minutes to get anywhere you know although add in the construction and during rush hour pretty much and
15:21
then maybe we have a different story but which they would still take over their places any day absolutely you know it's 45 minutes to an hour and a half if you're going anywhere in De so forget it yeah yeah and just crazy and crazy drivers yes yes that's the other thing for sure but I see tuls say it's it's exciting having lived here my whole life because I've seen the Resurgence of downtown I mean when I when I was in high school downtown was really nothing my mom worked there so I would come down
15:51
to to uh the Williams building every once in a while but there was nothing nothing there and she also grew up here so she remembers in the 50s that's Main Street was a place where you went to go shopping I mean you that's where she bought her clothes you know and so to see it kind of the revitalization of the downtown area especially and all of the restaurant tours the very like the local restaurants it's such an amazing vibe in downtown now and and all over too it's not just you know in downtown but in in
16:24
other pockets of Midtown and then out even in in the suburbs I think it's it's incredible to see the Investments that are being put into our city now yeah and I travel a lot and I would I always say you know I would compare like Tulsa food is amazing and fantastic and I would like put it up against restaurants like East Coast and West Coast and people some people that haven't you know aren't familiar with the Tulsa area just think I'm nuts but we do we have such amazing restaurants absolutely the
16:55
talent is definitely here and and I think you know it's so interesting is I think there's a lot of Concepts that um tried really hard a few years ago even 10 years ago that may not have worked out but it's like now it would because now we're all we're ready for it you know and as we've progressed um around around town and it is incredible I mean the majority of the restaurants that I like to eat at you know I like to support local cuz I'm a you know I'm a Tulsa girl so um those restaurants just
17:26
the incredible Talent the chefs and are your favorite restaurants my gosh uh I have one in particular that you if you want to look for me if you're looking for me you can find me there at least once a week and that's prism Cafe where's that at prism Cafe is in the Heights district it's kind of tucked a little bit behind like OSU Tulsa but it's a little farther to the West um right on laimer street there's uh Origins coffees across the street there's a new and I forget the name of
17:52
it but there's a new um event venue where they do a lot of they have a lot of bands and stuff and it's like an old old refurbished church that's like right over there as well but prism Cafe is it it's hyperlocal they get everything that's in season it's it's just fantastic the brisket sandwich is to die for um and they do amazing brunches and the menu changes and it's just it's inventive it's smart and the gal that runs it I mean she's just amazing oh fantastic okay that is okay give us a
18:23
few more okay okay uh anything Justin Thompson also big fan um he's phenomenal and then three Sirens group have to shout out to burd and bottle that's also also at least twice to three times a month you can find me there too so well we were just my girlfriends and I were just at Bramble for breakfast for brunch and it was crazy busy we went at 10 o'cl but because of the concert um the Tyler children concert I think so many people were there that it was packed um but yeah I know that I love Bramble and I
18:55
love bur the food is consistent they hire great people they retain their people I mean it's it's fantastic yeah the food here is fantastic I I agree with that and there's new places popping up even mcnelly's group I mean they've been around for what over 20 years now and I think they just celebrated their 20th anniversary or something and of mcnelly's but all of the other Ventures that have come from that I think are incredible too and and to see our local restaurant tours flourish into multiple
19:24
locations into multiple you know Concepts is just incredible yes and you do have have some history with the mcnell group right no no no I worked for um I work for house Smith Restaurant Group which is based out of Oklahoma City okay um but I worked for Charleston's for about 10 years okay and I've I've always been in the hospitality industry I always say I just I get you know the Food Service part of it is one is is just the small side of it but I get paid to talk to people yeah I mean you can see that you like you exude that
19:55
definitely so I can I can definitely see that for sure okay let's switch gears a little bit so we've been talking about Tulsa but as far as suburbs go what is your favorite suburb in the Tulsa Metro so I lived in Jinx for a while and I thoroughly loved living there um I think the for me Jinx is it's got this little charm to it still that I think is amazing um it's the proximity to Highway 75 also pretty much gets you anywhere you want to go and you know it's just I I loved the vibe of jinx I really love that area and
20:32
there were little trails in my neighborhood and you know but I see I see a lot of other areas even Broken Arrow has really blossomed and I remember being really young and my parents talking about moving to Broken ARA I'm like gosh we should have done that when I was like five but but yeah it's I go over there to um uh the yoga studio that's right on Main Street and for for different different things and it's it's just such a neat place it's a neat place to gather I think any of the suburbs that can
21:05
create this um kind of community center to it I think just kind of give off that really like lovely Vibe around it and people enjoy being gathering together in these spaces that's why you know the green space that we have and I think that's really important um in to Tulsa and to the suburbs is having a lot of green spaces and Jinx and broken a both have tons of those in in community are is and I and I think um or I know like the you know the leadership you know in Tulsa and in the surrounding suburbs are like working
21:37
together to you know to make more of that to make more walkable areas you know to you know to bring more people and well and you know and that's why I see Jinx also just being I was there um I lived there for about six years and that was about six years ago so um it was a more it was quiet it hadn't been quite as developed as as it is now um but as we're as we're putting more investment into the Arkansas River I can see that just being a really great destination place and of course you know Main Street Jinx is just
22:10
so cute with all of the antique shops and the little and little restaurants down there um but I really see that the Resurgence that can come from the Riverwalk especially when we start building more of the infrastructure into this beautiful river that we've had forever and now it's just it's that to me is one of the most EX exting projects that we have going in Tulsa okay tell me what you know about that project do you know much about it not a whole lot but I I do know that they are they're working
22:37
on building these dams that are actually going to be able to hold the water so it's going to be a usable and um not quite much of an isore as it can be you know when you when you drive over the bridges and you see the sand bars um but now the you know we're going to see the river full and I think that that has opportunities to create more of destination spots on the Riverbanks and then you know I I don't remember what restaurants going in but there's there's that one structure that's been every
23:04
restaurant imaginable right and it's it's kind of off the beaten path but I think as more of investment goes into this we're going to see more along the Riverside and we're going to see more people gather and to me I look at you know I my parents and I used to vacation in Arkansas and Missouri and that's the normal thing right is that you gather close to the river and I think that Tulsa is going to see that in the next few years I am I'm excited about that and it's something that I always say you
23:31
know like a river isn't the prettiest um you know every once in a while but it will be it will be I'm so excited and they're going to do um I think they're going to do like the kayaks yes I had heard about the rafting and The Kayaks and bring back The Great Raft race so I don't know if you've ever seen or been to the Great Raft race I have not been I've just heard so they tried to bring it back a few years ago oh they did and um and it was pretty neat but it was still I think a little
23:59
safe so I think they're combating those issues and that could be just a really big festival and I think one thing Tulsa can do and does very well are bringing these festivals together whether they're cultural festivals or you know event festivals I think Tulsa Tulsa does a very good job at doing those they do I'm really excited for Tulsa tff coming up yes that's right Tulsa tff is coming up which is not really a festival but well I mean it's a gathering right it's an event um I actually sit on the um 918
24:29
Day committee as well so um we've never had a festival for 918 day which is just a civic pride day and uh currently over the last few years um the only thing associated with that was doing a 918 day scavenger hunt and so you could do the scavenger hunt take a bunch of pictures post them on um Facebook or social media of any kind you know and and that was all you could get a t-shirt or some sort of memorabilia after that well a group of us got together and said we should do more you know those of us that
24:58
absolutely love t we should do more and so we formed a committee with the downtown Tulsa partnership and they've really spearheaded a lot of this and um we're looking forward to presenting a nice cute little festival and it's going to be on 918 day which is a Wednesday this year it's the first so we're not trying to go too too big but it'll be on the Chapman Green we're going to close down a few streets lots of live music um and we're really seeking out um we want to see to capture um
25:29
every tulson so all cultures and we're going to have a great place for kids and lots of food trucks lots of vendors and it coincides with their Farmers Market as well so it's just going to be a really great evening to come out and celebrate living in our city and all the different cultures that come together oh my goodness that's awesome yeah I'm super excited about September okay September September 18th okay September 18th yes that'll be Fant okay oh yes duh I love it I love it okay let's talk
25:59
about a little bit um what would you if you were if someone was visiting Tulsa and just had a couple of days like where would you say like the camp miss that you have to go to Gathering Place number one got to go got to go you know um when I was giving the tour to those folks from Boston on Monday they actually walked they were staying at the Tulsa Club Hotel and I was like that makes sense you from Boston they walked all the way to the Gathering Place but um that's that to me is a c m sure um but other than that I think coming downtown
26:32
and seeing seeing some of the art deco especially even the churches I mean they just the gorgeous churches that we have downtown and and going to visit Brickside going to Cherry Street I think any of those places that you can park and then just spend some time walking around even at mother Road Market that's another great one um anything in in the Market District and then here of course in you know Studio row MH yeah yeah I know it's it's so perfect and you said you know just a little bit ago like when
27:03
you were younger downtown wasn't anything and that's how you know it was for me too and I think a lot of people that are you know locally from Tulsa that have lived in the suburbs and not you know not really surround them themselves you know in the city in downtown don't realize how amazing it's it has got I mean it's just had like you said so much Resurgence and um development but I remember downtown just being like you know a scary place to go and it was it was you know it's yeah especially you know 16 and having a car
27:33
the only reason to go downtown was either to visit my mom or or to go the center of the universe right like that that was about it um but now like with the Guthrie Green and the arts district and Black Wall Street I mean there there's just so much to do and it's it's not only you know the sites to see the restaurants to eat at and then shops too which is just great it gives everybody a little bit of something so I think that's Fant ftic when we have visitors coming in for you know concerts at the
28:01
bo there's so many things to do while you're downtown that are walkable yes and you know we have like the great local hotels and then the great you know um airbnbs there's some super cute airbnbs like all around Tulsa that are great to stay in where you get that experience yes there's a lot I have a great friend of mine also has an Airbnb that's all Tulsa themed and so that's kind of neat you know when you're coming in from out of town you get a little bit of the history and you don't have to go
28:27
too far yeah yeah okay so if you could wave a magic wand and nothing was um nothing was a factor like you could have anything you want like where would you live in Tulsa what area I would probably live I want one of those and I don't want a I don't need a big big house but I want to live close to the river I so so I I you know it's easy to say Maple Ridge you know right but but kind of yeah I just don't want a big house there you know cuz I don't want to clean a big house um but I think I think the it's
29:07
the the location is great you can get anywhere you want to go and I think just for me it's being outside I'm an outside girl I love to Garden I love to go for walks I love to do all that so being close to the river I think would be a really great thing and being really like a step from downtown as well so that's easy um and it's just you know it's beautiful it's beautiful over there yeah I love Maple Ridge everybody loves Maple Ridge but you know I could I could also say there's there's other really great
29:35
neighborhoods too in town and you know as I'm going to start looking for a house to buy a house again in I don't know a few months I've been really looking around the 31st in Harvard area I think that's that's been under development a lot and it's really centrally located right so I think our highway system and our infrastructure is really set up for kind of anywhere in in the Tulsa Metro to live because like I said we've got our 15 to 20 minute commute to go across town which is great
30:04
yeah and one of the things that I love about Tulsa and even you know the surrounding suburbs is like you just discover all these little pocket neighborhoods and they're so cute and charming and have their you know just have their own little um Persona like they're just so cute like that everyone takes care of them yes that that's what I absolutely love I mean I I currently live a little farther out South and to the West which I had never really lived west of the river except for in Janks but um yeah I
30:35
live I live kind of close to paage belter and my little pocket of a neighborhood is super small but the houses are all different and they all have unique character to them and kids are outside playing and I mean that's what you get in Tulsa you know it's it's friendly neighborhoods and not necessarily a lot of nosy neighbors but friendly neighbors and and I think that's that's that's what attracts me to like these really cute neighborhoods is is the walkability around your neighborhood and and that you know
31:04
speaks to the friendliness of tulson you're you're waving at people you know I used to live over in um in Turner Park which is over by Tu a cute little cottage house it's absolutely adorable all the homes in that area are so cute and you know as I'm walking around doing my daily walks throughout the neighborhood I've met quite a few of my neighbors and some just you go over and chitchat about their their Gardens and your Gardens and all of a sudden you're training zucchinis for tomatoes and now
31:33
you've got a new friend out in the block I mean that's what Tulsa is and there's those you're right there's these little pockets of neighborhoods just everywhere that's so funny um one of my uh girlfriends who's also a real estate agent she was telling me that one of her clients moved into uh I think it was Swan Lake and all the neighbors ended up knowing her name and she's like we have to move everybody knows me like she thought they were being nosed at first but she was like uh that's going to
32:00
happen in any neighborhood that you go to it is like I think they moved from California or something but um it was just funny like what's going on here you know I and that is interesting I have quite a few friends that have come through the Tulsa remote program and and that's a lot of what they say they're not quite used to the friendliness so they're like wait what's going on no that's just us get used to it yeah yeah I heard somebody else talking speaking of Tulsa Remo I was listening
32:28
to One someone that did a podcast and it was so good I loved listening to it and Tulsa remote is a great program too absolutely um I love that but she was saying you know talking about a neighbor and she thought she was getting ready to um you know have words or something and he was just nice and she was just like I mean he was really being nice and it was just something that they talked about it's interesting um and that's why I think I feel kind of drawn um to some of these uh folks that are coming in and I
32:58
got first access to these from from the Press Club right so um they're all you know these new people are coming in they're looking for things to do they're trying to figure things out you know through the program yes they get a lot of help and they have great you know they expose them to wonderful things about Tulsa but a lot of these people are are seeking it out on their own and and that's really kind of what opened the door to me meeting a lot of these people and I can't get enough of it
33:27
because I'm like great what else can you share with me about your world and like how Tulsa you know what made you want to come here and those kinds of things and like let me introduce you to how great this city is yeah they're the best stories and they also have I think TSA remote people also know some of the better hot spots that um even locals don't know they're like they love a place and I'm like I've never heard of this place I'm telling you what yes they do it's like they they've got the in
33:52
knowledge before before a lot of us know I think you know we take we contend to take for gred some of those things and maybe not keep up because we get in our routines right and um you know especially if you're out in the suburbs you're probably going somewhere closer to you you're not coming into downtown all the time you're probably saving that for a special event and so you might have heard about this new restaurant but you never you know you hadn't gone down to see it for a few months right until
34:22
you were going to you know a Drillers game or a soccer game or something downtown yeah but they know they all know I know it's great so you have been exposed to you know so many people but if you had to pick somebody that was like the most inspirational person for you or that has been very inspirational to you a tulson who would you choose wow the most ins the most inspirational tulson or non- tulson well let's say both okay okay all right wow okay so for the most inspirational tulson that I have met I
35:01
met her through the Press Club her name is Amanda Clinton she is an amazing amazing woman she does PR and strategy um she's worked for the Cherokee Nation for a long time she was also involved in the Press she worked for Channel 8 I know for sure she probably worked at many other stations and did many other things that I can't remember right now but she is the connector here in Tulsa like she is and she's one of those types of people that will scoop you under her wing and say come out here and meet this
35:31
meet this person meet this person um through her I met Kathy Taylor I mean it's you know and various other people I mean she really is a very connected person but besides that she has a heart of gold and she's just a wonderful human um Tulsa rooters man I got a lot of them I'm going to have to shout out them all I suppose but um you know I and this will be a mutual friend of ours Mark's pretty amazing um yeah he uh he's pretty amazing he he knows everybody I tell you he has NE never met a stranger um he's a
36:04
really really fantastic guy and he opens his home to everybody um yeah he's just a really great guy and and lastly I I'll name one more of my great T remote is briely breely is pretty incredible she um I actually volunteer through her nonprofit called infinite Horizons and we work with a lot of female entrepreneurs and she really has given me a lot of opportunities um to meet other entrepreneurs and and and women in business and she she's a connector of connectors too and she she's never met a stranger either and I
36:39
think it she's just a phenomenal human okay tell me a little bit more about that organization sure sure um Bree founded this organization just a couple years ago and she really saw a need um for young women that were struggling wanted to get maybe either out of the corporate structure because they felt undervalued um or just had a passion to to start their own business and maybe didn't know where to start and a lot of times you don't have a lot of funding right to to get that going or resources or even understand where to start and
37:12
she's your gal she's been doing it now um she's been an entrepreneur for 17 years but she's been actually coaching other female entrepreneurs for nine and as she is moving and growing and evolving in her business um she decided she wanted to give back so she started this nonprofit where she's gathered resources and other women to um be the support system and help new entrepreneurs start their journey and she actually held the first women's wealth conference last year MH called s success becomes me which um I actually
37:44
opened that conference and got to speak on stage it was really great and it was just filled with very empowering women it was one of those weekends that is Unforgettable um to be around and the table that I was at of course I had some familiar faces there but women from all over the United States had had flown in for this and you know to to hear their stories and and to hear everyone's Ambitions and get some actual um actual advice on how to start your business and what to do and legal advice and inspirational ad I mean it was all there
38:23
how to grow your wealth and what to do on social media and I mean it was jam-packed and and we're doing it again this year um can't wait for this year it will be actually at the summit Club so be looking for that this fall okay I can't wait for that that's exciting well good I think we've got most of our speakers lined up so it's going to be a really really really great day yeah you you've got me I'm there okay awesome love it love it so is there anything else before we end that you want to add
38:49
about Tulsa that we haven't touched on or wow it's just a great place you know um there's so much Beauty here there's so much wonderful people here and I'm looking one of the other other things that's that I didn't mention I guess is the film industry I mean the film industry is just booming which is incredible um you know working at the Press Club during a couple of very big films being made um I ran into some of the guys laying all the wires and stuff and you know hey what movie are you uh
39:27
are you setting up for they called it uh grey horse at the time which really was the code word for killers of the flower Moon mhm U so that was really interesting and you know those people have to stay somewhere in town yeah so keep your eyes fueled you never know who you're going to run into in Tulsa these days and so yeah I think I think seeing a lot of a lot of the film industry is pretty incredible seeing that come into Tulsa and just I mean Tulsa is just booming in every direction we're just like this big burst
39:57
and I can't wait to see where we go in the next 5 10 years it's going to be incredible it really is it's going to be incredible well thank you so much it was a pleasure my pleasure I had such a great time thank you it so so good I can't wait to do your Tulsa tour yes