The B Team Podcast
Talking all things Business, Bentonville, and Bourbon. Hosted by Josh Saffran, Matt Marrs, Rob Nelson, and Jim Corbett. New episodes every Thursday!
Episodes
118 episodes
Best of B Team: Bike Culture Economics: Why Out-of-Staters are Buying Bentonville
Bentonville is changing so fast that even locals can miss the scale of what’s being built right in front of them. We sit down with a longtime Northwest Arkansas real estate leader who came to town in 1992 as a Walmart engineer, then quickly piv...
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Ep. 103 - Shark Tank Reality: Beyond the Handshake
The Shark Tank edit makes it look smooth, but the real experience is quiet, intense, and a lot longer than you think. We talk with the founder of Foam Cooler, Chad Lee, the Bentonville-based product developer who walked into the Tank, ran his c...
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Episode 103
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49:22
Best of B Team: From Homebrew Naivety to Brewery Reality
This week on The Best of B Team, we're throwing it back to our episode with Jeff, owner and founder of Bike Rack Brewing Co.Imagine the sun on your shoulders, a cold pint in hand, and a reason to show up, this conversation lives where sm...
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Ep. 102 - Driving John Daly: Life as Limo Joe Pt. 2
Ever wonder what celebrity travel really looks like from the driver’s seat? Welcome back to part 2 with Joe Washington! We're back with Limo Joe, the man stars call when they land in Northwest Arkansas, for a raw, funny, and surprisingly tender...
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Ep. 101 - Inside NWA’s Most Exclusive Car with Joe Washington Pt. 1
Power often rides in the backseat, and Joe Washington has spent years at the wheel. We kick off season three with the trusted driver behind Northwest Arkansas’s most intriguing routes, funded early by Don Tyson, introduced to Alice Walton as “m...
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Best of B Team: Writing "The Book": Jenny Marrs’ 5-Year Journey
What turns a house into a story you can hold? In this recap episode, we look back at our episode with Jenny Marrs for a warm, funny, and honest look at how a five-year writing journey became a memoir stitched from rooms, rituals, and the small ...
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6:55
Ep. 100 - Business Leaders Supporting Local Teens With TASC
Super Bowl energy meets real community impact as we crack open prop bets, swap bourbon notes, and rally behind TASC’s All-In casino night, our favorite way to turn a rowdy room into real support for teens in Northwest Arkansas. We start with li...
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Episode 100
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Best of B Team: Purple Bag Power, Building a Luxury Brand in Northwest Arkansas
A jeweler launching his own Prosecco sounds unexpected, until you hear how celebration sits at the heart of both. We sit down with Ben from Blakeman’s to trace the path from showroom sparkle to $24 bubbles on local shelves, and why that choice ...
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Ep. 99 - From English Teacher to Beer Boss | With Flyway Brewing's Matt Foster
A blueberry wheat became a state legend, but the real story starts in a classroom. We sit with Flyway’s founder, an English teacher turned brewer, to unpack how a garage hobby grew into Arkansas’s bestselling Blue Wing and a new taproom on Walm...
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Ep. 98 - Separate Is Sexy: Why Space Makes Love Stronger | With Intimacy Evolution's Mark and Bri Carey
Bourbon in hand, we take aim at a tender truth: kids don’t break marriages, unspoken change does. We sit with Mark and Bri, the duo behind Intimacy Evolution, to unpack how partners drift from lovers to roommates and how to stitch connection ba...
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Episode 98
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Ep. 97 - B Team Recap: Bourbon, Bentonville & Broken Chairs
A hundred episodes later, the energy feels different, in the best way. We unpack a year that stretched us and grounded us: restaurant openings that set a new bar for Bentonville, a brewery moving in next door to the new campus, and community ev...
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Ep. 96 - Fondue, Family, and a Bold Leap
A sparkling square, a family caravan, and a risky idea that turned into a community magnet. We sit down with Chad, a former hospital executive who moved from California to Northwest Arkansas and opened a locally owned Melting Pot in Rogers. Wha...
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Ep. 95 - Seahorses, Fry Pies, and Bentonville Buzz
Downtown Bentonville just got a new reason to rally. We sit down with the force behind Fry, a hidden-in-plain-sight bar at 100 SW 2nd Street, built on a simple promise: keep prices fair, keep service quick, and make it easy for people to gather...
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Ep. 94 - Bourbon, Business & $100K Nights
A bourbon night that starts with Pappy Van Winkle and ends with purpose doesn’t happen by accident. We pulled back the curtain on how a fourth-year charity tasting in Bentonville raised around $100,000 while keeping the room small, the music li...
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Ep. 93 - Granola with Guts: The BFF Your Microbiome Needs
A granola shot that goes down like bourbon and lands like a health upgrade. We bring Gita, the founder of Gut BFF, into the studio with Gabby to taste three flavors, Honey Glow, Apple Cinnamon Raisin, and Chocolate Peanut Butter, and dig into t...
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Ep. 92 - Inside Bentonville's Film Scene
Bourbon on the table, big ideas in the air. We sit down with an award-winning filmmaker who left Southern California for Northwest Arkansas and break down, step by step, how a small, collaborative community can grow into a real film hub. Betwee...
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Episode 92
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Ep. 91 - Eating Clean Without Spending a Fortune
What if clean eating didn’t mean bland food, complicated meal prep, or $15 drive‑thru compromises? We sit down with Stu of Stu's Clean Cooking, a veteran who shed 100 pounds and turned his personal transformation into a fast‑growing meal compan...
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Episode 91
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43:12
Ep. 90 - Rewriting Belonging: Turning Isolation Into A Million-View Movement
A caramel-apple bourbon toast opens the door to a story that hits harder than cinnamon: growing up in a restrictive church, feeling unseen, and transforming that past into a mission to build belonging at scale. Our guest—known to thousands as “...
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Episode 90
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47:14
Ep. 89 - Why Great Harvest Feels Like Home
The smell of fresh bread can change a life. Our guests from Great Harvest NWA share how a spur-of-the-moment lunch on a road trip, followed by a snowy trek to Montana, led them to trade corporate titles for early mornings, warm ovens, and a bak...
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Episode 89
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49:11
Ep. 88 - Behind the Barrel Selections
Imagine tasting a single barrel so good that you try to convince the distillery to bottle it under a different label. That happened to us with a Rock Hill Farms barrel sample, and it became the spark for a wide-open conversation about how great...
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Episode 88
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Ep. 87 - Beyond the Bottle: Inside NWA’s Exclusive Bourbon Club
If you’ve ever stared at a $6,000 unicorn behind glass and wondered how anyone actually tastes it, you’ll feel right at home here. We pull back the curtain on a thriving Bentonville bourbon scene where access comes from community, not luck, com...
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Episode 87
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38:56
Ep. 86 - The Bourbon Market Just Flipped
Borrowed coffee cups, a sherry-finished pour, and a market plot twist: we crack open Horse Neck’s Kentucky Bourbon and unpack why the bourbon world suddenly feels upside down. We’re joined by our resident spirits pro to translate tasting notes ...
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Episode 86
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44:57
Ep. 85 - From Fine Dining to Fire Ovens: Miles James Unfiltered
A great neighborhood spot doesn’t become an institution by accident. Chef-owner Miles James joins us for a spirited session, pizza in hand, bourbon on the bar, to share how MJ Pizzeria grew from a tight, open-kitchen concept into a regional fav...
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Episode 85
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56:05
Ep. 84 - Building the Courts Everyone Wants: Inside the Pickleball Boom
The bottle was hot and the takes were hotter, but beneath the jokes is a story about how courts are bringing people together across Arkansas. We sit down with Andrew Todd, teaching pro turned owner of Generation Sports Construction, to unpack t...
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Episode 84
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45:57
Ep. 83 - Building Better Athletes: Managing NIL the Right Way
Northwest Arkansas has a rich history of innovation, and now that pioneering spirit has reached collegiate athletics through Pinnacle Sports Ventures. Founded by Chad Campbell, a lifelong area resident with an extraordinary background spanning ...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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47:22