Episodios

  • Learn about a local women-centric organization helping startup businesses
    Aug 25 2024

    On this week's edition of Better Living, Chris Arnold visits with Lee Nixon, co-founder of Adreana's Angels Foundation...a non-profit providing financial assistance, resources and emotional support to children battling cancer, and to their families. With their big charity softball game coming up, she shares details as well as memories of Adreana's journey. But first, Chris talks to JaCoi James Pugh, the president of Black Women's Wall Street, a women-centric organization providing startup business training, financial literacy and education to help them impact and benefit their communities.

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  • Concern grows for the rising number of suicides by police officers
    Aug 18 2024

    This week on Better Living Chris Arnold visits with Texas Dept of Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller about the Farm Fresh Initiative teaching kids where our food comes from. It's a part of the Farm to School movement. Chris also talks with Suicide Prevention Advocate Fonda Bryant about the rising number of suicides by police officers across our nation and what we all can do.

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  • How it is New Hope Equine Assisted Therapy is changing the lives of children and adults with disabilities
    Aug 11 2024

    This week on Better Living, Chris Arnold visits with the Dean of Success Coaching at Dallas College, Robert Reyes, about their Super Saturday fall registration event for students on all campuses. But first he chats with Sharla Kershen and Bart Lesniewicz of New Hope Equine Assisted Therapy. They use the horse and human connection to help children and adults with disabilities, and recently have added a program that specifically targets veterans with PTSD.

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  • SMU's Dr. Mak discusses his legacy, the present & future of AI
    Aug 4 2024

    This week on Better Living Chris Arnold visits with Darla Shirley, the executive director of Youth World, a great organization inspiring hope and relieving economic burdens for children in need in southern Dallas. But first he talks with Dr. Simon Mak the longtime Professor of Entrepreneurship at SMU Cox School of Business about a surprising career development that will change his life and his amazing legacy at SMU. Dr Mak tells our listeners about artificial intelligence and what the present and future looks like with AI in our community.

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  • How Oliver Family Charities turned a tragedy into an opportunity to change kids' lives
    Jul 27 2024

    This week on Better Living Chris Arnold checks in with Xavier Henderson of For Oak Cliff.Org, an award-winning non-profit with a mission of developing
    community through education, social mobility and social capital about their 10th anniversary Back To School Festival. But first, he talks to Regina Oliver
    of the Oliver Family Charities. She is the mother of Andre Emmitt, the basketball star who lost his life during an East Dallas drive-by shooting. Their
    organization is changing the lives of kids through education and sports.

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  • A look at Lena Pope and their work with child and family services in Tarrant Co
    Jul 20 2024

    On this week's edition of Better Living, it's time to dine! Time for DFW Restaurant Week, North Texas’ largest annual culinary event providing support for our longtime charity partners. Chris Arnold talks to Sarah Burns, the Sr. Director of Marketing and Communications for the North Texas Food Bank about providing meals for those who face the challenges of hunger. But first he visits with Lena Pope CEO Ashley Elgin about the amazing work they do with child and family services in Tarrant County.

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  • Get to know the educator connecting & celebrating families from Fort Worth to Dallas
    Jul 13 2024

    On this week's edition of Better Living, Chris Arnold visits with the Executive Director of the non-profit "A Steady Hand," the Reverend Donald Parish, about the "It Takes a Man" seminar about guidance for young boys. But first, he talks with Vincent Battles, a longtime community organizer and educator making a difference connecting and celebrating family from Fort Worth to Dallas.

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  • 'My Possibilities' and the amazing work to help adults with disabilities
    Jul 6 2024

    This week on Better Living Chris Arnold visits with the Executive Director of the non- profit "A Steady Hand," the Reverend Donald Parish, about the "It Takes a Man" seminar about guidance for young boys. But first he talks with Adrienne Mageors of My Possibilities about the amazing work they do with adults who have intellectual
    and/or developmental disabilities.

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