Jim Bratton Podcast

Jim Bratton
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Welcome to the "Jim Bratton," a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and exploration. Hosted by Jim Bratton, A full-time voice actor/podcaster--A broad range of subjects : Art, Business Plans, Music, Insurance, Personal stories, Inspirational and many more. Each episode is like hanging out in a creativity lounge. We'll kick off with casual interviews, getting the inside scoop from creators of all kinds. What makes them tick? What crazy ideas are they cooking up? Let's find out together! Do you feel like soaking in some opinions, poetry, and prose? We've got that too! Unwind and get lost in words that'll make you think, feel, and maybe even crack a smile. This is your go-to spot for a dose of something different and delightful. Follow Jim: https://www.jimbratton.com

  1. 2d ago

    STORIES - Focus Your Inner Bitch — Mary Bratton Episode 20

    Mary Bratton talks about a lifetime of pain, and what she has learned about living with it. Polio as a child, cancer at fifty, walking on a broken leg for three weeks without knowing it, and the focus she found — once, on the fur of a rabbit pictured on a hospital wall — that let her through procedures she could not stop. She talks about naming her fears, about giving in to grief for a while and then moving forward, about the nights when pain keeps her awake and the blank, quiet place she has learned to find, and about the marriage that began with a disagreement over who paid the bills. Her advice, in her words: name it, and claim it — then get behind you, devil. Watch the behind the scenes video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTnbYDoE_98

    STORIES - Focus Your Inner Bitch — Mary Bratton Episode 20

  2. Oct 24

    BUSINESS - Behind the Deal — Brian Kelledy Episode 2: How a Dealership Makes Money

    Episode 2 of Behind the Deal. Brian Kelledy spent thirty years in the car business, and he starts where his new neighbor started: most people — even a lawyer who has handled dealership deals — cannot figure out how a dealership makes money.   The five departments, one at a time. The most important asset is the land itself: Houston stores bought decades ago at $2.74 a foot now sit on ground worth $19 a foot. Service is roughly two-thirds of the income base — treat service customers right and they come back to buy. The parts department moves $2 million a month and carries $7 million in stock. And the internet changed everything: the BDC, the dealership's control center, is where the modern sale actually begins.   Brian's stated next subject: the nitty-gritty of what makes a good salesperson.   The Jim Bratton Podcast — every one has a story. jimbratton.com/podcast   Watch the behind the scenes video here: https://youtu.be/vo5wUCM3Ssw

    BUSINESS - Behind the Deal — Brian Kelledy Episode 2: How a Dealership Makes Money

  3. Oct 23

    STORIES - Focus Your Inner Bitch — The Mary Bratton Story, Episode 19: The Funky House

    Episode 19 of Focus Your Inner Bitch — The Mary Bratton Story. Mary Bratton is living with stage four breast cancer, diagnosed more than three years ago, and she and Jim are having a good time every day — "we don't know how many more we've got."   This episode is the story of the houses: the funky East End house Jim bought himself for his birthday in the late 1970s — out of level, no closets, a furnace he was afraid to light, and a kidney-shaped pool that had become an ecologically balanced pond. Mary stayed for the pool. Two summers of it, before and after the wedding. Then the Polk house, which they bought because, as Jim puts it, you break it, you bought it — Mary shook a pipe, the pipe came off the wall, and the water ran until they found a water key.   Along the way: quitting smoking cold in the Methodist Hospital behavior-modification program ("I wouldn't mind living a little bit longer"), the Greater Eastwood Civic Association where they met, and the math of a long marriage — "the two of us are greater than the sum of one and one." These days, Jim says, they're just trying to stay off the silver alert.   Next, in Episode 20: life at the Polk house.   The Jim Bratton Podcast — every one has a story. jimbratton.com/podcast   Watch the behind the scenes video here: https://youtu.be/T6SMFMwqwNI

  4. Oct 23

    STORIES - Focus Your Inner Bitch — The Mary Bratton Story, Episode 18: The Honeymoon

    Episode 18 of Focus Your Inner Bitch — The Mary Bratton Story. Jim and Mary go back to the beginning: their honeymoon in the Canadian Rockies, and the months of preparation before it — walking the Lone Star Trail in Texas summer heat until their clothes soured on their backs, testing packs and tents and wool pants every weekend, and Mary emptying the backpacks almost every night to repack them — a little less, a little more — until they were right. Then Canada: flying into Calgary during Stampede, a bus to Banff, and a storm that rolled through the valley and flattened tents all over camp — by morning there was snow on the ground and the ladies' room had become a hostel. There's the night something rubbed against the tent and they were sure it was a bear (it was a mule deer), the Banff Springs Hotel, a propane stove burned out in the room and the fire alarm that followed — and a second honeymoon, a Rhine River cruise where they slept in one tiny twin bed and the turndown service finally gave up and put both mints on one pillow. It's a story about preparation, stubbornness, and focus — the kind that gets you through a freezing night in Banff, or anything else life throws at you. As Jim says at the close: "She will never lose focus of her inner bitch. I'll tell you that." Next, in Episode 19: The Funky House — the crooked East End house, the pool summers, and the house they had to buy because Mary broke it. The Jim Bratton Podcast — every one has a story. jimbratton.com/podcast Watch the behind the scenes video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88W9UyW8Jik

  5. Oct 20 ·  Video

    MIND - JIM BRATTOM STOIC MINUTE 12 - ADVERSITY

    A Stoic reminder that hardship can become training, building resilience quietly under pressure.

  6. Oct 14

    BUSINESS - Guelder Rose: A Ukrainian Heart in Galveston — with Yarik

    Yarik and Dasha came from Ukraine and built something personal in Galveston, Texas. After years operating as Marmo Cafe and Lounge, they rebranded as Guelder Rose — named for the kalina, a plant deep in Ukrainian culture — to put their own story on the door. In this conversation, Yarik talks about what it takes to rebrand a working restaurant, why he trains his staff like it matters (because it does), and why he chose the name he did: "We're still in the United States of America, and we need to respect that." A story about identity, hospitality, and building something that means something.   Behind the Scenes Video. https://youtu.be/UhaQayyJNqg  https://www.guelderrosegtx.com/ 2121 Market St Galveston Tx 77550 Email    admin@guelderrosegtx.com Phone.  409-888-1832

  7. Oct 13

    IDEAS - Beyond Harm: AI as Hazardous Technology, with Martin Wortman and Pranav Kannan

    Two PhDs and a storyteller walk into a studio. Martin Wortman (Galveston) and Pranav Kannan (Basel, Switzerland) join Jim Bratton for a serious conversation about artificial intelligence as a hazardous technology — and what the process-safety world already knows about living with dangerous things. Drawing on the framework of Beyond Harm (HazTechRisk.org), they explore why self-regulation won't hold, what a storage tank on Highway 225 has to do with AI, and how the risks — and the benefits — distribute from Texas to India. Watch the behind-the-scenes video on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/uQloSKVtS68   And here are some youtube links for more info on today's subject.   https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPA3GFqdHv_oSnGQgpFNCTcxAt3pxReZt&si=BZK6eljUlrQk7ID2

    IDEAS - Beyond Harm: AI as Hazardous Technology, with Martin Wortman and Pranav Kannan

  8. Oct 4 ·  Video

    BUSINESS - BEHIND THE DEAL: Inside the Five Businesses That Make Up a Dealership

    How does a car dealership actually work? In the first installment of Behind the Deal, Brian Kelledy takes Jim Bratton inside the automotive retail business. Brian describes a dealership as five different businesses operating together: new cars, used cars, finance and insurance, service, and parts/body operations. They talk about why those departments have to work together, why inventory has to turn, how financing and paperwork fit into the transaction, and why customer relationships and repeat business matter. The conversation then moves into the forces that shape the industry: manufacturers, interest rates, EV charging infrastructure, the pandemic inventory shortage, incomplete vehicles waiting for parts, pre-orders, used-car competition, and the rise of large dealer groups. Most importantly, this is only the beginning. Brian and Jim discover that the automotive business is big enough that almost every topic they touch could become an episode of its own. Welcome to Behind the Deal—a series within The Jim Bratton Podcast that goes inside the business behind the car you buy.

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Welcome to the "Jim Bratton," a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and exploration. Hosted by Jim Bratton, A full-time voice actor/podcaster--A broad range of subjects : Art, Business Plans, Music, Insurance, Personal stories, Inspirational and many more. Each episode is like hanging out in a creativity lounge. We'll kick off with casual interviews, getting the inside scoop from creators of all kinds. What makes them tick? What crazy ideas are they cooking up? Let's find out together! Do you feel like soaking in some opinions, poetry, and prose? We've got that too! Unwind and get lost in words that'll make you think, feel, and maybe even crack a smile. This is your go-to spot for a dose of something different and delightful. Follow Jim: https://www.jimbratton.com

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  • Creator
    Jim Bratton
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    199
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025
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