The Deal Table

Harper Belmont Media | Optima Mergers and Acquisitions
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The Deal Table is a show where entrepreneurs, executives, and investors share actionable insights, strategies, and success stories about building, scaling, and exiting businesses. It features conversations with leading voices to inspire and connect like-minded professionals. Our target audience includes entrepreneurs, executives, and capital providers actively involved in growth, capital raising, and strategic deals.

  1. #38 He Hit Rock Bottom. Then Climbed 58 Peaks in 72 Days | Chris Fisher on The Deal Table

    MAR 12

    #38 He Hit Rock Bottom. Then Climbed 58 Peaks in 72 Days | Chris Fisher on The Deal Table

    World record mountain endurance athlete Chris Fisher reveals how addiction, loss, and repeated reinvention built the mindset behind one of the most demanding feats in American climbing history. He lost close friends to overdose, had his senior football season stripped away, and found himself at the lowest point of his life before he ever set foot on a mountain. After years of addiction, a recovery built one hard decision at a time, and a Navy SEAL training experience that permanently rewired how he thinks about limits, Chris went on to complete all 58 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks in just 72 days — faster than anyone in history. That winter record is now permanently recognized in a mural at Denver's Carla Madison Recreation Center. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The Winter 14ers World Record• From Addiction to Reinvention • Navy SEAL Training and the Mindset Shift • Risk Management at Extreme Altitude • The Real Cost of Elite Expedition Climbing • The Sherpa Economy and the Ethics of Everest • Building a Professional Career as a Mountain Athlete • The Netflix Everest Project • The Andes 6,000ers • Climbing Mountains as a Framework for Business and Life ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by:Capital Southwest https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd #TheDealTable #ChrisFisher #Colorado14ers #MountainAthlete #OvercomingAdversity #MindsetMatters #Everest #WorldRecord #Entrepreneurship #Mountaineering

    1h 13m
  2. #37 How to Hire Yourself Out of a Job: Rogers Healy's Blueprint for True Business Freedom

    MAR 5

    #37 How to Hire Yourself Out of a Job: Rogers Healy's Blueprint for True Business Freedom

    Rogers Healy built a real estate empire by becoming a Texas household name, but his true breakthrough came when he learned how to hire himself out of his own job. Now, as the operator behind Morrison Seger Venture Capital, Rogers is deploying $2M to $10M checks into high-growth consumer brands using a strategy that prioritizes founder integrity over a polished pitch deck. In this episode of The Deal Table, Rogers pulls back the curtain on the "Schwarzenegger Strategy" for scaling CPG brands, the reality of managing a 150-deal portfolio, and why authenticity is the ultimate arbitrage in the modern market. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Rogers Healy's real estate background and business scaling experience • Transition from real estate to venture capital investing • First investment in Mizzen+Main via SMU mentorship • Embracing authenticity through mentorship and personal changes • Challenges scaling service-based real estate firms • Investing in consumer brands like Goat Fuel and Mosh bar • Deal vetting process and average check sizes • Providing investor updates to manage expectations • Balancing family priorities with professional pursuits • Pitching strategies for founders seeking investments ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by:Capital Southwest https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd #thedealtable #venturecapital #texas #texasbusiness #entrepreneurship #founderadvice #realestatestrategy #businessgrowth #authenticleadership #realestate

    1h 9m
  3. #36 Better to Be Hated or Loved Than Ignored in Sports: The Mavericks Approach | George Killebrew

    FEB 26

    #36 Better to Be Hated or Loved Than Ignored in Sports: The Mavericks Approach | George Killebrew

    George Killebrew, Vice President of the United Pickleball Association and former Chief Revenue Officer of the Dallas Mavericks, shares why in sports, it’s better to be hated or loved than ignored—and how that mindset shaped the Mavericks’ approach to building a winning franchise. This episode explores the principles behind creating a team that drives engagement, loyalty, and long-term value, from media rights as a primary revenue driver to embracing bold, polarizing strategies that capture attention and influence culture. Killebrew also reflects on defining moments in his career, including the Mavericks’ 2011 championship run, the challenges of early playoff games in unconventional venues, and the experiences that sparked his lifelong passion for sports management. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Integration of sports teams and business revenue strategies • Evolution from hobby ownership to full-time business focus • Media rights as primary driver of franchise valuations • Financial impact of consistent winning on revenues • History and potential separation of American Airlines Center • Careers in sports sales and revenue management • Dallas Mavericks' 2011 NBA championship journey • Transition to Major League Rugby commissioner role • Pickleball's rapid growth and professionalization • Community pride and economic benefits of sports ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by: Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd #thedealtable #nba #sportsbusiness #pickleball #mavericks #sportsmanagement #markcuban #jerryjones #sportsmarketing #businessofsports

    1h 2m
  4. #35 Predicting Hurricanes Years in Advance - Solar Forecasting as Capital Strategy | Katherine Monson

    FEB 12

    #35 Predicting Hurricanes Years in Advance - Solar Forecasting as Capital Strategy | Katherine Monson

    Solar activity is a measurable risk variable across satellites, aviation, precision agriculture, and energy markets. Katherine Monson, CEO and co-founder of Hale SWx, explains how a physics-based solar model improves forecast accuracy beyond legacy statistical methods and enables both short-range operational decisions and long-range capital planning. For spacecraft operators, forecasting informs launch timing, altitude strategy, radiation exposure, and asset life—directly impacting CAPEX efficiency and revenue duration. Airlines gain visibility into dynamic radiation loads affecting avionics and crew exposure. In energy and insurance markets, long-horizon solar inputs may influence LNG demand positioning and hurricane risk pricing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The sun as the primary energetic variable in Earth systems • Why legacy space weather forecasting fails beyond four days • Hale SWx’s physics-based model vs. statistical regression approaches • Satellite drag, radiation exposure, and launch timing economics • The SpaceX solar storm loss case and CAPEX implications • Precision GPS risk in agriculture, mining, and oil & gas • Aviation radiation exposure, avionics maintenance, and FAA integration • Long-range solar forecasting for hardware design and lifecycle planning • LNG futures, hurricane forecasting, and insurance pricing strategy • Negotiation philosophy from Getting to Yes applied to capital-intensive industries ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by: Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd

    1h 2m
  5. #34 Agentic AI in Skilled Trades: Scaling Productivity and Private Equity Value Creation | Wyatt Smith

    FEB 5

    #34 Agentic AI in Skilled Trades: Scaling Productivity and Private Equity Value Creation | Wyatt Smith

    Wyatt Smith, founder of Upsmith and former Uber executive, outlines the strategic application of agentic AI within the U.S. skilled trades and home services sectors. Modern trade businesses face a 1.5 million-person labor shortage, a gap increasingly bridged by probabilistic AI agents designed to drive 50X increases in operational productivity. Automating administrative tasks at the application layer allows firms to expand top-line revenue and free cash flow without scaling indirect labor costs. These deal mechanics underpin current institutional demand and the historically high multiples paid by private equity for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical service businesses. This transition toward competency-based credentialing positions technology as a primary lever for U.S. labor productivity and economic competitiveness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The 50X Productivity Framework • U.S. Skilled Labor Shortage • Private Equity in Home Services • Deterministic vs. Probabilistic AI • Competency-Based Credentialing • The AI Application Layer • Uber Elevate and Joby Aviation • Tech Optimism vs. Creative Destruction • U.S. Economic Competitiveness • Leadership and the Dignity of Work ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by:Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd #TheDealTable #Ai #artificialintellegence #PrivateEquity #HomeServices #SkilledTrades #FreeCashFlow #Productivity #EnterpriseValue #CapitalAllocation

    1h 8m
  6. #33 SMU Cox’s Strategy for the Next Decade: Talent, AI, and the Business of Higher Ed - Todd Milbourn

    JAN 29

    #33 SMU Cox’s Strategy for the Next Decade: Talent, AI, and the Business of Higher Ed - Todd Milbourn

    Southern Methodist University isn’t trying to become Wall Street—and Dean Todd Milbourn is clear about that. What SMU Cox is doing is building a modern business school designed for a fast-shifting economy where talent, adaptability, and real-world engagement matter more than tradition alone.In this episode, Milbourn breaks down how SMU Cox is operating more like a holding company than a legacy institution, with professional schools serving as economic engines that fund long-term academic investment. He explains why the move to the ACC has been a major academic accelerant, how AI is reshaping both jobs and curriculum, and why entrepreneurial thinking—not just entrepreneurship—is becoming a core skill for every graduate. The conversation spans the business of higher education, the role of athletics in institutional momentum, and SMU Cox’s position as a talent pipeline for Dallas as finance, energy, and technology continue to converge. This is a candid look at how a business school competes, adapts, and grows in a world where standing still is not an option. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The Institutional Risk of Higher Education • University as a Holding Company • Athletics as a Strategic Accelerant • AI Disruption and Talent Resiliency • The CEO-Partnership Model • Y'all Street and Global Capital Relocation • The Net IQ Importer • Scaling the Venture Ecosystem ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by: Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd#thedealtable #highereducation #capitalstructure #corporategovernance #assetmanagement #venturecapital #economicgrowth

    1h 10m
  7. #32 Why Texas Is Booming: Scott Theeringer on Land, Housing, and Infrastructure Strategy

    JAN 22

    #32 Why Texas Is Booming: Scott Theeringer on Land, Housing, and Infrastructure Strategy

    Texas is growing faster than almost anywhere in the U.S.—1,200 new residents every day, three new subdivisions on average, and booming demand for homes, offices, and data centers. Land strategy, phased development, and infrastructure planning drive long-term value, while energy supply and city regulations set critical limits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The Texas Triangle Economy: Why this region is the 5th strongest economy in the U.S. and why its "sticky" population ensures long-term growth. • The Entitlement Machine: A masterclass on how to navigate zoning, engineering, and city council politics to unlock land value. • AI & Data Center Infrastructure: The massive power demands of modern data centers and the $20M+ investment required for "powered sites." • The Case for Nuclear: Why current energy sources can't keep up with Texas’s 2030 population projections. • Solving Chronic Homelessness: An empathetic look at the legislative gaps in mental health stabilization and the reality of addiction on our streets.• The "Flight to Quality": How the office and retail markets are shifting toward high-end, experiential spaces. • Building Generational Wealth: How Scott’s team sources off-market deals to turn multi-generational family farms into multi-million dollar legacies. • Developing Resilience: Lessons from "Cold Call Cowboys" and why the younger generation needs to embrace the "muscle" of rejection. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by: Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd #thedealtable #realestateinvesting #privateequity #texasrealestate #landdevelopment #housingmarket #datacenters #infrastructure #investmentstrategy #mergersandacquisitions

    1h 4m
  8. #31 Lower Middle Market Private Equity Explained: Founder Exits and Control with JJ Barto

    JAN 15

    #31 Lower Middle Market Private Equity Explained: Founder Exits and Control with JJ Barto

    JJ Barto of Broadwing Capital explains how lower middle market private equity actually works—partnering with founder-owned businesses, navigating first-time institutional capital, and creating value through disciplined execution rather than financial engineering.A grounded look at how durable lower middle market businesses are built, transitioned, and scaled—without relying on leverage-driven shortcuts or headline risk. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Defining the LMM: Broadwing Capital’s $5M–$50M EBITDA investment thesis. • The Founder Identity Crisis: Navigating the shift from sole owner to institutional partner. • The "Soft Elbows" Philosophy: Balancing high financial IQ with operator-level humility. • Deal Mechanics: Structuring equity rolls and the "second bite at the apple." • Due Diligence Stress Tests: Surviving the 90-day Quality of Earnings (QofE) process. • Value Creation Roadmaps: Aligning strategy and "exit states" before the deal closes. • PE vs. Family Offices: Comparing capital structures and investor time horizons. • The 70/30 Rubric: Why 30% industry nuance drives "rocket ship" growth. • Macro Risk & Tariffs: How economic uncertainty suppresses buyer and seller expectations. • The Human Capital Challenge: CEO cultivation and aligning Type A management teams. • The Liberal Arts Edge: Why critical thinking and history outperform technical finance degrees. • Platform vs. Add-on Strategy: When to pool regional firms into a "super-provider." • LMM Evolution: The transition from the "Wild West" to a sophisticated asset class. • Operational Discipline: Why consistent execution separates great investments from average ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Deal Table is Produced by Harper Belmont Media Sponsored by: Capital Southwest | https://capitalsouthwest.com Follow The Deal Table: https://www.instagram.com/thedealtablepodcast/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-deal-table/ Follow Ryan Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansharper/ https://www.instagram.com/ryansharper/ Follow Lane Carrick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-lane-carrick-65a728/ Sign up for the Deal Table Newsletter: https://share.hsforms.com/1Tfx_WobCTPuXWenG1-69EQoavsd #TheDealTable #privateequity #businessexitstrategy #valuecreation #capitalmarkets #mergersandacquisitions

    1h 6m
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The Deal Table is a show where entrepreneurs, executives, and investors share actionable insights, strategies, and success stories about building, scaling, and exiting businesses. It features conversations with leading voices to inspire and connect like-minded professionals. Our target audience includes entrepreneurs, executives, and capital providers actively involved in growth, capital raising, and strategic deals.

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  • Creator
    Harper Belmont Media | Optima Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    38
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    Clean
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