The Deal Table

Harper Belmont Media | Optima Mergers and Acquisitions
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The Deal Table is a long-form podcast featuring the founders, operators, investors, and advisors who navigate consequential decisions around capital, control, leadership, and legacy. Hosted by Lane Carrick and Ryan Harper, and filmed at Old Parkland in Dallas, the show brings together leaders who have built, financed, governed, acquired, and exited real businesses to speak candidly about private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and what actually happens before, during, and after the deal. For founders, executives, investors, and advisors making decisions

  1. #43 Dallas Is Becoming America’s Fastest Growing Business Hub | Ken Malcolmson

    Apr 23

    #43 Dallas Is Becoming America’s Fastest Growing Business Hub | Ken Malcolmson

    Dallas–Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing business regions in the U.S., driven by corporate relocations, financial services expansion, and major infrastructure investment. Ken Malcolmson, President Emeritus of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, explains what’s behind this growth and why companies continue moving to North Texas. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Why Dallas–Fort Worth is emerging as a leading U.S. business hub • The role of corporate relocations in driving regional growth • How DFW Airport and infrastructure investment support economic expansion • The “hard advantages” behind Dallas growth (taxes, location, talent pipeline, regulation) • The “soft advantages” that influence company decisions (culture, accessibility, collaboration) • Why major financial institutions continue expanding in North Texas • The impact of housing affordability on rapid metro growth • The push toward increased urban density in Dallas and surrounding cities • How downtown Dallas is evolving into a mixed-use business and residential center • The role of civic leadership, chambers of commerce, and universities in economic development • What Dallas growth signals about the future of major U.S. cities ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Buy Lane's book: The Optima Advantage The Blueprint for Selling Smart and Exiting Stronghttps://amzn.to/48nLElW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 #dallas #business #dfw #economicdevelopment #thedealtable

    1h 3m
  2. #42 He Left Oil & Gas to Buy a 130-Year-Old Boots Company | Thomas Gleason

    Apr 16

    #42 He Left Oil & Gas to Buy a 130-Year-Old Boots Company | Thomas Gleason

    Thomas Gleason built a career in oil and gas before buying two historic cowboy boot companies—Olsen-Stelzer Boot Company (1900) and Dixon (1889). These brands have been worn by U.S. presidents, Hollywood legends, and country music icons. In this conversation, he breaks down how he acquired legacy businesses, why custom boots are hard to scale, and how retail became the key to growth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Transitioning from oil & gas into legacy brand ownership • Buying and scaling 100+ year-old companies • Why custom craftsmanship is difficult to scale • Turning turnaround time into a competitive advantage • Building a retail strategy alongside a heritage brand • Lessons from oil & gas cycles and capital raising • How Boots for Warriors supports injured veterans through custom footwear ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Buy Lane's book: The Optima Advantage The Blueprint for Selling Smart and Exiting Stronghttps://amzn.to/48nLElW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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 #entrepreneurship #businessstrategy #businessgrowth #oilandgas

    1h 8m
  3. #41 My Dad Said "Never Get in Oil." | Jay Young

    Apr 9

    #41 My Dad Said "Never Get in Oil." | Jay Young

    Jay Young is a fourth-generation Texas oilman and the founder and CEO of King Operating Corporation, a privately held independent oil and gas operator based in Addison, Texas. Over nearly three decades, Jay has built King Operating into a platform that partners with more than 2,200 accredited investors to acquire, develop, and divest American energy projects across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. In this episode, Jay shares his journey from cold calling strangers at Dean Witter Reynolds in the 1980s World Trade Center to building an energy company that raises over $100 million a year. He talks about the ADD model (Acquire, Develop, Divest) he adapted from real estate investor David Moore and private equity legend Ken Hersh, why his first two funds failed from taking too much risk, the Nolan Ryan connection that led to a wildcat disaster, owning a piece of the Texas Rangers (and the million-dollar capital calls that came with it), how AI is transforming oil field data analysis, and why the smartest operators play singles and doubles instead of swinging for home runs. Jay is the Amazon #1 best-selling author of "The Upside of Oil and Gas Investing" (Forbes Books) and hosts The Jay Young Show. He has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, and SiriusXM. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Jay Young’s “singles and doubles” strategy for low-risk oil and gas investing • How AI is transforming energy data and drilling decisions • The rising demand for natural gas driven by AI data centers • Lessons from professional sports ownership on risk and capital management • Tips for building passive income through alternative energy assets ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Buy Lane's book: The Optima Advantage The Blueprint for Selling Smart and Exiting Strong https://amzn.to/48nLElW 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 #oil #gas #business #businessgrowth #thedealtable

    1h 11m
  4. #40 The U.S. Military Is Fighting Smart, But Are We Safe?

    Apr 3

    #40 The U.S. Military Is Fighting Smart, But Are We Safe?

    Advanced tech, billion-dollar programs, and autonomous drones — but does it make us safer? Preston Dunlap, Founder and Managing Partner of Arkenstone Capital & Arkenstone Ventures, explains the hidden challenges in modern warfare, revealing the risks behind high-tech defense strategies and why smart planning alone may not be enough to protect us. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Modern drone warfare and autonomous systems • Billion-dollar defense programs and budget strategy • Lessons from building the U.S. Space Force • The Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile program • Challenges in balancing tech innovation with national security • Insights for investors, founders, and defense professionals ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 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 #nationalsecurity #usmilitary #technology #MilitaryStrategy

    58 min
  5. #39 Why 13 Cities Almost Killed a $1.6 Billion System (DART Reform)

    Mar 27

    #39 Why 13 Cities Almost Killed a $1.6 Billion System (DART Reform)

    Most people think DART is just about buses and trains. They’re wrong. It’s a $1.6 billion economic engine that determines how fast your Amazon packages arrive and how long you sit in Dallas traffic. Right now, DART is at a crossroads. With 13 member cities, shifting budgets, and a "Transit 2.0" vision, Chairman Randall Bryant is sitting at the most expensive deal table in North Texas. In this episode, he reveals the political maneuvering required to keep a regional giant from falling apart. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE COVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Randall Bryant’s rapid transition from political strategist to DART Board Chairman • The three pillars of DART reform: modernizing governance, funding structures, and service delivery • Negotiating a historic sales tax compromise to maintain the 13-city regional coalition • How public transit benefits non-riders through reduced congestion, air quality, and logistics efficiency • The 5-to-1 return on investment and economic drivers of regional transit systems • Shifting DART’s focus from infrastructure expansion to Transit-Oriented Development and operational sustainability • Exploring state-funded regional rail entities and alternative revenue sources like vehicle registration fees • The legal, federal, and environmental consequences of cities withdrawing from regional transit authorities • Preparing North Texas infrastructure and transit services for the upcoming FIFA World Cup • Applying the "planting trees for future shade" philosophy to long-term public policy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 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 #business #urbanplanning #infrastructure #texas #thedealtable

    1h 13m
  6. #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
  7. #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
  8. #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
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The Deal Table is a long-form podcast featuring the founders, operators, investors, and advisors who navigate consequential decisions around capital, control, leadership, and legacy. Hosted by Lane Carrick and Ryan Harper, and filmed at Old Parkland in Dallas, the show brings together leaders who have built, financed, governed, acquired, and exited real businesses to speak candidly about private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and what actually happens before, during, and after the deal. For founders, executives, investors, and advisors making decisions

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  • Creator
    Harper Belmont Media | Optima Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    43
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Harper Belmont Media | Optima Mergers and Acquisitions
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