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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Mayor Craig Thurmond | How a Mayor Can Help Lead a Thriving Economy

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneur, Thrivetime, Businessschool, Smallbusiness, Entrepreneurship

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mayor Craig Thurmond discusses the action steps that he had to take in order to make Broken Arrow a thriving city with a growing economy that now includes the Bass Pro Shop development, a thriving downtown, and limited government interference.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right Thrive Nation on today's show we interview Mayor Craig Thurmond about how a local elected official

0:07.0

aka a mayor can really make an economy thrive or can really make an economy barely survive.

0:14.0

You see Mayor Craig Thurmond is one of the only mayors in America, one of the first mayors in America,

0:19.5

who was in favor of reopening his local city.

0:23.1

And it turns out if your business is forced to be shut,

0:26.9

it will be shut.

0:28.1

But if your business can be open for business,

0:30.1

then the market can determine who wins and loses.

0:32.3

It's called capitalism.

0:33.4

Some mayor should check it out. And now with any further ado our interview with

0:37.1

Mayor Craig Thurmond, factory direct to you because we eliminate the middleman.

0:43.0

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show,

0:47.0

but this show dies.

0:49.0

Two men.

0:50.0

Eight kids, co-created by two different women.

0:54.0

Thirteen multi-million dollar businesses.

0:57.0

Ladies and gentlemen,

0:59.0

welcome to the Thrive Time Shop. You had to get here started from the bottom that we hear

1:13.2

when you started from the bottom now we're

1:16.0

start it from the bottom now we're here.

1:18.0

Yes, yes, and yes.

1:20.0

Oh yes.

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