On today's show, the marketing director of Shaw Homes, Aaron Antis joins us to share about the epic growth of Oklahoma's largest home building company and how Broken Arrows Mayor Craig Thurman has paved the path for fast growth in Broken Arrow while also revitalizing Downtown Broken Arrow. On today's

show we discuss how local government can make it easy to do business or how it can get in the way and make it very, very difficult to grow.

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show does.

Two men. Eight kids, co-created by two different women, 13 multimillion dollar businesses.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Thrive Time Show.

Now three, two, one, here we go.

We started from the bottom, now we're here.

We started from the bottom and we'll show you how to get here.

Started from the bottom, now we're here.

We started from the bottom now we're here. Yes, yes, and yes, Thrive Nation. I am so excited for you to learn more about the Broken Arrow Mayor and you might you might might say why.

Well, I'm a business guy and as a business guy I believe that government exists to serve the people.

I believe the government exists to serve the people, to protect the people and to create an

overall environment that is conducive for families to have to have safety,

for families to feel secure, and for people to be able to run businesses

and not be impeded by the government.

And so therefore, anytime I find somebody in government that sees the world the way that I believe the founding fathers wanted to see it.

Somebody who is a truly a civil servant, I want to have them on the show.

But in addition to that, when I find out that this civil servant might be working for the low

price of free, I think to myself, now that is a no-brainer but at some point maybe I'm not sure what the

upside is so Aaron Antis you are a run Shaw Holmes you the marketing director I believe was the title

yeah Shaw Holmes this year talk to us Shaw Homes, you the marketing director, I believe, was the title.

Shaw Homes this year, talk to us about the growth of Shaw Homes in the past 12 months.

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