Best City Church Of East Nashville Podcasts (2024)

Four years ago, Burke Nihill ran across a job listing on LinkedIn: General Counsel for the Tennessee Titans. He applied, but he didn’t think he would be drafted. His sports “experience” included dreaming of “wanting to be the third baseman for the Chicago Cubs” and declining an offer to play basketball at a Division 3 College. Nonetheless, Nihill w…

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Ephesians 6:10-12 37:34

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1 Thessalonians 5:12-22 36:12

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Ephesians 6:9 35:37

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Ep. 35: Bob Mendes: Development Director Talks East Bank, Makes Clear His Role Covers the Broader Nashville Area 51:37

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"I came to realize that I would never have the chance to work in an administration with somebody that I [am] so closely aligned with on issues. It makes it really easy to go to work.” – Bob Mendes, speaking of his working relationship with Mayor O'Connell Climbing the Charts was excited to sit down with Bob Mendes, Chief Development Officer for the…

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Psalm 30 26:39

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By Chris Reed

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Ep. 34: Housing Matters: Unpacking the Affordable Housing Puzzle 58:52

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“My whole mission is just to affect positive change with people, and housing is such a key component to people’s health, well-being, and safety.” -- Andrea Prince According to Nashville's 2021 Affordable Housing Task Force, chaired by Mayor John Cooper, the city must create 52,498 new housing units by 2030—a daunting challenge, given that only 1,34…

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Psalm 23 33:11

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1 Peter 1:17-25 33:43

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By Marcus Nobles

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Ep. 33: Michael Briggs: Choose How You Move is More Than Transportation 1:03:51

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“We’re not building new roads (for the most part), so it’s about trying to use that [existing] infrastructure in better ways that meet our modern needs.” --Michael Briggs, director of mobility at Vanderbilt University's Transportation and Mobility Office, currently on loan to the City of Nashville as a director of transportation planning through 20…

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Ephesians 6:1-4 29:11

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Ephesians 5:17-33 36:37

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Ep. 32: Derrick "Moe" Moore: How One Slim and Two Husky Longtime Friends Created an Iconoclastic Pizza Empire! 56:55

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“I knew that if I had a Plan B, I would be 50/50. I would be one foot in and one foot out, and I had to be fully dedicated.” - Derrick ‘Moe’ Moore When the Climbing the Charts podcast first launched in 2022, the co-hosts created a list of dream guests – Moe Moore was at the top of that list, being a co-founder of Slim & Husky’s. Almost two years an…

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Ephesians 5:15-17 37:59

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Ephesians 5:1-2 34:10

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Ephesians 5:3-14 28:32

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Ephesians 4:28 41:51

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Matthew 6:19-24 41:15

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Ep. 31: Judge Sheila Calloway, Lonnell Matthews and Julieanna Huddle: They Don't Work with Any "Bad Kids" 1:13:32

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“What people don’t understand about Juvenile Court is that literally two-thirds of the cases that we deal with are about the parents.” –Judge Calloway Judge Sheila Calloway, Davidson County’s Juvenile Court Judge, and Lonnell Matthews, Davidson County’s Juvenile Court Clerk, are two of Nashville’s most accomplished individuals. They are an entertai…

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Luke 15:1-7 29:51

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Ephesians 4:25-32 41:48

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Ep. 30: Jeremy Faison: The Rest of the Story from the Libertarian Chairman of the TN House Republican Caucus 1:06:37

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“When you’re in the middle of the battle, to be policy-driven is smart, to be politically-driven is dangerous.” - Jeremy Faison Few people have had a closer seat to the important issues, drama, and national and international garnering headlines involving Tennessee politics than Representative Jeremy Faison, Chairman of the Tennessee House Republica…

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Ephesians 4:17-24 34:29

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1 Timothy 4:1-6; Colossians 2:20-23 30:16

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Ep. 29: Megan Barry: Here's Why Megan Barry Knows She Can Beat Mark Green 48:45

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“It’s already a presidential race and lots of people are going to come out and vote for the President…however, we know…that about 18% of the people who go into that booth don’t keep going down the ballot… If you’re in the voting booth, don’t stop… Make your vote count all the way down.” -Megan Barry In a hotly anticipated interview, Climbing the Ch…

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John 20:24-31 - Easter Sunday 36:33

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John 19:16-18 36:00

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John 18:28-19:16a 43:53

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Psalm 84 32:03

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Ep. 28: Dr. Isaac Addae: Embracing the Uncomfortable in Order to Fly 50:12

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“It’s a diverse world. Companies sell products to consumers that are very diverse. Their teams and technical talent should reflect the communities that they sell products to.” – Dr. Isaac Yao Addae Dr. Isaac Addae is a man with many hats – first-generation Ghanaian American, computer engineer, strategist, business professor, entrepreneur, investor,…

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John 18:12-27 31:22

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John 18:1-11 40:03

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Ep. 27: Sherry Deutschmann: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs So They Can 10X Their Companies 55:14

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“If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime. But if you teach a woman how to fish, she feeds the village for a lifetime. The ripple effect that women entrepreneurs have on communities and the global economy is phenomenal.” — Sherry Deutschmann Climbing the Charts sits down with Sherry Stewart Deuts…

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John 17 41:22

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John 15:1-11 40:08

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Ep. 26: John Ingram: Nashville SC in Less Than a Year, and the Enduring Power of the Green Light 54:42

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Former Mayor Karl Dean was known to ask, rhetorically and always in good humor, what Nashville would be without music (answer: Birmingham), but he could have substituted “the Ingrams” for music and arrived at the same punchline. There are few beloved things in Music City without fingerprints, known and unknown, that in some way trace back or connec…

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John 1:1-14, 11-44 42:24

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John 14:1-14 30:11

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Ep. 25: Heath Clark and John Brittle: The Unbelievable True Story of “Tennessee Whiskey” 1:12:07

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In the 1950s, Frank Sinatra famously proclaimed Jack Daniel’s the “nectar of the gods.” Sales doubled, the warehouses emptied, and Mr. Daniel’s “nectar” was on allocation for the next twenty-five years. In 2013, a state law in Tennessee established a legal definition of “Tennessee Whiskey” for the first time, better known as the “Lincoln County Pro…

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John 10:1-18 36:58

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John 8:12 37:56

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Ep. 24: Aftyn Behn and Todd Warner: The “AOC of Tennessee” and “The Unapologetic Conservative” and Their Hot Takes on the 2024 Legislative Session 1:13:30

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In this episode, Climbing the Charts sits down with Republican Representative Todd Warner (District 92) and Democratic Representative Aftyn Behn (District 51). Aftyn, increasingly described as the “AOC of Tennessee,” the youngest woman elected to the Tennessee House, is poised to be a fearless advocate for progressive values. Todd, by contrast, is …

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John 6:35 37:55

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Ep. 23: Tony Giarratana: How Downtown Living Went From Illegal to Nearly 20,000 and Where We Go From Here 1:07:30

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On July 21, 2006, the New York Times published an article entitled: “Creating Demand for City Living in Nashville.” The piece’s author, Lisa Chamberlain, noted that at that time, the frenzied pace of downtown residential development was slowing in major cities like New York and Chicago, but in cities like Nashville, “where no residential population…

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John 8:48-59 26:05

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John 1:29 30:12

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Ep. 22: Jon Michael: From Public Servant in the Foxhole of Short-Term Rental Regulations to Private Sector Entrepreneur, He’s Always Pro-Nashville 1:12:45

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On this new episode of Climbing the Charts, we sat down with Jon Michael, who after 15 years of toting the metro zoning code under his arm in various roles as a lawyer with Metro, joined the local Nashville law firm of Thompson Burton PLLC to create his own land use practice. If you have ever listened to a conversation about development, attended a…