Greater Phoenix Chamber
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Phoenix business, leadership, and civic growth.
Let's Talk Business Phoenix is a measured conversation series about the people and decisions moving the region forward. Recent episodes bring in Gen Z job-seekers, major-event organizers, hospital executives, sports business leaders, and former public officials.
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Let's Talk Business Phoenix is a civic-business interview show focused on the people, institutions, and choices shaping the Phoenix region. It works at a steady pace. Episodes tend to begin with a guest's background, then move toward the larger public or economic question behind that person's work. Recent conversations cover workforce, major sporting events, healthcare leadership, professional sports, public service, and Arizona's growth story. The Gen Z episode keeps the conversation grounded by talking with Hayden Evenson, a local guy and senior at Gonzaga, about entering the job market. His answers turn broad employer questions into concrete issues: meaningful work, long hours, advancement, family goals, and what younger workers ask in interviews. The sports-event conversations take a similar approach. Jay Perry, CEO of the Phoenix Final Four Local Organizing Committee, discusses the NCAA Women's Final Four as a moment for visibility, visitor experience, media attention, and economic measurement. Dan Costello, Suns Mercury Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, places basketball, entertainment, and major-league amenities inside a wider regional development frame. Healthcare gets the same practical treatment. Dr. Douglas Ross explains his path from emergency medicine to executive leadership at Dignity Health, St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center, giving the discussion a personal route into hospital operations and Phoenix's medical future. Public service appears through guests such as Barbara Barrett and former Governor Doug Ducey, whose episodes connect biography, Arizona identity, leadership, trade, education, and opportunity. The show is not built around confrontation. It favors institutional knowledge, local pride, and careful follow-up questions. That gives it a chamber-of-commerce feel in the best sense: oriented toward convening, listening, and translating big regional topics into business relevance. The recurring texture is human as well as professional. Guests are asked about family, formative experiences, favorite superpowers, hidden talents, and off-bio details. Those lighter moments soften the policy and economic talk without turning the show away from its central purpose. For listeners following Phoenix's growth, it offers a useful window into how local leaders describe the work in their own terms.
Made for: Designed for Phoenix-area business leaders, civic watchers, employers, students entering the workforce, and listeners tracking Arizona's regional growth. It also suits anyone interested in how sports, healthcare, policy, and education connect to local economic development.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by putting practical regional leadership conversations ahead of hot takes. Its guests often connect personal biography to institutional decision-making, giving Phoenix's growth story a grounded, local voice.
The Greater Phoenix Chamber's podcast "Let's Talk Business Phoenix" with host Todd Sanders, President, and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Chamber, tackles important issues and subjects affecting businesses, our community, and the state today. Through relevant, timely topics, this podcast serves as the business community's voice with the mission of championing business growth, identifying problems that restrict economic development growth, and convening community leaders to move Phoenix forward.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Let's Talk Business Phoenix turns regional growth into clear conversations about jobs, trade, major events and the decisions behind local investment.
Todd Sanders treats Phoenix's economy as a set of decisions made by people inside its institutions. His interviews are direct and accessible, moving from a guest's background into the choices shaping jobs, trade, major events and business growth.
Phoenix's boardroom pulls up a chair while Todd Sanders asks what keeps the city moving.
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A grounded Gen Z job-market conversation that stays with work, balance, and the long view.
This piece keeps its focus on a single, workable angle: a Gen Z job seeker thinking out loud about schedules, long hours, growth, and how much life should give way to work.
A grounded look at how a marquee women's event becomes a measurable civic and business story.
The piece stays close to the practical side of a major sports week: who coordinates it, who gets the message out, and how a city makes its case for hosting big events.
A practical look at sports as city-building, not just game-night business.
Phoenix sports gets a business-and-civic framing here, with Suns and Mercury executive vice president and chief business officer Dan Costello laying out ticket sales, partnerships, media, and arena business.
A business-minded political interview that treats Arizona growth as a jobs-and-opportunity story, not a slogan.
This episode frames Doug Ducey's story as a case for what private sector habits can bring to public office. It moves from his arrival in Arizona from Toledo at 18 to the business lens he says he brought through Cold Stone Creamery, then settles into the practical split between…
Big issues, women's voices, practical clarity.
Workplace change, compressed.
Workplace advice with systems-level skepticism.
NAU's John Garten traces everyday AI from Alan Turing and 1950s theory to ChatGPT's November 2022 public breakthrough.
Gen Z gets a fair, grounded hearing here.
Jay Perry is back on the clock.
Host Todd Sanders interviews former Ambassador Barbara Barrett about her life and connection to Arizona.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
Dan Costello joins the show as the Suns and Mercury executive vice president and chief business officer to talk through the business side of the teams.
Doug Ducey argues that Arizona's post-recession strategy combined lower taxes, lighter regulation, and direct governor-led recruiting to attract companies.