Long before Greg Soros became known for his measured approach to podcast automation, he trained at Berklee College of Music and worked in senior roles at established media companies. That background shows up in how the podcaster now runs Podcraft Media Lab, a production house built out of what started as a converted garage studio […]

Greg Soros Author has spent more than fifteen years writing for young readers, and in that time he has settled on a question he believes matters more than any other in children’s fiction. Rather than asking what a character wants, Soros argues that authors should ask what a character needs to learn. That shift in […]

Tax treatment rarely tops the list of reasons someone gets excited about an investment, but for oil and gas joint ventures it can be one of the more persuasive details. Qualified partners in a Gulf Coast Western venture can write off 100% of drilling expenses and production income against their ordinary income, a benefit current […]

Matthew Fleeger didn’t inherit his role at Gulf Coast Western without putting in the years first. He joined the family business in the mid-1980s, shortly after finishing a business administration degree at Southern Methodist University, and spent eight years learning the operation from the inside out, from financial planning to sales and marketing. Then he […]

Trustworthiness is the quality most families say they want from a wealth manager. But according to Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, very few people know how to evaluate it before committing to a relationship. Gold, who has advised entrepreneurs, business owners, and multigenerational families for more than 25 […]

Not every children’s author thinks systematically about the reader waiting at home. Greg Soros does. His approach to writing for young people is grounded in a clear theory of what children’s books should accomplish a theory he has refined over more than 16 years of writing and community engagement. At the center of that theory […]

Michael Gold has a pointed way of framing the central challenge in private wealth management. Families with real financial complexity are often surrounded by professionals who are excellent at their individual jobs and entirely ignorant of what the others are doing. Gold founded Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut to address that structural failure. Over […]

Rankings mean more when they come from more than one source. Dr. Andrew Jacono has appeared near the top of multiple independent assessments of surgical excellence, which together suggest a consistency that a single list cannot. Newsweek ranked him third nationally among facelift surgeons for 2025. Harper’s Bazaar named him among the 24 best plastic […]

Few companies in the American energy sector can point to a history as steady and deliberate as Gulf Coast Western. Founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1970 by Thomas H. Fleeger, the firm began with a clear focus on acquiring and developing domestic oil and gas resources. Over the following decades, it expanded from a regional […]

Ask Michael Polk Newell Brands what a CEO is ultimately there to do and the answer comes quickly: create value. That principle, Polk says, holds whether you are running a global public conglomerate or a lean private company. What changes is how you pursue it. The Public Company Playbook Polk spent decades building that conviction […]