Episode 145 Bob Thames - "Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home"

This week we sit down with one of our community's most fierce defenders. You can find my full discussion with Bob Thames here.

 

Here are the questions I asked:

 

0:39 1. You have a really interesting journey, with a number of fascinating chapters and hopefully we’ll get to a number of them.

 

Let’s start here.

 

You are one of Shreveport-Bossier’s greatest advocates. An absolute fierce defender of this community. Where does that come from?

 

3:02 2. You are co-founder of Single Source Business Solutions. Tell me about Single Source and what sort of individuals and companies are in the wheelhouse for the services you offer?

 

5:58 3. Single Source is located in the Andress Artist and Entrepreneur Center. Andress was the vision and brainchild of the late Jim Malsch, who we loved having during one of our early episodes of the podcast and who is deeply missed by so many of us.

 

It seems from the outside that you have picked up where Jim left off in making Andress a special place of special people all working in a shared space as well as a place that convenes community and serves as a hub for Downtown Shreveport.

 

Tell me some of what’s happening in Andress today and how you see its role?

 

13:01 4. You are a relationship guy. I once heard you say, “we have to continue to push each other and celebrate each other.” I know the meaning might be obvious. But talk to me more about this, what does it mean to push each other? And what does it mean to celebrate each other?

 

16:56 5. We’re nearly 150 episodes into this podcast and numerous episodes have gotten into how we have a hard time with our overall self-esteem as a community and communicating our identity, what makes us unique and special. How do you see this? Who are we as a community?