NWA Founders

About NWA Founders

NWA Founders is a Northwest Arkansas business podcast hosted by Cameron Clark and Nick Beyer. The goal is to inspire entrepreneurship in Northwest Arkansas by highlighting the founders, owners and builders driving growth here. Every other Tuesday, Cameron and Nick sit down on location with the people building companies here: founders, owners and operators from Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville, Springdale and across the region. Guests have built coffee roasters, construction firms, software companies, staffing agencies, restaurants, retail brands and family businesses handed down through generations. The conversations run long, usually around 90 minutes, and cover the parts most interviews skip: the early money, the first hire, the year it nearly ended, and what they would do differently. Every episode, with full transcripts and a searchable archive of every conversation, is at nwafounders.com. To recommend a guest or ask questions, reach out at nwafounders@gmail.com and follow us on YouTube and LinkedIn for video content.

Publisher

Cameron Clark & Nick Beyer

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Nov 2024

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 51 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #51 - Andy Murray (Saatchi & Saatchi X)

   Cameron Clark and Nick Beyer interview Andy Murray, Saatchi & Saatchi X, exploring his journey driving innovation within large corporations and the power of asking impactful questions.

2. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #50 - Matt Hesse (UHP)

   Host Cameron Clark interviews Matt Hesse, founder of UHP, about his mission to rebuild veteran purpose and prevent suffering through innovative career training.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #49 - Jim Smith & Rebecca Hurst (Smith Hurst, PLC)

   Jim Smith and Rebecca Hurst of Smith Hurst, PLC discuss their entrepreneurial journey, the growth of Northwest Arkansas's M&A landscape, and their expansion into family office services with Emeraude.

Inside a recent episode

#51 - Andy Murray (Saatchi & Saatchi X)

Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I was asked to do a Veterans Day ad, right? Simple 32nd Veterans Day ad for November 11th. So this just says Walmart celebrates our veterans, right? So I went to the agency that was helping us at the time and I asked him the question, what is the biggest problem that veterans feel need solved for them, that we could help solve. Right. And they did some research and they came back and some insights and talk to veterans and they don't feel seen. They don't feel seen out of uniform here. They're not in uniform. And we started to dig into that. And we found that, you know, part of their world is that when they're in deployment, there's a green light on base and the green light means home. […]

Who has been a guest on NWA Founders

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Andy Murray
• Matt Hesse
• Jim Smith
• Rebecca Hurst
• Garrett Peters

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

2,789

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

23 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

44 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

59

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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