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Jade Davis

Chief Executive Officer of BRITE Energy Innovators and co-founder of Thornton Buckeye Group; former Vice President of External Affairs at the Port of Cleveland.

Aug 12, 2026

18:59
But talent wise, it won't really work out the way we think it will.
19:07
That's a good question.
19:08
I feel like from what I've seen, just even in the past with other teams, I think it's too early to tell how well they'll do, especially since this is the beginning of preseason and the overall football season does take a while to kind of see who's really going to stand out.
19:25
And even for instance, being from Pittsburgh and, um, You know, the Steelers being here, we've had really successful quarterbacks come to our city, but still not go very far.
19:37
So I think that's something to keep in mind, because like you're saying, I do think it is an overall team effort.
19:42
And even if certain aspects of the team are getting better and getting stronger, I think it's all about more of the individualism.
HodgieHOST
23:50
It is for me, because I've never worked a day in my life.
23:54
No, that's a great question.
30:09
Mm-hmm.
30:09
Are the people who get, um...
30:12
Like, I had a couple areas where I was a subject matter expert, and I was able to go and do it, and I was, I was consistent, uh, reliable in those things, and it allowed me to get other opportunities and to progress.
30:26
That's very different from executive leadership to where you're not doing as much, as much as you are facilitating information to whether it be your board or whether it be investors or whether it be, um, um, other colleagues and, you know, your various trade groups and things like that.
30:47
And you are, you're...
30:49
So you're facilitating that kind of communication to them internally and externally, uh, within your folks, and you're managing processes.
30:57
You're managing.

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36:16
Yeah.

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