2.1: The Pivot — Meg Myers Morgan

01/03/19 • 50 min

Season 2 is all about reinvention, and you could say that today’s guest, Meg Myers Morgan, wrote the book on how to do it — through negotiation and self-reflection.

Then, City Editor Morgan Phillips takes fitness resolutions to new heights on today’s edition of What the What?!

So let’s talk, Tulsa.
Today's episode is brought to you by CVCaudit.com, presenting the 2019 TulsaPeople Readership Survey.
That’s the voice of Meg Myers Morgan, assistant professor at OU-Tulsa and coordinator of the school’s Master of Public Administration program, talking about her new book, “Everything is Negotiable: The Five Tactics to Get What You Want in Life, Love and Work.”

A New Year brings with it promises of new beginnings. Of a new you. And while we all want 2019 to be the year when we become richer, prettier, skinnier, more organized versions of ourselves, statistically very few of us will stick with our goals. If we even turned our amorphous wishes into concrete goals in the first place. And maybe that’s because we’re all so focused on the end goal, how wonderful our lives will be once we achieve this one thing, that we lose sight of the process it takes to get there. But that’s what I love about Meg’s new book, “Everything is Negotiable,” which might be the one book you need to negotiate your way to a better life. The book represents a reinvention or Meg’s writing career, as she shifted from the humorous, slice-of-life essays in her first book “Harebrained,” to the more prescriptive approach of her follow-up.
The five tactics in Meg’s book are: choosing, wanting, owning, giving and getting. I sat down with her in the studio to figure out how to use these tactics to make — and keep — New Year’s resolutions.
You can purchase “Everything is Negotiable” at Magic City Books, and be sure to follow Meg at megmyersmorgan.com, and across social media using the handle @megmyersmorgan.

May 2019 bring you many happy pivots, Tulsa.

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Today's episode is brought to you by CVCaudit.com, presenting the 2019 TulsaPeople Readership Survey.

Season 2 is all about reinvention, and you could say that today’s guest, Meg Myers Morgan, wrote the book on how to do it — through negotiation and self-reflection.

Then, City Editor Morgan Phillips takes fitness resolutions to new heights on today’s edition of What the What?!

May 2019 bring you many happy pivots, Tulsa.

Thanks so much for Listening to Tulsa Talks! If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend about the show, and leave us a rating or review on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, @TulsaPeople, or head to our home on the web, TulsaPeople.com/podcast. There, you’ll find show notes and more info about our guests and topics.

Every episode, we play you out with some local music. Today’s selection is “Another,” from the album Contenders by Eric Himan.

To learn more about this artist, visit erichiman.com.

Today's episode is brought to you by CVCaudit.com, presenting the 2019 TulsaPeople Readership Survey.

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2.0: Reinvention

Coming to your podcast feed on January 2...

It’s Tulsa Talks 2.0.

The second season of Tulsa Talks is all about reinvention.

The good...

The bad...

And the unexpected...

Featuring guests like Meg Myers Morgan, Ana Berry, Emeka Nnaka, G.T. Bynum, Tom Basler, Anna America and more.

But city editor Morgan Phillips hasn’t changed one bit. She’ll be trying something new every month on What the What?!

Start the New Year with a new season of Tulsa Talks, available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify and TulsaPeople.com/podcast. Listen in, and maybe you’ll be inspired to do a little reinventing yourself. So let’s talk, Tulsa.

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2.2: Mending with Gold — Ana Berry

Today’s guest left Tulsa with dreams of stardom. Now, Ana Berry is a champion for the city, with a new perspective on life.

Then, Langston Hughes Academy senior Adilene Peru delivers Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

So let’s talk, Tulsa.

That’s the voice of Ana Berry, a media personality and yoga teacher.

Even if you don’t know her name, you probably know Ana.

Ana is the daughter of Beth Rengel, the longtime Tulsa news anchor and reporter turned real estate agent, and the actor Milton Berry. With a beauty queen mother, an actor father, and an impressive education — American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, a BFA in acting from DePaul in Chicago Ana’s path seemed clear: Move to LA, become a famous, happy and successful actress.

Spoiler alert, that’s not quite how it went down. Anna Bennett sat down with Ana Berry in the studio for the whole story.

We’ll be back with more Anna and Ana, but first, Tulsa Talks is proud to present the winner of Martin Luther King Oratorical contest, Adilene Peru of Langston Academy.
You can follow Ana Berry at anaberry.com, or on social media @iamanaberry.

And if something in your life breaks, listener, I hope you mend it with gold.

Thanks so much for Listening to Tulsa Talks! If you enjoyed this episode, tell a friend about the show, and leave us a rating or review on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, @TulsaPeople, or head to our home on the web, TulsaPeople.com/podcast. There, you’ll find show notes and more info about our guests and topics.

Every episode, we play you out with some local music. Today’s selection is “New Years Day” by the band Nightingale.

To learn more about this artist, visit nightingaleband.com.