NWA Investing Podcast

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NWA Investing is a podcast that focuses on bringing the best content, players, and those who make investing part of their life.

09/17/2026

🖼️ Alice Walton drank from a spring on Crystal Bridges…

09/16/2026

🖼️ “It must face southeast”

🎤NEW EPISODE: We sat down with Scott Eccleston, President of Campus Planning and Facility Management for Art and Wellnes...
09/16/2026

🎤NEW EPISODE: We sat down with Scott Eccleston, President of Campus Planning and Facility Management for Art and Wellness Enterprises, inside the Heartland Whole Health Institute in Bentonville, the building he helped bring from sketch to reality.

Scott is the person Alice Walton has trusted for nearly two decades to turn her vision for art, health, and wellness into one of the most ambitious campus developments in the country, and this conversation pulls back the curtain on all of it.

In this episode, we walk through the origin story of Crystal Bridges, the Frank Lloyd Wright house shipped across the country in two JB Hunt trucks, and the moment Alice introduced a fifth pillar ~ wellness ~ that changed everything.

We also dig into the Heartland Whole Health Institute, the Alice Walton School of Medicine, and the newly announced STEM University rising on the old Walmart Home Office site.

You can listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple, and you can watch it on YouTube ➡️ ALL Links in Bio

Thank you Scott Eccleston for investing in Northwest Arkansas!

🗓️ THIS Wednesday we’ve got Scott Eccleston on the podcast!We recorded this episode at the Heartland Whole Health Instit...
09/14/2026

🗓️ THIS Wednesday we’ve got Scott Eccleston on the podcast!

We recorded this episode at the Heartland Whole Health Institute on the Crystal Bridges campus in Bentonville, Arkansas.

We discussed how Scott is helping bring the new wave of health + wellness to the area and why he views NWA as “just getting started.”

Thank you Scott Eccleston for investing in Northwest Arkansas.

09/10/2026

🏢 Growing markets don’t mean guaranteed returns and a lot of investors overpay expecting fast appreciation.

5 Rapid fire questions with a successful Northwest Arkansas developer.

09/08/2026

🏢 If you’re 25 and just starting out, don’t chase money yet.

Chase knowledge first.

Find people who know more than you. Follow them. Add value to them. Give before you expect to get.

09/03/2026

🏢 You could keep every deal to yourself, but that caps your growth fast…

If you want to scale big, you need partners.

🎤NEW EPISODE: We sat down with TJ Lefler inside Blume, a nine-story Class A office tower he acquired across from the ori...
09/02/2026

🎤NEW EPISODE: We sat down with TJ Lefler inside Blume, a nine-story Class A office tower he acquired across from the original Walmart Home Office and transformed into one of Bentonville’s most talked-about amenity-driven workplaces.

TJ has built a portfolio of roughly 30 commercial properties worth more than $250 million across Arkansas, and this conversation is a masterclass in how he evaluates deals.

In this episode, we dig into how TJ underwrites value-add commercial deals when a building is half empty, why cap rates are largely irrelevant until a property is stabilized, and the GP structure that allowed him to take a $4 million renovation from acquisition to 86% occupancy in just over a year.

We also cover why NWA office is outperforming national trends, the warehouse asset class he can’t stop buying, and the honest advice he gives every young investor starting with limited capital.

You can listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple, and you can watch it on YouTube ➡️ ALL Links in Bio

Thank you TJ Lefler for investing in Northwest Arkansas!

🗓️ THIS Wednesday we’ve got TJ Lefler on the podcastWe recorded this episode at TJ’s newest development, Blume Bentonvil...
08/31/2026

🗓️ THIS Wednesday we’ve got TJ Lefler on the podcast

We recorded this episode at TJ’s newest development, Blume Bentonville, which is the area’s most premier commercial office space which includes a 5,000 sf lounge, pickleball courts, and a golf simulator.

We discussed how this project came to fruition, why Walmart vendor expectations will continue to rise, and what advice he would give to his 25 year old self.

Thank you TJ Lefler for investing in Northwest Arkansas.

08/30/2026

🏡 When Walmart asks you to join their campus, you say yes. You figure out the details later.

The real challenge was avoiding cannibalization of an existing location just miles away. So you build something new.

In this case, a speakeasy that didn’t exist before.

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