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🍂 Fall arrives tonight at 7:05 PM our time. Here is the strange part.Equinox comes from the Latin aequus and nox: equal ...
09/22/2026

🍂 Fall arrives tonight at 7:05 PM our time. Here is the strange part.

Equinox comes from the Latin aequus and nox: equal night. Today is supposed to be the day daylight and darkness split evenly, twelve hours each, everywhere on Earth.

It is not. Not today, and not anywhere.

Two things get in the way. Sunrise and sunset are measured from the top edge of the sun rather than its center, which buys extra minutes on both ends. And the atmosphere bends incoming light, so the sun appears to rise before it has geometrically cleared the horizon and lingers after it has technically set. Together, today runs several minutes longer than twelve hours.

The genuinely equal day is called the equilux, it arrives a few days from now, and when depends on your latitude.

Did you know: the equinox is not a day at all. It is a single instant, the moment the sun's center crosses the celestial equator heading south. It happens everywhere at once, which is why it lands on the evening of September 22 for us and after midnight on the 23rd in London.

One more. The full moon nearest the equinox is the Harvest Moon, so called because it rises close to sunset several nights running, which once gave farmers extra working light to bring crops in ahead of the first frost.

Ancient builders tracked this moment with stone. We get it on a phone.

What is your favorite thing about fall in San Antonio? Tell us below.

🔔 Diez y Seis de Septiembre. Here is the history often overlooked when reviewing this day.Before dawn on September 16, 1...
09/16/2026

🔔 Diez y Seis de Septiembre. Here is the history often overlooked when reviewing this day.

Before dawn on September 16, 1810, a parish priest in the town of Dolores rang his church bell and called his congregation to revolt. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was not a soldier. He was a scholar, and his library mattered as much as the bell.

Hidalgo belonged to a generation of educated criollos reading Enlightenment political philosophy, and they had a working example a generation old and just to the north. The American colonies had argued that legitimate government rests on the consent of the governed, and then made it stick. That argument traveled.

Two things people usually get wrong.

First, this is not Cinco de Mayo. That is the Battle of Puebla in 1862, a different fight fifty years later.

Second, today does not mark independence. It marks the beginning. The war ran eleven more years, and Hidalgo did not live to see it; he was executed in 1811. He rang a bell knowing roughly what it would cost him.

Eleven years is a long time to keep going on an idea.

That kind of persistence came north with the families who settled Texas, and San Antonio has been running on it ever since: the parishes, the businesses, the neighborhoods held together across generations by people who understood that the work outlasts the person doing it.

Today we mark the bell, and the eleven years after it.

📺 National Hispanic Heritage Month opens today. Here is a San Antonio story many people in San Antonio do not know.In Ju...
09/15/2026

📺 National Hispanic Heritage Month opens today. Here is a San Antonio story many people in San Antonio do not know.

In June 1955, Raoul Cortez signed on KCOR-TV here: the first full-time Spanish-language television station in the United States. It broadcast from East Durango Boulevard, just south of downtown. His son-in-law, Emilio Nicolas Sr., went to work there the same year, producing shows at night and running the newsroom by day.

In 1961 Nicolas and a group of investors bought the struggling station, and by the following year it was KWEX. In 1976 that San Antonio station became the center of operations for the Spanish International Network, the first Spanish-language television network in the country to distribute by satellite.

👉 📺 SIN became Univision, the most-watched Spanish-language television network in the United States.

All of it started at a station a few blocks south of downtown, run by a man who could not get anyone to believe there was an audience.

That is the thing about this city. San Antonio has a long habit of building the thing first and getting credit for it later, and the people who did it were rarely the ones anybody was betting on.

We make a show here for the same reason. The stories are already in town.

Who in San Antonio should be in the chair and has never been asked? Name them below.

🎥 Labor Day, San Antonio edition!Most Labor Day posts thank workers. Fair enough. We want to point at something adjacent...
09/07/2026

🎥 Labor Day, San Antonio edition!

Most Labor Day posts thank workers. Fair enough. We want to point at something adjacent that gets almost no attention: the people who have to make payroll whether or not the month went well.

Ask a small business owner what keeps them up and it is almost never strategy. It is the number that has to be in the account by Friday. Twelve people, or forty, or four, are planning their lives around that number landing. They have rent and childcare and a car payment built on the assumption that this business stays standing.

That is a kind of labor too, and it is invisible by design, because a good owner never lets the crew see the worry.

San Antonio's INFLUENCE Magazine Show sits down with those owners for a full hour and asks about it directly. Not the growth story. The Thursday nights. Cedric asks because he has had those Thursday nights himself, nineteen years running a small business himself.

Today, rest if you can. Both sides of that equation earned it.

Then tell us: who is an employer in San Antonio who takes care of their people? Name them below and let us know if they'd make a good next guest on the show!

Airing soon. Stay tuned for a candid interview with Bexar County Clerk the Honorable Lucy Adame-Clark.
09/05/2026

Airing soon. Stay tuned for a candid interview with Bexar County Clerk the Honorable Lucy Adame-Clark.

08/31/2026

For two decades Yen Yan, CCIM sold across the United States, Southeast Asia and Europe. Some mornings she woke up and had to ask herself three questions before anything else: what country am I in, what is the time difference back to San Antonio, and what is the exchange rate.

After all of it, she landed on one conclusion. No matter someone's background, their culture, or their level of education, people want the same fundamental things. To be treated fairly. To be respected. To be trusted. And business owners, everywhere she went, wanted the same thing on top of that: to make a decent living and support their families.

It is the lesson she still brings to every client meeting in San Antonio.

Watch the full conversation with host Cedric Fisher: https://youtu.be/F6lIQydd7Hg

📜 Before there was a hashtag for it, there was a bank.In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker chartered a bank in Richmond, Virginia...
08/29/2026

📜 Before there was a hashtag for it, there was a bank.

In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker chartered a bank in Richmond, Virginia, becoming the first Black woman in America to do it. Madam C. J. Walker built a manufacturing empire out of a hair care formula and became one of the country's first self-made female millionaires. In Tulsa, an entire district of Black-owned banks, hotels, theaters, and groceries ran so well the country gave it a nickname.

None of it was built under favorable conditions. All of it changed what American business understood to be possible.

That is what National Black Business Month is actually about, and it closes Monday. Not a month of goodwill. A ledger of contribution the whole country has been drawing on ever since: contributions which have enriched not only the Black business community, but business owners of all backgrounds.

Look at what gets built when a business has to not only survive, but thrive under less than ideal circumstances. It gets built tight. Margins watched. Service unreasonable in the best way. Reputation guarded like inventory, because for a long time reputation was the only marketing available.

That is not a sad story. That is a school. And this country has been quietly enrolled in it for two hundred years.

San Antonio is full of graduates, and not all of them look the same. The family operation running forty years on referral alone. The contractor whose entire pipeline is other contractors vouching for him. The practice with a waiting list and no advertising budget. That standard does not belong to one community. It got set by one and it lifted everybody.

San Antonio's INFLUENCE Magazine Show puts those business owners in a chair for a full hour and asks how they did it. Cedric asks because he has had to answer it himself, nineteen years in.

So before the month closes: who set the standard in your corner of San Antonio? Name a business below, whoever owns it, and tell us what they got right. We often book our next guests from your comments!

08/28/2026

Her parents were mechanical engineers in Beijing who designed the air systems for concert halls and hospitals. Their work moved constantly, and Yen Yan changed seven schools between elementary and high school. No phones, no email, so the friendships did not follow her.

She remembers the first time she saw a television: second or third grade, and the whole room was excited. She earned a degree in civil engineering and construction management, came to the United States for a master's at Texas A&M, and landed in San Antonio in 1994. In her first class she could read every word the teacher wrote on the board and still had no idea what the homework was.

Thirty years later she is one of San Antonio's most established commercial real estate professionals. This is where it started.

Watch the full conversation with host Cedric Fisher: https://youtu.be/F6lIQydd7Hg

08/27/2026

Yen Yan, CCIM did not pick her niche. In her words, the sector found her.

She placed a one by two inch ad in a Chinese newspaper in Houston. The second day after it published, a group that owned 14 restaurants called about expanding into San Antonio. She had no idea how to help them. What she said out loud was "of course."

What she was thinking, in her own words: "I don't know what I'm talking about, but I said, okay." The saying, she reminds us, is that you fake it before you make it.

Five days later she met the owners of Formosa Garden, who wanted to sell. She signed the representation agreement and brought a buyer to their restaurant the next day. That one yes became a 16 year commercial real estate career.

Watch the full conversation with host Cedric Fisher: https://youtu.be/F6lIQydd7Hg

🚺 🎙️ Women's Equality Day: The Women Who Have Sat in This Chair.Today is Women's Equality Day, and your feed is going ...
08/26/2026

🚺 🎙️ Women's Equality Day: The Women Who Have Sat in This Chair.

Today is Women's Equality Day, and your feed is going to fill up with graphics. We would rather point at the tape.

San Antonio's INFLUENCE Magazine Show has put the microphone in front of women who run things in this city: commercial real estate, education, healthcare, nonprofit leadership, the arts, and the businesses that keep neighborhoods standing. Not as a segment. As the whole episode.

Here is what we have noticed across those conversations.

The women who end up in that chair almost never lead with the win. They lead with the room they walked into where nobody spoke up, so they had to. They talk about the mentor who told them the truth. They talk about the hard work and sacrifice. Several of them have said, on camera, some version of the same sentence: I stopped waiting for things to happen to me. What follows is always bigger than they are: they moved to make things happen for themselves, for their families, for their communities, for everybody downstream.

That is the theme we would point you to if you only had time to consider one. Not because it is inspiring, though it is. Because it is instructive.

Full episodes are on our YouTube channel, and the women's episodes are worth your afternoon.

Then tell us: which woman in San Antonio should we be talking to next? Name her below. Remember, we book guests from these comments! 👊

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