Dynamic Decisions Podcast
How Artists and Makers are Driving Rural Economic Development
Season 2, Ep. 48
October 14, 2026
31 min
Jamie Nichols covers North Central Oklahoma for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce, and her job starts with asking who in a town is already selling outside it. One county believed it had maybe half a dozen micro businesses. Then someone pulled the data and found 500 registered. Even if only 25 of those are real and un…