The Crexi Podcast featured Tanya Ragan, President of Wildcat Management, as part of its Women of Influence series, published August 28, 2024. The episode covers Ragan’s career trajectory, her work redeveloping historic properties in downtown Dallas, and her perspective on what it takes to build influence and credibility as a woman in commercial real estate.
Key Highlights
- Featured as part of Crexi’s dedicated Women of Influence podcast series
- Covers Ragan’s path from fashion and energy to leading commercial real estate development in downtown Dallas
- Discusses Wildcat Management’s approach to historic preservation, adaptive reuse, and urban revitalization
- Addresses the challenges and opportunities facing women in commercial real estate leadership
- Ragan’s second appearance on the Crexi Podcast — she later joined Crexi’s Shanti Ryle on stage at the 2025 CREi Summit
Why This Appearance Matters
Being featured in Crexi’s Women of Influence series places Ragan alongside a curated group of women who have built meaningful careers and platforms in commercial real estate. Crexi’s platform reaches hundreds of thousands of brokers, investors, and developers actively working in the market, making the series one of the more direct ways for a developer to reach the people making capital allocation decisions.
For Ragan, the appearance is also part of a broader pattern of podcast visibility that culminated in her taking the stage at the 2025 CREi Summit — demonstrating that consistent media presence translates into speaking opportunities and peer recognition at the national level.
Listen to the Episode
Founder and President of Wildcat Management, Tanya Ragan is a Dallas real estate developer, investor, and entrepreneur with twenty years developing some of North Texas’s most recognized neighborhoods. 2024 Texas Icon. Top 100 CRE Influencer. Co-author of Blaze Your Own Trail. She started in fashion, detoured through oil fields, built half of downtown Dallas, and has opinions about all three.