Charge Podcast

Drew loves dogs, recycles, plays several instruments, can't keep his eyes off his wife and 75% of his family was adopted. Drew's professional life started in the public school band room and evolved into stringing lots of artsy areas together—like design, music, and film—to tell a good story.  As a digital media artist, he's won all kinds of awards that few have ever heard of. For years though, he knew he was leaving his clients with a big problem: nobody was seeing (or caring about) their precious videos. So he got busy launching, failing and learning "all-things marketing"—from YouTube, running online paid ads, and email. Now he uses all his past media-making experience and failures—including his retail experience at Apple—to teach small town business owners how to use the internet to get more sales.  Drew also has a way of extracting the unique superpower right out of service providers and boiling it down into an easy-to-understand framework. They'll use this stand out in their market, to scale their teams

Charly Caldwell II began his journey in the late 80's helping people, businesses and organizations use the power of computers to connect and communicate - before the Internet and the World Wide Web became popular in the mid 1990s. On October 10, 2000 he sold my first business and retired at the age of 29, after realizing he needed to create a business foundation of recurring revenue, and then simply go out and SERVE, purposefully, ending the conversation with (if they wanted to know) how he could have them! Today, Charly serves people, businesses and organizations by helping them create, build and maintain purposeful, positive and profitable businesses, while ensuring they're living their lives in harmony with those they care about, and those they serve.

Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations.  He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in the speaking profession.   Shep works with companies and organizations who want to build loyal relationships with their customers and employees. His articles have been read in hundreds of publications, and he is the author of Moments of Magic®, The Loyal Customer, The Cult of the Customer, The Amazement Revolution and Amaze Every Customer Every Time. He is also the creator of The Customer Focus™, a customer service training program which helps clients develop a customer service culture and loyalty mindset. (Now available as an online/web-based training program!)

Matt Ward, is the founder of Breakthrough Champion.  He helps companies get more referrals and eliminate procrastination within the business.Matt is the author of of the book Making Your Website Effective.  His company has been awarded a Top 10 Web Firm 6 years in a row.  He was the member of the 2013 Forty Under 40 Class and he was honored as the 2015 Small Business Owner of the Year. He helps companies get more referrals.  He does this by sharing information associated with the consistent nature of doing repetitive things, in conjunction with caring.  Part of this process focuses on taking action and eliminating procrastination from our lives.

As CEO of Ziglar, Inc., Tom Ziglar shares not only a last name with his father, Zig Ziglar, but he also carries on his philosophy, which is simply, You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Prior to being named CEO, Tom began his career in retail and direct sales. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987, learning every aspect of the business as he climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to seminar promotion, to sales management and then on to leadership. With the Ziglar name, Tom has had a lot to live up to. But rather than try to fill his fathers shoes, Tom has created some of his own! He is boldly taking Ziglar, Inc., into the world of social communities, Twitter, blogs, and live video webcasts to present the tried and true message of hope, integrity and positive thinking to a whole new audience. He keeps Ziglar, Inc. ahead of the times with his innovative leadership. Tom enjoys golf (when time permits) and working out with his dad s

What if one message could change your life? What if one man could provide hope that the best is yet to come? This man is John O’Leary. As a nine-year-old boy, John was burned on 100% of his body and given less than one percent chance to live. His amazing journey of survival illustrates the incredible power of the human spirit. John and his family kept their experience private until his parents wrote a book, Overwhelming Odds, to thank the family and friends who supported them on their journey of healing. This book led to organizations around the world requesting to hear first-hand how John defied the odds. Since then, John has empowered over 500,000 people to Live Inspired. In March 2016, his book On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life became an instant #1 National Bestseller. John is a business owner, writer, husband and father of four. Expected to die. Now, teaching others how to truly live. Please help me welcome, John O’Leary.

Clyde Lear is the retired Chairman and CEO of Learfield Communications, Inc. a company he started in 1972 as an outgrowth of his master’s project at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. For competitive reasons, the company changed from a radio company to a marketing company in the mid-1980s.  It now exclusively handles stadium and arena signage, game day activities with advertisers, game program printing and sales, corporate hospitality and—in many venues—food and beverage sales.    Lear received a Masters degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Missouri in 1968 and an AB degree in 1966 from Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri. He attended high school in Jefferson City where he was born in 1944. Lear, along with his wife, Sue, has worked tirelessly for young people across Missouri. In Jefferson City they helped other volunteers in bringing the faith-based organization Young Life to three local high schools and then to Columbia area high schools. Having served as chair for

Antoine Dupont knows how to make people want to watch your videos. Antoine has spent the last 5 years studying video marketing and in the process has created 100's of videos for his clients. Antoine's client are seeing a 3 to 5 time increase in their social media engagement while others have experienced a +37% increase in sales in 2017  because of their video marketing strategies. As CEO of Katapult.Marketing, he brings his sense of competition to his client’s businesses. Katapult is an Internet Marketing company that manages the web presence for business owners, helping them grow their business. They create videos and websites that generate leads and increase their credibility. Antoine leads a team of playful, yet serious professionals specializing in generating leads for businesses & organizations through internet marketing.

You may be asking as the listener why should I be interested in listening to this podcast?  Let me share with you why I think you will be interested in listening, it goes back to what I said earlier we can all learn each day and when we are willing to hear other people’s struggles, challenges and successes we can find ways to implement new habits into our own life.   The message of CHARGE is two fold. First, I love rhinoceros because they are known for CHARGING.  My belief is when we charge forward in life we are able to attain what we want in life.  The other reason is I have created an acronym for the word CHARGE: Create Habits Around Real Goals Everyday!  My vision on this podcast is to share with you strategies, practices, stories and examples of how others have moved forward by implementing disciplines in their life that have made them successful in business and life.   We will be interviewing great guests who have the same challenges you do each and every day and try to find some answers that have helpe