Driving Vision Podcast with Sam D'Arc

• News you can use; Week of August 29, 2022
• Kalamazoo Salvation Army Director of Development Tim Summers joins Dan Scheid and Christina Scheid in the Zeigler Locker room
• Jess with Athletic Mentors shares our Health Tip of the Month

• Conversation with Aaron Zeigler
• Tim Terrentine discusses communicating across generations
• Roving Reporters interview Top Techs and Advisors July 2022

• Sam Acho joins backstage in the Zeigler Auto Group Locker room
• Team Zeigler shares experiences at Nascar's Michigan International Speedway

• Drive for Life: Big Brothers Big Sisters SW Michigan
• Zeigler NASCAR tours Michigan State University 

Thanks for joining our largest podcast episode to date.  Below are time codes for today's episode.  We hope you enjoy each of these special edition segments including our highlight for the Drive For Life Charity Gala, the Zeigler Kalamazoo Marathon, and our Part 2 conversation with Damon West.  Enjoy!  -Sam and Mike

1:30: Damon West talks with the Podcast 'behind the scenes' in the Zeigler Locker room
44:16: Zeigler Kalamazoo Marathon with Carrie Drake and Jeff Peterson of Classic Race Management
58:24: First Day Shoe Fund with Maggie Hesketh

Sentenced to sixty-five years in a Texas Prison, Damon West once had it all.

"Damon West, M.S. Criminal Justice, is a college professor, internationally known keynote speaker and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Coffee Bean: A simple Lesson to Create Positive Change, which Forbes’ listed in the “Top Twenty Books You Need to Read to Crush 2020.”

His autobiography, The Change Agent: How a Former College QB Sentenced to Life in Prison Transformed His World, vividly tells how he transformed the pot of boiling water that is a Texas maximum-security prison into a pot of coffee.

At 20 years old, he was a Division 1 starting quarterback at the University of North Texas, when he suffered a career ending injury. He turned to hard core drugs to cope with disappointments of life. After graduation, he worked in the United States Congress, was a national fundraiser on a U.S. Presidential campaign and eventually trained to be a stock-broker for United Bank of Switzerland (UBS). One day at UBS, he was introduced to methamphetamines; he became instantly hooked—and the lives of so many innocent people would forever be changed by the choices he made in order to feed his insatiable meth habit.

After a fateful discussion during his incarceration with a seasoned convict, Damon had a spiritual awakening. He learned that, like a coffee bean changing with the application of heat and pressure, he was capable of changing the environment around him. Armed with a program of recovery, a renewed faith, and a miraculous second chance at life, Damon emerged from over seven years of prison a changed man. His story of redemption, grit and determination continues to inspire audiences today."

https://damonwest.org/about/

• Drive for Life Feature: MRC Industries CEO Dan Pontius
• Zeigler Kzoo Marathon update with Race Director Carrie Drake

• Covideo President/CEO Jason Price talks Video
• Zeigler Family Day at Wisconsin’s Road America

For nearly four decades, the Drive for Life Gala has attracted the support of business leaders, sponsors and volunteers; bringing Western Michigan together for an extraordinary night of charity.

American Cancer Society was the founding benefitting charity. Join us as we learn more about the charity, it’s goal, and some of the projects donor funds benefit today to cure cancer.