Empowering Industry Podcast - A Production of Empowering Pumps & Equipment

This week Charli and Bethany talk about Twitter Spaces and how to use it to benefit your business and personal brand.
 
Then Charli interviews Mike Shorts, Global C-Level Executive, Strategy & Growth Expert, and one of Charli's long-time mentors.  They talk about Mike's unboxing leadership series he's releasing on LinkedIn, and then talk about his thoughts on the future of the fluid sealing industry with a focus on fugitive emissions. 

Mike Shorts is a strategic and action-oriented executive offering progressive global leadership experience and commercial awareness across all aspects of business operations within the DURLON and DFT industrial brands. With a belief that business and people can always be better, Mike is passionate about developing his leadership acumen to apply towards his company’s and their people’s development. 

Today, he simultaneously leads seven private companies with ten operating locations in four countries. Mike is an accomplished technical writer around fluid sealing and has just expanded his content to leadership development on his LinkedIn page.

Interview @ 25:00

Mike's Links:
LinkedIn | Twitter 

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Resources and Links:

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• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week
• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, May 12th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. May 18th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• Sponsor Empowering Women
• Lunch & Learn with Vince
• Sustainable Infrastructure Summit
• Hootsuite's Twitter Spaces Article
• Lead to Order is Now Lead to Win Webinar
• Chesterton Connect Cloud

https://empowering-brands.com
https://empoweringpumps.com
https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com

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In this bonus episode of the podcast, you'll hear Charli interview Mike Griffith, the Vice President of Operations at Knighten Industries, a pump and equipment distributor out of Texas.

He’s been in the pump business for 28 years and loves it more today than when he started. He and Charli talk about how Knighten Industries has kept their family business feel even while growing, and how COVID has affected their interpersonal relationships at work.

Mike's LinkedIn
https://knightenindustries.com/

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• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week
• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, May 12th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. May 18th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• Sponsor Empowering Women
• Lunch & Learn with Vince
• Sustainable Infrastructure Summit

https://empowering-brands.com
https://empoweringpumps.com
https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com
http://charlikmatthews.com/my-story/

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This week Charli and Bethany talk about mental health awareness month and then discuss five tips for preparing for your marketing photo shoot.
 
Then Charli interviews Maria Elena (Elena) Rodriguez Hernandez, a Water Engineering Director at Indar, Ingeteam Group, with +23 years of experience in the field of Turbomachinery and Water Engineering.  They talk about creating a sustainable future and Elena's efforts to bring more women in STEM into the industry. 

Elena is based in Zarautz, Basque Country in Spain and is a mechanical, hydraulic and civil engineer who is currently completing a course in the University about Management and Direction of Water Companies. Elena is an active advocate for women in Engineering Fields and Technical careers, serving as a founding member of the Empowering Women in Industry steering committee. She is passionate about travel, photography and Water Megastructures. 

Interview @ 29:00

Elena's Links:
LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Futurenviro Magazine
[email protected]

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Resources and Links:

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• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week
• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, May 12th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. May 18th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• Sponsor Empowering Women
• Lunch & Learn with Vince
• 10 Ways to Kill a Diaphragm Pump
• Eliminating Severe Water Hammer Issues With Proco ProFlex™ Style 750
• Sustainable Infrastructure Summit

https://empowering-brands.com
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https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com

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https://empoweringpumps.com/
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This week Charli and Bethany talk about #WaterWeek2021 and how you can participate.
 
Then Charli interviews Tom Ross, Application Engineering Manager for Everactive's Machine Health Monitoring (MHM) solution.

In that role, he works across the company to help build value added features into our products and to articulate value propositions to various customer groups.  Tom holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Villanova University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.  He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of California.  Prior to joining Everactive, Tom held Engineering, Maintenance and Operations Management positions in a variety of industries including BioPharma, Oil and Gas, as well as Food and Beverage.

Interview @ 22:38
https://everactive.com/

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• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week
• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, May 12th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. May 18th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• WWEMA
• Sponsor Empowering Women
• Lunch & Learn with Vince
• #WaterWeek2021
• Sustainable Infrastructure Summit
• 5 Reasons To Specify Oil Minder
• Achieve Your Reliability Uptime Goals with Batteryless Sensors

https://empowering-brands.com
https://empoweringpumps.com
https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com
http://charlikmatthews.com/my-story/

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This week Charli and Bethany celebrate the one-year anniversary of the podcast by telling you everything you want to know about the show and hosting a party with former podcast guests (stay tuned to the end for that).
 
Then Charli interviews Lance Robinson, owner & founder of SolderWeld.

Recognized throughout Blue Collar Social Media for his widely successful Brand SolderWeld, Lance Robinson made his mark by entering a difficult and already established Manufacturing Industry of Brazing and Soldering products. 

Bringing manufacturing to Social Media was a new concept when Lance entered the industry and had no flare or excitement at the time. Rebranding the idea of "Making Brazing Sexy Again" showed that even something like solder or fluxes can be "cool". Lance showed that connecting successfully with people, helping them to build and grow their own brands created a family atmosphere that fueled a mutual respect that still carries on to date.

Interview @32:00

SolderWeld Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
Lance's LinkedIn

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• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. April 20th (every third Tuesday)
• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, May 12th (every second Wed)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• Why Podcasts Are Dominated the Media Landscape
• Grundfos Webinar
• Chesterton White Paper
• Sponsor Empowering Women
• Ari's Water Equation Walk 

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https://empoweringpumps.com
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This week Charli and Bethany talk about social media and its relation to your google rankings.
 
Then Charli interviews Robert J. Latino, CEO of Reliability Center, Inc. (RCI).  

RCI is a 49 year old Reliability Consulting firm specializing in improving Equipment, Process and Human Reliability.  Mr. Latino received his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management from Virginia Commonwealth University.  

Robert J. Latino has been facilitating RCA & FMEA analyses with his clientele around the world for over 36 years and has taught over 10,000 students in the PROACT® Methodology.  Mr. Latino is author or co-author of six (6) books related to Reliability, FMEA, Human Error Reduction and/or RCA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/boblatino/
https://www.reliability.com/

Interview @ 20:15

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• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. April 20th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• SEO & Social Media
• Trash & Sewage Pump Packages
• Suction Design Guide for Reciprocating Plunger Pumps
• Sponsor Empowering Women

https://empowering-brands.com
https://empoweringpumps.com
https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com
http://charlikmatthews.com/my-story/

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This week Charli and Bethany talk about #USAMfgHour - a weekly twitter chat for the manufacturing industry.
 
Then Charli interviews Francesco Gasparri, Global Product Manager for IIoT at Flowserve, about RedRaven, their end-to-end IOT solution.

Francesco Gasparri has 15 years of managerial experience at Flowserve, with more than 10 years of providing monitoring, predictive analytics and reliability solutions for customers. In his current role, he is responsible for implementing Flowserve IoT solutions for pumps, seals and valves and supporting the company’s customers in their journeys toward plant digitalization and reliability-centered maintenance and optimization.

Francesco earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Politecnico di Milano, and an MBA from SDA Bocconi Business School.

Francesco's Information:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-gasparri-32190914/

https://www.facebook.com/flowserve
https://twitter.com/flowserve
https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowserve
https://www.youtube.com/user/Flowserveinteractive

 Interview @ 27:45

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• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• #USAMfgHour Recap 
• Benefits of Design to Value
• Achieve your Reliability & Uptime Goals with Batteryless Sensors

https://empowering-brands.com
https://empoweringpumps.com
https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com
http://charlikmatthews.com/my-story/

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This bonus episode was a joint recording effort between Empowering Industry Podcast, Maintenance Disrupted Podcast & the Hazard Girls Podcast.

Charli joins Blair Fraser and Emily Soloby to they interview Allyson Hawley, a maintenance reliability engineer with a focus in real-time monitoring and analytics. 

Brought up in a mining family that had no time for gender stereotypes, Allyson Hawley, our guest on today’s show, was surprised when she began her mechanical engineering degree with hardly any fellow women students. Throughout her career in the male-dominated mining industry, Allyson has received a lot of support but has also experienced a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle discrimination based on the fact that she is a woman. As she explains, sometimes it’s difficult to identify discrimination, which is why it is so important to find a community that has your back. Allyson also shares the ways in which men in these fields can contribute to eradicating the issue of gender discrimination. We discuss how Allyson’s company is working towards increasing gender diversity in STEM fields, changes she has seen take place in her industry over the years, her take on the hiring process, and her thoughts about what it takes to create a sustainable future.

About Maintenance Disrupted Podcast:
Maintenance Disrupted is an original podcast in which Blair Fraser, Quartic.ai co-founder, and former wrench turner, turned technology evangelist and Steven Dobie, born and raised in heavy industry and is known for his ground-up approach for getting projects done, sets out to cut through the noise around the people and technologies fueling reliability and maintenance. Each episode is designed to educate through stories with special guest from technology founders to the technician working on the equipment every day.
www.maintenancedisrupted.com

About Hazard Girls Podcast:
Host Emily Soloby, Founder and CEO of Juno Jones Safety Shoes, interviews women working in non-traditional fields about their career paths. Covering topics such as balancing personal and work lives, issues they have encountered and how they have dealt with them, their biggest challenges, their biggest triumphs, advice for other women, and many other topics.
https://jacketmediaco.com/podcasts/hazard-girls/ 

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• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, April 14th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. April 20th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast

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This week Charli and Bethany talk about the history of Women's History Month and what it means to them.

Then Charli interviews the Empowering Pumps & Equipment 2020 Industry Person of the Year, Sanya Mathura, about engineering asset management, how she got started in the industry and more about her career in maintenance and reliability.

Sanya is from Trinidad & Tobego and is the Founder and Managing Director of Strategic Reliability Solutions Ltd. She has several years of experience in the Industrial, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Automotive, Marine and Transportation industries in the areas of Lubrication and Reliability. 

Sanya has a BSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering and a MSc in Engineering Asset Management and recently acquired her ICML MLE certification becoming the first person in the Caribbean to do so! She is also a published author, having written her first book which will be launched by 30 Nov called, “Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms, A Complete Guide,” with the publisher, CRC Press.

 Interview @ 23:47

Connect with Sanya:
Facebook | Instagram | Linkedin
http://strategicreliabilitysolutions.com/
Pump Course

Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
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• Empowering Women Meetup - Wed, April 14th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands Meetup - Tues. April 20th (every third Tuesday)
• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• Women's History Month
• EGC Enterprises, Inc Introduces Fugitive Emission Packing Set
• Backflow Prevention 101

https://empowering-brands.com
https://empoweringpumps.com
https://empoweringwomeninindustry.com
http://charlikmatthews.com/my-story/

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This week Charli and Bethany talk about World Water Day, and taking the responsibility of leadership.

Then Charli interviews Richard M. D’Amato, CEO and President, Brown and Caldwell, about his leadership role in the water industry and how ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is implemented at his company.

A senior executive with 28 years of experience, Rich excels in developing strategy and leading organizations and teams to deliver innovative services and solutions to municipal and private sector clients. Rich has worked in operations and maintenance, consulting, process engineering, design, and construction businesses focused on developing client solutions for environmental, water, and wastewater infrastructure.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Brown and Caldwell and is a member of the Leadership Council for Water for People. He previously served on various non-profit boards, including the Board of Directors and executive committee for the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC).

 Interview @ 26:40

Connect with Rich:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richdamato/
https://brownandcaldwell.com/ 

Resources and Links:

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• Join the Empowering Women in Industry Slack group
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• Industry Person of the Week
• Taking the Responsibility of Leadership
• Understanding and Avoiding Pump Cavitation
• Remote Monitoring Advantages in Mining
• World Water Day

Charli founded Empowering Brands in 2011. It is a digital media and marketing services company which created Empowering Pumps & Equipment and Empowering Women in Industry.

http://charlikmatthews.com/my-story/
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