Empowering Industry Podcast - A Production of Empowering Pumps & Equipment

This week, Charli and Michelle (filling in while Bethany is on maternity leave) talk about their favorite social media challenges and the platforms that challenge them the most.

This week, Charli interviews Patrick Hogg of Nidec Motors.  They discuss the importance of mentoring young engineers and filling the skills gap.

Interview- 33:23

Charli founded Empowering Pumps, LLC in 2011. It is a digital media and marketing services company. As strategic business partners to its clients, Empowering Brands (Rebranded Empowering Pumps, LLC) creates tailored programs to support its clients’ marketing campaigns, providing flexible and responsive service. With broad industry knowledge and a respected brand, Empowering Brands with Empowering Pumps & Equipment provides best-in-class digital media, content development, and social media strategy to empower clients to cost-effectively reach and engage with a diverse industrial audience across multiple market industry platforms.

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Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Women - Wed, Feb. 10th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands - Tues, Feb. 16th (every third Tuesday)
• Empowering Women in Industry Podcast
• A Career that Soars
• Industry Person of the Week 
• Proco Products Expansion Joints
• CFTurbo Webinar

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This week, Charli and Michelle (filling in while Bethany is on maternity leave) talk about how to Use Your Voice to Build Your Brand.

Charli interviews Dr. Andy Zimmerman, CTO of Grace Technologies. They discuss the importance of predictive maintenance and the industrial Internet of Things. 

Interview @ 25:10

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Charli founded Empowering Pumps, LLC in 2011. It is a digital media and marketing services company. As strategic business partners to its clients, Empowering Brands (Rebranded Empowering Pumps, LLC) creates tailored programs to support its clients’ marketing campaigns, providing flexible and responsive service. With broad industry knowledge and a respected brand, Empowering Brands with Empowering Pumps & Equipment provides best-in-class digital media, content development, and social media strategy to empower clients to cost-effectively reach and engage with a diverse industrial audience across multiple market industry platforms.

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

https://empowering-brands.com

https://empoweringpumps.com
Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Women - Wed, January 13th (every second Wed)
• Empowering Brands - Tues, January 19th (every third Tuesday)
• Using Your Voice
• Industry Person of the Week 
• Intersection of Energy Management and IIOT within Pump Systems 
• Flowserve VirtualPlant
• Load Controls – Monitoring Motor Power

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This week, Charli and Michelle (filling in for Bethany on maternity leave) talk about using Slack to communicate with your team.

This week, Charli interviews Taylor St. Germain to discuss economic strategies for small businesses. As an economic analyst, Taylor provides consulting services for small businesses, trade associations, and Fortune 500 companies across a spectrum of industries. Taylor is a member of ITR’s Dallas–Fort Worth team and specializes in forecasting at both the market and company levels. With his depth of experience, Taylor is a key contributor to maintaining ITR Economics’ forecast accuracy rating of 94.7%.

Int. 31:01
Connect with Taylor and ITR- Facebook: ITREconomics77, Twitter: ITROutlook , Instagram: ITREconomics
ITR’s Trends Talk Podcast

Charli K Matthews
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Charli’s Favorite Podcast Episode
Michelle’s Favorite Podcast Episode 
Resources and Links

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Factory of the Future Podcast Interview with Charli K. Matthews (Manufacturing Trends That Will Impact 2021)
• Empowering Women - Wed, Jan 13th (every 22d Wed)
• Empowering Brands - Tues, Jan 19th (every 3rd Tuesday)
• Industry Person of the Week – Dr. Lucas Marino

Knowledge Shared Roundtable: 

The Intersection of Energy Management and IIOT within Pump Systems 

Date/ Time: Feb 4th @10amCT

• Sulzer – Cutting Edge Manufacturing Technology
• Chesterton – Ways to Reduce the Use of Water in Mining
• Altra Motor Solution for Meat Processing 

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This week, Charli and Michelle (filling in while Bethany is on maternity leave) talk about how to use YouTube to market in the B2B space.

This week, Charli interviews Dylan Day and discusses Challenging the Status Quo. 

Dylan Day has 10+ years in the maintenance industry and is a keen and analytical industrial mechanic with a passion for leadership. He has a skillset in welding, structural steel erection, grouting, leveling, alignments, mechanical overhauls, industrial maintenance, and implementing new maintenance programs.  

He has a diverse background in the oil & gas industry, mining, shipbuilding, new construction, renewable energy (wind turbines/hydro power), power generation (steam & gas turbines) and forestry (sawmills, OSB, pulp & paper).

He has a passion for teaching and growing the people around him, he loves a challenge, and he enjoys meeting new people and sharing his passions of maintenance and mechanical systems. He has a positive attitude, is eager to see you succeed, and has high energy in everything he does.
Interview 29:47

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Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Women meetup 12/30 
• Factory of the Future Podcast - 
• Ron Frisard Podcast 
• Empowering Brands YouTube Channel
• How to Use YouTube for B2B Marketing
• Industry Person of the Year – Sanya Mathura
• Self Lubricating Bearings Increase the Life of an 80-year-old Pizza Oven
• 5 Factors in Determining Overall Pump Life Cycle Costs
• How to Boost the Reliability of Your Boiler Feed Water Pump
• How to Boost the Reliability of Your Boiler Feed Water Pump
• Leadership Launchpad Project

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This week, Charli and Michelle (filling in while Bethany is on maternity leave) talk about how to use Pinterest to market in the B2B space. 

This week, Charli interviews Bob Nugent of Peerless Pumps. Bob is the Senior Application Engineer involved with all aspects of vertical turbine, mixed flow and propeller pump specification review, selections, hydraulics, metallurgies, and pricing for industrial, municipal, utility, and agricultural applications at Peerless.  He has so much knowledge and experience—Forty six years of experience including six years as an EPC pump specialist.  

Interview starts at 18:06

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Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Last holiday celebrations meet ups - Dec 22nd at 2pm - EP&E 
• Empowering Women - Dec 30th - 11am 
• How to Use Pinterest for B2B Marketing
• 6 Common Causes of Motor Overheating
• How IoT and Analytics are Changing Pump Monitoring

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This week, Charli and Bethany welcome Michelle Segrest, who will be filling in while Bethany is on maternity leave. The ladies talk about doing a social media audit to start the new year with freshly updated social media channels.

This week, the tables are turned and Michelle interviews Charli, the founder and CEO of Empowering Brands.

Charli founded Empowering Pumps, LLC in 2011. It is a digital media and marketing services company. As strategic business partners to its clients, Empowering Brands (Rebranded Empowering Pumps, LLC) creates tailored programs to support its clients’ marketing campaigns, providing flexible and responsive service. With broad industry knowledge and a respected brand, Empowering Brands with Empowering Pumps & Equipment provides best-in-class digital media, content development, and social media strategy to empower clients to cost-effectively reach and engage with a diverse industrial audience across multiple market industry platforms.

Interview starts at: 20 minutes

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Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Happy Holidays – Dec. 22, 2 pm
• Cleaning Your Social Media for Success
• Understanding Reciprocal Pump Cavitation
• Efficiency, Life Cycle Cost, and the Eddy Current Drive

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In this episode, Charli & Bethany talk about Social Media Marketing tips for entrepreneurs. 

Then Charli interviews John Smihal, a product manager of elastomer couplings at TB Wood’s and an industry expert in coupling solutions for pump applications.

John started working in the coupling industry as a product development engineer and then in 2003 he joined TB Wood’s as a Product Engineer with a coupling focus;. He has been the Elastomer Coupling Product manager there for the last 13 years. 

During the interview, John covers everything you want to know about couplings. 

Interview starts at 16:45

Links from the Interview:

• John’s LinkedIn 
• www.tbwoods.com | [email protected]

Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Pump Meet Up: Tuesday, December 8, 2 PM CST
• GIW Innovations: Two New Devices to Make Maintenance Easier
• The Impact of Sealing Systems on the Energy Efficiency of Pumps eBook

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In this special bonus episode, Charli interviews Ben Frech, the public relations and regional policy manager at the National Ground Water Association.

Ben works to increase public awareness on issues that impact the groundwater industry and advocates for NGWA members at the local and national level. Ben has over 15 years of experience working in public relations and politics and lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and new son Connor.

 During the interview Ben talks about the work that NGWA is doing to increase public awareness on issues that impact the groundwater industry and then he talks about Ground Water Week and how you can participate. 

Groundwater Week is a virtual event scheduled for next week December 8 -11.

Interview starts at 1:30 minutes.

Links from the Interview:

• Register: https://groundwaterweek.com/register/ 
• Event Hashtag: #GWweek2020
• https://groundwatersummit.com/ 
• https://groundwaterweek.com/ 
• https://www.ngwa.org/ 
• https://www.facebook.com/NGWAFB/
• https://twitter.com/ngwatweets 
• https://www.youtube.com/user/NGWATUBE 
• https://www.instagram.com/nationalgroundwater/ 
• Know Your Well Podcast: wellowner.org 

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Resources and Links:

• Empowering Pumps & Equipment YouTube Playlist
• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Pump Meet Up: Tuesday, December 8, 2 PM CST

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This week, Charli and Bethany preview TPS 2020 and tell you everything you need to know about the upcoming event.

Event Preview
Register for TPS

Then Bethany interviews Ashton Drollinger, the Director of Operations at the Turbomachinery Symposium Office for the Turbomachinery Laboratory at Texas A&M.

Ashton is a proud graduate of Texas A&M University and has worked at the Turbo Lab since 2008.  Ashton works closely with the advisory committees to set the program for the symposia as well as her general duties as director of operations.

During the interview, Ashton outlines how event participants can get the most out of the virtual event and what the need to do to plan to visit exhibitors and participate in the program.

Interview starts at 18 minutes.

Links from the Interview:

• TPS social media: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn 
• Turbo Lab website
• Event Preview
• Register for TPS
• Ashton's LinkedIn 
• EP video with Ashton from TPS 2019

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Resources and Links:

• Empowering Pumps & Equipment YouTube Playlist
• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Empowering Pump Meet Up: Tuesday, December 8, 2 PM CST

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This week, Charli and Bethany talk about #100HappyDays and how it relates to Thanksgiving.

Then Charli interviews Cliff Williams, the Principal Advisor at Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability. In his interview, Cliff details how he got into the industry, how people are a valuable asset, and how important the human aspect is to maintenance & reliability. 

Interview starts at 21 minutes.

From Cliff:
I have been lucky enough to be involved in the upsurge of Asset Management since the creation of ISO 5500X and all that it brings to the better way of operating. Through working with many different Municipalities and utilities it has been fascinating to see that the challenges are still the same as I have experienced over the decades of working to improve maintenance and reliability practices - Leadership, People and so Culture!

I have had the pleasure of being involved in maintenance and with maintenance people for a number years. From apprentice to the 'exalted' position of corporate maintenance manager and every step in between and I have a confession to make. The machinery I have met along the way, whilst impressive, has been forgetable. The people I have met .... well - the good the bad and I'm sorry to say the ugly, are what I remember. They are the ones who made my life interesting, rewarding and from a career perspective, successful. As we talk about the techniques and tools available to maintenance managers, let's not forget the best two - the human brain and human initiative. I firmly believe if you can cultivate those two - the rest is easy. My goal is to make sure everyone believes this so if you want a different perspective or if you share this perspective - get in touch.

Cliff's LinkedIn

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Resources and Links:

• Get the digital edition
• Sign up for Empowering Pumps & Equipment newsletter. 
• Nominate an Industry Person of the Week.
• Person of the Week - Sanya Mathura
• Empowering Pump Meet Up: Tuesday, December 8, 2 PM CST
• Centrifugal Pump Basics: History
• Introduction to Reliability-based Maintenance Practices [Webinar]
• #100HappyDays
• Fugitive Emissions Summit
• How to Post LinkedIn Stories

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