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In Episode 15, Host Lauren Broom discusses the use of Stenner Pumps with Cindy Schieber for liquid chemical feed. This is a great episode to listen in to for the pool service tech with the given state of the industry with shortages in Tri-chlor tablets.

For over 13 years, Cindy Schieber has been working with water and pool professionals around the United States with the Stenner Pump Company. Her current role is Channel Partner Sales Manager, but you may know her from Certified Stenner Technician Training events or from local and national pool industry trade shows. She is a Master Water Specialist with the Water Quality Association and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Florida Water Quality Association. Cindy resides in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

Stenner Pumps is  a manufacturer of peristaltic metering pumps for reliable performance in commercial pools, spas, splash pads, waterparks and aquatic centers. Made in the USA since 1957, the Stenner Pump Company maintains a 3-day lead time. Stenner supports pool professionals providing free Certified Stenner Technician Training or customized training to fit their needs. Contact Stenner today, 800.683.2378 or at stenner.com”.

Podcast sponsors: 
Stenner Pump Company   www.stenner.com
Skimmer          http://www.getskimmer.com

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Episode 14 has the host Lauren Broom interview Stacey Hoaglund on the topic of Special Needs Children & Water Safety so that aquatic professionals can better understand how to help the ASD group in regards to water safety to help with drowning prevention.

Stacey Hoaglund is a mediator, disability consultant, advocate, and trainer. She is the coordinator of the Florida Partners in Policymaking program, advocate with Family Network on Disabilities and president of the Autism Society of Florida. But above all else, Stacey is the proud parent of a young man with autism.

Podcast sponsor:  www.poolmarketing.com

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Episode 13 Lauren Broom interviews Amanda Throndsen.
Summer Series Continues.....
Topic: Florida Drowning Stats & Layers of Protection when it comes to childhood drowning and prevention, our special podcast summer series.
 
Amanda currently works for the Florida Dept. of Health in Tallahassee as the Safe Kids Florida State Coordinator in the Violence and Injury Prevention Section (VIPS). She was working on the US Consumer Product Safety Commissions Pool Safely Grant fulltime until her promotion in January 2020. The Pool Safely grant was given to the state to combat unintentional drownings through education of Code/ Statute Enforcement Personnel and Community Outreach. Over the last year, Ms. Throndsen has asisted with the other topics for VIPS, including mental health, suicide prevention, human trafficking, domestic and sexual violence creating and delivering content for media use. Previously, Amanda was in the aquatics industry for more than 20 years teaching, training, running programs and facilities. She holds training certifications from the American Red Cross along with being a Certified Pool Operator and achieving a Master's Degree in management and public relations.

This episode is sponsored by PoolMarketing.com
https://www.poolmarketing.com/

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In episode 12, Lauren Broom interviews Richard Kauffman on childhood drowning & prevention.  This is the start of the summer series on Childhood Drowning & Prevention.

Richard Kauffman is the founder of Save 185K LLC The Kels Group aka The Drowning Warriors Podcast and Kels Marketing with over 30 years’ experience in business and marketing along with 26 years of personal real-life experience in regard to water safety and drowning prevention.

 Richard has had personal conversations with aquatic professionals and leaders from around the world. Those on the front lines of water safety and drowning prevention. After speaking with many of these leaders and over 30 years in business experience he recognized some of the problems that face water safety and drowning prevention. He developed a leading water safety and drowning prevention podcast that goes out to over 100,000 aquatic professionals across the globe. Richard has interview over 1,000 aquatic professional and families that have lost a loved one due to drowning and non-fatal drowning who share their story to give a voice to those who no longer have a voice.

 Richard’s mission is to save 185,000 lives from drowning each year worldwide and over 1 million lives from nonfatal drowning by June 15, 2029. His message and story has been recognized all over the globe as he speaks directly to the problem and looks at the solutions to provide the outcome that those on the frontlines desire.

 Richard has built very successfully multiple businesses in the sports and recreation industry as well as several internet businesses. He currently runs and operates a successful social media marketing company that caters to the aquatics industry, Kels Marketing.

 Richard attended Ohio State University and studied business and marketing in 1980 and following the period at The Ohio State and playing soccer he then went to Columbia South American to further his sports interest in soccer as he played 2 years professional soccer in Cali Columbia 1981 & 82  before returning to the United States where he then entered the U.S. Air Force in the fall of 1982.

 Richard is married to his wife Lori and has combined 8 children with 11 grandchildren and is living his dream to make a difference and spread his mission and message plus his story of his daughter Kelsey about water safety and drowning prevention.

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In Episode 11,   Lauren Broom discusses all about pool heating with Tom Soukup , owner of Patriot Pool Heating.

Tom Soukup, the founder and President of Patriot Pool Heating, began this journey over 12 years ago as a boiler expert.  Over the years, Tom has been brought into the pool heating industry as a consultant and designer for hydronic pool heating.  This consulting led to Patriot Pool Heating being formed in 2017, which focuses on High-Efficient Pool Heating Solutions.  Tom has since designed a high-efficiency indirect system that has won several awards and articles.  Tom is recognized by NESPA, The Propane counsel, Architect Firms, and Pool Designers as the go-to expert for pool heating for any size project.

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In Episode 10, Lauren Broom interview Tom Schaefer, Technical Sales Director with Clear Comfort on alternative sanitization using AOP.

Enjoy this episode as we are heading into chemical shortages and their system could be beneficial to look at.

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In Episode 9 a roundtable speaks about the future of pools in 2021.
We speak about chemical shortages, materials shortage, COVID 19 and the economy and much more.
Special Podcast Guests:
Tom Soupkup, Owner of Patriot Pool Heating, Inc.
Eric Knight, Vice President of Business Development, Orenda
Ward Chace, General Manager, Conely Company
Tom Schaefer, Technical Sales Director, Clear Comfort

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In episode 8, Eric Knight is the guest to speak about winterization of pools the Orenda way.

Eric Knight is the Vice President of Business Development at Orenda Technologies.
He is a former competitive swimmer who got into the aquatics business to improve indoor air quality in indoor swimming pools. Eventually this led to water chemistry, and now Eric focuses most of his time on research and educating the industry on water chemistry and best practices.

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Episode 7 is all about the 2021 Texas Winter and how it affected the pool industry.

Podcast Guest: Chris Bowen
Owner of Bowen's Pools, been in business for 4 years. They service around 165 pools a month, renovate close to 150 pools this year and build 20-25 pools. They have won Best of Denton County and have been named Living Magazines Best Pool Company 2 years in a row for both. He is a member of the Tributary revelation, member of Genesis 3 Inc. and was named to PoolPro Magazine's Top 30 under 40 last year. 

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Podcast guests: Jack Nelson, CEO & Ryan Hash, Director of Customer Support

Founded in 2017, Skimmer is the leading pool service software in the market - and it's the most intuitive and easiest to use pool service app available! 

 We have known many pool guys (and gals) over the years, and all of them loved providing pool services for their customers, but they were tired of trying to run their businesses with stacks of paper or hard to use software. All of them tried finding a better solution and were frustrated with their options as nothing was built for the modern pool professional. 

 So we decided to build the pool service app our pool guys wished existed, for pool guys & gals everywhere - Skimmer!  We now have a lot of happy customers with over 6,000 users servicing over 150,000 pools per month - and we are growing quickly!

 Skimmer is an online-based app built for both back office professionals and pool techs and is available on the desktop (web app admin), iPad and iPhone & Android devices (for pool techs).  
Skimmer makes running a pool service company completely paperless by managing contact and service information for all of your customers, mapping & optimizing daily service routes for all technicians and listing items required for the day's routes.