We typically stay away from weather, sports, and jobs. However, with most fantasy football drafts happening this week we thought it necessary to bring in fantasy guru, Kristi Metzger. Kristi has participated and achieved some spectacular results with daily fantasy sports. Kristi lost by only a tenth of a point in a $1,000,000 daily fantasy championship, however $400k isnt a bad consolation prize. We talk about the wrap up of fantasy baseball, draft techniques, sleepers, and strategy during the fantasy football season.

Make sure you listen until the end where Kristi, Ryan, and Ben pick their all-time fantasy football team at the skill positions. You won't want to miss who each one chooses!

Check out more on Kristi: www.rotogrinders.com

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Jamie serves as Minority Leader in the South Dakota House of Representatives, where he has delivered bipartisan solutions for the people of South Dakota. Jamie believes we are strongest when we work together to get things done.

Jamie is a lifelong South Dakotan. A realtor and former educator, Jamie isn’t a career politician, and he understands the needs of all South Dakotans. Every day, Jamie rolls up his sleeves to bring people together on the big issues South Dakotans face: affordable housing, high-quality education and healthcare, and an economy that works for everyone.

Jamie is a devoted father and husband. His wife of 23 years, Kjerstin, is a middle school librarian. He’s the proud father of two sons: Johnathan and Isaac. 

Jamie joins The Mandate Podcast to discuss why he is running against an incumbent, Republican Governor and how a Democratic nominee can win in South Dakota. Jamie speaks eloquently about how "purple" the state of South Dakota really is, the pockets of democrats, his ability to work across the aisle, and his passion for the people in our great state. 

According to Jamie here is SD's biggest issues he is prepared to tackle: education, healthcare, criminal justice, and childcare.

Check out more on Jamie: www.smithforgov.org

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Reid Vander Veen is one of those jack-of-many, ace-of-few types. He's a university professor, an author, a farmer, and a business owner. As if that isn't a full enough plate, his full time gig has him serving as a Partner and the Chief Marketing Officer for HenkinSchultz, a marketing agency in Sioux Falls. He lives on the family homestead with his wife and four kids south of Sioux Falls where they raise aronia berries and traditional crops. He's also an avid outdoorsman and has published over 300 articles in various formats about hunting, fishing, shooting, and the outdoors in general. One of his most recent projects was a book with his late Father-In-Law called Parenting Through the Stages which looks at the stages parents go through in their relationships with their children.

Reid joins the Mandate Podcast to discuss the process of writing a book with his Father-in-Law and publishing after his tragic death. We spend a significant amount of time talking about disciplining our children which is an entire chapter in the Parenting Through the Stages text. We bring up some strategies about how we love our kids and the rituals we set up. Reid, Ryan, and Ben talk about their favorite leadership books.

Find out more about Reid at www.theparentingmodel.com or @reidoutside on Instagram.

Listen in on a conversation with Denny and Karri Allen as they bravely share their story of losing their son Asher suddenly and abruptly. The Allen's grief story led them to founding and running Healing Hope Ministries to serve families who have experienced child loss.

Healing Hope Ministries, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was founded by Denny and Karri Allen in March of 2016. The creation of Healing Hope was sparked by their own personal grief journey. On July 2, 2012, Denny and Karri lost their precious son, Asher, when he died suddenly at just 15 months old.

The first year after Asher's death, Denny and Karri felt a deep need to talk about Asher and talk to other parents who had lost children. It was a way for them to process their own grief and seemed to bring some comfort to their hearts. They attended a 4-day retreat at Smile Again Ministries, located in northern Minnesota, which changed the trajectory of their life. This time on retreat opened up communication between the couple and helped them learn how to navigate life moving forward.

With this intense desire for a community who understood our grief, Karri and Denny continued meeting with other parents who had lost children. In the summer of 2015, they both felt God calling them into ministry to help families who've experienced the death of a child, grandchild, or sibling. With the idea to bring a grief retreat setting to South Dakota, Healing Hope Ministries was born.

The vision of Healing Hope is to hold a safe space for families to intentionally work through their grief. Denny and Karri, as retreat facilitators and peers who have walked a similar journey, hold space for families to share stories, have hard conversations and learn more about grief and mourning. This intentional work provides a pathway of hope.

Healing Hope Ministries relies heavily on the material developed by Smile Again Ministries as well as the teachings of Dr. Alan Wolfelt.  Dr. Wolfelt, of the Center for Loss in Colorado, is known around the world for his compassionate messages of hope and healing as well as his companioning philosophy of grief care. In addition to these resources, their personal life experiences and many grief support training courses, the Allens are also certified Grief and Loss Coaches.

www.healinghopes.com

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Melissa Vande Kieft is a best-selling author, speaker and Founder of Living in the Wait, a resource created to help women find purpose in the process so that they can live with more fulfillment and freedom in the wait. She encourages us to be brave to discover the details being designed through every life experience. Follow her @livinginthewait or www.livinginthewait.com.

We all have something in life we’re not prepared for, an unexpected challenge. Most often this struggle isn’t immediately resolved and we grow impatient.

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Trevor Holleman grew up in New Holland, South Dakota and attended Dakota Christian High School. He went on to play football and major in biology at the University of Sioux Falls. While at USF, he was part of 3 national championship teams. After graduating, he attended the University of Nebraska Medical Center's College of Dentistry and graduated summa cum laude. He was then accepted into the Oral and Maxillofacial Residency Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, which he completed in Spring of 2018.

Dr. Holleman is married to his wife Beth who grew up in Sioux Falls and attended Roosevelt High School. Together they have 4 amazing children and when not in clinic, Trevor, enjoys hunting, fishing, watching and playing sports, and spending time with his family.

We have a special guest host this week, Mr. Matt Bertsch of Select Paint and Mandate guest alumni fame, who invited Trevor onto the podcast. Trevor's story is not that different from most hard-working, competitive, family-men in the Midwest. We don't do the best job talking about all the struggles that some with fostering a great marriage, raising kids, and trying to balance work. This conversation gives a real look at a young man working hard to build his practice and build relationships for the Kingdom.

Find out more about Trevor: www.riverridgeoralsurgery.com/meet-us

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Before all of his accomplishments, Kyle was homeless....a little by choice and a little by circumstance. Listen now.

Meet Kyle Pickner. Kyle recently joined Plains Commerce Bank as Chief Trust Officer. Kyle began working in the trust industry in 2013 and gained a wealth of experience working with various organizations in roles such as Trust Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Director of Trust Operations.

Kyle most recently led the financial operations for one of the world’s largest digital asset custodians, taking them from a start-up to a multi-billion-dollar institution. Thriving on a challenge, Kyle was tasked with the idea of combining Silicon Valley tech and Wall Street finance.

Kyle’s goal at Plains Commerce Bank is to bridge the gap between traditional finance and cryptocurrency. He understands that conventional banking is changing right before our eyes. With his extensive expertise in blockchain technology and digital assets, Kyle will lead the Plains Commerce team in bringing to market industry-first digital asset solutions to be offered for the first time through the traditional banking environment. Kyle aims to instill a mainstream public confidence in cryptocurrency and to ultimately help usher in a new era of innovation and efficiency for the bank.

Kyle’s clear vision will take Plains Commerce into the future as they pave their way into the age of digitization.

Find out more about Kyle at www.plainscommerce.com or find him on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/kyle-pickner-759777205)

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Listener discretion is advised as our topic is suicide. Listen to Wendy's family story on the Mandate Podcast.

Wendy's TedTalk: https://youtu.be/liCZp6gknJ0 

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Chris & Annie Mello with CPM Fitness

Tom Patterson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tommy John. As a medical device salesman confined to a suit as he traveled from meeting to meeting, he couldn't get through the day without his undershirts, underwear, and socks bunching, pinching and sagging. Instead of getting his base layers in a bunch, he made it his mission to reinvent underwear. With the support of his wife, Erin, a local tailor and a small team of designers, Tom re-imagined the fit, feel and function of our most fundamental layers. Tom and Erin built and patented new features from scratch. The result? Shirts that stay tucked, socks that stay up, and underwear that keeps everything in place.

Tom was born and raised in South Dakota and studied at Arizona State University. In 2008 he founded Tommy John, which has become a leading manufacturer in the United States, with its collection of loungewear and outerwear. 

Key Take Away: Tom is very proud of where he is from and gloats on the coasts about South Dakota's work ethic and demeanor. 

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