Empowering Industry Podcast - A Production of Empowering Pumps & Equipment

This week Bethany and Bekah talk about how implementing an advocate marketing strategy can benefit your company. Then Charli interviews Howard (H.J.) Dewes, Business Development Manager, HVAC- Hydronics for the ABB Drives business. They discuss leadership, H.J.'s advice for people just starting their career, and what the energy revolution is and what the implications are for this industry. [I...

This week Bethany and Bekah talk about how the Instagram algorithm and how to use that knowledge to grow your audience. Then Charli interviews Hilary Johnson, an MIT doctoral student, all about her invention process and research that led to the invention of a new kind of centrifugal pump called a "variable volute" pump. [Interview Starts at 29:24]   Watch this episode on YouTube. Hilary...

This week Bethany and Bekah talk about how to use hashtags to grow your instagram audience. Then Charli interviews Thiago Ebel,  Lead Turbomachinery Research Engineer at Dyson, and  Host of the Entropy to Work Podcast. [Interview Starts at 23:00]   Watch this episode on YouTube. Thiago is an enthusiastic, curious and friendly engineer with professional and academic international experience in fund...

This week  Bethany and Bekah talk about part three of Bekah's three-part series on self-care. This third part focuses on 'the soul' and how physical health impacts self-care. Then Charli interviews Matthew J. Nelson, PE. Matt Nelson is the host of the HVAC 360 podcast and is dedicated to improving HVAC education worldwide. As a licensed mechanical engineer for the past 20 years, he...

This week  Bethany and Bekah talk about part two of Bekah's three-part series on self-care. This second part focuses on 'the body' and how physical health impacts self-care. Then Charli interviews #pumptalk celebrity Jennifer K. Muir, P.E., the Founder and President of JKMuir , a versatile, innovative environmental engineering and energy consulting firm specializing in water, wastew...

This week  Bethany and Bekah talk about part one of Bekah's three-part series on self-care. This first part focuses on 'the mind' and how mental health impacts self-care. Then Charli interviews Steve Bowditch the Global Market Development Manager at Chesterton. They talk all about coatings and how they can save you time and money. [Interview Starts at 23:30]   Watch this episode on...

This week Charli and Bethany talk the lessons Charli learned from being in business for 10 years. Then Charli interviews Matt Guse, thePresident of M.R.S. Machining Co., Inc., all about how he partners with his local high school to help solve the manufacturing labor shortage for his company and how other manufacturing companies could do the same thing. [Interview Starts at 26:00]   Watch this epis...

This week Charli and Bethany talk about the benefit of sharing personal posts on LinkedIn.  Then Charli interviews Linda J. Raynes, EASA President & CEO, about everything you need to know heading into EASA next week. [Interview Starts at 24:45]   Watch this episode on YouTube. Linda Raynes joined the staff of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association (EASA) in 1983 after working two years a...

This week Charli and Bethany preview the June edition of the Empowering Pumps & Equipment Digital Edition coming out this week. Then Charli interviews Cal Hayes, the Waterworks GM for Proco Products. [Interview Starts at 23:55]   Watch this episode on YouTube. Cal Hayes has been the Waterworks GM for Proco Products, Inc. since 2005. He has over 36 years experience in the design, manufacturing,...

In this bonus episode of the podcast, Charli talks to Barbara Martin, Director of Engineering & Technical Services at American Water Works Association. We brought Barbara on the podcast to share with you everything you need to know about ACE21 All Virtual. The event will be held June 14-17, virtually.  ACE21 All Virtual offers premier education, timely insight, and networking opportunities aim...

This week Charli and Bethany talk about productive ways to have uncomfortable conversations and how inclusion in the workplace can start with you. Then Charli interviews John Felix, Managing Director of White Oak Global Advisors. They talk about how financing can help manufacturing companies and tips to securing those investments as we move into a post-pandemic phase. Interview Starts at 28:23 Wat...

This week Bethany and Bekah talk about ways to manage anxiety when returning to the office. Then Charli interviews Sam Gupta, ERP Thought Leader, Super Connector, and host of the podcast WBSRocks. Interview Starts at 20:30. Watch this episode on YouTube. Sam Gupta has been a ERP thought leader in the digital transformation space for nearly two decades, with the primary focus on financial systems a...

This week Charli and Bethany tell you how to use social media polls effectively to build your brand. Then Charli interviews Pat Bussie, Vice President for Business Development at Fairbanks Morse Defense. They discuss his 42 year career with the company from starting as an apprentice, to how taking care of the customer led to successful strategic decisions for the company.  After Pat's intervi...

This week Charli and Bethany talk about what you need to know about your customer and why that knowledge is so important for marketing. Then Charli interviews Deepak Sivanandan, th e Senior Director and Head of Global Marketing at Flowserve Corporation. They discuss how 'good marketers' in the industry, find success through learning about their customer, communicating with the sales team...

May is mental health awareness month, so we wanted to bring on the biggest mental health advocate we know, Rob Kalwarowsky. In this bonus episode of the podcast, Charli interviews Rob Kalwarowsky P.Eng, CMRP, CRE, CLS – Leader, Reliability Engineer & Podcast Host - Edmonton, Canada. Rob Kalwarowsky has spent almost 10 years as a reliability engineer & asset manager within mining, oil pipel...

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 f...

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...

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 El...

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 E...

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...

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 Commo...

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 reliabili...

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, o...

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 Found...

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...