The Vance Crowe Podcast

Meet a man that buys and sells investments based on his research and intuition about what the future will hold.  Vance Crowe interviews Craig Hoagland about bitcoin, inflation, new technology, emerging markets and the looming population crisis. Craig Hoagland is a registered investment advisor, building and managing equity and fixed income portfolios for individuals, trusts, corporations and tax-e...

In this bonus episode, Vance Crowe describes why you should learn to draw your ideas when you are trying to become a better communicator.  Vance had made a trip to visit the Santa Fe Institute where he was questioned about his motives by the president David Krakauer. I had trouble finding a video that shows me talking about the "Well Actually Graph," perhaps I will make a video one day to go along...

Kevin King is a highly respected attorney in the Saint Louis area.  King has worked in the Missouri Attorney General's Office, handled divorces, helped parents adopt a child, and now works for Saint Louis Bank.  During this interview Vance Crowe and Kevin King discuss the relationships and philosophy behind building relationships, the challenges of banking cannabis companies, and the regulatory en...

In this bonus episode Vance Crowe discusses why he is so passionate about communicating effectively.  Vance tells the story of "The Man on the Box" an experience he had living in Kenya with the US Peace Corps when a snake oil salesman came to the town to sell a cure for malaria, the very thing Vance was there to teach how to prevent.  Follow the Vance Crowe Podcast Vance Crowe Podcast Facebook Pag...

Trucking is one of the most overlooked parts of our society.  What happens when automation takes over the jobs of the American truck driver? Why is there a truck driver shortage in the US? Is the China trade war causing problems for trucking. In today's episode, Vance Crowe sat down with Camden Civello, EVP to discuss the hidden world of trucking and logistics.  More than 12% of the population is...

Anne M. Stiles Ph. D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Saint Louis in the English Department.  She teaches students about the parts of literature that are filled with monsters, vampires and mad scientists.  She has teaches undergrads and medical students in hopes that they develop a love of literature and the ability to articulate their arguments.  Vance and Anne sat down to talk abo...

Tony Sansone III started an early recreational cannabis company in Las Vegas, Nevada and within a short time built it into something that could be sold for $22M.  Sansone is a well read entrepreneur, with the long game in mind.  We discuss how marijuana will impact culture, what keeps companies from making a profit in this industry and how the federalist system in the US created experiments for th...

Rita Kuster is a former regulator and banker in the Saint Louis region.  During this conversation Rita discusses how regulators monitor banks, why "Too Big To Fail" may never get fixed and the tension that is created behind the scenes in a loan committee meeting. Rita Kuster's LinkedIn Page Saint Louis Bank Website Carl Lippert's Twitter Kate Crosby's Twitter Follow the Vance Crowe Podcast Faceboo...

Jay Delsing is a PGA golfer that has played in more than 500 professional golf tournaments.  A star athlete from St. Louis, MO Jay entered the PGA straight out of college and then stayed among the top 125 golfers in the world.  We discussed keeping calm under pressure, what it is like to golf with the most powerful CEOs and sports stars in the world, and how meditation and breathing control change...

Jamie Salvatori is a digital entrepreneur that has created a online retail business that sells unorthodox toys, candies and games.  To market his products, Jamie has built a YouTube channel that gets millions of views per video- some of them over 100M views.  Vat19.com is one of the most mesmerizing and fun channels online- and during the interview Jamie discusses how his business was built, how t...

Dwyane Faber is the owner of a 2,000 cow dairy herd with more than 20 employees.  He sits down with Vance Crowe to discuss the difference between organic and conventional milk, vegan activists, fair oaks farms, doing stand up comedy and African Swine Fever. @DFaber84 @VanceCrowe Dwayne is a well known Twitter personality and is a savvy businessman that tries out unconventional strategies and works...

Chris Oliver is founder of Go Rails an online computer programming teaching program that teaches developers how to create  new website features. Chris Oliver is an extraordinary thinker, a person that can imagine entirely novel solutions to very complex problems. Find Chris on Twitter @Excid3 Find Vance of Twitter @VanceCrowe Chris Oliver's Go Rails program is used by more than 22,000 people and O...

Kelly Erdos is a clinical pharmacist that helps geriatric patients manage their medicine as they encounter more complex health conditions.   Erdos answers questions about "why does it take so long to fill my prescription?" and "why can't we automate the pharmacists at drugstores?"  We also discuss what does a pharmacist think about essential oils?  and what does a pharmacist think about CBD?

Connie Diekman is a nationally recognized expert in nutrition and dietetics.  With a specialization cardiovascular nutrition, eating disorders, lipid research and even sport nutrition (with the Saint Louis Rams), Connie has decades of experience at helping individuals establish healthy eating plans. Connie's Twitter: @CBDiekman For more information about the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Eat...

Detective Bob Bayes was in the police force for 40 years throughout Saint Louis County.  His teams went undercover, solved murders, conducted drug and prostitution stings, and made some of the biggest arrests in St. Louis history.  Det. Bayes helped solve the Cassidy Senter murder, was on the sting that caught county prosecutor George Peach, and went undercover to catch child pornographers and dru...

Jerry Hayes is an internationally recognized honey bee expert and columnist for the American Bee Journal.  In this interview, Hayes discusses the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the first time he saw Africanized Honey Bees during the autopsy of a 900 lbs. horse, and the fascinating behavior of honey bees. Hayes has been featured on the cover of Wired Magazine, featured in books about bee...

Allen Soffer is a cardiologist with a 30 year career in Saint Louis.  During this conversation Dr. Soffer discusses what happens to medical students when they graduate at the top of their class and realize no one is grading them any more.  He also discusses what the medical field has discovered about what really happens during a heart attack, and what it is like to be talking with a patient that r...

Shirley Sahrmann PT, Ph. D. is a world expert at identifying how a person moves, sits, sleeps, runs... is a cause of their pain.  She has pioneered the field of physical therapy from one that takes orders from doctors, to medical professionals that can diagnose why people are in pain and what they can do to fix it.  Dr. Sahrmann stopped by the Vance Crowe studios in route to Japan, because she tra...

Randall Comfort discusses how the spaces we live in make a person feel, impacts how they interact with others and can make you think differently. Randall has an extraordinary mind and is intensely curious about how others want to use space.  During this discussion, Randall highlights how people have made their homes, parking garages, even garbage disposal centers into places that have deep meaning...

Tim Hosler is a Saint Louis investment banker, former CEO and a finance expert whose ideas are unorthodox and clever.  At times he has gone head to head with Warren Buffett, and is willing to offer ideas that will ruffle feathers.  

In this candid interview, world renowned biochemist Dr. Doug Sammons, formerly of Monsanto, discusses aspects of his personality that have been a blessing and a curse.  He highlights the difficulty of discovering something new, and how individuals can determine if a new scientific finding is real.  Dr. Sammons is on Twitter @WiltedWeeds