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hello Scaling UP! nation Trace Blackmore
here and folks this is the 100th time
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that I have introduced this show to you
that’s right the Scaling UP! h2o is
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celebrating their 100th episode it is so
hard for me to believe that I remember
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my very first episode and I’m sure I’ve
told this story before occasionally I’ll
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go back and I’ll listen to episode one
to see how far this show has come but I
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needed to get something on the air in
order to send it to iTunes itunes then
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approves the podcast and then you can
start sending that to other services
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well I didn’t even have a microphone at
that time I had a Bluetooth headset and
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that is what I record it in it’s not
that good and I know what you’re
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thinking you’re going to go back and
you’re going to listen to it well it’s
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my hope that you hear a difference
between then and now I sure think that I
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have become better at hosting this show
and that’s what this show is all about
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it’s about this show becoming what it is
it’s about this show getting better and
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we are just going to take this entire
episode and we are going to celebrate
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the fact that this is the 100th time
that I have come to you as the host of
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Scaling UP! h2o
since that time so many things have
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happened and you probably thinking well
what was that time when did trace start
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Scaling UP! h2o well it was April 4th
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2017 for for 2017 and that double four
is actually significant I want to tell
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you the story that
I was approached by several people and
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you’re gonna hear from those people on
today’s episode that encouraged me to
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start a podcast well after that I
decided that I needed to start a podcast
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and I recorded episode number one I was
all over the place I didn’t know what
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the format was going to be I didn’t
really have any guests
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scheduled out and I definitely didn’t
have any systems in place but I had an
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idea and the idea was that we as water
treaters are isolated were isolated from
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each other and were even isolated from
other people in our company the simple
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fact is the way our job works is we are
driving to and from accounts and then we
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are servicing in between so we don’t
have the luxury of being able to run
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ideas past each other or even
communicate with each other a lot of the
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time and then we have the issue where
we’re in our cars so much I’d love to
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call that windshield time because if I
say that everybody immediately knows
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what I’m talking about and maybe we get
to catch up on what’s coming on on pop
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radio maybe we’re able to listen to a
book maybe we’re able to listen to a
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podcast well at that time I was not able
to find a podcast that served the water
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treatment industry so I figured why not
take these people’s advice and start a
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podcast for the water treatment
community and that’s where that 4/4
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comes in Scaling UP! h2o is for the water
treatment community and I’ve never
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shared that before but that’s one of the
reasons I decided to start it on that
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double four date for for 2017 and since
that time I have
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so many people come up to me and let me
know that they don’t feel that they are
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isolated from the water treatment
community they get to hear about what’s
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going on in the community through the
podcast they learn because of the
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podcast and it encourages them to step
out of the box that they are in day to
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day and do something different so they
can become better I have to tell you
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that is one of my favorite things that I
have received since I started this show
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people feel obligated and I love that
they do to let me know that this show
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has helped them in some way I’ve been
getting so many calls or emails for
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people saying thanks for helping me get
my CWT folks I didn’t do a thing for you
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getting your certified water
technologist designation other than
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maybe giving you a little nudge that
this is something you need to do if
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you’re going to choose to be in the
industry that I’m in the industrial
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water treatment industry why not be the
best that you can be and one of the best
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things that you can do is to prove to
everybody but especially yourself that
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you are the best by getting the
certified water technologist designation
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one of my favorite stories that somebody
shared with me was a listener and they
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said that they were alone when they were
doing their day to day and they would
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run into certain competition and they
just couldn’t stand them for the simple
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fact that they were competition well
fast-forward to a couple episodes of
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this show and they shared with me that
they invited this individual this
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competition for a drink so they met at a
bar they shared a beer or two
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and once the awkwardness wore off they
became good friends and he shared with
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me that he’s no longer alone in this
huge water treatment industry even
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though they are competitors they are
able to talk with each other get ideas
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from each other help each other when
they’re having issues and just relate to
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each other because after all who
understands what the heck US industrial
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water traders do so if we can talk to
somebody that does the exact same thing
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that we do it just makes life better and
I’m so happy when I hear stories like
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that I’ve heard dozens of stories like
that folks there’s no reason we can’t be
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friends with our fellow water treaters
and that is the Scaling UP! nation you
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know when I talk about the individual
that reached out to his competition and
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now they’re good friends it reminds me
of my relationship with Mark Lewis and I
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know everybody out there in the
Scaling UP! nation has heard me talk
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about mark Lewis before in fact you’ve
heard him on several shows mark has been
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on episode 31 he’s been on episode 34 I
interviewed him again on episode 87 when
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we were out at aw T’s Technical Training
Mark and I did not know each other until
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I got involved in our industry mark and
I were serving on a particular committee
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together actually that’s not true
we were drafted by Jay farmer e to
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distribute paperwork before the general
session and Mark and I met there so Jay
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farmer II who was on an earlier episode
just recently he forced us to meet by
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giving us work to do so Thank You Jay
matter of fact that’s how I became on
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the board – Jay gave me work to do and
eventually that led me to become on the
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board of the Association of Water
Technologies I’m beginning to understand
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part of his evil plan now anyway I
digress folks if you’re not taking the
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opportunity to introduce yourselves out
there to fellow water treaters you are
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missing a golden opportunity so I hope
that you do use that opportunity
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and if you need an icebreaker use this
show hey have you heard about Scaling UP!
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h2o
hopefully they’ll say yes but you know
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what if they say no that’s another
listener that we get to add to the
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Scaling UP! nation there is just so much
that we can gain when we talk with each
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other and when we help each other become
better water treaters now if you ever
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thought about the name Scaling UP! h2o so
if we talk about Scaling UP! our systems
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that has a negative connotation to it we
think oh my gosh we’re Scaling UP! or
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losing efficiency we might even be
losing capacity so Scaling UP! is bad
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that’s how we think about it as water
treaters I wanted to change our paradigm
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when we think about Scaling UP! because
in business when you scale up you get
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bigger if you look Scaling UP! up in a
Phasis you get words like to go up to
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climb to mount to grow to ascend and
that’s what I want this podcast to do to
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the water treatment community I want
that to be the catalyst that helps us
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all make the water industry better and I
think that we are doing that because
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I’ve seen it I’ve heard it thank you so
much for sharing those stories with me
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and I do my best when I get them to
share them on the air because I am sure
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they motivate you just as much as they
motivate me now of course we can’t do
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anything without the Scaling UP! nation
and you’ve heard me talk about the
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Scaling UP! nation so many times I
lovingly refer to anybody that listens
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to this show anybody that contributes to
the show any guest on the show anybody
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that does anything in connection with
Scaling UP! h2o you are part of the
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Scaling UP! nation now these numbers that
I’m going to share with you are so
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incredibly humbling to me
had no idea that this is where we would
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be a hundred episodes after we recorded
the first episode in fact I really
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didn’t have any agenda when I started
recording Scaling UP! h2o only the one
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thing I wanted to do was to somehow give
back to the water treatment community
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that has given me so much my dad and I
are connected because of all the things
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that he taught me in water treatment I
now get to share with you things that
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started in the foundation of him giving
to me what I know about water treatment
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through this podcast and that’s a way
that I’m able to honor him that’s all
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because of the water treatment community
when I think of all the great friends
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that I have when I think about the
company that I own the great people that
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helped me run that company that is all
because of the industrial water
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treatment industry and I wanted to do
what I could do to pay back to this
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great industry well that has paid me
back so much by doing that by putting
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this podcast out there I have heard from
so many people but I am humbled by the
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numbers of the listeners we have had
over 10,000 people subscribe to Scaling UP!
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h2o can you imagine that what is a
football stadium hold it’s like every
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time Scaling UP! h2o comes on we are in
some sort of stadium that humbles me
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that vision of all those people sitting
listening to this podcast listening to
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the guests learning about water
treatment becoming better as water
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treaters that’s just such a fantastic
image in my head and I’m so incredibly
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humbled by that and that stadium reaches
over 65 countries can you imagine I am
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here in my studio in Atlanta Georgia
and it’s not just Atlanta people that
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are listening to me it’s not just
Georgia people that are listening to me
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it’s not just United States people that
are listening to me people over 65
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countries are tuning into their favorite
podcast player and listening to Scaling UP!
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h2o we’re in Africa
we’re in countries like South Africa
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Egypt Nigeria knee
I don’t know anybody over there but they
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know Scaling UP! h2o and we’re all part
of the Scaling UP! h2o Scaling UP! nation
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so in a sense I guess we do know each
other we’re in China Russia Turkey
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Germany England France Australia Iceland
and that is just so incredible and these
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aren’t little small numbers these are
hundreds of people within those
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countries that are listening to Scaling UP! h2o so imagine every time you listen
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to an episode somebody else is listening
to the same thing that you’re listening
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to in another country and I don’t know
about you but that makes me feel like I
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am part of the community and even though
I’m having a bad day dealing with
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whatever this issue is I’m having an
issue explaining something to a customer
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of Valve’s not working right and it’s
just totally blown my schedule and I’m
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not able to get to all the other
commitments that are on my calendar I
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feel pretty good knowing that I’m not
alone in that there are other people all
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over the world that are dealing with the
same thing than I am that just makes me
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feel part of a community one Asian I
could not have done this show on my own
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I’ve had a lot of people help me I’m
going to talk about them in a bit but
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I’ve had so many wonderful guests on
this program and several of them were
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very excited that I made it to episode
100 I mean
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sound very sinister right I didn’t think
that guy was going to make it to 100 Wow
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I lost that bet no I don’t think that’s
what they were thinking I think that
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they just were very happy that this show
is now at 100 episodes and several of
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them have called in and left recordings
letting us know what they feel about the
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Scaling UP! nation so one of my very
first guests was Charlie Cichetti in
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fact I want to say he was my very first
guest now I think that’s true I think
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Tom tinny of Lakewood Instruments was my
very first guest and then Charlie
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cicchetti was the guest right after that
because Charlie was episode four Charlie
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was my first in-person interview and I
don’t know if I’ve shared this I think I
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have but if I haven’t I’ll share it
again Charlie was the one that
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originally introduced me to podcast
Charlie and I are in the same business
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group and we have been for about eight
years now and I knew Charlie for about
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three years before that and Charlie was
the one that introduced me to Tim Fulton
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you guys know that Tim Fulton is my
business coach he was on episode 22 and
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Charlie was the one that introduced me
into the business group that I am now so
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Charlie and I are great friends we
really understand each other’s
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businesses and we understand each
other’s passions charlie is the guy for
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the LEED green building movement so
making buildings more efficient making
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them more aware of the resources that
they’re using and how they can reduce
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those charlie is pioneered that he is
charging the way he has his own podcast
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just on that topic called green
buildings matter and I’ve actually been
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on his show I believe I was episode 7 on
his podcast and he’s been on mine
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several times I’ve interviewed him so
Charlie was the one that said Trace you
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need your own podcast and I looked at
Charlie and I said well that that sounds
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interesting Charlie what the heck is a
podcast and he sort of joked with me a
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little bit that I didn’t know what a
podcast was and
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he said go ahead and download the
program stitcher
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that’s the Android version at the time
that would get podcast now there’s a
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bunch of them most people are using
google podcasts now but I downloaded
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stitcher and he set me up with a couple
of his favorite podcasts and I started
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listening to podcasts and I just thought
that that was wonderful that now I could
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do something to learn something as I was
driving around in Atlanta traffic from
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account to account well I wasn’t really
sold that I was going to do a podcast
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cuz after all I just learned what a
podcast was how was I possibly going to
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learn how to do a podcast well Charlie’s
persistent and every time I saw him he
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brought that up in one way or another so
he was always back there encouraging me
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to do a podcast and right now we’re
gonna hear from Charlie trace Charlie
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chickadee here and I just want to say
thank you for having me on your podcast
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actually twice can’t believe you’re at
episode 100 first of all huge
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congratulations 100 episodes so glad you
started the podcast I guess about two
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years ago again I have enjoyed being a
guest talking about the green building
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movement what your listeners really need
to know about actually I had the owner
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of speaking of a few AWT conferences
over the years what’s the latest with
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lead the green building movement how do
you pass the LEED exam so even some of
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you listening right now might recognize
my voice and and just hope you know well
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in your green building career so trace
again congratulations on 100 I know
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you’re really serving your industry here
because you’ve got a big heart to share
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your expertise to bring in guests not
just within industry but related to your
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industry and even those that are just
business and encouraging and just pro
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tips and so I like the variety of gifts
you’ve had so again thanks for having me
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on and best of luck with 101 all the way
up to many many more awesome podcasts
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well Charlie thank you for being one of
my first guests thank you for
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encouraging me to do this show
and thank you for being such a great
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friend you have really helped me not
only become better at this show but you
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probably become better at life and I
really appreciate knowing you and all
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the things that you continue to do in my
life well we have some other guests that
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are joining us today
and back is episode 78 we heard from
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wastewater expert Kevin cope now Kevin
is one of the lead trainers that the
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association of Water Technologies has
for wastewater treatment and as you know
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one of my absolute favorite things to do
is be involved on the technical training
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committee for the association of Water
Technologies and Bruce Kaptur can I
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serve as I don’t even know what we’re
called anymore he’s the chair I don’t
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know what my name is but I get to serve
and with that I get to learn so much
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I’ve been doing that for well over 10
years and every time I go to the
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technical training or the fundamentals
and applications training or now even
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the wastewater training I learn
something new recently I was at the
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association of Water Technologies
wastewater training seminar and it had
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been a while since I oughta ‘td that
class and that’s one of my jobs I listen
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to all the speakers making sure that
we’re covering various points making
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sure it has good flow if there are any
tools that I can get the speakers that
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will help them put all that together and
that’s what my job is that I do so it’s
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been a while since I hung around the
wastewater training so that’s what I did
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and I just saw how incredible these
trainers are with wastewater so I went
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up to Kevin and I asked him if he would
mind coming on Scaling UP! h2o and just
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sharing with what wastewater is because
a lot of us do water treatment but not
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all of us understand wastewater and it’s
hard for us to even fathom what that is
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if we don’t have that context so that
was what I asked him he so graciously
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came on
and folks he painted a picture so in
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your mind’s eye you could actually walk
through a wastewater facility and do
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with him what he was describing in your
mind’s eye it was incredible and
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consequently enough Kevin cope is a
painter as a thank-you gift for being on
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the show imagine he was thanking me for
him being a guest on my show which again
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I was thanking him because he came on
and shared such great information but he
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painted a picture for me it’s hanging up
in my office but he just has this
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ability whether to paint real pictures
or to do them in your mind so you can
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travel along with him and learn what
he’s talking about
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he is one of the best so if you haven’t
listened to that episode that’s episode
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78 and here’s Kevin Cohn trace Kevin
cope hey just wanted to say
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congratulations on your 100th show I
look forward to hearing 100 1 2 3 and
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continuing on again I very much
appreciate you having me on and honor me
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by having me on your show great time and
again a great service the AWT and the
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water treatment industry again
congratulations and look forward to
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continuing to listen some great podcast
thanks again Kevin’s episode was a
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two-part series and that might have been
the very first time I split the episodes
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up into two parts when I first started
this podcast I had no idea about length
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and format and all of that stuff I have
learned that along the way and I’ve
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learned that from your criticisms
critiques and I mean that well I don’t
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mean that bad by the way if you ever get
information from somebody and it could
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23:45.6
be critical it could even sound like
somebody is being judgmental about you
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23:51.7
take a deep breath because if somebody
is going to spin the time letting you
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23:57.2
know what has happened to them and how
they’ve experienced something that you
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24:02.6
are doing you’re never going to get that
perspective again so maybe it does hurt
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your feelings a little bit
deal with it take a deep breath listen
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to what they have to say and now you can
use that perspective that you never have
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the opportunity to get before to make a
change if you choose to make that change
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well there is no doubt about it you out
there in the Scaling UP! nation are not
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24:28.2
shy about letting me know what you like
and what you don’t like and some people
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24:32.1
say my episodes are too short some
people say the episodes are too long so
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24:37.7
you really can’t please everybody but in
an attempt to try to cut down some of my
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larger episodes in the past I would just
put a two-hour episode on there and I
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wouldn’t think twice about it because
you know what folks you have a pause
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24:51.2
button or when you stop your car most
devices today will stop the podcast and
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24:54.8
they’ll even rewind it about 10 seconds
so you can get back to where you are
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24:59.5
when you get back in your car does all
that automatically so I don’t feel too
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25:04.1
terribly bad for you if it takes you
three or four Drive sessions to get
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25:08.3
through one of the episodes but I did
hear that complaint a couple of times so
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25:14.6
I decided my really long interviews I
was going to chop up so that way you
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could listen to those at the pace that
you requested so that was one of the
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changes that I made because of the
Scaling UP! nation but to get back to
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Kevin Kevin was just a wonderful guy and
the first episode that I split up into
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25:38.6
two and if you listen to his episodes
which are 78 and 79 you will learn that
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25:43.8
he dated Sharon Stone well not exactly
but he went on a double date with Sharon
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Stone and who the heck can say that so
that’s pretty cool
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Kevin thanks so much for what you’re
doing for the water treatment community
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25:57.7
and thanks for all your help was
Scaling UP! h2o nation the next person
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that called in you have heard her on
numerous Scaling UP!
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episodes she is delightful she is one of
my biggest cheerleaders of course I’m
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26:17.2
talking about Michele farmerie Michele
was episode 12 and as on
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mentioned she has been a guest she’s
come back she’s interviewed she’s been
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26:28.6
on the show numerous times and I think
she is responsible for getting more
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26:35.1
people into the Scaling UP! nation than
anybody else out there so she has just
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been phenomenal and Michelle thank you
so much for all that you are doing for
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26:44.2
the water treatment community and thank
you for all your help with Scaling UP!
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26:50.2
h2o high trace and Scaling UP! nation
it’s Michelle Farmerie special guests
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from episode 12 and a handful of others
in between now and then crazy to
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remember that far back though as it’s
been 88 episodes
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27:04.8
Trace that is so crazy but is
unbelievably awesome I am so incredibly
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and absolutely undeniably proud of you
that you have hit a hundred episodes
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27:15.8
with Scaling UP! h2o s podcast
I cannot say at all that I’m surprised
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because this podcast has been one of the
best things to have ever happened to
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27:24.6
this industry people in our industry
spend so much time in their cars and
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27:28.9
just have so much wasted time wasted
windshield time so being able to
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27:33.8
actually sit in our vehicles or sit at
our desks or travel on a plane or a
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27:38.6
train or wherever and and just utilize
that time by having something that
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educates us technically it’s just it’s
awesome so keep up the great work
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I keep telling all kinds of people I
never hear anything bad about the show
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27:53.4
all I ever hear is oh my gosh have you
heard Scaling UP! so just keep up the
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great work so proud of you trace and
can’t wait for the next 100 Michelle I
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have no doubt we are going to have you
back on Scaling UP! h2o and folks you’re
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going to be seeing a lot of Michelle
Michelle was recently nominated to be on
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the board of the association of water
technologies for some reason or another
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she wasn’t actually selected to be on
the ballot but I think she is phenomenal
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if you have ever met her in person she
loves the water treatment industry she
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wants to do what she can to make sure
that that industry is bad
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28:36.1
than when she came into it I think she
is phenomenal and you watch we’re going
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to be seeing a lot more of her another
guest that you’re gonna hear from is
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Conor parish now Connor parish was the
reason why I started the podcast when I
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28:52.1
did I told you Charlie was the one that
put the idea and he not only put the
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28:57.3
idea in my head he smacked me with a
hammer every time I talked to him well I
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went to a meeting in February of 2017 in
Annapolis and Connor parish and I I
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believe we were having dinner and he
said you know we really need a podcast
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29:16.1
for the water treatment industry I then
shared with him what Charlie was telling
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me that I needed to start a podcast his
eyes got really big and he goes yes you
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would be the perfect host for that I
will do whatever I can do to help you
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29:28.2
with that
you need to do that and you need to do
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that right now he was very emphatic
about it and I want to say that he
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called me every couple days to make sure
that I was going to do that and it took
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29:44.7
me about two months or so to actually do
it when we had that conversation but he
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was a huge driving force in me starting
Scaling UP! h2o now he is episode 8 and
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29:59.0
Connor has a few ideas that you’re going
to learn about in just a few minutes hey
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trace it’s Connor Parrish with FC T
water congratulations on hitting your
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30:07.5
hundredth episode several years ago when
we discussed the idea of this podcast
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30:12.2
and Annapolis I knew you’d be successful
but the scale at which you’ve hit is
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30:18.0
truly incredible a global audience
turning out content it’s just been great
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30:22.7
and on the plus side and selfishly for
me you’ve made my windshield time
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30:27.7
significantly better so thanks for all
that you do keep up the good work and
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30:32.0
let me know when you want me to come
back on an interview you Tim Farriss
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style
I met Connor five or six years ago I
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think maybe it wasn’t quite that long
maybe it was four it seems like it’s
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30:46.2
been a long time and it’s been a goo
time I met Connor at an association of
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Water Technologies training and he
immediately came up to me and started
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30:56.7
asking me questions and then he asked he
said you know I’m gonna have some more
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31:01.2
questions later do you mind if I give
you a call and when I run into certain
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31:04.6
things in the water treatment industry I
give you a call and you can just help me
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31:13.1
through it and I said yeah in fact that
reminded me so much of myself because I
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did the same thing with Bruce Catterick
and J farmer II I met them at
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31:23.1
Association of Water Technologies
training and I just thought those two
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31:28.3
guys were phenomenal I still do and I
used very formal terms I said hey guys
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31:33.0
would you mentor me I’ve learned a lot
from my dad I learn a lot from the day
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31:38.1
to day that I do I read a lot but you
guys have not only read about it you’ve
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31:44.1
experienced it and you have so many
stories that you can share so much
31:44.1
31:47.3
advice that I would really love to have
access to
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31:53.8
they both graciously accepted that that
is too many years ago that I care to
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32:00.3
tell you but they have really poured
into me and I am a better water treater
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32:09.3
because of those two gentlemen that
reminded me so much of what Connor was
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doing that I could not wait to accept
his offer and we talk on a regular basis
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32:21.7
in fact when he got his CWT I would
think his mom would have been the first
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32:28.1
call that he told that he got a CWT but
he actually called me first so I had
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32:34.5
several people they will call me and let
me know that they got their CWT and one
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32:40.0
of those people was Connor and that was
such a cool conversation and then Connor
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asked me because of our relationship to
write a letter of recommendation to him
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32:49.1
and I got to tell you that was one of
the best honors that I
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had by being a part of him getting
certified so Connor thanks so much for
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32:59.6
what you have done for me and what
you’re doing for the water treatment
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33:06.1
community andScaling UP! h2o the final
guests that called in to say something
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about our 100th episode is our number
one fan I would say James McDonald of
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course is who I’m talking about and if
you guys don’t know James McDonald you
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need to go back and listen to episode 21
and then he was back on episode of 49
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James is just an incredible individual
and I can think of nobody else that has
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given more to the water treatment
industry James is always coming out with
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another tool another book another idea
and he gives those freely to the water
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33:51.2
treatment industry
well his book he does and his book is
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33:55.5
drop by drop you actually have to buy
that but I encourage you to do that and
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34:00.4
you can get that by going to an
affiliate link on our show notes page
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34:06.5
I’ve got a link that takes you directly
to that but let’s hear from James hello
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Tracy
congratulations on your 100th episode of
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the Scaling UP! aids tool podcast this is
James McDonald your biggest fan the
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podcast has filled a hole within the
industrial water treatment profession
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that most did not realize was there
while individual companies and trade
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34:27.5
organizations provide venues for
continuing education your free podcast
34:27.5
34:33.2
has provided a regular id’s worth a
solid and dust or water topics drop by
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34:38.0
drop your podcast has elevated the
industry about not only being a place to
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be each week when you episodes are
released but by being a knowledge
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34:45.3
resource with past episodes and
supporting information on the website
34:45.3
34:50.4
too you’ve also become everyone’s best
friend as they drive down the road with
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34:55.3
you in their ears our profession can be
a lonely profession at times on the road
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34:58.8
you don’t get to see the same people
every day we at least have the
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35:02.3
consistency of hearing your voice trace
in the
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35:07.0
each week thank you for sharing your
passion I look forward to the 200th
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episode as well thank you
well James thank you so much great words
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very humbling words and I really
appreciate you saying them for all the
35:16.9
35:20.1
guests that called in thank you so much
for for what you said thank you for
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35:26.2
taking the time to call in and letting
us know what you think James was the
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35:32.7
individual that I got a lot of
information from when I decided to do
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35:38.8
this episode I knew I wanted to do a
podcast I was still learning on what I
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35:43.4
had to do for the podcast but I didn’t
know how to reach the water treatment
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35:48.2
industry now I don’t know if everybody
out there knows this but James has a
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35:55.3
huge following on LinkedIn he has well
over 10,000 followers if not 20,000 I
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35:58.1
mean it’s it’s really up there it might
even be a hundred thousand James I don’t
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know how many people you have but I know
you have a ton and you so graciously
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36:10.2
wrote about this new podcast called
Scaling UP! h2o that was going to try to
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36:15.5
serve the water treatment community to
get the people that you have earned
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36:21.1
their trust with within your industrial
water treatment page within LinkedIn I
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36:25.4
didn’t even ask for that I told you I
was going to do that you volunteer that
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36:31.9
you have been such a great supporter
throughout this entire endeavor I want
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to thank you for everything that you
have done everything that you continue
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36:40.1
to do and folks if you haven’t checked
out James on LinkedIn you definitely
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want to do that James does some really
neat stuff he’s got a detective series
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36:50.2
voiceover series that he does where he
brings real-life situation issues that
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36:55.2
happen in water treatise called
detective h2o he’s got a website for
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37:01.0
that if you check out episodes 21 and 49
there are links on the show notes page
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37:06.8
for that he’s got another website where
he shares tips and ideas he’s just an
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37:10.1
incredible individual so James thanks
for what you do with the water treatment
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industry and thanks for everything that
you’re doing on Scaling UP! H2O
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37:22.0
one nation you’ve heard from just five
guests I have had so many talented
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37:28.3
guests on this show and they are the
reason that I continue to have content
37:28.3
37:34.9
outside of what you are doing and let me
know who these next people are and what
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37:40.0
I should be asking them and what topics
you want me to talk about they’re just
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37:45.5
so many great guests on Scaling UP! H2O I
want to thank each and every one of
37:45.5
37:50.0
those guests for coming on and teaching
us a little bit more
37:50.0
37:55.2
well of course coming up past this
episode scale adopts just gonna keep
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getting better we’ve got a lot of great
guests scheduled
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we’ve got more topics a lot of these
topics have come from you so I know
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you’re going to enjoy them and we’ve
been asked by other industries to cover
38:12.0
38:17.4
their trade shows in their events so
boma if my ashtray they’ve all reached
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38:21.8
out to Scaling UP! h2o and said we love
what you’re doing with the water
38:21.8
38:26.5
treatment community we would like for
you to spread what we are doing with
38:26.5
38:31.0
them and you’ve heard a couple of
episodes this past year and last year
38:31.0
38:36.6
where I’ve covered those I have more and
more of those that are calling me asking
38:36.6
38:42.1
me to attend their show so you’re going
to be able to see what those things are
38:42.1
38:45.1
like will not really see but you’re
gonna be able to hear what those things
38:45.1
38:48.7
are like and maybe these are
organizations that you should be
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38:53.8
involved with at the very least I want
you to start thinking about that what do
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39:01.0
I need to do what do I need to attend so
I can become a better part of the water
39:01.0
39:06.0
treatment community I’ve mentioned this
a couple times during this show and many
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39:10.7
times through other shows but I am so
proud of the individuals out there that
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39:15.4
decided that they wanted to prove their
excellence by getting their certified
39:15.4
39:20.1
water technologist designation I’ve told
you that several people have called me
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39:25.7
and let me know that they passed the
see WTS that is one of the best phone
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39:29.9
calls I get that’s one of my favorite
emails that’s one of my favorite show
39:29.9
39:36.1
notes voicemails that people send me so
thank you for doing that and I encourage
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you whatever part of the water treatment
industry you are in find out what the
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39:48.1
top designation is and go after that if
you’re going to be in an industry why
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39:54.0
not be the best and then prove to others
that you’ve achieved that so some other
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39:59.8
things that you can be looking forward
to as a member of the Scaling UP! nation
39:59.8
40:05.5
is we are going to try to improve our
community experience so many people have
40:05.5
40:10.3
signed up to become official members of
the Scaling UP! nation what we’re going
40:10.3
40:14.4
to try to do is we’re going to try to
create a bigger sense of community by
40:14.4
40:19.7
sending out regular emails with some
tips and some tricks they’ll also be
40:19.7
40:25.8
exclusive downloads just for Scaling UP!
members that you might even learn a
40:25.8
40:29.7
little bit more from our guests you
might even learn a little bit more from
40:29.7
40:33.8
the questions that you guys are asking
me that I’m answering on the air we’re
40:33.8
40:39.5
also going to start doing special
exclusive episodes that only people of
40:39.5
40:45.5
the Scaling UP! nation will be able to
listen to so those things are coming
40:45.5
40:51.2
we’re working on those so by the time we
hit 200 you’ll definitely see some
40:51.2
40:57.0
things like that next up I’m going to
answer some of the questions that you
40:57.0
41:02.4
out there in the Scaling UP! nation have
asked me about the logistics of doing
41:02.4
41:09.5
Scaling UP! h2o and the first listener
writes in saying are you getting rich
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41:14.0
off this podcast and folks I gotta tell
you I am NOT broadcasting from our
41:14.0
41:19.7
Atlanta Georgia studio off of Oakland
Industrial Court no I am broadcasting
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41:25.7
off of the Scaling UP! h2o yacht this
show has just brought me tremendous
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41:29.3
wealth and I
have six yachts now because of it folks
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41:35.9
I wish that was true but that is not the
case I do not do this for the money and
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41:41.6
in fact if you must know the show
actually cost me money and I gladly spin
41:41.6
41:47.3
that out of the Blackmoor enterprises
marketing budget because I know for a
41:47.3
41:55.2
fact that if we become better as water
treaters and we raise that bar the whole
41:55.2
41:59.3
community is going to do better and that
means Blackmore Enterprises is going to
41:59.3
42:03.7
do better plus all the things that we
are learning from these guests don’t
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42:07.7
think we’re not using those at Blackmore
enterprises we have become better water
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42:13.0
treaters because of this show just like
you have but it is an expense and it’s
42:13.0
42:17.6
an expense that I gladly pay another
thing I talk about a lot is audible and
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42:23.5
audible is one of the best resources
that I have found as a water treated
42:23.5
42:29.1
riving around day to day and being able
to read again you can’t read while
42:29.1
42:32.3
you’re driving I mentioned on the show
I’ve seen people do in Atlanta traffic
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42:36.7
it is not a good thing to do please do
not be one of those people but I truly
42:36.7
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believe inaudible and audible also pays
me a commission when I send people to
42:42.2
42:47.5
them so you go to Scaling UP! h2o com
forward slash audible and they give me a
42:47.5
42:51.7
little commission that helps a little
bit again it’s not a lot of money but it
42:51.7
42:56.5
does help and then some people say hey I
love audible but I didn’t go through
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43:00.5
Scaling UP! h2o com forward slash
audible I just went straight to audible
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and I got it well it’s gonna be the same
price at either spot but if you go
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through my link they actually know that
I brought you there and then they send
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me something to help pay the bills but
by no means nation is this pain for the
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entire production of Scaling UP! h2o I’m
saying this not so you feel sorry for me
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I’m saying this so you know the passion
that I have
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and I really get paid when you guys let
me know that this show means something
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to you that you’ve done something better
to help raise the bar in the water
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treatment community and that might be
getting your certification that might be
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becoming a better water treat or that
might be doing something different that
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you learn from this show there might be
a better way to do that I love it when
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you let me know that stuff so by all
means please keep things like that
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coming another question that I get on a
regular basis is is this an association
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of Water Technologies podcasts well
people tell me I speak a lot about the
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association of water technology so is
the association of Water Technologies
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paying me to do that what’s our
relationship with that and our
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relationship is I’m a volunteer there
and I was the president in 2011 and I
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continue and have served on committees
for well over 10 years I have been very
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fortunate for my relationships that I
have with other water treaters because I
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met them at the association of Water
Technologies the Association and Water
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Technologies has not paid me a dime for
this podcast and I do this because I
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know that joining associations like the
AWT will help you become a better water
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treater they’ll help you expand their
community they will help you know things
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that might be difficult for you to know
and they’re just a great organization
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now you might be in the water industry
and it might not touch what the
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association of Water Technologies is but
I promise you there is an association
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out there that you can join that will
help you with those things so no this is
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not an AWT it’s not an association of
Water Technologies podcast but my job is
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to help you become better water treaters
to help you be better in the water
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treatment industry and I know that
that’s the mission of the Association of
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Water Technologies – so why not help
them out as we’re helping ourselves out
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now this question comes up a lot
especially from people
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that know me they want to know how do I
possibly have enough time to produce
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this podcast and this was something that
really involved over the last few years
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from episode one when I first started
recording I did all of my editing and I
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was never taught how to do that YouTube
the great YouTube was the resource that
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I used and I got some software tools and
I started learning how to record and
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edit and finally to produce the shows to
put them up on the different podcast
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players well it took me probably about
four hours to every one hour of content
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so very early on Scaling UP! h2o became
almost like a primary job and I realized
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that one I had to get a lot better at
figuring out how to edit these shows and
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I probably even as good as I could have
gotten I wasn’t going to be able to keep
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up at that pace so I read a couple of
books that showed me some tips and
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tricks on how to use the software
there’s a lot of things that it would do
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a lot of the manual settings that I
would do I could set him up as a
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template and it would automatically do
things so I could cut maybe twelve steps
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down to five and that was very helpful
but as the show became more popular and
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especially as we started getting more
and more guests for Scaling UP! h2o I had
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to seek a professional editor to help me
make sure that my quality was getting
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better cuz I just knew so much and I
couldn’t go past that so the quality was
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getting better
and I could free up a lot of my time and
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I had four different sound editors well
I am so fortunate cuz my last one that I
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found I’ve been with for I think it’s
coming up on two years now but his name
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is Sean and Sean just does a tremendous
job I’m able to record I send it to him
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Sean has worked with some very
impressive
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of rock and roll band labels I don’t
know if I can say those are not on the
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air but I’m very humble with the fact
that he’s worked with them and now he’s
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working with me and that means he’s got
some fantastic equipment things that I
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would never have access to and Shawn
just does tremendous work he is an audio
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engineer he is the finest at his craft
and just think about it he makes me
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sound halfway intelligent he does magic
so Shawn really helps me out with that
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and he is one of the ways that I am able
to continue doing my regular business
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and also doing what I need to do for
this podcast now I’ve learned some tips
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where I can do things a little bit
easier I’ve got several microphones that
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I travel with so if there is an
opportunity for an interview I will do
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the interview right then and there I
used to wait and then I would have to
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set something up I take advantage of the
time that is right there in front of me
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that’s helped quite a bit
and I’ve also since I travel with a
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microphone I don’t have to be in the
studio in order to do some recordings
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you don’t even know this but you have
heard my voice when we were inside a
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cruise ship we were actually on vacation
I was on a Baltic Cruise and I recorded
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three episodes my wife and I absolutely
loved cruising she is phenomenal at
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coming up with these fantastic deals so
I don’t know how she does it but we eat
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more than what the actual cruise charges
us and of course we have a sea day that
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means when you’re going from one port to
another you’ve got a lot of downtime and
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I can only spend so much time at the
pool I am NOT a pool guy saying you
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can’t scuba dive on the actual boat
that’s what I do
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I am a scuba diver so what I would do is
I was actually get some work done and
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some of the work that I would do would
be recording some of these episodes so
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I’m trying to take advantage of the time
that I have
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and make sure that I can do it when it’s
convenient another person that you may
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or may not know about if you are a guest
on this show you know of her if you were
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just a listener you might not know of
her but I have an assistant that helps
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me tremendously her name is Carla and
Carla pretty much handles everything
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behind the scenes of Scaling UP! h2o she
reaches out to the guests make sure that
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they have the right time that they can
interview with me she then sets up the
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interviews she sends out all the
information between all of that answers
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a lot of questions and then once the
show is ready to send a Shawn she does
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that I then approve every show so the
shows that I listen to I make sure that
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I like them and that was something I had
to learn about too because in the very
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beginning I was going for a perfect show
and I’ve had several people say to me
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Trace you made a mistake you misspoke on
that and I misspeak all the time I don’t
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just I don’t ever say wrong information
but maybe I use an incorrect word there
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could have been a better word or maybe
my subject verb tense might be spot-on
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I had to learn to let some of that stuff
go otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten past
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episode two so Carla takes care of all
the behind the scenes stuff she takes
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care of the website she uploads
everything she is fantastic so Shawn
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Carla thank you for everything that you
do I would have stopped doing this
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podcast well before episode 100 and now
because of everything that you guys do
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because of all the help I’m sure we’re
gonna reach 200 and beyond the last
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question that I’ll answer in this series
is what’s happened to me personally
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since I started the podcast
well the proudest thing that I can think
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of is I consider myself the tribe leader
of the Scaling UP! nation there were so
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many people out there that have talked
to me that have reached out one way or
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another and they let me know that they
now have some friends in the water
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treatment community because
they got together to talk about Scaling UP!
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h2o or that was the icebreaker that
they used I think that is the coolest
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result of this podcast so I appreciate
you letting me know about that when
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people call and say that they’ve
achieved something and they did it
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because I inspired them through this
podcast I mentioned the CW TS but other
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people have gotten other certifications
one person wrote in to say that they
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were quitting the water treatment
industry and they listened to this
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podcast and they said you know what
maybe I am looking at this wrong and I
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need to start challenging myself because
that’s really what I’m missing I’m not
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challenging myself they started doing
that and two years later they are still
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in this industry that is some of the
things that have really touched me that
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come to mind one of the things that’s
also really cool is when I go to an
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event and people want to meet me they
want to take pictures with me I’ve had
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people ask me for my autograph
folks I do not consider myself a
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celebrity by any stretch of that term
but when people get excited to see me
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that means I have touched them in one
way or another and they feel that they
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need to let me know that that’s
important to them so with that I really
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enjoy that I’m humbled by it I don’t
always know how to deal with that but I
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try to deal with that pretty well and
I’ll gladly you know shake your hand
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please let me know if you listen to the
show it’s one of my favorite things when
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I go to an event and people say hey I
love your show have you ever thought
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about doing an episode on this or I
listen to this episode and I started
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doing this and it really changed how I
do water treatment anything like that
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that is truly something that I enjoy and
that’s one of the the top things that I
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can think of that have affected me over
the last hundred episodes when I get
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stories like that
I know water treatment is getting better
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I’ve said it before I’ll say it again a
rising tide lifts all boats that’s what
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JFK said and that’s been one of the
missions of this
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I’m cast there’s no reason that we need
to keep information that we have locked
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up inside our heads we need to share
that with each other because if we all
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do things better if we all learn better
ways of doing things we will become
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better ourselves and that will make the
industry better so I love stories about
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that and I also love how people tell me
that they’re better water treaters you
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know I just mentioned that but that’s
one of my favorite things you know I’m I
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feel that I’m doing better in this
industry and these are the reasons why
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again I can’t believe that this is the
100th episode of Scaling UP! h2o so you
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the listeners have allowed me to come in
front of you for 100 times
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I hope there’s at least a hundred times
more but in order for that to happen
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here is my usual ass and folks we’ve
been doing this a hundred times so I
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really need to make sure I have material
coming one of my favorite shows that
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used to be on the Discovery Channel was
dirty jobs and Mike Rowe was the host
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there and I saw an interview with him
and he said after they did four episodes
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he was out of ideas and he was on for I
don’t remember how many seasons that
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show was on but it was all because
people that watched the show let him
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know that they had a dirty job and they
would invite him to come and film and do
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the dirty job with them so I’m gonna be
just like Mike Rowe he’s way more
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successful than I am and it worked for
him so why shouldn’t it work for this
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podcast if you have some show ideas
don’t keep them to yourself let me know
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what those are and I will start talking
about them on Scaling UP! h2o I still
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have some items in my list but folks it
is getting low so I need you the Scaling UP!
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nation to help me replenish those
what can you help me we replenish them
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with well those are the questions that
you might have
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I love answering questions on pinks and
blues you can also let me know what
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guests I should be interviewing there’s
so many industry experts out there but I
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don’t know all of them please let me
know who I should be talking to let me
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know what your ideas are for the next
hundred shows I would love to hear those
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let’s see if we can build the Scaling UP!
nation even more I am amazed that we
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have so many people in so many countries
listening to Scaling UP! h2o let’s see if
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we can double that over the next hundred
episodes I’m not going to be able to do
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that but you out there and the Scaling UP! nation can help me do that and you
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will get it done make sure you’re
talking about this podcast the more
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people we have listening to it the more
people we’re going to have contributing
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to it and the easier it’s going to be
for us to rise the water treatment
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industry a boat folks thank you so much
for listening to me for 100 episodes and
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I look forward to working with you
through the next 100 have a great week
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folks