Dan The Road Trip Guy

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What If Your Leadership Started With Making People Feel Like They Matter

2026-09-2833:01

Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now A lot of leadership advice is loud. Bill Crouch’s is quiet, personal, and surprisingly practical: help people feel like they matter, then build everything else from there. On this drive, I sit down with Bill, former president of Georgetown College and now CEO of Bright Dot Fundraising Advisors, to talk about the moments that shaped his mission to impact the lives of others. We start with a story that feels like it belongs in a movie: Bill inherits his fir...

My conversation with Steven Potaczek - Music, Technology, and AI

2026-09-2129:51

Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now Steven, a longtime musician, producer and studio professional turned college professor, talks about what actually helps creatives build a lasting career when the tools keep changing. Along the way, Steven shares the unglamorous truth of early touring life, including hauling gear behind a weak little Ford Ranger and the night his van and trailer nearly slid into disaster on an icy interstate. We get into Steven's path from growing up in a musical family to...

Charla Thomas Shares How Travel and Kindness Shape a Life

2026-09-1130:29

Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now First class. Movies queued up. A perfect end to a European trip. Then the captain announces a detour to Newfoundland, and nothing about travel feels normal again. I sit down with Charla Thomas at her home and trace the road that led her here, starting with growing up in 1950s Bowling Green, Kentucky, where bikes, drive-ins, and neighborly kindness shaped how she sees the world. From teaching and early marriage to the sudden reality of the Vietnam draft, C...

44 Years, One Adventurous Love

2026-08-2106:47

Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now Forty-four years of marriage doesn’t come from one grand gesture. It comes from a thousand small choices that keep two people close, curious, and willing to say yes to the next adventure. I’m Dan, and I’m sharing a personal anniversary story about Linda, the woman I didn’t just fall in love with, but learned to travel through life with, from college days to right now. I share about the moment everything changed, including the not-so-traditional proposal t...

30 Bucket List Items Before 30 with Hannah Edwards

2026-08-1821:18

Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now A lot of people talk about “living boldly” without ever defining what that actually looks like on a random Tuesday. Hannah Edwards does define it, not with hype, but with stories and habits that prove she’s doing the work. We start with the basics that somehow say a lot: her first car was a red Mustang, and she drove it home barely able to see because she didn’t know the seat could crank up. That’s the tone for the whole ride: start anyway, learn fast, and...

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