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Searching for Service
by Searching for Service
A weekly show designed to help current and future Rotarians find purpose through service!
Episodes
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Encore: Leif Hagen – District Governor Nominee Designated
This episode originally aired February 11, 2024 Leif Hagen District Governor Nominee Designated joins us to talk about his long time as a rotarian, being a club president and starting Minnesota Pride Rotary Club. He also talk about his path and process from being chosen Nominee Designated to...
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Tom Gump – Aid to Rotary International 24-25 President
This episode originally aired May 5, 2024 Tom Gump joins the show for his 4th appearance on the show!
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Kay Biga PDG, Women In Rotary
This episode originally aired July 14, 2024 Kay joined the show today to talk about women in Rotary and how she has been working for years on growing woman in Rotary Clubs. She has some great ideas that she has helped implement and ideas on how clubs can grow their women membership. She also talked…
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Encore Presentation: Michael Birdman from Camp Enterprise
This episode originally aired August 25, 2024 Michael Birdman Chairperson for Rotary’s Camp Enterprise joins the show today to talk about Camp E. Camp E is a 3 day retreat that brings high school juniors and senior from around the region together to introduce them to entrepreneurship and ethical...
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Jeff Molby – Chemo Riders
On this week’s show Kelly Kirk and Chad Larson are joined by Jeff Molby of Chemo Riders. They talk about how Jeff started riding accross the country to spread awareness about the American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery program, which provides free rides to tratment for cancer patients. They…
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Michael Birdman from Camp Enterprise
Michael Birdman Chairperson for Rotary’s Camp Enterprise joins the show today to talk about Camp E. Camp E is a 3 day retreat that brings high school juniors and senior from around the region together to introduce them to entrepreneurship and ethical business practices. This life changing retreat...
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Ceallaigh Smart of Haiti Outreach
Ceallaigh Smart Executive Director Haiti Outreach joined the show today to talk about the work their orginization is doing in Haiti and how they connect with the local people to empower them to take ownership in the work in their communities. To find out more about Haiti Outreach go...
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Al Krysan – Amplify Mission Network
Al Joined the show today to talk about Amplify Mission Network and the work they do with connecting nonprofits with needs with people that can help them. The organization brings in individuals from the business community that donate their time and nonprofits that may need help through challenges...
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Luke Wendlandt with Cadre
This week we feature an interview with Luke Wendlandt, creator of the app Cadre. Cadre is a safe, user-friendly platform connecting individuals for mental health support 24/7. https://cadre.io/
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Ward Budweg – Biking Around the World
This week we’re joiend by fellow Rotarian Ward Budweg as talks about how he and his wife biked accross the world. He shares some great stories about their experienecs. To learn more about his book, The World at 10 MPH, email him directly at [email protected].
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Brett Kolles from Rotaract at DCTC
Brett joins the show today to talk about Rotaract at Dakota Technical College and how that club has grown. He shares how they gain new members each year at the 2 year college and how Rotaract helps those students as they move on. Brett also talked about how he is working with other colleges to…
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Kay Biga PDG, Women In Rotary
Kay joined the show today to talk about women in Rotary and how she has been working for years on growing woman in Rotary Clubs. She has some great ideas that she has helped implement and ideas on how clubs can grow their women membership. She also talked about her past roll as district Governor…
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Tammy Malmquist – Kindness Garden
Tammy President of Lake Elmo Rotary Club to talk about the Kindness Garden project they are expanding. She shares some touching stories of the impact the garden has had on the kids in the community.
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Bocar Kane on the Edina Rides Recap
Bocar Joins the show today to talk about Edine Rides for Education which was a recent event put on by Edina Morningside Rotary club. He shares how the event came together and the sucess of 1st annual event. He also talked about his upcoming year as club president, his business career and his...
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Joe Beveridge – President Russel Hampton Company
Joe joins the show today to talk about his business Russel Hampton and their long history of working with Rotary. He shares how they giveback to rotary everytime a rotarian uses their business. He also talks about his expience running a 4th generation family business and being a Rotarian.
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Ed Boeve District Governor Elect 5960
Ed joins the show today to talk about being District Governor Nominee. He also talked about membership and the vocational aspect of Rotary. Ed shares some good stories throughout the podcast.
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Gayla Holmgren – Pre School for Kids Update
Gayla joins the show this week from The St. Cloud Rotary club to give us an update on Preschool 4 Success. She talks about the growth and the challenges that are they are running into as they work on helping more children. She also talked about the need for a state wide program to address…
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Andres T. Joint Rotarian/Rotaractor
Andres joins the show from Texas to talk about his work with Rotaract. He talks about getting involved and brings great youthful energy to the show.
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Justin Baker and Ian Wiliams with Still Point Insight
Justin and Ian from Still Point Insight to talk about the implementation of process, systems and procedures companies can use to help with work life balance. They also are a preview of the type of speakers you can expect at your Rotary club. https://stillpointinsight.com
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David Sheppard, Service Opportunities in Your Town
David joins the show today to talk about how he got involved with Rotary and to talk about his involvement in Meals on Wheels.
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Tom Gump – Aid to Rotary International 24-25 President
Tom Gump joins the show for his 4th appearance on the show!
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Mark Shockey – District 5950 Governor Nominee 2025-2026
Mark joins the show today to talk about being District Governor nominee.
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Luis Carranza – District 5340 Governor Nominee 2025-2026
Luis joined the show this week to talk about his Rotary Journey. He shared how important Rotary was to him personally and how he is giving back. Luis also talked about the importance of the vocational aspect of rotary and how that can help bring in new members. Luis is the District 5340 Governor...
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Tim Conners – Eden Praire AM Rotary
Tim Conners joins the show this week to talk about his passion for the environment, his Rotary story, Eden Prairie Eco Expo and to give an update on the Lake Street progress. He shared that things are moving fast at the city level in Minneapolis regarding the 3rd precinct building and shared how...
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Ed Marek and Jeff Thiemann Braver Angels
Ed Marek and Jeff Thiemann joined the show today to talk about Braver Angels. Braver Angels is a citizen organization that was started in 2016 to bring liberals and conservatives together to counteract the political polarization and restore the social fabric in American Society. Jeff and Ed share...
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Lloyd Campbell – 2023-24 Assistant Rotary Coordinator
Lloyd Campbell joins the show and shares how he helped launch Searching for Service, where he was inspired to develope the podcast, and what he hopes to see in the future of the podcast. He also talks about his current roll in Rotary, how he grew through rotary ranks and how others can get involved.
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Troy Fritz -Summertime by George
Troy joins the show and shared the story about how the St. Cloud Rotary club started Summer Time by George concert series, when the concert series will be this summer, and announces the lineup for this summer. Troy also talked about how their rotary club worked with the city to redevelop park and...
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Mike Pfeiffer – Founder of CyberFyfe LLC
Mike joins the show today to talk about cyber security and shared some great tips to help everyone increase their own personal cyber security. He also talked about how he got involved in service and his journey to becoming a Rotarian.
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Natasha Grad – Rotaract President
Natasha Grad joins us on the show to talk about her journey and passion to spread the information about Mental Health. She is courageous in sharing her personal story about being in pageants and using her platform to talk about Mental Health. Below are some of the resources she shared for anyone...
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Rebecca Rothney – Founder of Pack for a Purpose
Rebecca joined the show to talk about Pack For Purpose a non profit that informs travelers about the extra supplies they can bring to help the people in the area they are taveling to. She shares how easy it is to have an impact on the places you visit by simply packing extra supplies you…
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Nancy Economou – Founder/CEO Watts of Love
Nancy joined us to talk about founding and running Watts of Love. She talked about how she started the non-profit and ran into road bumps along the way as her organization has now impacted over 800,000+ lives across the world. She was truly inspirational with her message to keep try and never…
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Sharon Bloodworth- Incoming District Governor 5950 24-25
Incoming District 5950 Governor for July 2024-June 2025 Sharon Bloodworth joined the show today and inspired us as she talk about her long passion about being the next District Governor. She also talked about as a Minnesota transplant how important Rotary has been how she developed life long...
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Leif Hagen- District Governor Nominee Designated
Leif Hagen District Governor Nominee Designated joins us to talk about his long time as a rotarian, being a club president and starting Minnesota Pride Rotary Club. He also talk about his path and process from being chosen Nominee Designated to becoming the District Governor in a few year. Pride...
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Tom Gump with Matt McNeil – February 6, 2024
Tom Gump goes above and beyond for our community. If you’re involved in Rotary and are from Edina, Rotary District 5950 or anywhere in Minnesota, you might know that the name Tom Gump is synonymous with Rotary International. Embracing Rotary’s motto of “Service Above Self,” Gump has taken on...
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Deb McCaslin – Girl’s Empowerment Rotary Project in Zimbabwe
Deb came on the show to talk about the project that she and her club have been working on Girl’s Empowerment Rotary Project in Zimbabwe. They are working with Schools in Zimbabwe and providing them with sewing machines and the means to make washable, reusable sanitary pads. Deb shares some great...
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Tom Gump- Aid to Rotary International 24-25 President
Tom Gump joins the show for the 3rd time to talk to us about his work as the air to Rotary International President Elect Stephanie Urchick. Tom tells us about the newly announced theme for her year and the story behind that. He also shares some stories about the work they have already been doing…
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Alexa Rundquist District 5950 Executive Director
Alexa joined on the show to talk about how to better understand Rotary’s structure above the club level and how you can get involved. She also shared a great insite about the sucess her Rotary Club had creating an event to drive new memberships that we had to learn more about. Rotary Elevating...
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Hosts Joe Kirk and Chad Larson – 1 year of Rotary Membership
Hosts Joe and Chad dive into Chad’s experience through his first year as Rotarian. They talked about the value and postives from the first year as well as some things that Chad is still needs to learn. Rotary Elevating Impact Together – Friends Funds Fest Event Website:...
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Alan Anderson- Rotary Climate Action Team (RCAT)
Alan joined us today to talk about The Rotary Climate Action Team. He shared his passion for creating and making a difference trying to combat Climate change. Alan takes us through how he was inspired to create The Climate Action Team with his club and how that has grown. He also shared some…
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Encore Presentation: Brian Gower – World Vision United States Sr. Director for Foundations & Partnerships
This episode originally aired September 24, 2023: Brian Gower discusses the partnership of World Vision and Rotary, the history of that and then Projects of Scale.
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Encore Presentation: Nate Miller of Sleep In Heavenly Peace
This episode is a special encore presentation: Nate shares the story about how he got involved in making beds for children that don’t have beds. His path to growing the chapter and stories of the impact the organization is having. You can see more about the story in videos on the Facebook page...
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Bernis Cunningham – Executive Director and Founder of Planting Change
Bernis Executive Director and Founder of Planting Change Foundation Joins us today to talk about the work his orginization is doing in Nicaragua and how Rotary has been supporting that work. Bernis shares what drove him and how the orginization was started. Listen to hear stories about the impact...
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Valerie Vidal – President and CEO of Meta House
President and CEO of Meta House Valerie Vidal joins us to talk about the work Meta House is doing to support women find sobriety while trying to keep their family together. She talks about her journy to becoming the President and CEO as well as shares some touching stories about the people they…
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Brian Singer – Executive Director Project Zawadi
Brian joins us on the show to talk about Project Zawadi and Access 2 Tanzania. Brian shared his journey to starting the non profit Project Zawadi and then the Access 2 Tanzania business to support workers in Tanzania. He shares stories about the impact they are having and how the model they…
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Mary Brindle- Camp Enterprise
Mary joined the show today to talk about Camp Enterprise. Camp Enterprise is a 3 day camp for high school students and brings them together in small groups to work on a common case study. They work with Entrepreneur mentors during their journey as they learn together. Find out more...
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Erica Gweyn- The Rotary International WASH Focus Manager
Erica joins us today to talk about one of the Rotary International’s 7 main causes Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene(WASH). As the focus manager of the WASH program Erica talks about what work is being done around the world related to WASH and how Rotary is continuing this mission. She shares...
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Kate Van Slyck – Peace Corps
Kate Van Slyck joins the show today to talk about her expierience with the Peace Corp. She shares some great stories about the impact of the work. We also talked about Rotaty’s connection.
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Shawn Hanson- The Outreach Program of Brainerd Lakes
Shawn Hanson with The Outreach Program of Brainerd Lakes join us on the show to talk about how the program is helping support people dealing with hunger in their community. She shares how they source and get their highly nutritious food out to families. Listen in to hear touching stories about…
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Mike Deluca – Rotary Global Traveler Club
Mike joined us today to talk about one of the newest and fastest growing clubs in Rotary the Global Traveler Club. We talk about how the club formed and grew so fast. Mike shared some of service trips they have done and all the upcoming trips the club has in the next year and a…
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