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Oct 2024
38m 16s

Human Connection in a Digital World

EMPOWERING PUMPS & EQUIPMENT
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Bonus Pod Time! And this one is long time friend, mentor, and former teacher of your very own podcast host Charli K Matthews, Brian Winters!

Brian graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Education for Secondary Mathematics.  While in college, he was a member of the University of Alabama Cross Country team.  He taught high school for nine years as well as coached track and field.  He left teaching in 1999 to go into IT and started his own company about seven years ago.   

In 2010, Brian started going to Uganda, where he fell in love with the people and the country.  He now travels there twice each year.   

Brian has been married to Shawn for 37 years (of marital bliss), and they have one son, Chase, who now is a police officer in Northport.   

He is an elder at Capstone Church, where he is considered the “Old People” of Capstone.When he is not in Uganda, he enjoys spending time at their cabin on the Tombigbee and smoking ribs or briskets.   

Ruthless Elimination of Hurry  - John Mark Comer

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World: Comer, John Mark, Ortberg, John: 9780525653097: Amazon.com: Books

The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Haidt, Jonathan: 9780593655030: Amazon.com: Books

 

 

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