Interview on Polk County’s Evolution and Future

For the 50th podcast, Holland Henderson sat down with Chuck McDanal to discuss his book regarding the business of adulting, living in a world of people, and being okay with the grey areas of your life. In this episode we cover: The book writing process (2:35) How do you see people as they relate to following instructions…

There are so many beautiful ways to look at data, and the best of them paint a picture the numbers alone might not show so readily. From classics such as Snow’s cholera map or Minard’s Napoleon map, to your basic spreadsheet charts, entire specialties are devoted to depicting information in a useful way. So what…

Take a Buzzfeed quiz that promises to tell you how smart you are, and when it says you are a budding Einstein, you nod, smile, and think about how insightful and talented the people who designed the quiz must be. And if that same quiz tells you to go back to living under the bridge…

Chuck talks with the CFDC about starting a business in Lakeland: When you think of innovative, progressive cities where people are moving to start a business, Austin, Nashville, and Charleston might come to mind. Now add Lakeland to that mix. Polk County’s largest city landed at No. 30 on the 2020 Surge Cities list compiled…

Sat down with Julie Townsend from the Lakeland Downtown Development Authority (LDDA) and shared about getting this wonderful 100-year-old space Downtown ready for business and about the work we do here. Had a blast being on this show and I loved to be able to talk about our Downtown. It’s such a special place. Check…

An absurd thing in my collection of absurd things is a retired safe from a bank ATM. I needed to move it to my new office, which meant rolling it down a ramp on a heavy-duty furniture dolly. Since I wasn’t sure how much weight I’d be holding back and whether it would crush me,…