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...
Sep 28
33 min
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...
Sep 21
29 min
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...
Sep 11
30 min
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...
Aug 21
6 min
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...
Aug 18
21 min
Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now The most dangerous kind of burnout is the one that hides behind “success.” George Rivera built businesses for 30+ years, scaled e-commerce companies, and did what so many founders aim for on paper, until he realized he was becoming the person his family only got after the business took everything else. His work now centers on the Buy Back Time Formula, a practical way to help cash-rich, time-poor entrepreneurs reclaim their calendar and stop living as the ...
Aug 10
26 min
Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now Memorial Day weekend can feel like two worlds at once: the quiet pull of remembrance and the loud thrill of summer starting. I’m Dan, and on this solo ride I tell the story of growing up in a small Kentucky town where Memorial Day meant driving out to family cemeteries, cleaning up grave sites, placing flowers, and hugging relatives who came back home to pay their respects. It’s personal ride for me today and deeply grounding, and it still shapes how I thi...
May 24
9 min
Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now Memorial Day weekend always brings a familiar question to our group texts: who actually has the car to win the Indianapolis 500, and who are we cheering for? Jeff and I connect for our annual Indy 500 preview, and we keep it real, no researchers, just decades of watching the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” and a lot of love for the traditions that make Indianapolis Motor Speedway feel like its own universe. We start with the stuff fans obsess over before r...
May 23
18 min
Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now One Lap of America is one of those events people think they understand until you explain it: thousands of miles on public roads, racetracks every day, timed competition, and a caravan of exhausted, happy car people chasing the next checkpoint. I’m back with a solo recap after returning from the 2026 One Lap of America event, sharing what it actually looks like when you live the schedule instead of reading about it. I dig into the origin story Brock ...
May 16
8 min
Get in Touch with Dan by Texting Now A lot of people daydream about quitting the sensible job for the thing that actually lights them up. Mark Winters did it and he did it with the same curiosity that made him an aerospace engineer. We talk about how a mind built for math, science, applied physics, and computational fluid dynamics can also be a mind built for poetry, songwriting, and the kind of live shows that feel like a real conversation. Mark walks us through the turning point that chang...
Apr 13
25 min
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