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Clint Mack- Supervisor with Carver County FOSTER CARE talks about the acute need today for foster families here in Carver County.

Have you ever thought about being a foster parent? Good 🙂 Carver County Foster Care Supervisor Clint Mack explains what the needs are here and how you can be a foster parent so you can support kids and families. Opportunities beyond being a host family include being a “respite care” family who helps out when…

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Chaska High School Football Coach Bryan Dahl on developing great humans & doing the daily hard stuff

Chaska High School Football Coach Bryan Dahl on developing great humans, doing daily hard stuff and oh yeah, winning a lot of football games. Bryan is an inspired leader who is a tremendous asset to the community. — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/greg-anderson29/message

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Welcome to Season 5 The Living In Carver County Podcast! (“how can my kid get credit?” )

Welcome to Season 5. I wanted to thank everyone who has been a guest, a listener, a talent scout, a encouraging voice and of course a few critics. You all matter to me and I’m grateful. Also, I wanted to share a little thing we did for my son to establish a credit rating before…

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Denis Halleron CEO of Carcierge, a private car shopping service dishes on all things cars or what I call; “Car buying 101”

Denis Halleron knows the car business after a lifetime of experience owning, operating multiple service shops and working for various dealers and he shares that wealth of experience with me on this episode.  What’s going on with cars these days?  Why are lots so empty? What do people mean when they say; “Global supply chain”?…

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Chaska Police Chief Ryan Siebert talks about police work in 2022

Ryan Siebert has been Chief of Police for a couple of years now and he has settled in nicely even though arguably there has never been a more challenging time to be in law enforcement.  We discuss the right reasons for becoming a public servant and how sometimes, for whatever reason, people lose that desire…

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Lyndon Robjent- Director of Public Works and County Engineer talks about ROADS (and parks and trails)

We are going to talk about transportation. Okay, don’t check out on this episode because this was a really interesting talk about the complexities of building and maintaining the critical transportation requirements of the state’s fastest growing county.  We had a real expert and we were able to get into the weeds a little bit…

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Khai Tran; Executive Director of the Community Foundation for Carver County among other hats

Khai Tran is a busy man. (Especially for a guy who is supposedly retired.) He is the Executive Director of the Community Foundation for Carver County. He is also the founder and board chair for A Better Society organization. Khai helps explain what a Community Foundation does and what it makes sense for charitable giving…

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Char Zielin- Mental Health Coach, Trauma Specialist and all around Bad Ass

Charlotte Zielin is Mental Health Coach who takes her clients beyond therapy. Her method involves not just dealing with the issues around the source of the trauma but going beyond with a strategy to equip her clients with the tools and distinctions to function at their best going forward. We discuss the way those things…

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Sue Schmidt, Lead Teacher at New Beginnings helps young Moms prepare for their new world

My guest this episode is Sue Schmidt.  Sue is with New Beginnings and it is one of those places you’ve maybe noticed out of the corner of your eye and you maybe thought it must just be another day care place.  It is far more than that and we are fortunate to have the facility…

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Pastor Greg Snow of St Johns in Chaska- Church in a changing time

Pastor Greg Snow has been the pastor at St Johns in Chaska since coming out of the seminary, first as a Vickers and then as Pastor. He is heavily involved in community outreach programs and was one of the original leaders that were involve with starting Love Inc here in Carver County. St Johns is…

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