The Vance Crowe Podcast

Dwyane Faber is the owner of a 2,000 cow dairy herd with more than 20 employees.  He sits down with Vance Crowe to discuss the difference between organic and conventional milk, vegan activists, fair oaks farms, doing stand up comedy and African Swine Fever.@DFaber84@VanceCroweDwayne is a well known Twitter personality and is a savvy businessman that tries out unconventional strategies and works through finances with a keen eye.  At 34, he is the father of three daughters and pushes himself to learn new skills like stand up comedy. 

Chris Oliver is founder of Go Rails an online computer programming teaching program that teaches developers how to create  new website features. Chris Oliver is an extraordinary thinker, a person that can imagine entirely novel solutions to very complex problems.Find Chris on Twitter @Excid3Find Vance of Twitter @VanceCroweChris Oliver's Go Rails program is used by more than 22,000 people and Oliver is considered an expert in his field, being regularly invited to deliver talks at software developer conferences.Chris, along with Square founder Jim McKelvey, founded Launch Code a nationally recognized pair-programming school that teaches people to code.  Chris uses the mantra "Do things that scare you" which has led him to programming at companies in New York City, Saint Louis, Germany and be regularly recruited by Silicon Valley companies.   Chris Oliver hosts two podcasts "Business Time" a podcast about what it is like to start a business from the perspective of two software developers, and "Remote Ruby" a podcast for Ruby developers.  

Kelly Erdos is a clinical pharmacist that helps geriatric patients manage their medicine as they encounter more complex health conditions.  Erdos answers questions about "why does it take so long to fill my prescription?" and "why can't we automate the pharmacists at drugstores?"  We also discuss what does a pharmacist think about essential oils?  and what does a pharmacist think about CBD?

Connie Diekman is a nationally recognized expert in nutrition and dietetics.  With a specialization cardiovascular nutrition, eating disorders, lipid research and even sport nutrition (with the Saint Louis Rams), Connie has decades of experience at helping individuals establish healthy eating plans.Connie's Twitter: @CBDiekmanFor more information about the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: EatRight.orgVance Crowe's Twitter: @VanceCroweVance's website:  www.VanceCrowe.com During the conversation Connie and Vance discuss controversial nutrition topics; "calories in, calories out"; the ketogenic diet,  "tracking macros" and various diet fads.  Connie also opens up and talks about some of the controversial topics in the world of registered dietitians which has more than 100,000 members.Connie has appeared on Good Morning America, Oprah, and even spoken before the congressional hearings that determine the FDA food guidance like the Food Pyramid and MyPlate.  

Detective Bob Bayes was in the police force for 40 years throughout Saint Louis County.  His teams went undercover, solved murders, conducted drug and prostitution stings, and made some of the biggest arrests in St. Louis history. Det. Bayes helped solve the Cassidy Senter murder, was on the sting that caught county prosecutor George Peach, and went undercover to catch child pornographers and drug dealers.  In this interview, you hear the thoughts and perspectives of a man that dedicated his life to policing St. Louis.  Det. Bayes talks about the challenges of being a father and a detective, his thoughts on gun ownership and even the legalization of drugs and prostitution.  The conversation was intense and shocking.  

Jerry Hayes is an internationally recognized honey bee expert and columnist for the American Bee Journal.  In this interview, Hayes discusses the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the first time he saw Africanized Honey Bees during the autopsy of a 900 lbs. horse, and the fascinating behavior of honey bees.Hayes has been featured on the cover of Wired Magazine, featured in books about bees and at one point worked for Monsanto to try to stop the deadly bee parasite: the Varroa Mite.

Allen Soffer is a cardiologist with a 30 year career in Saint Louis.  During this conversation Dr. Soffer discusses what happens to medical students when they graduate at the top of their class and realize no one is grading them any more.  He also discusses what the medical field has discovered about what really happens during a heart attack, and what it is like to be talking with a patient that realizes their health may not allow them to live much longer.  Dr. Soffer also discusses his family's work on World Food Day Saint Louis: https://stlwfd.org/ and what the core mentality has to be when you are discussing life and death issues with patients.  You can find Vance Crowe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VanceCrowe Vance's company website:  https://www.vancecrowe.com/ 

Shirley Sahrmann PT, Ph.D. is a world expert at identifying how a person moves, sits, sleeps, runs... is a cause of their pain.  She has pioneered the field of physical therapy from one that takes orders from doctors, to medical professionals that can diagnose why people are in pain and what they can do to fix it.  Dr. Sahrmann stopped by the Vance Crowe studios in route to Japan, because she travels constantly to teach how to fix the physical pain felt by people.  During the interview Dr. Sahrmann discussed her philosophy on pain, why some people shouldn't play certain sports, and how simple things like the way we sit makes us feel in pain for our entire lives.  

Randall Comfort discusses how the spaces we live in make a person feel, impacts how they interact with others and can make you think differently. Randall has an extraordinary mind and is intensely curious about how others want to use space.  During this discussion, Randall highlights how people have made their homes, parking garages, even garbage disposal centers into places that have deep meaning both for the builder and those that just come for a visit.Buildings discussed include: Frank lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, The Pulitzer Building, Thorncrown Chapel, Bjarke Ingels Copenhill, Amager Bakke Randall illuminates a hidden aspect in the Game of Thrones.  Randall is on Twitter @ARComfort

Tim Hosler is a Saint Louis investment banker, former CEO and a finance expert whose ideas are unorthodox and clever.  At times he has gone head to head with Warren Buffett, and is willing to offer ideas that will ruffle feathers.