Wow, How'd You Get That Job?: Recent Episodes
Ryan Glanzer
Learn how everyone from big-time corporate executives to small-town entrepreneurs wound up with the jobs they have. What exact path did they take to get to where they are? What education was necessary? Did they fall into the job or was it a precise vision? South Dakota native Ryan Glanzer visits with dozens of professionals in this groundbreaking educational series.
Ryan is joined by former Callaway Golf colleague Nate Stout, who now works in Indiana as Regional Sales Manager for Johnson Outdoors, selling products such as trolling motors and fishfinders. Nate discusses his childhood ambition to become a farmer, bouncing from Purdue to Indiana U to a golf academy in Orlando, and landing jobs in the enviable golf and fishing industries.
Ryan is joined by Last Call Trivia's Brianna LeCompte, who serves not only as her company's National Sales Manager, but takes on a variety of other roles within the company including a bar trivia hostess. Find out how Brianna went from aspiring actress to studying Marketing at Xavier University to a dream job in the bar trivia industry. She may even drop an interesting trivia question on the audience!
Ryan is joined by Newt Anderson, Digital Coordinator at Avera Health in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Like Ryan, Newt graduated from the Computer Graphic Design program from Dakota State University. See how Newt abandoned his Psychiatry education to focus on graphic design, and his career path from working at a group home to a furniture store to the health sector.
Ryan is joined by Kaci Gillen, who along with her husband Cory, are owners and operators of White Lake Hunting Lodge in South Dakota. Find out how the Gillen family acquired the lodge and host hundreds of pheasant hunters from around the country each fall, complete with guides, lodging, meals, and hospitality.
Ryan is joined by Northern Nebraska United Mutual Insurance agent Katie Clausen to discover how one gets into the field of insurance. Katie explains that her early interest in agricultural fields led her to pursue a degree and career in the industry, but an interesting series of events saw her change course and be recruited into insurance.