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IndustrialSage: Danny Gonzales

July 26, 2020

The tables have turned this week– David Caron interviews Danny Gonzales about the journey that led to the founding of of IndustrialSage! David: Hey, everyone welcome to another episode of the IndustrialSage Executive Series. I'm Danny Gonzales, your host. No, just kidding, I am David Caron. So, today's episode is going to be a little bit different because today I'm interviewing the one, the man, the legend, Danny Gonzales! Cue applause! Danny: Yeah, exactly. This feels weird. David: Yeah, I know. I'm sitting in your chair. Danny: You are sitting in my chair. David: I'm sitting in Danny's chair. But this is going to be good, okay, because Danny, you've interviewed 150 plus people from a variety of different organizations? Danny: Yeah, probably, yeah. David: I mean just on IndustrialSage. Danny: Just on IndustrialSage. David: That doesn't include, all the other location interviews and all that that you've done. Danny: I've interviewed one or two people, yeah. David: "Just a handful-" hundreds. Hundreds. I'm telling you, hundreds of people. And it's great because it's wonderful content for our audience, for everyone that's tuning into IndustrialSage and learning and discovering things, gaining some insights, but I thought that it would be important to know a little bit about Danny. So, what makes him tick, who's inspired him, why this whole IndustrialSage thing came about, or how it came about, maybe who has influenced him in his career... because Danny's got, he's got a substantial career, 13 years running a video production company. It's no small feat. So, enough of me talking. We want to hear from Danny. So, Danny, let's just start maybe this episode with kind of your journey like where, like maybe from start to where we are today, maybe not everything. Like we don't need to know like your birth story, kindergarten and grade school and high school all that, but maybe college and after that you can kind of share with us what has really impacted you on your journey. Danny: Yeah, so, interesting story I'd say. I'll start with... where the whole journey really started was, I'd say right before I graduated high school. I had like a senior English class thing that basically said, "Hey, for this thing you need to do a video." And I was like, "Okay, whatever. I guess we've got to do a video." So, I talked to some certain people. I don't know if you remember that. You were involved in that. I had to make this, and I always thought that was like the nerdiest thing ever. And I was like, "The computer nerds can do this, I don't really care about this. Whatever." But the seed started... was planted. I was like, "This is kind of interesting." And so, that year after I graduated, I went and did some missionary work, and I lived in Mexico for a year doing some works on youth mentorship. David: Oh, ¿habla Español? Danny: Hablo un poquito de español. David: Okay, I don't know what you just said. Danny: Vamos a continuar en español. Que bueno– David: Okay. Danny: Lo que paso es- what? Oh, sorry, yeah. David: So, we'll continue just briefly in Spanish after some of... No, I'm sorry. I digress, okay. Danny: We probably have a very good addressable market we could do in Spanish. But so I was in Mexico for a year, I was super excited about it because despite the last name Gonzales, I actually didn't learn Spanish from my family. I had to take it in school and so I was like, "It's kind of cool." So, while I was down there I had seen over the time, this is 2002. So video and stuff was relatively it wasn't...