From Craig Turner, President and CEO of by Momentum – The Business Growth Agency and host of IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO YOU KNOW Podcast

A big THANK YOU to everyone who’s been listening to the IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO YOU KNOW Podcast by Momentum. We were blown away over New Year’s as we got an alert out of nowhere that our podcast had gone up to #125 on Apple’s Business Podcasts rankings. We felt pretty good about that, after just six episodes. Let’s keep it going!

For this episode, I was excited to welcome Bryan Derreberry, President & CEO for the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce. Join Byran and me for our conversation surrounding the chamber of commerce’s role in not only ensuring real world benefits for members today, but organizing and leading the community in planning for the future – guidance from the head of a chamber that will celebrate its 250th(!!) anniversary in 2023. Learn how the Charleston Metro Chamber has coalesced the entire Charleston community around critical forward-looking topics such as transportation, workforce, housing, diversity and inclusion and the strength of the Port of Charleston, and then created an “ethos of collaboration” to best set the region up for success. As hot as Charleston is now, its future is even brighter, and the Charleston Metro Chamber is at the center of it.

I hope you have a few minutes to listen in. I’d love if you’d be willing to take a minute and follow our podcast (a five-star rating would be outstanding, as well!). Here’s the link, where you can get to your platform of choice: 

www.momentumforbusinessgrowth.com/podcast

Note to Chambers of Commerce: If you have a great story to tell about what your organization is doing, and would like your CEO/President to be interviewed on the podcast, shoot me an e-mail and let’s talk! We’re booking several weeks in advance, so let’s get you in the lineup right away!

In the meantime, we’ll keep bringing you insights from the people steering their business community’s ships!

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Bryan as much as I did! – Craig