Do Good Wisconsin Podcast

Regan Peters: High School Bathroom Stall Messages Boost Mental Health-Meet Regan Peters! Regan is a Physical Education and Health teacher at Beloit Turner High School who headed a project with students to raise awareness for mental health. Students chose positive self image messages to be painted onto bathroom stalls around the school. Find out what they did, how they did it, and how you can start the same project at your school! Take a listen!

Chris McLean: The Good Guys Group Sun Prairie-Meet Chris McLean! Chris is the Founder of the Good Guys Group in Sun Prairie. His group of roughly 35 men volunteer to support non-profit organizations that help those in need around the city. Listen to how they got started, what they do, and how you can get involved!

Justin Janowski is a loving husband and father. He is also the Founder and CEO of Faith2Influence, where their mission is to help Christian men in business master Christ-like leadership, sales, and relationships through their retreats, coaching, and mastermind programs. Justin shares with us how he dedicated 2018 to be a year of Radical Giving for him and his wife Kara. Justin is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs, sales-people, and coaches successfully launch and grow their businesses, while honoring God and honoring their families. You are bound to learn, and be inspired by Justin in this 30 minute podcast! https://www.faith2influence.com/ 

Hear from Best of Madison Chef Dave Heide, owner of Liliana's in Fitchburg, Charlies on Main in Oregon and Little John's! Anyone in the Madison, Wisconsin area who knows Dave and the kind of person he is, knows he is one of the most charitable and giving person you will ever meet. Hear more about his philosophy on giving back and hear about him opening up his new restaurant Little Johns! Little Johns is a unique, pay-what-you-can restaurant, that takes excess food and turn out affordable, chef-quality meals, while employing veterans in a community-driven, service field. You may just become hungry to DO GOOD after hearing this episode! 

If you want to hear us get fired-up and super passionate about helping others, you need to tune into this podcast. On this episode, we bring in Antonio Fore who was a personal trainer at another gym, who saw someone struggling to use some of the work out equipment, realized a need for those who are “Differently-abled” to be able to work out and use work out equipment and took it upon himself to start ABLE365. ABLE 365 is a Hardcore Gym for the “Differently”- abled, where ALL abilities can participate in a community of brotherhood, acceptance, and love. Trust me we all get fired-up and passionate in this week’s podcast! 

This week we talk with 14-year-old Wyatt who started the Worldwide Dragon Shooting Day. When Wyatt was 7 years old, his dad died suddenly. He loved archery and he was an artist who drew Dragons and worked on Dungeons and Dragons. Wyatt had a wish just after his father’s death and that was he wanted thousands of archers all over the world to shoot at Dragon targets and honor his dad and raise money for those less fortunate. His first year he had 116 archers here in Wisconsin slay dragons and raise over $700 for a children’s grief group. That grew year after year and has expanded to over 70 countries and nearly every state here in the U.S. Wyatt feels good knowing that people are out there slaying dragons with him and raising money for those less fortunate. Anyone in the world can hold a dragon shoot! Find out how on this episode and how you can impact the world one arrow at a time! 

If you were watching American Idol in 2019, there is a good chance you heard about Golden Ticket singer Franki Moscato from Wisconsin. There is also a chance you may have heard her sing the National Anthem at a Green Bay Packers game. Franki is an amazing young woman who is not only extremely talented, but her kindness is infectious. She has taken her past experience of being bullied and has turned that into an opportunity to encourage others to “Be Kind” to each other.

The Battle Cap Project was created to help people who are battling cancer by providing a custom knitted hat and care package. This is a FREE service for anyone who needs one all over the world. Through an incredible story to get where he is today, Kurt Stapleton taught himself how to knit while incarcerated and to this day has sent knitted hats all across the world to those battling cancer. From a life lesson to helping others, this is a story you will not want to miss. 

We were honored to have Yola’s Café and Coffee Shop owners Lance and Lisa Ratze join us for this week’s episode. Yola’s is your friendly local family-owned coffee shop with a unique charity twist. Every month they have a Waffle of the Month with proceeds benefiting local charities! Tune in to learn more about it and how it got started!

In this episode, we talk to the Co-Founder of 100+ Women Who Care – Madison, Angela Keelan! 100+ Women Who Care-Madison invite all women of the Greater Madison are to join them in making a measurable impact on those in need in Dane County. Over 100 women meet for 1 hour, 4/times per year and each time donate over $10,000 to a local charity.

We are so excited to kick off our Podcast with a local on-air radio host, Jackson Jones who is going above and beyond making a difference in the community through his Non-Profit Jackson’s Community Action Fund. His organization helps support community organizations & other local non-profits in South Central Wisconsin. JCAF brings people together whether it’s by collecting school supplies, raising money or helping individuals get through hard times. They work off the “Teamwork makes the dream work” mentality. Using social networking & crowdsource they help unite individuals through community action. JCAF believes in the idea that small gestures can make a big difference!