Hello, world. Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 182. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Phil Brangers.

Welcome, Phil.

It's good to be here.

Thank you, sir.

Phil, are you using your talents doing work that

you love? I am finally doing that again, yes. Good. We want to hear everything about that. We want to

hear the whole story. Phil is a Jack of All Trades master of a couple. He has spent over 15 years

as a freelance events production hand trying to find a way to integrate the work he loves

with a wife and child. After adopting a son last year, he spent the last year moving from a life

of on-location events that required long days and nights and a lot of travel to an attempted

work-life balance. Okay, Phil, that's a pithy summation of your career. Tell us what you're up to now

that has you engaged and excited. Yeah, so right now I just started as the director of events for the

embassy suites in North Charleston Convention Center with PDA Production Design Associates. So basically,

I do all the lights, video, and sound, when events come to the Charleston area, anything that happens at the convention center, I'm the guy that has my hands in that. Well, I can imagine Charleston's the wedding capital of the world, and I'm sure it's the convention capital of the world and for a lot of industries, right? Yeah, it's getting there pretty quick. It's definitely a growing place. Yeah,, yes, such a beautiful place. Okay, well, good.

That sounds excellent. So, as you know, everyone's life is composed of turning points, and at these

times, we face obstacles and opportunities and choices that determine the next six or eight years

of our lives. Take us as far back as you will, Phil Phil Brangor, and tell us

about the more memorable turning points in the life of Phil Brangers. I guess I realized I was a very

technical person when I was pretty young. I was one of the first kids on my block that had a computer.

That's one thing I was very fortunate with is my dad always had a computer in the house. So even though it was mid to early 80s, we always had a computer in the house, which was pretty crazy back then. Why did he do that? Why was he so fascinated with him? I think he's just a technical person. When I was younger, I thought it had to do with his job, but it didn't. That was an assumption I guess I made as a kid, but it had nothing to do with his job. It was just we always had a computer. So he just wanted one, I guess.

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