Kevin Hoagland
Director, Prospecting EDU
Over the years I’ve had incredible opportunities to share with the world my passion for Prospecting and Mining. From Panning to Underground Mining around the world I have had and still today have a great life, out there. I started field training folks in the early 90’s when I had a prospecting and mining store when I realized that no matter what a demo of how this works would never compare to hands on in the dirt training in the real places where gold is found.
For years I trained my customers and at every turn listened to what they felt were their challenges and worked to address these for everyone. I built training guides for specific pieces of equipment that I would check out to them and when the bookwork was done, we headed into the field.
To this day my greatest joy is not just finding my own gold, it is the look on the faces of those that I helped guide them to their first gold. Realizing the power of and the opportunity to use video as a training outlet I delved into working to create videos that helped people better understand what they were doing over why. Working for Minelab we created a number of short videos to help new and seasoned detector owners alike.
With Podcasting becoming a mainstay for millions seeking information because of Podcasting’s ease of access and the delivery of information it made perfect sense to me to adopt this next generation of communications. Voice up Podcasting has opened doors to allow you to listen in at any time, virtually anywhere. The key to Podcasting for me, is to be able for my guest and I to paint the topics landscape in a way that you can visualize the conversation. In the cases that there is more needed than the mind’s eye, there are Vlogs.
As writer I have been told for years by my readers that they truly enjoy reading my articles and stories mainly for the fact that my writing style is such in that I in every sentence try to have my readers be a part of the story and not just a reader of. I will do the same with the On the Gold Podcast, with every topic my guest and I will strive to have you as a part of the episode over being a bystander. There is a great difference in talking to someone over talking at them; OTG is a conversation not a lecture.
I have always believed that I cannot keep what I am not willing to give away and by embracing the opportunities of video with Gold Trail and voice with On the Gold, I invite you to Join me as we share with you the real passion of what it is like to be, “Out There”.
