About
From Public Speaking to business e-mail communications, your message must be strong and professional. Communication Steroids boosts the effectiveness of your presentations, media relations and public speaking.
Tim ‘Gonzo’ Gordon and Roger Pike are the brains and beauty behind the microphones for Communication Steroids’ weekly podcast. Between them they have over 35 years of radio experience and as many years speaking in public.
Tim ‘Gonzo’ Gordon:
Bio: Tim grew up in the mountains of Oregon across the highway from a ski resort, so it wasn’t hard to foresee that he’d spend a lot of his life on skis bombing down steep snow-covered mountains.
At an early age he discovered The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, The Yardbirds, Paul Revere and the Raiders and other long-haired loud rock ‘n’ roll bands, which led him to become a drummer at a tender young age, influenced as much by Lennon’s other-worldly “I Am The Walrus” as by “Train Kept A-Runnin’ (All Night Long)” from the Yardbirds.
Figured out how to play guitar in his early 20s; discovered Bob Marley and reggae music in his early twenties and is still heavily influenced by Jamaican music.
Got into broadcasting at age 19, and spent more than 25 years behind the microphone: oldies, classic rock and country music; program director, news director, production director, voice talent, traffic reporter, talk show host, morning show host and co-host, news anchor.
Online:
Did a short-lived streaming audio ‘best of’ comedy show online in the mid-90s; launched a handful of websites during that same period more for fun than business-related reasons.
Launched DigitalAudioWorld.com 2003, which features information on how to set up a high-quality, low-budget home recording studio.
Wrote “Podcasting Adventures Online,” a complete how-to-podcast multi-media program. Followed up with “Podcast Profit Case Studies” which offers 13 examples of individuals and businesses that are using podcasting to make money, add to their bottom line, increase their client list and more.
Co-host and producer of “Communication Steroids,” a podcast that is an ongoing discussion with co-host Roger Pike on methods to increase effectiveness of communication: online, in person, public speaking, presentations, meetings, e-mail, newsletters, graphics and more.
Websites:
TimGonzoGordon.com
DigitalAudioWorld.com
CommunicationSteroids.com
TradeshowGuyBlog.com
Personal:
Two boys, 9 and 17, resides in a rambling ranch house in Salem, Oregon. Wears size 10.5 shoes, never gambles; plays guitar and drums; shoots over 80% from the free throw line (as long as it’s not a windy day).
Roger Pike:
Roger is a Texan, born in Dallas, who moved to Oregon while in high school. Roger attended Forest Grove High School where he distinguished himself as an athlete and public speaker.
Roger attended college at Lewis and Clark in Portland where he studied communication and was a member of the Pioneer’s national traveling public speaking competitive team. Roger’s honors in collegiate public speaking number in the dozens.
In his professional life, Roger worked for more than a decade in radio, spending most of that time as News and Public Information Director for various stations. Rogers duties included extensive on-air work and it was in radio where Roger first began training on-air staff. His professional skills were instrumental in producing ratings successes wherever he went. In one case, a station climbed more than 15 ratings places, due, in part, to Rogers skill as speaker and coach.
Even after he left radio, Roger pursued his passion for speaking and coaching. As a toastmaster, Roger excelled as speaker, leader and mentor. As a competitive Toastmaster Roger won numerous Division International speaking championships and was the Ben Medofsky District champion in Humorous public speaking. Roger mentored many successful Toastmasters and, while President of the club designed and implemented a detailed, outcomes based, mentoring program. While co-President, with Communications Steroids co-founder Tim Patterson, the club achieved the highest award offered by the Toastmasters organization.
Roger has worked in the political arena as well, coaching speakers and writing speeches for two state legislative campaigns and as a Public Information Director. His volunteer work includes serving on the marketing committee for his local United Way office.
Roger is more than an award-winning speaker. He is an exceptional communicator who has dedicated his life to coaching and mentoring others.
