Hell's Kitchen celebrity chefs, Barret Beyer & Anthony Rodriguez explore the Triple F's of their world; Food, Fashion and Fitness.
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The LoCo Experience is produced and sponsored by LoCo Think Tank - and sometimes others! Our mission is to uncover as much business education as possible while getting to know the founders and leaders of amazing organizations. You'll feel like you really know our guests after each episode, and if we're doing our job well, you'll learn business principles and tips from them along the journey and be both inspired and entertained. Episodes feature a range of local and regional business and comm ...
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EXPERIENCE 193 | Party In The Front! - Overcome Loneliness and Find Community Right Where You Are - A Conversation with First-Time Authors Jeff Dillon & Ty Dannebring
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I met Ty Dannebring at church one Sunday, when he hunted me down and said “Can we have a conversation about possibly being on your podcast, with regard to our new book?” Knowing nothing, I said, “of course” - and then after a coffee and conversation I was eager to spend time in the podcast studio with Ty and his co-author, Jeff Dillon. Ty is a fina…
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BONUS EPISODE | Aaron Everitt & Emerson Everitt join The LoCo Experience to talk Election 2024! - Live during the Election Coverage!
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Today's episode features regular guest Aaron Everitt, along with his 17 year old son, Emerson, discussing the election coverage and election season of 2024. We started at 7:30ish PM MT, and called it a night by 9:30 PM MT as it became obvious Trump was going to be #47. Aaron is a highly-acclaimed X.com creator of independent material, including a s…
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EXPERIENCE 192 | It’s all about the EXPERIENCE! - Talking Food, Love, and Community with Juli Trujillo, Executive Chef and Juan Rodriguez, Business Manager, Co-Founders of Juli Y Juan’s Kitchen
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In my early years of LoCo Think Tank, when I was just getting out of the mobile food catering game, everyone was talking about the wonderful new caterers in town, Juli & Juan! Soon after, we had the chance to get acquainted, and they catered one of our most successful events during LoCo’s strongest expansion year of 2019 - Tips, Tacos, & Tequila - …
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EXPERIENCE 191 | Investing in Relationships and Opportunities with Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta - A Conversation with Andrew Rauch and Garrett Brizendine, President of FR Companies, LTD and CEO of EPIQ Ventures ...
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The business journey we’re featuring in today’s episode started when Garrett fell in love with Andrew’s sister (and later married), and took a great leap forward during the Covid pandemic when Garrett became the owner-operator of a standalone Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta location in the Central Park area of Denver. He was working a full-time job in the …
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EXPERIENCE 190 | Where Every Client in a Big Deal - Talking Full-Service Marketing & Events with Christine Forster, CEO and owner of Big Deal Company
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I met Christine Forster at a big fun business event of some sort (we both can’t remember!) - circa 2022 - and we had a short but lovely conversation, and she was super interested in what LoCo Think Tank was all about, and gave me her card with encouragement to connect. And then - her card got lost in the shuffle and we didn’t connect proper until t…
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EXPERIENCE 189 | Ham & Eggs were $1.40 when we started! - Journey from a Greasy Spoon Diner to a Fort Collins Breakfast (& Lunch) Institution - A Conversation with John Arnolfo, Former Owner/Operator of ...
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John Arnolfo operated the Silver Grill Cafe for 42 years, and found his exit plan through my guest on Episode 143, Alan Jantzen. John and partner Mike Gress purchased Silver Grill on Valentines Day of 1979 as an unheated one-room diner. The business had been established by Leonidas “Flossie” Widger in 1933, and mostly served the blue collar workfor…
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EXPERIENCE 188 | Reasonable, Affordable, Sustainable - A Conversation with Ben Aste, Founder & CEO of Uncle Benny’s Building Supplies, and Candidate for Larimer County Commissioner for District 3
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Ben Aste is a conservationist, first and foremost, also an Eagle Scout and the son of a Swiss immigrant. Ben started Uncle Benny’s Building Supplies from a small rented shed, because he couldn’t stand to see the waste in the lumber supply industry in which he’d been working for some years. Uncle Benny’s grew quickly, and is growing still, despite a…
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EXPERIENCE 187 | A Journey through Ministry and into Entrepreneurship with Noah and Allli Hutchison, CEO and Principal Designer at Hutch Design Build
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Noah and Alli Hutchison met during their college years at Baylor, and grew a friendship through their shared involvement in a church community - Antioch Waco. Alli started doing interior design work for friends and their friends soon after college, and eventually they worked in church ministry, with Noah as the Childrens & Family Director. They mov…
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EXPERIENCE 186 | Writing a New Chapter in Her Career Journey - AND Helping Purpose-Driven Women Begin & Succeed in their Next Chapter - America’s Encore Career Strategist, Julie Ulstrup
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Julie Ulstrup began her career in admissions counseling, soon transitioned to school counseling, and was a School Counselor for Poudre School District for 13 years. Like many of the purpose-driven, she began to experience burnout after about 10 years - and made a leap in 2016 - transforming her hobby business of photography into a vibrant full-time…
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EXPERIENCE 185 | Big Boats, Small Business, and High Finance with Tom Trimmer, Co-Founder of Custom Marine Products and Principal of Trimmer Capital Management
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Tom Trimmer, Jr. spent his growing up years in the Northern Suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and was disappointed when his father got rid of the family powerboat (about the time he was old enough to start skiing…) and bought a sailboat instead. The sailboat sparked a love of sailing however, that carries through to today, and spurred Tom’s first signi…
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EXPERIENCE 184 | Finding Great People and Building Strong Teams with Trish Bowen-Bannister and Isaac Bowen, President and General Manager of Snelling Staffing Agency of Northern Colorado, and (Isaac) Principal ...
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Trish Bowen-Bannister started her career in education, grew quickly in the field, and spent many years as the Director of Education for Weston Distance Learning in Fort Collins - a role very similar to the role my wife currently fills for the same organization! She later became Campus President of another local education organization, but was keen …
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EXPERIENCE 183 | The Chemistry of Resilience with Jennifer Watson, Speaker, Leadership, Performance and Wellness Coach, and CEO of Watson Worldwide
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I was joined by my longtime friend Jennifer Watson in studio this week, while she was in Colorado for the first stop of her Chemistry of Resilience Fall Tour. It’d been a few years since we’d seen one another, as Jennifer moved to Greenville, South Carolina to be closer to her twin sister and growing family a couple years back. Jennifer’s journey i…
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EXPERIENCE 182 | Drink with Your Dog - Every Dog Owner Should Listen! - Training Dogs Since 10 Years Old! with Amber Quann, CEO and Lead Dog Trainer at Summit Dog Training in Fort Collins
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Amber Quann joined me in the studio this week to share her business journey, which started at the age of 13 after she’d built notoriety since she was 10 by winning many local and regional competitions in the 4 H community for her dog training skills! Several neighbors and family friends got puppies around the same time, and so Amber started group t…
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EXPERIENCE 181 | Born a Social Worker! - A Conversation with Kelly Evans, Executive Director of Neighbor to Neighbor, Inc. - Delivering Housing Access in Larimer County and Beyond
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Don’t judge her for it, but Kelly Evans is and will forever be a Jayhawk. Born and raised in and around Lawrence, Kansas, Kelly got her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Kansas and soon after began a front-line role with a local non-profit. Two-and-a-half years in, the board made the decision to depart the Executive Director, and asked…
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EXPERIENCE 180 | A Candid Conversation with a Sales Heretic - Don Cooper on The Myth of Price, Why Should I Choose You?, and more.
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Don Cooper was referred to me by a mutual friend, Carolyn Strauss, in my search for a chapter speaker who would bring an innovative approach to sales training. He brought his most popular workshop, The Myth of Price, and got great reviews from every attendee. And - thankfully for our listeners, he made time to come by The LoCo Experience studios an…
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EXPERIENCE 179 | Welcome to Party Land! Building Brands and Making Advertising More Fun (and Effective) with Matt Heath, Founder and Chief Creative at Party Land
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I met Matt Heath at our LoCo Social at Cheba Hut in April, where he had just finished up meeting with Marc Torres, Cheba’s CEO and my guest on Experience #139. We had an awesome and interesting conversation, which led to a zoom and then booking this podcast, and I look forward to the day when LoCo Think Tank can hire his creative team to create a c…
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EXPERIENCE 178 | Body, Neurology, and Smart Business with Chantill Lopez, Author, Podcast Host, and Co-Founder of the Embodied Business Institute
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A few weeks ago, longtime friend and local musician Max Mackey joined me in studio for a wonderfully authentic conversation (Episode 174), and afterward he mentioned that I really should have his girlfriend on my show because she’s so smart and experienced and I would just love her - and she was coming to visit in a couple weeks! And so I did - and…
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EXPERIENCE 177 | Building a Multi-Location Bourbon & Bacon Colorado Pub with Ryan Wallace, Co-Founder and CEO of William Oliver’s Publick House
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I popped into William Oliver’s Publick House a few weeks ago at the end of the day, to grab a quick beer and a snack - and ran into the owner whom I remembered from their early days - Ryan Wallace. William Oliver’s had been a regular lunch-spot for me when I worked at Capital West Bank - a top choice because the staff was always great and they serv…
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EXPERIENCE 176 | Diversification, Innovation, and Generations - Kevin Fiske and Brittany McCahan, Father and Daughter, and CEO and Director of Marketing and Culture at Fiske Electric
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In today’s episode of The LoCo Experience podcast, I had the pleasure of getting to know Kevin Fiske and Brittany McCahan from Fiske Electric. Fiske is an electrical design and contracting business with a homebase just outside Loveland, and clients all across Northern Colorado, the Western US, and occasionally, internationally. They have a highly d…
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EXPERIENCE 175 | Gaining Traction with a Fractional C-Suite - Getting Down to Business with Jill Simonds, Founder and CEO of Savvy Strategic Partners
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By scanning Jill Simonds’ LinkedIn profile, one can see that she is achievement-oriented. Coordinator to Manager at her first career stop, and then Manager to Director at the next, and then Director of Marketing & Operations to Chief Operating Officer & Integrator. That last stop is where Jill earned her EOS stripes and Integrator Certification, an…
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EXPERIENCE 174 | Many Chapters, Music Always - An Inspiring Conversation with Max Mackey, Singer/Songwriter for Max Mackey Music, Max Mackey Trio, Max Mackey Band, et al.
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I met Max Mackey soon after he opened Moto Haus Coffee in South Fort Collins off College Avenue. I’d recently become the proud owner of a 1976 BMW R75/6, and the former owner told me of a group of old (and some younger mostly BMW guys that met regularly for evening coffee and riding. It was the coolest spot in town for the riding community for seve…
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EXPERIENCE 172 | The Tim Taylor to my Mr. Wilson - My Next Door Neighbor Chris Corbin, General Manager of Clarity Project Management
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In April of 2020, in the early days of the lockdowns and pandemic threat response - we got new neighbors. Days after, we invited them to our then-12th annual backyard Cinco de Mayo party. Thinking “Oh, great, we’ve moved in next door to crazy people” they politely declined our invitation, but did accept some leftover pork carnitas and cilantro-lime…
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EXPERIENCE 171 | Aaron Everitt - Meeting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump Trials & Tribulations, “Mr. Science” Anthony Fauci on the stand and…NoCo Real Estate Update
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This week on The LoCo Experience, we welcomed back Aaron Everitt, our sponsor through his business, Logistics Co-op, and regular guest of the show for real estate updates and real talk on national and local politics. Aaron has been creating content on X the past year or so as @loanly_hipster, some of which has been supportive of RFK’s Presidential …
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EXPERIENCE 170 | Cockroach Problem Leads to Launch of a High-Growth National Signing Agency - Autumn Fleck, Founder & CEO of Precision Signing Agency
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A few years into their marriage, Autumn Fleck and her husband, Trevor, made the decision that they wanted to budget well, save hard, and retire early so they could travel the world and live a life set apart. And then one day - she had a cockroach run down her arm! - and the next day she found a cockroach in her daughter’s bed! - and of course infor…
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EXPERIENCE 169 | Escaping Venezuela and Building a Business with American Values with Diego Rago Vega, Founder and Owner/CEO of Obsidian Atlas
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Diego Rago Vega is a chef, a writer, a philosopher, and a permanent resident here on political asylum - but he came to America long before it was trendy. He and his family operated an import/export business in Venezuela, and as the nation’s economic fortunes crumbled under first Chavez and then Moralez, the enterprise became unsustainable - in part…
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EXPERIENCE 168 | Growing a Family and a Business to be Strong Like Good Coffee - Julia and Andy Leach of Toddy, LLC - Global Leader in Cold Brew Coffee Systems
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I first learned about Toddy, LLC circa 2013, during the twilight of my banking career. The story I heard was that the owners of a local marketing agency, Clay Pot Creative, had purchased a manufacturing business in Texas, and moved it up to Loveland! The company made cold brew coffee systems (whatever that was), and seemed to have a strong product …
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EXPERIENCE 167 | The Ins and Outs and Valuations of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry with Todd Brooker, President of Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Inc. in Austin, Texas
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I got acquainted with Todd Brooker through LinkedIn, where we follow some of the same voices, and learned last fall that he spends a lot of time in Fort Collins - where his daughter Libby Brooker is a goalie on the CSU soccer team! It took us a minute, but this spring we finally got properly acquainted over lunch, followed by a long-form conversati…
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EXPERIENCE 166 | Change Your Perspective, Change Your Business with Duane and Chad Stroh, Co-Founders and and President/VP of Healthy Harvest expeller-pressed non-GMO cooking oils.
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Duane and Chad Stroh are the father and son that lead the team at Healthy Harvest in Berthoud, CO, which also includes Duane’s wife and Chad’s sister, and one red-headed step-child in a key operations role. They were initially involved as investor-partners of the business, but as partners departed and their market awareness grew they pivoted the co…
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EXPERIENCE 165 | Pioneering a Cleaner and Greener World with Serial Inventor and Entrepreneur Ed VanDyne - Founder, President and CEO of Plastic 2 Green and Founder, President, and Team Manager of Tetrahedron ...
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In today’s episode, I was honored to be joined in studio by Ed VanDyne, one of the most fascinating guests we’ve had on the show. When you look up serial entrepreneur in the dictionary, you’ll find Ed’s smiling face, and the ideas that have sprouted his various companies are consolidated from ideas and learnings from previous chapters, including a …
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EXPERIENCE 164 | Your New Favorite Pediatric Dentist, Dr. Katie Foster, Founder and Owner of Timnath Kids Dentistry
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Dr. Katie Foster booked time with me out of the blue last spring (which never happens), and brought cookies and we shared a very enjoyable coffee and conversation. She was weeks away at the time from opening her business, Timnath Kids Dentistry, and was exploring the business community at large and curious about LoCo Think Tank. She’s not a member …
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EXPERIENCE 163 | Headed West with Workday Ninja Micah Johnson, Veteran CEO, CTO, and COO and Process Optimization and Automation Expert
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I was introduced to Micah Johnson by Jeffrey Beyle, one of my guests during Season 1 of The LoCo Experience (Episode 29 if you wanna check it out), and one of my spies in the Boulder area. By spies I mean those who think of me when they meet someone with an interesting business journey to share, and a lot of value to share with the business communi…
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EXPERIENCE 162 | Love to Appreciate and Let Go of the Rope with Diana Rogers Jaeger, author, speaker & leadership and employee retention expert.
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Diana Rogers Jaeger joined me for an uplifting conversation and shared her fascinating life and career journey that led her to Northern Colorado in 2022. Diana is the founder and owner of Love to Appreciate Consulting, and recently released a new book - “Let Go of the Rope - Create Unlimited Confidence”. Love to Appreciate was founded in 2017, and …
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EXPERIENCE 161 | An American Dream featuring a Chinese Family with Peter Yu, Candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District
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I was introduced to Peter Yu by a mutual friend, as the liberty-minded person’s best pick for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. Peter has a great record of success in both big and small business, fell just short in his race for Colorado’s 2nd District in 2017, and has remained active in the political sphere since his first run. Peter is the fi…
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EXPERIENCE 160 | Palmer Flowers and Paul Wood Florist SOLD! - Exclusive Interview with Tim and Danielle Jordan, owners of SG Window Tint and Mold Removal Express (and former owners of Palmer Flowers and ...
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Tim and Danielle Jordan joined me in The LoCo Experience studios on March 5, 2024 - just 4 days removed from concluding the sale of a pair of legacy businesses in Northern Colorado - Palmer Flowers and Paul Wood Florist, locally owned since 1976 and 1933, respectively. They sold to one of the largest flower enterprises in America - Family Flowers, …
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EXPERIENCE 159 | Be a Better Team by Friday with Justin Follin - CEO and Co-Founder of BLUECASE Strategic Partners in Austin, Texas
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Justin Follin came all the way from Austin, Texas to Fort Collins a few weeks ago - not to be on the show, but to visit his younger brother Sean - my guest on Episode 134, who introduced him to me as a potential guest. Both brothers are in the strategic planning industry, which I found fascinating, and Justin had a fresh book out in 2023 - titled a…
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EXPERIENCE 158 | Scouting a New Path with Shani Canillas, Owner and Editor of The Scout Guide Fort Collins
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My guest today was Shani Canillas, Owner and Editor of The Scout Guide Fort Collins. The Scout Guide is a visually appealing coffee table kind of book, featuring classy storytelling pictorials of gold standard local businesses. It’s a franchise that has a strong foundation in the Southeast part of the country, but is increasingly spreading west. Sh…
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EXPERIENCE 157 | A Truly LoCo Experience! - Guest Host Viktor Bjerre, 15-year-old exchange student from Denmark, interviews LoCo Think Tank Founder and LoCo Experience Podcast Host, Curt Bear
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If you tuned in for our bonus episode last week, you’ll know that today’s episode is a bit of a change-up from our normal routine. I met Viktor Bjerre a few weeks back, while recording the bonus episode on Greenheart Exchange, and he later followed up with an expression of interest to learn more about podcasting. This led to a get-to-know phone cal…
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BONUS EPISODE | All About Greenheart Exchange with Lisa Melville Petersen, Lasha Crowell Seaman, and a group of International Exchange students!
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Many who know me in Northern Colorado know that my wife and I have a fondness for hosting exchange students, and for the past 2 years, our outlet for getting these students has been an organization called Greenheart Exchange. I’m joined today by a Regional Manager and the Regional Director of the organization, Lisa Melville Peterson and Lasha Crowe…
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EXPERIENCE 156 | Whiskey Taste Testing, Boston Trip Reflections, and Creating Content on X (formerly Twitter) with Aaron Everitt
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Aaron Everitt was back in the studio for our quarterly check-in, fresh off a trip to Boston visiting a college with his son. We started our conversation with a whiskey taste test, featuring Blanton’s Bourbon gifted me by Mat at Wilbur’s, Smoke Wagon Uncut the Younger Bourbon, and Stellum Rye Whiskey. We talked about Boston and some Founding Father …
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EXPERIENCE 155 | Growing Through Challenge with Mandy Mullen, Founder and Owner of Run Windsor, Co-owner of Run Colorado Relays, and Executive Director of Windsor Gives.
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Mandy Mullen’s previous episode (Episode 91) is The LoCo Experience podcast most-listened episode! It’s an inspiring journey of a chubby post-college wife, then mom, growing her passion for running and fitness and community until it sprung forth as Run Windsor, a community-driven race series in the Windsor, CO region. At the time of that recording,…
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EXPERIENCE 154 | Leveling Up and Building Teams with Ian Simkiss - Executive Vice President of Centennial Management, Inc.
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I was introduced to Ian Simkiss at a very interesting time in his career journey - as the soon-to-be-announced and newly appointed Executive Vice President of Centennial Management, Inc., overseeing Centennial Leasing & Sales locations in Windsor and Englewood in Colorado and in Phoenix, Arizona. They also offer fleet leasing and sales operations n…
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EXPERIENCE 153 | A Journey through Sales, Management, Ownership, and Leadership with Mike O’Connell, former Owner of Mountain Woods Furniture and former Senior Director of Larimer County Small Business ...
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I met Mike O’Connell in the fall of 2013, early into his final career stop, when he became Director of the Larimer Small Business Development Center in Fort Collins - and soon before I left my banking career! The organization had struggled for all the years of my volunteer involvement going back to 2008, and Mike was the 3rd or maybe 4th Director t…
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EXPERIENCE 152 | Delivering HR Expertise to the Small Business Community with Tami Parker, Founder and CEO of UNIcycle Business Consulting
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Tami Parker had a long career in corporate HR, but 7 years ago, with a leap of faith and a supportive husband, she founded UNIcycle Business Consulting. As with most of us, her early years were spent staying alive financially and doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but her growing firm has found its sweet spot as an off-site HR dep…
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EXPERIENCE 151 | Retail Alcohol Enterprise, Industry, and Ethics with Mat Dinsmore, Managing Partner of Wilbur’s Total Beverage and Wyatt’s Wet Goods
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I first met Mat Dinsmore during my banking career, perhaps at the Salt N Pepper Lunch Club. Wilbur’s Total Beverage has been my go-to special occasion retail liquor store ever since, and Mat my often-last-minute wine guide! This November, after he’d secured us a nice Prosecco Rose as the centerpiece of our LoCo Think Tank member gifts, we got to ta…
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EXPERIENCE 150 | Family, Business, & Legacy with Justin & Eugene Boling, EOS Implementer & Founder of Boling Remodel
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My guests on today’s podcast were Justin & Eugene Boling, father and son. Justin and I became acquainted this summer, and at a LoCo Think Tank event this fall I asked attendees as part of their introduction who was their hero. After Justin answered “my dad, Gene Boling” we started a conversation that resulted in this podcast. Gene was born and rais…
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EXPERIENCE 149 | Turning Good Times Grüvi with Anika Sawni - Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer of Grüvi
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I met Anika Sawni at the Unstoppable Women’s Conference in October of 2023, where she was an inspiring keynote speaker - in what I learned in this podcast was her very first keynote! She’d recently been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and I was captivated by her talk and her brand and market and culture-changing opportunity. At the conference…
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EXPERIENCE 148 | Happy New Year Northern Colorado! Season 3 Wrap Up with the LoCo Think Tank HQ Team - Curt Bear, Colin Jones & Alma Arellano
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This episode is a recap of Season 3 with the team at LoCo Headquarters, Colin Jones, Director of Business Development, and Alma Arellano, Operations Manager & Podcast Producer. We go through many of the podcast highlight episodes of the season and talk about our recent acquisition of Tank, the mobile podcast studio, as well as some of our plans for…
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EXPERIENCE 147 | Accidental Entrepreneur with Timiry McCaskell, Owner of Dora Grace Bridal in Fort Collins and WIndsor
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Timiry McCaskell is the Founder and Owner of Dora Grace Bridal, named after her two grandmothers. Dora Grace has been fitting brides and prom dates and more in Fort Collins since 2011, and opened a second location in Windsor in January of 2023. The second location came along as an unplanned opportunity of sorts, and has allowed Dora Grace to expand…
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EXPERIENCE 146 | Non-Profit Food Rescue with Nathan Shaw and Ben Jewell of Vindeket Foods
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Nathan Shaw is the Executive Director and Founder of Vindeket Foods in Fort Collins, and Benjamin Jewell is the Chairman of the Board. Vindeket is a non-profit organization that was originally founded under the umbrella of Serve 6.8, a ministry aligned with Timberline Church. Vindeket is a food rescue - they take in near-expired and after best-by p…
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EXPERIENCE 145 | Investing in a Regional Climbing Community - Together - plus Fitness and Yoga! - Aaron Tellier (Director of Marketing) and Shauna Hylenski (Director of Programs), 2 of 6 Partners of Climbing ...
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Shauna Hylenski and her husband Bryan have been Longmont-based entrepreneurs since 2015, when they came to Colorado from South Korea. Bryan had there built a reputation as a world-class sport and mountain climber, and they came to represent a Korean climbing shoe manufacturer and built an import brand - HMH Outdoors. In 2017, they recruited their b…
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