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Feb. 16, 2022

EXPERIENCE 50 | Sean Nook, Founder and Owner-Operator of Black Bottle…

My guest for this episode was Sean Nook. Sean is the Founder and Owner-Operator at Black Bottle Brewery , which recently celebrated its 9th anniversary! Black Bottle was the very last business start-up loan that I funded bef...

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Feb. 8, 2022

EXPERIENCE 49 | Stephen Morris, Former World Cup Yacht Designer & EOS…

My guest today was Stephen Morris. He is an EOS implementer and business coach, and a covid-transplant to Colorado. EOS is short for the entrepreneur's operating system, as first outlined in the book Traction by Gino Wickham....

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Feb. 3, 2022

BONUS Episode #1 | January Blog | Inflation for Dummies

Bonus Episode #1 - In this episode, I read my monthly blog post from The LoCo Perspective Newsletter. I will take you on a high-level flyover on the topics of money and prices and supply and demand, finally zeroing in on infl...

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Jan. 28, 2022

EXPERIENCE 48 | Emily Kincaid, Co-Founder & Managing Member at Elevat…

My guest today was Emily Kinkaid, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Elevate Energy Services. She's a killer, managing a team of over 150 employees at the ripe young age of 33, and she's showing the old dogs some new tricks ...

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Jan. 21, 2022

EXPERIENCE 47 | Jeff Jensen, Multi-Journey Business Veteran

On this episode of The LoCo Experience my guest was Jeff Jensen, multi-journey business veteran and among the newest LoCo Facilitators. I would characterize Jeff as an engineer-type whose passion is making businesses work be...

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Jan. 14, 2022

EXPERIENCE 46 | Successful Small Business Transition with Elizabeth L…

My guest today was Elizabeth LeDoux , the Founder, and CEO of Transition Strategists , an international succession and transition planning company headquartered right here in Fort Collins, Colorado. We talked about her earl...

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Jan. 6, 2022

EXPERIENCE 45 | Josh Guernsey & Greg Roeder, Co-Founders of Waypoint …

This episode features Greg Roeder and Josh Guernsey, Founders and Managing Partners at Waypoint Real Estate in Fort Collins. Josh and Greg founded the firm five short years ago, and have grown to become a leading full-servic...

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Dec. 30, 2021

Experience 44 | Season 1 Wrap-up and Get-to-Know with Alma Ferrer

On today’s episode of The LoCo Experience, I sat down with Alma Ferrer, our Everything Associate at LoCo Think Tank - master of most things digital, and my super-helper on the show. Alma and I discuss some of the highlight m...

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Nov. 3, 2021

EXPERIENCE 43 | A Leadership & Wellness Journey with Jennifer Watson

Jennifer Watson is the Founder of Jennifer Watson Leadership and Watson Wellness in Fort Collins, Colorado. The businesses allow her to pursue her twin passions of wellness and leadership, and provide her the opportunity to ...

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Oct. 27, 2021

EXPERIENCE 42 | Mechanics and Mindset for the Business Leader with Je…

Jeff Schuster is the Founder and owner of Mechanics & Mindset Business Coaching , and also the author of Business Mechanics & Mindset - How Your Thoughts Create or Sabotage Your Business Success. In a previous chapter of lif...

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Sept. 17, 2021

EXPERIENCE 41 | Linguist, Integrator, Innovator, and Warehouse Busine…

Allison Seabeck is a bit of an enigma - and a most enjoyable enigma to be around. She’s a linguist by education, met her husband while both were teaching and editing English in Japan, and moved to Fort Collins after research...

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Sept. 10, 2021

SHORTS 21 | Fatherhood Is The Mother of Invention with Heather & Eric…

A warm summer afternoon, Eric was looking for something to do while their son was napping. He and their 4-year-old daughter found some old scraps of wood and after a few hours of sawing, hammering, and nailing, the first-ever...

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Sept. 8, 2021

EXPERIENCE 40 | From Brazil With a Purpose with Betina Pflug, Founder…

Betina Pflug is a difference-maker and has made amazing impacts at every station. Betina made her way to Fort Collins from her native Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2015 - with her husband’s transfer to the JBS offices in Greeley, alon...

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Aug. 23, 2021

EXPERIENCE 39 | Talking Bourbon and Business with Mike Root, Founder …

Mike Root is the Founder of Copper Sky Distillery, Axiom Consulting Group, and the non-profit Kingdom Advancement Project - all based in Longmont, Colorado. He’s also the author of For God & Country, a Discussion on Servant ...

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Aug. 16, 2021

SHORTS 20 | Valued Employee Takes Over with Amanda Frost of ProCopy B…

Amanda Frost of ProCopy Business Center in Longmont Colorado loved her job so much that the original owner of this thirty-three-year-old company offered to sell it to her! She took over four years ago, and has grown the busi...

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Aug. 9, 2021

EXPERIENCE 38 | Building an Icon into a Brand with Louann DeCoursey o…

Louann DeCoursey worked at iconic Fort Collins restaurant Panhandler's Pizza in Fort Collins as a youth, later spent time as a manger and then GM, and was a major Pans Fan throughout the intervening years of raising a family...

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Aug. 3, 2021

EXPERIENCE 37 | Healthcare pioneer Jason Rogers, Founder of Starlight…

Jason Rogers is the founder of a Direct Primary Care practice called Starlight Health, based in Fort Collins, Colorado. DPC represents a change in the business model of medicine, with a membership model providing access to a...

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July 20, 2021

EXPERINECE 36 | Stronger Together - Jerri Schmitz, Founder of The Mat…

Jerri Schmitz is a hero of mine, and an amazing example of putting faith in action to create lasting community change. Jerri founded The Matthews House in 2005, a non-profit organization that now ranks (per CSU research) as ...

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July 12, 2021

SHORTS 19 | Creating Emotional Intimacy In The Workplace With Kris Bo…

Kris Boesch is the CEO and Founder of Choose People and author of Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace. Emotional health and intimacy directly correlate to the context and the culture within which your comp...

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July 7, 2021

EXPERIENCE 35 | The Wild West of Small Businesses with Marchel Mornin…

Marchel Morningstar is the Owner/Operator of Consolidated Resource in Greeley, Colorado, and L & L Fabrication in Douglas, Wyoming, and he's traveled some wild and crazy roads along the path to building his successful enterpr...

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June 25, 2021

SHORTS 18 | Normal Is Boring with Jane Brewer

Dr. Jane Brewer is now in her 6th year of owning Precision Chiropractic who focuses on NeuroStructural Correction. Jane believes that this area of the neck is one of the most important things to take care of as it supports yo...

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June 24, 2021

EXPERIENCE 34 | For Such a Time as This - G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice with F…

Sosamma Samuel-Burnett is the Founder and President of G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice - an NGO based in Loveland, Colorado but impacting organizations and individuals around the world. G.L.O.B.A.L.'s mission is profound: To extend Ge...

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June 23, 2021

SHORTS 17 | Andrew (AJ) Lyle, Owner/Partner of Solar Sandbox

AJ is a CSU engineering grad who went from working in bars and custom car restoration to a draft engineer to starting a solar company. Understanding that what we were doing yesterday is not going to work tomorrow, AJ takes us...

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June 18, 2021

EXPERIENCE 33 | Blake Craig - Helping Laborjacks (and Jills!) Find Th…

Blake Craig is the Co-Founder and Chief Labor Officer at Laborjack, LLC . Probably best understood as the Uber of Labor, Laborjack matches a flexible and ambitious labor force - mostly comprised of college students - with tho...

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