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June 5, 2023

EXPERIENCE 118 | Chas Greener - Content & Video Creator at Chas’s Cra…

Chas Greener, formerly a Dance Director at Mountain Kids in Fort Collins, transitioned into content creation after an injury in 2019. She now runs Chas's Crazy Creations with over 10,000 YouTube subscribers and an active webs...

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May 29, 2023

EXPERIENCE 117 | Samson Jagoras and Darius Bell - Clearly Acquired & …

Samson Jagoras was a Division I football player at CU, and soon became an early-stage and key leader and eventually minority partner in Madwire/Marketing 360. Darius Bell came to know Samson while he was a standout employee ...

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May 22, 2023

EXPERIENCE 116 | Chris Cox - Plenty Wellness & Buzz Screens - Why’s a…

Chris Cox found relief from long-term back pain through use of CBD in 2016, and soon turned his growing knowledge of and passion for holistic medicine into a retail enterprise - Plenty Wellness in Loveland, Colorado. Plenty ...

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May 15, 2023

EXPERIENCE 115 | Valeria Ortiz - Vortiz Insurance - Serving the Under…

Valeria Ortiz, founder of Vortiz Insurance , offers education and insurance packages for the Medicare market, with its headquarters in Greeley, Colorado. I met Valeria at a local event and struck up a conversation which event...

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May 8, 2023

EXPERIENCE 114 | Phil Pelto, Firestorm - The Power of Network Effect …

Phil Pelto is the Co-Founder of Firestorm B2B Networking and Certus B2C Networking - The Power of Network Effect & How to Build Authentic Connections, both with an increasing number of chapters and members across the Colorad...

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May 1, 2023

EXPERIENCE 113 | Sean Godbey - Founder and Owner of Old Town Spice Sh…

Sean Godbey founded Old Town Spice Shop in Fort Collins, Colorado with his brother and parents in 2010, with an original plan to expand to five retail locations within just a few years. They found some retail success, but th...

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April 24, 2023

EXPERIENCE 112 | Seth Coonrod - Timberline Audio Video - The Highs an…

Seth Coonrod is the Founder and Owner/Operator of Timberline Audio Video in Loveland, Colorado, and also a LoCo Think Tank member. He worked as a key employee of a similar company in North Carolina in his earlier years, and ...

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April 17, 2023

EXPERIENCE 111 | Shelley Polansky - President/CEO of the Better Busin…

Shelley Polansky has been on the team at BBB of NoCo and Wyoming since 2008, serving in Dispute Resolution, Education, Communications, and Outreach before ascending to the leadership role in 2019. LoCo Think Tank has been a ...

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April 10, 2023

EXPERIENCE 110 | Nathan Wilbanks & Alex Swanson - On Artificial Intel…

Nathan Wilbanks and Alex Swanson are the Founders of BizOp Media, a content and strategy-driven marketing agency headquartered in Fort Collins. In 2021, Nathan departed Bizop to develop new ideas, and eventually founded Jaq n...

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April 3, 2023

EXPERIENCE 109 | Franklin Taggart - Musician, Podcaster, and Coach fo…

My guest this week was Franklin Taggart - a fellow consultant with the Larimer County Small Business Development Center and founder of Franklin Taggart Coaching. Franklin was the first podcaster to feature me on his show! M...

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March 27, 2023

EXPERIENCE 108 | John Kefalas - Larimer County Commissioner, Behind t…

John Kefalas is currently a Larimer County Commissioner, elected to his second term in 2022, and previously served many years as a Colorado State Representative and later, State Senator. He previously worked in education, ad...

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March 20, 2023

EXPERIENCE 107 | Drew Yancey - On Peer Advisory, Leading Performance …

Drew Yancey is the President and COO of Incite Performance Group in Fort Collins, and the LoCo Facilitator for a pair of Next Level chapters. He’s also the author of a new book, his third, with co-author Larry Linne - …

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March 13, 2023

EXPERIENCE 106 | Aaron Everitt - InMotion, Real Estate Update, & Stop…

Aaron Everitt, broker with The Group, joins us to give his quarterly update on the Northern Colorado real estate market, sharing market and interest rate updates, and examples of opportunity in any market. Aaron is also one o...

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March 6, 2023

EXPERIENCE 105 | A Brothers Fountain II - Fall Tour, Muscle Shoals, B…

My guests on today’s episode were AJ and JJ Fountain, bandmates with locally-famous campfire folk music band A Brothers Fountain , and co-founders and partners of Stoked Ember Productions . This was the brothers’ 2nd time on...

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Feb. 27, 2023

EXPERIENCE 104 | The Trainor Brothers Circus! - Brian, Adam, & Joe Tr…

This week we somehow fit three of the Northern-Colorado famous Trainor Brothers into the podcast studio, with Brian, Adam, and Joe Trainor all sharing their stories and philosophies with me and with our listeners. The three ...

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Feb. 20, 2023

EXPERIENCE 103 | Becky Allsup, Designing a Team & Building an Integra…

Becky Allsup is the owner of Becky’s Custom Interiors, which in turn holds Niche Design House and Rebecca Windsor & Associates. Niche is primarily an upscale commercial and residential design center, and Rebecca Windsor prov...

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Feb. 13, 2023

EXPERIENCE 102 | Working In Your Strengths with Serial Entrepreneur, …

Matt Shoup is a serial entrepreneur, author, inventor, real estate broker and investor. He’s the President of M & E Painting and Roofing , Inventor of The Pirate Patch , and a realtor with C3 Real Estate . Matt’s first …

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Feb. 6, 2023

EXPERIENCE 101 | Nick Armstrong, WTF is up with Nick, Founded in FoCo…

Nick Armstrong is among Fort Collins’ most interesting people! He’s the Geek-in-Chief of WTF Marketing , the Pepper Pioneer of FTW Hot Sauce , and the Lead Organizer of both Founded in FoCo and Fort Collins Comic Con ! He’s...

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Jan. 30, 2023

EXPERIENCE 100 | Dudley Brown and Ben Gates, More Guns for a Safer Am…

Dudley Brown is the Founder and President of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO), and the President of the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), both based in Loveland, Colorado. Ben Gates is a previous guest and longtime...

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Jan. 23, 2023

EXPERIENCE 99 | Dr. Heidi Golding, Traditional Medicine, Modern Techn…

Dr. Heidi Golding is the Founder and Practitioner at Living Well Chinese Medicine in Loveland, Colorado. She’s an acupuncturist, an herbalist, and one of the most interesting health professionals I’ve become acquainted with....

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Jan. 16, 2023

EXPERIENCE 98 | Annie & Mike Griffith on Travel, Law, Rotary Club, an…

Annie and Mike Griffith are fellow members of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast - or, more commonly known - Breakfast Rotary. We meet at 6:45 am at Ginger & Baker in Fort Collins, every Thursday morning - come …

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Jan. 9, 2023

EXPERIENCE 97 | Dan Anderson, Business as Ministry & Faithfully Navig…

Dan Anderson is the President and CEO of Kingdom Way Ministries , and a Strategic & Leadership Coach with Five Capitals. Kingdom Way's mission is to help marketplace leaders thrive in business, life, and ministry. They do t...

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Jan. 2, 2023

EXPERIENCE 96 | Kent Obermann, Creating Bright Smiles Through Dentist…

Kent Obermann is the Founder of Tooth Zone Network , a pediatric dentistry enterprise that grew to include locations in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Longmont and as many as 60 employees. Kent founded the practice in 1982, fre...

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Dec. 26, 2022

EXPERIENCE 95 | The HQ Team, Get to Know Alisha Jeffers and Year-End …

In this episode you’ll get a glimpse behind-the-scenes of LoCo Headquarters in my conversation with LoCo Experience Producer Alma Ferrer and our new Marketing Manager Alisha Jeffers. We give focus especially to Alisha, her ar...

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