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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 S...

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 ca...

Houska Automotive in Fort Collins was started in 1952, by Dennis’s father - Charles “Chuck” Houska, and still operates from the original location at 899 Riverside Avenue in Fort Collins. Chuck had been a B-17 Mechanic in WWI...

We're sharing Curt's blog from November, which is titled Grateful for a Great and Full 10 Years, a. k. a. The Loco Think Tank Story. "Last month marked the 10th anniversary of the last paycheck that didn’t come from my own b...

For almost 30 years, Alan Jantzen was the man behind the scenes for what became one of the Fort Collins restaurant industry’s most dominant organizations - Hot Corner Concepts . Featuring amazing brands including Moot House,...

Today we welcomed Aaron Everitt back to The LoCo Experience studios for our Northern Colorado real estate and water update, and as usual we got into all kinds of additional topics. Aaron had recently been a part of a histori...

Jake Jorgovan is a serial entrepreneur and podcast industry expert, whom I first met at a Colorado Podcasters gathering in 2022. He’s the Founder of Content Allies , a B2B podcast strategy, production, and promotion agency, ...

I met Dr. Heather Rubin at the Innovation Showcase Event held at the Warehouse Innovation Hub in Loveland in late August. Heather took home 2 of the 4 awards presented that day - the Most Disruptive Business Model and the Pe...

Marc Torres started his journey with Cheba Hut in perfect “cheba” fashion - a failed drug test foiled his job prospects with the City of Fort Collins, and a snarky friend said “you should go work at Cheba Hut, I bet they don’...

Greg Roeder is a 2nd time guest on The LoCo Experience, and was my guest with then-partner and co-founder Josh Guernsey of Waypoint Real Estate, in Episode 45 . They were celebrating their 5th anniversary and had already gro...

I was introduced to Cameron Singh by our mutual friend, Fort Collins Mayor Emeritus Wade Troxell, and we’ve enjoyed some wonderful conversations in the few short weeks since. During the first, Cameron shared his experiences ...

Kristin Todd joined the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado in April of 2021, continuing a career of impact in the realm of philanthropy. Prior to joining the Community Foundation, she spent over 15 years with Daniels ...

Matt Gettig is my neighbor of 14 years, and his home at the corner of Whitcomb and Laporte in Fort Collins is the epicenter of a neighborhood phenomenon known as Lightning Mini Golf. During the summer of 2020, Matt and his s...

Sean Follin is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Encounter Strategies , based in Fort Collins, Colorado but serving clients nationally, and occasionally internationally. He’s a great example of Fort Collins as a choice...

Jennifer Lewis grew up in West Loveland in an entrepreneurial family and started her career with Mr. Neat’s Formal Wear when she was 15 years old. She excelled in sales and relationship building, and became a store manager an...

Colin Jones and partner Neil Fisher founded WeldWerks Brewing Company in 2014 in a long-vacant property just off Highway 85 in Greeley. Neil had been a talented homebrewer for years, and Colin was the Director of Technology a...

Hope Hartmann, Kat Hart, and Lisa Hudson are the leading ladies, respectively, at the Larimer Small Business Development Center, Loveland Business Development Center, and East Colorado Small Business Development Center. Thes...

Dan Garvin is the President of Colorado Iron & Metal , one of our region’s largest metal recycling centers with locations in Fort Collins and Loveland. This was my first time really digging into the industry, and I was surpr...

Jen Henderson is the Founder and CEO of Tilt - a SaaS platform and team that provides companies with professional, consistent, and compliant leave management. As with many founding stories, Jen’s mission developed from her o...

Nathan Scott is arguably one of Fort Collins most interesting people, and this podcast episode was spawned, in part, by Nathan’s introduction of so many inspiring guest candidates! He’s one of the show's biggest fans, and he...

Dr. Kristen Truman-Allen is the Founder and Chief Experience Officer at PULP Leadership Coaching , and a LoCo Facilitator for the Catalyst Collective chapter, a post she’s now held for about 8 months. Kristen founded the bus...

Aaron Everitt is back in The LoCo Experience studio for our quarterly-ish real estate update, where we always remember - there’s opportunity in every market! We talk about current interest rates and inventory especially, alo...

During Dr. Trevin Cardon’s residency with Poudre Valley Hospital, he determined to follow a less-traditional path. He and his wife Allison founded Hometown Family Health . A Direct Primary Care (DPC) office, Hometown Family ...

Tim and Ami Lindgren started Lindgren Landscape while they were engaged to be married, and still in college at CSU. They’ve been building the best backyards in Northern Colorado ever since, and have also developed a substant...