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May 30, 2022

EXPERIENCE 65 | Aaron Everitt, Real Estate Expert, Entrepreneur, and …

My guest on today's episode was Aaron Everitt, a long time friend of mine, a realtor in Northern Colorado, as well as the founder of InMotion and the owner of a delivery service provider here regionally. And so this is Aaron'...

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May 27, 2022

BONUS #4 | May 2022 Blog - Relationship Vitamins

This month, I’m reflecting on a pair of conversations I’ve enjoyed recently on The LoCo Experience podcast, with a pair of married couples - Miles and Val Kailburn of Old Town Media , and Wally and Miriam Veigel of Wally’s Sp...

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May 23, 2022

EXPERIENCE 64 | Miles and Vallene Kailburn, Founders and Chief Execut…

My guest on today's episode were Miles and Vallene Kailburn, Founders and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Creative Officer of Old Town Media located in Fort Collins. Old Town Media is the company that built my first website...

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May 18, 2022

EXPERIENCE 63 | Wally and Miriam Veigel, Owners of Wally’s Speed Shop

Wally and Miriam are the owners of Wally's Speed Shop in Loveland, CO. Wally's Speed Shop is a hot rod restoration shop, for early six-volt and up to late-model vehicles providing full customizations for a variety of clients....

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May 9, 2022

EXPERIENCE 62 | Nicole Armstrong, Jenny Strange, & Shawn Keefer, The …

New Episode with Nicole Armstrong, Jenny Stetson, and Shawn Keffer the Leadership Team of The Matthews House , a nonprofit organization in Fort Collins, serving all of Larimer County. Nicole is the Executive Director, Jenny's...

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May 2, 2022

EXPERIENCE 61 | Dr Eric Holsapple Founder and CEO of LC Real Estate G…

Eric Holsapple is the Founder and CEO of LC Real Estate Group & Founder and Lead Facilitator of Living In The Gap. He's been involved with real estate here in Northern Colorado since the early nineties, he has a Ph.D. from C...

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April 29, 2022

BONUS #3 | April 2022 Blog - I Too, Am An Authoritrian

Current events have had me noodling on the topic of authority, particularly where it intersects with culture, responsibility, and with Liberty. Like most of my writings, this has developed as an internal conversation shared h...

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April 25, 2022

EXPERIENCE 60 | Becky Ezzel, Founder of Smart Book Business Solutions

Becky Ezzel is the founder of Smart Book Business Solutions, it is a bookkeeping service for small business owners, especially those under 20 employees or so. She's grown her team to be 10 employees strong and they have 170 c...

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April 20, 2022

EXPERIENCE 59 | Suzanne Miller, Welcome Coordinator at the Fort Colli…

My guest was Suzanne Miller. She is the Welcome Coordinator at the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce. She's a wife and a mom and a grandma, and she's just a really neat lady. We talk a lot about leadership at every level,...

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April 15, 2022

EXPERIENCE 58 | Mike O' Donnell, Former Executive Director of Colorad…

Mike is the founder of Prairie Rose Development and the former executive director of the Colorado Lending Source and is a candidate for the Colorado Secretary of State. He is from Australia and studied at the university of Me...

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April 8, 2022

BONUS Episode #2 | March 2022 Blog | What's Your Story, Anyway?

In this month's blog, I’m going to dip into some business stories, including my own, and enter into an examination of the role that story and narrative play in our lives. How do the stories we tell each other provide clarity ...

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April 6, 2022

EXPERIENCE 57 | Dr. Bobby & Jaime Cawthron, Former Owners of Aspen Gr…

My guests were Dr. Bobby and Jamie Cawthron, former owners of Aspen Grove Veterinary Care and The Cabins at Aspen Grove. Jamie is a LoCo facilitator and a former member of LoCo Think Tank , she's also the founder of Path Forw...

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March 28, 2022

EXPERIENCE 56 | Heidi Ganahl, Founder of Camp Bow Wow & Candidate for…

My guest on today's episode was Heidi Ganahl. Heidi is a Republican candidate for Governor of Colorado, a Regent at the University of Colorado and she's the founder of Camp Bow Wow, as well as other ventures. She's a mom of f...

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March 21, 2022

EXPERIENCE 55 | Hunter Wylie, Co-Founder and CEO of Beyond Blue Media

My guest today was Hunter Wylie, Co-founder and CEO of Beyond Blue Media, a full service digital marketing agency here in Fort Collins. They've grown the business in five short years to 16 full-time employees, and have a full...

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March 14, 2022

EXPERIENCE 54 | Brad Piepenbrink, Owner of Recycled Cycles

My guest on this episode was Brad Piepenbrink, the Owner of Recycled Cycles in Fort Collins. He purchased the business in July of 2021. After 43 years of being owned by Dave Hudson, a long-time LoCo Think Tank member. Brad's ...

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March 11, 2022

EXPERIENCE 53 | Sarah Lukemire, Founder and Lead Strategist at Brindl…

My guest was Sarah Lukemire, Founder and Lead Strategist at Brindle Digital Media . Sarah tells a lot about her story of getting into the marketing industry, where she earned her chops early after college. How her dad talked ...

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March 9, 2022

BONUS EPISODE #2 | February Blog | Who Do You & How Do You Love?

In this month's blog, I go through a discussion and examination of how we can show love through time, talent, and treasure - in our homes and in our business, and in our community. I share the experiences in my life that adde...

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March 2, 2022

EXPERIENCE 52 | Aaron Everitt, Real Estate Expert and Entrepenuer

My guest today was Aaron Everitt. Aaron is a realtor at Resident Realty . He's a partner in a delivery services provider and he's the owner of a startup, a local delivery business called InMotion. He was educated in Canada an...

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Feb. 22, 2022

EXPERIENCE 51 | Greg Petri, Founder of One Business Connection

Today's episode was with Greg Petri, the founder of One Business Connection or 1BC. They have over 60 groups virtually meeting every week. Over 40 groups meeting live every month. And they've been in business for 25 years and...

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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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