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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, and in 2023 she started her own firm, Savvy Strategic Partners. Savvy helps EOS-implementing(ed) firms build their leadership team, by serving in the r...

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, she was just sealing the deal to buy a pair of legendary races - the Wild West Relay from Fort Collins to Steamboat Springs, and the Flaming Foliage ...

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 to serve. From July 2013 through December of 2021, Mike engineered a great transformation of the organization, built many partnerships and coalitions, ...

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 department for our region's small business enterprises. It’s often expensive for small businesses to have an HR expert on the team, so the office manager...

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 talking about the impacts of Proposition 125 on his business, and his anticipations for the future, and he agreed to share more on the show! Mat and ...

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 raised in rural Nebraska, and attended a one-room country school from 1st through 8th grade - in a school with only 12-14 total students! He became a Mar...

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, I was able to sample Gruvi’s Juicy IPA, Rose, and Dry Secco - and I loved them all! And - none of them have any alcohol! Whaat?! Anika joined me for...