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Dec. 16, 2024

EXPERIENCE 198 | Creating a Vibrant Business from an Innovative Produ…

My conversation today was with Ryan Reed-Baum , CEO and Owner of TruLog , a company founded by his father, Ted, but that Ryan basically re-launched years later. To set the stage, we need to add some context. In the …

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Dec. 9, 2024

EPISODE 197 | Anti Work Girl Boss and Real Estate for Good - Gabriell…

I met Matthew Fugate circa summer 2017, when LoCo Think Tank was really starting to become a thing, and Matthew was a fresh-in-town Realtor. I remembered him well for two reasons 1) He was enthusiastic about LoCo Think Tank ...

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Dec. 2, 2024

EPISODE 196 | Forrest Cramer shares his journey from artist to luxury…

Since he was a little boy, Forrest Cramer has always been an artist. He was drawing recognizable profiles and pencil-shading landscapes at an age when most of us were working on stick-figures, and in his late teens he had th...

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Nov. 25, 2024

EXPERIENCE 195 | Exit Strategies and Growth Capital for the Lower Mid…

I’ve known Aaron McCambridge for perhaps 15 years, as he’s been an occasional visitor to my Rotary Club, where his father is a longtime member. I’ve known about Citadel Advisory Group for even longer, as they were a client o...

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Nov. 18, 2024

EXPERIENCE 194 | Building Predictable Systems for Growth and Pushing …

Brian Kerlin had a successful sales career of over 2 decades when the first cornerstones of Optitude were laid, and he became enamored with the entrepreneurial lifestyle while dating his now-wife, who had a successful profess...

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Nov. 11, 2024

EXPERIENCE 193 | Party In The Front! - Overcome Loneliness and Find C…

I met Ty Dannebring at church one Sunday, when he hunted me down and said “Can we have a conversation about possibly being on your podcast, with regard to our new book?” Knowing nothing, I said, “of course” - and …

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Nov. 7, 2024

BONUS EPISODE | Aaron Everitt & Emerson Everitt join The LoCo Experie…

Today's episode features regular guest Aaron Everitt, along with his 17 year old son, Emerson, discussing the election coverage and election season of 2024. We started at 7:30ish PM MT, and called it a night by 9:30 PM MT as...

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Nov. 4, 2024

EXPERIENCE 192 | It’s all about the EXPERIENCE! - Talking Food, Love,…

In my early years of LoCo Think Tank, when I was just getting out of the mobile food catering game, everyone was talking about the wonderful new caterers in town, Juli & Juan! Soon after, we had the chance to …

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Oct. 28, 2024

EXPERIENCE 191 | Investing in Relationships and Opportunities with An…

The business journey we’re featuring in today’s episode started when Garrett fell in love with Andrew’s sister (and later married), and took a great leap forward during the Covid pandemic when Garrett became the owner-operato...

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Oct. 21, 2024

EXPERIENCE 190 | Where Every Client in a Big Deal - Talking Full-Serv…

I met Christine Forster at a big fun business event of some sort (we both can’t remember!) - circa 2022 - and we had a short but lovely conversation, and she was super interested in what LoCo Think Tank was …

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Oct. 14, 2024

EXPERIENCE 189 | Ham & Eggs were $1.40 when we started! - Journey fro…

John Arnolfo operated the Silver Grill Cafe for 42 years, and found his exit plan through my guest on Episode 143 , Alan Jantzen. John and partner Mike Gress purchased Silver Grill on Valentines Day of 1979 as an unheated …

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Oct. 7, 2024

EXPERIENCE 188 | Reasonable, Affordable, Sustainable - A Conversation…

Ben Aste is a conservationist, first and foremost, also an Eagle Scout and the son of a Swiss immigrant. Ben started Uncle Benny’s Building Supplies from a small rented shed, because he couldn’t stand to see the waste in the...

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Sept. 30, 2024

EXPERIENCE 187 | A Journey through Ministry and into Entrepreneurship…

Noah and Alli Hutchison met during their college years at Baylor, and grew a friendship through their shared involvement in a church community - Antioch Waco. Alli started doing interior design work for friends and their fri...

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Sept. 23, 2024

EXPERIENCE 186 | Writing a New Chapter in Her Career Journey - AND He…

Julie Ulstrup began her career in admissions counseling, soon transitioned to school counseling, and was a School Counselor for Poudre School District for 13 years. Like many of the purpose-driven, she began to experience bu...

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Sept. 16, 2024

EXPERIENCE 185 | Big Boats, Small Business, and High Finance with Tom…

Tom Trimmer, Jr. spent his growing up years in the Northern Suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and was disappointed when his father got rid of the family powerboat (about the time he was old enough to start skiing…) and bought a …

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Sept. 9, 2024

EXPERIENCE 184 | Finding Great People and Building Strong Teams with …

Trish Bowen-Bannister started her career in education, grew quickly in the field, and spent many years as the Director of Education for Weston Distance Learning in Fort Collins - a role very similar to the role my wife curren...

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Sept. 2, 2024

EXPERIENCE 183 | The Chemistry of Resilience with Jennifer Watson, Sp…

I was joined by my longtime friend Jennifer Watson in studio this week, while she was in Colorado for the first stop of her Chemistry of Resilience Fall Tour. It’d been a few years since we’d seen one another, as …

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Aug. 26, 2024

EXPERIENCE 182 | Drink with Your Dog - Every Dog Owner Should Listen!…

Amber Quann joined me in the studio this week to share her business journey, which started at the age of 13 after she’d built notoriety since she was 10 by winning many local and regional competitions in the 4 H …

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Aug. 19, 2024

EXPERIENCE 181 | Born a Social Worker! - A Conversation with Kelly Ev…

Don’t judge her for it, but Kelly Evans is and will forever be a Jayhawk. Born and raised in and around Lawrence, Kansas, Kelly got her Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Kansas and soon after began a …

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Aug. 12, 2024

EXPERIENCE 180 | A Candid Conversation with a Sales Heretic - Don Coo…

Don Cooper was referred to me by a mutual friend, Carolyn Strauss, in my search for a chapter speaker who would bring an innovative approach to sales training. He brought his most popular workshop, The Myth of Price, and got...

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Aug. 5, 2024

EXPERIENCE 179 | Welcome to Party Land! Building Brands and Making A…

I met Matt Heath at our LoCo Social at Cheba Hut in April, where he had just finished up meeting with Marc Torres, Cheba’s CEO and my guest on Experience #139 . We had an awesome and interesting conversation, which …

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July 29, 2024

EXPERIENCE | Body, Neurology, and Smart Business with Chantill Lopez,…

A few weeks ago, longtime friend and local musician Max Mackey joined me in studio for a wonderfully authentic conversation (Episode 174), and afterward he mentioned that I really should have his girlfriend on my show because...

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July 22, 2024

EXPERIENCE 177 | Building a Multi-Location Bourbon & Bacon Colorado P…

I popped into William Oliver’s Publick House a few weeks ago at the end of the day, to grab a quick beer and a snack - and ran into the owner whom I remembered from their early days - Ryan …

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July 15, 2024

EXPERIENCE 176 | Diversification, Innovation, and Generations - Kevin…

In today’s episode of The LoCo Experience podcast, I had the pleasure of getting to know Kevin Fiske and Brittany McCahan from Fiske Electric . Fiske is an electrical design and contracting business with a homebase just outs...

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