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The LoCo Experience

The LoCo Experience is a long-form conversational podcast that dives deep into the journeys of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers in Northern Colorado. Hosted by Curt Bear, Founder of LoCo Think Tank, the show brings real, raw, and unfiltered conversations—where guests share their successes, struggles, and lessons learned along the way.


LoCo Think Tank is Colorado’s premier business peer advisory organization, founded in Fort Collins to help business owners gain perspective, accountability, and encouragement to grow both personally and professionally. LoCo chapters bring together business owners at all stages of the journey into professionally facilitated peer advisory chapters, led by experienced business veterans. These groups provide a trusted space to share challenges, seek advice, learn togethter, and support each other’s success.


The LoCo Experience Podcast extends this mission beyond the chapter meetings— bringing the wisdom, insights, and stories of local business leaders to a wider audience.


Our triad mission with this podcast is simple: 

Inspire through real stories of resilience and success. 

Educate by sharing valuable business insights. 

Entertain with engaging, unfiltered conversations.


If you love “How I Built This” and the free-flowing style of Joe Rogan - but with a Northern Colorado focus - you’ll enjoy The LoCo Experience!  Our closing segment, "The LoCo Experience," asks guests to share their craziest stories — and we get some doozies!


It’s a passion project with purpose, and we invite you to listen, follow, and share, and maybe consider sponsoring. Know someone with a great story?  Nominate your favorite business leader for an episode!


Entrepreneurship Business Comedy
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
99 minutes
Episodes
269
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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EXPERIENCE 98 | Annie & Mike Griffith on Travel, Law, Rotary Club, and Twenty-year 3rd Marriages!

EXPERIENCE 98 | Annie & Mike Griffith on Travel, Law, Rotary Club, and Twenty-year 3rd Marriages!

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 Thur…

01:38:12  |   Mon 16 Jan 2023
EXPERIENCE 97 | Dan Anderson, Business as Ministry & Faithfully Navigating Life's Challenges

EXPERIENCE 97 | Dan Anderson, Business as Ministry & Faithfully Navigating Life's Challenges

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,…

01:43:29  |   Mon 09 Jan 2023
EXPERIENCE 96 | Kent Obermann, Creating Bright Smiles Through Dentistry and Music

EXPERIENCE 96 | Kent Obermann, Creating Bright Smiles Through Dentistry and Music

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 …

02:04:21  |   Mon 02 Jan 2023
EXPERIENCE 95 | The HQ Team, Get to Know Alisha Jeffers and Year-End Recap 2022

EXPERIENCE 95 | The HQ Team, Get to Know Alisha Jeffers and Year-End Recap 2022

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 es…

02:29:44  |   Mon 26 Dec 2022
EXPERIENCE 94 | Althea Hrdlichka, Delivering Babies and Knowledge to the Community!

EXPERIENCE 94 | Althea Hrdlichka, Delivering Babies and Knowledge to the Community!

Althea Hrdlichka is the Founder and Owner and Midwife at Tender Gifts Midwifery and Birth Center in Fort Collins.  After years of supporting Northern Colorado moms through at-home births, Althea took…

01:47:14  |   Mon 19 Dec 2022
EXPERIENCE 93 | Hope Hartman on Empowering Small Businesses

EXPERIENCE 93 | Hope Hartman on Empowering Small Businesses

Hope Hartman is the Executive Director of the Larimer County Small Business Development Center, located on the Front Range Community College campus in Fort Collins. The Larimer SBDC provides educatio…

01:50:56  |   Mon 12 Dec 2022
EXPERIENCE 92 | Aaron Everitt Delivers the Goods on the Real Estate Market

EXPERIENCE 92 | Aaron Everitt Delivers the Goods on the Real Estate Market

Aaron Everitt is a regular guest of the LoCo Experience, with this being his fourth appearance. He’s well-connected in Fort Collins as a real estate broker for Resident Realty, operating a delivery s…

01:44:58  |   Mon 05 Dec 2022
Bonus #8 | November 2022 Blog: Fateful, Grateful and Plate Full!

Bonus #8 | November 2022 Blog: Fateful, Grateful and Plate Full!

Bonus episode from the blog: Sharing gratitude for new additions to LoCo and new offerings just around the corner, the serendipitous path that led to this plate full of blessings, and exploring the m…

00:14:45  |   Thu 01 Dec 2022
EXPERIENCE 91 | Mandy Mullen at the Intersection of Fitness & Community

EXPERIENCE 91 | Mandy Mullen at the Intersection of Fitness & Community

Mandy Mullen is the Founder and Owner of the Run Windsor Race Series. She also founded and serves as  Executive Director of Windsor Gives, a non-profit extension providing fitness opportunities and e…

02:15:59  |   Mon 28 Nov 2022
EPISODE 90 | Bob Flynn on Building a Green Business

EPISODE 90 | Bob Flynn on Building a Green Business

Bob Flynn is the co-founder of Green Ride Colorado, which sold in 2018 to become Groome Transportation here in Northern Colorado. Groome specializes in airport-to-city shuttling between Northern Colo…

01:50:09  |   Mon 21 Nov 2022
EXPERIENCE 89 | Ty Fulcher, Food & Beverage King of Old Town!

EXPERIENCE 89 | Ty Fulcher, Food & Beverage King of Old Town!

Ty Fulcher is the owner of four of the finest eating and drinking establishments in Old Town Fort Collins: Social, Union, the Melting Pot and Rodizio Grill. Ty came to Fort Collins in 2002 from Washi…

01:49:35  |   Mon 14 Nov 2022
EXPERIENCE 88 | Margo Karsten on the Health Care Industry

EXPERIENCE 88 | Margo Karsten on the Health Care Industry

Margo is the Western Region President at Banner Health and has her PhD in Organizational Development from CSU. Margo shares her inspiring journey from frontline nursing into management, developing a …

01:25:32  |   Mon 07 Nov 2022
EXPERIENCE 87 | Richard Fagerlin on Building Teams of Trust

EXPERIENCE 87 | Richard Fagerlin on Building Teams of Trust

Richard Fagerlin is the founder and president of Peak Solutions Group and author of the book Trustology.  Richard is known across Northern Colorado - and the nation - for his keynote presentations an…

01:55:21  |   Mon 31 Oct 2022
BONUS #7 | October 2022 Blog - Scary Times

BONUS #7 | October 2022 Blog - Scary Times

In this month’s blog, I’ll be taking a broad-scope view of the scary times we’re in - and sharing reflections and examples of why we should fear not - but plan and work hard instead.

The LoCo Experien…

00:11:08  |   Fri 28 Oct 2022
EPISODE 86 | Kim O'Neil on Scaling, People, and Processes

EPISODE 86 | Kim O'Neil on Scaling, People, and Processes

Kim O’Neil is the former Chief Operations Officer and current shareholder and Board Member of Encompass Technologies, and investor/advisor for a new startup: Beverage Distribution Consulting (BDC). I…

02:11:39  |   Mon 24 Oct 2022
EXPERIENCE 85 | Mark Weaver on Organizational Culture

EXPERIENCE 85 | Mark Weaver on Organizational Culture

My guest on today’s episode was Mark Weaver. Mark is the Founder of Open Door Organizational Solutions and has been serving businesses with Human Resource and Culture solutions for over 15 years. He’…

01:35:55  |   Mon 17 Oct 2022
EXPERIENCE 84 | Wade Troxell on Innovating At The Intersection of Local Government, University, Business & Community

EXPERIENCE 84 | Wade Troxell on Innovating At The Intersection of Local Government, University, Business & Community

My guest on today's episode is former mayor of Fort Collins, Wade Troxell. Wade continues to serve in a faculty role at CSU and in many high impact, low touch roles across our region. Wade's story is…

01:39:16  |   Mon 10 Oct 2022
EXPERIENCE 83 | Tanis Roeder on Communications

EXPERIENCE 83 | Tanis Roeder on Communications

Today’s episode welcomes public speaking expert Tanis Roeder, founder and CEO of Elevate Your Communications in Fort Collins. We focus on best practices in the realm of public speaking, and take a lo…

01:28:13  |   Mon 03 Oct 2022
EXPERIENCE 82 | Seth Silvers on Podcasts

EXPERIENCE 82 | Seth Silvers on Podcasts

Seth is the Founder and Owner of Story On Media and Marketing.

We went over industry analytics, best practices, and how to create a podcast as a small business. Seth also shared about the podcast move…

01:36:33  |   Mon 26 Sep 2022
EXPERIENCE 81 | Tom Lucero on Politics

EXPERIENCE 81 | Tom Lucero on Politics

Tom Lucero is a political consultant whose organization, L3, helps aspiring leaders of any political persuasion through a leadership journey into the field of politics.

Tom’s understanding of differen…

02:18:42  |   Mon 19 Sep 2022
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