You Can Do That Here! podcast
We are thrilled to be able to host Andrew Zwicker’s “You Can Do That Here” podcast, a collection of interviews with local entrepreneurs making life and business happen here. In these podcasts you will hear from entrepreneurs of all stripes, some building success locally while others have found their niche in a global market. What they all share is an appreciation for the boundless beauty of the region, and a desire to share their wisdom with others to support a thriving entrepreneurial culture.
No matter where you currently live or hope to land in the Kootenays, the “You Can Do That here” podcast is a perfect place to begin your quest for knowledge about the region and what is has to offer.
Eternal life. Imagine the possibilities. Imagine if we could just eat the right things and do the right activities and keep our self well enough that we could live forever. Would you do it? I bet most people would at least be interested in giving it a passing try. I mean on some level we’re ...
Read moreEpisode 118 – Aaron Davidson of Cronometer
San Francisco, Vancouver, Rossland… It sounds more like a fundraising bumper sticker than a natural career path progression. That is…. unless you change the values and goals you’re seeking out. Sure you’ll find a much greater concentration of talent, experience, customers and money in the larger centers, particularly in the tech sector… but, thanks to ...
Read moreEpisode 117 – Summer Recchi of SAP
Curiosity, inquisitiveness, wonder. A desire to deconstruct, reconstruct, design, create and understand. All of these are traits closely associated with the true innovators through history. Whether it be inventors, entrepreneurs or world leaders. Or perhaps that 5-year-old that just needs his imagination and an environment to explore to create anything out of nothing. When it ...
Read moreEpisode 116 – Farrell Segall – Makermobile
Community. Whether it’s the five, ten or ten million people that live physically near you or the several hundred or thousands of online friends we connect with digitally, community ultimately comes down to one simple thing: The gathering of people together in a common space. For much if not all of human kind it has ...
Read moreEpisode 115 – Eleanor Stacey of The Civic
Stacked Films is the story of a couple of Kootenay kids who grew up loving action adventure sports films. One (Steve Hall) left town to get into filmmaking. The other (Tyler Hadikan) got into the action as a semi-pro snowmobiler and ended up spending more time behind the lense than the handlebars. Fast forward a ...
Read moreEpisode 114 – Tyler Hadikin and Steve Hall of Stacked Films
Why? Why do you do the things you do? What drives your business, career and entrepreneurial choices? How do you decide to take this job or that, start this business or that, chase one idea or another? The concept of a career has changed, morphed and shifted over the years, but for the most part ...
Read moreEpisode 113 – Andrea Bell of Trend Prive
The Exit. So much of our attention, time and learning, especially in the podcast world is dedicated to start-ups, big ideas, new concepts, product launches and growth. Those are the sexiest times in a businesses life and of course if you don’t have a great launch, everything else is really pointless. But let’s think about ...
Read moreEpisode 112 – Scott Duke of The Welstand Group
What are those beliefs and values that you hold dear in your life? Those things that draw a line in the sand on and say “Nope I’m not going there because I believe this and that.” Perhaps you’re an environmentalist or simply hold nature near and dear to your heart. Maybe it’s religion, family, sports, ...
Read moreEpisode 111 – Steven Cretney of The Forest
Adventure. Webster’s defines it as a verb meaning “To engage in hazardous and exciting activity, especially the exploration of unknown territory.” By that definition, the world of entrepreneurship is nothing more than one big adventure. We start with an idea and a plan and then leap into often unknown waters, attempt to navigate around the ...
Read moreEpisode 110 – Chris and Andrea Ryman of Endless Adventure
Rik Logtenberg, along with his co-founders launched a game-changing start-up in the events space just over half a decade ago. As the CEO of Time.ly he oversaw a large, rapidly growing team and was in the position of having to constantly make decisions, many of which directly affected the success or failure of his company. ...
Read moreEpisode 109 – Rik Logtenberg
What is it you truly love? What are you currently doing as your main hobby? It’s been said over and over that the best way to succeed in business is by doing something you love, by getting deeply into your passion and turning that into your business. Let’s face it, entrepreneurship is far more than ...
Read moreEpisode 108 – Torchlight Brewing