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.
Rob van der Laan grew up in The Netherlands, and in addition to wanting to be a rock star as a kid, he had a love of nature. In the largely wilderness free lands of Nether, that connection to nature grew into a love and practice of a new trade. Plying his wares as a ...
We last talked to Jordan Strobel, way back in episode 8 with his business partner Tim Baldwin and their lifestyle brand Ebon. He’s since paired up with another friend from high school Keelan Bourdon and together they’ve launched Apex Multimedia. Their unique video production style and fully certified drone filming are designed to generate a ...
For Cameron Wenaus and the team at Retreat Guru in Nelson, a fairly mundane act of renting out a spare desk in their office was the spark for a runaway wildfire of co-working success. The concept is all the rage, a growing trend around the globe and has long been thought to be one of ...
Any strong that vibrates at 261.62 Hz, will produce a middle C. While the string’s vibrations determines the pitch of the sound we hear, the voice box of string instruments that determines what that tone sounds like, lies primarily in the wood. The density, and flexibility of the wood affects its resonance. the sound is ...
Avi Phillips of Nelson, BC has gone from child actor in the big city to entrepreneurial dad as the owner of his own online marketing agency, and co-founder / developer of a new app along with his wife / business partner in the Kootenays. Following a serendipitous path, he translated his acting, writing and overall ...
Over the last 150 or so years, large scale industrial logging has dominated our forest landscape and much wealth has been harvested from it. Indeed, the primary reason we harvest and process our trees has been to provide jobs, wealth and the resources needed to build and maintain our communities, and in the process to ...
100 EPISODES! Let’s raise a glass and celebrate 100 Episodes of the You Can Do That Here!podcast. To celebrate we decided to try our first ever full episode with a live audience. We also flipped the seats and series producer and host Andrew Zwicker took the guest seat while Kelly Mclean took over the hosting ...
Test your Kootenay entrepreneurial knowledge! To kickoff the celebrations around the 100th episode of the You Can Do That Here! podcast we decided to go live, and to host the first ever You Can…Or Can’t Do That Here! Gameshow. In front of an electric crowd of 30 plus tech entrepreneurs, Andrew Zwicker hosted the show ...
Colin grew up in “The Country,” in the north of Scotland, an area very much like The Kootenays. From the age of four he can recall a strong bond between himself and nature. After an injury just prior to the 1988 Calgary Olympics derailed his ski racing career, Colin put his talents towards making the ...
Dirk Lewis is the mosquito guy. He fell into the field while searching for a summer job in high school. A quarter century later he’s moved up the ranks, taken over the company and moved it to Rossland. He’s now putting his own spin on the company expanding it’s capabilities and markets with the addition ...
This week we catch up with Rich Thompson, currently of Nelson, BC. Motivated to beat his sister’s academic record, and to live an entrepreneurial life, travelling the world in the progress, Rich helped start a tutoring company. 6 months in he took over the company and began the effort to move it to an online ...
If you could distill business down it really is as simple as having energy and passion, working hard and understanding the importance of great relationships. After following his passion into the outdoor industry, he ultimately found himself in a position to buy the company he worked for. At that moment, Christian and his business partner/wife ...
