The BizWest Podcast

BizWest publisher Christopher Wood sat down in June during A Day in the Life of Downtown Greeley to chat with Richmark Holdings principal Logan Richardson, Greeley Downtown Development Authority executive Bianca Fisher and Centennial Hospitality Group president Brian Seifried about the evolution of Greeley's burgeoning business, residential, entertainment, culinary, cultural and vibrancy hub....

KUNC CEO Neil Best reflects on how he's watched Northern Colorado change over the past half-century from his perch as a program director, news director and CEO of the public radio station.

Lucas High chats with Quicksilver Scientific founder and CEO Dr. Christopher Shade on how the company is trying to develop ways to put CBD into food and beverages in novel ways.

BizWest editor Chris Wood talks with Sunrise Strategic Partners CEO Steve Hughes  about what he thinks will generate the growth of natural and organic companies that he might invest in the near future.

When your restaurant chain prides itself on its cannabis-themed interiors, how does it stay relevant during the pandemic when to-go is the dominant way people eat? Lucas High chats with Cheba Hut vice president of marketing Brian Loeb  about how the Fort Collins chain is getting customers to play mobile games at home for pinners.

In January, the Lafayette City Council approved a deal to offer a delay in fee payments by a local developer who agreed to rename a new apartment building downtown after initially naming it after the city's founder Mary Miller. That came after months of petitioning from local residents who were against indirectly honoring Mary Miller's grandsons, who participated in the Ku Klux Klan&apos...

In this week's episode, Lucas High talks with Eric Pierce of New Hope Network about Boulder's natural and organics industry as it looks forward to promoting health after one of the most unhealthy years in human history.

We're shifting our schedule for dropping new episodes of the podcast. Starting next week, we'll be dropping new interviews and insights every other Tuesday.

On this week's episode, Neat Capital Inc. CEO Luke Johnson describes how financial technology startups that eschew in-person meetings got hot during the pandemic, and how they can permanently alter how we buy homes in a post-pandemic world.

BizWest editor Chris Wood talks with Jessica Erickson of the Longmont Economic Development Partnership about the group's new strategy to build an inclusive local economy , and Dan Mika speaks with Ramble on Pearl CEO Andy Minden   about how the pandemic has hurt the clothing store and other local retailers that didn't get the benefit of being declared essential businesses.

Dan Mika, Lucas High and Chris Wood take some time to talk about the highlights and the (frankly a lot of) lowlights of 2020 and what they're watching in the Northern Colorado and Boulder area business scene as the world prepares to emerge from the pandemic.

We're taking a break from the podcast this week, so in lieu of a full episode, we have a brief message from all of us here at BizWest Media.

In this week's episode, Dan Mika speaks with Susan Kirkpatrick on how small retailers in the region have fared in this strange holiday shopping season, and Dan Mika and Chris Wood discuss Lightning eMotors' plans to go public and eventually pull in billions in revenue by 2025. This podcast is supported by Pinnacol Workers’ Comp .

Dan Mika and Lucas High talk about the worrisome predictions CU Boulder's Leeds School of Business has for Colorado's economic recovery in 2021, and Lucas speaks with JumpCloud CTO Greg Keller on the Louisville software company's plan to hire 500 people in the coming years. This podcast is supported by Pinnacol Workers’ Comp .

This week, Dan Mika speaks with Colorado School of Public Health professor Glen Mays about how the fight between COVID-19 restrictions and the survival of small businesses reached a boiling point, and Chris Wood speaks with Mark Retzloff on where Boulder's longtime organic foods industry stands after months of the pandemic. Sponsors for this podcast include: Pinnacol Workers’ Comp , Chartered...

We're taking the week off from the BizWest Podcast this week in observance of Thanksgiving. From all of us at BizWest, please have a safe long weekend by staying at home and avoiding gatherings, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

In this week's episode, we have a recap of BizWest's 2020 Boulder Valley RE/Con. National Association of Realtors senior economist Lawrence Yun tells us why the winter may be one of the hottest seasons for homebuying in memory, while Lynda Gibbons and Gregory Glass from commercial brokerage Gibbons White breaks down a COVID-strained office and retail market.

BizWest editor and publisher Christopher Wood and reporter Lucas High preview what's in store for next week's BizWest Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference and discuss the breaking news of State Farm vacating its Greeley offices to allow employees to permanently work from home. Sponsors for this podcast include: Chartered Technology , DaVinci Sign Systems and FMS Bank.

We don't have  those election results, but we do have a recap of the ballot measures that matter most to Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley with executive editor Chris Wood, managing editor Ken Amundson and reporter Lucas High. Sponsors for this podcast include: Chartered Technology , DaVinci Sign Systems and FMS Bank.

This week, we bring you selected conversations from last week's Confluence, BizWest's symposium on how water impacts Northern Colorado’s present and future. USDA biogeochemist Chuck Rhoades tells us how Colorado’s record-setting fire season this year could change how local watersheds could behave for years to come, while a group of public health and utilities experts talk about how usefu...

Greeley Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Jaime Henning joins the podcast to reflect on her first year at the chamber's helm and managing COVID's economic effects, and Larimer Small Business Development Center director Mike O'Connell comes on to talk about the state of the Paycheck Protection Program in Northern Colorado.

Chris Wood and Lucas High recap the week's chats at the Boulder Economic Summit, and Chris Wood returns for a conversation with East Colorado SBDC director Lisa Hudson on how the pandemic is affecting the state's eastern front.

Dan Mika and Lucas High discuss Medtronic's decision to abandon building its new campus at Louisville's 400-acre Redtail Ridge plot, and Dan speaks with Amy Prieto and Mike Rosenberg about Prieto Battery Inc.'s deal to develop batteries for all-electric pickups and SUVs.

In this week's episode, Dan Mika chats with Fort Collins Area Chamber CEO David May, who will retire at the end of the year after 17 years with the group. Meanwhile, Lucas High chats with CU Boulder professor Danny Dig about the university's new center focusing on the Internet of Things.

In this week's episode, Lucas High speaks with Deepank Utkhede from Vantage Hemp in Weld County about the area's increasing interest from the hemp industry, and about a recent visit from actor Laurence Fishburne.