Bragg N' Bout Business Podcast

Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business! The podcast telling thestories of local small businesses and entrepreneurs tin and around Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. Brought to you by ”Cowboy Trail Brewery!” Cheers to the West! Hey did you know our marquee sponsor, Cowboy Trail Brewery has won some accolades from the world beer awards? Indeed! Cowboy Trail Dark Ale – World’s Best Gold medal and Canadian Gold...

Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business. Sponsored by Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West! This week, we sit down with Aaron Archer of Archer Custom Fabrication. Aaron has built a great business in the Bragg Creek area, providing custom design and welding projects from gates and interior finishing to horse tack trailers and has even been tapped to design and create unique art installations. He is...

Welcome to another episode of Bragg N’ Bout Business. Brought to you by the good people at Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West. I am your host, Gregg Hinton. This week we have the privilege to sit down with Neil MacLaineof Moose Mountain Horseback Adventures. Neil and his family are long time Bragg Creek Area residents and has operated Moose Mountain Horseback Adventures for closeto 35 years...

This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business, we welcome Dennis and Tess Kaltenbrunner to the studio, the father-daughter team leading Beaver Tooth Mulching, a company specializing in acreage management of trees, brush cleaning, fire smarting, and cleanups. From removing bio-debris, cutting fence lines, trail building, and arborist services, when it comes to cleaning up your property, Beaver Tooth can help...

This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business, we welcome to thestudio, Lori Pederson of Channegel. Lori is a first responder in the city of Calgary, who has passion for mental health advocacy. Her start up, an apparel company – Channegel - which donates 15% of all proceeds to various mentalhealth support organizations. It is a very worthy cause and one she should be commended and supported for. Enjoy!

Public Service Announcement!!! The Bragg Creek Area is home to a lot of acreages. And with acreages comes a necessity to country life –Septic Systems. Everybody poops, and when you do send those grumpies packing with the royal flush, you want everything to go smoothly – we have the expert in the house this week -Sam Beaudoin of Foothills Septic. We talk about how to treat your septic system right,...

This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business we sit down with one ofBragg Creek’s most prolific retailer, Harmke de Bruin, owner/operator of Hooked on Bragg. A hallmark in the shopping area here in Bragg Creek for nearly 4 years, Hooked on Bragg offers artisanal handcrafted Canadian made fine arts and giftware. Harmke also is heavily involved in the Arts community in the area. She has curated a beautiful s...

Happy Canada Day Everybody! Welcome to Bragg N’ BoutBusiness – the local Bragg Creek small business podcast connecting entrepreneurs to locals and visitors. Proudly sponsored by Cowboy Trail Brewery, Cheers to the West! This week, we sit down with Bragg creek Chamber member Jayden Paul of Electric Mountain. Electric Mountain provides unique 3 season outdoor experiences with electric dirt bikes and...

Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business, sponsored by Cowboy Trail Brewery, Cheers to the West! This week we are gonna shred the gnar, with Jeff Woodgate of Alberta 66 Mountain Biking. Jeff and his wife Laura Mislan, have built a highly successful mountain bike touring and instruction company that also provides shuttling services on Moose Mountain and throughout k-country. Jeff walks us through how the...

Welcome to Episode #8 of Bragg N’ Bout Business! The past 2months have been an incredibly fun experience getting to know our local entrepreneurs. And there are many more untold stories yet to come! But this week, we are going to celebrate and revisit ourguests from the past several weeks, share some new content, and highlights of the episodes. If you didn’t get a chance to listen to all the episod...

This week, we sit down with Dominik Von Essen, of the Von Essen German Restaurant here in Bragg Creek. It was a real pleasure to get to know Dominik a bit. He is such a genuine person, and he and his family have overcome enormous obstacles to open the doors of Von Essen. We talk through that, the challenges of running a restaurant, the fulfillment he finds in being a restaurateur, …..just a really...

Welcome to another episode of Bragg N’ Bout Business! We are all the way up to #6! Where we sit down with Trish Vansickle of PFSL Investments. We talk about the uncomfortable subject for many people – money. Trish shares how she started in the financial world and her approach to helping families and individuals look at their financial situation in perhaps a new light. She  also speaks on her passi...

This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business, RPG – River People Guides! Os Hamzic joins us at his new retail fly fishing shop in Bragg Creek. We are very excited to feature RPG on the podcast as it is one of our newest businesses in the hamlet, just opening up this past April. Os is one of those truly great Canadian immigrant stories. Hecovers his time growing up in war-torn Bosnia, to finding his way to...

Welcome to episode #4 of Bragg N’ bout Business! Brought to you by, Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West! This week we feature Kieran Keddle of the Kieran KeddleAcademy located here in Bragg Creek and also the newest location in Cochrane, Alberta. I really enjoyed listening to Kieran’s story and his approach to the business of coaching. We cover a lot of territory from his time growing up in...

Episode 3 features Adrian Turner of Peak Ambition. PeakAmbition is a local small business focusing on introducing youth to wide variety of sports through community recreation services with a view to developing skills that are applicable to all sport. Such as discipline, self-confidence, passion, and respect. All traits’ parents want to instill in their children. Adrian is super cool. His passion f...

This week we sit down with the Earl himself, Rich Kilbride of Big Earl’s Dirt and Snow, out of Redwood Meadows, Alberta. Rich is one of the most down to earth gentlemen I have had the pleasure of meeting. He also knows a thing or two about fencing, which is how I originally met him, as he built our acreage fence. We talk about the great community of redwood meadows, how other local landscape const...

This week…..we speak with Rob Sawchuk of Turkey & Pistolsin Bragg Creek. Now Rob is one of the coolest people I have had the pleasure to speak with. Just a genuine gentleman who loves his life, his wife, and his community. He shares his story of how he became a small business owner from a humble start in Lone Rock, Saskatchewan. People that helped him along the way and how he is passing it for...

In this short pilot episode we discuss how the podcast came to be, what we hope to accomplish, and why you will want to tune in each week.