Mind Your Business - A Podcast Series produced by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce

We are excited to bring you our first  Mind Your Business for 2026!  Our first episode of the new year examines the recent spike in activity in commercial development, particularly in the housing market. Recent large-scale projects have made headlines due to scope, location, and their potential impact on the local housing market. As these developments make their way through various stages of appro...

In what is quickly becoming the season of saying, "for the last time in 2025," we bring you the final episode of Mind Your Business for the calendar year! On this week's episode, we take a closer look at the RISE Caldwell Watauga program, and how its connecting local employers with apprenticeships designed to enhance work-based learning for high school students interested in careers...

This week's High Country weather brought its fair share of schedule disruptions, placing a premium on remote connectivity for the majority of us, from small business owners to local school students. As a small business, how do you stay up-to-date on the technology needs within your workplace, and how are those processes and programs accessed on a day when Old Man Winter decides we aren't...

As we kick off the final month of the year, this edition of Mind Your Business serves up a fresh slate of insights and stories from across the High Country.  We sit down with Jonathan Allen of Allen Wealth Management to break down the financial to-dos local businesses and individuals should check off before the calendar turns, and we look at some of the driving economic forces of the past year alo...

A holiday week is the PERFECT time to drop a bonus episode of  Mind Your Business,  just in case you need a podcast to get you through a long drive or out of an impossible conversation! We take you inside the Inn at Crestwood for the 2025 Watauga Women in Leadership Evergreen Voices Gala.  This year's conversation centers on work ethic and hustle, the drive that pushes us to do hard things, s...