The Fargo Five with Conrad Fargo

What happens when a registered nurse, a healthcare technology director, a mother of three boys, and a first-year entrepreneur all exist inside the same person? You get Heidi Bell Schneibel, and you get Fizzylixir. A Bismarck native who arrived in the Fargo-Moorhead metro in 1998 to attend what would become MSUM in Moorhead, Heidi has since lived in Moorhead, Fargo, West Fargo, and now Horace. On a...

Raised in China with over 15 years in Fortune 500 sales and marketing at companies including Mercedes-Benz and Canon, Vivian met her Fargo-born husband in Beijing before eventually making the FM metro her permanent home. In 2016, the birth of her youngest son Patrick at Sanford Hospital in downtown Fargo became a harrowing ordeal when he was diagnosed with a heart condition and emergency airlifted...

What makes something paranormal, and where is the line between the unexplained, the divine, and plain old magic? Conrad opens this episode by pressing Bonanzaville paranormal coordinator Lisa Gedrose on the definition itself, from ghosts and UFOs to Bigfoot, miracles, human perception, and the effort to debunk strange claims before accepting them. Then we get to know Lisa beyond the ghost stories....

Targen Zarlee, Owner and CEO of Devine Fashionitas LLC, joins Conrad Fargo to talk about the faith, persistence, and personal history behind her Fargo boutique. Zarlee traces her story from childhood in Liberia to Minnesota, Texas, and eventually the Fargo-Moorhead area, where she says faith helped guide both her life and the creation of her business. Devine Fashionitas brings together accessories...

Natalie Sparrow unpacks the constantly evolving world of modeling, acting, talent management, and creative entrepreneurship in Fargo-Moorhead. Natalie explains how Ultimate Image evolved into Natalie Sparrow Management and how she now represents roughly 120 talent while connecting actors and models with opportunities locally and in major markets including New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. She bre...

Josh Hutchins, principal of TWO MEN AND A TRUCK and TWO MEN AND A JUNK TRUCK in Fargo, joins Conrad Fargo to talk about his belief in an overarching positive plan and how faith shapes the way he leads. Hutch’s path to ownership was anything but direct. He grew up in Wisconsin, attended Winona State University, dropped out of college, followed his future wife to Rochester, Minnesota, and worked eve...

Colton “Colt” Albohm joins Conrad Fargo on The Fargo Five to talk about the many moving pieces behind Colt Dog Entertainment, a Fargo venture spanning rap, stand-up comedy, live events, and athlete influencer marketing. Colt explains why NF’s “Green Lights” fits his philosophy: stop waiting for permission, take the chance, and put in the work. That philosophy has taken him from delivering pizzas a...

Melanie Walker spent nine years as a paralegal supporting attorneys in the Fargo area, mentored early in her career by well-known personal injury attorney Dave Bosard and his team. When her law firm bosses needed a cleaner they could trust around confidential files, Melanie stepped up after hours and started cleaning the office herself. Her close friend Miranda, a sharp business operator in the Fa...

Jon Berton spent nearly 17 years as an oil field roughneck, starting in Colorado before rotating into western North Dakota. Making serious money with no clear place to put it, he started buying rental properties, including a fourplex in Kansas City he purchased completely sight unseen and managed remotely through a property management company. When rising interest rates cooled his appetite for mor...

Returning champion Derek Ystebo reveals how exuberance drives his life as a 13-year Zumba instructor, former NDSU adjunct professor, and current US Bank fraud team leader in Fargo. Connect with The Fargo Five:http://www. ConradFargo.com/thefargofive http://open.spotify.com/show/1MYgy8wKjn9yEKVscgG18Rhttp://www.facebook.com/TheFargoFiveDerek Ystebo makes his third appearance on The Fargo Five, a ra...

Jack Hoss, founder of Apleo, joins Conrad Fargo for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, local SEO, artificial intelligence, and why the future of business may be more local than ever before. After years building marketing systems, investing in real estate, launching a nationally recognized podcast, and working with businesses across the country, Jack explains why he intentionally s...

What does it take to build a bar from a vacation daydream into a ten-year Fargo institution? Aaron Templin, proprietor of Front Street Tap Room and Cellar Comedy Club at 614 Main Avenue, sits down with Conrad Fargo to unpack exactly that. Aaron's path runs from an accounting degree at Concordia College to managing 60 part-time employees at the Scheels Arena by his mid-twenties, before quitting...

Conrad Fargo sits down with Dr. Edison Arouse, owner of Edison Chiropractic in downtown Fargo, to unpack a remarkable life journey that spans continents, conflict, and calling. Located at 624 Main Avenue near Rhombus Pizza, Salon Duo, and Seller 624, Edison Chiropractic blends chiropractic care, acupuncture, and elements of traditional herbal medicine into a personalized healing experience. Dr. Ar...

The episode opens with Conrad and David unpacking the difference between empathy and sympathy, a discussion that sets up everything that follows. David is a fourth generation veteran who deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 and later served in Washington DC. He came home carrying PTSD that took years to surface, while his then wife was recovering from a concussion that ended her medical school career....

Conrad sits down with Zach Landry, owner of The Wellness Way Fargo, to unpack a very different approach to chiropractic care and whole-body health. Instead of quick adjustments and short visits, Zach and his team spend the majority of their time analyzing lab work, reviewing blood panels, and helping patients understand the deeper “why” behind chronic symptoms. From hormone testing and food sensit...

Conrad Fargo sits down with Holger Loor, owner of Ultra Cleaning Services, for a conversation that goes far beyond mops, crews, and commercial accounts. Holger shares what it took to leave Ecuador, adapt to life in Fargo, learn English, survive the weather, and build a company while raising a family and leading a multilingual team. What starts as a story about cleaning quickly opens into something...

In this episode of The Fargo Five, Conrad Fargo sits down with Tara Kohn, a Fargo-based holistic health coach and foot reflexologist, to explore how mindset, gratitude, and nutrition can radically alter a person’s life trajectory. From a 26-year career in massage therapy to building a self-employed coaching business, Tara shares how her lifelong experience with chronic pain shaped her perspective...

Aaron Dorval joins The Fargo Five to unpack a career that spans from a 17-year-old call center agent in Dickinson, North Dakota to a global business analyst consulting for companies around the world through Humana. What starts as a conversation about honesty and transparency quickly turns into a deep exploration of how systems thinking, curiosity, and problem-solving can reshape entire organizatio...

Arthur Weidner, owner of Crude Spirits, joins The Fargo Five to unpack a journey that blends old-world tradition with modern engineering precision. From a 100-year-old family recipe born in the smokehouses of western North Dakota to a multi-state liquor brand, Arthur shares how North Dakota Sweet Crude and Sweet Crude Orange came to life and what makes them fundamentally different from typical liq...

In this episode of The Fargo Five, Conrad sits down with Dr. Erika Wiger, owner of Turning Point Chiropractic in Fargo, North Dakota, to explore the deeper meaning of family, belonging, and what it really takes to build a life and business aligned with your values. After spending over a decade in California, Erika made the deliberate decision to return home to the Fargo-Moorhead area, trading suns...

Ashley Bates, founder of Blame Bates, joins Conrad Fargo for one of the most personal and revealing episodes of The Fargo Five. Based in Fargo, North Dakota, Blame Bates is a 501c3 nonprofit helping adults 18+ navigate mental health challenges, substance use, homelessness, and reentry after incarceration. Through care coordination and peer support, Ashley and her team meet clients weekly, break do...

Conrad Fargo sits down with Zach Petty, founder and CEO of Legato Networks, a startup platform built to connect local musicians for jam sessions, collaborations, bands, and creative partnerships. The conversation explores how modern social media has become overwhelming, addictive, and fragmented, and how Legato Networks is attempting to strip the experience back to something simple and useful: hel...

Kristen Hanson, owner of Crowning Touch Cleaning, breaks down what it actually looks like to build a “real” cleaning company that grows beyond one person with a mop and bucket. She explains how the business started through word of mouth, how demand grew into a waiting list, and why the leap to hiring changes everything. Kristen walks through how they find and vet team members, including using Inde...

Conrad Fargo sits down with Sue Baron, founder of Golden Drive, a volunteer-run nonprofit supporting homeless children in the Fargo–Moorhead metro. Sue breaks down Golden Drive’s model in plain language: no salaries, no big building, no holding product “just because,” and no complicated gatekeeping. Donations come in and go right back out through schools, shelters, and resource rooms, helping kids...

Conrad Fargo sits down with Shelle Hagen, owner of Elite Massage Academy, to unpack how one local massage business became three interconnected ventures: Elite Therapeutic Massage (with offices in Fargo and Moorhead), Elite Massage Academy (a massage therapy school), and a continuing education operation that has her traveling the United States teaching therapists and spa teams. The conversation sta...