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Ep. 152: John Brackney – Man About Town

John Brackney is Director of Public Policy & Community Engagement at Webolutions. He’s also the former President & CEO of the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce, Arapahoe County Commissioner (Chair in 2000), a veteran of the Army National Guard, and on more boards and a part of more organizations that I can realistically list…

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Ep. 151: Megan Ranegar – Yelp Denver Community Manager

[toggle title=””]…[/toggle][highlight color=”eg. yellow, black”]…[/highlight] Megan Ranegar is the Community Manager for  Yelp Denver. Yelp is one of those weird companies that you use all the time, but whose employees are rarely seen to the average consumer. They have something like 5,000 employees worldwide, but I’m willing to bet before today, most of you had…

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Ep. 150: Denver Podcast Network Live Launch Showcase

For those of you who missed it on Sunday, October 8 [shakes fist at you], here is the live recording featuring all the shows from the Denver Podcast Network as we discuss everything from pizza to movies to music to comedy and more. You get a nice sample of everyone’s shows, including mine, where I…

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Ep. 149: JD Lopez – Comedian, Host of Left Hand Right Brain

JD Lopez is a comedian, the host of Left Hand Right Brain, and proud fellow member of the Denver Podcast Network. We met for the first time a few months ago when Paul Karolyi from Changing Denver (which kicked off a new season this week!) decided to round up fellow Denver podcasters and see how…

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Ep. 148: Ginna Santy and Melanie Ulle – Co-Founders of Women In Kind

Women in Kind focuses on women, their needs in business and in the business of life. As a co-working space located in Northeast Denver, Women in Kind works to identify, to anticipate what women need to be successful at work and integrate those things into the workplace. That means thinking about how to make women’s…

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Ep. 147: Imam Abdur Rahim Ali – Northeast Denver Islamic Center

Imam Abdur Rahim Ali is the leader of the Northeast Denver Islamic Center. I was introduced to him by Rabbi Adam Morris, whom I had on less than a month ago. These interviews are part of an ongoing periodic examination I do exploring different faith communities, and serve the overall mission of this show by…

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Ep. 146: Jack Ekstrom – Founder of PolicyWorks America, My Dad

Jack Ekstrom has had an extraordinarily impressive career working in public and government for the oil and natural gas industry. He retired in January of this year, and, like the relentless advocate with an inexhaustible work ethic he is, immediately founded PolicyWorks America. He also happens to be my dad. This show is a real…

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Ep. 145: Erica Hoffman – Speech Pathologist

Erica Hoffman came into our lives to work with our oldest daughter Grace. She’s a speech pathologist, and right around her second birthday we were worried that she wasn’t talking much, didn’t have many words, and wasn’t progressing properly. So we had her evaluated, it turned out we qualified for services, and Erica started coming…

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Ep. 144: Gabe Schirm Returns – Writer, Entrepreneur

Gabe Schirm is my longtime buddy dating back to our time together in college radio, and this isn’t the first I’ve had him on the show. He first appeared on Ep. 13 when he was working a normal 8-5 job, and so was I. On that episode, we talked about his founding of Global Gabe…

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Ep. 143: Rabbi Adam Morris – Temple Micah Denver

Rabbi Adam Morris – Rabbi Mo – has been a rabbi for 23 years, and he’s currently at Temple Micah in Denver. On this week’s show, we talk about how he came to be a rabbi, how the public speaking butterflies have become his friends, what it means to be a part of some of…

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