Tuesday Announcements 5/27: Mitch Matthews of FlowHause, Cam and Ying's Amazing Vault Episode, Concert Season is HERE (Giveaway), Fireweed Market, ACS Tastemaker, and This Week's Hoppy Guest

From the football field to craft beer innovation, this week's update spans Salt Lake City's diverse community landscape. We've recently shared Mitch Matthews' compelling journey from BYU football star and NFL player to successful entrepreneur. His newest venture, Flow House in Pleasant Grove, builds community around wellness practices including hot treatment, cold therapy, and breathwork. Matthews offers profound insights about authentic community building that transcends mere social media metrics.

Summer has officially arrived in Salt Lake with the kickoff of concert season! We're celebrating by giving away tickets to Hardy's performance at Utah Credit Union Amphitheater. The cultural awakening continues with the Fireweed Market at HK Brewing this Saturday, featuring over 50 local artists, food trucks, and beverages in an all-ages friendly environment. This creative marketplace represents everything we love about Salt Lake's community spirit.

Looking ahead, our conversation with Chad Hopkins of Hopkins Brewing drops this Thursday. Recorded inside the bustling brewery itself, Chad shares how he created one of Sugar House's most beloved establishments. Hopkins Brewing embodies the perfect trifecta - exceptional craft beer, outstanding in-house food menu, and community-focused programming every night of the week. We're also continuing our Vault series this Saturday with more authentic Salt Lake stories. As we embrace the warming weather, we're also supporting the American Cancer Society's fundraising efforts - a cause close to my heart. Check the show notes to contribute to this important work and join us at the Fork Cancer event on August 8th.

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Join Erik as he supports Fork Cancer, a night of food, drinks, and live music—all for a great cause. Grab your tickets at utah.acscanforkcancer.org and enter Erik Nilsson to help him hit his $12,000 fundraising goal!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is up everybody and welcome back to another
Tuesday Update.
I am your host of the SmallLake City Podcast, eric Nilsen.
A handful of updates this week.
The new episodes since the lastTuesday Update are number one
the episode with Mitch Matthews.
He is someone if you'refamiliar, was one of the star
receivers during the last fewyears of Coach Mendenhall's era.

(00:22):
Before Sataki took over as headcoach.
He went on to play in the NFL,started a successful pest
control business, but has nowstarted his own new business
called Flow House down inPleasant Grove where he's
building a community around hottreatment, cold treatment and
breath work to help bring peopletogether and grow a community
there.
Lots of life lessons there,lots of great points about

(00:45):
building community and how hardit is and how it can take time
and doesn't just rely onfollowers and popularity.
Also, part two of episode fourof the Vault series with Cameron
and Ying Nance is live.
This is one of my favorite rawstories that I've had on the
podcast and they're two of myreally good friends that I also
got to see the story happen,live as it did.

(01:06):
So great story about findinglove internationally and then
finding themselves in Utah andbeing entrepreneurs and building
where they stand here.
Also, kilby Block Party kickedoff the concert season this year
and I'm happy to announce thatwe are giving away some tickets
for the first show at the UtahCredit Union Amphitheater, also

(01:27):
known as USANA Amphitheater, togo see Hardy live there this
Thursday.
Today's the last day to enterthe giveaway, so make sure to go
check Instagram and enter onthe post there I'm going to be
going.
I'm so excited for live music.
It's been a long winter and sograteful that we can finally get
out and enjoy some live musictogether.

(01:48):
So also coming up this Saturday,may 31st, is the Fireweed
Market at HK Brewing.
So outside of HK Brewing theyhave a huge parking lot that
they're going to have an artmarket where there's going to be
50 plus different art vendors.
There's going to be food trucks.
There's going to be 50 plusdifferent art vendors.
There's going to be food trucks.
There's going to be drinks andbeverages.
It's an all ages event.

(02:09):
So if you want to bring thekids, bring the family, make
sure to do so.
I'm going to be there.
I specifically love local artmarkets and supporting local
artists.
That will be from 3 to 8 pmthis Saturday at HK Brewing,
which is 370 Aspen Ave, by theTesla Repair Place, pretty close
to Target on 3rd West.
So come check that out for sure.

(02:30):
And also, and most importantly,want to announce this week's
guest.
So one of my favorite places tograb a beer, especially in Sugar
House, is Hopkins Brewing.
In my opinion, it's one of theplaces that has a full triple
threat as far as any brewerygoes.
They have amazing beer.
They are one of the fewbreweries that has their own

(02:51):
menu in-house Great menu thatChad Hopkins has been able to
build, and their programming isamazing.
Every night they have somethinggoing on and truly support the
community.
So we're going to hear morefrom Chad Hopkins himself about
the story of how he started tobuild chat, about the story of
how he built Hopkins Brewing andsome of the plans he has for
the future.
So great guy, great episode.

(03:13):
We actually ended up recordingright in the middle of the
brewery itself.
So check in for that.
We'll be releasing thisThursday and I will see you
there.
Also, the next episode of theVault series will be releasing
this Saturday.
But yeah, lots of great thingscoming up this week, so stay
tuned.
One more quick note You'veprobably seen the ads run on

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episodes, but I have beennominated to be a tastemaker for
the American Cancer Society tohelp raise some money for a
great cause.
Cancer is something that hasunfortunately impacted my life
and a lot of the people aroundme that I know and care about.
Some have survived it, somehave not, so click the link in
the show notes to make adonation.
I am extremely grateful if youdo, or if you buy tickets to go

(03:57):
to the Fork Cancer event comingup on August 8th.
Please reach out if you haveany questions or comment below
and I'll get back to you.
Any donation is very acceptedand very appreciated.
So if you can, please donatebelow.
But besides that, good weatheris here.
It's starting to get reallywarm, so take advantage of that

(04:18):
time to get outside before itgets a little bit too hot to do
so.
Start to build on that tan fromthe pasty whiteness that
settled in over the winter.
But I will see you thisThursday on the episode with
Chad Hopkins, saturday at bothHK Brewing for the Fireweed
Market and the Vault episode.
So enjoy a great week and Iwill see you soon.