Colorado Business Podcast

What can an orchestra conductor teach a business owner about leadership? Devin Patrick Hughes explains how to earn influence, raise standards, and bring skilled people together, even when everyone knows their own instrument better than you do.

Devin describes the preparation, trust, shared vision, and rehearsal work that help skilled musicians perform together. For leaders of creative or highly skilled teams, the episode offers a di...

Mike Kinner created Air O Sport around a simple challenge: how could he play a sport he loved with his daughter, his aging father, and friends who did not see themselves as athletic? In this conversation, he explains how a family-business upbringing and a difficult stretch as a founder shaped a game intended to bring different generations together.

The Colorado Springs founder and inventor also shares how play has informed his work ...

Most employees never choose the health plan their employer buys for them. Mike Markland believes that model is ready for a rethink.

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Mike shares the personal healthcare experience that pushed him into employee benefits, the numbers that convinced him to leave a traditional brokerage, and why employer-funded individual coverage may give workers more control over how they use their bene...

What happens when the business you bought starts running your life? Logan Bryson, owner of LINE-X of Colorado Springs, joins the Colorado Business Podcast to share how he went from installing truck accessories to owning the operation, working 68-hour weeks, and learning to lead beyond the day-to-day work.

Logan explains how his father's truck sparked an interest that eventually led him to LINE-X, how his mother helped him acquire th...

What does it take to build a business that can thrive beyond its owner? Lauri Armstrong, Founder & Owner of Little Fins Swim School, joins the Colorado Business Podcast to share the water-safety mission, one-on-one teaching model, and team culture behind the Colorado Springs business.Lauri explains how Little Fins grew from a small swim-lesson idea into a larger operation, why water safety matters for Colorado families, and how...

Colorado is growing, but the bigger question is whether its communities are prepared to handle the projects, infrastructure, housing pressures, and business consequences that come with it.In Episode 343 of the Colorado Business Podcast, Andrew, Marcus, and Chris sit down for a candid roundtable on several of Colorado’s biggest business and development debates. They examine Project Taurus and the proposed AI data center near C...

Andrew Graff did not step into his family’s jewelry business at the top. After serving in the Navy and building a corporate retail career, he joined Luisa Graff Jewelers by applying through HR, interviewing with his mother, and starting at the bottom wiping counters.

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Andrew explains how he earned his way into ownership, built role-specific training systems, helped his mother re...

Doug Price remembers arriving in Colorado Springs in 2011 when streetlights were dark, parks were not being watered and the city was struggling to pay its utility bill. Fifteen years later, Colorado Springs has built a national identity as Olympic City USA and the Pikes Peak region welcomes more than 25 million visitors a year.

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Visit COS President & CEO Doug Price explains how to...

Brandon Kirk returns to the Colorado Business Podcast with his biggest Planet Duct update yet: the Colorado Springs company has been acquired by another local home services business.In this episode, Brandon explains what selling a business actually looks like, including due diligence, financial negotiations, employment agreements, company culture, and the difficult process of giving up control over something you built.But the acqui...

Jay Dial spent years pursuing an idea he could never get off the ground. Six years into building the Pioneer Rodeo, he opens up about the disastrous decisions, hard earned lessons, and deeper purpose that kept him moving forward.Jay joins Marcus and Chris on the Colorado Business Podcast for an honest conversation about what it takes to turn passion into a sustainable business. They break down event marketing, budgeting, cash flow,...

What happens when the business you built becomes the foundation of your identity?

Taylor Draper appeared to be on the verge of a breakthrough. His menswear company reached New York Fashion Week, attracted major industry attention, and secured paperwork for a promised $20 million investment. But the money never arrived. Two years later, Taylor was facing approximately $1 million in debt, the collapse of his business, a divorce, and a...

Preston Tucker’s story is built on grit, responsibility, family, and a relentless commitment to doing things the right way.

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Marcus and Chris sit down with Preston Tucker, founder of Red Rock Construction, to talk about his journey from growing up between Mexico and Colorado to working construction at a young age, building trust in the industry, leading teams, and creating a com...

Victor Marx joins the Colorado Business Podcast for a powerful conversation about leadership, faith, character, business, and the future of Colorado.

In this episode, Victor opens up about his life story, growing up in chaos, finding faith, serving in the Marine Corps, building a life of service, and stepping into the Colorado governor’s race. He shares how he has handled criticism, why he believes character matters more than ...

What does it really take to help someone move from homelessness toward stability, purpose, work, healing, and restored relationships?

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Marcus and Chris sit down with Travis Williams, CEO of Springs Rescue Mission, to talk about the work happening behind the scenes at one of Colorado Springs’ most important community organizations.

Travis shares how Springs Rescue Mission has grow...

Colorado Springs, Yemi Mobolade returns to the Colorado Business Podcast for a powerful conversation about leadership, health, public service, and the future of Colorado Springs.

In this episode, Yemi opens up about the serious health scare that forced him to slow down, reevaluate his pace, and rethink what sustainable leadership actually looks like. He shares how that experience changed his perspective on family, faith, work, deleg...

What does it really take to build a local business in downtown Colorado Springs right now?In this roundtable episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Clay Ross of Yobel and The Look Up Gallery joins David “Nova” Nowakowski of The Brit Pub and NovaMeets for a real conversation about resilience, risk, community, and the changing landscape of downtown business.Clay shares the story of rebuilding after the fire, searching ...

In this special internal episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, Andrew Hazzlee of Vehement Visuals, Marcus Alvarado of Red Mojo Marketing, and Chris Seegers of Exceptional Business Advisors sit down for a rare host roundtable.

Instead of interviewing a guest, the team turns the microphones inward to talk about what they are building, what they are learning, and where business is headed in Colorado.

Chris breaks down the idea behin...

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, we sit down with Colorado entrepreneur Amber Martin, owner of Reveal Med Spa in Colorado Springs, to talk about the intersection of business, wellness, hormones, aesthetics, and patient care.Amber shares her entrepreneurial journey, how Reveal Med Spa grew from a young business into a community of over 1,000 patients, why her background in television and marketing shaped the way she...

What does it really take to build a company that lasts?

In this episode of the Colorado Business Podcast, we sit down with Vince Colarelli, founder of Colarelli Construction, for a powerful conversation about leadership, family, purpose, grit, and what it means to build something that goes far beyond buildings.

Vince shares how his upbringing, education, career in architecture and engineering, and early experiences around remarkable ...