15 Minutes of Fame (15 M.o.F)

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Today I am joined by ms kari white. Kari will tell us all about who she is, what she does for a living. Why she joined us here on the show today and what her life is doing in the world stasis of now about a two week hold out.  Into our homes. As a matter of fact, I have the pleasure of working with kari on march 13th of 2020. I remember this day now so clearly. It'll be kind of a "jfk" day for me, as it was for our parents, because it was the last day of what we knew as running around the outside having a good old time.  So ms kari white - who are you? What do you do for a living? How is this world affecting you and your business right now?  Hi, goldy. Thanks for having me. I am a producer. As you mentioned, I worked with you on march 13th. That was for keystone, where we were producing some of their advertising content for the year. We actually wrapped up that shoot on march 14th which was also the day that vail resorts gave notice that they were going to be shutting down the resorts for the time being, which we thought at the time was only gonna be maybe a week or two and then turned into the rest of season. You got our second to last ski day.  One of the best days ever. It was an awesome day was a great day. Then we actually skied that next day for a cat skiing shoot. That was also an epic day and the last day of the season so that I got really lucky with that.  I produced video and, commercials and videos and still shoots, everything like that. I work a lot with vail resorts, I work a lot with outdoor companies and I do all the pre-production, to get us ready to actually film the commercial and make sure everything runs smoothly while we're doing it.  If anyone has ever been in film or photo or any of this type of medium, when coming to recording and then doing post. People of your job title are so necessary because it's like, without you, it's like a laundry basket falling down the stairs... Just things were flying out all over.  The chaos is too much and you are the human being who brings it together. Who sends out the text messages, gets the emails to make sure we have snacks - who runs this town.  I love people like you. I think it's awesome what you do. It's not an easy job because it's like wrangling band members like "come on, guys. We're all gonna go play music now. Yeah, you the ones with the instruments. Come on. "  I always call it hurding cats. Make sure that everyone's bed... I'm the keeper of snacks and then the set mom. It's like i'm hurding cats a lot of times, but it's an awesome job. I love it.  It's an incredible job to be great at as well. I really enjoyed the day we worked. So now here we are, in a time where we had the opportunity to work together march 13th. We were doing a shoot for keystone. We're having a great old time.

Welcome back. My name is goldy. You're on, what I would call, 15 minutes of fame. My podcast. I'm having fun with this. I get to meet great people.  One of them is to the left of me. Or right of you are. However, this thing works. Joining me today is kim wysocki. A human being I met along the way in the world of events and was like, wow, this person's awesome.  I thought, maybe let's have a conversation with this ms. Wysocki and find out what is happening in her world and what this is all about on planet earth right now.  Kim wysocki - welcome to 15 minutes of fame. Your name is kim wysocki. What do you do for a living? I would call myself an event specialist, event management professional.  That's what linkedin profile says. Most recently, I was an operations manager. Sure. Which is all part of it. Anyone in events knows that they've either been the executive producer or the janitor.  Both jobs are equally as important. Some are now known as essential. You and I both live in the world of events. You and I are both living in the world of not events, due to the current world status. Obviously, jobs have "poof".  How has the current world status affected you with having a job title, having something to wake up to do in the morning? And if it's not the same as it was before? What are you doing to do something about it?  It is not the same as it was before. Most recently, my full time gig was corporate incentive travel. That is over. Corporate incentive travel, meaning you would book trips for business groups. They come to colorado and they want to go snowmobiling or ride horses. Things like this? Exactly. We partner with local hotels.  When they decided to bring groups in, most of our business, here in this market of vail, was incentives. It was fun. It was build parties and these experiences and thank our clients and our guests and our employees for doing such a great job.  Take them places, show them things. It was really fun. We were destination experts here. With the closure of hotels, as well as the travel restrictions, we have become "non-essential".  Obsolete in a sense. Especially on the operation side of things. I worked closely with sales managers. They would sell the program. They would hand it to me.  I would then put it together and deliver it. That is definitely back seat. Our sales teams are still, keeping up relationships and continuing to set us up for a successful rebound.  My side hustle was anything in events. I would always consider myself a bit of a chameleon. I have a closet full of event hats. Anything from ticket management to volunteer management to athlete management to actual operations and building -  Construction management. All that kind of jazz. I did everything. Anytime somebody had an event and they said, "we have a hole to fill", they'd call me. I'd say, "sure no problem. I can do that".  That was my side hustle. Still doing everything from - I was supposed to be doing artists relations this week, for a concert. That's not happening. Instead, I am refocusing on researching.  Do other things or help bring events back to different communities in the future? You and I both know none of the ending of this, currently.

Welcome back. It's another version of my 15 minutes of fame. I am goldy. I am hosted and joined here with tiffany helton, which may have changed, or is it still helton? We'll find out. It's been so long. I know you from 100 million years ago. This is a great conversation to have because tiffany - whatever your last name is now - i'm sure you're married and you have children and all the things.  You've been a restauranteur in fort collins from literally a girl working at a beer tub to now being literally, and I know this, being one of the most successful restauranteurs in northern colorado. You're not just a restaurant owner.  Your community. You're the fabric of the restaurant community. I already know a list of people who would be like, "dude, I don't know what i'm doing with my restaurant right now.  I'll call tiffany, she'll tell me. " thank you. Want an introduction? Well, it's true.  People need to understand that you're not just some jerry off the street. You know what you're doing? So, tiffany, who are you and what do you own?  Well, my maiden name is pellin. Oh pellin. Where did I get helton from? Well, that's my new one? Well, it's not "new".  I've been married for, seven years. It must be like the recognition from facebook or whatever. Something like that.  Okay, I got it. I co-own and have cofounded the stuft burger bars. We have a location in fort collins and we have a location in windsor.  We just recently, last year, opened up lonesome buck brewery and that is in greeley. I got my hands full. I have two little boys and i'm married. That's another full time job.

Welcome back to another 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy. Joined with me right now, is lauren storeby? She is the owner of snack attack restaurant, here in fort collins.  The reason why I have lauren with me today - we want to learn a little bit about her restaurant. How long she's been here. Things like this.  We're about three weeks into the 'rona. How do you own a restaurant in this very strange time? We're gonna discover that. And then learn what's progressive about being a restaurant in fort collins. The reason why we connect is because they do events.  They'll go out and they will cater events and things like that. Of course. Right now. I'll tell you.  We don't even need to ask. She's not catering events right now. There's no events. Take it away, lauren storeby. Who are you? What are you doing?  What's going on? Thanks for having us on. We started snack attack just about three years ago. We'll be hitting our 3-year mark in june.  Hopefully we'll be back to some sort of normal to celebrate that. We did move from california. I'm a colorado native. I was born in vail.  My husband, the other owner, was born in minnesota. We wanted to get out of california. We had this dream of opening a sandwich and beer shop / bar.  Moved to fort collins, basically just through google. We just googled it. Loved the community. Packed up our stuff and moved here.  Six months later, we opened snack attack specialty sandwiches & brews. We're right here in midtown ft. Collins we specialize in fresh quality sandwiches, salads, wraps, local craft beer, cider, wine, seltzer's - all that good stuff. We have a big focus on community.  Which we will go into and why we're able to still be here, serving. I can attest, as a person who has been to your restaurant. I've had your sandwiches. I've had your ciders. The place is awesome.  You guys run a restaurant. I'm gonna go ahead and make you maybe blush, but I think you guys are the top restaurant facilitators and and you know what you're doing.  There's no question that when a guest walks into your restaurant that you guys have this thing down. At the same time, what the hell's going on right now?

Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. I just got asked the question. "am I in my van? " yes. Who is joining me today on the 15 minutes of fame? Mr. Kyle villers.  I met this gentleman in high school 20 centuries ago. In those years, we've had, we've done many different jobs. We've held many different hats.  Kyle, as i've known you, I remember there was a time you used to build big bass speakers in the back of people's cars. Then moved on to owning a restaurant.  And currently, right now, you own a handyman business in northern colorado. Building good, solid chunks of homes for people.  Tell me all about this. Thanks for having me on. This is actually a lot of fun. I really appreciate you taking the time today and yeah, we've known each other for, geez, since 1990 or something like that.  I think I even remember the car you used to drive. As we've moved through life, I spent some time, as everybody does, bouncing around from job to job out of high school. There for a while, I worked at an auto detailing business. I strapped on a tool belt for awhile and worked at -  (my cat's about to join us) - at an apartment complex and did a bunch of maintenance there. Then, I went into 16 years of the restaurant business.  I started managing bars and restaurants and actually owned one there for awhile, as well. After we got out of that in 2012, I think I clocked out on my last day in the restaurant business.  That was a wonderful day. Let me tell you that. I totally understand. I still remember that day. In 2012, we really changed our entire lives. We not only changed our careers, we also changed some of the ways we thought about how we were running our lives. I can look back to that year in 2012 and understand that's when everything changed for us. Now we do own a home maintenance company. I do all the handyman and remodel work and my wife has the cleaning business.  It's really remarkable. I think that you and I have a parallel where we worked in the restaurant industry, and it was the one industry that taught us - get the f* out. Go do something else.  It teaches you because it's such a hard industry and it's so demanding and now you're doing handyman stuff where you're functionally building things for people. What's the latest project you've done?

Welcome to 15 minutes of fame. Of course. My name is goldy and joined with me today is my friend shane mcwatters. Shane mcwatters owns an event company here in colorado.  It is march 26, 2020. We are doing an off the cuff 15 minutes of fame podcast about the current stasis of his event company. How he's choosing to live in these times in the world and what we can get wrapped up in 15 minutes. Welcome, shane, to the show.  How you doing today, brother? Good man. Sun is shining. You know, we're taking it a day by day. Like everybody is, you know, just, trying to enjoy the blue sky as much as we can, but six feet apart from each other. So, this is acceptable distance, I guess, between you and me right now.  You're a whole city away from me. I don't think there's a lot of mumbo jumbo that we have to hash over because I think people are pretty quick to understanding what's happening in the world right now.  March 26. Today. As it is, colorado itself has been put on lock down from corner to corner, durango to fort collins.  Same rules apply to everybody. We're all in our homes. We're locked down. A question to somebody like yourself, even myself, is -  We've basically just lost our way of putting money in the bank. What good human beings are we now? What can we do? You said something before this interview.  You said, "i want to put food on the table for my family. " how do you do that in these times? Yeah, well, you know, we're pretty fortunate.  The sweetheart city racing community is - they're amazing. It is a community that existed when we got here. We've had this business now for a little over two years, and it's been all about community.  And what can we do? It started. How can we bring the running community together? There was kind of different pockets of people doing different things throughout town, in loveland.  What can we do to kind of bring all those groups together? Through that sweetheart city racing came to exist. Now it's how do we keep that community going? Keep in front of our community.  Give them things to do. In this time, like you say, we're kind of on this lock down. We can't actually be in the same room together or go for runs together and go for walks together unless you're the old social distancing thing. It's funny how we create words and phrases in our current state. That's a new thing. That's real.  It's been crazy. Sara and I had this idea. We're part of a global facebook group, race directors hub.  We've been on there a lot more in the past couple weeks than we probably have ever. Everybody in our space is trying to pivot and figure out - how do we keep - if we have races coming up this spring - how do we keep some version of that alive?  If we don't, then do we cancel? Do we postpone? Things of that nature. Through all of that, without getting too far off in to the weeds, we created a totally brand new event.  It's a virtual run. We've got a strava club. Where people can log there miles on strava. We've got, like, 50. I think the count, this morning, 56 people that are participating.  The golden tee tournament of running that's it. That's pretty great. I think that's fantastic. You're staying connected. You're working your way around the physical nature.  You're doing it on, like, on a stair stepper? In a house? Stair stepper? On a treadmill? You're just doing it in the hallway? What are you doing?  They can do it however they want. The only rule to the game, - it has to be on foot. They can't go 11. 8 miles on a bike. They could be doing their stairway.  That's it. Up and down. Something like that. Whatever. They can walk up and down a hallway 800 times. If that's what you gotta do right now, that's what you gotta do..

Welcome back to the 15 minutes of fame. My name is goldy and joining me today over here in this corner again, I have to remember. It's very funny. It's all backwards. It's like being in a theater.  Stage right is stage left. You're actually over here right now. This is josh eades. Josh eades is a gentleman I met along the way. Coincidentally of the discrete cirque series. Josh was out there taking photography for julian carr's cirque series turning in photos that you're kind of like, "whoa, those are good. " "that's really awesome. "  That's how I met josh. I'm catching up with josh right now because I want to know what life is like for someone who has photography as a side profession currently and may wanna have that be their main profession down the line. With that consideration, how 'rona is treating your life and making it more fun and more difficult to navigate through the job market and how does one get back into photography? The question to start with is, who are you? Where you coming from?  I'm josh eades in salt lake city, ut. Just a little background on me. I started photography back in the mid-1990's. I did photography in high school, and when I fell in love with it I was driving up big cottonwood canyon.  I had, -just close this thing down here quick. So don't get extra beeps and dings and everything on there. But I was driving up the canyon and there was an avalanche that had come down in a part of the canyon and I got out, took a picture of it. Didn't think anything else of it.