In this episode, I introduce the Ankeny Podcast and what I hope to do with the episode. I highlight a number of local Ankeny Businesses, People, and Events. Here are some links from this week's episode 

https://ankeny18th.extremebodyshaping.com/

http://cafe-diem.com/

https://www.firefliesaglow.com/

https://www.iowachiroclinic.com/

https://www.weestees.com/

http://www.firetrucker.com/

Full Transcript:

Hi, welcome to the Ankeny Podcast I'm
Tony Guerra and Ankeny nonfiction author
professor and triplet dad I'm bringing
you the people places and events in
Ankeny Iowa and you can find past
episodes and links at Ankeny podcast.com
welcome to the show
Who am I I'm Tony I came here from
Washington DC in Baltimore I met my wife
who's from Ankeny and we lived in Iowa
City for a year but I've lived in Ankeny
for almost 10 years now
and my daughters are about to turn seven
so they're at that age that they can
self entertain for a bit give me some
time to do the podcast and and this
summer I'm gonna be launching the Ankeny
podcast which highlights the businesses
people in places in Ankeny Iowa I've
been podcasting for two years but I've
started my own podcast last December
that podcast the pharmacy leaders
podcast it's about 15 to 25 thousand
downloads a month and it's super niche
it's just really for pharmacists and
people interested in pharmacy but I
found that I wasn't really talking to
the people that were in my own town and
that was a little bit disconcerting to
me so I thought boy that'd be really
cool to just start another podcast and
but I know how to do it so I'm gonna
start talking to the people in my
neighborhood that really helped me out
so I'll probably broadcast from cafe X
that's right next to the trail point
aquatic and Wellness Center it's about
50 yards from my office where I teach um
I teach chemistry and pharmacology down
d-mac in Ankeny and I also teach a
chemistry and Newton in the fall in the
spring but it was barrels last November
where I kind of signed up again and and
just kinda got back into it and the
Farrell's though people that we know but
we go back we're like this is where you
meet your neighbors you're like oh my
gosh where do you live you live right
down the street and you don't realize
that your neighbors because you know
we're so busy and so much often we come
home and we just go right in our garage
so it just kind of dawned on me that
maybe I think they'll start talking to
other people and ice talked to Steph
Wilson who's the owner of the Farrell's
ankeny north and Farrell's Ankeny South
and if you don't know Farrell's if
you've ever seen people running down
18th Street between the come-and-go and
northeast Elementary those are the
members doing their 10 weeks and the
first day or just before the first day
then at five weeks into ten weeks you do
a mile run and you'd be amazed the
improvement is exponential but I'll be
talking to Stephanie Wilson in a future
episode who owns that and then dr. Aaron
dr. Sean and dr. Vicky at the Iowa
chiropractic clinic on 1st Street you
know I want to thank them they keep me
running I just I ran the Nashville half
a month ago and then the Drake half last
week but just kind of keeping me from
getting too far off so that I can keep
running anyone who's a runner knows that
it's not if you're gonna get injured you
do but certainly minimize it by going to
those guys and then I met someone from
ways teas who I was like oh my gosh so
we need a Mart market to market shirts
for our run coming up here in a couple
weeks actually so eight of us from d-mac
professors and people are working at
rail point come together to run 75 miles
from way I can't remember the starting
point that's bad I've been there two
times but we come down to downtown Des
Moines
but I really appreciate we's tees for
helping us out there and
it was really kind of serendipitous I I
talked to Stephanie Wilson about coming
on the show from Farrell's and then
she's like oh you should come to this
business group just talk to them for a
little bit about podcasting and then I
was like oh my gosh well we need
t-shirts and we just need them and you
know I think it was like two or three
weeks and we need custom t-shirts for
our team so it's just kind of cool that
that connection happened but if you know
somebody that details cars that's where
I need some help both of our cars well
I'll just leave it at we have three six
year olds our cars could use some work
but the best way to actually get in
touch with me is on facebook at tony
farm d1t oh and yph ARMD one or you can
email me at a a gue RRA at DMACC DM acc
edu I'll get an Ankeny podcast email
address soon enough but those are good
places to get in touch with me if you
know somebody that is an entrepreneur
that would like to come on the show I'd
love to talk to them there's no cost to
come on the show my revenue comes from
the books I'm an author and I have seven
books on Amazon so I usually have a
little commercial about my pharmacology
books or chemistry books whatever it is
and that's how I support the show so I
I'll just bring a microphone and laptop
down I mean I'm in Northeast Ankeny so
it's never more than a 10-minute drive
to wherever you're at in terms of events
this was what really prompted me to
start the show because we went to the
Ankeny 's authors fair and the only
reason I seen that it was gonna happen
was because I happened to go to
Kuykendall and return a book and then I
saw oh wow that's on Saturday it's two
days away at the Pinnacle Club at Otter
Creek and I my wife I think had to work
that Saturday so I took my daughters
down there and it was really cool
because you'll hear our three six year
olds coming in and there and I wasn't
sure you know what authors were gonna
have
books we had but there were a number of
kids that were I wanna say 12 and 14 two
of them and my daughter's engaged with
them bought books from them and they
were just kind of really inspired to see
that these authors were so young
so Zoe Olsen I think she's 12 year old
and she wrote Harry and Larry tale of
two Canaries and puppy days and then
Elijah Olsen the stick book family the
stick family book he's 14 and we have
those books in our house so but it's
just cool that they're on Amazon too and
and that you can buy the books and the
thing about the podcast is that my
pharmacy leaders podcast actually goes
to a hundred countries or a hundred
countries are listening to it so it's I
think it's called glocal where you act
globally but work locally so I've talked
to a very successful business owner and
I said wow you know but it must be
really tough to get your items to these
other countries and things like that and
he's like no the the u.s. absolutely
wants you sending things out it's
getting things in that's tough so in
terms of exporting you know maybe you
think your market is here but you know
for those for that group of young
authors your reach could be global
I mean it's there's kids everywhere in
the world and the same thing with a
number of the businesses in Ankeny while
you know you serve us as that are in
Ankeny that really the the opportunities
are way out there I'm one of the
best-selling books in the UK and also in
Australia especially Australia because
they're an island and they don't really
get it's really expensive to get product
there so a lot of times this print on
demand that we have now makes it a lot
easier to get items to them so again
opportunities I think around the world
in terms of business so just really
really cool the the podcast is just a
really really cool medium to kind of
have it's kind of a cross between radio
and
talk show and then in terms of events I
got to go to Drake Relays last night saw
Ankeny Centennial Ankeny high compete in
the four by one I didn't get to see too
much else after that but again you know
I'm so busy with the kids
I kind of want to do this show just so I
know when things are happening so you
know we'll talk about Summerfest
certainly when that's coming up in July
I know fire trucker has a bunch of rides
a lot of what I'll talk about probably
is gonna have to do with riding and
running as well and then of course the
Ankeny optimist club has their Ankeny 5k
that Sunday July 15th Prairie Ridge
Aquatic Center so I want to make sure
that I don't miss those events but also
that I'm again connecting with people
that are going to be at those events so
this is just a little bit of an
introduction what I'm hoping to do with
the Ankeny podcast again please get in
touch with me if you want to be on the
show or if you have any comments or
events that are coming up please let me
know and I'll put it on there we're
gonna start with at least a weekly
podcast
I usually probably gonna come out on
Friday or the weekend just because
that's usually when we kind of figuring
out what we want to do and then we'll
kind of go from there support for this
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