Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business. Sponsored by Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West! This week, we sit down with Aaron Archer of Archer Custom Fabrication. Aaron has built a great business in the Bragg Creek area, providing custom design and welding projects from gates and interior finishing to horse tack trailers and has even been tapped to design and create unique art installations. He is a family man, military veteran, artist and an incredibly hard-working gentleman.

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Welcome to another episode of Bragg N’ Bout Business. Brought to you by the good people at Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West. I am your host, Gregg Hinton. This week we have the privilege to sit down with Neil MacLaineof Moose Mountain Horseback Adventures. Neil and his family are long time Bragg Creek Area residents and has operated Moose Mountain Horseback Adventures for closeto 35 years, building it into one of the prestige pack trip tour operators on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies. Neil also gives back to the local business community by giving his time and experience serving as the president the Bragg CreekChamber of Commerce for the past 2 years and president of the Alberta Outfitters Association. Neil has a wealth of experience and just a pleasure to speak with.

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This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business, we welcome Dennis and Tess Kaltenbrunner to the studio, the father-daughter team leading Beaver Tooth Mulching, a company specializing in acreage management of trees, brush cleaning, fire smarting, and cleanups. From removing bio-debris, cutting fence lines, trail building, and arborist services, when it comes to cleaning up your property, Beaver Tooth can help!

It was a pleasure to speak with Dennis and Tess - arealstandup, down to earth family.

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This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business, we welcome to thestudio, Lori Pederson of Channegel. Lori is a first responder in the city of Calgary, who has passion for mental health advocacy. Her start up, an apparel company – Channegel - which donates 15% of all proceeds to various mentalhealth support organizations. It is a very worthy cause and one she should be commended and supported for.

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Public Service Announcement!!! The Bragg Creek Area is home to a lot of acreages. And with acreages comes a necessity to country life –Septic Systems. Everybody poops, and when you do send those grumpies packing with the royal flush, you want everything to go smoothly – we have the expert in the house this week -Sam Beaudoin of Foothills Septic. We talk about how to treat your septic system right, things to avoid and perhaps a few things you did not know about this essential service to our community.

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This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business we sit down with one ofBragg Creek’s most prolific retailer, Harmke de Bruin, owner/operator of Hooked on Bragg. A hallmark in the shopping area here in Bragg Creek for nearly 4 years, Hooked on Bragg offers artisanal handcrafted Canadian made fine arts and giftware. Harmke also is heavily involved in the Arts community in the area. She has curated a beautiful shop which is a real adventure to browse through.

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Happy Canada Day Everybody! Welcome to Bragg N’ BoutBusiness – the local Bragg Creek small business podcast connecting entrepreneurs to locals and visitors. Proudly sponsored by Cowboy Trail Brewery, Cheers to the West!

This week, we sit down with Bragg creek Chamber member Jayden Paul of Electric Mountain. Electric Mountain provides unique 3 season outdoor experiences with electric dirt bikes and snow biking in the winter months.

Jayden is all in on this relatively new sport to the area.And I must say it looks and sounds pretty cool.

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Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business, sponsored by Cowboy Trail Brewery, Cheers to the West! This week we are gonna shred the gnar, with Jeff Woodgate of Alberta 66 Mountain Biking. Jeff and his wife Laura Mislan, have built a highly successful mountain bike touring and instruction company that also provides shuttling services on Moose Mountain and throughout k-country. Jeff walks us through how the business has evolved and how they have listened to their customers in order to curate the services they provide. I learned a lot about this type of business and I am sure you will too.

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Welcome to Episode #8 of Bragg N’ Bout Business! The past 2months have been an incredibly fun experience getting to know our local entrepreneurs. And there are many more untold stories yet to come!

But this week, we are going to celebrate and revisit ourguests from the past several weeks, share some new content, and highlights of the episodes.

If you didn’t get a chance to listen to all the episodes yet,you are in for treat! You will get some great content from those interviews in quick, short clips.

Turkey & Pistols, Big Earl’s Dirt and Snow, Peak Ambition,KK Academy, River People Guides, PFSL Investments, and Von Essen.

#1 To kick it off – Bigfoot – do you believe?

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This week, we sit down with Dominik Von Essen, of the Von Essen German Restaurant here in Bragg Creek. It was a real pleasure to get to know Dominik a bit. He is such a genuine person, and he and his family have overcome enormous obstacles to open the doors of Von Essen. We talk through that, the challenges of running a restaurant, the fulfillment he finds in being a restaurateur, …..just a really fun conversation.

And we even get to meet his mom, Ute.

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