My guests on today’s podcast were Justin & Eugene Boling, father and son.  Justin and I became acquainted this summer, and at a LoCo Think Tank event this fall I asked attendees as part of their introduction who was their hero.  After Justin answered “my dad, Gene Boling” we started a conversation that resulted in this podcast.  

Gene was born and raised in rural Nebraska, and attended a one-room country school from 1st through 8th grade - in a school with only 12-14 total students!  He became a Marine soon after high school, and served in Vietnam for nearly 2 years.  He returned to Nebraska and his high school girlfriend, made her his fiance, and later shared his plans to move to Colorado.  She said “I’m not going to move!” and he said “I’ll take my ring back!”.  After landing in Colorado he found a different pretty girl and made her his wife, got a few construction jobs, and soon moved to Fort Collins and started Boling Remodel, and worked in that business for the rest of his career.  

Justin was born and raised in Fort Collins, in the aforementioned entrepreneurial family, and wanted nothing to do with business as a young man.  He ventured into ministry and shoe sales after high school, went to Europe for a year, and later returned to Front Range and then CSU. He worked in Marketing and Nonprofit leadership, and after a season moved to a young company called PetDine, first in Marketing and then in Operations.  PetDine was just starting to run EOS - the Entrepreneurs Operation System, Justin and the company had a fantastic run of growth.  When his journey with PetDine was concluded Justin became our region's newest EOS Implementer.  

This is a fun episode full of contrasting journeys, long standing principles, old family stories, and more.  This father and son enjoyed a wonderful interaction with one another and with your host, and you’ll be glad you tuned in for my conversation Justin and Eugene Boling.  

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