The LoCo Experience

My guest today was Elizabeth LeDoux,  the Founder, and CEO of Transition Strategists, an international succession and transition planning company headquartered right here in Fort Collins, Colorado.  We talked about her early days in business and relatively young transition to consultancy - where she now tallies more than 25 years of experience!  Elizabeth shares principles from her newest book, It’s a Journey, and throughout the show, she shares abundantly from her special knowledge and experience.  We also spent time discussing best practices for peer advisory groups - like LoCo Think Tank!  Elizabeth was also a longtime chair for the Women Presidents Organization and currently serves in the same role for TIGER21.

If you’re like me, you’re going to love Elizabeth, and this episode is full of golden business nuggets in a super-crucial area - successful leadership transition.

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This episode features Greg Roeder and Josh Guernsey, Founders and Managing Partners at Waypoint Real Estate in Fort Collins.  Josh and Greg founded the firm five short years ago, and have grown to become a leading full-service firm in the region, with a staff of 35 providing commercial and residential brokerage, property management, and investment services.  They attribute their success to attracting great people, who attract great people, who attract great people!  We spend a lot of time talking about how marketing real estate has changed, the varying needs of clients, and some of the big changes ahead for our region and the greater industry.

This was a fun conversation with a pair of smart, focused, and community-minded business leaders.  Tune in to learn more about this fast-growing real estate firm and the principles and values that help them find true north with their team, their clients, and the community!

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On today’s episode of The LoCo Experience, I sat down with Alma Ferrer, our Everything Associate at LoCo Think Tank - master of most things digital, and my super-helper on the show.  Alma and I discuss some of the highlight moments from Season 1 of the podcast, and we share some of the changes coming up for Season 2 - as Little River Band would say, it’s time for a cool change.  The latter part of the show is my favorite - when we get to know Alma a little better.

This is a change of pace episode, but I think you’ll love it! - Alma is a thoughtful, funny, and courageous young lady who I’m proud to have on the team. She shares wisdom beyond her years on big topics like change and acceptance, as well as an inspiring loco experience!

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Jennifer Watson is the Founder of Jennifer Watson Leadership and Watson Wellness in Fort Collins, Colorado.  The businesses allow her to pursue her twin passions of wellness and leadership, and provide her the opportunity to help her clients become their best selves - at home and in the office.  Jennifer shares her journey of building a physical therapy practice starting right after college, and moving on from that venture and evolving to focus on leadership coaching and consulting in Colorado (and nationally!) in more recent years.  This episode is full of healthy nuggets - Jennifer unfolds her GUT Leadership Method, shares tips on finding truth in perspective, and the importance of stretching both body and mind regularly!  Jennifer is a natural entrepreneur, an adventurer, and I think you'll fall in love with her and more in love with yourself if you listen in and put her tips into action in your life!  

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Jeff Schuster is the Founder and owner of Mechanics & Mindset Business Coaching, and also the author of Business Mechanics & Mindset - How Your Thoughts Create or Sabotage Your Business Success.  In a previous chapter of life, Jeff founded and grew an energy services company called Ennovate.

We discuss Jeff’s business journey with emphasis on key moments that empowered the growth of the company to over 30 employees, and we spend some time on the sale process and his later decision to get into business coaching.  Jeff is a Core Energy Coach, and helps entrepreneurs - especially those in the engineering and energy sectors - identify their challenge points both individually and on an enterprise level.  Jeff shares freely about how he helps clients shift their thinking to shift their business results, and along the way we talk of the importance of family, and how sometimes closed doors are a blessing.

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Allison Seabeck is a bit of an enigma - and a most enjoyable enigma to be around.  She’s a linguist by education, met her husband while both were teaching and editing English in Japan, and moved to Fort Collins after researching “places we might really want to live” in 2007 - recently married and unattached in the world, save for family in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (Allison) and in Laramie, Wyoming (husband, Dave).

Allison answered a classified ad - like, in a newspaper - and got an entry-level position as a Training Associate with Prosci in Loveland - then and now a leading change-management organization, now serving an international marketplace of mid-size, large, and Fortune 100 companies - as well as those in Colorado and all across the USA.  5 years later, she was the President! - having been selected by the Founder to succeed him in management of the company after private equity acquired a majority stake in the enterprise!  She stayed through another acquisition in 2016, and left the company to pursue other interests in 2018.

In 2019, Allison was recruited to be the Executive Director of the Warehouse Business Accelerator in Loveland - a non-profit dedicated to connecting scaleup companies with mentors, connections, and community resources in order to scale and create value in the world and jobs in the community.

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A warm summer afternoon, Eric was looking for something to do while their son was napping. He and their 4-year-old daughter found some old scraps of wood and after a few hours of sawing, hammering, and nailing, the first-ever Porch Box® was created. The idea was to replace the ugly cooler on their front porch that was being used for dairy deliveries.  Now, a creative, innovative, hand-crafted box that can store package deliveries, gardening tools, kids and dog toys, patio cushions, and more. The couple took a simple idea to solve a problem, their pride of building something with their own hands, and turned it into a growing business.

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Betina Pflug is a difference-maker and has made amazing impacts at every station. Betina made her way to Fort Collins from her native Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2015 - with her husband’s transfer to the JBS offices in Greeley, along with their two daughters.  In the years before that, she worked in hotel management, brought the first Hooters to Brazil as part of the nuclear team, founded a food service industry marketing agency (while pregnant with her first child), partnered in another marketing agency, and grew to 13 employees before selling and taking steps toward her heart’s work in coaching and executive development.

Betina intentionally focuses on encouraging excellence in life and business with female business owners and leaders of non-profit organizations, but also with any purpose-driven organization. This episode explores her life journey, explores her tips and best habits to defeat overwhelm and build process, and also unfolding the essentials of the Hallos Relationship Intelligence methodology.  Curt & Betina are co-hosting an upcoming Hallos Certification Workshop, presented and led by the founder of Hallos, Marco Antonio. Check out the LoCo webinar hosted by Betina and Marco here for a Hallos overview.

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Mike Root is the Founder of Copper Sky Distillery, Axiom Consulting Group, and the non-profit Kingdom Advancement Project - all based in Longmont, Colorado.  He’s also the author of For God & Country, a Discussion on Servant Leadership, especially directed toward the public sector class.  Mike learned organizational development with many years of government service, first in the military and then in OIS - the Office of Intelligence Support.  This episode pulls back the curtain on the distilled spirits industry, and has lots of tips and best practices for building a team that has culture and responsibility and owns their roles in the organization - give it a listen over a glass of Copper Sky 5-year Bourbon, you won’t regret either decision!

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Amanda Frost of ProCopy Business Center in Longmont Colorado loved her job so much that the original owner of this thirty-three-year-old company offered to sell it to her!  She took over four years ago, and has grown the business significantly ever since!  She attributes some of her growth to their “clients are family” mindset. ProCopy strives to be the “community favorite” by always trying to provide options, services, and ways to make the customer experience better, or “easy” as Amanda describes it. Her adage, “never ask a friend, family member, or employee to do something that you wouldn’t do yourself”.  Get to know Amanda Frost in this LoCo Short Episode - you're gonna love her too!  

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