This episode will make you feel all warm and crusty inside.No, I mean warm on the inside, and crusty on the outside. God damn it. You know what I mean. Welcome to another episode of Bragg N’ Bout Business! Brought you by the fine people down at Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West! This week we get busy in the kitchen with Lynn Freeman of Lynn’s Sourdough Bakery Co. All of your burning questions on sour dough bread baking will be answered, such as “Is old sourdough starter actual better? What is the oldest known sourdough starter? And why does it taste so gd good?” and many more. Lynn is such a pleasure to be around, which makes the bread even better.
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Hey everyone. This episode is brought to you by Cowboy TrailBrewery – Cheers to the West! This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business we sit down with Karen Boudewyn of Core Financial Solutions. Karen shares with us some excellent tips for small business owners. Key person insurance, Buy-Sell Agreements? What the what? Yes, we cover some topics that are often missed by business owners and family run businesses too. Karen is a very down-to-earth person who is easy to talk to and who wants to help and protect families and small businesses. So listen up!
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Hello Listener! Welcome to another episode of Bragg N’ BoutBusiness! Brought to you by Cowboy Trail Brewery! Cheers to the West! This week is Small Business Week! And we sit down with the most interesting woman in Bragg Creek, Shannon Blakely of Restart Ranch and Ripresa Wine. Shannon’s unique Wine store focuses on clean wines from Europe that do not have the added ingredients most North American Wines contain, leading to a clean, fresh taste with none of those common side effects I experience when I dip into that big ol’ box of copper moon I got at Costco for $6.99. Shannon also gives us a sneak peek into her latest venture, Restart Ranch, a retreat for those needing to unplug and get back to detox from the stresses of modern life.
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ATTENTION BRAGG CREEKERS!!! THIS IS A SPECIAL EDITION OF Bragg N’ Bout Business! 2025 Election Episode. Featuring one of Bragg Creek’s own – Mark Kamachi – Candidate for RVC Division #1 Councilor. Brought to you by – Cowboy Trail Brewery Cheers to the West. And hey before we get to Mark, the good people down at Cowboy Trail are launching a brand-new beer to their lineup– the Lock and Load Pilsner. Clean. Crisp. Straight shooting. Kinda like Mark Kamachi, come to think about it. Now Available at the Hut, Bragg CreekDistillery.
Back to Mark. We spent some time with Mark this week getting to know our local candidate. We cover a lot of ground, from his time growing up picking blueberries and commercial fishing with his father, finding his path to becoming a successful creative in the marketing industry, his progression into entrepreneurism, finding Bragg Creek with his wife Tanya, all the way up to this second run for term as councilor in RVC Division one. A very likeable gentleman with a clear vision of what the future could look like for Bragg Creek. His purpose, he wants to help his community and county. So, take a few minutes and get to know Mark better.
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Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business! The podcast sharing the stories of small businesses and entrepreneurs in and around Bragg Creek, Alberta. Proudly brought to you by Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West!
This week, we do a little F’n around to find out with AuntieSchool! Jessie Fiddler-Kiss joins us in the Bnbb studio to introduce us to Auntie School and what its all about. She has some pretty cool activities you’ll be sure to want to check out. It’s probably not gonna be what you think it is. We dropsome f-bombs in this episode so for more sensitive viewers, cover your ears and hide your children.
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Welcome to Bragg N’ Bout Business! The podcast telling thestories of local small businesses and entrepreneurs tin and around Bragg Creek, Alberta, Canada. Brought to you by ”Cowboy Trail Brewery!” Cheers to the West!Hey did you know our marquee sponsor, Cowboy Trail Brewery has won some accolades from the world beer awards? Indeed!
Cowboy Trail Dark Ale – World’s Best Gold medal and Canadian Gold medal
Cowboy Trail Blonde (and my personal favorite) Silver Medal
Wheat Ale – took home Bronze.
Congratulations to Jason and the team down at the brewery.Now go out and get some of their beer.
I am your host Gregg Hinton. This week we speak with PeterFuerbringer of Bluerock Ranch. Bluerock calls one of the most picturesque locations in the foothills home – Mesa butte. About 30 minutes south of Bragg Creek at the end of the 762 highway. Peter and his wife Emma are serial entrepreneurs and have a horse ranch, Airbnb, and several other businesses. The conversation is full of great advice and their story is pretty cool.
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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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Welcome to another episode of Bragg N’ Bout Business! We are all the way up to #6! Where we sit down with Trish Vansickle of PFSL Investments. We talk about the uncomfortable subject for many people – money. Trish shares how she started in the financial world and her approach to helping families and individuals look at their financial situation in perhaps a new light. She also speaks on her passion for helping people with disabilities save for the future. So if you or someone you know has a disability, please listen and share the episode, as it could really help someone you love.
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Check out Trish's website at https://livemore.net/trvansickle
This week on Bragg N’ Bout Business, RPG – River People Guides! Os Hamzic joins us at his new retail fly fishing shop in Bragg Creek. We are very excited to feature RPG on the podcast as it is one of our newest businesses in the hamlet, just opening up this past April.
Os is one of those truly great Canadian immigrant stories. Hecovers his time growing up in war-torn Bosnia, to finding his way to Canada in search of the mountain life, serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, and finding his passion in guiding and fly fishing. This man is living his dream, and he choseBragg Creek to call his business home.
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Welcome to episode #4 of Bragg N’ bout Business! Brought to you by, Cowboy Trail Brewery – Cheers to the West!
This week we feature Kieran Keddle of the Kieran KeddleAcademy located here in Bragg Creek and also the newest location in Cochrane, Alberta.
I really enjoyed listening to Kieran’s story and his approach to the business of coaching. We cover a lot of territory from his time growing up in Kent in the southeast of England, his growth through becoming a world champion, making theswitch to becoming a world class coach, making the move to Bragg Creek, and we even hear of how his path crossed with some celebrities over the years with a couple of cool stories included. Along with what the future holds for Double KAcademy.
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Episode 3 features Adrian Turner of Peak Ambition. PeakAmbition is a local small business focusing on introducing youth to wide variety of sports through community recreation services with a view to developing skills that are applicable to all sport. Such as discipline, self-confidence, passion, and respect. All traits’ parents want to instill in their children.
Adrian is super cool. His passion for developing the skillsof young people through sport is contagious. I will let him tell his story, but what he has created in Peak Ambition here in Bragg Creek is a tremendous benefit for the community, especially in helping parents develop skills in their children that will serve them well in all aspects of their life.
What is even cooler is Peak Ambition is a family business with Adrian’s wife and sons participating in the business too.
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