Colorado founders, real costs, practical lessons.
Colorado Business Podcast follows local founders, operators, and community builders through the messy middle of business. The conversations are direct, sponsor-heavy, and grounded in real decisions about money, staffing, regulation, technology, events, family, and growth.
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Colorado Business Podcast is a local business show with its feet on the floor. It centers entrepreneurs, founders, and community people who are building things in Colorado, especially around Colorado Springs. The format is simple. A guest brings the substance, and the conversation follows the story until the lesson shows up. That can mean a former international touring artist explaining why opening a restaurant from scratch cost far more than projected. It can mean David Silva talking about AI, cybersecurity, speed, and why humans stay responsible for what the tools produce. It can mean Jonathan Lieber framing AI as both exciting and frightening for workers and business owners. The show is comfortable with big claims, but it usually brings them back to ordinary pressure: payroll, family, customers, regulation, deadlines, and trust. Local sponsors, event mentions, and casual handoffs are part of the rhythm. So are repeated points and unfinished edges. That looseness is also where the show gets useful. Guests have room to explain how a three-day work week fits inside a service business, why a 72-hour film challenge forces creative decisions, or how a bingo-style event app can change vendor traffic. The strongest episodes connect business survival to community. Restaurants, artists, festival organizers, Lego retail, med spas, and electrical contractors are treated as parts of a shared local ecosystem, not isolated ventures. The show often circles failure, mentorship, mental health, faith, and ambition. It does not turn those themes into polished advice. It lets people talk through them. Colorado Business Podcast works best for listeners who like practical entrepreneurial conversations that still sound like people around a table, not a seminar deck.
Made for: For entrepreneurs, local operators, civic builders, and business-curious listeners who want practical stories from Colorado founders. It especially fits people interested in growth, community, AI disruption, events, and service businesses.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its local, guest-forward texture: real operators explaining what happened, what it cost, and what they would do differently. It blends practical business talk with Colorado Springs community identity in a way broader business shows usually miss.
The Colorado Business Podcast is a community-driven podcast focused on the business scene in Colorado. Hosted by business owners Andrew Hazzlee & Marcus Alvarado, each episode features a different guest sharing insights and advice on topics such as marketing, finance, leadership, and innovation. The podcast is highly regarded for its engaging content, skilled interviewing, and emphasis on building a strong community of business leaders and entrepreneurs.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A practical interview show that makes the costs, systems and local economies surrounding creative ambition easier to see.
Colorado Business Podcast follows practical questions until a guest's polished success story gives way to the machinery underneath. The hosts ask about costs, hiring, regulation and failure, giving conversations with business owners a useful operational spine.
Five-times-over restaurant costs meet three-day workweeks, giving your business fantasies a useful stress test.
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Rocky Ross lays out the pressure, cost, and creative ambition behind building a restaurant and entertainment hub from scratch.
Opening a restaurant from scratch becomes a clear-eyed look at what happens when ambition meets the invoice. Rocky Ross, a former international touring artist, recalls coming back to the United States ready to move quickly, only to find his original projections swelling by…
David Silva links AI's speed to a clear rule: the human stays responsible.
The episode frames AI as a question of control. David Silva argues that the technology can accelerate research, development, and creative work, but that responsibility still sits with the person directing it.
Jed Bradshaw explains staggered shifts, his three-day work goal and why his family's glass business stands by its estimates.
A three-day work week at Jed Bradshaw's family glass business takes some coordination. He describes staggering staff across Monday through Thursday installs, with the phone answered on Fridays.
A Colorado Springs business conversation connects local commerce to shared places, memory and the experiences that bring people back.
The episode frames local business as something more interconnected than a storefront-by-storefront economy. Restaurants, retail, arts spaces and family outings are treated as parts of the same civic habit: people leave the house, move through shared places and form reasons to…
Lane Wright's collapse-and-rebuild story turns ambition, ego, and starting over into a useful founder cautionary tale.
Lane Wright gives the Colorado Business Podcast a clear, bruising subject: what happens when growth starts serving ego more than the company. The owner of Executive Cleaning Services looks back on starting with $500, then chasing bigger symbols of success until a Rolex, a Tesla,…
A founder's long view links vibe coding to the web's open-source roots.
The COS Business Podcast frames vibe coding as part of a longer question: how technology changes while still carrying its original logic forward.
Power Platform news with practical static.
Jen Peterson shares strategies for business owners to effectively use social media by focusing on one platform, creating a strategy, and building confidence.
AeroSport began when Mike Kinner realized his favorite backyard games excluded his daughter, aging father, and less-athletic friends.
Rocky Ross shares his journey of building a multi-business entertainment hub from scratch, revealing that actual costs far exceeded projections and highlighting the challenges of regulation and isolation in entrepreneurship.
David Silva of Data Hubs argues that compliance fails when it is treated like a certificate instead of part of a company’s infrastructure.
A discussion on how AI will transform the economy and job market, featuring insights from a clinical psychologist and CEO.
Four local founders discuss the brutal setbacks of entrepreneurship and the mindset required to scale a business.
David Chavez and Jacob Rivera discuss the rapid growth and unique challenges of the Kick-Ass Film Festival, a 72-hour filmmaking competition in Colorado.
Lightning Glassworks runs Monday through Thursday because "nobody works more than three days a week."
Rachel Stavall and the Colorado Business Podcast team frame Colorado Springs as a place where business works through relationships, not transactions, and CB the Creative says he built his social presence by taking a music-industry approach to visibility.
Nick and Jay Dial discuss with Andrew and Marcus their new app that gamifies events using a digital bingo card to boost vendor-attendee interaction and revenue.
Lane Wright, owner of Executive Cleaning Services in Colorado Springs, tells Colorado Business Podcast co-host Chris Seegers about over-expanding into new services and markets before "everything started crumbling" beneath him.
Max Kupp discusses how Exponential Impact fosters startups in Colorado Springs, acting like a Y-Combinator without taking equity, and emphasizes community-driven innovation.
A senior developer discusses the hype and reality of AI 'vibe coding' in an interview on the COS Business Podcast.
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