Meat & Potatoes Podcast

Kyle Poulin is the Founder and CEO of Ready2Exercise - an app that personalizes your workout schedule taking into account your allotted time, your goals, and even your mental state that day. Ready2Exercise includes programs for marathon training, bodybuilding, recreational exercise, and will soon offer personal trainers you can chat with on the app. Ready2Exercise is currently in Alpha, and Beta will be launched in July. Visit ready2exercise.com to follow along with their story.

Ty Irving is the CEO and Founder of Big Skylines - a custom sock company. Big Skylines creates customized socks for marathons, crossfit, booster clubs, and countless other occasions, including business promotions. The idea for Big Skylines came in 2014 when Ty realized he admired a company creating custom crew socks for sports teams in large cities; the Big Skylines team creates custom socks for cities both small and large. Visit bigskylines.com to learn more!

In this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jeffrey Rosenbluth, a visionary who strives to eliminate barriers that members of the disabled community face when performing physical activities. As the Founder of Tetradapt and the Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Acute Rehabilitation program at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Dr. Rosenbluth and his team have created a tetra ski and a tetra watercraft, with more products to come.

In this podcast, we are joined by Abi Noda, Co-Founder and CEO of DX. The team at DX works primarily with developer productivity teams to measure the productivity of engineers and developers, helping them in the art of software engineering. Listen to hear Abi’s personal journey, including the founding of multiple companies and seeing DX grow as the world’s first developer experience management platform.

Swapnil and Snehal Shinde founded multiple startups before realizing that their startups were plagued by late bookkeeping and inaccurate financial results for their companies. This discovery led them to create Zeni – software that provides startups with a specialized finance team as well as a bookkeeper to work on a company’s books each day, not just at the end of the month. Learn how the Zeni team focuses on AI and human collaboration to solve financial pain points for entrepreneurs.

This is the third podcast in a series with Dan Hemmert - Executive Director of Go Utah. The One Utah Summit will be held at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake on May 10, and this event will be a global, economic event, bringing together government leaders to unite through various initiatives. Even though tickets for the One Utah Summit in May are sold out, another Summit will be taking place in Southern Utah in the fall - visit oneutahsummit.com to register and get your tickets now.

Niche Academy helps organizations from local libraries to national companies build tutorial trainings that allow customers to learn independently. Jared Oates, COO of Niche Academy, and his team have built tutorial trainings for over 1,000 customers, creating training for coaching sports, parks and recreation, social media usage, and employee onboarding. Niche Academy’s goal is to make knowledge repeatable and teachable to all.

Trent Christensen and his team at venturecapital.org connect company owners, primarily female entrepreneurs, with mentors who can help these companies boom. Venturecapital.org also connects these owners with potential investors and trains them on how to pitch properly. Due to Trent’s and his team’s efforts, 75% of their companies have raised money that same year. Trent and his team are particularly excited about helping rural Utah companies thrive, growing Utah wherever they may be.

Rustico is the place to buy durable and handmade items that will help you “make your mark”. Rustico sells handcrafted leather goods including all types of journals, notebooks, wallets, and bags. In this podcast, Isaac Childs, Founder and CEO, describes how growing up as a self-proclaimed “closet writer” led him to start Rustico. Rustico has created products for companies from Sundance to Disney, and the future of Rustico includes producing custom home goods and self-improvement journals.

In this podcast, we hear from John Briggs, CEO and Founder of Incite Tax – a CPA firm that offers services ranging from tax preparation to accounting solutions. Incite Tax primarily works with real estate brokers, real estate investors, and microgyms to meet these companies’ various needs. John also explains his process of writing a book titled “Profit First for Microgyms”. This book highlights John’s experiences with microgyms; Incite Tax owns more microgyms than any other CPA firm in the U.S.