Market Meets Podcast

Market Meets: Isabel McDevitt with Boulder Bridge House

May 12th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 18 secs

boulder bridge house, bridge house, charity, colorado, community, david devine, heidi schamber, home insecure, homeless community, homeless shelters, homelessness, isabel mcdevitt, market meets, non-profit, opportunity, rachel rohrig, shelters, work force

Today we have the pleasure of speaking with one of Boulder’s Philanthropic warriors, Isabel McDevitt. Isabel currently is the CEO for Bridge House, which is a non-profit that supports the homeless population of Boulder and Beyond. She is impactful and passionate about creating new and unique opportunities in the workforce for this population. Get ready to get goosebumps for the incredible work BridgeHouse and Isabel are doing for our community.

Market Meets: David Janowiec with The Recess Factory

April 21st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 30 secs

boulder, colorado, david janowiec, erie, event planning, events, heidi schamber, hockey, market meets, mud run, obstacle course, planning events, podcast, pond hockey, rachel rohig, the recess factory

Our goal at The Recess Factory is to provide effective, unique, and impactful solutions designed to boost your event, be it small or a large organization.
Our team designs a solution tailored specifically to the needs of your situation in order to ensure you achieve your dreams of success. We all have dreams, eh?
Give us a shout, we'd love to hear about them.

Market Meets: Kathy Pear with Pear Project Services

March 31st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  32 mins 29 secs

business, business life, furniture, heidi schamber, kathy pear, market meets, market meets podcast, office, office culture, office furniture, office life, office recycle, pear project services, podcast, rachel rohrig, recycle

Pear Project Services (PPS) helps businesses solve office furniture problems. The PPS team, led by Kathey Pear, brings creativity to the complex and often messy commercial move process. We are passionate about keeping reusable office furniture from being dumped into a landfill simply because there are no good alternatives.

PPS does not have “not-for-profit” status. We call ourselves an NJFP, “Not Just for Profit”, organization. The revenue stream that we generate from facilities decommissioning and product resale must cover the cost of our labor, vehicles, warehouse facility rental, and other expenses. While our primary goal is to help businesses solve logistics problems and keep furniture in circulation, without a revenue stream we would not be able to keep our doors open or provide our clients with a way to “Save the Furniture”.

We take no-longer-needed or excess furniture from larger companies and re-home as much as possible with not-for-profit groups, start-ups, and smaller companies that need good used furniture. Every project presents a unique combination of reusable products for us to donate, resell, recycle, and repurpose.

Creativity and the sincere desire to “Save The Furniture” is our secret sauce.

We are proud to report that only a small percentage of the furniture we handle ever ends up in a landfill.

Market Meets: Dan Garfinkel with Finkel and Garf

March 17th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  32 mins 52 secs

beer, beer business, boulder, colorado, craft beer, dan garfinkel, heidi schamber, market meets, rachel rohrig, tap room

Finkel & Garf Brewing Company is a collaboration between Eric and Dan Garfinkel, a father (Finkel) and son (Garf). We share a love of well crafted beer and an appreciation for the life experiences we have enjoyed with a beer in hand.

Our reason for being is simple:

To make outstanding craft beer
To facilitate great moments among family and friends.
Our Brewery is centered around a 15 barrel brew house designed to produce beer for our Tap Room and for restaurants and stores along Colorado’s Front Range.

We are often asked why we chose to put toys in the Finkel & Garf crest rather than images of hops and barley. The answer is because we are all still kids at heart. Toys are fun and they remind us not to take ourselves too seriously.