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The Growing Small Towns Show

Dec 20, 2021

Tim Carty and Winona Dimeo-Ediger from Role Call are our guests on today’s episode and seriously, we could talk to them all day long! Overall, the topic today is about attracting people to our communities and how the approach to making that happen is going to look really different from how we’ve traditionally...


Dec 6, 2021

Today’s guest is Rikka Brandon, recruiting expert and all-around fun person. She joins us today to talk about recruiting and workforce development and why that isn’t a concept that’s limited to large or urban businesses—small-town businesses benefit from a recruiting strategy too!

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Nov 22, 2021

Today’s guests are two of the three founders of the locally owned Dakota Dirt Coffee in Milnor, ND. Landon and Wyatt Mund are also brothers so they join us to talk about how they (and their friend, Beau, who wasn’t able to join us for the episode) started a coffee roasting company alongside each working...


Nov 8, 2021

Resourcefulness and ingenuity are often found in rural America, and the foundation of both of those things are connection and community, and this week’s episode is all about how to go about fostering connection, how we invite people in, and what happens when people feel invested in their small towns. As someone who...


Oct 25, 2021

This week Rebecca is sharing her top ideas for better handling the people side of change management—something that she’s dealt with head-on over the past year while building Growing Small Towns. She talks personal growth, the discomfort that comes with that growth, and the critical importance of building and...