The Casual Podcast

The WWE returns to Wenatchee and the Town Toyota Center with the Road To Wrestlemania Super Show, Sunday, January 7th with a triple main event! One of the Superstars in the six woman tag match will be this weeks guest on The Casual Podcast, "The EST of WWE" Bianca Belair! Bianca called in to chat with Brad about what you will see at a live WWE show, traveling the Country with her husband and fellow WWE Superstar, Montez Ford, her famous long hair and how the nickname "EST" came about.

The WWE returns to Wenatchee and the Town Toyota Center with the Road To Wrestlemania Super Show, Sunday, January 7th with a triple main event! One of the Superstars in the six woman tag match will be this weeks guest on The Casual Podcast, "The Man" Becky Lynch! Becky calls in to chat with Brad about what you can expect at WWE "house show", traveling the Country with her husband (fellow WWE Superstar and World Champ, Seth Rollins) and their 3 year old daughter, her upcoming book, wrestling her idols and arriving at the WWE Performance Center for the first time.

On the latest episode of the backing small business corner of The Casual Podcast brought to you by the North Central Washington Economic Development District Brad sits down with the owner and founder of Firm Foundations Community Consulting, Brooklyn Holton. Brooklyn fills us in on her roots here in the PNW, coming from a entrepreneur family, how she made her way to Cashmere, starting Firm Foundations CC and what they offer businesses here in NCW.

On this episode of the Casual Podcast we are backing another great small business here in NCW with the help of the North Central Washington Economic District, R-Shack BBQ. Brad sits down with the owner/pit master Louis Trim. Louis talks about his love for BBQ, his favorite things to BBQ, what they offer with their catering and so much more!

On this episode of the Casual Podcast subset "Backing North Central WA Small Businesses" Brad sits down with the project coordinator of Heirloom Creatives, Brittney Loveall. Brittany is a Wenatchee local and wears many hats for the company and does a little bit of everything. She tells us about how Heirloom Creatives started and grew into the must go place for capturing special family photos that you will treasure for ever. But photos aren't the only thing that they do, they also do video work including creating commercials for a business, documentaries, along with animation. If it involves a camera of any kind, they can do it.

On this episode of the Backing NCW Small Business section of The Casual Podcast we sit down with the owner and creator of Mima's Famous Salsa, Mima Cole! We talk to her about growing up in the Bay Area, learning to cook from her grandma, her husband talking her into turning her delicious salsa into a business, what it takes to run a small business and the support she gets from her family and other small business owners in North Central WA.

On this months episode of the Casual Podcast, Brad sits down with Mat Lyons the Executive Director of Tread. Tread "works together to enhance & protect sustainable out door recreation" in the Wenatchee Valley. TREAD was established as an organization to bring together all the various efforts. Mat fills us in on everything Tread does for our Wenatchee Valley outdoor recreation and lets us know how you can help keep the valley inviting and beautiful.

In this episode of The Casual Podcast, Brad sits down with the Executive Director of the NCW Economic Development District Alyce Brown. The NCWEDD

"aim to foster an innovative and resilient economy for North Central Washington’s businesses, workers, and families."

 They are responsible for regional economic development strategy and planning and collaborates with various private and public agencies to accomplish this goal.

Learn more about what the NCWEDD does for our local counties and local small business' with their supernova program!

Paw Patrol Live is  coming to the Town Toyota Center Tuesday, March 21st and Wednesday March 22nd. All of your favorites from the show will be in town with some surprise guest as well. All the pups are going to need help to discover a secret treasure map while on a mission to rescue Cap'n Turbot from a mysterious cavern! Before the big shows Janelle Good from the cast called in to chat with Brad about what to expect from the live show.

The WWE is coming to the Town Toyota Center in Wenatchee on Sunday, September 11th and WWE Superstar Madcap Moss called in to chat about the show, his time off in Italy, performing in front of over 60 thousand people in Cardiff, Wales, his favorite wrestlers growing up, what he likes to do in all the cities he goes too and much more! 

The WWE is coming to the Town Toyota Center for the first time with the "Sunday Stunner" on Sunday, September 11th at 7pm! The main event will see Smackdown Women's Champion Liv Morgan face "The Queen of Spades" Shayna Baszler! Before the big show down Shayna called in to talk to Brad about everything from her favorite and least favorite part of being a professional wrestler, her background in catch wrestling and MMA, her love for the Pacific Northwest and a whole lot more. 

Everyone wants to have a cheerleader in their life and on this episode of the Casual Podcast, Bryan and Brad get to chat with "The Peoples Cheerleader" Kristina Kuzmic! With a billion views of her videos online and as the winner of Oprah's "Next TV Star" competition it has allowed her to share her amazing story with her millions of followers on social media. In this episode we get to chat about growing up in Croatia and immigrating to the US, depression, poverty,  being a single parent and the struggles that come along with that to winning Oprah's contest, becoming an internet sensation and doing it about a flawed life that everyone can relate too.

Make sure to pick up a copy of her book "Hold On, But Don't Hold still" follow her on all social media and catch on the "Hope and Humor" tour in  Spokane March 27th. You can get your tickets at https://www.spokanecomedyclub.com/shows/157978

Where to find Kristina:

KristinaKuzmic.com

Kristina Kuzmic on Facebook

Kristina Kuzmic on Instagram

Kristina Kuzmic on Twitter

Kristina Kuzmic on Youtube

The Holidays are over and "ITS TIME" for episode 4 of The Casual Podcast and its brought to you by Town Nissan! This week we have the pleasure of interviewing "The Voice of the Octagon" Bruce Buffer. Bruce was nice of enough to carve out a few minutes of his busy schedule to chat with us about a number of topics including finding out famed boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer was his brother, the influence his father had on his life, his favorite movie and place to announce a fight among other things! Bruce is an extremely interesting man who has lived an incredible life and really is just getting started at the age of 62. 

Make sure to follow Bruce on Twitter @BruceBuffer, on Instagram @BruceBufferUFC also you can get your very own personal introduction for any occasion from Bruce by going to his website www.BruceBuffer.com and while you're there make sure to pick up a copy of his very entertaining book "Its Time! My 360 Degree View of the UFC. 

On episode 2 of the Casual Podcast, Brad and Bryan sit down with local community member, business owner and visionary, Jeff Kurpuis.  Jeff talks about how he and his wife Leanna started a business selling items out of their basement which evolved into the biggest online corset store in the world, Orchard Corset. 

On the debut episode of the “Casual” podcast Brad and Bryan sit down with the UFC’s first ever cut-woman, Swayze Valentine!

Listen to her amazing story of growing up in Alaska and seeing her first live MMA event and instantly falling in love with the sport too working and grinding her way to being the first ever cut-woman in the worlds biggest MMA promotion, the UFC!

And make sure to follow her on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @SwayzeValentine