Lori Gama interviews Greeley Lifestyle Magazine Publisher Tara Rasmuson
Lori Gama interviews Greeley Lifestyle Magazine Publisher Tara Rasmuson on The Path Finder’s Podcast with Lori Gama. Find out how Tara Rasmuson’s business career progressed from the Oil and Gas industry into the publishing industry. Tara shares intriguing insights into what makes Greeley tick. Find out why Greeley is a great community and very generous community to live, work and play in. This is another insightful interview with a smart and kind Greeley business owner: Tara Rasmuson. Both Tara Rasmuson and Lori Gama are big cheerleaders of Greeley, Colorado. Watch the video: Greeley Lifestyle Magazine Publisher Tara Rasmuson with Lori Gama to learn what two of Greeley’s biggest cheerleaders have to say about Greeley. Lori Gama’s YouTube Podcast: The Path Finder’s Podcast is dedicated to helping 10,000 heart-centered, purpose-driven people to go full-time with their passion or take their business to the next level by using the magical tools of technology, AI marketing and video. Lori Gama interviews Greeley Lifestyle Magazine Publisher Tara Rasmuson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNOGzpIvF54 Transcript: (00:00) (Lori) What what do you think… after your time spent publishing stories about the people that live here from all walks of life… what do you think really makes Greeley, our community, tick.. what is it? (Tara) oh I love that question. That is something I figured out probably my first year of the magazine and it was other people that helped me that came to me and asked me that and all of a sudden it was like a light bulb [Music/Intro] (Lori)Welcome to the Pathfinder podcast my friends here’s where we inspire you to go full-time with your passion or if (00:38) you’re already in your business to break through to the next level and today I am so excited to welcome my guest here Tara Rasmason, the publisher of Greeley Lifestyle magazine. Thank you so much for coming (Tara) Thank you for having me Lori. I’m very excited to be here and very excited for your new show. (Lori) Oh thank you! I’m so excited! Tara you are the publisher of the Greeley lifestyle magazine and you also, before that, had a career in oil and gas industry and I love your degree because I think it’s basically what (01:07) you’re doing now… you have a bachelor of Applied social science degree from Colorado State University… um I looked up what applied social science is and I’m going to read the definition… it’s all about–and it’s quite–you know it’s really intriguing… it’s about applied social sciences, are those academic social science disciplines professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science knowledge to make impact on the daily life of communities organizations and persons and it sounds (01:35) exactly like what you’re doing now… and so I wanted to ask you, as our first question, tell me about the journey from that degree to the oil and gas industry to now as the publisher of the Greeley lifestyle magazine, about my favorite subject: living and playing in Greeley! (Tara) Great question… so if we go back in time when I was going to school I had no idea what I really wanted to study um I went to my counselor and I said you know help I don’t know what I want to do I’m a stay home mom I’m trying to finish my degree I have four tiny babies and uh no (02:10) idea what to do and he said well what do you do for fun and I said well I read social science books for fun it’s kind of nerdy but that’s what I love and he said great study that so I did and um I remember getting to close to graduation and realizing that I had to get a job because I had all this student debt and had to be an adult and so I called my dad and I said said dad what am I going to do I have this really generic degree and I I can’t I don’t know what kind of job to look for I’m going to have to get (02:37) a master’s degree right and he said well have you ever thought about doing oil and gas there’s a lot of ladies that do a lot of land work and you don’t have to have a very specific degree for that and my dad’s a geologist in the oil and gas industry and he never encouraged me to do oil and gas before I think because it’s been a very male-dominated industry and he’s seen a lot of women that weren’t treated great but it’s really shifted in the last um 20 years and so he finally said why don’t you look into (03:06) that and so I said okay and um so I graduated with my degree and went right into oil and gas and I had a great career um still dabble in it a little bit um but I you know I I kind of got a little bit burned out in the oil and gas industry and so I was looking for something new to do and um I had just moved to Greeley and I was very open you know I just kind of said you know what I’m going to be very open and something’s going to come along and it’s going to be and I’m just going to know it’s the (03:37) right thing and I saw a advertisement on LinkedIn jobs page for um the Greeley market to start a magazine through a franchise and all of a sudden I just had this vision of what a perfect opportunity to number one tell the great stories of Greeley because there’s a lot of misconceptions about the Greeley community and I would have the perfect platform to be able to share all the wonderful things and then number two it was actually right in the middle of the pandemic and people were feeling so disconnected right and so isolated