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The Hot Slice282. Creating Opportunities With Pizza and PurposeSend us a textOctober isn’t just National Pizza Month, it’s also National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Brewability is a pizzeria founded by Tiffany Fixter, a former special education teacher. We speak with Fixter and pizzeria marketer and manager Jess Runge about how they are serving up pizza and opportunities in their community of Englewood, Colorado.Brewability proudly employs 26 adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including individuals who are blind, deaf and have other impediments to finding employment. Fixter was motivated to start the business after seeing the shocking lack of job opportunities for...
2025-10-3032 min
Main Street Business InsightsCreating Accessible and Welcoming Spaces (Brewability)In this episode of Main Street Business Insights, Matt sits down with Tiffany Fixter, owner of Brewability, an inclusive craft brewery and pizzeria that employs adults with disabilities based in Englewood, Colorado. Brewability was also awarded a Backing Small Businesses grant in 2023 through American Express and Main Street America.
As a former special education teacher, Tiffany has a heart for creating welcoming, inclusive, and fully accessible spaces for people with disabilities. Coupled with a passion for wanting to make a difference in her local community and a strong work ethic, she developed the concept for Brewability back i...
2024-03-0626 min
No BarriersThe Brewability Lab with Tiffany FixterMany entrepreneurs say that starting a business is something they always felt destined to do. Then there are people who never in a million years thought they’d be running their own business, but, lo and behold, somehow the opportunity found them. The ‘accidental’ entrepreneur some might call themselves. Meet Tiffany Fixter. She founded The Brewability Lab, and what’s interesting is not only her path there, but the entrepreneurial journey, filled with challenges and adversity, that she is still smack in the middle of right now. Unique to this business are its employees. Disabled, abled, neurodiverse, you name it… bottom lin...
2023-04-2843 min
What's On Tap RadioCO. Brewery Employs People with Special Needs…Receives Death Threats.On Tap This Week: Candy combining Halloween with Oktoberfest, Smash Mouth at a BeerFest, Non-Alcoholic Beer Mile, German Beer Brands for sale, Brewery that employs people with disabilities receives hateful vandalism, Could beer prices be on the rise?, Tennessee announces beer changes for Neyland Stadium, Tesla Beer in the works? Craft Breweries rally to help struggling musicians, Ripped from Reddit, Hold my Beer and Watch This, Fun Facts, all this and so much more presented by Cask Branding and RTIC Outdoors. Featuring special guest Tiffany Fixter. Enjoy the the show.
2021-10-181h 26
What's on Tap RadioCO. Brewery Employs People with Special Needs…Receives Death Threats.On Tap This Week: Candy combining Halloween with Oktoberfest, Smash Mouth at a BeerFest, Non-Alcoholic Beer Mile, German Beer Brands for sale, Brewery that employs people with disabilities receives hateful vandalism, Could beer prices be on the rise?, Tennessee announces beer changes for Neyland Stadium, Tesla Beer in the works? Craft Breweries rally to help struggling musicians, Ripped from Reddit, Hold my Beer and Watch This, Fun Facts, all this and so much more presented by Cask Branding and RTIC Outdoors. Featuring special guest Tiffany Fixter. Enjoy the the show!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www...
2021-10-181h 27
Autism AdvantageLessons From the Trenches – A Follow up conversation with Brewability LabsWelcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I'm your host, Tom D'Eri. Throughout the first seven episodes of season 2, we chronicled the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash, where we employ people with autism. If you tuned in, you heard all about how we planned this location, interviewed and trained our fantastic new employees, how the opening went, and much more. For the final three episodes of this season, we're changing things up a bit! We want to revisit some of the incredible entrepreneurs who we featured in season 1 to hear about how...
2018-01-2031 minAutism AdvantageSetting Up Shop & CrowdfundingWelcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I'm your host, Tom D'Eri, the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you're not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages. Tiffany Fixter is the founder of Brewability Lab. At the time we recorded this conversation, it...
2016-12-1629 min