A podcast
about the entrepreneurs, builders, and creators in the Salt Lake area.
Salt Lake City is flourishing into a completely new city as the city continues to grow in popuation, economy, buildings, and culture and this podcast highlights those people making Salt Lake a better place and creating a community at the same time.
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The Show
Small Lake City is a podcast about the people, stories, and culture shaping Salt Lake City. From local legends and buried history to conversations with creatives, builders, and community voices — each episode is a chance to better understand the city and the people making it what it is.
The show is conversational and unhurried. No agenda, no hot takes — just real conversations with interesting people who have something worth saying about Salt Lake.
If you've ever felt like there's more to this city than meets the eye, this is the podcast for you.
The Host
Erik Nilsson
Erik Nilsson is a Salt Lake City native who's spent his career at the intersection of finance, strategy, and business growth — working across M&A, management consulting, and impact investing, and currently serving as a VP of Finance and Operations in tech. He spent six years living in Washington before finding his way back, but not before a six-month detour living and working out of a van across 36 states — a trip that clarified, more than anything else, that Salt Lake City was home.
The podcast started when Erik kept asking a question he couldn't find a good answer to: who are the people behind this city's growth? He'd always loved doing interviews at work and was drawn to podcasting as a format, but it took returning from that van trip — certain about where he wanted to be and ready to build something — to finally start. He ordered the equipment, recorded the first episode, and knew immediately it was what he'd been looking for.
125 episodes later, he's still asking the same question.
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Find Small Lake City Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube — or wherever you listen. New episodes drop regularly.
Salt Lake City. Real people. Real conversations.
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