Conversations with cool people doing awesome things in and around Missoula, Montana.
We like say at the college that "Montana Means Business," but that's not just a catchphrase. Montana and our Missoula community inspire incredible creators. This podcast is about exploring their journeys. We hope the stories we share will resonate with you, at whatever stage you are in your career.
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Paige Williams creates an audience
Justin W. Angle
This week we learn about a woman and a venture that epitomize A New Angle’s primary themes – creativity and hustle. Paige Williams is a creator, innovator and entrepreneur. Since 2013 she’s been grinding along the winding road of a start up trying to create ... Read More
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Incentives & Instincts returns!
Justin W. Angle
Justin’s monthly conversations with Bryce Ward return. In this installment, Bryce and Justin discuss the latest Covid-19 developments in Montana before turning their attention to racism, both at the individual and systemic level.
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Making the case for your brand with Partners Creative
Justin W. Angle
Today’s conversation explores the importance of marketing and brand investment during the pandemic. There’s an instinct to batten down the hatches and cut everything extraneous in a crisis, to hoard cash at all costs. Historically, however, pulling back on marketing during a recession or depression ... Read More
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BONUS: Sounds Of Our Lives
Justin W. Angle and Victor Yvellez
For the last several months we’ve been working with recent University of Montana Journalism graduate, Victor Yvellez, on a podcast project that we’ll be announcing shortly. Victor has his own pod that he launched during the pandemic. It’s called Sounds of our Lives, and his ... Read More
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Deena Mansour, Germaine White & Heidi Wallace do the work
Justin W. Angle
Today we bring you three amazing and important voices – Deena Mansour and Germaine White from the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana as well as Heidi Wallace from EmpowerMT.
These three women are doing important work to promote diversity and ... Read More
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Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer is hopeful
Justin W. Angle
Today we bring you Tobin Miller Shearer, Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Montana. We recorded this conversation in early May, before the murder of George Floyd and associated demonstrations. That conversation covers several important topics, ... Read More
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Molly Bradford on the power of events
Justin W. Angle
Today we bring you one of Missoula’s finest Molly Bradford. Molly seems to be everywhere. She’s involved and engaged in so many aspects of our community. Her software venture, Gatherboard, powers Missoulaevents.net and similar community calendars for a surprisingly wide variety of clients. Events are ... Read More
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Covid Collab Finale (for now)
Justin W. Angle
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick and UM College of Business professor Justin Angle break down the ... Read More
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Regenerative Agriculture with Malou Anderson-Ramirez & Lara Birkes
Justin W. Angle
Malou Anderson-Ramirez and her family are doing some bold, controversial and inspiring things on their ranch in Montana’s Tom Miner Basin, using technology in ways to make their operation more sustainable and more integrated with the natural system in which they live. Malou is joined ... Read More
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Covid Collab #8
Justin W. Angle
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick and UM College of Business professor Justin Angle break down the ... Read More
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Dr. Rob Davies talks climate
Justin W. Angle
In case you forgot, we’re facing a few other big, multi-dimensional challenges that require coordination across myriad aspects of a global society. Climate change is one such challenge and when Utah State University Professor Rob Davies visited Missoula to keynote Climate Smart Missoula’s Big Climate ... Read More
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Covid Collab #7 with Missoula Mayor John Engen
Justin W. Angle
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick and UM College of Business professor Justin Angle break down the ... Read More
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Rob Thomas knows how to change a university
Justin W. Angle
Dr. Rob Thomas is Regents Professor of Geology at University of Montana-Western. In addition to many achievements as a researcher and teacher, Rob led a years-long effort to fundamentally change the way his university conceives and delivers education. It's an inspiring story and it reminds ... Read More
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Covid Collab #6 with Seth Bodnar and Charlie Beaton
Justin W. Angle
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick and UM College of Business professor Justin Angle break down the ... Read More
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Navigating Scale with onX CEO Laura Orvidas
Justin W. Angle
Laura Orvidas is CEO of onX Maps, a rapidly rising Montana company. Prior to joining onX, Laura spent 18 years at Amazon, playing a lead role in the formative years of e-commerce. She made the move to onX in 2018 and is now leading the ... Read More
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Covid Collab #5 with Meg Whicher
Justin W. Angle
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick and UM College of Business professor Justin Angle break down the ... Read More
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Off Tour with Pearl Jam & Fitz and the Tantrums
Justin W. Angle
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament and Fitz & the Tantrums’ John Wicks are previous guests on A New Angle and they’ve both supported this podcast in many ways, most notably in the music we use for the show and the Drum Coffee we enjoy in Studio ... Read More
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Covid Collab #4 with Scott Burke, Justin Bruce & Mike Braun
Justin W. Angle
This week we get updates from First Security Bank President and CEO Scott Burke, Coaster Cycles Chief Operating Officer Justin Bruce and UM College of Business Professor Michael Braun.
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist ... Read More
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Leslie & Mark Begert - disrupting education with Fabulingua
Justin W. Angle
In this crisis, disruption and innovation are happening all around us, especially in education. Leslie and Mark Begert recently launched Fabulingua, a language learning app that mixes animated story telling with simultaneous translation. The Fabulingua origin story is inspiring, the platform and its methodology are ... Read More
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Covid Collab #3 with an update from Dr. Dan Pierce
Justin W. Angle
This week we hear from Dr. Dan Pierce, Director of Emergency Medicine at St. Patrick Hospital.
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula ... Read More
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I&I: Anne Helen Petersen on the Economics of Burnout
Justin W. Angle
BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen returns to A New Angle's Incentives & Instincts series for an in depth discussion of the economics of burnout. Anne's upcoming book, "Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation," releases in September and is available for pre-order now.
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Covid Collab #2
Justin W. Angle
A New Angle’s weekly series on all things coronavirus releases every Monday morning. Listen to economist Bryce Ward, Missoula Economic Partnership Executive Director Grant Kier, United Way of Missoula County CEO Susan Hay Patrick and UM business professor Justin Angle break down the latest developments, ... Read More
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S.E.A. Change Finale - Anya Jabour & Elizabeth Hubble
Justin W. Angle
In this final episode of the S.E.A. Change series, we finish where we started with UM Regents Professor of History Dr. Anya Jabour. Anya is joined by Professor and Director of UM Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Dr. Elizabeth Hubble. We discuss Anya’s new ... Read More
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Emergency COVID-19 Pod with Bryce Ward
Justin W. Angle
In this emergency edition of the Incentives & Instincts series, Bryce and Justin discuss two dimensions of the coronavirus crisis. They cover how to understand the spread of the disease and the wisdom and importance of social distancing. They then discuss what’s happening in the ... Read More
