A New Angle Podcasts | College of Business

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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maiah Wynne - music, youth and inspiration

Justin W. Angle

Amid the covid-19 crisis, the pod rolls on with the inspiring story of a local musician. Maiah Wynne wrote her first song at age 7, started performing live at age 15 and is now – a short few years later - winning major recording and ... Read More
WIRED's Megan Molteni on science, health and tech

Justin W. Angle

Megan Molteni is staff writer at WIRED magazine. She writes at the intersection of health, science and technology and in the last few years has emerged as one of journalism’s experts on CRISPR. In this conversation we dig into CRISPR, the internet of things, what ... Read More
S.E.A. Change #11: Sarah Calhoun

Justin W. Angle

Sarah Calhoun is the founder of Red Ants Pants, a venture borne of a determination to find a better way. Tired of working in uncomfortable men’s pants, Sarah saw the need for women’s workwear. With no experience in apparel design or business, Sarah built Red ... Read More
Michelle Weaver Knowles is innovating cancer care

Justin W. Angle

Michelle Weaver Knowles is a nurse practitioner who recently established her own practice – Ava Health. She helps patients navigate cancer and understand the genetics associated with many cancers. This conversation surfaces some incredibly complex questions about genetics, ethics and family communications. If you haven’t ... Read More
Incentives & Instincts - Material (In)security

Justin W. Angle

Justin’s monthly conversations with Bryce Ward continue, and as promised, our series now has a name: Incentives & Instincts. In this installment, Bryce and Justin discuss material (in)security and how the dynamics of accumulating wealth have changed over time and have affected various age cohorts ... Read More
John Pierce - a Montanan in Nashville

Justin W. Angle

John Pierce grew up in Billings, studied at the University of Montana and is now crushing it as a songwriter in Nashville. In the last several years, John has written hit songs for the likes of Zac Brown, John Pardi and Reba McEntire. He recently ... Read More
The Monte Dolack Story

Justin W. Angle

When you think of Western art the name Monte Dolack is surely top of mind. Monte’s work is currently on exhibition at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. In this conversation we learn about Monte’s development as an artist and how he approaches the ... Read More
Jim Elser will make you care about limnology

Justin W. Angle

Jim Elser is the Bierman Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana and Director of the Flathead Lake Biological Station. Jim is a world class scholar, evidenced by his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences. In this conversation we learn all about ... Read More