A New Angle

This week is a special, on-location conversation with Pete Hinmon, co-director of Tippet Rise. Tippet Rise is an amazing fusion of art, music, architecture and nature, all mixing together on a working ranch near Fishtail, Montana.After attending a performance at the space by a brass ensemble, Justin sits down with Pete to chat about Tippet Rise’s origin story, the founders and their philosophy, how land-specific art is different from a museum experience and how the founders built a trusting relationship with the ranching community.

This week’s guest is Elizabeth MacBride. Elizabeth’s work has been published in prominent outlets such as the MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, Newsweek and many others. She recently co-authored Capital Evolution: The New American Economy with Seth Levine. Elizabeth will be delivering the keynote address at the upcoming CoBuild Montana summit.In this conversation, Elizabeth explains the shift from neoliberal capitalism to what she calls dynamic capitalism. She gets into shareholder primacy, alternative forms of ownership and the importance of strengthening democratic institutions.

This week is our September edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society.This conversation is a back-to-school college edition centered on AI. Bryce talks about a MIT paper, which reported that AI can take over a lot of undergradua…

This week is the next edition of The Ripple Effect, a quarterly series in which Justin speaks with grantees of the Headwaters Foundation. Today’s guest is David Quattrocchi, community organizer at Partnership Health Center. David’s work illuminates that healthcare is much more than an individual issue.In this conversation, David starts by explaining what a community organizer is and why a health center needs one. He talks about the social drivers of health, the hurdles of Medicaid enrollment and his concept of liberation.

This week’s guest is Jon Bennion. In 2004, Jon published Big Sky Politics, a comprehensive history of Montana campaigns and elections. He is out this year with an updated edition. Jon is also the executive director of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation.In this conversation, Jon talks about Montana’s political and electoral history, and highlights a few key turning points. He talks about the things that drive political change and about his own political journey, including a time running for office.

This week is the August edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. Last month, they began a conversation about gratitude and civic virtue. And today, is part two of that conversation.In this episode, Justin and Bryce talk about civic virtue and how being in physical community can cultivate that virtue. They discuss how to integrate conversations about virtue at home, and give listeners a glimpse into an ongoing monthly bonus segment for subscribers called The Parent Trap.

This week’s guests are Danny Spoon, Bill Wright, Matt Fete and Stephanie Goble, who are all involved with a new initiative to improve rural healthcare in Montana. The RESOLVE collaboration is a partnership between Providence and the University of Montana College of Health.The group starts out explaining the rural health care crisis in Montana and how those factors led to the development of RESOLVE. They discuss workforce development, building trust in rural communities and the places where using AI might be a good idea.

This week ANA brings you part two of Justin’s conversation with Crissie McMullan and Jason Wiener, who together launched AI Realists, a nonprofit focused on helping communities shape AI policies.Picking up where they left off last week, the trio talk about citizen assemblies, public opinion surveys, data centers and a central mission of AI Realists: combating our big tech fatalism.

This week’s guests are Crissie McMullan and Jason Wiener. Together these two launched AI Realists, a nonprofit organization aimed at helping communities shape AI policies. AI Realists is producing events and conducting outreach across Montana.In this conversation, Crissie and Jason share their paths to AI and how they have been both inspired and worried by the technology. They talk about how people tend to feel helpless when it comes to AI reform and speak at length about how their focus currently is on how state governments can play a role.

This week’s guest is Tana Burke, founder and CEO of Sky Cycle, a Montana-made startup seeking to insert wellness and exercise into the airport experience. Tana launched Sky Cycle in 2022 and the product is now ready for takeoff.In this conversation, Tana talks about taking Sky Cycle from concept to reality and the various partnerships she forged to make it happen. She breaks down the airport business and helps us understand how and why airports are increasing their investments in traveller wellness.