Heidi's Colorful Colorado

Jamie Hamilton started his insurance career in 1982, earning designations of AAI, ARM and CPCU. He has also served as President of the Independent Agents of Western Colorado, on the Board of Directors of the Independent Agents of Colorado and received their Young Agent of the Year award in 1988. Jamie’s agency is 120 years old with revenues of over $6,000,000. Jamie is active in many community ventures, including his role as Chairman of the NJCAA JUCO World Series.

Jamie enjoys spending time with his wife Debbie of 36 years. They both enjoy frequent trips to Denver to visit daughter Sarah and son Dane and their families. Sarah and Dane both work in the insurance industry in the Denver area.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Bobbie Daniel is a wife, mother of four, author, lifelong entrepreneur, and a 6th generation Colorado native. She is passionate about solutions and empowering others to live their best life through public policy. 

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Jeff Kuhr is the Director of Public Health for Mesa County. He is an active participant in statewide policy and program development, serving on the Colorado Early Childhood Leadership Commission and Opioid Crisis Recovery Funds Advisory Committee. In Grand Junction, he serves on the boards of directors for St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center and the Rocky Mountain Health Foundation. Jeff has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Nebraska. He has been a local public health director for 18 years.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Doug Simons represents the third-generation of Enstrom’s Colorado-based, family-owned business. Having worked part time at Enstrom’s while attending Mesa College in the mid 70’s, Simons first exposure to the industry was mucking-out butter fat that had been tracked into the freezers. He later married Jamee Enstrom and joined the business full time in 1979. Doug spent his formative years in the confectionery industry learning the art of candy making under the watchful tutelage of his father-in-law, Emil Enstrom and company founder, Chet Enstrom. 

He then worked his way through every aspect of the business, was named president of the company in 1986 and purchased the business in 1993.  Simons was also the first in the family to have any formal confectionery training attending the Retail Confectioners International (RCI)’s Candy School in 1982.

Simons is credited with turning a “Mom and Pop” business into a competitive, high-quality producer of confections.  Under his leadership, two plant expansions have been constructed and he has brought innovation through technological advancements to both mail-order and manufacturing.  His quest for innovation eventually lead to the development of cutting-edge machinery to allow for continuous-production of Enstrom’s premiere product, World-Famous Almond Toffee.

*Learn more about Enstrom Candies*

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Susan's family settled in Avon in the early 1880's.  They farmed and ranched there until development of the ski areas put an end to ranching there in the 1980's.  Her and her family moved their ranching operation to Burns (still in Eagle County) in 1982 and they are still raising cattle there. She continues to work and live on the ranch with her mother to this day.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

An Irish girl living in Colorado, Kate moved for work and stayed for love. Two options were presented to her - Hong Kong or Colorado. She chose Colorado and made one of the best decisions of my life. She traveled a lot for work managing global strategic planning processes across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. Travel and seeing new cultures is one of her greatest passions. Kate and her husband were lucky enough to fulfill a lifelong dream and got to travel the world together for a year. 

She comes from a line of entrepreneurs and started her own business in 2018 called "The Strategy Architect". Growing up in the family business she learned at a young age the highs and lows of owning your own business and wanted to dedicate her time to helping other organizations thrive both in the for-profit and not-for profit sectors.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Gayle and Bob have been married for 37 years. They have 4 grown sons and 7 grandchildren. Bob graduated from the University of Colorado, BA, and the University of Southern California, MD. He has been in private pediatric practice for 30 years and is the coauthor of the "On Becoming BabyWise" series (A series of 9 books on parenting infants through adolescents). 

Gayle has been a school teacher, stay at home mother, and most recently received her Masters degree in counseling from Denver Seminary. Bob and Gayle have taught faith-based parenting classes for over 25 years.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

An American-born author, mathematician, and political commentator, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. Dr. Lindsay is the Founder of New Discourses, an organization dedicated to shining the objective light in the subject darkness.  

Dr. Lindsay is currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody." Dr. Lindsay has been a featured guest on Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Rogan, and NPR.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Romain Sepehr Vakilitabar is the founder of Pathos Labs, a non-profit laboratory focused on finding ways that media, technology, and entertainment can most effectively dismantle hatred, and create understanding and compassion across lines of difference. One such project is PopShift - which brings together Hollywood’s leading showrunners and TV writers with some of the country’s leading equity experts to imagine how entertainment can be in service of pluralism, equity, and liberation.

Whether traveling between Palestine and Israel to better understand emotional relationships to the long-lasting conflict, spending weeks voluntarily homeless to empathize with the idea of "absolute need", hitchhiking thousands of miles to test the generosity of strangers, or living with conservative rural farmers in Oklahoma to better understand cultural conservatism, Romain has found that people, no matter the differences, are more alike than they imagine. Pathos Labs was born to prove it, by using the arts to dismantle systemic "othering".

Romain was awarded the "Erase the Hate" fellowship from NBCUniversal in 2018 for his efforts to eradicate hatred in America, he is a Fellow at Stanford University, he spoke at one of the world's biggest TEDx events, has been featured in Forbes, the bestselling books 2 Billion Under 20, and Compassionate Careers, and in academic journals such as UC Berkeley's Othering and Belonging.

*Learn more about Pathos Labs*

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!

Matt Burgess is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, an Affiliate Faculty in Economics, and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, at the University of Colorado Boulder. Matt's research focuses on three areas: (i) understanding the future of economic growth and its implications for climate change and society; (ii) understanding and reducing political polarization of environmental issues; and (iii) using mathematics to understand and predict how complex human-environment systems behave.  

In addition to his research and teaching, Matt is also engaged with local, national, and international efforts to reduce political polarization, and promote open inquiry and viewpoint diversity on college campuses. He coordinates CU's Reducing Polarization Dialog series, and will serve as a Benson Center Faculty Fellow in the 2021-2022 academic year. In 2020, Matt received Heterodox Academy's Open Inquiry Award for Teaching. He actively participates in Heterodox Academy's economics-focused working group, HxEconomics.  

Matt was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He got his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2009 and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2014. Before coming to CU in 2018, he was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Barbara. He currently lives in Lafayette, CO with his wife and two sons, ages 2 and 4.

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About Heidi

As a homegrown Coloradan with a passion for keeping the spirit of our state alive and well, I started this podcast to bring the people of Colorado together to celebrate the amazing state we call home!

Come along on this journey with me as I travel across our state in my vintage RV, interviewing folks who embody the true spirit of the Rocky Mountains. From the front range to the mile-high city, to the mountain towns and the Wild West of southern Colorado, we’ll celebrate the history, beauty, and Coloradans that make this place the colorful state it is!

Each week, you’ll meet the people trailblazing the way for an even more colorful future for us all, and who are making a huge difference along the way.

Visit heidiganahl.com to learn more about the podcast and where we are headed!

Submit a guest to Heidi's Colorful Colorado! CLICK HERE!