In this episode, I talk to Talia Hansen, Economic Development Manager for San Juan County. Talia shares a little of her traumatic childhood story of escape and survival and how she learned from it to take risks, “jump on the truck”, and to be curious and put people first. Talia also talks about how her work with nonprofits, with design thinking, and with running her own business prepared her for her economic development role. We talk about the San Juan County Basecamp conference and the goal to bring people together who aren’t typically able to come together because of the size of the county (it’s not just rural, it’s frontier rural) and then get them out in their own community through immersive experiences. Talia shares some incredible recent grant awardees (including the county’s first to a native-owned business) and how her work with the Ute and Navajo tribes is an honor that has helped her learn more about her own identity. We end, as always, with the Road Trip Music Question.
Podcast music: “A Happy Day” by codemusic, http://www.jamendo.com, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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In this episode, I talk to Talia Hansen, Economic Development Manager for San Juan County. Talia shares a little of her traumatic childhood story of escape and survival and how she learned from it to take risks, “jump on the truck”, and to be curious and put people first. Talia also talks about how her work with nonprofits, with design thinking, and with running her own business prepared her for her economic development role. We talk about the San Juan County Basecamp conference and the goal to bring people together who aren’t typically able to come together because of the size of the county (it’s not just rural, it’s frontier rural) and then get them out in their own community through immersive experiences. Talia shares some incredible recent grant awardees (including the county’s first to a native-owned business) and how her work with the Ute and Navajo tribes is an honor that has helped her learn more about her own identity. We end, as always, with the Road Trip Music Question.
Podcast music: “A Happy Day” by codemusic, http://www.jamendo.com, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/