Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBottom-Up Shorts: How Local Pride Can Strengthen a Town
Episode 145
Hannah Rechtschaffen is the director of the Greenfield Business Association in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She joins Norm on this episode of Bottom-Up…
9 months, 1 week ago
Kip Santos: Building Strong Cities in Two Countries
Episode 144
Kip Santos is a trained civil engineer and construction manager who quit his job to build Local Conversations full-time. Now he splits his time betwe…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Legalize Strong Neighborhoods
Episode 143
Sean Hayford Oleary is a city council member in Richfield, Minnesota. A Strong Towns member of seven years, Hayford Oleary has helped reintroduce du…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Montana Gau: Empowering a Network of Advocates
Episode 142
Montana Gau is the founder of Strong Denver, a Local Conversation in Colorado. A software engineer by trade, he built the group into a registered non…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How Decorah, Iowa, Is Becoming a Strong Town
Episode 141
Travis Goedken is the city manager of Decorah, Iowa. In this Bottom-Up Short, he joins Norm to talk about a few of the practices and reforms that are…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ryan Andrews: Re-Localizing the Benefits of Housing Development
Episode 140
Ryan Andrews is the CFO of Hiatus Homes, a small-scale development company in Bend, Oregon. He is also the CFO of the Hiatus Capital Fund, which help…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How To Make Your City’s Finances More Accessible
Episode 139
David Jenkins is a city councilor in La Plata, Maryland, as well as the city’s Local Conversation leader. He joins Norm on this episode of Bottom-Up …
10 months ago
Dr. Jonathan Gingrich: A Better Way To Teach Transportation Engineering
Episode 138
Dr. Jonathan Gingrich is a professor of engineering at Dordt College in Iowa. A trained chemical and environmental engineer, he started teaching tran…
10 months ago
Bottom-Up Shorts: How a Personal Loss Can Drive Public Change
Episode 137
Josh Stewart is an advocate from Littleton, Colorado. A year ago, his 12-year-old son was struck and killed by a car while biking to school. Since th…
10 months, 1 week ago
Jesse Russell: Making a Big Impact With Tiny Homes
Episode 136
Jesse Russell is the founder and CEO of Hiatus Homes, a development company in Bend, Oregon, that specializes in small home design and cottage commun…
10 months, 2 weeks ago