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John Richmond is the Co-Founder & CEO of Richmond Vona, a 3x Inc. 5000 personal injury law firm in Buffalo, NY. Angles is where he has real conversations with interesting people from Buffalo and Western New York. Not about their titles or accomplishments. About how they actually got here. Their process. What keeps them rooted. The decisions that shaped them.
You'll hear from scientists and artists, rappers and historians, business owners, and
preservationists. Success from every Angle.
Angles is your space to hear real stories and think differently.
New episodes drop every Wednesday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major platforms.
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John sits down with Gary Siddall, President and CEO of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the nonprofit behind the Buffalo Museum of Science and Tifft Nature Preserve. Gary started volunteering at the Niagara Falls Aquarium at 12, was training sea lions at 15, and spent 20 years there working his way up to CEO before taking the biggest job in Buffalo’s cultural nonprofit sector in January 2024. This conversation covers what a sea lion show teaches you about recovering in front of 300 pe...
John sits down with Erin Grajek, President and CEO of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens - a 126-year-old Olmsted-designed Victorian conservatory that is right in the middle of a $31 million expansion. Erin came in as marketing director in 2006 on a snowy day after her mentor pushed her to apply for a job she was convinced she was underqualified for. She has been there ever since, wearing every hat from planting mums to running the gift shop to leading what is now one of the most a...
John sits down with Kyle Zappia, President of the Edward M. Cotter Conservancy. The E.M. Cotter is the oldest active fireboat in the world - built in 1900, docked at 155 Ohio Street since the day it arrived in Buffalo, and still breaking ice and responding to fires on the waterfront today. Kyle retired after 20 years with the Buffalo Fire Department, got restless, showed up at the boat to volunteer a few hours a week, and a year later was running the whole conservancy. The conversation...
John sits down with Matthew DiCamillo, fourth-generation co-owner of DiCamillo Bakery in Niagara Falls - one of the most beloved and enduring food brands in Western New York. Matthew’s path to the bakery was anything but direct. He spent a decade as a classical voice major, adjunct professor at Elon University, and aspiring opera performer before the 2008 financial collapse closed the door on arts funding and forced a reckoning. He came back to Buffalo, got his MBA at UB while baking bread at...
John sits down with Kevin Heffernan, Executive Director of Go Bike Buffalo, the 16-year-old nonprofit operating community bike workshops, education programs, and a planning and design department that is actively reshaping how Buffalo thinks about its streets. Kevin came up through advertising and college admissions before founding Rise Collaborative, a creative agency, and eventually finding his way to Go Bike - first as a collaborator, then as a staffer, and now as the person running the who...
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