{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Murphy's Law","title":"The Coloradan Who Cares, A Sit Down With Dave DaVia","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2812,"description":"In this episode of Murphy's Law, host Murphy Robinson sits down with Dave DeVia — President and CEO of Colorado Concern, fifth-generation Denver native, former Westminster City Councilman, \"recovering banker,\" 18-year veteran of the building trades, and co-owner of one of Denver's most beloved neighborhood bakeries for over two decades. Murphy invited Dave on because he's fascinated by him: a guy whose family has been building this city, literally, since 1884, and who has spent his career moving between small business, labor, local government, and now the boardroom — always landing on the same question: how do we make Colorado work for everybody?\nThis conversation moves fast and covers a lot of ground. Dave traces his family's roots to Pioneer Ironworks, the company his great-grandparents founded that forged the ornamental ironwork still hanging in the Brown Palace today, and tells the story of his great-grandmother — the second woman in the City and County of Denver to hold a driver's license, whose elopement to Boulder made the newspapers. He talks about cutting his teeth at Jake Jabs' American Furniture Warehouse, banking, nearly two decades in the building trades working alongside labor unions, and finally Colorado Concern, the 200-member coalition of CEOs and business owners he's led for the past three years.\nSome of the best moments come from the bakery. Dave and his wife Kathleen ran it for 23 years before selling it — five weeks before COVID hit, a stroke of luck he's the first to admit he didn't plan. He tells the story of TJ, an employee on the autism spectrum who worked the register and boxed cookies for over a decade, treated by the whole staff like family. And he tells the one about the day he covered a shift and kept steering every customer toward the same chocolate mousse torte, only for Kathleen to remind him there were twenty other cakes in the case.\nBut the heart of this episode is policy, and Dave doesn't pull punches. He and Murphy dig into...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/i5VidaAPwui-mkO5QFXggyZtb0zIlg4YR2_FNHsGhxQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZWZm/YzczODJhMjE0Mjhl/ZWUzYTE0YTI3MGUz/OGVjZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}