486 - Michael Veneziano (Tree Guy / Entrepreneur / Visionary)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Michael worked his way down from the treetops with a chainsaw hanging from his belt to owning a company (Ponderosa Millworks) that repurposes urban trees, making uniquely gorgeous tables, chairs, bars, countertops, etc. But he's so much more than a businessman. Michael is a guy who GETS THINGS DONE. He's got tremendous energy and a tremendously generous spirit. He's a lovely man, teaching us all better ways to interact with each other and the other living things around us. (Photo)

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Tzango
0:02.3	Rode
0:19.1	I'm still sitting by this river in Idaho, the Pia et river.
0:36.8	This is Michael Venetiano.
0:42.7	Venetiano I think is how you pronounce it.
0:45.8	This dude is awesome.
0:48.4	He reached out to me about, I don't know, six months ago or something, maybe longer.
0:54.0	He listens to the podcast and he heard me talking about this shit I was going to, that I was
0:59.5	planning to do in Colorado, the lifeboat, and he, it's a lot like Oliver.
1:08.3	Similar story.
1:09.3	He reached out and he said, hey, you don't know me, but I like what you're doing and I'd
1:14.2	like to help.
1:16.2	I own a lumber mill in Oakland, California and I've got a lot of wood and if you guys could
1:28.6	use some wood down there in Colorado, we can talk about getting it on a truck and getting
1:34.7	it down there to you.
1:37.3	He's an arborist.
1:44.7	He's been working with trees since he was in high school and he was the head of parks
1:47.6	and recreation for Berkeley, California for a time and he had a business that would,
1:56.3	you know, if a tree was about to fall on your house or it was obstructing power lines
2:00.3	or whatever, this company comes in, takes the tree out and then he could do whatever
2:07.3	he wants with the wood.
2:09.1	And a lot of these trees are probably not particularly useful, but they were all just
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