I love hosting this podcast, but I do a lot of other cool stuff too.
Topher Williams
I’m an award-winning political strategist, advertising executive, speaker, and entrepreneur who specializes in helping my do-gooder clients build movements that change the world.
I grew up in Boulder, Colorado where in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains I took my freedoms, rights, and that sweet mountain air for granted. But as with all activists, there comes a day when injustice forces you off of the sidelines and into the fight for a better world.
For me, that came in 2010 when the tea-party movement began to gain traction and I was alarmed at the extremism on the right. Like many of the guests on this podcast, I knew I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t get involved — but I was just one person in a mountain town in Montana. So that’s where I started. I became an activist focused on my community, by registering my neighbors to vote and volunteering with local campaigns. It turns out that even though I didn’t know it at the time I was building a movement.
Today, I have a deep background in progressive and Democratic politics.
I am the Founder of Flatirons Strategies, an advertising and digital agency where I help progressives build exceptional digital programs.
I’ve worked on campaigns from the Mayor’s office to the big oval one. Not to mention more Congressional races than I can count. In all these years, I’ve learned a thing or two.
If you don’t fail sometimes, you’re not thinking big enough.
If you want to build movement you can’t just be against something. You have to show people the world you want to build with them.
When it comes down to it, that’s why I started Participation Trophy. It’s a platform to elevate the people across the country who are in the trenches doing what they can to make the world a better place.
Outside of my work and this podcast, I keep pretty busy volunteering with causes I care about. I am currently the Board Chair of Cobalt Advocates, Colorado’s leading abortion advocacy group and abortion fund. I also serve as the Vice President of the Big Sky Film Institute which hosts the internationally acclaimed Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and the Native Filmmaker Initiative which aims to elevate indiginus filmmakers.
I am happily living outside Denver, Colorado with my incredible fiancé Austin, and our two adorable cats.
