The most rewarding and terrifying creative challenge you can set for yourself is creating a high volume of new, unique, high-quality content on a quickly rolling deadline. I know this because 15 years ago my friends and I created Cru Jones Society, a daily humor blog that featured at least one new long form piece…
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(TL/DR: I’m not quitting this show. I’m just busy with a lot of other projects, so don’t expect updates on this site regularly, or all that frequently. There will sometimes be interviews and sometimes blog posts when I feel like it or need a no-stakes creative outlet. If you miss me, listen to Happy Friday….
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This week the Jon of All Trades Podcast celebrates five years of being on the air and more than 200 guests. I realize as I write this, that’s longer than I’ve done any one thing professionally. My longest actual job tops out at four years and five months. I wrote Cru Jones Society for just…
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People often ask me, “What’s your ultimate goal for Deft Communications?” which I suppose is an honest enough question, but never fails to make me laugh both because of how boring and seemingly unambitious my answer is. Here’s my honest answer: All I want is for Deft Communications to do well enough to where I…
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Dear Jon of All Trades Listener, Well, holy shit! The Jon of All Trades Podcast is a finalist in the Westword’s Best of Denver 2016 Readers’ Choice Awards, and it’s because of you. Thank you to everyone who took a moment to nominate this show a couple of weeks ago when the nomination period opened….
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It’s been far too long… so hello again! As I post this, it’s approximately 15 degrees outside in Denver, there’s a wind that stings your face like an assault of needles, and my feet are so cold, I wish I didn’t have feet anymore. In short, it’s winter, and I hate it. One coping mechanism…
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It’s been quiet around these parts lately, yes? First of all, hi! Secondly, it was not my intention for it to echo with silence around here for an entire month that followed nearly another month of silence and wither literally all the good vibes coming off the Denver Film Festival that I could. This was…
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This week’s guest is former state legislator, former Weld County Commissioner, former owner of a Christmas tree farm, and current Executive Director of FUEL, Bill Jerke. Bill is someone I’ve had the privilege of working with directly for the last five years, and someone I argue has a keener understanding of the history of agriculture,…
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This week’s guest is Tom Haren, CEO of AGPROfessionals, a full-service agricultural development company providing services for the agriculture industry across the United States. Normally, I like to feature a lot about my guests biographically, but that’s not the way this week’s show goes. I consider this a bit of a shame considering what an interesting…
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I met Mike Henderson (pictured above holding a boom mic) for the first time last week. We chatted at his house and recorded the conversation. What resulted was an extraordinarily fun, lively discussion about – and this is not an all-inclusive list – the band Cannibal Corpse, the films of Ed Wood (Mike’s own company…
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