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New Series Announcement: JOAT 50 Song Countdown

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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Jon of All Trades at 9: Pulling Back

(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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Two Popular Denver Podcasts Join Forces to Launch “Happy Friday”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two Popular Denver Podcasts Join Forces to Launch “Happy Friday”Jon Ekstrom of “Jon of All Trades” and Kevin Batstone and Arthur Rawe of “Discussion Combustion Podcast” join Mile High Life in new endeavor DENVER, CO (September 19, 2022) – Putting the spotlight on the city and the state they love, Jon Ekstrom…

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Reflections on Five Years

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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Blog: Back in the (office) saddle, and I launch a new series

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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Vote for Jon of All Trades in the Westword’s Best of Denver Readers’ Choice Awards

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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Jon of All Trades Returns February 17 with Thomas Harding

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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So, here’s what’s up…

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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Coming This Week (10.26.15): Bill Jerke

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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Coming This Week (10.18.15): Tom Haren

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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