This week’s guest is Krista Welch, owner of Love Song Photo. We talk all things photography on this week’s show, with special focus on weddings. Krista is a former interior designer who fled the corporate world and made the bold decision to strike out on her own, even while many of her friends were getting…
Read MoreSince my fat ass has actually started RUNNING, I’ve had to add several songs to my workout rotation. What will follow is a periodic update of whichever song has given me added juice while crisscrossing my neighborhood and hating everything about it. Download these yourselves and enjoy. “Joker and the Thief ” – Wolfmother Sweet…
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Ben Brown kicks off our CONFIDENTIAL series with a discussion of the United States financial sector. He also happens to be my brother-in-law. Ben has worked in finance for over a decade and has served in both buy-side and sell-side trading for both large financial institutions and small hedge funds. He currently works for a…
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Last Saturday night 90.5 KCSU fm, my old college radio station, hosted an alumni party in honor of its 50th Anniversary. I’m pretty sure my era of KCSU turned out the most people, and you can see a bunch of us in the photo below. That’s what former college radio DJs look like in their…
Read MoreThis week we launch our CONFIDENTIAL series of the Jon of All Trades Podcast with Ben Brown, a man who’s worked on and around Wall Street in the U.S. financial sector for nearly 15 years (and is also my brother-in-law). What is the CONFIDENTIAL Series? So far on the Jon of All Trades Podcast, we’ve…
Read MoreHaving now completed 12 interviews for the Jon of All Trades Podcast (and posted 9 of them), I have spent more time listening to the idiosyncrasies of people’s voices than ever before. Each interview is usually just shy of an hour, which then takes me about two to edit. That’s three hours of listening intently…
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Zach Knaus is founder of 4Degre.es, a full service online communications firm, delivering results with precision messaging, and also the founding sponsor of Jon of All Trades. Having spent more than 10 years working in campaigns, as Director of Communications for the Senate Majority in the Colorado State Capitol, and as an account manager at…
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This adorable little jerkface likes to make escape attempts whenever possible. Only once has he been successful, and only did he need a 2-minute window of opportunity to do so. My sister-in-law stayed with us once and opened the egress window in the guest room. Jax saw this, hopped up and out, and gave us…
Read MoreThis week’s guest is Zach Knaus, founder and president of 4Degre.es, a full service online communications firm. Zach has extensive experience working on campaigns, at the Colorado State Capitol, and now as the creator of his own business. He and Jon discuss some funny stories from Zach’s time in politics, and Zach provides insight into…
Read MoreTruly, motivation is weird. Thanks to probably some dumb fucking Facebook ad, I saw the Insane Inflatable 5k coming to Denver. I ran the Warrior Dash (very slowly) a couple of years ago, which sort of dissuaded me from wanting to run ever again. But I liked all the obstacles. I wished there were courses…
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