Jon Of All Trades

[toggle title=””]…[/toggle][highlight color=”eg. yellow, black”]…[/highlight] Megan Ranegar is the Community Manager for  Yelp Denver. Yelp is one of those weird companies that you use all the time, but whose employees are rarely seen to the average consumer. They have something like 5,000 employees worldwide, but I’m willing to bet before today, most of you had...

For those of you who missed it on Sunday, October 8 [shakes fist at you], here is the live recording featuring all the shows from the Denver Podcast Network as we discuss everything from pizza to movies to music to comedy and more. You get a nice sample of everyone’s shows, including mine, where I...

JD Lopez is a comedian, the host of Left Hand Right Brain, and proud fellow member of the Denver Podcast Network. We met for the first time a few months ago when Paul Karolyi from Changing Denver (which kicked off a new season this week!) decided to round up fellow Denver podcasters and see how...

Women in Kind focuses on women, their needs in business and in the business of life. As a co-working space located in Northeast Denver, Women in Kind works to identify, to anticipate what women need to be successful at work and integrate those things into the workplace. That means thinking about how to make women’s...

Imam Abdur Rahim Ali is the leader of the Northeast Denver Islamic Center. I was introduced to him by Rabbi Adam Morris, whom I had on less than a month ago. These interviews are part of an ongoing periodic examination I do exploring different faith communities, and serve the overall mission of this show by...

Jack Ekstrom has had an extraordinarily impressive career working in public and government for the oil and natural gas industry. He retired in January of this year, and, like the relentless advocate with an inexhaustible work ethic he is, immediately founded PolicyWorks America. He also happens to be my dad. This show is a real...

Erica Hoffman came into our lives to work with our oldest daughter Grace. She’s a speech pathologist, and right around her second birthday we were worried that she wasn’t talking much, didn’t have many words, and wasn’t progressing properly. So we had her evaluated, it turned out we qualified for services, and Erica started coming...

Gabe Schirm is my longtime buddy dating back to our time together in college radio, and this isn’t the first I’ve had him on the show. He first appeared on Ep. 13 when he was working a normal 8-5 job, and so was I. On that episode, we talked about his founding of Global Gabe...

Rabbi Adam Morris – Rabbi Mo – has been a rabbi for 23 years, and he’s currently at Temple Micah in Denver. On this week’s show, we talk about how he came to be a rabbi, how the public speaking butterflies have become his friends, what it means to be a part of some of...

Paul Karolyi is the host of Changing Denver, The Denver Pizza Podcast, Denverite Now, and the winner of Westword’s 2017 Best Denver Podcast (staff choice). He’s an incredibly talented podcaster, an unparalleled interviewer, and someone I’m proud to have in my orbit as a fellow Denver podcaster. He’s good enough to sit down with me...

Braden Dick is the co-founder of Mile High 100 (along with yours truly), the founder of Global Meeting Technologies, and one of my favorite people and best friends. His career has taken him all over the world, which means I only got to see him once in a blue moon, but he has recently re-located...

R. Alan Brooks is the creator of The Burning Metronome, a hardcover graphic novel, a supernatural murder mystery where six courageous explorers find themselves trapped in another world, populated by the strangest creatures they’ve ever seen: human beings. He’s also host of MotherF**ker In A Cape, a podcast series featuring informal chats with comic book...

Drew Magary is the author of The Hike, a book I devoured obscenely quickly given that I was caring for a newborn baby at the time. He’s swinging through Denver during his book tour, and I was lucky enough to chat with him in advance of that. Let’s get that out of the way first:...

Brock Berry is the co-founder and CEO of AdCellerant, a digital advertising and technology company focused on making quality digital marketing accessible to every business. On this week’s show, Brock shares with me the origin story of AdCellerant, his perspective on the progression of digital advertising during his impressive career, the continued evolution of journalism...

Dr. Patty Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a Professor of History. Limerick has dedicated her career to bridging the gap between academics and the general public and to demonstrating the benefits of applying historical...

Robin Jennings Palmer is the mother of five boys. Yes, five. And yes, she’s probably heard whatever you’re currently thinking about that. So, just for posterity, and because I had originally targeted this episode for Mother’s Day which got derailed because my back decided to stage a revolt against my body (and life), we had...

Grape Expectations is my neighborhood liquor store. I’m there more frequently than I’d probably like to admit, but why wouldn’t I be? This store has cultivated an incredibly selection of craft beer, craft spirits, and wines from around the world, all of which is very helpfully provided to you by their extremely knowledgeable and friendly...

It’s been a damn month since last I put up an episode. Why? Well, in a word, PAIN. Four Saturdays ago I made the cardinal mistake of lifting my daughter out of her crib and felt something tweak in my back. From there, hot pain knives shot down my sciatic nerves and I ended up...

Eileen Agosta is an independent filmmaker, the creative force behind TMD Films, works at the Emerging Filmmakers Project and Colorado Independent Women of Film, and is my guest on Ep. 133 of the podcast. On this week’s show we talk about the life of an independent filmmaker, how early dreams of selling her first feature...

Rusty Butler is the Reverend at Arvada United Methodist Church. He’s been a pastor for 22 years, and on this week’s show we talk about how he “got the call” to leave his job as a statistician and go into ministry full time. It’s not as glamorous or as mystic a story as pop culture...