About this podcast
From There to Here explores the unconventional personal and professional journeys of entrepreneurs, leaders, and industry experts. Each conversation looks beyond career highlights to uncover the experiences, decisions, risks, failures, relationships, and unexpected opportunities that created meaningful turning points in a guest’s life and work.
What makes the show different is its focus on the space between the milestones. Rather than presenting success as a straightforward series of accomplishments, Jason digs into the context behind the pivots: what was happening at the time, why someone made a particular choice, what they learned, and how one experience led to the next. The result is a more honest and nuanced look at how careers, businesses, and lives actually evolve.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 127 episodes
- Brian Riemer: The People Behind the Deal · Episode 127Brian Riemer is the CEO of Riemer Insurance Group, a family business founded by his father in 1978. Before returning to the business, Brian built a career in investment banking…
- Tara Hamberger: F*ck It and Just Do It · Episode 126Tara Hamberger is a technologist, entrepreneur, problem solver, and the founder of RootedCare+. Her path to get there has been anything but linear. In this episode, we talk…
- Jane D'Alesandro: The People We Overlook · Episode 125Jane D'Alesandro is an entrepreneur, author, and executive in her family's business, where she is helping shape a human-first approach to technology and the future of work. In…
- Nida Leardprasopsuk: The People and Our Path · Episode 124Nida Leardprasopsuk has spent nearly two decades studying how people grow, lead, and build relationships. Today, she's taking what she's learned and applying it to an ambitious…
- Estefania Simon-Sasyk: An Origin of Movement · Episode 123Estefania Simon-Sasyk is the founder and principal of Mycelium Gastronomy Network, a global network using food and gastronomy as a lens for addressing complex challenges and…
- Vasanthan Ramakrishnan: Purpose Finds a Path · Episode 122Vasanthan Ramakrishnan is the founder of Ascend HSI Advisory Partners, a firm that helps individuals and families navigate the complexities of U.S. immigration. Vas's path into…
- Denley McIntosh: Posture, Not Position · Episode 121Denley McIntosh is an executive coach, speaker, podcaster, and entrepreneur. In this episode, Denley talks about growing up in a low-income and remarkably diverse neighborhood in…
- Wes Rowlands: The Return on Showing Up · Episode 120Wes Rowlands learned his earliest lessons in business and finance not in a classroom, but on a golf course at eleven years old. Raised by a single mother and determined to change…
- Matt Symes: From Trapped to Transformation · Episode 119Drawing on his journey from academia to leading transformations and investing in a portfolio of companies, Matt Symes shares how he helps founders get unstuck by reframing value…
- Krista Cloud: Climbing, Community, and Kombucha · Episode 118Krista Cloud's path runs from a passion for climbing rock and riding trails in Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas to brewing non alcoholic beverages for her own community…
- Dave Behar: Values and Visibility · Episode 117Dave Behar's path runs from scrappy college ventures—selling party favors to fraternities and sororities and building a beach volleyball apparel brand—to leading Ion Network, a…
- Miles Faust - Prepared, not Planned · Episode 116I’m joined by Miles Faust, the owner and CEO of Wee Ones out of St. Louis, Missouri. Miles went from a blue-collar upbringing outside New Orleans to leading major sales and…
- Aaron Asay: On the Front Lines · Episode 115This episode is longer than usual, and that’s intentional. Aaron Asay's story is complex, heavy, and deeply human—from a preventable death in Venezuela to firefighting, child…
- Off-script with Suzanne Woodard: The Secret Life of Stuff · Episode 114If you think this episode is just about furniture, you’re wrong. It’s about psychology, memory, connection, and that one atrocious chair your mom kept for 30 years. I’m joined…
- Peter Kelly-Detwiler: The Importance of Electricity · Episode 113Former guest and electric energy expert Peter Kelly-Detwiler provides a deeper understanding of electricity and the reasons it has unprecedented importance in our lives now…
- Kevin Guttman: From Ministry to Mortgage · Episode 112Kevin Guttman is a mortgage broker who’s built a career at the intersection of real estate, ministry, and social impact. In this conversation, we explore how Kevin’s early…
- Rodney Mueller: Being · Episode 111Rodney Mueller is an advisor, mentor, and entrepreneur. In this episode, he talks about not relying on others, father figures, holding standards of excellence, needing a purpose…
- Atiba de Souza: Ask Good Questions · Episode 110In a world where most owners are still the bottleneck in their own businesses, my guest today has a passion to change that. Atiba de Souza is an entrepreneur and author. In this…
- Malcolm Reid Sr.: Against the Odds · Episode 109In this episode, Malcolm Reid Sr. shares an extraordinary journey from the slums of Baltimore, through prison and business collapse, to building seven-figure businesses that…
- Chris Parker: Figuring It Out · 1 h 3 min · Episode 108Chris Parker is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and author in the tech industry. In this episode, Chris talks about how a quick fix led to an enduring business, the idea of a…
