Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
My name is Jon Eks and I spent more than a decade talking to people about work on the award-winning Jon of All Trades Podcast. I’m sick of talking about work. I want to talk about everything else in our lives. Men are traditionally not good at this. So, I’m talking to people I love, respect, and admire. I’m trying to embody the axiom “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Expect candor, vulnerability, profanity, and a wide range of topics.
Off the Clock w/Jon Eks
Kyle the Rejuvenated Creative
On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my friend Kyle, who’s a professional creative, a friend of like 3 decades, a dad and a fellow entrepreneur. Here’s some of what we talk about:
- First question: Senior year of high school Kyle from 25 years ago time travels to the present day, how does he feel about your life?
- knocking on the doors of places you used to live and how much people love that
- tattoos! what do they mean? why do we get them? and the d-bags that hate them!
- recognizing when you’re unfulfilled in your life/career and how you address that
- the AppleTV+ show Severance and how cruel it would be to make your innie hungover
- alcohol as a crutch / addiction to cigarettes / the constant struggle of sobriety / dissociation / how to handle adversity / substituting one vice for another
- why I found acting unfulfilling and why I don’t need to invent new neuroses
- neurotic body image crap and how we can be kinder to ourselves
- why it’s important to be comfortable being shitty at a hobby and why we don’t need to monetize everything
- strip clubs and “strip club guys”
- Kyle’s best piece of advice for other dads
Find Kyle at Yond Studio.
Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.
Logo by Nebulus Visions.
Produced by Deft Communications.
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