Feb 26, 2019
My guest is NASCAR's Jon Housholder. Jon is a two time Emmy awarding winning producer at NASCAR Productions. He produces, he directs, he edits, he features race open trailers, commercials, the whole thing. He's also worked on several nationally televised sports documentaries during his time at NASCAR. One of the most recent is Unrivaled: Earnhardt versus Gordon. That was pretty good. I think I hurt my throat. Listen To The Podcast: Resources: Interview: Mitch: Hey there and welcome to Dream, Think, Do. I'm Mitch Matthews. I've got an awesome interview for you today so strap in and get ready. Today we are talking to NASCAR's own Jon Housholder. Jon is a two time Emmy awarding winning producer at NASCAR Productions. He produces, he directs, he edits, he features race open trailers, commercials, the whole thing. He's also worked on several nationally televised sports documentaries during his time at NASCAR. One of the most recent is Unrivaled: Earnhardt versus Gordon. That was pretty good. I think I hurt my throat. Jon: That was incredible. That's incredible. I'm very impressed. Mitch: All right. So I have to admit that I am a total newb when it comes to NASCAR. But even when I saw that trailer my heart rate increased, my adrenaline went up, all of that just watching the trailer one time. I was like dang it. So it's obvious Jon and the team that he gets to work with, they do an incredible job so whether you like NASCAR or not you're want to go check out some of his work. It's incredible. In addition to producing documentaries, Jon also wrote and directed an award winning short film called "Withdrawn in Trepidation." Which appeared at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival awards. Prior to working at NASCAR Jon worked at Menards in their corporate broadcast advertising department where he developed weekly advertising plans and created television and web advertising. Jon is the proud graduate of Wartburg College. What's up Wartburg? In Waverley, Iowa with a degree of public relations and electronics media and a leadership minor. While he was there he was also student body vice president and a two sport athlete. Football and track if you're interested. Jon is originally from West Des Moines, Iowa. But currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife Liz. He is truly living the dream, think, do life. So it's time to have him on the show. Jon, welcome to Dream, think, do, buddy. Jon: Mitch Matthews. Thank you so much for having me man. Mitch: This is crazy cool. Jon: This is very cool. Mitch: I mean I love all of my guests but some I love a little bit more than others, man. And we've known each other for a long time. Jon: Yes we have. Yes we have. Mitch: Yes so your dad is Mike Housholder, the pastor of the church that we've been going to since 2000, I think. 2000, 2001. So we've been a big fan of you and your family for a very long time. I kind of got to see you grow up in production arts. I remember you doing films when you were in high school. Jon: Oh yeah. I used to have the... I would help the production team every now and then at my dad's church. And that was always a great learning experience. Mitch: Oh yeah. No joke. And it's always kind of, I would imagine with NASCAR it's like you got to get a big project done and it's got to be done in three hours or less, all that. I'm sure that some of the lower budget church stuff that had to be done, turned around all that stuff probably was great great ground to get to work that. So I love it. So with Dream, Think, Doers now that you're listening in I want to give you a little road map of where we're headed because I'm going to talk with Jon a little bit about day to day because he does some really cool stuff. Long hours, but amazing stuff. So I want to get a little taste of that. But then we're also going to go back because he's got this great story of getting this position.