Just Curious Show

If you’ve visited Colorado in the last few years one thing you can’t miss people wearing clothes with the Colorado flag. A company known for it’s hats it starting to stand out in the space, it’s called Yo Colorado. Co-founder Brad Miller joined me to chat about how he went from graphic designer and screen printer … Continue reading Yo Colorado Founder – Brad Miller Ep52 →

Randal Ford talks about what the job of an advertising photographer really looks like in probably the best description I’ve heard. What it looked like 10 years ago when he did a job compared to what it looks like now. How he got into the fine art world by photographing some cows and happens when … Continue reading Advertising & Fine Art Photographer – Randal Ford Ep51 →

To most of us going blind would be the ultimate tragedy of our lives. For Erik Wehenmayer though he somehow eventually turned it into a career move. He made a name for himself as the first blind person to summit Everest in 2001 and has gone on to turn adventures into his job. When not going … Continue reading Blind Adventurer – Erik Weihenmayer Ep50 →

Hazel Findlay is known as someone who climbs some of the scariest rock climbing routes in the world. But how do you make a career out of doing that? She shares her path, what it’s like to make a living from climbing, how her career has shifted as she’s gotten older, her fascination with the mental … Continue reading Pro Climber – Hazel Findlay Ep49 →

Pro big wall climber Tommy Caldwell comes on the show to talk about the life as a pro climber. Tommy has gone from something of a climbing prodigy to dirt-bagger to viral celeb to climbing elder statesmen. We talk about his unique childhood as his father tried to build in his kids the same love … Continue reading Pro Climber – Tommy Caldwell Ep48 →

Mickey Wilson has found a way to make a career out of balancing, bouncing and flipping on a slack-line. He’s used these skills to win competitions, put on shows, travel the world, save someone’s life and get on the Ellen Show. Surprisingly enough not too long ago it was a much better bet that Mickey … Continue reading Pro Slackliner – Mickey Wilson Ep47 →

What do you do when your job prospects look bleak? Create your own job of course. Scott Rank talks about how he has carved out a career as a historian by way of podcasting and e-books. Now host of the History Unplugged podcast Scott has taken a very unique road into making a career as a historian … Continue reading Historian Podcaster – Scott Rank Ep46 →

Sarah Lavender Smith is a bit of a renaissance woman and in this episode she talks about how that came about. We chat about her path away from her original journalism career plan and how she found herself a runner much to her own surprise. Then how running became a career of its own. Sarah and her husband … Continue reading Author & Coach – Sarah Lavender Smith Ep45 →

One of the things that I find most interesting is all the different ways you can make a career out of the same thing. As a professor of photography Marc Ullom and I in some ways do the same thing, take pictures, the reality though is what we do is nothing alike and that’s interesting. … Continue reading Photo Professor – Marc Ullom Ep44 →

Back for a second hour with documentary family photographer Kirsten Lewis. I ask more about this whole Creative Live and education side of her business. She tells me more of what she has up her sleeve for the future…it may or may not include Jennifer Garner. We also talk a little about some of her … Continue reading Documentary Family Photographer – Kirsten Lewis Part2 Ep43 →

One of my favorite things is people with unique careers and Kirsten Lewis certainly has one of those. In fact she kind of helped create the genre of documentary family photographer. We talk about how she arrived at her niche, inspiration, teaching, balancing family life and so much more. If you’re in the Denver/Boulder area … Continue reading Documentary Family Photographer – Kirsten Lewis Ep42 →

Whenever I see a Perrin James image or video I am always jealous. Which I think is a good sign for how good he is at what he does. He captures some of the most amazing underwater imagery I have ever seen and I was always left wondering how did he do that? Well I … Continue reading Underwater cinematographer/photographer – Perrin James Ep 41 →

Aerial photography has for lack of a better pun really taken off in the last few years thanks to advances in drone technology. Around the same time Instagram grew in popularity and became one of the places to showcase aerial photo and video work. Instagram is how I found photographer Tobias Hägg of Sweeden. His aerial landscapes are … Continue reading Aerial Photographer – Tobias Hägg Ep40 →

Life goes in some odd directions. I feel that way about my own career and looking at where my high school classmate of mine Jessie Fultz ended up I found myself both curious and mystified. How does someone end up as a birth photographer? Well Jessie found her passion in birth photography despite having never … Continue reading Birth Photographer – Jessie Fultz Ep39 →

Art Streiber doesn’t want to be described as a celebrity photographer. He’d prefer portrait photographer or problem solver, maybe visual fixer. Really though Art is all those things. He is also a very open book about how he goes about solving those visual problems and making portraits of celebrities. And being open in the world … Continue reading Portrait & Celebrity Photographer – Art Streiber Ep 38 →