Leah Ashburn, the Brewery CEO

Leah Ashburn, the Brewery CEO

Kevin Williamson is joined by Leah Ashburn, CEO and family owner of Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina. They discuss Ashburn’s path from journalism and sales into the family business, the legacy of her father who founded Asheville’s first brewery, and the challenges of leading a company through industry slowdowns, a pandemic, and natural disasters. The conversation also explores the role breweries can play as community institutions, the realities of hospitality and small business ownership, and how Ashburn and her husband have transformed their brewery into a gathering place for the wider community. Watch the conversation on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmTFfUIsyLo].

Alex Danza, the Bus Guy

Kevin Williamson is joined by Alex Danza, founder and CEO of the luxury bus company Vonlane. They discuss Danza’s unlikely path from delivering newspapers in Staten Island to reinventing bus travel for business and leisure passengers alike. The conversation explores the challenge of changing people’s perceptions of bus travel and how Vonlane built a loyal following by focusing obsessively on comfort and customer experience. Along the way, they also discuss entrepreneurship, the risks of building a transportation company from scratch, changing travel habits, and why some of the best business ideas begin with industries everyone else has written off. Watch the conversation on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41CMdRHcF0s].

Wayne Crews, the Regulations Expert

Kevin Williamson is joined by Wayne Crews, a longtime policy expert on regulation and the administrative state. They discuss his career studying federal rules and his long-running Ten Thousand Commandments project, which tracks the scope and cost of regulations. The conversation also touches on his family farm and a longshot bid for office as a libertarian candidate that ended with him being kicked off the ballot. Along the way they explore how regulatory policy shapes economic life, the difficulty of measuring its impact, and the tradeoffs between oversight, innovation, and economic freedom. Watch the conversation on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b_1mabcM5g].

Jonathan Farber, the Energy Guy

Kevin Williamson is joined by Jonathan Farber, an investor with experience in both the oil business and venture capital. They discuss Farber’s path into the energy world, how his work expanded from traditional oil markets into media and journalism, and what he has learned along the way. The conversation also explores how people inside the energy sector think about shifting supply and demand, uncertainty in global markets, and what those forces mean for investment, risk, and the future of energy. Watch the conversation on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9xlcQAgW4].

Brian Berberich, the Commercial Producer

Kevin Williamson is joined by Brian Berberich, a veteran commercial filmmaker whose career has taken him from hands-on production roles to producing major commercial campaigns. They discuss how he found his way into the business, the demands of high-end commercial filmmaking, and why making car commercials can be more dangerous than audiences realize. The conversation also explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping production and what those changes mean for creative work going forward. Watch the conversation on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XftH6ll81Xo].