The Jason Hewlett Show

Send us Fan Mail When he started out in Utah, Jason was not allowed to call himself a comedian. So he picked another word. Jason has been renaming himself to fit other people's boxes since before he had a career. The word he could not say, the word he chose instead, and the show that finally has no box. In this episode, we cover... FREEDOM OF SPEECH — "The Box the Audience Built for You....

Send us Fan Mail The smallest broken promise Jason has ever confessed on air. Nobody's life fell apart. He just stopped going outside.  In January, Jason admitted on this show that he had quit a years-long habit without ever deciding to. Eight months later, he answers the question he asked everybody else. In this episode, we cover... FREEDOM OF SPEECH — "The Thing You Stopped Doing.&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Twenty shows. Two and a half months. Nobody knew.  What it is like to modify a routine that has earned standing ovations for decades and have not one person in the room notice — and what happened when Jason finally told the internet. In this episode, we cover... FREEDOM OF SPEECH — "The Night My Gift Broke." THE FULL STORY — "The Gift Is Broken." FROM THE NEWSF...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Hewlett unpacks the title story of Episode 33: the ninety seconds after the door closes that decide your whole career.  This is about the sentence the room actually says when you are gone — and why the person the room can describe wins the gig every time. In this episode, we cover... Freedom of Speech: "The Signature Move"  Full Story:"What Are You Known For W...

Send us Fan Mail Meet Brandy Vega — the mother, the emcee, the founder of Promise2Live — and the story of the promise she made in the worst moment of her life that has now reached over seven million people worldwide.  Every movement that has ever changed the conversation started with one person deciding not to stay silent. Brandy is that person for this generation on this issue. Her story is the s...

Send us Fan Mail 6.9 million unemployed. 1.8 million long-term unemployed. 31 percent engagement. Hundreds of millions of vacation days paid for and never used. This is the honest snapshot of American work heading into Labor Day 2026. You cannot pray for the man in the drought if you don't know how big the drought is. And you cannot rededicate to your own work if you don't know how many...

Send us Fan Mail 88,500 Latter-day Saints. 430,000 Christian missionaries worldwide. 9 million Jehovah's Witnesses.  Every faith sends somebody — and the way we treat the one on our porch says more about us than about them. You can disagree with a religion and still be kind to a nineteen-year-old on your doorstep. The way we treat the missionary at the door says more about our own faith than...

Send us Fan Mail America is not sleeping.  The brand-new CDC number just landed, and 30.5% of American adults — one in three of us, 83.6 million people — are sleeping less than seven hours a night. RAND puts the cost at $411 billion. Half of us are waking up already tired.  If you feel like the world is running on fumes, it's because the world is running on fumes. This is not a personal faili...

Send us Fan Mail Two teachers. Two rooms. One boy who became a man because both of them showed up.  Jason Hewlett tells the story of the choir teacher who found his voice and the grandma who found his mind — and the sentence that ties both classrooms together. In this episode, we cover... Freedom of Speech "Say the Name"  Full Story: "Ode to the Teacher — Mrs. Hall and Grandma.&quot...

Send us Fan Mail The first day of school is a covenant moment we keep treating like a logistics moment. Here are the three promises the first day is actually making — and how to name them out loud this year. Freedom of Speech: "The Handoff"  Full Story: "The First Day Is a Promise"  From the Newsfeed: "The Real Cost of Going Back"  Faith & Hope: "First Fruits...

Send us Fan Mail New industry data — Bizzabo, CEIR, ZipDo, Talkadot — reveals a paradox. Attention has cratered to eight seconds, but live rooms are winning like never before. And the word that predicts whether a speaker gets rebooked will surprise you. In this episode, we cover... - Freedom of Speech"Speaking to the Masses, Talking to the One"  - Full Story: "The One in the Crowd:...

Send us Fan Mail December 23, 1783. Annapolis, Maryland. A cold room, a few politicians, and one of the most important moments in American history — the day George Washington handed back the power he could have kept. And why you should see Young Washington while it's still in theaters. In this episode, we cover... - Freedom of Speech: "The Man Who Gave It Back"  - Full Story: "...

Send us Fan Mail The fun of the road and the drag of the road live in the same suitcase. Here's what actually fits in the carry-on — and the one thing that has to.  Travel is where a man finds out whether his promises are attached to his house or attached to him. One packs. The other stays home. Freedom of Speech: "The Man You Become at 30,000 Feet"  Full Story: "The Road Doesn...

Send us Fan Mail The founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor — and a lot of them paid in full. A promise only counts when keeping it is expensive.  We celebrate the signing. We almost never count the cost. And the cost is the whole point — because a promise that costs you nothing was never a promise. It was a preference. In this episode, we cover... Freedom of Speech:...

Send us Fan Mail The holiday is the trailer. The Tuesday is the movie. In  The Jason Hewlett Show, Jason breaks down the part of fatherhood that never gets a card, a brunch, or a social media post: the ordinary days after the celebration ends. Father’s Day is easy. The Monday after is the test. Because kids don’t remember the performance as much as they remember the pattern. They remember whether...

Send us Fan Mail Every man carries two inheritances at the same time — the one handed to him, and the one he's already handing his kids. Most men only ever see the first. The hinge moment of fatherhood is when a man stops being the recipient and starts being the source. Father's Day is when that hinge swings. We slow down and pull the thread all the way through: the context, the mistake,...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Hewlett makes the case that humor is not a break from courage — it is a form of it. The funniest version of you is the one brave enough to tell the truth, risk the silence, and stay human under pressure. In this episode we cover... FREEDOM OF SPEECH — "The Laugh You Swallowed" The FULL STORY: The Laugh You Swallowed: Why the Funniest Version of You Is Also the Brav...

Send us Fan Mail You can be in the room and still be missing.   Jason Hewlett takes on distracted presence, phone snubbing, and the promise to give the people in front of you time and love in the same moment. In this episode, we cover... FREEDOM OF SPEECH — "The Small Betrayal" The FULL STORY: Your Family Knows When You're Not Really There FROM THE NEWSFEED — "The New Word for...

Send us Fan Mail Eighteen episodes. Jason has talked about his wife, his kids, Ella in Alaska, the whale, the promises kept and broken.  Tonight he finally talks about where all of it came from — his dad, John Hewlett. Who he is. What he built. What it cost. And what it's still giving. In this episode, we cover... — FREEDOM OF SPEECH  "The Percentage" — The FULL STORY "My Dad S...

Send us Fan Mail You don't lose the people you love in one dramatic moment. You lose them in small delays. "After this project. Next summer. When things slow down." The window closes quietly — and you don't notice it's closed until you reach for it. In this episode, we cover... - Freedom of Speech : “The Gap” - The Full Story : “The Window Is Always Smaller Than You Think”...

Send us Fan Mail Moses never took the short way — neither did the promise. Tonight: Exodus 14–18, the leadership burnout crisis Jethro solved 3,500 years ago, what AI displacement has in common with the Red Sea, and why the wilderness is not a detour. It's the road. In this episode, we cover... - FREEDOM OF SPEECH:  "What Moses Knew That Most Leaders Don't" - FULL STORY: "...

Send us Fan Mail Fifteen weeks ago, Jason started this show with a framework and a mission.  What he didn't expect: a baseball stadium anniversary, a daughter leaving for Alaska, and a realtor named Lori who asked the right question. This is not a recap. It's a reckoning. In this episode, we cover... - FREEDOM OF SPEECH:  "What the Quiet Says - FROM THE NEWSFEED:  "The Review N...

Send us Fan Mail The most sophisticated vanishing trick in modern life: disappearing from your own life while technically being in it.  Adults average 4+ hours of daily phone use. The average person checks their phone 96 times a day. Presence is the rarest gift you can give another person in 2026 — and most of us are handing it to an algorithm instead.  In this episode, we cover.... In this Episod...

Send us Fan Mail "I was wrong" — three words most leaders practice at the office before they say them at home.  Jason unpacks why home is the only honest proving ground for humility. In this Episode... - Freedom of Speech: I Was Wrong - From the Newsfeed: The April Promise - Faith & Hope: The Red Sea Promise - Father Time: The Tuesday Night I Almost Let It Sit - Funny Factory: The 11...

Send us Fan Mail Easter was Sunday. But the Good News didn't stop when the decorations came down. This week: Jason launched his newsletter and the show has new viewers — here's what we're actually doing here and why it matters. A friend of the family lost his life at 15 years old — and Easter gives us the only real answer. The Hewlett family almost didn't go to Cabo for spring...