Today we’d like to introduce you to Nick Jordan
Hi Nick, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My radio career started in radio at the University of Akron. I didn’t even know you could do radio as a job until somebody from the station came into tell us about the program they had in one of my journalism classes. Worked my way into a commercial station by starting on the street team and telling anyone who would listen that I wanted to be on air. Eventually a spot opened up doing the overnight shift while I was finishing college. To get the afternoon shift on my resume I took a job at a small radio station in College Station, Texas. Ended up getting fired after 3 years during the covid layoffs and went back to a radio station in Canton, Ohio and stayed there for about a year until I luckily got a job offer at B939 in Raleigh, NC. My stand-up comedy career started in College Station. I always wanted to try standup because I thought I was funny but was too scared to do it at the risk of finding out I wasn’t actually funny. I didn’t try standup until I got to College Station because nobody knew me so if I messed up I wouldn’t have to hear about it in my groupchats for the rest of my life lol. Now I travel around the southeast and midwest getting to tell jokes.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The road started out bumpy. Being young and stupid, I failed out of the first two colleges I went to and didn’t know what I wanted to do or what path I needed to take until I got a last chance favor from my uncle that got me into the University of Akron under a performance based entry probation. When you hit rock bottom you don’t have anywhere to go but up so I slowly worked hard and was lucky enough to find radio as a path to follow.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
In addition to being a radio personality I also do standup comedy. You can see me at different local spots around North Carolina.
Can you talk to us a bit about happiness and what makes you happy?
Being able to make someone laugh or connect with somebody and take them out of whatever kind of day they’re having even if it’s for a few seconds.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.nickjordancomedy.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickonairjordan/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.jordan.35
- Twitter: https://x.com/NickOnAirJordan
- Other: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-inside-thoughts-with-nick-113979650/
