Real talk from real people — life, work, and everything in between
Where the best chats happen: the shed
Inside the shed
ShedLife started with a simple idea. The best conversations happen in the shed. After years of meeting good people with good stories, those casual yarns out the back have grown into a podcast about the ones who build, create and get things done, from business owners and tradies to athletes, travellers and go getters.
Each episode, Jason sits down in the Shedquarters Bar and has real conversations with guests from all walks of life. He listens, asks honest questions and lets their stories unfold, from the wins and lessons to the moments that shape who they are.
ShedLife is about genuine talk and genuine people. What began in a shed in the Waikato is now a place for anyone who enjoys honest stories and the lessons that come with them.
Meet the host
Jason Davis is the host of ShedLife NZ and GM of Waikato Sheds, on a mission to live his best life and share the hard-earned lessons from Kiwis doing the same.
Jason runs long form, straight up chats with successful Kiwi sportspeople, business owners and all-round good sorts from the Shedquarters bar at Waikato Sheds in Eureka. Each conversation digs into hard earned lessons, decisions and setbacks so listeners can borrow with pride and dodge a few potholes of their own.
A lifelong competitor, Jason has played rugby, basketball, Tae Kwon Do and boxing, including stepping into the ring. These days he still lines up for the Hauraki North Stickmen in the Thames Valley hockey league and is deep into weightlifting and longevity training. This drives the way he talks with guests about performance, health and staying in the game.
Jason started his first company at 21, building a door to door sales company with offices around the country before closing it when the GFC hit. He went on to lead sales and marketing when Pulse Energy won the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2012, then worked across a mix of roles before finding the perfect fit at Waikato Sheds.
He lives on a five-acre block in Kaihere on the Hauraki Plains with his wife Farida and their three kids, two at university and one at Hauraki Plains College. All of them work part time in the family business, from out on site to behind the camera. With over three hundred square metres of sheds turned into a gym, workshop, office, games room and bar, Jason is not just talking shed life, he is living it. ShedLife NZ launched with guest Francis Waitai, and the very first short clip pulled in more than fifty-five thousand views across Facebook and Instagram.
ShedLife NZ is just getting started, and Jason’s only scratching the surface of the stories worth telling. Because at the end of the day, ShedLife NZ is about real Kiwis, real stories, and bringing those conversations to the people who need them.