The A-State Advantage: Catalyst Conversations
Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
The founder title is romanticized, but the daily work is often brutal and isolating. Serial entrepreneur Eric Howerton breaks down the grit required to survive and why scalable video is your safest…
Eric HowertonGuestHeather NelsonHost
Like, I mean, you had like 600 people in there all like coming from out of town.
The one that I was on like was, you know, had a lot of good diversity as far as like different, you know, different verticals and industries and really good dialogue.
But yeah, I was able to talk to Chancellor Shields there for a little bit and had a really good conversation about this idea of a media network and how I've seen that for years.
Like this is literally like a vision that I had for about 20 plus years and that's not really a joke.
I've been trying to close this deal, right? And I've seen it all through, you know, I studied, to back it up, I studied photojournalism here at Arkansas State University fantastic journalism program, uh, immediately went out and worked for the Northwest Arkansas times in Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville.
And I moved over there because my intent was to start my own outdoor magazine for Arkansas.
And so I wanted to, you know, to start a media, even at the ripe age, age of 22.
and it was at that time like my whole publishing career kind of came to life i didn't know what i was doing i had people like i didn't even know i was an entrepreneur until i was like 26 years old and i like understood what that word meant now it's kind of a you know i don't want to get on that so yeah i don't want to get on that soapbox it's a buzz but i
Like, I mean, you had like 600 people in there all like coming from out of town.
The one that I was on like was, you know, had a lot of good diversity as far as like different, you know, different verticals and industries and really good dialogue.
But yeah, I was able to talk to Chancellor Shields there for a little bit and had a really good conversation about this idea of a media network and how I've seen that for years.
Like this is literally like a vision that I had for about 20 plus years and that's not really a joke.
I've been trying to close this deal, right? And I've seen it all through, you know, I studied, to back it up, I studied photojournalism here at Arkansas State University fantastic journalism program, uh, immediately went out and worked for the Northwest Arkansas times in Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville.
And I moved over there because my intent was to start my own outdoor magazine for Arkansas.
And so I wanted to, you know, to start a media, even at the ripe age, age of 22.
and it was at that time like my whole publishing career kind of came to life i didn't know what i was doing i had people like i didn't even know i was an entrepreneur until i was like 26 years old and i like understood what that word meant now it's kind of a you know i don't want to get on that so yeah i don't want to get on that soapbox it's a buzz but i
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