Just few years later, he started his own investment advisory company and has been forging his own path ever since. Now an insurance expert, Don Jones breaks down everything there is to know about health insurance and explains the vital role technology plays in it.
Besides his love for insurance, his greatest passion is spending time on his boat, fishing and cooking what he catches. How often does he take out his boat and fish? How did growing up in Camarillo influence his life? Hi, everybody, and welcome back to the Echelon podcast. Don, thanks for coming by today. Brian Hemsworth So Don, you know, you and I have talked on many occasions, and I have a pretty good idea of what you do. And I want to get into that in a few minutes.
Where are you from? So I was born in Oxnard. Okay, I lived in Camarillo, which is 11 miles away. Don Jones you know, when I grew up in that area, Oxnard is really an agricultural town. Don Jones So growing up there, it was like The Wonder Years on TV where every house had two to five kids, a lot of parents worked or were connected to the military in some fashion or agriculture. So it was a rather conservative place.
We came in second, I think, in the World Series, one year, we got that far at number two back in Indiana, I think in So a lot different than it is today. Brian Hemsworth Gotcha. You grew up with a coast and you went inland. Don Jones I went inland we went inland, yeah, well, there was no college. There was a junior college, there was Ventura. And then there later opened Oxnard. So you either went to junior college, which I did go to junior college in Ventura, but then you had a graduate somewhere else, which created an issue for people that grew up in that Oxnard, Ventura Camarillo area was you had to go away to go to school.
So my parents had several businesses, so I came back to help them retire. And I moved back to the area in And it was interesting, it was interesting dynamics, because people that I went to school with had went to Santa Barbara or San Diego or Chico. And they never came back. Brian Hemsworth One way ticket out.
