Today we’d like to introduce you to Logan Janis.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My name is Logan Janis. I was born on June 6th, 1989, at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and I grew up just an hour south of St. Louis in the small town of Bonne Terre, Missouri, with my parents Stan, Angie, my stepfather Greg, and my eight younger siblings (I’m sorry siblings, but I am just not going to list all of your names). My parents taught me how to work and earn a living. I started working when I was 14 at a Huddle House, which required a worker’s permit signed by my parents. Throughout high school, I also worked as a lifeguard and at a movie rental store, “Movie Gallery,” where I first began bingeing TV (I don’t think it was called bingeing yet) DVD box sets like Heroes, Weeds, and LOST. I had a great high school experience, lots of friends, and did pretty much everything I could: track, basketball, class president, student council president, choir, theater—all the clubs.
A week after graduating high school in 2008, I followed my childhood best friend, Will Compton, out to Lincoln, NE. He played college football at Nebraska and spent 10 years in the NFL. He now hosts Bussin’ With the Boys podcast (FanDuel, formerly Barstool Sports). Living in Lincoln was so fun. I worked at a Top 40 Radio Station, 106.3 KFRX, where I worked the morning show, Saturday nights, festivals, and got to interview Chingy, Boys II Men, Chuck Liddell, and other celebrities. After a year of that, I lost my full-time job leasing apartments and decided to go back home to Missouri to attend community college.
I worked at a local restaurant called Hub’s Pub in Bonne Terre and a plastics molding factory off North Broadway in St. Louis. I graduated and became a certified X-Ray tech. After doing X-Ray for a while at urgent cares and driving an X-Ray van around for mobile visits, I decided I wanted to move to St. Louis and get a 9-to-5 job with a salary. So I used my X-Ray background to get my first-ever office job at a pharmaceutical research company in Maryland Heights (called Biomedical Systems then, ERT now, I believe), which enabled me to get my first apartment in St. Louis in Soulard in 2013. I was home. I spent a couple fun years there, got my Bachelor’s Degree online through Central Methodist University, and then met a girl, got a new pharma job, and moved to Chicago in 2015.
Chicago was fun and fast. I got to work at BlueChip Marketing/Continuum Clinical on major patient recruitment campaigns, got exposure to major brand campaigns for companies like Jack Daniels and Blue Bunny Ice Cream, and got the incredible opportunity to spearhead a project from the ground floor that brought the company Lyft together with hospitals to provide free rides to clinical trial patients. I got to fly around the country and train nurses on how to use the service and worked hand-in-hand with Lyft and Continuum Clinical to make it possible with technology. It was amazing.
But after a couple years in Chicago, I missed Soulard and moved back in 2018 while working remotely for Continuum. I bought a house, and a few months later, totally unexpectedly, me and around 20 other folks on a Zoom call got laid off on a Friday morning. My roommate at the time was on the couch and heard the whole thing. The Zoom ended, I looked over at him, he said, “What are you going to do now?” I said, “Nothing I guess.” I was leaving for Europe the next day for two weeks, already living paycheck to paycheck, pretty much in a panic. But the trip was mostly paid for, so I checked out (or tried to) and went. It was really cathartic. I won’t lie, I felt a little Eat, Pray, Love happening. Got back to St. Louis, updated the resume, drove Lyft for a while to keep the mortgage paid, and then started working at DDI Media selling billboards and digital advertising. Through that work, I became the President of the local St. Louis Ad Club, AAF STL.
In October of 2019, at the annual Coolfire Halloween party, I bumped into a complete stranger and fell in love. Wasn’t looking for it, didn’t need it, but boy did I have it. Carrie Clark, a designer working then at Fleishman Hillard, dressed as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and me dressed as Star-Lord, truly experienced love at first sight. “Who the F are you?” was said by both of us, no lie. Two weeks later we said the words and just hung out day and night, before and after work and all through the weekends. Then COVID. I moved into Carrie’s house here in Shrewsbury, sold my house in Soulard, and lost my job at DDI in May 2020. In June of 2020, I proposed, Carrie said yes, and in September of 2024, we tied the knot on the rooftop of the Moonrise Hotel. She is my world, and we still are just trying to hang out as much as possible. It’s my love story, and I am super proud of it. Lucky does not quite cover it.
I had found a new lust for life (any guesses why?). I decided to go on my own and leverage my skills to work freelance. Carrie was also on the verge of leaving FH and going on her own. So, in 2020, Carrogan Ventures, LLC was born. Carrie has now worked for herself since 2021 and provides presentation, layout, concept, and brand design services for clients (carrieclarkdesign.com).
I manage podcast clients (mostlysuperheroes.com/services) like More to Say with Randi Naughton, Small Town Forgotten, Sober City, ART Audio, and my podcast and variety talk show called Mostly Superheroes, which I host from my basement studio. We’ve published over 300 episodes, have listeners in 50+ countries, talk movies, TV, comics, St. Louis, and have had amazing guests like Steve Ewing, Brandon Davis, BradenSTL, Jenna Anderson, and Sean Gunn! Huge shoutout to Julie Lally for the amazing support and helping us with guests and more! We’re a community podcast hosting shows and events like Screen & Socials at Alamo Drafthouse STL and Trivia Bingo at 4 Hands Brewery, plus partnering with do-good organizations like mental health advocacy group, Team Jakey End The Stigma, who has supported AFSP Missouri and Provident Behavioral Health in St. Louis for the last decade. I also sit on the Board of Directors for Team Jakey, and Carrie and I support the team with PR, marketing, and creative.
Today, Carrie and I work for ourselves and provide podcast and design services to clients. We live in Shrewsbury and are both St. Louis through and through. We hang at local spots, host and attend community events, and get to work with business owners, community leaders, creators, venues, and really just everyone. Life for me is about balance, spending time with my wife, having fun, and lifting up the community.
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?
I wouldn’t say the road has been smooth, but I wouldn’t say it has been rough either. Plenty have it rougher and I have been lucky. Money has for sure always been the thing to solve for (I don’t come from money), but who doesn’t feel that. Life has thrown obstacles in the way, and I do often feel that the amount of effort it takes to make it in this world is too high for all of us, but so far I have been lucky enough to have my health, my wits, and a lot of amazing individuals and mentors along the way who taught me resilience and problem solving. I think a lot of times, I was just not in the right place. I was working at a place because I thought it was what I was suppose to do. Instead, I have learned to lean into my passions and interests and to align those with my skills and experience. Since I made that switch, life has felt much more fulfilling and I feel more than ever before that I am on a good path.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Logan Janis and Carrie Clark of Carrogan Ventures provide Design and Production Services:
I’m Carrie, a graphic designer based in St. Louis, MO. With six years of experience designing for executive leadership clients at a global PR agency, and three years of successful freelance work, I excel at delivering creative solutions for agencies and clients backed with technical expertise and driven by client-focused service. I am a problem solver with a keen eye for detail and a strong ability to translate ideas visually. Since launching my freelance business, I’ve successfully managed clients and projects across various industries, delivering creative solutions focused on layout, concept, brand, and presentation design.
CarrieClarkDesign.com – LAYOUT DESIGN • BRAND DESIGN • CONCEPT DESIGN • PRESENTATION DESIGN
I’m Logan Janis, a producer based in St. Louis, MO. With 13+ years of professional experience in marketing, advertising, and research, I provide podcast and promotional solutions for creators, businesses and organizations. I manage podcast clients like More to Say with Randi Naughton, Small Town Forgotten, Sober City, ART Audio and more.
I also host and produce my podcast and variety talk show, Mostly Superheroes, which I host from my basement studio here in St. Louis along with Andy ‘The Giggler’ Hunn, Scotty ‘Scoop’, and Sam ‘The Sleepe’ Zeller,. We’ve published over 300 episodes, have listeners in 50+ countries, talk movies, TV, comics, concerts and live shows, St. Louis, and have had amazing guests like Steve Ewing, Dave Glover, Brandon Davis, BradenSTL, Jenna Anderson, and Sean Gunn! We’re a community podcast hosting shows and events like Screen & Socials at Alamo Drafthouse STL and Trivia Bingo at 4 Hands Brewery, plus partnering with do-good organizations like Team Jakey End The Stigma and Provident Behavioral Health in St. Louis.
MostlySuperheroes.com/services – PODCASTS • PRODUCTION • PROMOTIONS • PUBLIC RELATIONS
How do you define success?
Success to me is balance combined with effort. Too much of anything is usually a bad thing in my experience. For me, it is managing a list, doing my best, accomplishing what I can each day, and not beating myself up for not getting more done. And on the days it all feels like too much, I put on Vienna by Billy Joel and take a beat. We all do what we can and success looks drastically different each of us. For me, it’s taking care of my health, my family, and my community, then the rest follows and fills in.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.mostlysuperheroes.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mostlysuperheroes/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mostlysuperheroes
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mostlysuperheroes/
- Twitter: https://x.com/mostlysuperhero
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sAruzRX6Nqgs3hDOdWy2Q
- Other: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loganjanis/
Image Credits
Brandon Goesmann IG @isaiahgoesmann
