Rock Stars with Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing
Rock Stars is a weekly podcast hosted by Olympic gold medalist, world champion curler, lawyer, and motivational speaker Jennifer Jones, alongside her husband, business partner and world champion curler Brent Laing. Drawing from decades of experience in elite sport, business, and family life, this show explores what it looks like to actually chase your dreams, with an inside look into the proof it’s possible. From high performance leadership, decision making and strategy, to culture, values, and integrity, with curling as a central thread throughout. Tune in for behind the scenes stories, major moments, and timely conversations about curling’s evolution, all used as powerful parallels for business, relationships, and living a full life with where your feet are planted.
Beyond the sheet, listeners can expect honest conversations about parenting, marriage, ambition, and balancing high expectations with being present for the moments that matter most. Jennifer and Brent get into what worked, what didn’t, and what they learned along the way while chasing Olympic dreams, building careers, and raising a family in the public eye. New episodes released every Wednesday, offering fresh perspective, practical insight, and your reminder to work hard, laugh often, and enjoy the journey!
Rocks, Rings and Real Life
Episodes
20 episodes
The Real Cost of Chasing Olympic Dreams
Welcome back to Rock Stars! Today, we share what it really costs to attain the highest level of the dream you’re chasing. Looking back on our own experiences, we reflect on the way we’ve built our lives around chasing something bigger than ours...
Curling Without Borders
In this episode of Rock Stars, we dive into one of the biggest conversations in curling right now: Brad Gushue becoming the new High Performance Director for USA Curling. We unpack why the announcement caught so many people off guard, what it s...
The Benefits of Sport: Raising Confident Kids Through Sports
Sports play a powerful role in shaping confidence, resilience and life skills that go far beyond the game. Today on Rock Stars, we get into one of the biggest parenting questions in youth sports: should kids specialize early or play multiple sp...
What Makes a Great Leader?
Being a leader is more than having authority, it’s about inspiring and guiding others to reach their full potential. Today on Rock Stars, we dive into the qualities of a great leader, exploring the impact that strong leadership can have in spor...
Rock League ReCap
Today on Rock Stars, we take you inside our unfiltered breakdown of the very first Rock League event. We share what stood out most to us and why this feels like a meaningful step forward for the sport.We also don’t shy away from what nee...
Life By Design
Welcome back to Rock Stars! We get asked all the time how we manage the chaos of our lives, so today, we’re sharing how we stay motivated, happy, and fulfilled. Between the kids' activities, our entrepreneurial ventures, and traveling for curli...
Slamming Into Rock League
In this episode of Rock Stars, we’re diving into the exciting launch of Rock League, the first-ever multi-gender curling league. We reflect on the journey curling has taken, from the early days of the Grand Slams to where the sport stands today...
Be Where Your Feet Are
Welcome back to Rock Stars! Today, we get into what our first real March break at home with our kids has looked like and the big lesson we got out of it. What started out as a week of “I’m bored” turned into meaningful family moments we’ll alwa...
Standing Out From The Crowd
What does it really take to stand out in today’s world? We’re not just talking about athletes, but about anyone chasing big goals and trying to build a life they’re proud of. Today on Rock Stars, we explore how to separate yourself from the cro...
Are The Scottie's and Brier Broken?
In this episode of Rock Stars, we take on a big question that many curling fans and players have been wondering for years: are the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the Brier still working the way they were meant to? We look back at our first n...
Olympic Emotional Rollercoaster
When a moment doesn’t unfold the way an athlete dreamed, the weight of it can linger for years, even when the rest of the world has already moved on. Today on Rock Stars, we reflect on the emotional roller coaster that comes with the Olympic Ga...
Curling Rules - How Are They Enforced?
In this episode of Rock Stars, we get into one of the biggest talking points from the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics: the curling rules controversy that had everyone weighing in. We unpack exactly what happened with the hog line violation debate ...
Free Agent Frenzy - Curling Style
Today on Rock Stars, we pull back the curtain on curling’s free agent frenzy and talk honestly about how teams are formed at the end of a quadrennial. We walk through the tough conversations to the reality that there are no general managers, no...
A Day in the Life of an Olympian
In this episode of Rock Stars, we take you inside one of the most iconic and mysterious places in sport: the Olympic Village. We share what it’s really like to walk into a secure world filled with athletes from every country, live in dorm-style...
When Dreams Become Reality
Today on Rock Stars with Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing, we take you inside our Olympic journeys, sharing the pivotal moments that defined our careers, the sacrifices we made, and the emotional highs and lows that came with chasing the gold. We...
Men's Olympic Curling Preview
In this episode of Rock Stars, we turn our full attention to the men’s Olympic curling event at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Games. We walk through the entire men’s field team by team, talk through how each team qualified and what their r...
Ladies Olympic Curling Preview
In this episode of Rock Stars, we focus entirely on the women’s Olympic curling preview focused at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Games. We walk through every team in the field, including Canada, Switzerland, Korea, Japan, Sweden, the Unite...
Mixed Doubles Olympic Curling Preview
In this episode of Rock Stars with Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing, we dive straight into an Olympic curling preview focused on the mixed doubles event at the upcoming Milano Cortina Winter Games. We walk through the full mixed doubles field, ta...
From Christmas Chaos to Mountain Magic
In this next episode of Rock Stars, we take you inside our past 2025 holiday season, starting with the familiar chaos of Christmas traditions split between Ontario and Winnipeg. We talk about Laing family traditions, Jones family gatherings, ba...
Rocks, Rings and Everything in Between
In this very first episode of Rock Stars with Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing, we introduce ourselves and share our stories leading up to this podcast! We talk about our journeys in curling, from early beginnings, to Olympic moments, and how spo...