From 2019-2020, Woodhouse served as the director of strategic initiatives for the Civitas Institute, a Raleigh-based non-profit policy organization.
Woodhouse continues to write a weekly column on North Carolina politics for the John Locke Foundation, called "The Woodshed."
At Broughton High School in Raleigh, Woodhouse was a member of a two-time national championship show choir named Carolina Sprit.
[citation needed] Woodhouse acted and performed in various professional stage productions at the North Carolina Theatre in downtown Raleigh.
[citation needed] Woodhouse started his career in broadcast journalism, working as a political reporter and television host.
He then worked at WNCN-TV which was the NBC station (NBC-17) from June 1995 to November 2001, where he was a political reporter and host of the current affairs program At Issue.
Woodhouse worked with Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory to stop an expansion of taxpayer funding of political campaigns in 2010.
From September 2013 to January 2014, Woodhouse was campaign manager for Phil Berger Jr., who was running for U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district.
[4] Woodhouse is also the owner of Solutions NC, a limited liability company formed weeks before Carolina Rising was founded.