Simple Doesn't Mean Easy
Are you longing to simplify things just a little, amidst the crazy, loud, distracting clutter of life? That's where I was just 5 years ago, when my family started on this crazy ride toward simplifying things. Since "simple" is almost never synonymous with "easy," I was pretty much a failure at everything I tried. But along the way I learned that it's not only okay, but actually GOOD that simple joys require hard work. So I'm here to be your Encouragement Mentor in this sometimes difficult effort to simplify. Because we can do this, guys. Together.Podcasts
117. Facing challenges, setting goals, and making the best product | Bee Rooted Candle Co
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116. 12 Things You Don't Know About an Iris
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115. Navigating Real Food for Kids and Families, with Haley Scheich
Published: June 17, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds
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114. The wrong flower that was perfect
Published: June 14, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds
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113. Appreciating the Everyday Blessings
Published: June 10, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds
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112. Making the right decision (when logical negatives haunt you)
Published: May 27, 2024, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
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111. Let's redefine "luxury,"... grandmom had it right
Published: May 10, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds
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110. Six things I've learned as an accidental homesteader
Published: May 6, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 21 seconds
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109. A lavender farmer answers your questions
Published: May 3, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
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108. You need this medicinal herb in your life
Published: April 29, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 52 seconds
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107. 13 ways to use a dandelion
Published: April 5, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes
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106. 5 Foods You Should Know More About
Published: April 1, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 22 seconds
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105. Good Friday Reading
Published: March 30, 2024, 1 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds
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104. How to Choose a Grain Mill (& why this crazy lady has 3)
Published: March 25, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 51 seconds
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103. A gardener looks at weeds
Published: March 22, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds
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102. Fresh Milled Flour Tips with Lisa Bass
Published: March 18, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 31 seconds
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101. Love Language of the Family Table with Stacy Lyn Harris
Published: March 11, 2024, 10 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 14 seconds
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100. Finding "good" in the middle of "hard" with Nate Pickowicz
Published: March 5, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 34 seconds
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Does a sugarmaker buy processed, refined, white sugar? e99
Published: March 1, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds
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What no one told you about fresh flour (episode 98)
Published: Feb. 26, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 4 seconds
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My favorite of Grandmom's recipes (e97)
Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 22 seconds
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This will change the way you look at organ meat ("offal") forever, ep. 96 with James Barry
Published: Feb. 19, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 59 seconds
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Snow boot choices and winter in New England (e95)
Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
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Kombucha & how to sip your way to a healthy gut (S7 E6)
Published: Feb. 5, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 31 seconds
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The best cup of black tea (episode 93)
Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds
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Five causes of poor gut health & 1 amazing way to improve (S7, E5)
Published: Jan. 29, 2024, 11 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds
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Family Holiday Traditions S7
Published: Dec. 18, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds
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Holiday Bonus Episode (Advent Readings) S7
Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds
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Good Fats (comparing Lard & Tallow) with RuthAnn Zimmerman (S7, E4)
Published: Dec. 4, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds
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Just show up, with author Drew Dyck (bonus episode)
Published: Nov. 20, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
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The Best Sugars to Use (and what sugars to avoid), with David Stelzer of Azure (S7, E3)
Published: Nov. 13, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 28 seconds
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How everyone can grow veggies, anywhere, with Doug Evans (S7, E2)
Published: Nov. 6, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 25 seconds
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The Ultimate Guide to Salt & 3 questions you need to ask (S7, E1)
Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 24 seconds
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3 Things I Wish I Knew About an Empty Nest
Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 34 seconds
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Menopause & What They Didn't Tell You (S6, E4)
Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 44 seconds
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What Our Grandparents Knew That We've Forgotten (S6, E3)
Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds
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Doing it Scared (S6, E2)
Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 48 seconds
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When Life is Hard (S6, E1)
Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 54 seconds
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4 Ways to Improve your Gut Health (& why it matters) (S5, E20)
Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds
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6 simple ways to detox your home & improve your health (S5, E19)
Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 7 seconds
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3 Ingredients You Should Rethink, with the CXO of Azure Standard (S5, E18)
Published: Aug. 14, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 57 seconds
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Quality Time With our Kids Improves our Health, with Sarah Roof (S5, E17)
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds
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5 Things You Need in Your Natural Health Medicine Cabinet (S5, E16)
Published: July 31, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 35 seconds
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Tips for Better Sleep, with Dr. Aric Prather (S5, E15)
Published: July 17, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 54 seconds
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How joy fuels our brains & improves our health, with Chris Coursey (S5, E14)
Published: July 10, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 14 seconds
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Garden Soil Lessons from an unconventional Ag guy, Karson Rippstein (S5, E13)
Published: July 3, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 3 seconds
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Why You Should Take Elderberry Syrup (S5, E12)
Published: June 26, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 14 seconds
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Social Media's Impact on Your Health, with Chris Martin (S5, E11)
Published: June 19, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 4 seconds
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Battling chronic illness, with Amber Benge (S5, E10)
Published: June 12, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 8 seconds
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Lessons from an unconventional dentist, with Dr Michelle Jorgensen (S5, E9)
Published: June 5, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 41 seconds
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Lessons from an unconventional nutritionist, Dr. Jaime Schehr (S5, E8)
Published: May 30, 2023, 9:30 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds
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A Healthy Attitude Towards Food, with Amber Benge (S5, E7)
Published: May 22, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds
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Are old-fashioned foods actually healthy? w/Jill Winger (S5, E6)
Published: May 15, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds
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Surprising Ways to Relieve Stress, with Jill Winger (S5, E5)
Published: May 8, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 49 seconds
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4 Modern Health Problems & What to do About 'Em (S5, E4)
Published: May 1, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds
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4 Modern Health Problems & What to do About Them (S5, E4)
Published: May 1, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 2 seconds
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6 Things to do Because we Live in an Obese Society (S5, E3)
Published: April 24, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 44 seconds
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The #1 Thing I Did to Improve My Health (S5, E2)
Published: April 17, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds
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4 Tips for Improving Your Health, at any age (S5 E1)
Published: April 10, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds
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How I Lost 20 Pounds--6 tips (& 3 mistakes I made) (S4, E13)
Published: March 20, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 27 seconds
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The Biggest Lie They Sell Us About Our Food (S4, E12)
Published: March 13, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 5 seconds
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5 Healthy Things You Should be Drinking (S4, E11)
Published: March 6, 2023, 11 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 50 seconds
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8 MORE Things You Can Make (Better) Yourself (S4, E10)
Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 11:48 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 58 seconds
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7 Things You Can Make (Better) Yourself (S4, E9)
Published: Oct. 6, 2022, 2:56 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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Motivating the Family to Help in the Kitchen (part 1) S4, E7
Published: June 18, 2022, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 39 seconds
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2 More Questions You Should Be Asking Yourself (S4, E6)
Published: June 5, 2022, 12:35 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds
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Avoiding overwhelm4 questions to ask yourself (S4, E5)
Published: May 21, 2022, 4:23 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds
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Practical Ways to Make Real-Food Meals More Convenient (S4, E4)
Published: May 5, 2022, 12:01 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 51 seconds
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12 Appliances that Make Real Food Convenient (S4, E3)
Published: April 24, 2022, 9:18 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 49 seconds
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How a freezer ups your game & why I have 4 (S4, E2)
Published: April 10, 2022, 9:15 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 17 seconds
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The most important thing to making real food convenient (S4, E1)
Published: April 3, 2022, 8:04 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 39 seconds
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Is Tea a Healthy Choice?... The answer's not as easy as you might think (Season 3, Episode 13)
Published: Feb. 28, 2022, 7:16 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 9 seconds
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3 Things You Need to Ask About the Tea You Drink (Season 3, Episode 12)
Published: Feb. 18, 2022, 9:12 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 1 second
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One Drink We Need to Ditch--why & how (Season 3, Episode 11)
Published: Feb. 2, 2022, 10:50 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds
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Two things we should be eating TWICE as much of (Season 3, Episode 10)
Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 11:53 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds
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If you only do one thing to improve your familys nutrition, this is it (Season 3, Episode 9)
Published: Jan. 3, 2022, 11:41 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 33 seconds
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5 Reasons I Don't Buy Meat at the Grocery Store (Season 3, Episode 8)
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds
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Lies the Pet Food Industry is Feeding Us (Season 3, Episode 7)
Published: Dec. 4, 2021, 9:18 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 52 seconds
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6 Swaps You Need to Know About (Season 3, Episode 6)
Published: Nov. 29, 2021, 4:50 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 29 seconds
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One Small Step that Makes All the Difference (Season 3, Episode 5)
Published: Nov. 20, 2021, 10:07 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 6 seconds
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How the Lies About Food Impact Our Health (Season 3, Episode 4)
Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 10:19 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds
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Comfort Food & the Mennonite Culture with RuthAnn Zimmerman (Season 3, Episode 3)
Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 35 seconds
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Why We've Bought Into the Lie (Season 3, Episode 2)
Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 29 seconds
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Why I'm Glad that Simple Doesn't Mean Easy (Season 3, Episode 1)
Published: Oct. 1, 2021, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 31 seconds
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4 Tools You Want to Know About for Online Content Creation
Published: July 17, 2021, 9:39 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 15 seconds
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3 Things We Learned as Small Business Owners in 2020
Published: June 5, 2021, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 54 seconds
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S2 E9: 3 Tips About Growing a Brand that You Never Saw Coming
Published: May 16, 2021, 3:50 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
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3 Tips About Growing a Brand that You Never Saw Coming
Published: May 16, 2021, 3:50 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
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S2 E8: 5 tips for building your brand's online presence
Published: May 8, 2021, 4:25 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds
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5 tips for building your brand's online presence
Published: May 8, 2021, 4:25 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds
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S2 E7: 6 Tips for Growing Your Reach on Instagram, with Vea Carpi
Published: April 17, 2021, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 13 seconds
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6 Tips for Growing Your Reach on Instagram, with Vea Carpi
Published: April 17, 2021, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 13 seconds
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S2 E6: Six Tips for New Online Content Creators
Published: April 10, 2021, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 7 seconds
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Six Tips for New Online Content Creators
Published: April 10, 2021, 10:30 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 7 seconds
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S2 E5: Entrepreneurship in 2021 with Liz Marie Galvan
Published: March 27, 2021, 10:39 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 49 seconds
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Entrepreneurship in 2021 with Liz Marie Galvan
Published: March 27, 2021, 10:39 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 49 seconds
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S2 E4: 10 Tips to Building a Brand (While You're Still Working FT)
Published: March 21, 2021, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds
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10 Tips to Building a Brand (While You're Still Working FT)
Published: March 21, 2021, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds
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S2 E3: Behind the Scenes of Content Creation with Lisa Bass
Published: March 13, 2021, 10:53 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds
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Behind the Scenes of Content Creation with Lisa Bass
Published: March 13, 2021, 10:53 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds
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S2 E2: 9 Tips from Kate Schat for Kickin' Content Creation
Published: March 7, 2021, 4:16 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds
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9 Tips from Kate Schat for Kickin' Content Creation
Published: March 7, 2021, 4:16 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 31 seconds
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S2 E1: Myth Busting Things You Think You Know About Podcasting
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 9:52 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds
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Myth Busting Things You Think You Know About Podcasting
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 9:52 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds
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20. Twenty Tips for Sugarmakers
Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 10:29 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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19. Tappable trees & other ways to make syrup
Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 12:12 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds
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18. Six Tips for a Simple Christmas
Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 10:10 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds
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17. Raising Teens (& why I insisted on THIS...)
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 9:16 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
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16: Canning with maple syrup (you'll never guess the best part!)
Published: Oct. 31, 2020, 1:34 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 47 seconds
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episode 15: 8 Things You Need to Know About Garden Pests
Published: Aug. 8, 2020, 9:59 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds
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episode 14: DIY Staples in the Kitchen... is it worth the effort?
Published: Aug. 1, 2020, 8:36 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
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episode 13. The 6 Herbs I'm Growing (for us & the chickens)
Published: July 11, 2020, 11:09 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds
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12. An Open Letter to my FIL on Father's Day
Published: June 14, 2020, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes
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11. Four Questions Parents Should Ask
Published: June 7, 2020, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds
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10. How to Start an Apiary (& why we're beekeepers)
Published: May 31, 2020, 9:39 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds
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9. An Open Letter to Hard-working, Under-appreciated Moms everywhere
Published: May 3, 2020, 8:34 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds
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8. Harvard & Homeschooling
Published: April 27, 2020, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 42 seconds
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7. Don't Waste Your Isolation
Published: April 9, 2020, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 34 seconds
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6. My "be attitudes" toward Covid-19 & why they're important
Published: April 5, 2020, 10:24 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 14 seconds
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5. Inspiration when you're stuck at home
Published: March 28, 2020, 5:11 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 50 seconds
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4. The 8 Steps from Sap to Syrup
Published: March 22, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds
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3. Why I Drink Tree Sap (Seriously.)
Published: March 20, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 56 seconds
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2. The Science Behind Syrup
Published: March 15, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds
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6 Things About Me You Don't Know (Premier Episode!)
Published: March 8, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds
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