Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Urich, and one of your favorite content creators is here today. He is teaching how to cook all of this amazing food, including sourdough, but also has an amazing podcast and also has an amazing story. Jake Widman. Welcome.

Jenny, thank you so much. And good morning. Good morning. I read your book called Up, Lessons of Adversity,

Hitting Bottom and Choosing a Life That Matters. And it was remarkable to read your book called Up

because you had a really rocky start to adulthood. And there's a lot of lessons that someone

could learn there. And they may not know about that history when they come to your show and

they come to your Instagram and they see all of this incredible work that you're doing with food and what people are eating and trying to eat healthier.

So do you find that the majority of people are kind of shocked when they learn a little bit more about your background and your story?

Yeah, I don't share about it too often. I'm like, I love creating content, but I'm a little bit sporadic with it at times. So I will

whenever it comes to mind or, you know, it's something will pop up on a timeline of, hey, this was five,

six years ago, whatever it is. And like, hey, I should probably post about that.

Or I'm also the worst salesperson. So when it comes to my book, my wife's always telling me, you need to tell more people about it. So, you know, I'll make a post occasionally. And, yeah, someone who's been following me for two or three years is like, whoa, I had no idea you had a history with addiction. or I had no idea that you used to be an atheist and stuff like that.

So, yeah, definitely. oh, I had no idea you had a history with addiction or I had no idea that you used to be an atheist

and stuff like that. So yeah, definitely a bit of a shock because I don't share about it all that

often. Not ashamed of it in any way. As you read in my book, I went all in. I didn't hold anything back

other than, you know, changing some friends names and stuff like that to just protect their

identity. But yeah, it's just something that I get wrapped up in the food content and forget

to more so share more of my own personal story at times. So where did the food content come in then?

And we're going to get more into your backstory because I actually think there's a lot of lessons to

learn from your backstory.

But then you've got this really thriving food content and you're talking about real food and real connection and real exercise and real nutrition.

When did that passion? Because obviously it's interesting you say you're not a good salesperson.

And you talk about that in the book, right? Like you try to do door to door vacuum sales.

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