1KHO 646: The Moments That Change Our Lives Are the Little Moments | Rory Feek, Once Upon a Farm

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this tender, hope-filled conversation, Ginny sits down with father, farmer, author, and Grammy-winning songwriter Rory Feek to trace the surprising path from growing up in poverty in Kansas to writing hit songs in Nashville, building a 150-year-old farmhouse life at Hardison Mill, and hosting The Homestead Festival on his Tennessee farm. Rory shares how the “big breaks” in his story actually came from tiny, hidden moments: a stranger insisting he read Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’, a small charity concert that quietly opened the door to a TV show and film, and a simple hymns album recorded quickly and cheaply that went on to win a Grammy and comfort countless grieving hearts. Along the way he talks about Joey, about loss and love, and about how books like This Life I Live and Once Upon a Farm grew out of his own search to understand what God was doing through hardship, homesteading, and ordinary days. If you need a reminder that your simple, unseen faithfulness matters, this episode will meet you right where you are. Rory and Ginny also step straight into the questions parents are asking right now: What do we do with AI, screens, and an attention-starved world and how do we give our kids a rich “curriculum of life” instead? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Erich. I'm the founder of 1000
0:34.4	Hours Outside. And I have such a special guest for you.
0:38.3	It's always the worst when I mess up right at the beginning.
0:42.3	A special guest for you today, Rory Feek, welcome.
0:45.3	Thank you for having me, Jenny. Good to see you again.
0:48.3	First time in three days.
0:49.3	Yes.
0:50.3	We were just together in Texas.
0:52.3	We were at the Homemaker Conference. And your wife, Rebecca,
0:56.4	she is so good at those. She is. She's better than I thought. It was really a revelation for me.
1:02.0	I knew that she was good, but she's better than good. She really does have a gift for that.
1:07.0	And I've told her, especially after that one, it felt like God really revealed something new inside of her to all of us and her too.
1:14.7	Thank you for saying that.
1:15.8	Yeah, I've been to a lot of conferences and spoken at a lot of them.
1:19.3	And there's something special about the way that she connects with people, connects with the speakers, but also connect with the attendees, the way that she can kind of emce it through.
1:28.2	It's really impressive. So it was an honor to be with you and your family. And there was really special elements
1:34.6	to that one. Like there was a kids choir night and you in Indiana sang. And I intersected with your
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