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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

373: Nobody Got Her Goat

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

P.J. Jonas—like many educated women—faced criticism when she left engineering to be a stay-at-home mom. Soon her problem-solving skills and creativity would be put to the test. After all, she was planning to homeschool her eight children. And raise goats. As an undergrad at the University of Virginia, making things from goat’s milk was nowhere in her plans. What started out simply as a means of getting good milk for her children produced a wide range of unanticipated discoveries—and a thriving family business called Goat Milk Stuff.

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0:00.0

Hello, world.

0:11.5

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 373.

0:16.4

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

0:18.5

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has

0:21.4

discovered her talents to do work she loves, to create a life of success, satisfaction, and

0:27.0

freedom. Like many educated women, PJ faced criticism when she left an engineering job to be a stay-at-home

0:33.6

mom. Soon, her problem-solving skills and creativity were going to be put to the test.

0:39.7

After all, she was planning to homeschool her eight children and, oh yes, raised goats.

0:46.0

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, PJ Jonas. Welcome, PJ.

0:51.2

Thanks for having me, Don. It is our pleasure. PJ, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

0:56.5

Absolutely, every day.

0:57.9

All righty.

0:58.5

We want to hear the whole story.

1:00.2

PJ Jonas is a business owner, goat wrangler, entrepreneur, and mother.

1:04.5

After getting goats to provide healthy milk for her eight children,

1:08.4

she decided to put some excess milk into a batch of handmade soap.

1:12.4

That decision was the beginning of goat milk stuff, a growing goat milk products business that

1:17.9

has been featured on the Today Show, The Doctors, the Huckabee Show, and in O, the Oprah Magazine.

1:23.8

What started with an initial small batch of soap has expanded into a host of goat milk items such as goat milk, soaps, cheeses, candies, fudge, gelato, and more.

1:34.1

BJ, that's a summary of your career.

1:36.1

Tell our listeners around the world what you're doing now that has you engaged.

1:39.7

Right now, we're in the process of continuing to expand the farm and the business and working to transition the children.

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