623: Finding Your Niche with BRAD LEONE | Youtube Star, Chef and Author

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Rachel Hollis

Society & Culture, Health And Wellness, Personal Development, Personal Growth, How To, Self-improvement, Relationships, Education

4.4 • 16.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Brad Leone is a bonafide Swiss army knife - a trained chef, avid outdoorsman, skilled carpenter, entrepreneur, author, fermentation addict and beloved-by-millions internet star. Leone is co-founder of The Roost Festival, a New York Times Bestselling author with his debut book Field Notes for Food Adventure, and recently launched his own YouTube channel. 00:00 From Internship to Media Success 01:24 The Joys and Therapy of Farming 10:11 Adventures in Spearfishing and Cooking 24:04 The Value of Growing Your Own Food 24:32 Getting Back into Hunting 24:56 Living by the Coast and Farming 26:49 Challenges of Self-Sustaining Farming 28:09 Admiring Martha Stewart's Farm 29:21 Reflecting on Season Two 33:46 Journey into the Culinary World 40:17 Starting a Production Company 41:39 The Power of Positive Mental Attitude 42:28 Future Aspirations and Podcasting 45:15 Podcast Recommendations and Conclusion Get the Start Today Journal - https://starttoday.com/products/start-today-journal Have a question you want Rach to answer? An idea for a podcast episode?? Call the podcast hotline and leave a voicemail! Call (737) 400-4626 Sign up for Rachel’s weekly email: https://msrachelhollis.com/insider/ Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelHollisMotivation/videos Follow along on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MsRachelHollis/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices.

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0:00.0	But long story short I got the internship there and just kind of and just kind of worked my way up and it was all media forward at the time
0:07.4	It was just you know the magazine. It was not a publishing was kind of king then still and then it started to move and that's where
0:13.7	videos started to become like an interest for me and and for big publishing
0:19.1	companies that Conden asked I ended up being the I think I think I was like the first full-time like on, like talent that they ever hired to like just do videos and like so that was like a great transition. Like God, thank God because they probably would have fired me eventually if I had to just keep doing magazines. And for sure.
0:37.0	So videos are great though. That was like that's where I found my like my little niche, my little voice, my little like area of expression that worked you know and
0:45.0	people like what we were doing so so it kind of just kind of snowballed from
0:49.5	there and did that for a bunch of years and then and then now like fast forward I you know have my own production company and
0:56.3	YouTube shows and we we do it out of my house and it's it's the best.
1:01.3	Hi I'm Rachel, and in this show, we talk about everything.
1:09.0	Life and work, health and healing, relationships with others and with ourselves.
1:15.7	These are stories for the seekers.
1:18.7	These are conversations for the curious.
1:22.1	This is the Rachel Hollis podcast. 10 acres I'm assuming you're growing things and if so what are you growing?
1:41.2	Yes or nothing crazy.
1:42.2	I don't know if you saw my acreage over here, I'm growing some veggies myself.
1:45.0	So I'm a farmer, I'm just curious what you're up to.
1:48.0	Everyone should, if they have a little bit of access and availability too, it's as much of a therapy as it is a source of food and medicine.
1:55.2	Yeah, so what do we grow? So it's nothing like I'm not running like a major production but like there's certainly
2:00.4	we grow more stuff than we can you know there's when things are
2:04.1	going things are going you know California you guys tend to just kind of go yeah
2:08.0	you know but like ours is very
2:15.0	to have the opportunity to be self-sustaining just in case the world crumbles around us.
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