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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

826. Nobody Got Her Goat

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0619 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

PJ Jonas faced criticism when she left an engineering job to be a stay-at-home mom. Soon her problem-solving skills and creativity were fully put to use. As an undergrad at the University of Virginia, stuff made from goat's milk was nowhere in her plans. What started out as a means of getting good milk for her children produced a wide range of unanticipated discoveries, and a thriving family business.

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0:00.0

Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

0:14.3

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

0:16.1

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work

0:22.2

they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. On Fridays, I interview an

0:28.6

individual with many years of experience from one of the top-ranked occupations or professions

0:33.9

who share an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

0:38.7

It was when I decided to leave the workforce, you know, back when my daughter was born.

0:42.3

And I came under a lot of fire for that.

0:44.0

I got a lot of people, you know, you're so talented, you're wasting all your efforts.

0:48.6

You know, you're so much bigger than being a stay-at-home mom.

0:51.4

And, you know, I was really convicted that raising the children was just

0:56.2

as important as going out and earning money. Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest,

1:01.3

PJ Jonas. Welcome, PJ. Thanks for having me, Don. It is our pleasure. PJ, are you using your

1:07.3

talents doing work that you love? Absolutely. Every day. All righty.

1:11.2

We want to hear the whole story.

1:12.8

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

1:17.2

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

1:21.0

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

1:25.0

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

1:29.5

products business that has been featured on the Today Show, The Doctors, the Huckabee Show,

1:34.4

and in O, the Oprah magazine. What started with an initial small batch of soap has expanded into a host

1:40.5

of goat milk items such as goat milk soaps, cheeses, candies, fudge, gelato, and more.

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