Cultivating Change: Gary Binkow's Path To Holistic Living & Regenerative Farming
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Join us in this episode as we chat with Gary Binkow, an award-winning producer and wellness entrepreneur with a passion for sharing his expertise with others on similar paths. Whether he's launching health brands like The Swell Score or coaching aspiring entrepreneurs, Gary knows how to create, distribute, and monetize content — and now, how to translate that success into wellness…
After selling his media company, Gary pivoted into the health and wellness space, where he discovered a deep passion for regenerative farming and holistic living. Trading city life for the soil, he and his partner now cultivate their own land in California. What lessons has he uncovered in this new chapter? Tune in to hear his story firsthand!
This conversation covers:
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What regenerative farming is at its core.
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Why tilling and discing soil can be harmful for farmland.
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The role that pesticides can play in organic farming.
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How rotating crops preserves soil health.
Want to follow along with Gary and his farming efforts? Connect with his Instagram @root2risefarms!
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| 0:22.2 | He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field. |
| 0:25.1 | Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more. |
| 0:28.6 | Here come the geniuses. |
| 0:30.3 | This is the Finding Genius podcast with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:37.5 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the frightening genius podcast. I guess today is Gary Binko. |
| 0:43.2 | He's very, very, very good at at least three different things. One is that he runs a regenerative |
| 0:47.9 | farm. It looks like they grow avocado and coffee. Another is the former Academy Award nominated |
| 0:53.3 | an Emmy winning producer. So he had a |
| 0:55.4 | decade long career in film and digital media. He produced over 50 films and helped build one of |
| 1:00.3 | the world's largest digital agencies because they wanted to talk about sustainable farming and |
| 1:04.3 | get the word out about it. He's also led global digital marketing for Dr. Walter Longo. Dr. Longo |
| 1:09.7 | works on a fasting, mimicking diet. |
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