Dreaming Bravely

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

I am very much a dreamer that is living in extraordinary fulfillment of some of the dreams that, at one point, were completely impossible for me.

Because of this, I’m much braver now than I was before.

I believe when we share our story, it's like opening up the fruit of that dream and sharing the seeds with someone else. We can say this was sown in the garden of my heart and grew in my life, and it actually produced something. Let me share it with you!

Join me for today’s podcast (episode #34), which was recorded the day after roasting our first batch of coffee at Beulah Roasting Co.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what is up? Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host. My name is Jessica Sauerz. My friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too. I'm so glad to have you here today listening to my podcast where we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by gardening and raising animals,
0:21.7	as well as preserving food, enjoying it, sharing it, and living mindfully in relationship with each other
0:28.2	and the earth. Today, I want to talk about a topic that's been on my mind lately, and it was
0:36.0	spurred on by the fact that yesterday we roasted our first batch of coffee so
0:44.5	for a little bit of backstory if you are new around here i've been doing this podcast this year
0:50.4	i think this is episode 30 something is because we're about a little past the middle of the
0:56.0	year and we've done weekly episodes since January 1st when we launched it. And prior to that,
1:03.1	I've been making YouTube videos for the last six years. We got into homesteading. It was a passion
1:10.2	and a dream of mine.
1:11.2	And of course, I've shared that story in depth here probably more than once at this point.
1:16.9	And it's been really interesting because when we started doing YouTube, I did it with a
1:25.3	tenacity that I was going to treat it like my job. I had really felt like
1:29.7	if I were to commit myself to it to that degree and really treat it like my job that it was
1:34.8	going to go somewhere. And I'd felt like that one day I was on my back porch praying actually.
1:39.9	And so I sort of jumped out at that. And'm really glad that I did when when I did because our life was
1:51.2	in a really rough place at that time I mean there was a lot of beauty to it there was a lot of good to it
1:57.0	but we were really financially struggling at that time and we had made a lot of decisions
2:04.5	trying to do what we felt led to do that seemed to just be digging us into a deeper hole now
2:10.0	when the rest of that story unfolded when the YouTube thing happened and as it has unfolded
2:15.4	over the last several years the decisions that we made then
2:19.4	that seemed to be completely nonsensical later made perfect sense you know we scrape the bottom of
2:26.4	our bank account to build a garden and it was such an extravagant expression it wasn't just a simple
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