Olympia Yarger: Entrepreneur and Maggot Evangelist

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Olympia Yarger filled a knowledge gap in my brain: the beauty of maggots. I never fully appreciated maggots, particularly of the black soldier fly, until I interviewed her. We also chatted about her husband's military career and the challenges of being a military family with a touching story about one of their family dogs. Olympia is helping reshape waste management as the founder and current CEO of Goterra, located in Australia. Her drive towards more efficient farming and reducing food waste has led to a new kind of insect farming using autonomous robotics. She is a determined, resilient, and larvae-loving-leader in the fight to develop a circular relationship between nature, technology, and food consumption. Something new this week on Remarkable People podcast! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.
0:07.3	Smart spending drives growth, which is something Brex has championed. Brex isn't just a corporate credit
0:14.0	card. It's a strategic tool to help your company achieve peak performance. Corporate cards, banking, expense management, all integrated
0:24.1	on an AI-powered platform that turns every dollar into opportunity. In fact, 30,000 companies
0:32.9	are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.
0:45.0	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people.
0:53.0	This episode's guest is Olympia Yager.
0:56.1	Olympia filled the knowledge gap in my brain, specifically the beauty of maggots.
1:01.0	I never fully appreciated maggots, particularly of the black soldier fly, but now I do.
1:07.0	She is helping reshape waste management as the founder and current CEO of Goetera, located in Australia.
1:13.7	Her drive towards more efficient farming and reducing food waste has led to a new kind of insect farming using autonomous robotics.
1:21.6	Olympia attended Murdoch University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in sustainable development.
1:27.4	She also attended the Ilawara Institute, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in sustainable development.
1:29.7	She also attended the Ilawara Institute,
1:33.7	where she obtained an associate degree in agricultural business and management.
1:37.1	At the 2019 Women's Agenda Leadership Awards,
1:40.4	she won the Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
1:44.6	She is also the director of the Insect Protein Association of Australia.
1:50.7	Olympia was also the founder and managing director of Raising Raiders, a grant program that supports Marsoc, the Marine Special Operations Families. This is a community that she has been a part
1:57.2	of because she has had to deal with the PTSD of her Marine veteran spouse.
2:02.8	She is a determined, resilient, and larva-loving leader in the fight to develop a circular
2:08.0	relationship between nature, technology, and food consumption.
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