So You Want to Be a Homesteader?
Roots and Refuge Podcast
Jessica Sowards
5 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hey, y'all! Welcome to episode 23 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.
In today’s episode, I’m talking about getting prepared to share at The Homestead Festival at Rory Feek's farm Hardison Mill. It never fails, every time I get prepared to go speak at one of these events, the “imposter system” creeps in. Because I know I'm probably not alone in this feeling, I'm sharing how I stop my mindset, refocus my heart, and realize that there’s intention in how I’m living, how we’re living, and that’s huge! We’re actively changing culture, and that’s a victory.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host, Jessica Soutts. My friends call me |
| 0:11.2 | Jess, and I hope you will too. I'm so glad that you're here today. Here on our podcast, we talk about |
| 0:15.7 | all things homesteading, gardening, raising animals, preparing, preserving, and enjoying food, as well as trying to raise a |
| 0:22.6 | family in a more mindful way and just engaging in the earth in a healthy relationship. |
| 0:29.0 | You can find more from us at roots and refuge.com. We've been making YouTube videos for the last |
| 0:34.1 | several years, sharing our homesteading experience, and we also share a lot |
| 0:38.3 | of information on our blog on the website. And here we release new podcasts every Wednesday, |
| 0:44.9 | and our Patreon subscribers actually get the podcast a week early. So all of that information |
| 0:50.0 | will be in the show notes, but we can jump into the topic of today's podcast. So I'm titling this |
| 0:55.8 | podcast, so you want to be a homesteader. But I'm not just talking to the person who is new. |
| 1:04.2 | This is coming from where I have been this week. Frankly, it's been a little bit of a raw place. |
| 1:10.3 | I had a long list of topics of podcasts |
| 1:12.6 | that I had thought I would maybe try to record today because I'm getting ready to go out of town. |
| 1:16.8 | I'm trying to make a lot of content to go out of town. And I was looking at all of these topics, |
| 1:22.1 | which were very pragmatic and a lot of information. And I thought I am simply way too scattered |
| 1:27.1 | to try to cohesively present a lot of information. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm going to have to come from just a very honest place of where I actually am. |
| 1:36.5 | And the idea of so you want to be a homesteader is something that I am sitting in this week, because I want to be a homesteader. |
| 1:43.1 | My kids came in the other day. |
| 1:45.8 | Again, honest and raw, I'm going to be real vulnerable and just really real and let you |
| 1:50.8 | into my own journey and my own struggles and all of that. My kids came in a few days ago. |
| 1:57.0 | They'd been outside playing down by the pond kayaking and stuff and I'd been working all |
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