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Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hey y’all, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge Podcast—Season 2!

After a long break, I’m back, and this time, it feels different. This episode marks the start of a new season—not just for the podcast, but for our life here on the farm. Over the past several months, we’ve made big shifts, choosing to slow down, simplify, and realign with what truly matters.

In this episode, I share what led us to step back, reassess, and ultimately rebuild from the foundation up. From downsizing our farm to bringing our kids back home for homeschooling, we’ve embraced a quieter, more intentional way of living. It hasn’t been easy, and there’s been plenty of humble pie along the way, but through it all, we’ve found peace, clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose.

I also reflect on how the journey of homesteading and content creation has evolved—what started as a dream to grow our own food has turned into a platform that reaches so many. But in chasing big dreams, it’s easy to drift off course. Now, I’m focusing on being present, living for today, and letting everything else flow from that place of peace.

I’m so excited to be back, and I can’t wait to share this season with you. Thank you for being here—you are so welcome at this table. 🌱💛

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0:00.0	Hey there, darlings.
0:07.9	Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:11.2	I am your host, Jessica Sauer.
0:12.8	It's my friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:15.3	And here on my podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by raising animals, growing gardens, preserving,
0:23.2	preparing, and enjoying that food. And most importantly, just trying to live a little more
0:28.4	mindfully in relationship with each other and with the earth. I'm officially calling this episode
0:35.6	episode one of season two of this podcast.
0:40.9	I actually think that season one technically probably could have been broken up into a few
0:48.1	different seasons, but I definitely took a big break.
0:52.7	Somewhere in the middle there, I came back. I thought I was ready
0:55.8	and I wasn't. But if you are hearing this, is because I am indeed back. I'm planning on
1:00.7	recording at least four or five episodes before I upload this one. So if you are hearing this,
1:06.7	we're back in action, back to weekly podcasts.
1:11.1	I'll be uploaded on all major platforms as well as a week early over on Patreon.
1:19.1	It is January, and I am currently recording from our RV on our farm.
1:27.3	Our life has taken kind of a little bit of different form over the last
1:32.0	handful of months and interestingly I've shared so many concepts and ideas over the years a couple
1:39.8	years that I did the podcast very regularly about kind of how we make decisions, how we make
1:44.9	plans, how we dream, how I deal with overwhelm. I've covered such a gamut of topics. And actually,
1:51.0	we're planning on the flavor of this being still very much me just talking to you. I'm hoping
1:56.1	that many of the episodes, Maya, is going to join me because I think he has so much valuable input
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