Work: A Rum Distiller | 160
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Karen Hoskin is a rum distiller: that's pretty cool, right? But here's what's especially interesting about Karen: She's a woman in a field where's simply not a lot of women, she had no experience making rum (or any sort of liquor, really) when she began, and... a rum distiller in Colorado? That's an unusual place for making rum.
But Karen's never shied away from being a leader and starting new things — in fact, she's also the founder and owner of Zoetica, a shop that specializes in zero-waste travel and food kits. So basically, it's a shame that Karen just sits on the sidelines, you know?
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| 0:00.0 | This is simple. I'm Tish Hawksen Rider. |
| 0:08.0 | In this episode I'm talking to Karen Hoskins, a rum distiller. |
| 0:12.0 | More on her in just a second but first Aaron Hoskins, a rum distiller. |
| 0:13.2 | More on her in just a second, but first a quick reminder. |
| 0:15.8 | For the month of October, we're doing something |
| 0:17.4 | we haven't done in over two years, |
| 0:18.6 | and that's surveying our audience, which is, of course, you guys. |
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| 0:27.6 | more about who you are, what you enjoy, and what you'd like to hear from us down the |
| 0:31.2 | road. And if you also read the blog partnered with this podcast called The Art of Simple, |
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| 0:55.6 | But the sooner you take it the better because we're processing your answers in real time. |
| 0:59.8 | The link for the survey is also in the show notes of this episode, but one more time, that's at. A rum distiller. That's super cool, right? |
| 1:23.0 | But what's especially interesting about Karen is that, one, |
| 1:26.0 | she's a woman in a field where there's really not a lot of women. |
| 1:29.0 | Two, she didn't have any experience making rum, or any sort of liquor really, when she first started. |
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