The Urban Exodus Podcast
We are in the midst of a Great Awakening. In this uncertain world, people are changing course and getting back to their roots. This movement is happening all over the world. This is the Urban Exodus.
Urban Exodus shares honest and inspiring stories of life transitions and transformations. It offers wisdom and practical advice for country dreamers, rural folk, and urban-dwellers alike, who want to feel more connected to the natural world and the purpose and choices in their lives.
Episodes
70 episodes
Live to Learn, Learn to Live: A world explorer plants roots on his ancestral homelands, and hand builds an eco village where he teaches people how to shift towards more earth centric living | Joshua Kwaku Asiedu
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Season 6
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Episode 70
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1:03:12
Academics leave city life to build a regenerative sheep farm and eco retreat in the Australian bush
This episode is brought to you by Spoondrift Studio. Let website designer and brand specialist Nora Gray at Spoondrift Studio take the burden of all things design and website off of your plate so that you can focus on what you do best! Nora ...
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Season 6
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Episode 69
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53:11
Decentralized Life: A hip London restaurant manager leaves city life to hand build a homestead in Belize with her family
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Asli Mohamed. Asli is difficult to describe because she does so many things, and has lived in so many different places. She is a mother, a world traveler, a doula, a farmer, and an entrepreneur ...
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Season 6
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Episode 68
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55:14
Fungi Future: A Boston couple’s road to recovery and Covid leap of faith leads to mushroom farming in rural Vermont
This episode is brought to you by Spoondrift Studio. Let website designer and brand specialist Nora Gray at Spoondrift Studio take the burden of all things design and website off of your plate so that you can focus on what you do best! Nora ...
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49:05
A tech entrepreneur’s climate and Covid motivated move from San Francisco to her husband’s home state of Maine allows for time to reflect, reconnect and start a new chapter rooted in purpose | Grace Chen
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Grace Chen. Grace is a big thinker, product engineer, former tech CEO, musician, mother and self confessed pickleball fanatic. After studying Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, Grac...
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Season 6
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Episode 66
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1:18:33
An astrocartographer taps into the wisdom of the cosmos, trading New York City for a slower paced, digital nomad life in rural France
This episode is sponsored by Maine Women Magazine. As a Maine-based entrepreneur, I can’t say enough good things about Maine Women. For those of you that aren’t familiar,
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Season 6
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Episode 65
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1:00:51
Wanderland Wonder: A tech exec finds healing in nature & builds a place where people can reconnect with the wild | Jonathan Weston of @wanderlandusa
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Jonathan Weston. Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur, a father of four, a technology executive, the author of Camping is for Everyone and the founder of Wanderland Campground and the Wanderland So...
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Season 6
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Episode 64
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1:07:41
A scientist’s backyard growing journey blossoms into a mission to advocate for greater food security through home & community gardens | Ashlie Thomas of The Mocha Gardener
This episode is brought to you by Taproot Magazine. Now is the perfect time to rediscover the joys of snail mail! Published in Portland, Maine, Taproot is a beautiful print publication that c...
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Season 6
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Episode 63
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1:16:24
A Modern Shepherd: A Queer musician and textile artist leaves academia for agriculture
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Diane Anastasio. Diane grew up in the rural reaches of the Connecticut suburbs. From a young age she was planning her escape to the bright lights of the city. Right out of high school she moved ...
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Season 6
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Episode 62
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1:10:03
Twin sisters of @busyhomebodies homestead in a city apartment during Covid & manifest their self-sufficiency dreams
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Mary and Magdalene (M & M for short) - the identical twin sisters behind Busy Homebodies, an urban homesteading focused Instagr...
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Season 6
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Episode 61
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50:48
A writer leaves the tech world for a small island in the Puget Sound and creates rewilding retreats to reconnect with nature | Hillarie Maddox of Black Girl Country Living
I am excited to invite you to my conversation with Hillarie Maddox. Hillarie is a writer, creator and life-long learner. She is founder of Black Girl Country Living. Hillarie studied social ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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1:10:04
Susana Zaldivar of @Home.Coop.Garden reflects on her healing journey homesteading in her in-laws backyard
This episode is sponsored by Maine Women Magazine. Maine Women is a printed quarterly and an online publication focused on sharing news and stories that highlight innovative women m...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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1:08:07
A Sydney-based creative couple's journey into ranching and climate activism in New Zealand | Nicola Harvey & Pat Ledden of Slow Stream Farm
This episode is sponsored by Marvelous, is a software platform that has everything: courses, bundles, memberships, live streams, community, integrations, a mobile app, and live tech suppor...
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Season 5
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Episode 58
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1:08:35
Community, Music & Art: A professional musician and artist relocate to Woodstock with their two young kids to have more space to create and grow | KT & Marco Benevento
This episode is sponsored by Marvelous, is a software platform that has everything: courses, bundles, memberships, live streams, community, integrations, a mobile app, and live tech suppor...
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Season 5
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Episode 57
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53:52
Rural Schools Matter: The community and economic impact of public schools in rural communities | Mara Tieken, author & educator
This episode is sponsored by New Hampshire’s Monadnock Region. Home to five state parks, thousands of acres of pristine lakes, a flourishing arts scene, and Mount Monadnock, the most climbed mountain the U.S. Natural beauty and bustling ...
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Season 5
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Episode 57
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55:40
Van Life: A poet and power plant operator's nomadic shift fosters joy, creativity and community
This episode is sponsored by Marvelous, is a software platform that has everything: courses, bundles, memberships, live streams, community, integrations, a mobile app, and live tech suppor...
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Season 5
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Episode 55
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1:02:34
Finding Paradise: A journalist and her family's Covid motivated move from Toronto to rural Costa Rica provides a shift in perspective and better quality of life
This episode is sponsored by New Hampshire’s Monadnock Region. Home to five state parks, thousands of acres of pristine lakes, a flourishing arts scene, and Mount Monadnock, the most climbed mountain the U.S. Natural beauty and bustling ...
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Season 5
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Episode 54
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1:06:30
Dirt Road Revival: A young politician works to rebuild rural politics by tackling polarization through conversation | Maine Senator Chloe Maxmin
This episode is sponsored by New Hampshire’s Monadnock Region, home of Keene Pride week; the Monadnock Arts Open Studio Tour and the Radically Rural Summit. Natural beauty and bustling downtowns await, just two hours from Boston. Every Urban...
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Season 5
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Episode 53
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1:01:52
A NYC fashion/art icon returns to her home country of St. Lucia to farm, create and build a life on her own terms
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Shala Monroque. Shala is a Saint-Lucian native who chased her big city dreams to NYC in the early 2000s. Shala was a verifiable “it-girl “of the art and fashion worlds - glossing the pages...
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Episode 52
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53:20
Three Years in a Tent: A digital strategist & her family slow build a homestead on a remote Canadian island | Rachel Segal, Cortes Island, BC
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Rachel Segal. Rachel is a digital strategist, and has spent more than a decade working with some of the largest brands in the world on their social media and content marketing programs.
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Episode 51
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1:11:28
Be the Change: From healthcare to farming, a food activist is born
I’m excited to invite you to my conversation with Ivy Walls. Ivy is a farmer, entreprenuer and food justice activist located in Houston, Texas. Before farming, Ivy worked as an epidemiologist for the CDC and later became an infection prev...
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Episode 50
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1:07:22
Hometown revival: She left the LA ad world to help her rural hometown community thrive
This episode is sponsored by Visit LivCo. Livingston County, New York is the heart of the Genesee River Valley, home of Letchworth State Park, and westernmost gateway to...
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Episode 49
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1:14:34
Ancestral Homecoming: From corporate life in NYC to traditional living in rural Honduras
I am excited to invite you to my conversation with Luisa Batiz. Luisa grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn but her family is from Honduras. When Luisa was a child she spent her summers living off-grid with her relatives in a small village in Hondur...
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Episode 48
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1:02:42
Seeds, Sacrifice, and Service: A veteran's journey to healing through the soil | Jon Jackson of Comfort Farms
I am honored to invite you to my conversation with Jon Jackson. Jon is a former US Army ranger who served six deployments in Iraq and Afganistan. In 2014, he built and founded Comfort Farms – A 20-acre farm in rural Georgia, as a place to help ...
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Episode 47
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1:11:58
A teacher raises $200k for a school garden to reconnect kids with nature & alleviate food insecurity | Sonya Harris of Bullock Gardens
I am very excited to close this season of the podcast with Sonya Harris. Sonya is a special-ed teacher turned garden educator and philanthropist. In 2017, she established the nonprofit Bulloc...
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Episode 46
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1:03:15
