The Rural Entrepreneur’s Gold Podcast
1) Jill Blashack Strahan - Founder of Tastefully Simple shares personal loss, great success, almost closing the doors back to success.
Jill Blashack Strahan used to put together gift baskets and sell them in her Minnesota town as an active rural entrepreneur. She started small and it got bigger and bigger, but it wasn't working...Show More
2) Jordan Phillips Young entrepreneur who's family cancer story inspired Cozys for a Cure & a deal with Walmart
Jordan Phillips is more than a cross-country runner. She's also more than a sister, daughter of a cancer survivor and high school senior. And she's more than a heck of an eloquent speaker....Show More
3) Cheesecake Ninja - Why Greg Franklin getting fired is the best thing to happen
In today's episode of the rural entrepreneurs, gold, you're going to meet Greg Franklin, also known by some as the cheesecake ninja in his rural town of Perryville, Missouri, a town of about...Show More
Cheesecake Ninja - Why Greg Franklin getting fired is the best thing to happen
37:52 | Oct 21st, 2021
4) Mitch Reed - Cardboard Confessional from HS class project to book
Meet Mitch Reed. He's a high school superintendent that saw a cool public project in Brookings, South Dakota. It was an interactive art display on Main Street where people walking by could read a...Show More
5) Dot's Pretzels - An accidental entrepreneur with Dot & Randy Henke
In today's episode of the rural entrepreneurs, gold, we're going to hear a story of how some businesses aren't planned. This is a journey of an accidental entrepreneur. Sometimes idea...Show More
6) Holly Hoffman - Life After CBS Survivor
Holly Hoffman was a cast member on CBS Survivor 21 in Nicaragua. She was the last one standing in her tribe and the last woman standing. While she didn't win the million dollars, she certainly ...Show More
7) Carly Pochop - Award winning Rural Entrepreneur & Artist helps with grief
In this episode of the Rural Entrepreneur's Gold, you'll hear from Carly Pochop who seems to be a serial entrepreneur who started multiple businesses over the last five years in Aberdeen, SD...Show More
8) Blain Mikkonen - Architect grad, farmer, or furniture builder: Building business to success
Blain Mikkonen really liked design work, but he didn't want a desk job at an architecture firm. He loved to farm at his family's organic farm in South Dakota, but allergies made it frustrati...Show More
9) Maria Bosak - Chip & Joanna Gaines Risk Taker & a Foster Mom’s Journey
Both of the stories Maria Bosak shares with us here are inspiring and motivational. She shares the great gift of being foster parents and the difficult journey that road took for them as she and her ...Show More
10) Duchessa Gelato - A Young Rural Entrepreneur's Journey to Forbes 30 Under 30
In this episode, I'm really excited to introduce to you Wilhelmina van Bedaf, also known as Maartje Murphy or Duchessa Gelato. She started a business making gelato in 2018 using milk from her f...Show More
Duchessa Gelato - A Young Rural Entrepreneur's Journey to Forbes 30 Under 30
42:37 | Jul 29th, 2021