From Dirt We Grow

Everyone says voting third party is a wasted vote. But who benefits when voters believe they only have two choices?

In this episode, I explain why I've been interviewing grassroots candidates from outside the political establishment and why expanding political awareness matters more than most people realize.

This isn't about tel...

Everyone says voting third party is a wasted vote. But who benefits when voters believe they only have two choices?

In this episode, I explain why I've been interviewing grassroots candidates from outside the political establishment and why expanding political awareness matters more than most people realize.

This isn't about telling you who to vote for. It's about understanding the power of having options.

#ThirdParty #IndependentV...

A powerful and emotional interview with the daughter of a deceased veteran exposed to Agent Orange — and the lifelong health struggles she now faces because of it. Her father served his country. But decades later, the damage didn't stop with him.

In this episode, my guest Jane and I, dive into the generational effects of Agent Orange, the healthcare battles families face, and the difficult reality many children and grandchildren of...

A powerful and emotional interview with the daughter of a deceased veteran exposed to Agent Orange — and the lifelong health struggles she now faces because of it. Her father served his country. But decades later, the damage didn't stop with him.

In this episode, my guest Jane and I, dive into the generational effects of Agent Orange, the healthcare battles families face, and the difficult reality many children and grandchildren of...

Have you ever received a medical bill that didn't seem quite accurate or was just astronomically expensive? What if your medical bill isn't just about the care you received... but how it was coded? In this episode of From Dirt We Grow, we sit down with a medical billing and coding professional who's seen the system from the inside and isn't afraid to talk about it.

Together we will talk about:

• How medical bills are actually cr...

I sat down with a candidate running in Florida's 12th congressional district, Chris Irizarry, for a real conversation—no filters, no pre-approved questions.

We talked about what actually matters: cost of living, trust in government, and what people are really dealing with right now.

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Have you ever received a medical bill that didn't seem quite accurate or was just astronomically expensive? What if your medical bill isn't just about the care you received... but how it was coded? In this episode of From Dirt We Grow, we sit down with a medical billing and coding professional who's seen the system from the inside and isn't afraid to talk about it.

Together we will talk about:

• How medical bills are actually cr...

Both political parties claim to represent the people. So why does nothing ever change?

Today an open-source candidate, Winston Jordan, joins me on the show. He believes neither side is working for everyday Americans — and he's done waiting for them to fix it.

Frustrated with the lack of movement on HR 415 and other stalled legislation, he decided to stop complaining and start building. Literally.

He programs his own platforms.
He b...

We talk about problems all the time - Broken systems, division, frustration with the way things are going...  I think we're finding that most of us actually agree on what's wrong, but not on how to fix what's wrong.

This episode introduces something new I, host of From Dirt We Grow, have been invited to be a part of -- Tri-State Of Mind. A space where real conversations happen between people who don't always see things the same way...

This episode features a women's rights advocate, an activist, a community volunteer, who ran for senate in 2024 - and didn't win. But that's not where her story ends. Instead of walking away, Tracy doubled down. Volunteering, organizing, showing up. 

We talk about what running for office really costs, why losing doesn't mean failure, and how real change is often built far outside campaigning. We talk about family, abortion, women's...

He escaped control - twice. 

But the most disturbing chapter of his life didn't look like a cult at all.

Today's guest, Gabe Reed aka Gabe the Great, details his journey of survival, silence, and the search for meaning when the truth doesn't lead where you expect it to.

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Running for congress in Michigan's 2nd district is Jamie Hill. With a background in healthcare, Jamie believes that by making it a single-payer system, many other societal breakdowns will begin to dissipate.

They have a solid grasp on the snowball effect that the failings our current healthcare system has across housing, employment, mental health, and the justice system. They join me today to talk about it, and what real change cou...

We're told to vote. Vote more. Vote every election like our lives depend on it.

But after speaking with multiple candidates lately - people running without corporate money, without party machines, without special access - one truth kept surfacing. The problem isn't that people don't vote. The problem is who were allowed to vote for.

So in this episode, we're breaking down how the political system filters candidates long before Elec...

When did politics stop serving people — and start serving donors? Or has it always been that way?In this conversation, I sit down with Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong to talk about the issues that rarely get honest airtime: corporate influence, the truth about Wisconsin's prison stats, and the real-life consequences for working families, and farms, across Wisconsin.Full transparency, this is a system that prioritiz...

What makes someone serve their country for 35 years, and then decide the next mission is Congress? This episode features a congressional candidate from Oklahoma's 4th district and longtime military veteran, Jeff Pixley.

We talk about service, leadership, sacrifice, and why he believes this country needs something different. After 35 years in uniform serving his country, he has decided, just months away from his retirement, that his...

What happens when the justice system gets it wrong — and refuses to fix it?

In this episode, I sit down with a co-founder of Voiceless Behind Bars, an organization dedicated to helping the wrongfully convicted and exposing serious flaws in the justice system. We talk about how innocent people end up behind bars, why so many ...

We seem to accept anxiety and depression as personal problems — but what if they're actually responses to the societal and political climate we're living in?

In this episode, I've invited Christine, a progressive counselor to the show. Her focus is across the lifespan — from kids and adolescents, to adults and healthcare workers — specializing in trauma, ADHD...

What happens when everyday citizens try to use the constitution the way it was intended - to hold those in power accountable? That's just what Citizen's Impeachment has set out to do, an online movement that gained real momentum before it was suddenly stopped in it's tracks.

According to one of the founders, Keira Havens, it wasn't lack of support that postponed their goal - it goes much deeper than that. She tells us how it starte...