The Homegrown Podcast

The Homegrown Podcast

A down to earth podcast aimed to communicate with small communities about inequality issues within America and the history that formed it. Interviewing Homegrown Heroes about their experiences within society today and discuss how we can form a more equal future.

Episodes

July 19, 2025 98 mins

This is a very powerful episode where we dive into Randall and the reason he has not been able to be the co host for the last 5 years.  

 

We take a look into his upbringing and what brought him out to Los Angeles to be at the George Floyd protests in Los Angeles.  We discuss the exact day and the actions of the day that led up to getting hit in the head by a rubber bullet from LAPD.   Everything from what was the motivation to atten...

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Introducing the one and only Patrick Gnerlich! WARNING: This episode was previously recorded and discusses mental health fairly in depth so listening discretion is advised. We get really deep into how men in America today need to be able to be self aware and assist themselves in getting mental health assistance where needed. Whether that lies in getting diagnosed, going to therapy, checking yourself in for drug use or suicide,...
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March 11, 2023 91 mins
This episode is heavier than a Led Zeppelin... I may have wanted to start it out light, cause we get deep with Annette Alatorre about her personal experiences with suicide and mental health as well as the overall stigma surrounding the topic. From calling the police to help her sister whom she watched down an entire bottle of sleeping pills, to checking herself in to the hospital for her own well being as recent as 2020 during C...
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February 14, 2023 70 mins
This is our second time with good friend Adam Gharib on the podcast. This time we wanted to take a specific look into working too hard and burning out, setting up boundaries for yourself and the wellbeing of the people around you and general mental health. Whether it's bosses asking more out of you than they are willing to communicate, to not getting paid after doing the work you agreed to. Remembering as a free lance artist tha...
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January 28, 2023 89 mins
Episode 20 is with our great friend, professional skateboarder, hip hop artist, and Wave Gods entrepreneur Michael Medall. We go into the details of growing up in Monona Wisconsin by his Swedish Mother and Father who came from Los Angeles. To his roots starting in hip hop by being introduced to sing some lyrics while the guys were banging on the lunch table. He found himself skateboarding professionally at a young age and leadin...
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September 9, 2022 87 mins
This episode we dive deep in with our good friend and colleague Adam Gharib. Chicago born and Belvidere raised in Illinois, Adam is from Palestinian background and has done Camera, DP, and video work for the likes of Sugar Shane Mosley, Wiz Khalifa, Nelly & Florida Georgia Line, and has even had meetings with the one and only Kanye (he doesn't like to brag, so we'll do it for him) With a great love story he tells how his parent...
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August 1, 2022 96 mins
This episode we get deep into it with fellow colleague of Jonathan Schaub at Adler University in Rachel Blau. We go through her story of coming up in Lake Zurich Illinois with a big family and how she got into studying mental health. From having a marriage that ended due to 3 major deaths in both families within 14 months of each other, to finally realizing she may need some mental help and her path to discovering it. We go ...
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May 20, 2022 89 mins
This Episode we introduce a great friend to the show in Anthony Jaramillo. We discuss his coming up in The San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, from being bullied for being a small kid, finding a love in playing hockey, to being blamed for his block's mischief as a child due to the color of his skin once they moved out to Lancaster, CA (still in LA County). How he's handled running his own business as a graphic designer, to...
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March 11, 2022 92 mins
This episode is all about the story of Asime Ibraimi. From migrating from her birthplace in the country of Macedonia to Ripon, Wisconsin, to dealing with being Albanian and Muslim within a mostly White and Christian town of Lodi Wisconsin where her parents settled and she went through public schooling. There's a lot of great stories in this episode that gave us a new perspective, and we hope it does for you as well. Have a gre...
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February 18, 2022 108 mins
This episode we are very happy to introduce Melody! We discuss with her the culture shock of growing up in Madison, and then being in an interracial marriage and moving to Lodi Wisconsin to raise her own children. Discussions of the intricacies that come with her moving to a small town only a half hour away from one of the most diverse cities in Wisconsin ensue. Get ready for some though provoking conversations and stories. Fi...
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December 11, 2021 95 mins
This episode we enjoy the company of our good friend and amazing artist in JR Weise. We cut up everything from where he came up in Deforest Wisconsin, to how he made it out to Los Angeles. Coming up a mixed race person in today's society, how he had to deal with multiple displays of racism. The burden of racism in this country as well as being a person who is part of the LGBTQ community. CRT, bringing communities together, hist...
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November 6, 2021 88 mins
Homegrown Podcast has a great guest this episode in David Reiling! Expert Photographer, game designer, and friend. As usual we get into David's upbringing and how that's molded him into the man he is today. How success tastes just as sweet at 45 as it would have at 25. Realizing friends can help find your identity and his story of coming up in Rockford Illinois. Also standing up for what you believe in after you do find that...
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October 9, 2021 93 mins
We dive in with our good friend and great person all around in Craig "Sincere Life" Smith. Everything from his top 5 and the state of Hip Hop today, to how he came up in Hip Hop as an artist and has taken a pivotal turn into comedy. Where that inspiration came from to go that route and start a podcast on top of it. Mixed in with a good amount of fun banter and great story about our previous guest in Corey Whitmore and Tech Nine ...
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October 7, 2021 50 mins
Amazing conversation and great insight from our guest Faith Hatch. We discuss everything from growing up mostly in Lodi Wisconsin, to her newfound research on her ancestors history in America, and representation in predominantly white towns for people of color, and much much more. Including but not limited to her other projects and getting back into music. A great quote to come out of this one - "You don't have to be where you...
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August 9, 2021 112 mins
This episode we have our colleague and "Pick Up The Mic Podcast" Creator, Producer, and Host - Corey Whitmore. - We go over how he grew up in many places, code switching, his love of helping teens in his community and starting his podcast. -Discussing how courageous teens are these days, how social media makes a difference in their lives today, and the importance of the teacher to student relationships. -How he's keeping his ...
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June 23, 2021 111 mins
We gladly welcome back Audrey Martinovich during Pride Month to give us some history lessons on how Pride started, her own struggles recently in her own neighborhood and if that's linked to being Bisexual herself, how she dealt with finding her own identity, how social media seems to help people of different backgrounds unite and have representation, Transgender issues withins sports, the politics of being part of the LGBTQ+ commun...
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June 4, 2021 152 mins
This week we have the amazing Elizabeth Kahn joining us. A consultant by day and actor / producer / creator by night, Elizabeth has a full life between her Minnesota roots and her Los Angeles home. Like our host Jonathan, Elizabeth is a Korean adoptee who was brought up in Mahtomedi, outside of St Paul Minnesota. We have a great discussion today about: Her upbringing in Minnesota and the multiple cultures she celebrated being...
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May 28, 2021 123 mins
An amazingly insightful podcast and one of our best yet! This week we introduce our friend Christopher Wright to the podcast. A teacher and student simultaneously who teaches Elementary school level children and is going for his Master's Degree. Chris grew up in Los Angeles but was brought up in mostly predominantly white schools in his early childhood, so we discuss how that's molded him and his outlook on life. There's some...
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May 19, 2021 111 mins
This week we invite our friend and colleague from Madison Media Institute (Rest in Power) in Ray Moore. We discuss his upbringing in the Philippines while being an American Citizen and a Military brat who moved around every couple years on average and how that affected his outlook on life and race. How he moved to America 3 years after his mother at nineteen years old right in before Katrina hit in 2005 and took away everything t...
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March 26, 2021 118 mins
This episode, we invite our good friend Josh Keh to the podcast to discuss the recent events and his upbringing. Josh is a theatre tech guru and also a theatre tech teacher in Culver City, CA. We discuss his growing up outside the United States and what kind of perspective that gives him and how he looks at America of today. Sit down, get some popcorn, and let Josh and Jon's discussion give you a different perspective on America...
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