The Urban Exodus Podcast
A podcast by Urban Exodus, hosted by Alissa Hessler

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71 Episodes
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E50: Be the Change: From healthcare to farming, a food activist is born | Ivy Walls in Houston, TX
Published: 12/2/2022 -
E49: Hometown revival: She left the LA ad world to help her rural hometown community thrive | Melissa Hughes in Western NY
Published: 11/25/2022 -
E48: Ancestral Homecoming: From corporate life in NYC to traditional living in rural Honduras | Luisa Batiz in Honduras
Published: 11/18/2022 -
E47: Seeds, Sacrifice, and Service: A veteran's journey to healing through the soil | Jon Jackson of Comfort Farms in rural GA
Published: 11/11/2022 -
BONUS EPISODE: Founder Alissa Hessler on her Urban Exodus journey
Published: 6/2/2022 -
E46: A teacher raises $200k for a school garden to reconnect kids with nature & alleviate food insecurity | Sonya Harris of Bullock Garden Project in NJ
Published: 5/27/2022 -
E45: A photographer leaves Boston academia and builds a successful art career from the wilds of Maine | Cig Harvey in Midcoast, ME
Published: 5/20/2022 -
E44: A professional musician leaves Seattle after two decades on the road & builds a new chapter farming and making art in rural New Mexico | Cory Murchy in CO
Published: 5/13/2022 -
E43: Bacon and Blooms: A farm advocate and environmentalist leaves the Bay Area to reconnect with her ancestral farming roots | Molly Nakahara in Grass Valley, CA
Published: 5/6/2022 -
E42: A writer and professional outdoorsman renovates an old church in rural Arkansas, building a safe space for all hunters | Jonathan Wilkins of Black Duck Revival in Arkansas
Published: 4/29/2022 -
E41: A way forward: the paradigm shift of returning the self to nature, and undoing our collective narcissism to heal our planet | Jeanine Canty, PhD in CA
Published: 4/22/2022 -
E40: Reconnecting with a lost love and a surprise pregnancy inspires a move to the French countryside | Franchesca Hernandez in France
Published: 4/15/2022 -
E39: A food sovereignty activist & self-trained chef leaves NYC and returns to her Native community to help build a digital platform to re-indiginize our diets | Mariah Gladstone of Indigikitchen in N
Published: 4/8/2022 -
E38: A corporate lawyer leaves Singapore and moves to Bali for a creative, slower & happier life | Jean Voronkova in Bali, Indonesia
Published: 4/1/2022 -
E37: A self-trained chef and serial entrepreneur builds an international line of clean-label, locally sourced sauces & rubs in Georgia | Walter Brooks Jr. of Brooksmade Gourmet in GA
Published: 3/25/2022 -
E36: An artist, mother of three, and former music marketing executive, leaves Los Angeles and builds an international natural crayon and candle business in rural Spain | Clara Infante of Copito in Gar
Published: 3/18/2022 -
E35: A 22-year-old entrepreneur builds a thriving zero waste food delivery business in rural Canada | Celeste Lopreiato of Conscious Kitchen in West Grey, Ontario
Published: 3/11/2022 -
E34: New farmers build a biodynamic oasis on Virginia's Eastern coastline, surrounded by conventional growers | Natalie McGill of Perennial Roots Farm in Accomac, VA
Published: 12/17/2021 -
E33: A mother and vintage clothing purveyor leaves the city to build a better life for her two daughters on the autism spectrum | Molly Leary of Squash Blossom Vintage in CA
Published: 12/9/2021 -
E32: Salvation in the soil, a widowed mother builds a farm-based business in rural Georgia with her daughters and mother | Margo Candelario of Young Female Farmers in GA
Published: 12/3/2021
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.