Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Episode 010.<br> <br> <br> <br> Do you have a cause that motivates you? Is the work in your business related directly to that cause?<br> <br> <br> <br> Frank Hyman is the business owner, speaker, teacher, columnist and author of Hentopia: Create a Hassle-Free Habitat for Happy Chickens.<br> <br> <br> <br> Though he wasn't planning on owning chickens, his wife really wanted to get them. He agreed, but only if they could be left during his 2-week vacations. That adventure, lead to columns about developing chicken habitat, and then this book!<br> <br> <br> <br> How does he combine his passion for help the disadvantaged, with speaking at events like the Mother Earth News Fair and writing columns and books?<br> <br> <br> <br> When you hear Frank's inspiring story, you'll realize how ANYONE can do the same. Listen now!<br> <br> <br> <br> Find out more about Frank Hyman: <a href="http://www.hentopiacoops.com/">http://www.hentopiacoops.com/</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Buy Hentopia: <a href="https://www.storey.com/books/hentopia/">https://www.storey.com/books/hentopia/</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Find out the business events secrets for growing and strengthening ANY company: <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/secrets/">http://brianjpombo.com/secrets/</a><br> Full Transcripts<br> Frank: One of my rules of public speaking is that I mean, it's important that I give people what they want. But my premier rule is that I need to be having a good time.<br> I'm getting to tell the stories I want to tell, and I'm getting to make jokes and make people laugh. And that makes me happy. So that's my priority.<br> And I figured, hey, if I'm having a good time than the audience will have a good time.<br> Podcast Intro: If you're someone who refuses to go along to get along, if you question whether the status quo was good enough for you and your family. If you want to leave this world better off than you found it and you consider independence a sacred thing. <br> You may be a prepper, a gardener, a homesteader, a survivalist, or a farmer or rancher, an environmentalist or a rugged outdoorsman.We are here to celebrate you whether you're looking to improve your maverick business or to find out more about the latest products and services available to the weekend rebel.<br> From selling chicken eggs online, to building up your food storage or collecting handmade soap.<br> This show is for those who choose the road less traveled the road to self-reliance for those that are living a daring adventure, life off the grid.<br> Brian: Frank Hyman is a carpenter, stonemason and welder, who has farm, garden and house construction experience, on two continents for over 40 years.<br> He was a double major in design and horticulture from NCSU.<br> Frank believes in happy wife happy life.<br> So when his wife Chris wanted chickens, he knew they would have chickens, but also wanted to be able to go on two week vacations. He wrote a column about it, how he achieved both goals for chickens magazine, and the columns became the book, Hentopia, create a hassle free habitat for happy chickens, 21 innovative projects.<br> Hopefully we can get Frank to tell us about it.<br> Frank's writing appears in The New York Times, Organic Gardening, Hobby Farms, Modern Farmer as well as Chickens Magazine, and CommunityChickens.com.<br> He's been without a day job since 1992. When he first put together a plan to make a living from his hobbies. He launched an award winning garden design plant build business cottage garden landscaping, which is located in Durham, North Carolina.<br> Frank Hyman, welcome to the Off The Grid Biz Podcast.<br> Frank: Thank you for having me, Brian. Glad to be here.<br> Brian: Yeah.
