Grief can make us do the wildest things, and sometimes it takes getting lost in the middle of nowhere to find where we belong. For our debut episode, we follow long-distance hiker&nbsp;Brittany Comins&nbsp;on a 2,000 mile journey through loss, gratitude, and the great outdoors.&nbsp;

Hosted by&nbsp;Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by&nbsp;Consensus Digital Media&nbsp;in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.&nbsp;

Hope Is My Middle Name is more than a podcast; it’s a community. We want to know who’s giving you hope today. Post #reasonstohope on your socials and tag @katetuckermusic for more hope. 


Brittany Comins: Hiking to Healing on the Appalachian Trail

Iraq War veteran Jon Turner takes us from an ambush in Ramadi to a homestead in Vermont, where he’s found a way to heal a traumatic brain injury through farming. Hands in the dirt, boots on the ground, Jon Turner is on a mission to build community and serve our country as a farmer, father, teacher and always, as a veteran. 

Hosted by&nbsp;Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by&nbsp;Consensus Digital Media&nbsp;in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.&nbsp;Read about Jon Turner and Wild Roots Farm Vermont at garden-and-health.com.

Hope Is My Middle Name is more than a podcast; it’s a community. We want to know who’s giving you hope today. Post #reasonstohope on your socials and tag @katetuckermusic for more hope. 


Jon Turner: Veteran on a Life-Giving Mission

Twenty-six year-old farmer George Patterson expands on his family’s coal-mining heritage with a new enterprise—reclaiming abandoned mine land to grow food and restore the land for generations to come. When George’s dad told him he could go to business school or go into business, he set up shop in a shipping container on a mine site, with air mattress and shotgun in tow. George worked by day and binged YouTube by night to teach himself the art and science of agriculture as an economic driver. Now he’s got a full-fledged farm in not one, but seven shipping containers, with four full-time employees and zero air mattresses. And he’s sleeping in a real bed, bought and paid for with his hard-earned profits. Today, business is booming, but it’s not about profit for George, it’s about helping a community find hope in good hard work and fantastically delicious food, food that is truly wild and wonderful like its West Virginia home.

Hosted by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.&nbsp;
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Hope Is My Middle Name is more than a podcast; it’s a community. We want to know who’s giving you hope today. Post #reasonstohope on your socials and tag @katetuckermusic for more hope.




George Patterson: From Mine Land to Farmland

Truckers make the world go round, especially these days with serious supply chain disruptions, the ongoing crisis of the pandemic, and the ever-increasing importance of front-line workers. We talk with two truckers out there delivering hope and crucial supplies on rough roads, in bad weather, in the face of loneliness, isolation and invisibility. They’re risking their lives for us every day, and they have some great stories to tell. From a truckstop in Kentucky, we hear from Shelli Conaway who started Trucks with Room to Spare to bring life-giving supplies to victims of natural disaster; and in a forest in Ohio, I talk with my dad, Kevin Tucker, because it was riding shotgun in his semi, that I learned to love the road and all its unpredictable adventure.&nbsp;

Hosted by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.&nbsp;
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To join Shelli Conaway in delivering hope visit truckswithroomtospare.org
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Hope Is My Middle Name is more than a podcast; it’s a community. We want to know what’s giving you hope these days. Post #reasonstohope on your socials and tag @katetuckermusic for more hope.




A Tale of Two Truckers: Hauling Hope Across America

John Christian Phifer’s life revolves around death. He performed his first burial at the age of six, wrapping a grasshopper in a shroud of leaves, and today he digs bigger graves on a sweeping nature preserve in the hills of Tennessee. With each funeral, the land is restored and loved ones have wide open space to grieve and to celebrate the life we all are so lucky to live. Hear how John Christian went from mortician to man with a life-giving mission in this first episode of HOPE season 2.&nbsp;

To find out more about Larkspur, visit LarkspurConservation.org and follow John Christian on Instagram.

Hosted and produced by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume. 


John Christian Phifer: Finding Life in Death with Natural Burial

Ron Pringle believes in a hunger-free America. And he’s determined to help build it. Growing up, he watched his grandparents feed the neighborhood from their free farmstand. He remembers big family gatherings where everyone brought their signature dish, Southern hospitality in full effect. When Ron’s mother died unexpectedly, he started going to the local food bank with his grandmother, bringing back food to share with everyone on the block. “We weren't clients. We weren't victims. We were neighbors.”&nbsp;

Today, Ron is CEO of Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, a massive force for good in North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham area, growing and serving millions of pounds of food per year with innovative programs that address the root causes of hunger. Because, as Ron says, “If you want to break a pattern, it starts in the mind. And if food is present, a child can hope, a child can dream, a child can grow up to give back.” Like Ron did.&nbsp;

See Inter-Faith Food Shuttle in action on Farms Across America now streaming on YouTube.&nbsp;

For more about Ron’s work, visit FoodShuttle.org and follow on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @foodshuttle&nbsp;

Follow Kate Tucker on Twitter and Instagram at @katetuckermusic

Hosted and produced by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.


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