Restless Native

Starting a podcast is hard. Really hard. It's not just the audio quality, or even the guests. There are a lot of things that go into making a show successful. Arica Johnson and Brayden Ware are on GoWild's marketing team and they joined Restless Native to discuss how to start a podcast and successful YouTube channel. They unveil some of their secrets and discoveries along the way, and you'll get to know them a little more, too. See our new show here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz6VwkxT1z-XpQdaAPo6UKkUCctS7mnUwTickets to TWRA Rafflehttps://bit.ly/GW-TWRA-Elk-Buy_Now Restless Native is brought to you by GoWildDownload GoWild today. Join a community of shooters, hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts. http://downloadgowild.com/

BJ Campbell is a part of Open Source Defense, a gun rights organization. BJ talks about firearms buyers and trends. There are so many angles that are impacting gun sales, and being outdoors. BJ has some really interesting thoughts on news cycles, too. He dissects how these news organizations are hooked on the clicks. It’s their only way to survive, and it drives FOMO—that is, fear of missing out on traffic, which is directly attached to their revenue. More from Open Source Defense:https://opensourcedefense.org/ Tickets to TWRA Rafflehttps://bit.ly/GW-TWRA-Elk-Buy_Now Restless Native is brought to you by GoWild Download GoWild today. Join a community of shooters, hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts. http://downloadgowild.com/

On this show, we have one of the best songwriters to have emerged in quite some time.  And, he’s a bowhunter, passionate angler and good ol’ mountain man from the hills of West Virginia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3vVnxpFsQCharles Wesley Godwin is the real deal. I’ve been a passionate fan of his since March of 2019. His album Seneca was among my heaviest of rotations last year, and I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him in concert a few times now.Today, we talk a bit about his music, and he shares several hunting and fishing tales. We also talk about this strange world we’re living in, and get his take on it. It’s a really humbled conversation. Charles will wrap up today’s show with a few songs. As my buddy and fellow musician Dave Shoemaker once said, Charles Wesley Godwin’s voice is pure velvety perfection.Restless Native is brought to you by GoWildDownload GoWild today. Join a community of shooters, hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts. http://downloadgowild.com/Photo by Alexis FayeShow NotesCharles on SpotifyWebsiteInstagram

The first Restless Native came with one promise: I'm going to tell you a story. We’ve now tipped the century mark, and I'm looking back on my favorite episodes, what I've learned, and where the show is going. AND, we drop a BIG announcement. Seriously, you’re going to want to hear (and SEE) this one. Buckle up. We’re just getting started, and episode 100 proves it. Restless Native is Brought to You by GoWildGoWild is a social commerce platform for outdoor enthusiasts. Join in on the discussion today. Download GoWild today.

“Our minds just get away from us. That’s how we have to operate in this world. This is the first time I’ve felt like I’ve been in my body since I was a kid, as far as my mind being here, now. High school, it was where to go to college. Then a job. Now, I’m not planning for anything.”— Nick Jamerson, SongwriterNicholas Jamerson made quite the ripple with his band, Sundy Best. He’s played shows for tens of thousands of people, charted on Billboard, been on CMT, and played with legends. Yet he is one of the most humble people you’ll meet. You’re going to enjoy this conversation. It’s a breath of fresh air amid the toxicity and arguing going on today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3WgOUwfuEI think Nick is doing his best work yet today. He recently released a new album, The Wild Frontier, and joined me to talk about it. He lives a very remote life, far from the city. We talk about how that’s helped amid these strange times. Keep listening until the end of the show. I share some thoughts on today’s current events, as well as drop a huge teaser for the upcoming Restless Native podcast episode 100. Good Ol’ FellaWebsiteFacebookInstagram The Wild Frontier, SpotifyRestless Native is Brought to You By GoWildGoWild is the best app for outdoor enthusiasts. You can connect with folks around hiking, fishing, cooking, music, hunting and more. Download it today.

"Wild game has flavor. Once you eat it, everything else is so bland. That's why I fell in love with wild game. When you buy meat at a grocery store, there are no surprises. There are always surprises with wild game. From a chef's perspective that's so much fun, but people look at it like that's a negative."— Danielle PrewettHave you ever stopped to think about your food as a story?You probably have. Because you’re a Restless Native listener and we like to dive deep. Well, today’s guest does, too. She’s gone from a non-hunter, which, please don’t take that as anti-hunter. She’s gone from a non-hunter to someone whose entire diet is made up of wild game. I got to know her when she was Danielle, with Wild and Whole. You may now know her as Danielle from MeatEater. Danielle has been on quite the journey as a food writer and chef. In this interview, you’ll hear her talk about how she got started hunting, her journey as a chef, and she gives some great cooking advice. We even talk about how to make use of some of those freezer burned pieces of meat you might be pulling out of the freezer this time of year. Instagram - Wild & WholeWild and WholeDanielle on MeatEaterRestless Native is Brought to You by GoWildDownload GoWild today to explore and share your love of wild game.

"The bottom line here, and this is what Open Source Defense focuses on, is we cannot be an unpopular minority. Take those two things together and look at history at unpopular minorities, and it's not pretty. Right now, hunters and shooters are becoming unpopular minorities."— Chuck RossiI don’t really think I know many people like today’s guest. He’s a bit of a unicorn among people I know. Honestly I imagine he’s kind of a unicorn in many of his own circles. Chuck Rossi is a firearms expert and shooter, who used to work at Facebook. Not only that, but he was in during the early days of Facebook, just four short years after it launched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgtFJxUunQk&t=1sWatch this interviewIt’s crazy how social media has evolved since then. Mark Zuckerburg had no idea what he was creating with that platform. No one did, him or the investors who dumped millions in to make it happen. But last year, Facebook did about seventy billion dollars in revenue. While it’s a great entrepreneurial success story, it’s not necessarily played out so kind for a few industries. Firearms is one of those. There are all kinds of conspiracies on what goes on behind the scenes of these algorithms. And no one really knows. Actually, some people know. And today’s guest is one of them. Show Notes:BJ's Medium LinkOpen Source Defense WebsiteThe Prepared WebsiteRestless Native is brought to you by GoWildDownload GoWild today. Join a community of shooters, hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts.

"There are bees that kill the murder hornet, and they surround them and burn them alive." — Chris GleimAlright, we're unscripted. We're in uncharted waters. https://youtu.be/6alKPki2yrUWatch this interviewRestless Native has recorded its first video podcast. And honestly, it went OK. We need to work on the audio (Chris ironically sounds great, I will work on my audio). But, we have big news. Listen in to hear about how life in the pandemic has gone, what Chris and Brad have been up to, and to hear about GoWild 6.0.If you haven't downloaded GoWild yet, what are you doing? DownloadGoWild.com.

“When we get a bird, that’s when I’m going to decide. Am I really a hunter? Or am I a nature photographer?”– Chris GleimThis show’s a little different. I documented my co-founder’s first hunting experience. You’ll hear the excitement in his voice pre-hunt, the self doubt and curiosity of what it will be like to take an anima’s life, and the overall the highs and lows hunters deal with. It’s an honest, first-hand account of what it is like to try hunting for the first time.Chris Gleim is the Chief Development Officer at GoWild. He’s an avid hiker and outdoors enthusiast. And now, he’s a hunter.Since working on GoWild, he had gotten more and more interested in hunting culture, and decided he wanted to go himself. So we decided to make it happen this turkey season and document the experience.I wanted to do this to encourage all of you to take someone hunting for the first time. As I type these show notes, I’m coming out of the R3 Symposium (Recruitment, Retainment, and Reactivation), which was held in Lincoln, Nebraska. I’ve spent three days listening to some of the most experienced people in the hunting industry brainstorm how they can solve the problem to stop the decline in hunters.Here’s the thing: If all of you, and all of your friends, and all of their friends can start to take someone hunting for the first time every year, we can curb this ourselves. We don’t need the industry to figure it out—we can be the answer.Remember, we’re stronger together.

"The first year we came out, we bought as much inventory as we could in a short amount of time. We were handwriting on white boxes with black sharpie all of the data on the shells. We were getting the word out on social media. And we spent weeks building up this inventory for launch. And when we launched, our online store was wiped out in 16 minutes."— Nick Charney Today’s guest started off packaging shotgun shells into plain white boxes with the labels written on the box. We’re going to talk through what it takes to go from that, to doubling your revenue in a single year. Nick Charney is an engineer and shotshell ballistics expert. He is currently on active duty with the United States Air Force and he is the co-founder of Apex Ammunition.I was drawn to his story because A) I’m a cofounder of an outdoor company myself. And B) it’s turkey season, so naturally I’m thinking about shotgun loads. Restless Native is brought to you by GoWildDownload GoWild today