Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Episode 004. How do you insure you're meeting your customers wants and needs? Do you have a mission or cause that your customer can relate with and buy into?<br> <br> <br> <br> Brad James discusses how he is leading Beepods (<a href="https://www.beepods.com/">https://www.beepods.com/</a>) to not only revolutionize the beekeeping industry, but to change the world by finding a real-world solution to the well-publicized epidemic called colony collapse disorder<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Full Transcript<br> <br> <br> <br> Welcome to the Off The Grid Biz Podcast, a place for conversations about out of the box businesses in the self-reliance space.<br> <br> <br> <br> I'm Brian Pombo.<br> <br> <br> <br> Today we're talking with Brad James. I wanted to point out right off the bat that we were experiencing some technical difficulties during this recording. I thought the information was so good. It was worth putting out, even though it was slightly flawed. So hang in there, listen to this. I think you're really going to enjoy it.<br> <br> <br> <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. You may be a prepper, a gardener, a homesteader, a survivalist, or a farmer or rancher, an environmentalist or a rugged outdoorsman.<br> <br> <br> <br> 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> <br> <br> <br> From selling chicken eggs online, to building up your food storage or collecting handmade soap.<br> <br> <br> <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> <br> <br> <br> Brian: Brad James is a rogue beekeeper and the CEO of Beepods, challenging the norms of keeping honey bees by leveraging science data and grit, to ask why over the traditional, this has worked for me.<br> <br> <br> <br> At Beepods they create complete beekeeping systems that provide hardware, training, outreach and data tools to schools, businesses, nonprofits and backyard beekeepers all over the world.<br> <br> <br> <br> Teaching and practicing a reflection based sustainable philosophy.<br> <br> <br> <br> Beepods goal is to see a world where pollinators thrive with aggressive innovation, intelligent observation and unapologetic audacity, Brad and the Beepods team pursue solutions to make this vision a reality and our lifetime.<br> <br> <br> <br> Brad James, welcome to the Off The Grid Biz Podcast.<br> <br> <br> <br> Brad: Thanks for having me, Brian.<br> <br> <br> <br> Brian: Yeah, really happy to have you here. We'll just start out at the very beginning. Why don't you let everybody know what it is that you do.<br> <br> <br> <br> Brad: So at Beepods we provide a complete system and education tools to all of our customers and clients all over the US and all over the world.<br> <br> <br> <br> Our big goal is trying to find solutions for the pollinator collapse that we're witnessing, especially over the last 10 to 15 years. And trying to figure out why that's happening.<br> <br> <br> <br> So for us, our big step forward with all of our customers is how do we get them involved in beekeeping and aware of it and then give them the right tools so they can feel like they're part of the solution and feel successful in raising honeybees.<br> <br>
