This podcast is kind of an audio journal that I started in my time of transition from employee to freelance, to hopefully business owner. Things I’m learning, things I’ve tried. What’s working and what didn’t. I hope it helps you and I hope you enjoy it.

Vinnie Brand's The Proving Ground Podcast is a weekly podcast by comedian and owner of the Stress Factory Comedy Club, Vinnie Brand along with his long time friend Anthony Villa, who also produces the show. Listen in as Vinnie tells tales of The Stress Factory past and present, his 400 MPH life as a comedy club owner, father and farmer. Yes, thats right, we said farmer.

It’s the groves of academe: Bennington College, the wildest and wickedest school in America. In the last great decade: the 1980s. Bennington class of ’86, class of Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and co-leader of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of Motherless Brooklyn and MacArthur Fellow; and Donna Tartt, future writer of The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize winner. All three are, at various times, infatuated and disappointed with one another, thei ...

Exploring the relationship of people to the land they live on, students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College talk with residents of small towns, farms and forests in the rural Southeast. The discussions center on issues of agriculture, conservation, and the economy as seen by those who have chosen to make their homes in non-urban areas of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina. Reported in the style of "This American Life," the students take you to into the field to find their stories.