Austin Sullivan
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Local lives, hard lessons, real work.
American Grown Podcast is a warm interview show built around personal stories from people working, building, serving, and starting over. Guests bring the shape of their own lives, from custom hats and coffee roasting to boxing, wishes, barbering, and career guidance.
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American Grown Podcast is a local-story interview show with a strong practical streak. It is built around guests more than segments. Austin Sullivan sets up the conversation, then gives people room to explain how they got where they are. The tone is easygoing and direct. Recent episodes feature small-business owners, fighters, coaches, nonprofit leaders, and people whose work is closely tied to community. Ryan German’s conversation centers on Modern Gent Hat Company, custom apparel, leather patches, equipment, pricing, encouragement, and the patience required to grow a hands-on business. Alan Blyweiss brings a much harder-edged life story, moving through boxing, sparring names, jail, probation, family loss, and the long tail of past choices. Lori Dietrich’s episode turns toward Make-A-Wish and the emotional force of a community showing up for a child. Donovin Lindsay frames career and purpose through the idea of the “dash” on a tombstone, asking what someone actually does with the time they have. Lateesha “The Honey Badger” Mohl talks about MMA, visualization, family support, focus, and preparing the body and mind before stepping into a cage. Jarrett Cieslak brings in Fire Beard Forge and the surprising world of armored combat, where full suits of plate armor meet blunted weapons and real intensity. Matt Zechman’s return folds coffee into service, fundraising, first response, military life, and the strange usefulness of remembering what bad coffee tastes like. Myke Robinson’s barbering episode lands on a simple but durable point: the haircut matters, but the relationship matters more. The show often starts with gratitude, a memory, or a left-field prompt. Then it follows the guest into the details. Sponsors and local businesses are part of the texture rather than a separate world. The result is warm, unpolished in a human way, and rooted in people who make things, serve others, take hits, and keep moving.
Made for: Best for listeners who like conversational personal stories about small business, service, combat sports, nonprofit work, and community life. It fits anyone drawn to practical lessons told through lived experience rather than polished speeches.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its table-level intimacy: guests talk through the messy middle of their work, losses, gratitude, and growth. It feels less like a media interview and more like a community record of people building something with their own hands.
Hosted by Austin Sullivan (aka Sully): The podcast will focus on people from different walks of life and their journey to where they are now. Each episode will feature a NEW guest sharing their life and the lessons they learned along the way. Stories from the heart of our community.NEW EPISODES RELEASE EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 5am.#LetsTellYourStoryThis is a great opportunity for our listeners to learn about your company, organization or non-profit.OFFICIAL STUDIO SPONSOR: Colortech Creative Solutions. Colortech takes your print, design & mailing projects from visualization to realization while keeping your budget in mind.This podcast is...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Austin Sullivan turns detailed work stories into candid accounts of setback, responsibility and rebuilding.
American Grown Podcast builds its interviews around the point where a job or venture becomes a life story. Austin Sullivan asks practical questions, then gives guests room to connect their work with setbacks, responsibility and reinvention.
A hatmaker, a boxer, and an aircraft mechanic enter Austin Sullivan's studio - then get wonderfully specific.
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A plainspoken custom-hat episode about craft, pricing, and shop growth.
Ryan German's visit to American Grown keeps its focus on Modern Gent Hat Company and the practical details behind it: hat styles, leather patches, pricing, and a machine that can handle hats, ammo cans, coasters, and wallets.
A rough-edged boxing story where the scars, the swagger, and the reset all stay in frame.
Alan Blywise gives the episode its center of gravity, drawing on a boxing life that runs through fights, name-checks, jail time, and the legal fallout that followed.
A veteran-owned apparel story built around Trigger, service, and a purpose-driven push to raise awareness.
Triggered 22 LLC reads as a veteran-owned apparel story centered on Trigger, the rescue dog, with the line about them having saved each other’s life carrying the emotional center.
A fire-rebuild story that stays with the family, the shop, and the work.
His story runs through a fire, the rebuild that followed, and the family life tied to both. The son asking whether the armory is on fire, and saying the Wios will be there, gives the piece its clearest human note before it shifts into custom rifles, precision long-range work,…
A plainspoken aviation story about pressure and the cost of shortcuts.
This episode makes a plain case for aircraft work as the kind of job where fatigue cannot be allowed to count for much: after 16 hours, a half-finished job on aircraft still is not good enough.
Ira Glass frames weekly theme-driven segments spanning family secrets to Portland's protest conflict.
Jonathan Goldstein tracks down people from someone's past to engineer real reconciliation.
Ryan German stops by American Grown.
Austin Sullivan sits down with retired professional boxer and boxing coach Alan Blywise at the ColorTech Creative Solutions studios.
This episode features an interview with Lori Dietrich, Director of Development for Make-A-Wish Susquehanna Valley Region, discussing the power of wishes through stories like Matthew's wish involving 40 trucks and exploring what she's thankful for in life.
This episode explores building a lasting career through personal growth and meaningful contributions, using a cemetery story about life's dash between birth and death as a metaphor.
This episode features an interview with professional MMA fighter Lateesha "The Honey Badger" Mohl, discussing her mindset, visualization techniques, and personal journey.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and lessons learned, with this episode featuring a guest discussing medieval MMA and gratitude.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews Matt Zechman, a veteran and coffee roaster, about his business journey and the importance of community.
A podcast where guests share their life journeys and lessons learned, emphasizing relationships over the surface activity.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and lessons learned, with this episode featuring a story about shoplifting.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and lessons learned, with this episode discussing postpartum identity and the concept of 'getting your pink back'.
A veteran joins American Grown to talk about life in service and the work behind Triggered 22.
The fire left a mark.
Austin Sullivan sits down for a loose, work focused conversation about aircraft work and the discipline it demands.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests from various backgrounds about their life journeys and lessons learned.
A military veteran recounts surviving an IED attack during a supply route mission in a rainy season.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and lessons learned, with a motivational sports analogy.
The host discusses the importance of consistency in podcasting and introduces the show's focus on sharing personal journeys, with sponsor messages for college guidance, custom apparel, and a restaurant.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and lessons learned.
A podcast featuring guests sharing their life journeys and lessons learned, with this episode opening with a dramatic police encounter.
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Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and the lessons they've learned.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys, focusing on challenges and lessons learned, with this episode comparing recovery to an ultra marathon.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews a guest who shares his realization about his weight and his life journey, with sponsor messages.
Host Austin Sullivan interviews guests about their life journeys and lessons learned.
Luke Hains, a spine specialist and advocate for DMD, discusses running with purpose, rare disease, and brotherhood while sharing his family's approach to flipping the narrative on living with a rare condition.
A podcast featuring interviews with guests sharing their life journeys and lessons learned, with this episode starting with a story about a father's heart attack.
A guest shares how alcohol and cocaine made him feel like Superman, leading to addiction, on a podcast about people's life journeys.
This episode features a veteran's harrowing survival story and promotes the show's focus on diverse life journeys.
A guest shares their harrowing experience in a co-ed mental health prison, highlighting the challenges and daily realities.
A podcast where guests share their life journeys and lessons learned, with this episode featuring a discussion about suicidal tendencies.
Adam Yarger discusses his decision to leave college and move to Nashville to pursue a music career as a singer and songwriter for the band Adam & the Armadillos.
Jenna Palumbo discusses the importance of mindset and community when transitioning from organized sports to owning CrossFit Hershey.