The Darker Side of Our Guanaco Adventure

12/31/21 • 42 min

A Fiber Life | ordinary moments on the fiber farm

If you are going to change your life, you are going to encounter obstacles. And some of those obstacles might even be dangerous. Welcome to A Fiber Life. In episode two, Lisa and Greg get real about the darker parts of their journey. The parts that should have made them quit. From shoveling loads of hard-packed poop, the death of their mentor, difficulties with the guanacos themselves that left them physically and mentally scarred, Lisa and Greg leaned into their decision to be farmers. You see, the way you react to these scary things could mean the difference between actually making the life you want or going back to where you came from and never making a change at all. If you don’t let the fear take over and instead If you lean in– If you take a breath and keep going, you might be surprised at how good things can become. Click here to read the full episode and transcript. Learn more about Lisa, her Guanacos, and more at afiberlife.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Our Guanaco Adventure: How it Started with YES

There are these moments in life, let’s call them ‘YES moments’. They happen when we stumble across a really good thing and say ‘YES’. Welcome to A Fiber Life. In episode one, owners of Aliento Luxury Fiber Farm, Lisa and Greg, share the story about how they quit their busy, successful and stressful jobs, moved to an island, and started their lives over as fiber farmers. They share how they began raising llama-like creatures, called guanacos, and learned to harvest their fiber to create garments. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Did they know what they were doing? Lisa answers all these questions while also challenging listeners to tune into that nagging part of their brain that tells you to say “YES” to crazy ideas... and how this may actually be the sanest thing you can do. Click here to read the full episode and transcript. Learn more about Lisa, her Guanacos and more at afiberlife.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How Manure Management Brought Us Peace

As it turns out the key to being a successful farmer is having a crap management plan. (Yes, this episode is about poop.) Learning about “waste management” taught us about the importance of managing all the crap in our lives. The more pressure we put on ourselves to get better and be better, the more striving we do, the longer our to-do lists become, and all the things we have to manage start to accumulate. And, because there’s no downtime, or ritual that we have for dealing with the crap, it just collects. And when it collects, it stinks. In this episode, we talk about how we learned to sustain ourselves and our farms by creating and following a plan to manage all the crap before it becomes too late. (You can’t duck the poo.) Click here to read the full episode and transcript. Learn more about Lisa, her Guanacos, and more at afiberlife.comLinks Mentioned: https://afiberlife.com/https://www.instagram.com/afiberlife/https://www.facebook.com/alientoluxuryfiberfarmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.