Aliya connects with her dear friend and fellow recent marine biology graduate Matt  who sheds light on how lockdown helped illuminate an idea that he hopes to now manifest into reality. Marrying the lessons from his aquaculture course and his passion for food and the connections it brings, he envisions creating a farm to table homestead that will be “a lifelong project”. They get candid about shifting away from the academic science world, being brutally honest with ourselves, and how to stay true to ourselves and find confidence in who we are and the kind of world we want to be a part of.  

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Episode Highlights:
[5:00] What led Matt to study marine biology

[15:42] How Matt used his Covid time to put into practice some of his ideas/dreams into action

[19:55]  Matt: “Failure is a really awesome opportunity to see what’s wrong and to make it better” 

[24:13] Aliya: “…the most beautiful thing about science, and honestly from the impact of COVID, we recognize that we need to be critically thinking about how we’re interacting with the Earth, how were interacting with each other…how we’re existing” 

[31:50] Matt: “Having confidence and believing in yourself of whatever your dream is…” 

[37:52] Matt: “…knowing that that time is still valuable and still has worth in your life, just because you might be going to a completely different field or seemingly lost interest” 

[41:41] Rapid fire questions

[47:51] Key takeaways from episode

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Resources:

- Rutgers Marine Biology Bachelors

- James Cook University Masters

- Aquaculture resources

- Homestead community resources

- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

- Brene Brown

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