Colin O'Brady
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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My parents were young when they had me in their early 20s, but I was actually born at home on a hippie commune in Olympia, Washington, on a futon.
And my mom invited like 30 of her friends over to hang out and celebrate the birth.
I think it was a bunch of hippies hanging out on this organic farm, basically.
My mom played Bob Marley's Redemption Song, for those familiar with that song, on repeat throughout my birth.
A very untraditional way to enter the world.
But it was a great way to grow up.
We moved from Olympia, Washington when I was super young, so I grew up in Portland, Oregon.
but still in the Pacific Northwest.
And didn't have a lot of money when I was a kid, but big dreams.
And, you know, certainly, you know, with the things I've achieved in my life now, people ask my mom, you know, like, don't you get worried?
He walks across Antarctica by himself.
He's climbed Everest twice.
He must be worried as a mother.
And she kind of always smiles with this coy smile saying like, well, careful what you wish for when you, you know, tell their kid from day one, you know, they can achieve anything they set their mind to.
And then in the context of entrepreneurship actually is interesting in my childhood is when I was about 13 years old, my parents were involved in the health food, kind of natural foods movement.
And this is like in the late 80s, early 90s, before the words like sustainable and organic and things like that were commonplace.
Like they were like part of this kind of hippie counterculture, bringing that into the more of the mainstream.
And they worked at grocery stores, from store clerks, et cetera.
And then when I was a young teenager, they decided to open their own store, which ultimately to this day was very successful chain of natural foods grocery stores in the Pacific Northwest called New Seasons Market.
They didn't have any of that success when I was a kid, but what I did have when I was a kid was a front door seat to entrepreneurship 101.
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