The Nut Farm Podcast did not begin with a pitch deck or a mapped concept. It began with Gretchen Seeck repeatedly asking her best friend, Missy Stern, to start a podcast until Stern finally said yes.
They already had the material. Their conversations moved easily from marriage and motherhood to mental health, recovery and whatever thought surfaced next. There was plenty of laughter, little filtering and no guarantee they would end on the subject where they started.
“We were already having these completely out-of-pocket conversations and somehow finding our way into something meaningful,” says Seeck, co-host of The Nut Farm Podcast and founder of Haus of GS. “We laughed constantly, understood each other’s mental health journeys and thought other people might want to listen. We also think we’re hilarious, so that helped.”
Seeck had hosted a podcast several years earlier and wanted to return to the format. Once Stern agreed, the friends built a show around their chemistry rather than forcing themselves into a traditional category. The result is what the hosts call a show about nothing and everything: part therapy session, part group chat and part stand-up comedy. Episodes can move from sobriety, parenting and relationships to fashion, pop culture and thoughts most people reconsider before saying out loud.
“We never wanted it to feel overly polished or like we had life figured out,” says Stern, co-host of The Nut Farm Podcast and chief operating officer of G Soul Co. “It is two best friends talking honestly, getting distracted and occasionally landing somewhere surprisingly deep.”
The Nut Farm Podcast is part of Haus of GS, Seeck’s Scottsdale creative and wellness collective, which also includes G Soul Co. and The G Mind, a highest self coaching program. Across each venture, the goal is similar: helping people feel less alone and more comfortable being themselves.
What Listeners Can Expect From The Nut Farm Podcast:
- A show about nothing and everything: Seeck and Stern talk about mental health, sobriety, motherhood, marriage, friendship, personal growth, past mistakes and everyday chaos. The show leaves room for tangents, unexpected honesty and moments that do not fit neatly into a category.
- Real conversations without the highlight reel: The hosts do not present themselves as experts with perfect answers. They share what they are learning while living it, including the messy parts people often edit out.
- Humor that makes hard subjects easier to hold: The show does not avoid deeper topics, but it rarely stays heavy for long. Laughter creates breathing room around trauma, healing, recovery and mental health. “Sometimes the best thing you can do is sit with something,” Seeck says. “Other times, you need to laugh hard enough to get through it.”
- A friendship listeners can feel: Years of off-mic conversations help Seeck and Stern know when to stay with a serious moment and when the conversation needs something lighter. “There is no formula,” Stern says. “We trust each other, and we trust wherever the conversation decides to go.”
- Permission to be fully yourself: Beneath the jokes is a message of hope, connection and self-acceptance. The hosts want listeners to feel less isolated by their thoughts, struggles and imperfections. “We want someone to listen and think, ‘Thank God, it’s not just me,’” Seeck says. “You are not crazy, you are not the only one struggling and you do not have to shrink yourself to make other people comfortable.”
Since starting the show, Seeck and Stern say they have been surprised by what happens when humor and vulnerability share the same space. Some conversations move seamlessly between the two. Others are messy, which is often when the show feels most honest.
“The meaningful moments are not always the beautifully packaged ones,” Stern says. “Sometimes one of us says the honest thing, we laugh at something we probably should not and suddenly we are having the conversation someone needed to hear.”
Each episode feels less like a lesson and more like a conversation listeners join. “We want it to feel like a breath of fresh air,” Seeck says. “Maybe you leave hopeful. Maybe you realize you are not alone. Maybe you just laugh until your mood shifts. Any of those feels like a win.”
The Nut Farm Podcast is co-hosted by Gretchen Seeck and Missy Stern and is available on most major podcast platforms. Learn more and listen at thenutfarmpodcast.com. Additional information about Haus of GS and G Soul Co. is available at hausofgs.com and gsoulco.com.
