Natalie Brunell joins the show to talk about Bitcoin and her journey through a career in both traditional media and podcasting. Natalie is an Emmy award winning journalist who spent over ten years in traditional media before leaving that role to go full-time into being a Bitcoin educator and communicator with her podcast ‘Coin Stories’. She also produces a Bitcoin series on YouTube called ‘Hard Money’ where she creates short educational content that is a great resource to share with people interested in Bitcoin.
Natalie’s Links: https://linktr.ee/nataliebrunell
Hard Money Show: https://www.youtube.com/@Swan_Bitcoin
00:00 - Intro
01:54 - Immigrating to the US from Poland as a child
06:04 - Choosing the journalism path
09:16 - How travel helped shaped her world view
12:04 - Introducing Bitcoin to people for the first time
20:15 - Ayn Rand’s influence in the Bitcoin space
23:30 - Winning a Catamaran on The Price is Right and donating it to The Kind Campaign
27:15 - How Natalie deals with time management
31:10 - How Bitcoin can crush the rat race
35:45 - Career progression after college
43:50 - Deciding to start her own podcast
47:20 - Outro
Donate to The Kind Campaign - https://www.kindcampaign.com/about/
The Mike White Podcast: https://linktr.ee/themikewhitepod
