Pioneering Today
Hosted by Melissa K Norris and Melissa Norris · Melissa K Norris
4.7from 1,325 ratings
- 612
- Episodes
- 80
- Transcribed
- 1,325
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 39M
- YouTube views
About Pioneering Today
Pioneering Today is all about getting back to basics, simple living, and self-sufficiency with old-fashioned skills and wisdom in a modern world. With heirloom gardening, canning, preserving the harvest, from scratch cooking, raising your own food, including livestock (backyard chickens, pigs, and cattle), natural medicine, herbs, DIY like soap making along with living a simple self-sufficient life, no matter where you live. Hosted by 5th generation homesteader, Melissa K. Norris, author of The Made-from-Scratch Life. This podcast brings you the conversation from MelissaKNorris.com and The Pioneering Today Academy, with Q&A's, teaching, tutorials, and always giving you practical ways and tips to live the simple and self-sufficient life.
- Publisher
- Melissa K Norris
- Category
- education · leisure
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Jul 2013
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
80 of 612 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Stop Asking "What's the Herbal Aspirin? | Episode 519
28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Truth About Aging Skin: What Actually Works After 40 | Episode 518
7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Biblical Stewardship vs. Ownership: Who Does It All Belong To? | Episode 517
Inside a recent episode
Stop Asking "What's the Herbal Aspirin? | Episode 519
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We need to look at lifestyle. We need to look at gut health. We definitely should be looking at diet, other chronic things that may be going on. Because you can have somebody who's got chronic conditions and chronic symptoms that they've got going on or even chronic lifestyle things that they're in a period where their body is under a lot of extra stress. So maybe they're not able to get sleep because of night shift and a new baby or something going on that's disrupting their sleep for a prolonged period of time. Or it's just a stressful situation. It's adding additional stress to the body. […]
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- Emilie Toups
- David Stelzer
- Melissa K Norris's Mom
- Ruth Soukup
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 38,560,085
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 973 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 352 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 85 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Pioneering Today?
Melissa K Norris and Melissa Norris host the show. Published by Melissa K Norris.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Pioneering Today take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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