Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Marcia Cripps - Agronomist to Coder
Episode Summary
Enjoy this podcast with Marcia Cripps (@marciac95_). Join us as we delve into Marcia's agronomy journey, trip down the coding road, and her excitement for the world. Discover her ties to agriculture, motivation, and her role as an AgInfluence co-founder. Don't miss her insights on AI, social media, and more.
Episode Notes
Marcia Cripps @marciac95_ Instagram: 1.1k TikTok: 13.3k Twitter: 8.5k
- Catch Up
- Where are they from, what do they farm, how did they get into farming
- How’s the family - do they farm with family?
- Adopted from China
- From Flushing, Michigan
- What are they up to today?
- What they see in the world that excites them?
- What’s her tie to agriculture?
- Where does her motivation come from?
- She wants to retire “like tomorrow”
- AgInfluence co-founder
- Digital ag marketing and software agency
- Integrate academic research into marketing and promotion
- Full-Stack Software Engineer
- Works remotely
- Has worked with Israeli and other nations outside of the US
- Agronomist
- QUIT this - why?
- the hours, pay, remote work, personal incidences, did not look forward to work
- industry culture that is outdated
- Was not allowed to go to “men only” event
- did not “look” the part
- customer would only make sale if she slept with him
- putting in double hours to be good
- microaggressions
- Not to post on social media → why?
- Hobby: horses
- Retired race horses
- Farming with horses
- Uses AI in her daily work life
- chatGPT → auto-gpt
- How has it benefited you? Efficiency?
- What are some trouble spots with it?
- Where do you see agriculture implementing and growing with AI?
- How has social media changed his life?
- Why do it?
- How would he start it over differently?
- Which is their favorite platform?
- How do you deal with negative comments?
- If you were an animal, what do you think you would be?
- Right now, who inspires you?
- If you could make anything bigger on your body what would it be?