Strength In Leos Podcast

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Welcome to Season Four of the Strength In Leos podcast! We're excited to be back at it and bring you guys some great content along the way. We brought on Matt Baronak to kick off the season premiere. We discussed some of the things that newer breeders are missing and talked all about the Joker Project! 

It's the season finale of season three! To wrap up this season, we brought John Scarbrough of GeckoBoa to discuss some much-needed updates about his operation. 

Jorge Diaz of Golden Valley Reptiles joins us on this episode of the podcast for some much-needed catching up. We caught up on how this past breeding season went, talked about reptile shows, and some of the tougher tasks that come with being a Leopard Gecko breeder. 

We're back on the podcast for our fourth round table breeder talk, this time with Kevin Baron of Mutant Geckos and Miles Schwartz of Impeccable Gecko. This was an awesome episode since this was the first time both have been on the podcast at the same time. In this episode, we caught up on preparations for the 2021 breeding season (since this podcast was recorded earlier in the year). We also spent some time discussing some of the other species we have in our collection and would like to keep in the future.

Seth Hoffpauir joins us for Session Sixteen on the podcast to share some big news about a line of African Fat Tail morphs that he is working with. In this episode, we get into the nitty-gritty about concerns about these lines and future steps. While I had him we also got to talking about AFTs and his projects.

This episode is a continuation of the previous episode which was recorded about a year apart from each other. Shane Kelley from Small Town Xotics joins us again to catch up since the last time we talked. Coming from different parts of the larger reptile hobby, I attempted to really pic Shane's brain on the operational aspects of his hobby, leveraging relationships, and even his opinion on Leo morphs. 

On this episode of the podcast, Shane Kelley from Small Town Xotics chats about all things in the reptile industry. Shane is primarily a ball python breeder, but dabbles in hognose and leos as well. Shane naturally has a high affinity for networking, marketing, and social media within this hobby which he talks about in-depth in this episode. 

Luke O'Sullivan is a naturalist and herpetology masters graduate based in NW/Wales. Luke enjoys taking in-situ observations and photos on his many herping trips across the globe to enjoy reptiles and amphibians in the wild. In this episode, we discussed his journey as a herpetology student, herping, and even Leopard Geckos in the wild on his trip to Himachal Pradesh in Northern India! 

We're back! Coming directly off our Uncovering SaSobek series, we are continuing this season of the podcast with more great interviews. For this episode, I had the pleasure to talk with Jeremy Turgeon of NERD/Brassman Reptiles/Reptile Talk Podcast. Jermy is very knowledgeable in a wide range of species which he uses to his advantage in his personal collection and working at NERD. 

In this episode of the Uncovering SaSobek series, Matt and I take a deeper look into his 2021 breeding plans. As you know if you heard this series in chronological order, Matt had no plan to get back into breeding Leos. But as the podcast went on he caught the bug again and decided to get back into breeding. 

As we continue in this series, this episode focuses on Eublepharis pure species. When Matt was at A&M Gecko, he was part of bringing some of the first subspecies of Leopard Gecko into the states. Later down the line, he brought in Eublepharis Hardwickii and became the first to breed them in the US. 

We are back with Matt Baronak of SaSobek Reptiles in the Uncovering SaSobek in this series. Here in Part III, we talk about one of my favorite subjects, Leopard Gecko history. Matt covers a bulk of the knowledge that he has along with the groundbreaking work he did with Leos. We cover the history of so many morphs including the G-Project, the Afra project, the W&Y, RAPTORs, and so much more. 

Matt Baronak joins us again for the second part of the Uncovering SaSobek series on the Strength In Leos Podcast. The episode begins with a small history lesson with many of the popular lines that we see in Leopard Geckos today. As we progress, we touch on how the hobby has changed since Matt's peak, how he selected his projects, and even reptile behavior towards the end of the episode. 

Uncovering Sasobek is a multi-part series that shines a light and picks the legendary Leopard Gecko Breeder brain, Matt Baronak. Matt has made many contributions to the Leopard Gecko since stepping away from the hobby. Many may know him from his YouTube videos or Facebook. In this series, we get to know Matt and the knowledge he's gained over his breeding career.

It's the late 2000's and a young Leopard Gecko breeder in his mid 20's from the east coast of the U.S. is hatching out countless world firsts and stunning the world of Leos. This young breeder turns out to be Matt Baronak of SaSobek Reptiles. Matt is a legendary figure in Leopard Geckos who is known for his linebred projects, countless world firsts, introducing new morphs to the hobby, and most notably his YouTube channel. So join us for this multi-part series that uncovers SaSobek. 

Frequent guest here on the podcast, Chris Charlton from Suburban Geckos, joins us today for our season premiere. In today's episode, we talked about many of the trials and tribulations that come with Leopard Gecko breeding. If you've been breeding for any amount of time you know that the journey is a marathon and not a sprint. I'd also like to add that when we discussed morphs such as the Clowns, we had no intentions of being over-critical or bashing anyone working with them.

We're back with the Uncovering SaSobek series to talk about the beast that lives inside Matt. As many of you know, he has accomplished a ton in his breeding career, but anything worth having never comes easy. This obviously means a ton of sacrifice and constantly having to push yourself to be better in order to stay at the top. So today we talk about the pressures and mentality that Matt had which played a part in his breeding "greatness".