#45: Goat Wrangler Tammy Dunakin

Listen to the interview by clicking the arrow on the audio player below.

Work-wise, it’s easy to get in a rut, to think that you can’t do anything other than what you’ve done in the past. But of course people reinvent themselves all the time—sometimes by choice, often out of necessity. One of Work Stew’s goals is to capture these stories of reinvention, and I particularly like Tammy Dunakin’s: for about 20 years, Dunakin worked in the fast-paced, high-stress realm of emergency medicine. Today, she wrangles goats for a living, and it’s every bit as peaceful and pastoral as it sounds—except of course when it isn’t.

About Tammy Dunakin: A former paramedic, Tammy Dunakin is the founder and owner of Rent-a-Ruminant, a Seattle area business that provides eco-friendly vegetation management services. In other words: goats. In addition to managing her own large herd, Dunakin helps newbies to get started via Rent-a-Ruminant’s Affiliate Program.

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