EST. 2012
WE ARE FAMILY-CENTERED DOCU-SERIES HIGHLIGHTING SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES, WORKING TO CULTIVATE MORE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD WHILE LEARNING TO TREAD A LITTLE MORE LIGHTLY.
AIRING NATIONALLY ON PBS AND CREATE TV
The show centers around businessman Rodman Schley, and his free-spirited wife, Gina, as they combine their passions—film and farming—all within the confines of their city lifestyle. Over the first two seasons, the couple learned skills such as backyard beekeeping and animal husbandry, as well as exploring green home building. For the third season, they are integrating lessons learned over the past two seasons into their new project, a recently purchased farm estate in Arvada, Colorado—just minutes from downtown Denver.
NOMINATED FOR A HEARTLAND EMMY AWARD AND WINNER OF 14 TELLY AWARDS!
Season 3 was nominated for a Heartland Emmy Award as Best Environmental Program! The show has been awarded 14 Telly awards (and counting!).
About Gina and SheGrows
Gina is a free spirit that simply chose a direction. In Gina’s eyes, a move towards sustainability is as much about making a better life for her family, as it is creating a better future for all. Never afraid to get her hands dirty, Gina is no stranger to the compost pile, growing her own food and finding new ways to make her family’s home life more sustainable. Where Rodman is the whit and analysis of the show, Gina is the heart, engaging each new topic from a place of peace, certainty and passion.
Nestled between Boulder, Golden, and Denver, SheGrows is perfectly located in Arvada, CO and specialize in growing unique cultivars of lavender, herbs and speciality cut flowers. After volunteering over a decade to start community agriculture projects like community gardens and school farms—Gina Schley and her husband Rodman, decided to start growing professionally and founded SHEGROWS in 2018. The farm has become a nurturing environment to raise their two daughters and provide locally grown blooms to their community, all while staying close to the city.
About Rodman and GoRodman.com
As the creator and executive producer of Urban Conversion, Rodman travels the country putting himself in the most “extreme green” projects, to learn about how we can all make changes to save our planet. In the United States, there is an increasing movement towards living sustainable lifestyles in urban environments. More and more people are working hard to create sustainable lifestyles in order to reduce their carbon footprints, and be more environmentally friendly. Some of these lifestyles are quite extreme. From raising backyard chickens in the city, to using solar, converting Rodman from a city slicker businessman to an off-the-grid environmentally friendly citizen is ultimately the “Urban Conversion”.
Rodman Schley is a serial entrepreneur, award-winning and Emmy nominated television producer and host, published author, executive consultant, entrepreneur coach and keynote speaker whose unique approach to entrepreneurship, business and leadership has earned him rave reviews from entrepreneurs and business leaders across the country. His most popular talk, Evolution Revolution, draws from Rodman’s own history of challenging and empowering people to re-learn how they synthesize information and encouraging them to utilize new technology to achieve more personal and professional success. He teaches entrepreneurs, executives and employees how to change they way they think, revise their approach to industry innovations and understand cutting edge methodologies.As an entrepreneur, Rodman has been involved in owning, selling or launching more than 25 businesses. His businesses have ranged from a television production company, to a national poker tour. He now teaches courses in entrepreneurship at GoRodman: Every day, people are held back by fear — fear of the unknown, fear of success, fear of failure. What if you could work through those fears and pursue what’s always been inside of you? What if this time next year you could be living the life of your dreams? All it takes is one big risk —change. For you, that change starts today! The time has come to evolve and embrace the person you’ve always wanted to become. With the right tools and support you’ll come to realize that anything is possible.