039 – Design Your Life And Homestead To Yield Freedom In Time, Health, Wealth and Spirit
How can we design our lives and our homesteads to maximize our freedom in Time, Health, Wealth and Spirit? This is a primary lifestyle design aim for anyone interested in living as a sovereign human being today. Join me today as we discuss the 4 freedoms – all of which are aspects of FREEDOM –…
038 – Why We Are Leaving California And Moving To Tennessee
The day has finally arrived! We are leaving California and moving to Tennessee! In today’s show I go into all the things that are pushing us out of California and pulling us towards the Volunteer State! We’ll cover the economic and regulatory reasons why California just isn’t an option for us to build a life…
037 – DeGoogling Round 1 – The Phone
In today’s show I detail my journey into what will be a multi-year endeavor – completely de-Googling my life. For us to live as sovereign human beings this day in age, we have to consciously design our digital lives to maintain appropriate levels of privacy and security amidst the ever-rising tide of surveillance and tracking.…
036 – Living With Fire (Part 4): Integrating Fire Into Daily Life (Again)
What if we chose to view nature’s gift of annually-replenishing fixed carbon sources (i.e. brush, forests etc) in high-fire danger areas as an opportunity to harmonize with the annual carbon cycle instead of as a nuisance to be combated? Could we improve home safety in the urban-wildland edge and take steps towards living within our…
035 – Living With Fire – Part 3 – Home Construction & Retrofitting For Fire Survivability
In today’s show we continued with the Living With Fire series in Part 3 – all about fire-proof or at least fire-wise home construction and home refit suggestions to increase fire survivability. Its all simple – some steps are easy and cheap, some are not. We will cover… Fire Proof Building Materials – stone,…
034 – Living With Fire (Part 2)
Today we dive into the nitty gritty of regenerative firescaping following Living With Fire – Part 1 in Episode 33. We will cover: Using Zones & Sectors to plan out the landscape around your house with regards to fire resilience. Regenerative Fire Resistant Landscaping Principles – the basic do’s an don’ts to apply when designing…
033 – Living With Fire (Part 1)
Today’s show is the first episode in a series of shows that I’ll be putting out on designing, building and managing a homestead in a high-fire risk climate. So much energy in the form of human labor, tax dollars, and lost ecological integrity is expended each and every year for the purpose of reducing fire…
032 – The Consequences Of Ignoring Reality
Today’s show is inspired by the Ayn Rand quote “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” We (the larger collective of society, government etc) have been living in ignorance of reality for quite a while. Right now, a multitude of the consequences of this multi-generational ignorance are coming home…
031 – 5 Rules For Happy Homesteading
Join me for a discussion of 5 Rules For Happy Homesteading from my own lived experience. Be crystal clear on your BIG Why – why are you doing your life the way you are doing it? Finish What You Start – obtain a yield and liberate your time BEFORE adding more projects, systems or things to…
030 – Homesteading As A Tool For Creating Freedom Outside The Scope, Reach And Will Of The State
Today’s show is about homesteading being one of the best tools we have as sovereign individuals for creating freedom for ourselves and our families outside the Scope, Reach and Will of the state. The State, which I’ll refer to as the Matrix here, has 3 aspects to it’s control structure: Scope: “laws on the books”…
