This show is dedicated to Mark and Nancy Alexander of School Bell Farms. Long time supporters of the show and our LFTN Community. After a long battle with cancer, Mark passed away last Tuesday at home. We will miss his sarcastic wit, new business ideas, and passion for life and he will love in our memories and every time someone pulls a good practical joke at events.
Today, I will share thoughts on victimhood and ways to opt out of the mindset so that you can make the best of what is happening around you. We also celebrate the life of long-time show supporter and friend Mark Alexander of School Bell Farms.
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Main topic of the Show: Episode 507: Opt Out of Victimhood
Thoughts on Victimhood and how our personal reaction to problems furthers the cycle.
Signs that you are in a victim mindset
Just because you change your mindset, does not mean that bad things will not happen, but you can draw more bad things to yourself based on reactions to current trauma - often through self-sabotage, pushing good people away through blame, etc.
What you can do:
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Talk about Mark Alexander and why this topic today:
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Today we have an interview with long-time listener Molley Wedding. She shares with us her journey from rural normie to homesteader, her motivations, and how she is preparing for a big move.
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Follow Molley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblessedmess20_/
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I’m Molley Wedding I’m 30 years old, I’m a mother to 4 young children I started Homesteading out of necessity to take care of my young children during my time as a single mother on a very limited income, I recently asked you the question on a live show about tips for moving a homestead. I believe a show about shopping for “homestead worthy” property and how I am taking a working homestead & re establishing it in another location would make an interesting show
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Today, I share four recipe ideas for Thanksgiving in keeping with our annual LFTN tradition. One is a recipe I have shared before. The rest are this year’s ideas.
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Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Four Thanksgiving Recipe Ideas
Intro and a word on keto and holidays
Staying Keto - the reality
Recipe ideas
Links to past episodes with ideas:
2020: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2020/11/25/thanksgiving-in-the-holler/
2019: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2019/11/20/unusual-thanksgiving-recipes/
2017: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2017/11/21/episode-57-a-resilient-thanksgiving/
2016: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2016/11/22/episode-12-a-homesteaders-thanksgiving/
What are your ideas?
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Today, I share a recording of my underground networking presentation done last week at The Survival Podcast’s Fall workshop. Original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zfMjCHxg5A&t=102s
Want to build your Underground Network? Join is on February 21, 2022 at Special Operations Equipment for a Self-Reliance Festival. Earlybird Pricing Ends Dec 31.
Enjoy this transcript of Underground Networking. We will dive deeper into this topic over the next 12-18 months.
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Welcome to Living Free in Tennessee.
In LFTN Tradition, I bring you the annual Handmade Christmas Gift Idea Episode for 2021!
Christmas Reception is December 18 and registration is here.
Turkey day is sold out but i still have a few turkeys if you want one for Thanksgiving. Order Form.
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Main topic: 4 Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas
Mugshot Book (Use the concept for next year!)
Molded Candy (Melting chocolate)
Ornament Ideas
Spice Mix
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A year and a half ago, I recorded this episode after a VERY HARD first half of 2020. The moment it was released, my whole life changed for the better. We are replaying this episode today as a reminder. A reminder to be the change you need to be for yourself, your family and your community.
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Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Featured Forrage: Wild Raspberry
For berry advice
https://nicolesauce.com/2015/06/14/wild-raspberry-summer/
Herbal uses
https://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/r/raspbe05.html
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Change
It is always there under the surface. Ready to push you just a bit further. Ready to get in your way when you are in your stride. Ready to show you opportunities when you are least ready for them. Always there no matter how much you wish to cling to today and yesterday. Change happens.
Many people fear it, hate it, resist it. But change is part of life and if you are living, change is simply something that you must learn to integrate into everything. Because it will happen whether you want it or not.
And yet we can guide change, we can shape it and shift it in ways that suit us. Yep. Change is hard but change is also good.
I haven’t done our usual lftn spring workshop debrief episode this year. You know the one I speak of? Where I run through it session by session and talk about all the things we did and learned and how powerful the community is when we get together? A community of doers…
I haven’t done this thing because this year was different. Now don’t get me wrong, the workshop was fantastic, fun, hard, good, educational, and the community is why this is.
But unlike former years where the best outcomes of the workshop were on the surface, this year was different. It was more subtle. The group was both quiet and social and sometimes raucous. The sessions were usually focused and thought provoking. The group had a comfortable companionship about it and conversations tended toward long and deep over surface and short.
The whole time the event was happening I was worried that we would not meet the benchmark. You may wonder what the benchmark is. The benchmark for every lftn spring workshop is that at least 1 or 2 people figure things out. They find that it they have been missing. The thing that shows them a way forward toward building the kind of life they want. Usually, this happens quickly and obviously. But not this year.
The day after the workshop, Jenni stopped by. You know who I mean. Jenny of Word of the Year Jenni - to get her stuff and she said - I think we turned a corner at the workshop.
And she is right. There wasn’t one or two “aha” experiences, but rather a more subtle shift for most of us there.
Setting the stage for the workshop, we have seen the following in six short months:
As a group, we had people facing sudden loss of jobs, income, business revenue - paired with people who are still doing basically ok, and even some who have seen growth as a result of the turmoil of the first half of this year.
Perhaps you can tell by how I have framed this what I was feeling at the outset of our event: scared, a little sad, and scared some more. I got to pair all the big picture angst we all share with other, more personal stuff and that all ramped up the week before the workshop. And there I was, supposed to be the positive influence, the coach to help others find their purpose and go there. The find your opportunity lady doing an event that is supposed to spark the kind of change that brings people up. Let’s just say the weekend before the workshop I had a pretty intense meeting with myself about my attitude and the need to focus on the most important and let go of the crap.
Because when you think about opportunities and prosperity that we make for ourselves, much of it is SEEING that there is something there, but there is also the impact that a group of great minds can bring by deciding to make the change that will come into a positive change. And what better place to do it than here, in the Holler, where people come to rejuvenate?
As we navigated topics like how to work through grief, how to make sauerkraut, how to easily make a hoop house, phases of building a business, and talked about the ideas that some folks have for starting new things -- my internal angst got lighter and lighter. As people played cornhole together, sang karaoke, shared food and fun -- things got lighter still. And sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, as Jenni said, we turned a corner.
We stopped talking so much about the covid stuff, we stopped worrying about burning cities, the Trump and Biden jokes faded away, and we got real. Some people started taking stock. I know I did.
Because I was wrong all along. Change is not coming. Change is here. It has been here the whole time, inviting me to take that next big step. And like the bad habit tempter that it is, the wealth of opportunities presented to me include some that will keep me stuck in the wrong place while I miss the boat to the better one.
But you can’t grab that boat if you can’t see it is there. And to see the boat, you have to open your eyes.
I am not really sure what everyone got out of the workshop this year. So many have reached out to me to say. Some who have been struggling to get their dreams going are starting.
But I know what I got out of it this year. I got sight.
All my life I have been preparing to soar. And I have soared here and there, and sunk other times. And all my life, I have been ready to weather something like the first six months of 2020. But these last 6 months are not my destination - they are a lesson about what has always been there. Change. Unpredictability. A subset of people who wish to be in control. These things simply are.
And now I can see beyond them - I have often railed against that last category and will continue to do so. But think about what is on the other side of those people: the masses that ultimately cannot be controlled.
Through all of this, the real opportunities are within you, within me, and within everyone else who is willing to first see, then act. It is that simple. We already have what we need to prosper, built in and we just need to turn the corner. To change. To make the choice to jump on that boat.
And the best part is that this looks different for every single one of us. And what that means is that any solution that looks the same for everyone is the wrong solution. This small measure makes choices much easier to make.
I was doing just fine before we all got together a week ago. There was no big risk of losing it all for me because I have been moving toward better stability for some years now.
But the change that was there the whole time was largely energetic and perspective.
Think about that - all in the mind and heart. An acceptance that now more than ever, it is the best time to change they way we want to. To make a move. To grab another bit of independence -- and to help others do the same.
I apologized at the workshop for choosing the word grow for this year. Because in order to grow, something has to happen to motivate you and usually that thing is pain. And pain is something we have all felt this year as things have unfolded. But I am not sorry - sorrynotsorry.
Because of covid, I know how insatiable my biggest source of income was -- and now it is gone so I get to focus on building something better. I can either grow the things I love, or try to get back what I once had. I choose grow.
Because of the racial strife, I understand how much further we can go to build a society that decides based on merit, not heritage. I can either refuse to look at what is happening, or I can grow my understanding. I choose grow.
Because we have landed in a recession, it is harder to leverage what I have to expand the rental properties, to close new deals, and to find things that used to be easy to get. I can either use recession as an excuse, or I can grow by business. I choose grow.
Because many people in our world are easy to control, to leverage, to pit against one another, the oligarchy that has controlled us for basically every is gaining ground. I can either poke that oligarchy in the eye and moan about it, or I can help as many people around me grow beyond the chains. I choose grow.
Yep, the change that happened at the workshop was not loud, it wasn’t a fireworks moment, it wasnt an in your face thing. It was just a little shift. A small move from one not so bad track to a much better one. On little jump really.
And now I can’t wait to see what the next six months of 2020 brings! What about you?
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Today, Ryan Mitchel of TheTinyLife.com joins me to share his story of simplifying, prioritizing and building a better life
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https://thetinylife.com/build-a-better-life/
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Living in only 150 square feet for years, Ryan Mitchell has learned a thing or two about living simply. From downsizing to life simplification, and designing a life that’s right for you, Ryan brings a lot of experience and practical knowledge to the table. He built his own tiny house in 2012 learning as he went along which inspired him to help others in their journey to live small. Today he still lives in his tiny house full time and off grid with solar, teaching others how to live simply. As a best selling author, he’s been featured in the New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Mother Earth News, Treehugger, and NPR.
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It was May 20, 2016. That day that I got a wild hair. I had created a world for myself that was pure misery. I had founded a nonprofit around my passion, but put myself in a role of administrator, not the person delivering the very services I loved providing. There was absolutely no creative outlet. Worse, I was supposed to be a catalyst for change toward the better and was watching the country backslide away from increased freedom to an alarmingly fascist government.
I thought, why not? Why not start a podcast and talk about increasing your ability to live a life you love, to have more stability, to tap into opportunities that others may not see? So I did and I got EIGHTY downloads.
The next day I got 14 and one of them was my mother.
Who knew that five years later, after lots of joy, hardships, slaps in the face, heartbreak, new friendships, and help from all of you -- we would reach episode 500.
Today, we celebrate this milestone with content from y’all.
Thank you for making our community so strong, for lifting each other up, and for sticking with me through thick and thin.
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Well, a year ago or so, we talked about choosing your year of the word with Jenni Hill and how it can change your life, one phase at a time. Many of us have been choosing words for years now and this year, mine was balance. Today, I will update you on how that is progressing.
Turkey Day Reminder
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
*Road Food - a 10 day trip
*All salsa and tomatoes are canned
*Freeze drying candies for the holiday sales project
*FD the basil and smoked chilies next
*1st Deer!
Operation Independence
*Exit and Build (Should have sold my books there)
Main Topic: Balance, a Word of the Year Update
What the word of the year is
Why we do it
How grow worked out
This year’s word: Balance and why I chose it
The dark side of the word balance
Lessons Learned
*Boundaries
*Taking back my mornings
*One thing at a time and focus
*Email management
*No
*Commitments and progress (Membership, etc)
*Yes and managing busy times
*Self care
*4 hour work week
*The Indian Assistant
*Working ahead
*Asking for help
Overall update and thoughts on the work balance as well as choosing a word in 2022.
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Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday.
Today’s Thoughts Include:
To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist.
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A little over a week ago, I experimented with freeze drying candy as a test for a possible new side hustle. Today, I will share with you the lessons learned from this little adventure.
LFTN Presale sold out in 28 minutes! (Mid January the workshop tix go on sale)
Schedule over the next 10 days
Stump the Sauce
Main topic of the Show: Lessons Learned from Freeze Drying Candy
Why I did this project
What I wanted to learn
What I learned:
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Today, I will talk about how #My3Things can help you navigate the busiest of times while keeping your life on its best forward pathway.
Workshop Presale Launches TODAY! 7pm - here.
Turkey Day 2021 (Or buy your turkey)
Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Managing Busy Times
Why this topic? (Christmas is coming, Winter is coming, Fall homestead reality)
Preparing for 10 days on the road while still delivering coffee and podcasts, 2 presentations
Addressing conflicting priorities (Self and health, customer deliverables, Preparing to be gone, Homestead things)
Grain of Salt/Taking yourself too seriously
No excuses
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Y’all have heard so much about my keto journey and Opportunity October has been good to me along this path. Today, I am honored to welcome Dr. Ken Berry to the show to field questions from y’all. We cover what the proper human diet is, as well as discuss health benefits beyond weight loss.
Bunny Update
LFTN Spring Workshop Presale Monday at 7pm
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Meaningful Research + Paleoanthropological Ancestry + Common-Sense…
Unlike most doctors, I love questions and ideas from you…
I used to be a fat, miserable, ignorant doctor, until I slowly discovered the power of removing the slow-poisons of the standard diet, and replacing them with the nourishment of a proper human diet…
I am a Board Certified Family Physician and Fellow in The American Academy of Family Physicians. I have been practicing Family Medicine in rural Tennessee for over a decade, and have seen over 20,000 patients in my career so far.
No big medical words here, just plain talk you can use to stay healthy and happy. If you like it limp-wristed and sugar-coated then you should probably look somewhere else.
I’ll explain how you can use your diet and your lifestyle to get the health you want. Videos about the low-carb/ketogenic/carnivore diets, intermittent fasting, thyroid health, hormone optimization and much more. I’ve declared all-out war on the epidemics of hyperinsulinemia, diabetes and obesity currently hurting our world, and hurting your health.
Learn how to lose weight, lower your blood sugar, lower your blood pressure, optimize your hormones and more…
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Here is the deal, I am an evil Landlord. I rent to people. I evict them when they don’t pay. I have been doing this since I bought my first home and I grew up fixing my father’s rentals. There has been so much poo hurled at evil landlords of late that I thought I would share my perspective with yall today.
LFTN Workshop Presale Launches Nov 1 at 7pm = only 10 tickets available
Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com
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From Chris: A question about the keto journey
Perspective of an evil landlord
How I got into this
Why I got into this
Reality versus the dream
My Rant
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Today we had a question on our telegram group about turkey shelter. I laughed to myself because we never planned to have turkeys this year, but ended up with 26 to help a friend who had life events come up and get in the way of being able to keep up on food and water! So today, Tactical and I will share what we have learned about turkeys having adopted 26 with no infrastructure in place beforehand!
Turkey Processing (or Purchasing) Day: 7 left! Register or buy
LFTN Spring Workshop Announcement - Nov 1 we will have 10 tickets on sale here.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Episode 493: Turkey Shelter Lessons Learned with The Tactical Redneck
Introduce Tactical Redneck
Lessons learned:
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Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday.
Today’s Thoughts Include:
To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist.
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Today the chill in the air became more serious and it got me to thinking about last minute winter preparation. So we will talk about preparing for winter on a homestead today.
Stump the Sauce
From Jesse: How to get started with my homesteading content business?
Main topic of the Show: Winter is Coming 2021 Edition
No Kill List
No Break List
Comfort List
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Today, I share some thoughts about what life would be like if I lived completely off my homestead and network relationships - and why it is a good idea to think about that.
Nashville Activation Tour - the day after Self Reliance Festival in Franklin, TN Veterans Park (611 W. Main St), 12pm-2pm Miriam Gomez, Ramiro Romani, Ryan Cristián, Derrick Broze
Tuesday: 10am - Live with Dr. Ken Berry
Dr. Ken Berry just agreed to speak at the Self Reliance Festival! Get Early Bird Pricing Through Wednesday this week! Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Living Off Your Homestead Last night I was up most of the night because Coyotes were too close for comfort. Every time they caught something in the woods, they would put up a cheer. My dogs would lose their minds barking in response. Why was I disturbed by this? Well, we have a bunch of turkeys outside that we are raising for a friend and that are sleeping out in the open and they electro netting stopped working. It would take nothing for a Coyote to just push through that and eat all the turkey they want. I have already sold most of these turkeys and would have to refund the money, and would then lose that because it is already spent on turkey feed and infrastructure. That got me to thinking - we always talk about being prepared for the things most likely to happen such as:
But what would happen if any of these things went on longer. Throughout the history of the US, at least every 100 years, we have ad something last longer than a season and cause difficulties in resupply. Civil war - turkeys example What would it look like if I ended up living off this homestead and existing relationships for five years?
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Today is a Friday so we have an interview show and I am pleased to welcome John Bush to talk about his coming conference, Exit and Build.
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John Bush is a radical activist, entrepreneur, and father of two based in Austin, TX. Since 2002 he has worked tirelessly to create a more free and peaceful world through political activism and the promotion of alternative institutions. He is a proponent of health freedom and operates Brave Botanicals which offers kratom and CBD. In 2015 he laid out his vision for Freedom Cells, small mutual aid groups networked with other cells to achieve common goals and secure the sovereignty of group members. The Freedom Cell Network has since grown to over 2,200 people globally and hopes to one day replace the state as a means of social organization.
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Today is an ask me anything day and I will be recording this live, taking questions from folks who are tuned in, as well as answering questions you have emailed me. How do you get your question in for a show like this? Email me.
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Main topic of the Show: Q and A
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Today, I will run through some things I never knew about fencing that I learned this weekend as friends Autofab and the Tactical Redneck were stretching fence for Jenni.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: New Lessons Learned From Fencing
BG of fencing over the past year or so
Lessons
All in all, it has been pretty eventful here with the fencing, the animals and the transition to increased food production off my small, 3 acre plot of hilly land with just the right amount of southern exposure.
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Today is a thought of the walk episode - a collection of short thoughts shared on a variety of topics. These thoughts are shared on Odysee every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, then produced as an audio podcast every other Friday.
Today’s Thoughts Include:
To view the videos for Thought of the Walk Episode, go here: Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b
They are also produced on Youtube as a playlist.
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Today, I share four normal things on the homestead that some outsiders view as oddball actions.
Freedomcell Activation tour is coming to Kentucky Oct 14.
Stump the Sauce
From Joshua of Ganderflight: How do I prep if I am living in a 28 foot RV and moving around the country with my family?
Main topic of the Show: Four Normal Things on the Homestead that Seem Odd
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Today I go on a tear about sticking to principles when the sticking gets tough.
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
Operation Independence
Main topic of the Show: Principles
Today started with a video of a OBGYN from a year ago about an anti abortion bill that would charge Dr.’s with murder who do not attempt to re-implant ectopic pregnancies. This is a pregnancy where the egg does not make it to the uterus. And this got me to thinking about big picture principles and how we tend to take discourse from principles to extreme examples in an effort to “win” the argument on issues.
She basically landed on the message, “Get politics out of medicine.”
Yesterday on a long drive, I heard Nurse Amy from https://www.doomandbloom.net/ defend he choice to get vaccinated - a decision she has grown to regret. Her credibility was attacked from someone who is against the vax. She landed on Get the Politics Out of Medicine.
Then I remembered a discussion with a doctor I had who wanted to prescribe Ivermectin, a known antiviral used on humans to help early onset Covid because the research indicated it may help and the risk level of negative impacts from the medicine are unlikely. Pharmacists are refusing to fill it because it is not approved for use in treating covid -- an off-label use. This doctor just wants to see the politics taken out of medicine.
Then it struck me. The last 2 years have done something I had not realized. It is not about whether or not politics are in medicine. It is what people are willing to accept from their medical care. A decade ago, it would have been impossible to implement socialized medicine in this country (referred to under new marketing as “single payer”). Want to know why? Nobody would have accepted so much meddling in their treatments, in who does and does not deserve medical help, in long delays for important screenings and procedures, and in off label use for medications. In other countries where medicine is socialized, people are willing to wait months for that cancer screening without raising a fuss. They are willing to accept that elderly do not get the same access to something like heart surgery or limb replacement as a younger person. They buy into rationing of care by a politically appointed governing body, and are resigned to how that works. In fact, they are thankful that their care is “free,” and mystified about how our “free-market” system (That is neither free nor market based by a long shot) can be accepted by people. All this while citizens of their locations travel here to get those delayed screenings faster by paying up front for them.
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By enacting draconian shut down, implementing control over what can and cannot be used to treat covid, firing healthcare staff who choose not to accept an emerging vaccination, rationing monoclonal antibody supplies for political reasons, and everything else that has happened -- expectations of those who use healthcare have changed their expectations. They are now OK with letting their loved ones go into the system without an advocate under the guise of “protections.” They will wait weeks or months for screenings because of “staffing shortages.” They buy into government bodies who know nothing about practicing medicine making decisions about what can be used to treat an emerging virus, thus stifling progress and innovation in favor of trumping up their corporate sponsors.
And these same people screech when something is put forth to change the when and how that a woman can receive treatment for pregnancy-related issues like not allowing treatment of an ectopic pregnancy.
Freedom for me but not for thee.
We need to step above this. To embrace something better. The ends CANNOT justify the means even if it is in service of something good lest they be aimed for evil by another.
When we empower force of government to relieve people of their property, their freedom, their bodily autonomy in favor of achieving goals we think are important like:
When we choose our pet project, like ending poverty then outsource the implementation to a committee of special interests, we simply make things worse for everyone.
And the last two years have reframed what people are willing to accept. Shortages of supplies? Sure. Forced shots to be able to travel? Bring it. Bullying toward people who do not adhere to the current-day’s accepted social protocols? RIGHT ON!
When you support any of these things, you support all of them, so be careful.
Next up will be this: Climate change is a danger and overpopulation adds to the problem. Women must now take birth control or be sterilized to address this issue. Wait. no. If we do that society will not continue -- only the women with undesirable genetics, who maybe do not have a decent profession or who are too lazy to stay thin. Those women need to be sterilized or take the pill lest they spread undesirable genetics.
See?
The same instinct that makes people want to control what others do because it is better for that person and better for society as a whole, even though that person does not want it, that instinct? That instinct lays the foundation for philosophies that are evil, like eugenics.
That is why it is so important now more than ever to stand on your principles even when it is hard. Things like freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of bodily autonomy, freedom to own property, freedom of commerce, freedom to travel -- all of these things are important and all of them, when taken to one extreme, could have a bad outcome when allowed.
Like I may have to support someone’s freedom to discuss why eugenics is good if I am to remain true to my principles because they are free to have an opinion with which I disagree. But therein lies the beauty of freedom. If we remain true to the principles, then that person will need to get people to voluntarily work as a community to make reproductive choices based on genetics -- and we see how well that went for European royalty, do we not? Eventually the problem solves itself.
But if we force a solution by stifling the discussion of a bad idea, then we set the foundation for more abuses of the individual, of needle rape, and all the other things that can be done to people who if we would just let them live their path have a better chance off success than when we try to force them to do the “right” thing.
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So tomorrow, when your inclination is “there ought to be a law”, look instead to a different track: what laws could be removed to improve this situation.
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Today I am joined by someone we have heard several times on the podcast, Sue Zoldak. Usually she comes on to talk with us about entrepreneurship or marketing. But today, Sue joins us to share something a bit more personal - her leap into homeschooling for her high school-aged daughter.
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Sue Zoldak is a brilliant marketing and public relations talent with a foundation in digital methods. Her whole life has given her experiences in entrepreneurship, communications, art and creativity, and even math and economics. This combination is particularly well-suited to take on homeschooling her daughter.
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