Thriving The Future Podcast

Creating Cultural Capital through Storytelling and Traditions.Our guests share their favorite personal Christmas holiday stories:Grant Payne of HomesteadofPayne on Instagram from Episode 58.Matt from FarmHopLife.Melody and Eric from the Homebirth on the Homestead episodes 38 and 43 tell about how they create memories by playing (usually argumentative) games on Christmas. (Maybe that's a little Festivus thrown in?)Scott tells stories of growing up in Iowa during the "Global Cooling" scare. There was snow on the ground from November until March. The lakes and rivers froze, and there were snowmobile tracks along all of the roadways.Storytelling is important.You build Cultural Capital through Stories, Songs, Rituals, and Traditions.Let’s face it – our kids are chronically challenged with their sense of identity, where they fit in the world, and their sense of place.Ask yourself – what does Christmas look like to me? (in my memories)This Christmas/Holiday season, share the things that are important to you.Get your kids out of the bubble. Show them where you grew up. Share what Christmas means to you. Ask them questions about what it means to them.Give experiences rather than things. Very few people remember what they got for Christmas last year, let alone five years ago. But they remember the experience, the time, the place.“You are building Cultural Capital whether you know it or not.” - PerpendEpisode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/holiday-storiesJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:The Homestead Journal: https://thehomesteadjournal.net/Grow Nut Trees - Elderberry cuttings and comfrey (crowns and root cuttings) now available! - https://grownuttrees.com/

It is winter. It is the time to rest, to dream, and to plan. But this episode will get you fired up and give you tips as you plan for the growing season.Grant Payne of HomesteadOfPayne on Instagram joins me this week. He is Getting Stuff Done - #GSD at a level off the charts.He created 70 raised beds out of IBC totes by cutting them in half. He is planning a nursery, and gets some nursery stock by going into TSC or Lowes and buying all the trees on clearance, haggling the manager down to the point where he is paying $1 or $3 each for 50 trees and plants.This episode should get you fired up for planning the 2023 season.Check the show notes for awesome pictures from Grant's homestead.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/grant-payneJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:The Homestead Journal: https://thehomesteadjournal.net/Grow Nut Trees - Elderberry cuttings and comfrey (crowns and root cuttings) now available! - https://grownuttrees.com/

Adversity - Dark Clouds with Silver Linings.Continuing our series on handling adversity, Matt from FarmHopLife and I discuss how to handle changes and turmoil at your job and in life. And how he is dealing with making the tough decisions about job, health.Changes in the job.Will he be able to continue his 20x23 project?? His original plan was to travel around to farms and homesteads to lend a hand with whatever the owners need from us in order to finish a project, plant hundreds of trees, harvest plants, process livestock.We talk about side hustles - Hard times create opportunities, both in the job market and even more so with side hustles.How to handle changes and turmoil at your job.Plus some job hunting and interview tips.Tough times, and layoffs are coming.Reality check: At your work, right now, at the end of the year they do the budgets for the next year. There is a pause there as they re-evaluate what they are going to do. Now is a good time for YOU to also take the winter pause over the holidays, to re-evaluate where you are at, where you are going. Reminder that your job is a means to an end, but what are you doing to design your intentional life?"There are no solutions, only tradeoffs." - Thomas Sowell.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/tough-decisionsWe also reference the Survival Podcast episode 3077 - Now is the Time to Build Independent Income. This is a Marketing and side hustle Masterclass.Join the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.com

"The big success is not done from the homestead. It's done by selling the idea. It's done by selling the dream. It's done by selling the experience."In this episode Perpend and I talk with Homestead Padre from Twitter about Adversity, his homestead in Mississippi, and adventures in selling at the farmer's market - How to Make Money at the Farmer's Market in a Recession.Mindset of the farmer's market customers in tough times/recession: They are looking for an experience rather than (just) food. Food trucks, the lady selling tamales, and the kettle corn guy draw more crowds.Homestead Padre made more money on his baked goods when he bought a chef's jacket and started wearing that at the market.We also talk about adversity.On the homestead there is never a problem. There are 3 problems at one time.Not making enough money on the homestead and having to go find a job.And Homestead Padre's challenges when he was doxxed.You can contact and interact with Homestead Padre:Smith-homestead.com for handmade soap and candles, handcrafted items (Perpend and I like the alpaca wool caps – hand knitted by Homestead Padre himself. (Use the code Thriving at checkout for 10% off - affiliate).Homestead Padre from TwitterHomestead Padre on SubstackEpisode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/homesteadpadreJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.com

We have been covering a series about how to Recession-Proof your life.In this episode I talk with my friend Eric about how to recession-proof your jobHow do you introduce yourself? "I am a..."Do you tie your identity to your job?How to #Thrive at your job:Make yourself valuable.Develop relationships.Be Genuine.Go to work every day as if it was your first day.Side hustles and cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset."You talk about the recession. The people that are using our services, they are not worried about the recession. The recession is not going to impact them." - EricEric created a high end lawn care business, TurfBrothas757.com (website coming soon).They make lawns look like 1/4" golf course grass.What drives an entrepreneurial mindset?Having a need and thinking "I wonder if I could do that."Utilizing your surplus and trading/selling your surplus.Note that the audio is a little distorted in this episode. One of the challenges of including new voices with people who are not professional podcast guests, is that you make due with the tech that you have over Zoom (the folk's don't always have pro mics). The EQ is kind of "wonky". I cleaned it up as best as I could. It was still great info to go ahead and publish rather than doing it all over again.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/recession-proof-mindsetJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.comSponsors:GrowNutTrees dot com: https://grownuttrees.com/Smith-Homestead: https://www.smith-homestead.com/(use code THRIVING at checkout for 10% off).

Kurt is back and he gives an update on his homestead as well as tips from how he is building local community. And we talk about how to recession-proof your job with an entrepreneurial mindset.Community building tips:Volunteer to help people setup their garden in the Spring or clean it up in the Fall.Doing this, Kurt got free raspberry plants.Hold events and workshopsLearn new skills - as you learn skills, work up a portfolio of skills as an investment. It is a money sink, but necessary.He is coordinating with local restaurants to get food scraps for compost.NRCS application and using Fed programs for your benefit.Parallel Economy and how to recession proof your job.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/value-parallel-economyJoin the Thriving The Future Community - Telegram Group or mailing list: https://signup.thrivingthefuture.com(This was recorded sitting on the porch and there is some wind noise in this episode)Check out our affiliate: The Smith-Homestead. They have handmade soap and candles, handcrafted items (Perpend and I like the alpaca wool caps - hand knitted by Homestead Padre himself, and lots more. If you use THRIVING as a coupon code at checkout you get 10% off.

Tips and Tricks to Help You Be More Secure OnlineMike from Paratus Radio is back and we deep dive on Information Security Tips.Did you know that identity theft is now targeting kids? A friend’s daughter reached 18 and she went to get a car loan, but her identity has already been stolen and debt incurred against her. And Mike is getting insurance and credit ads in the mail for his 11 yo son.A credit freeze can help this. Just one of the tips you will learn in this episode.(Visit https://thrivingthefuture.com/info-security for more extensive show notes and a download of a PDF with detailed Info Security Tips).Information Security Tip highlights in this episode:Use a Password ManagerImplement Two-factor Authentication (2FA) on All AccountsImplement a Credit Freeze for every member of your household (yes, even for your kids)Do a digital account review, cleanup, and then migrate to encrypted platformsProtect your phone numberProtect your email addressProtect your Credit and Debit CardsSecure your data in motion (VPN)Use privacy-oriented softwareListen to the episode for more tips.

Not an Expert But We're Still Going to Get Stuff DoneThis week I was a guest on FarmHopLife Podcast. We talked about homesteading, our local "Not an Expert But We're Still Going to Get Stuff Done" workshops, and what motivates me to grow my own food.This podcast episode is an excerpt of the interview. You can watch the entire interview on Youtube at:https://youtu.be/3X6w4Brdz0QWe cover:"Not an Expert But We're Still Going to Get Stuff Done" workshops - building community while we share new skills.How I got started homesteading.What motivates me to grow my own food?Nothing beats the freshness.My favorite is Black Seeded Simpson lettuceWhat methods or techniques I am using:Swales - see my example of how I extended my orchard using hand-dug swales and mounds.Lasagna gardeningWhat I have tried that worked well:Growing chestnuts from seed.Making my own vinegar.I also share my scrub and switchel vinegar drink ideasThe Not an Expert But We're Still Going to Get Stuff Done workshops.What didn't work so well:Using STUN method on grafted apple trees.Growing tomatoes from saved seed this year.Planting landrace garden seeds from somewhere else (what works in Utah doesn't work in KS).Biggest challenge:To adapt to the mindset where Failure is an Option and this year is not like last year.What are my best things about homesteading:Growing my own food.Trying new techniques.Walking out my door and watering the garden at lunchtime.The KS sunsets.Matt from FarmHopLife was on Episode 50 of Thriving The Future Podcast. Listen to that episode as he shared about his 20×23 project next year – traveling around to farms and homesteads to lend a hand with whatever the owner needs to finish a project, plant hundreds of trees, harvest plants, process livestock. Wait - he will come to your homestead and provide free labor? What's the catch? Listen to episode 50 to find out more.

#It'sAllAboutTheMindsetPerpend is back in town so we catch up on his quest for intentional community.Worldview and Mindset -Worldview:The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.A collection of beliefs about life and the world held by an individual or a group.Perpend's definition - Telos: the end term of a goal-directed process.Mindset:A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses and interpretations of situations.A way of thinking, an attitude, especially a habitual one.Our definition - a frame of mind/a toolset that keeps my Telos in view.Community and Worldview -What is your Worldview? Should you surround yourself with people with the same Worldview?Can you end up with the same goal with people with a different Worldview?How serious should you be in your worldview with the members of your community, to ensure the same vision and direction?The different circles of community as you get to an increasingly Inner Circle.Circle of Influence and Circle of Control and influence on community.It is OK for a community to change, to ebb and flow.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/worldview-vs-mindset

It's the story of every homesteader's life - there are never enough hours in the day. There are never enough hands to help on the big projects.What projects would you do if you could get a helping hand for a week on your homestead?Matt from FarmHopLife Podcast and I talk about his 20x23 project next year - traveling around to farms and homesteads to lend a hand with whatever the owner needs to finish a project, plant hundreds of trees, harvest plants, process livestock.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/farmhoplife

Foraging + 2022 Growing Season in Review"The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long. Seems like we're running out of time." - Triumph.In tough times and supply chain breakdowns, these foraging ideas can make the difference to augment your diet, generate some side hustle income, or help grow your homestead.Foraging stories:Chestnuts: The local rural elementary school has two chestnut trees. In 2021, I foraged 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket from those trees and had enough to put up several buckets of chestnuts in sand to sprout out for Spring, plus enough to share with several friends.Shagbark hickoryPears from a scraggly set of trees in a county park.Pawpaws - grow along many creeks in woody parts of Eastern and NE Kansas. They may not be as good as the Eastern US cultivars, but they still taste like a cross between vanilla and banana pudding.So much neglected fruit of the forest = so much opportunity for a forager, homesteader, or even a side hustle.Extend your homestead with cuttings from elderberry and mulberry.Plant apples from seed. You may like the new variety.In this episode I also review the 2022 growing season. What worked and what didn't.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/foraging

Deer Hunting Stories and TipsIt's Deer Season!My friend Dave and I tell hunting stories and share our tips:Our first deerWhat gear we useTips and tricksScent controlHunting with a crossbowProcessing yourself vs. taking to the butcherWe tell stories of our hunts, including some funny stories - like when I got stuck up in a tree.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/deer-season

Choosing the type of Communications based on your CommunityMike from Paratus Radio joins TTF Podcast to discuss emergency communications.We look at communications based on several community scenarios (size, location, and needs):Cul de sac - FRS (walkie talkies)Group of farms (1-2 miles) - GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service)Group of intentional communities (5-10 miles apart) - GRMS with repeater.Group of farms or communities (farther than 10 miles) - GRMS with repeater or HAM with repeater, if necessary.CB RadioWhy can't we just use our phones?If power goes out, the cell towers only have 1-2 days of backup power. If the outage extends past this then the cell tower will not function and it won't come back on its own. This may seem unlikely, but it was seen in the ice storm power outages in Feb 2021, and in the power outages due to Hurricane Harvey in 2017.You can also use these radios to hear National Weather Service and Emergency stations. So these emergency comms should be part of your emergency planning.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/community-comms

Homesteading, aquaponics, building soil, and Heath the KangarooIn this episode I talk with Shudra as he is #Thriving in Australia. Shudra is one of the contributors at The Homestead Journal. Shudra is also a prolific Twitter poster, and you can follow him @TheShudraWay on Twitter.Shudra shares about aquaponics, building soil when your land is mostly gravel, and the unexpected arrival of Heath the Kangaroo.Shudra's advice:1. Plant trees2. Reduce your debt3. Grow your own foodEpisode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/shudraSponsors:- The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.

Free Your MindsetWhat if you could work less than 40 hours a week?What if you could charge double what everyone else is charging, working less, and still #Thrive?Jules Smith, editor of The Homestead Journal, joins TTF Podcast to talk about his "multi-side hustle, intermittent, high value dollar per hour system".Tips:Get out of the 40 hour per week mindset.Fill your life with multiple income streams.Want more tips ? Visit the episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/make-moneyCan you actually charge double the amount everyone else is and not lose business? Sure, you may lose business, but you may have more valuable, more consistent and rewarding business.Sponsors:- The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.Homestead thumbnail Image taken by Hannah Byrd at MyHBCreations: https://www.instagram.com/myhbcreations/Also follow Hannah - @MyHBCreations on Twitter.

Gift Economy vs Barter - Has Barter really been used anywhere at any scale?Scott and Perpend have a lively debate on whether barter has been used as the main economy in any culture.The gift economy applies to the Tribal model, family, or clan.<p>We also discuss intentional community.Are we a community? As he states in this episode, Perpend is seeking an intentional community that is willing to sell everything and move closer together.Perpend also shares his spiritual journey.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/barterSponsors:- The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.

Ken and Sally are #Homesteading in the City. You would be surprised how much they do in their normal backyard - chickens, gardens, tree starts, composting bins, and an elaborate worm bin.We also discuss how they #Thrive & prepare for retirement.This is a part of our #Thrivers series.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/homesteading-citySponsors:- The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.- https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life

Using the best homeschooling method for the season in a child's life.Join the conversation with Winter, a mom who is from a homeschooled family and has homeschooled her kids.Skip the usual homeschool topics - no complaining about public school, no politics here. We want to focus on creating lifelong learners. - Adapting to your child' s learning style. - Homeschooling with an ADHD child and a Gifted child at the same time. - Unschooling - Science - Instilling a sense of "wonder" in your child.This is part of our ongoing #Thriver's series.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/homeschoolingSponsors: - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter. - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life

Dodging the Regulations and Restrictions Land MinesContinuing our #Thrivers series, join the conversation with Kurt. He is living on 27 acres in NW MO.We discuss how he found his land in this tough market, strategies for determining regulations and restrictions. We deep dive into some of what he has accomplished so far with his land and livestock, as well as his plans to thrive in the next year.Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/finding-landSponsors: - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter. - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life

Come on into the library, sit down and have a chat. Join our conversation with Yardbird on culture, the podcast, and Radical Authenticity.Radical Authenticity: Facing reality. Being authentic. learning to identify problems, and being willing to accept those.We also discuss: - The history and next steps for the podcast. <- Yardbird's Philosophy Garden. He has generously provided an essay on the Philosophy garden that you can read on the thrivingthefuture.com website. - Wendell Berry's "The Unsettling of America". We are in a competition with nature when it should be a conversation." - What are YOU reading?Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/radical-authenticity

<p>You may think that gardening season is late, and you are just harvesting the tomatoes and the root crops and squash. If you live in the midsection of the country or the South, you can get two seasons in. Start succession planting now. Plant that Victory Garden!</p><p>Go to the episode website to see a helpful guide to succession planting:https://thrivingthefuture.com/fall-garden</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life</p>

<p>Do you Get Stuff Done, or do you change course and start yet another project after seeing a new YT video, saying "I'm gonna try that!"</p><p>The result = A bunch of projects that never get done.</p><p>But I want to Get Stuff Done instead. Real stuff. Projects that I finish.</p><p>I want Proof of Work. I want to actually finish my projects.</p><p>It is also #SkillsOverStuff. Building skills, refining skills.</p><p>What skills are you building?</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/get-stuff-done</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life</p>

<p>Building Cultural Capital</p><p>You build Cultural capital through stories, songs, and rituals.</p><p>You are building Culture whether you know it or not.</p><p>What kind of culture are you building?</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/cultural-capital</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life</p>

<p>The Unwritten Rules of Social Capital and Your Social Capital Debt.</p><p> - If I do something for you, you generally "owe" me a favor.</p><p> - Social capital can be traded for other capital. If you do something for me, I can recompense you in some other way.</p><p>(Notice how uncomfortable this quickly becomes. Everybody knows these things, but if you verbalize them then you are seen as cold, calculated, and that you are using people.)</p><p>Social Capital Debt</p><p>"Everyone subconsciously keeps a tally book (of their social capital debt)"</p><p> - We are starved for social capital. We have let our social capital debt build up.</p><p> - If you have that debt, your sphere of influence shrinks.</p><p>Do you have social capital debt?</p><p>How are you building social capital?</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/social-capital-debt</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life</p>

<p>How to Use Social Media Without Social Media Using You.</p><p>Attention is Worship. All social media is about Attention.</p><p>Social Media steals your attention. Is social media stealing your intention and keeping you from designing and living your intentional life?</p><p>Listen to learn How to Use Social Media Without Social Media Using You.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/temple-of-twitter</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life</p>

<p>What we are planting this year - including some surprises.</p><p>Why Do We Garden?</p><p> - Why do we plant this year?</p><p> - Grow our own healthy food!</p><p> - Gardening provides a therapeutic and prayerful respite and reset in our day.</p>What new things we are planting this year:</p><p> - Milpa - Mix of multiple seeds (corn, squash, beans, greens, okra, etc.) that provide ground cover and multiple crops to harvest over the summer months, plus good mulch over the winter.</p><p> - Indian Ricegrass - a perennial grass with a gluten free source for edible seeds of <p> - porridge, etc.</p><p> - New Jersey Tea - a herb that can be used as a stand-in for tea.</p><p> - Landrace squash - including Nanticoke squash, Jemi-Nanticoke squash mix, Desert Spirit Landrace Squash</p><p> - Landrace beans</p><p> - Grandpa McKay's Cream Pea Cowpea</p><p> - Perennial Pollinators - a mix of perennial flowers that can be used to sow bands of pollinators in your garden and improve crop pollination. Also brings in some other pollinators, such as wasps, that prey on typical garden pests.</p><p> - Sugar beets</p><p> - Spring Lentils</p><p>(links to the above seeds on our website)</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/why-garden</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing your intentional life</p>

<p>Continuing our site survey of a friend's land - an off-grid property. We focus on what we would plant on this property to stabilize soil, improve "curb appeal" on the SE facing slope, and provide perennial vegetables and medicinals for animal and humans. We want things that look good at different times a year.</p><p>Perennial vegetables</p><p>Perennial vegetables definition:</p><p> - Living three or more years</p><p> - Used as a vegetable, not a novelty crop</p><p> - Use the leaves, stalks, shoots, flower buds, tubers, corms, rhizomes, roots, beans, or other above or below ground parts that are eaten raw, or cooked as a meal, or as a side dish.</p><p> - Not destroyed by harvesting - harvest some, replant some (like sunchokes)</p><p>List from A Global Inventory of Perennial Vegetables:</p><p>http://www.perennialsolutions.org/a-global-inventory-of-perennial-vegetables</p><p>Perennials that we cover:</p><p> - Asparagus</p><p> - Jerusalem Artichokes (sunchokes)</p><p> - Cattail</p><p> - Sunflower</p><p> - Showy and Common Milkweed</p><p> - Ostrich fern</p><p> - Perennial Leek</p><p> - Wild Onions and garlic</p><p> - Walking onions</p><p> - Solomon Seal</p><p> - Ramps - add to the oak tree area</p><p> - Sea beet</p><p> - Turkish Rocket</p><p> - Sea Kale - perennial kale</p><p> - Wild arugula</p><p> - New Zealand Spinach</p><p> - Maximillian Sunflower</p><p> - Goji Berry</p><p> - Marshmallow</p><p> - Mulberry</p><p> - Elderberry</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/choosing-plants</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing an intentional life</p>

<p>Detailed site survey for an off grid property.</p><p>For our April workshop we did a property walk and site survey on a friend's land. His goal is to turn this into an off grid property. We include clips of some of the on-site brainstorming conversations.</p><p> - 3 Acre lot in NE KS. Currently pasture with trees (hedge, oak, hackberry, cedar) along the S side, which borders a creek/ravine.</p><p> - Land slopes down to the SE. Most of the land is south facing slope (good for solar and gardens).</p><p> - USDA Zone 6A</p>Goals are important.</p>Goal: Turnaround property in 5-6 years and retire.</p><p> - Do a proof of concept for off grid:</p><p> - 2 shipping containers, on trench footings, with a roof in between, enclosed space, and slab floor.</p><p> - Solar for power</p><p> - Rain catchment for water</p><p> - Compost toilet</p><p>Important considerations for a small acreage property:</p><p> - How much easement will you need? (building from the road or fence).</p><p> - How much space will be taken up by septic system and laterals? If putting in septic, this would limit your growing area. (Because of this, he will not initially put in a septic system).</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/choosing-land</p><p>Sponsors:</p><p> - The Homestead Journal - Find us at www.thehomesteadjournal.net and follow us @thjdotnet on Twitter.</p><p> - https://FreedomFarmer.net - Where I focus on #SkillsOverStuff and designing an intentional life</p>

<p>We plan out a Permaculture Site Survey</p><p>"No one is an expert , but we are still going to Get Stuff Done" #GSD</p><p>For our April community workshop, we plan out a site survey to evaluate and give some feedback on a friend's land.</p><p> - 3 acres in NE KS</p><p> - Approach it from "would we buy this land?"</p><p> - How would we use this land?</p><p> - What are their goals?</p><p>We are prepping you to think through a site survey yourself.</p><p>Considerations:</p><p> - Access</p><p> - Water - creeks, ponds</p><p> - Climate - wind, rainfall, USDA Zone, Sun exposure</p><p> - Take a shovel and a bucket. Dig a hole to evaluate how quickly water is absorbed in the soil.</p><p> - Are utilities available? What is the cost to add a meter, for example (it is a lot more than you may think).</p><p> - Off grid?</p><p> - Water catchment</p><p> - We also cover things that you may not have thought about - is there a quarry nearby? (is there a lot of dump truck traffic?).</p><p> - What are the neighbors like? If you don't like ATVs and guns you may want to know that the neighbor rides ATVs and shoots guns at daybreak on the weekends (a common occurrence in rural KS, especially near hunting season) before you move in there. Visit at different times of the days and week, especially on the weekend.</p><p>This is how easy it is to plan a workshop, whether you do a site survey, or any other kind of topic. Anybody can do this. Just set it up and do it.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/planning-workshop</p>

<p>Continuing the discussion on the "How" to start and maintain a community</p><p> - What do you do when it all goes wrong with your community?</p><p> - How to surround yourself with people who benefit others as well as benefit themselves (Win/Win) rather than Hapless people.</p><p> - Note that you do NOT want to only surround yourself with people just like you (like-minded people). You need to have a variety of people with different skills.</p><p>We also talk about our workshops and how that builds and strengthens community.</p><p>We discuss the 5 Laws of Stupidity:</p><p>https://youtu.be/3O9FFrLpinQ</p><p>https://thrivingthefuture.com/2-dollar-eggs</p>

<p>How crypto can help you to #Thrive in the tough times ahead.</p><p>“HODLing is for chumps!” - Perpend.</p><p>Why Crypto?</p><p> We talk about the Why - the base concepts of Money, Value, and determining what is Fair Value.</p><p> The basics of cryptocurrency, what it is really for (it's purpose was not for HODLing).</p><p> How crypto can help you to #Thrive in the tough times ahead.</p><p> Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and what is coming.</p><p>A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. - Bitcoin White Paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/why-crypto</p>

<p>#FreeYourMindset.</p><p>"You are not defined by what you do, but who you are, and what community you belong to."</p><p>Continuing our series about how to create and live an intentional life, this is a follow up up to Ep. 4 - Diary of a Wage Slave, Ep. 5 - Living an Intentional Life, and even ties together our Side Hustle episodes.</p><p>We start with a mindset that allows you to transition from your job to your intentional life, or ways to do both longer in ways that fulfill your intentions in your life. Hint: It's deeper than the side hustle.</p><p>We also talk about your place in the community and how to get back to that level of trust.</p><p>Perpend talks about What I Want in Community. "I don't care where everyone else is going. That's where I'm going. Who is joining me?"</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/how-to-use-your-job</p>

<p>Thriving The Future Podcast Ep.19 - Who Can You Trust?</p><p>What does it mean 'To be a man of your word?'</p><p>We talk about Faith vs. Trust. Duty. Responsibility.</p><p>In the past, you didn't have to ask what it meant to be a man of your word, because they knew. And they knew because they had shared values. You ask that now and no one knows because they don't have shared values. What was agreed was valuable was fulfilling your duty and your responsibility. Now what is valuable is not having any responsibility.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/who-can-you-trust </p>

<p>How you thrive in a war zone, or anywhere else, depends on your mindset.</p><p>See the KS flag superimposed over the Ukrainian flag above? Are we virtue signaling, showing solidarity, or pointing out something else? Listen and find out.</p><p>The Clowns started a war in Ukraine. Now what are you going to do? How will you Thrive in this situation?</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/how-to-thrive-in-ukraine</p>

<p>When times gets tough (1930's Depression kind of tough), how will you treat the Clowns?</p><p>The Clowns are at the gate. What will you do?</p><p>How do you determine who to help and who not to help?</p><p>How do you build community in this situation?</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/clown-world</p>

<p>The Consumer Mindset is Pervasive.</p><p>Examples of the Consumer Mindset</p><p> - Planned obsolescence</p><p> - Fear of missing out (FOMO)</p><p> - Confusing Needs and Wants</p><p> - Buying stuff to make yourself fell better</p><p> - Why are you buying gifts?</p><p> - Buying gifts as a proxy for not spending time with your loved ones</p><p>Solutions to Ditch the Consumer Mindset</p><p> - Regift stuff you no longer use</p><p> - Buy tools that are durable and the best that you can afford. You spend more now but they last longer.</p><p> - Make gifts from your side hustle, hobbies (teas, jams, vinegar, herbs, tinctures).</p><p> - Look at other means of exchange besides fiat.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/consumer-mindset</p>

<p>We answer questions from listeners about our community.</p><p> - Workshops</p><p> - Seed swap</p><p> - Maintaining a community</p><p> - Perpend also shares about his recent visit to a monastery and what he learned about community on that trip.</p><p>It's important that we just do what we are doing, and people join of filter themselves out. Community will change, people may come and go. That is OK.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/building-a-thriving-community

<p>We discuss Solzhenitsyn and Havel and how to thrive in the tough times ahead. Also the culture of the barter blanket and how to fit that into your community.</p><p>Warning - This is a tough conversation and may challenge your worldview.</p><p>There is a lot of online chatter about "we are being shut out/shut down; we need to build a parallel economy!"</p><p>Or "We just need to elect new people. Our people."</p><p>The answer is not a new government or a new economy. The core issue is taking responsibility for your own life. (not in the frequently repeated Republican definition, but in the Solzhenitsyn and Havel application).</p><p>A new government or a new economy is a totalitarian solution to a moral problem.</p><p>Too many people still believe that they have the right to tell another person what to do. You've heard it, and probably will default to it, under distress:</p><p> - "There should be a law!"</p><p> - "Someone should do something".</p><p>It always defaults to government, law, and forcing others to do something (which requires violence).</p><p>We discuss "Live Not BY Lies" and "The Power of the Powerless", and suffering.</p><p>We discuss community, reciprocity, and an economy that may be more based on other forms of capital rather than solely based on money. And the lore and culture of the barter blanket and how to fit that into your community.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/parallel-economy</p>

<p>Why resolutions fail, but living an intentional life will succeed.</p><p>Intentional Life vs. Resolutions -</p><p>It is several weeks into the New Year and statistics, and personal experience, show that most of you have given up on your resolutions. That's because you are approaching it as a task and not adopting it as a mindset and core identity.</p><p>A resolution is "something I'm going to do." An intention is "what I am doing."</p><p>"The problem with a resolution is that you are not changing your identity, you are just changing an outcome." - Perpend</p><p>A new diet is a new identity -</p><p> - When you start a diet, you say, for example, "I am on the Paleo diet". This implies that you can get off the Paleo diet or you can have a cheat day. You start compartmentalizing and bargaining.</p><p> - Taking an example from the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet: you have to adopt it as your identity to maintain it. Most of the people on AIP have a food allergy or get sick from certain foods.</p><p> - Instead of saying "I am on the Paleo diet", adopt it as your identity. "I am Paleo". Those who succeed at this see it trickle down to their friends, who know that they will have to have or make alternatives for this person at their dinner, party, or get-together.</p><p>Change your identity - "I am this now".</p><p> - Example: Don't say "I am going to start a garden this year". Say: "I am a gardener. I am a homesteader."</p><p> - Do it, not just say it.</p><p>Plan your life with intention so you are moving toward that goal.</p><p>Habits - </p><p> - Make a list:</p><p> - What do I feel rewards me?</p><p> - Someone who is X does this every day.</p><p></p><p>Today is the first day of the rest of your life. This mindset is real Freedom.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/intentional-life-goals-not-futile-resolutions</p>

<p>Tips to overcome Imposter Syndrome and the Toolbox Fallacy</p><p>Imposter Syndrome</p><p>That self doubt, as an entrepreneur that you are not good enough or not an expert. It results in cutting yourself short, in pricing, in boldness, in success and thriving.</p><p>Everyone at some time struggles with Imposter Syndrome. From the entrepreneur to the kid having to present something at the front of the class.</p><p> - What is Imposter Syndrome?</p><p> - Self doubt</p><p> - Thinking that you are not good enough</p><p> - Being told that you are not an expert</p><p> - Competence – the willingness to try.</p><p> - Is confidence genetic or learned?</p><p> - What do I do if I fail?</p><p> - Every time you fail you learn a lesson or a new question to ask.</p><p>Toolbox Fallacy</p><p>“If only I had X, then I could start.”</p><p> - What is the Toolbox fallacy – “I need X (software, training, etc.) to start this activity/business”. #JustStart!</p><p> - How can you bridge that gap when you are just starting out?</p><p> - “It’s not a problem if you still have an action left.”</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/overcoming-imposter-syndrome</p>

<p>Everything is a tradeoff, especially with others.</p><p>"There are no solutions, only tradeoffs." - Thomas Sowell</p><p> - What are tradeoffs?</p><p> - Perfect can become the enemy of the good.</p><p> - 8 forms of capital mindset - "Your gold is not our gold".</p><p> - You lost your job. Time for some self evaluation and designing an intentional life.</p><p> - Tradeoffs with food allergies.</p><p> "Are you using social media or is it using you?" - Perpend</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/no-solutions-only-tradeoffs</p>

<p>Side Hustles - Failure is an Option! </p><p>- Side hustles transition you from paycheck mindset to entrepreneur mindset. </p><p>- Definition of success </p><p>- Did I accomplish my intention? </p><p>- Exit strategy </p><p>- Side hustles are for children or for transition (?!) </p><p>- What about building a business so that it can run without you? </p><p>- Mentoring - do I need a mentor? </p><p>- Four hour work week? </p><p>Bonus: Market Gardening is NOT a rest period. Perpend gives his tips on accomplishing the most in the off season. </p><p>"The more often you fail, the less it hurts when you do. You learn to fail, grieve, get up, dream, and try again" - Perpend. </p><p>Episode Website: http://thrivingthefuture.com/failure-is-an-option</p>

<p>In Episode 6, Scott and Perpend start a series about Side Hustles.</p><p>- The market is not saturated! You just have to compete for attention.</p><p>- Providing value uses the 8 forms of Capital (experiential, intellectual, social).</p><p>- "The more value you give them, the more they owe you, and they know this subconconsciously".</p><p>- Not everyone is your customer.</p><p>- Observe actions over words.</p><p>- Cash flow, and the reality check of accounts receivable. (not be boring).</p><p>- Real marketing.</p><p>We share many tips and details that you usually don't hear unless you pay someone for an ebook or online class. Skip the "build a website, gather email addresses, SEO" tips and instead give your best value.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/know-your-customer</p>

<p>Do you live an intentional life? Do you have a roadmap? Have you defined your goals and designed your life (including your finances) around those goals?</p><p>In Episode 5, Scott and Perpend share some listener feedback from the previous episode.</p><p>We take the next step in helping our friend Will in conducting a personal inventory, and we share tips for living an intentional life.</p><p>Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/living-an-intentional-life/

Is your identity defined by your job? When someone asks you "what do you do?", do your answer "I am a..."?<p> What does your perfect day look like? Probably not like your current job. Yes, really.</p><p> Take the first step to free your mind.</p><p> In Episode 4, Scott and Perpend discuss the "wage slave" mindset and begin a series where they brainstorm how to help their recently unemployed friend, Will.Episode website:https://thrivingthefuture.com/diary-of-a-wage-slave/

Episode 3 - You are More Wealthy Than You Think.In Episode 3 of Thriving The Future podcast, Scott and Perpend look at wealth and the 8 forms of Capital and how to utilize those to enrich your life.Financial CapitalMaterial CapitalLiving CapitalSocial CapitalCultural CapitalIntellectual CapitalExperiential CapitalSpiritual CapitalEpisode Website: ThrivingTheFuture Ep.3 - You Are More Wealthy Than You Think

In Episode 2 of Thriving The Future podcast Scott and Perpend talk about developing a skills based mindset."If you want to thrive, live life, do what you intend - develop a skills based mindset.Skills will help you thrive rather than just survive."Length 31:02Episode website:https://thrivingthefuture.com/podcast-ep2-skills-over-stuff

In Episode 1 of the Thriving The Future Podcast, Scott and Perpend talk about what makes community work, intentional community, and building parallel systems. Length – 28:28What is community? It’s not what you think. What is necessary for successful community:WorldviewSkin in the game/Proof of WorkProximityCommon purposeCommon cultureIntentional communityBuilding parallel systemsEpisode website:https://thrivingthefuture.com/podcast-ep1-community