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Episode 531 – Have to vs Get to


Today, we continue the pantry management series with a discussion about how to keep your Today’s show was inspired by Krystal when she asked how do you balance “Have tos” and “Get tos”. Great question and worth putting thought into!

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Main topic of the Show:  Have to vs Get tot

  1. Reframe
  2. Let Perfection Go
  3. Add Rest as a To Do Item
  4. Learn to Silo
  5. Ask for Help
  6. The Reality Planner Approach

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Episode 530: Spring Plans at the Holler Homestead


Homestead living is often romanticized by those outside the lifestyle. Homesteading takes work and choices to live differently than the “norm”. Today I will talk you through the Holler Homestead’s spring 2022 plans. Because the clock is ticking on getting things planted, built and preserved for another year of abundance.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • $400 restock
  • Beef investment ($1600)
  • Freezer Audit
  • Bone broth and Cycy’s recovery

Forage in Winter

  • Jerusalem artichokes
  • Ground nuts
  • Dandelion root
  • Day Lily Root

Operation Independence

  • Tajmaholler Update

Network Opportunities

  • 1 Spring Workshop ticket left!
  • Self-Reliance Festival
  • Rogue Food Conference

Main topic of the Show: Spring Plans at the Holler Homestead

  • Hydro Systems
  • Hillside Gardens
  • Regular Garden
  • Living Fence Project
  • Fodder Trees
  • Livestock Update: Pigs, bees, goats, rabbits, sheep
  • Classes: Canning, Cheese making, Pig processing, chicken processing, turkey day, open houses

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Episode 529: Fodder Trees with Nick Ferguson


Fodder Trees with Nick Ferguson

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Episode 528: Underground Networking and Cross Promotion

Today, I share with you some best practices on getting your podcasts and events promoted by others. Ever reach out to a personality and them get frustrated when they either did not respond or cross promote your stuff, or they shared the wrong information? This episode will increase your close rate for these sorts of communications.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Freezers are full
  • Setting foundation for meat birds this year
  • Cooking during illness
  • Getting set to weather trucker strike shortages

Operation Independence

  • Pdc in April
  • Bacon webinar update

Main topic of the Show: Underground Networking and Promotion

What is underground networking?

Why this topic? (Moody)

Rogue Food Conference

“If I can help let me know”

Frustrations and communication

If we are going to make an underground network WORK, we need to learn to communicate the important information.

Problems

  • Put me in the universe
  • Does not communicate basic information succinctly
  • Where to find more information
  • No clear call to action
  • Graphics are missing or hard to find or use
  • Long tet, not social blurbs

Why this is a  missed opportunity (IF we all share eachothers podcasts, books, events, and the like we end up with a better ecosystem in which to operate)

Solution: Channel your inner Gabby

  • Asks what she wants up front
  • Includes “the skinny” on what she is talking about – in this a case an event with day, location, summary, schedule,price, website)
  • Adds social blurbs for wonder use that can be cut and pasted
  • Adds shareable graphics
  • Offers help for additional needs and interviews, etc.
  • List of blurbs needed in such a post
    • 1 sentence twitter length
    • Facebook or Mewe post length
    • Email blurb

Underground networking is more than secret handshakes and selling eachother beef. It is about building our ecosystem and we can do this by cross promoting eachother’s work.

Our community is ripe for rabid growth 

John is not wrong. 

But It doesnt work to expect that someone will just know you are doing a thing. Sending a link to your website is a non starter and most websites are hard to go through to find the skinny.

We can all do better and make this happen – start by

  • Making a list of people to reach out to to ask or cross promotion
  • Framing your project in simple terms with all the information in one place
  • Think of it as if you are doing the other person’s job to promote it and make it cut and pasteable for them
  • Tailor to the person you are reaching

See what happens next. I think you will be surprised

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Episode 527: Nicole Sauce Unplugged – Resilience

Nicole Sauce Unplugged – Resilience

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Ep 526 Military Lessons, Homestead Applications


Main topic of the Show: Military Lessons, Homestead Applications

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Episode 525: How We Address Illness in the Holler


The thing has landed in the holler. Years ago I did a show on how we handle illness in the Holler when Norovirus swept through my house over Thanksgiving. Today, I will share the updated approach in a post THE THING world.

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Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • Ran out of beef
  • The Empty Jar Problem
  • Still have not restocked – not in a hurry
  • Lamb Rib Recipe

Operation Independence

  • Tajmaholler Update

Main topic of the Show: How We Address Illness in the Holler

The Holler Neighbors are what I call an unintentional intentional community. (What that means and a bit about how we came to be).

Story of Thanksgiving.

  • Identify that someone is sick
  • Communicate to all
  • Learn about what they have and what care
  • Make a plan to cover chores (Nick Ferguson’s dead tree story)
  • Communicate
  • Establish the isolation or quarantine place (bathroom sharing, etc)
  • Communications
  • Jenni’s Care Packages
  • Med kit lessons learned: number of thermometers, pain killers, nebulizer
  • Keeping everyone else strong/community/nutrition

 

What we are doing for the covid outbreak and how the neighbors are doing – a word on media hype.

How this is different from other contagious illnesses.

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Episode 524 – Decentralized and Free Speech Social Media with the Flote.app Team

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Freedom of speech is important because if we do not discuss all of our ideas and  learn from one another, we never progress. Further, it is immoral to force silence on another person simply because they say things you do not like. Over the past decade, the social media giants have slowly shown that they have no regard for individual rights and have used their large reach to control the social narrative. They silence, bully and erase people after those people have invested time and resources to build followings and businesses using the tools that the big social media giants provide.

Erin and Kinglsey Edwards have been fed up with this for a long time. Rather than sit around and complain about it, they launched flote.app, a social network platform that is moving toward decentralized system and encourages freedom of speech. If you set up an account there and say something that Kinglsey does not agree with, you will not be “cancelled’. Instead, people who do not agree with you will discuss it with you. Or not. Their choice.

And it is all about choice.This is a previously recorded interview with Erin Edwards and Alex Martin of flote about the importance of free speech, decentralized technology and so much more.

Find the video on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b/furthering-liberty-through-social-media:d

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Episode 523: What to do when you have an enemy?


Welcome to Living Free in Tennessee.

Today, I discuss what to do when you have an enemy. What an enemy is. And wether or not you can be successful if you do NOT have an an enemy.

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Main topic of the Show:  What to do when you have an enemy?

What is an enemy?

  • eResources example
  • Food Forest Farms example 
  • Liberty Movement Infighting Example
  • Sour grapes online/death threats, etc

What do you do when you get one?

  • Verify that they are the enemy 
  • Who is actually the problem?
  • Is their criticism valid?
  • Demolish vs Denature vs Ignore vs Coexist
  • Community protection

What if they simply will not go away?

  • Decide which sandbox you wish to be in
  • Sometimes you just gotta punch them in the face

e run across people who are envious of what we can do or of what we have. They want to control things that are none of their business. There are people who think that in order to get ahead, they must destroy those who they perceive as ahead of them. We encounter people with low self esteem. And yes, some people are simply evil.

The best revenge is to cut their balls off. Remove their power over you. Rarely is this not possible, and when it isnt, it is time to fight. But when it is, there is satisfaction for years and you end up on the moral high ground.

 

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Logan Hyde

7 days ago

The definition of enemy is a person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something. So I guess the only enemy I have is the state. As far as individuals I think it might be possible to have no enemies. Because in the definition it says “actively oppossed or hostile”. This is a very hard question though. I’m going to say it might be impossible to not have enemies because there will always be someone or some group of people that oppose you or your beliefs.

 

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Heather Eisele

7 days ago

I have one enemy. My own assumptions. Everyone else, I try very hard to meet where they are or avoid them so they don’t become enemies. I think back to all I used to believe and how much energy I threw into the various abysses we’re told are important and wonder what else I’m throwing energy into that serves nothing.

 

 

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Katie Nicole

7 days ago

 

About 5 years ago my grandfather and I were having a rare talk about his life and the choices he’d made. His life advice to me was a rally cry. With a fist raised in the air and a sly grin he shouted, “MAKE SOME ENEMIES!” 😄 My grandfather is fairly stoic so this was pretty memorable.

I’ve been thinking more about that lately. He and I are on different sides of the political spectrum so I know he didn’t mean people who think the opposite of me are my enemies. Or people who disagree with me.

My understanding of his advice as it relates to me was more, “Stand up and make noise sometimes. It’s not a bad thing to have people oppose you.” Opposition can refine one’s stance and clarify one’s beliefs. In that sense, I find “making enemies” useful.

I’m still actively ruminating on the concept.

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