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Choice Conversations is a personal development podcast, dedicated to helping you improve your life, one choice at a time! I cover the following topics:
- Holistic health, including physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
- Improving relationships, be they between parents and children, romantic partners, or friends and family.
- Being successful with money and in business.
- Having a purposeful, fulfilling life.
- Finding peace and happiness.
In this episode of the Zenlarge Show I talk about the mentors that have helped me to become a zen master and live the #zenlife. I reference my new single "Zen Warrior" several times in the show. Catch the premier here: https://youtu.be/mXdSamWghb4
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What are the benefits of dream analysis? Listen as I walk you through one of my own dreams, and the big effects coming out of it.
How are your experiences with dream analysis? Let me know in the comments below!
I just released on all the streaming sites my single "Two Worlds". Please help me out and give me lots of engagement on this:
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Want a better world? Don't bother with politics. It's a waste of time. Find out why in today's episode.
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What's the secret recipe for living a great life? In today's episode I talk about the importance of balance. In addition, I discuss if there is such a thing as being too balanced. Is it better to get unbalanced sometimes?
Let me know what you think in the comment section below!
The "How to Live a Great Life" series:
Part 1 - http://show.zenlarge.co/how-to-live-a-great-life-part-1
Part 2 - http://show.zenlarge.co/how-to-live-a-great-life-part-2
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I was recently a guest on The Songwriter Show with host Sarantos. We talk about the Linnstrument, why I write music, and some of the backstory behind my recent single "Two Worlds" (featuring Ballz).
Give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comment section below!
Listen to "Two Worlds": https://youtu.be/b-QJjlxzO60
Listen to my new single "Rebirth of Slick": https://youtu.be/KTnTcdukV-A
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What's the secret recipe for living a great life? In today's episode I talk about the importance of purposeful living.
If you missed part 1 of the "How to Live a Great Life" series click here:
http://show.zenlarge.co/how-to-live-a-great-life-part-1
Let me know what you think in the comment section below!
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What's the secret recipe for living a great life? It's simple. Give it a listen and I'll explain.
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I was recently a guest on "Let's Jazz It Up" with Brenda Moss, aka Mz Moss, aka Lady Diva. During the interview, I tell her how I weave my passion for music with my life's purpose: to grow and to help other grow.
You too can make the world a better place while having fun along the way!
Give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comment section below!
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Are things getting a little tense in your household while you're locked in Quarantine? I've got a simple trick to help you!
This trick is helpful for getting along with people while in lock down, or really anytime. Give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comment section below!
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Gratitude is one of the best tools available for Zen mastery. It can help you to change your mood and attitude on a dime, and find peace and happiness.
In this episode, I talk about the many scientifically proven benefits of gratitude. And then provide details on how to implement gratitude in your life.
We're in the middle of a pandemic crisis, but I promise that you have things to be grateful for. Now more than ever is when you need to be grateful. It's easy to be grateful when things are going well. But if you can be grateful during times of struggle, that is the true test of Zen mastery!
Please give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comments below.
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The markets are crashing right now due to a pandemic scare caused by the Coronavirus. Time to jump out a window? No!
In this video I tell you how to invest like a zen master. I give an investment strategy and a state of mind that coupled together allow you to be happy and at peace whether the markets are going up or down.
I actually present two strategies: One for if you're building savings so that you can one day retire. And another for when you're in retirement. Both strategies allow you to be zen and peacefully ride out market volatility.
Please give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comments below.
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. In this show, I break my fast on the air, eating food for the first time in 7 days. Come celebrate with me!
Let me know what you think in the comments section!
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. On day 5 of the fast, I'm talking about thye benefits of fasting as a travel hack. Let me know what you think in the comments section!
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. On day 3 of the fast, I'm talking about the difference between fasting and calorie reducing diets.
Let me know what you think in the comments section!
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. On day 1 of the fast, I'm talking about the problem with the healthcare system and what you can do about it.
No, this is not about universal healthcare. Give it a listen, and find out!
Let me know what you think in the comments section!
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. On day 3 of the fast, I'm talking about how fasting can be used as a productivity hack.
Give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comments section.
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. On day 2 of the fast, I'm talking about how fasting can be used for weight loss. It truly is the fastest way to lose weight. No pun intended!
Give it a listen, and let me know what you think in the comments section.
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Every year I fast for a week for cancer prevention. This is because there are a growing number of showing the effectiveness of fasting in cancer prevention and cancer treatment.
Listen to the show as I share my experience.
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In this episode I provide two important questions for attaining zen mastery. Give it a listen, and you too can live the Zen Life!
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Want to be a Zen Master? Want to be able to walk through a fire storm, and remain calm, cool, and collected? Want peace and harmony in your life?
Give today's show a listen!
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You don't need to meditate for an hour to see benefits. This life hack will get you one step closer to zen mastery. And at the end of the show, I give an advanced technique that works even better. Be sure to listen until the end!
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Why did I choose the name Zenlarge? Lots of good discussion on branding and SEO in this podcast.
Listen to the show, and let me know what you think in the comments section.
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In this the inaugural episode of the Zenlarge Show, I discuss failing to take projects to completion. Whether we're talking about completing a new hip hop single or cleaning out the garage, we all face this issue.
Why is that? Where does this problem stem from? What are possible solutions? Listen to the show and find out!
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Ever wanted to be a singer or guitar player? Or an author? Or start your own podcast?
Self-expression is an important part of living a full life. And there are many different ways to do it.
In this episode, find out how I express myself through music. Click the play button, and listen to my appearance on The Songwriter Show.
Find out more about the Songwriter Show here:
https://www.melogia.com/thesongwritershow.html
Listen to my music here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vj-aTVvPiI&list=PLoe-H2xJOW558LWSMt5B-_vL7-KuEFcka
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Need help? Email me to arrange a coaching session: chris at choice conversations dot com
Introducing Laura DiFranco. She's a 3rd-degree black belt Tae Kwon Do bad ass and drag racing enthusiast. She's a licensed physical therapist, practicing for almost 30 years. She's written 6 books, does public speaking, runs workshops, and has her own podcast and blog.
And oh yeah, she's also helping to heal the world.
In today's podcast, Laura and I talk about the following:
- getting over fear
- the importance of marketing
- why you need a "why"
- the stories we tell ourselves
- changing core beliefs
- taking leisure to the next level
- can you be too balanced?
Find more from Laura here:
http://bravehealer.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1375571059231845/
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Does music have a role in healing trauma?
I was recently a guest on the Tangent General podcast, hosted by Nick Ulbrick. We discussed how we've used music to deal with trauma in our lives. I'm replaying my interview with Nick here today, raw and uncut.
Due to the length, I've divided the interview into two parts. This is part two.
Click the play button above and listen to the show.
Click below to listen to part 1:
http://choiceconversations.com/music-and-healing-trauma-with-nick-ulbrick-part-1
Click here to listen to the Tangent General version of this interview, which is quite different than the raw version you'll hear above:
https://soundcloud.com/nick-ulbrick/tangent-general-episode-19
https://soundcloud.com/nick-ulbrick/tangent-general-episode-19-addendum
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Need help healing trauma? Email me to arrange a coaching session: chris at choice conversations dot com
Does music have a role in healing trauma?
I was recently a guest on the Tangent General podcast, hosted by Nick Ulbrick. We discussed how we've used music to deal with trauma in our lives. I'm replaying my interview with Nick here today, raw and uncut.
Due to the length, I've divided the interview into two parts. This is part one. Check back in a week for part two.
Click the play button above and listen to the show.
Click here to listen to the Tangent General version of this interview, which is quite different than the raw version you'll hear above:
https://soundcloud.com/nick-ulbrick/tangent-general-episode-19
https://soundcloud.com/nick-ulbrick/tangent-general-episode-19-addendum
Need help healing trauma? Email me to arrange a coaching session: chris at choice conversations dot com
Can you change your whole world by changing what you believe? In a word, yes! In this episode of the Principles series, I talk about changing core beliefs. Most of us do not choose what it is we believe. We absorb our beliefs from our surroundings. In a sense, our beliefs are inflicted upon us. The problem is these unchosen beliefs are often not true. And what is worse, they are not serving us! Join me as I provide practical strategies for changing core beliefs. This empowers you to choose the life you want to live, instead of life being inflicted upon you. Click the play button above and listen to the show. Need some help? One on one coaching is just what you need. Click the email button above (just below the banner), send me an email, and schedule a coaching call today. Not sleeping well? Get the free checklist "How to Get a Great Night's Sleep." Click the link below and sign up: http://sleep.choiceconversations.com
Want to find more ideal clients more easily?
Want more clients without paid advertising?
This is what you get from Jonny Cooper.
Jonny Cooper joins me for a discussion about how he helps folks get more clients. We go over his three pillars of effortless marketing. These are the "gold issues".
Most people spend a ton of time on "aluminum issues" with few good answers for the gold issues. But the aluminum issues don't matter if you don't have the gold issues resolved!
What's the difference between gold and aluminum issues? Click the play button above, listen to the show, and find out!
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What are the two most powerful strategies for success? And I don't mean only financial success. I mean success in all areas of your life. Listen to this podcast and find out! In today's show, I replay my guest appearance on the Senior Zone radio program with Shawn Perry. I shared with Shawn my two most powerful strategies. These strategies are the best way to get permanent change in your life. Click the play button above and listen to the show. Go here for more from Shawn Perry: http://www.theseniorzone.com Get my free communication handbook, "Turning Arguments Into Discussions." Click here:
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Do you struggle sticking to a diet due to all of the temptation out there? Mindful eating can help!
In this episode of the Principles series, I talk about mindful eating:
- What is it?
- Why is it important?
- How does it help strengthen you against temptation?
- How does it help with overeating?
- How do I implement it in my life?
- How do I work affirmations, gratitude, and healthy posture into my eating routine?
I answer all of these questions and more in this podcast.
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Studies linking sitting with poor health:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17827399
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22890825
Do you spend too much time in meetings?
Or perhaps your meetings aren't as effective as you'd like?
I have the solution!
In today's show, I provide simple strategies for efficient and effective meetings. These same strategies are also great for reducing the amount of time you spend in meetings.
Plus, these strategies give you a sound problem resolution method. So they are useful outside of meetings.
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What if every 5 days you could add an extra day to your life?
What if I said you could sleep less yet be more rested?
In this podcast, I talk about polyphasic sleep:
- What is it?
- How does it work?
- Can you really sleep less and be more well rested?
- How has polyphasic sleep added 7 years to my life?
- Why is is a great productivity hack?
- Why is it a great travel hack?
- Why did I fail the first time I tried it?
- What tips and tricks make polyphasic sleep easier to implement?
I answer all these questions in the show. Click the play button above and give it a listen.
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The top resource for polyphasic sleep:
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Steve Pavlina's sleep log:
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
How fantastic would it be to wake up feeling refreshed and well rested?
Sleep is foundational to health. And health is foundational to success in all areas of your life.
In this episode, I review the steps you'll want to take to get a great night's sleep. Click the play button above and listen to the show.
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You don't have to argue to get what you want.
Arguments are poison to relationships. Typically no single argument is enough to end them. But the accumlation of several is too much for most relationships to bare.
The alternative for most people is to not say anything. They sit on their needs, and resentment brews in silence. This is also terrible for relationships.
A better solution is having healthy conflict resolution strategies.
I was a recently a guest on the Be Yourself and Love It podcast, hosted by Antony Sammeroff. We discussed my free relationship guidebook, Turning Arguments into Discussions. Within, you'll learn strategies to stop arguing without sitting on your needs.
You don't have to argue to get what you want.
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Are you struggling in different areas of your life?
Through one on one coaching, I help my clients to be successful in all areas of life. I teach them how to overcome self-sabotage and reach their potential. Click the email button above (just below the banner) and schedule a coaching call.
Can you lose 50 lbs in a month without crazy supplements?
Yes!
In part three of the principles of weight loss series, I cover the fastest way to lose weight. The methods described within are hands down the fastest. Weight will fall off of you!
Some of the topics covered include:
- intermitten fasting
- long term fasting
- ketogenic diets
- the snake diet
- cancer prevention
- hormone signalling
- how to increase testosterine and human growth hormone production
- drug free treatments for epilepsy and alzheimer disease
- how to clear up most skin conditions, including psoriosis
- the difference between eating healthy and eating for weight loss
- how to clear brain fog
I cover all this and more. Click the play button above and listen to the show.
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http://choiceconversations.com/high-fat-low-carb-diets-the-principles-of-weight-loss-part-2
The Principles of Nutrition episode gives some great background information. This will help you lose weight. Click the link below and give it a listen:
http://choiceconversations.com/the-principles-of-nutrition
Below is a list of different names for sugars. You'll find them under "ingredients" on packaged foods:
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/different-names-for-sugar
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Why do carbs make you fat?
The science is very clear. Eating a lot of carbohydrates makes you fat. And eating a low carb, high fat diet leads to weight loss. But why is this?
The answer is hormones. All food is not created equal. The body responds differently when you eat carbohydrates. It sends signals that tell the body to store fat.
In this episode, I detail the science behind weight gain. And more importantly, I give a successful strategy for weight loss THAT IS EASY TO FOLLOW. One that doesn't need you to count calories or carbohydrates. A simple, easy method that focuses on real, delicious foods.
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The Principles of Nutrition episode gives some great background information. This will help you lose weight. Click the link below and give it a listen:
http://choiceconversations.com/the-principles-of-nutrition
Below is a list of different names for sugars. You'll find them under "ingredients" on packaged foods:
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/different-names-for-sugar
Having a strategy for weight loss is not the same thing as having the ability. Through one on one coaching, my clients overcome self-sabotage and gain the ability. Email me and schedule a coaching call:
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To lose weight, you just need to eat less and move more, right?
Not so fast!
Mainstream media, doctors, and health pundits have been promoting eat less, move more for decades. The logic being you want calories in to be less than calories out. This sounds logical. Then why doesn't it work?
Millions of people try to follow this advice, but the failure rate is insane. Over 96% of people are not able to keep the weight off. And the population as a whole is becoming more and more obese.
Why?
Today I bring you the answer.
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Can podcasting turn your life around?
I was recently a guest on WMAP Radio. There I gave my story. I talk about how I got into podcasting, and the pivitol role it played in my own personal development.
I list out some of my personal favorite podcasts, and detail the best and easiest way aspiring podcasters can break into the business.
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Do you feel like shit, and not realize it? What if you've always felt like shit, so feeling like shit is normal for you?
Today's show is the latest in my "Principles" series. These podcasts cover the fundamental strategies I recommend to my coaching clients. These strategies help them to be successful in all areas of their lives.
Good health is foundational to personal development. The biological machine that is your body will not be operating at peak levels without good health.
And nutrition is foundational to good health.
In this podcast you'll learn:
- why nutrition matters even if you're not overweight
- why nutrition matters even if you're currently not having health issues
- what foods to avoid
- what foods to eat
- what are the primary and secondary food choices
- why not processed foods
- why organic isn't that important
- the benefits of local, in season produce
- What about grass fed, free range, and wild caught meat and eggs?
- Should you be counting calories and carbs?
- what meal plan do I recommend
- What about drinking calories?
- the importance of an 80/20 approach
- how you can cheat and it not actually be a cheat
I cover all of this and more in this show. Click the play button above and give it a listen.
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Here's a list of healthy and unhealthy fats:
http://drcate.com/list-of-good-fats-and-oils-versus-bad/
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Have you surrounded yourself with people who support your growth? Do they give you energy or steal your energy?
I was recently a guest on the radio show Between the Lines with host Corine La Font. We discussed the importance of personal development. Our conversation quickly went in the direction of other people's reaction to you. How do they respond when they discover you are on a personal development journey? Why is their response often "negative?" And why is it important to surround yourself with positive people?
We cover all of this and more. Click the play button above and listen to the podcast.
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What if rewarding your child psychologically damaged them?
Best Selling author, Alfie Kohn, joins Stephen Patterson and I for a discussion about parenting and education. For some people, it's a hard sell that punishment is bad for children. Don't they need discipline? Plus, the whole spare the rod spoil the child thing.
Others are on board with not punishing, but surely praise and gold stars are a good thing, right? Isn't positive reinforcement good?
Alfie presents the case, using study-based scientific evidence, that rewards are not the opposite of punishments, they are two sides of the same coin. Both are psychologically damaging. Both are not ideal for effectively encouraging (or discouraging) behavior.
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Can you have it all?
Wealth, a great spouse, kids, house with a white picket fence, etc. You often hear people talk about wanting it all. But is that realistic?
I was recently a guest on the Life is Good Podcast with Rob Aguilar. We talked about this in detail, and covered a few strategies for obtaining work life balance.
Topics covered include:
- work life balance
- time management
- productivity
- life hacks for improving presence and focus
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www.lifeisgoodpodcast.com
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Do you often put off import tasks until the last minute? I have the solution! In today's show, I share a simple strategy that will increase your productivity. Also, it has several other benefits. Here is a full list: * increase productivity * overcome procrastination * lower stress * provide a sense of accomplishment * improve self-confidence and self-esteem * improve mood
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Have you tried to make positive changes in your life, only to not be able to stick to them? Chances are you're relying on will power. Will power is a limited resouce. It runs out. So don't rely on it. The key to sustained, lasting change is forming good habits. Habits are things you do automatically. They don't need will power. Thus they are easy to stick to. Today's show is the first in my new "Principles" series. These podcasts will cover the fundamental precepts I teach to my coaching clients. Understanding habit formation is foundational to sustained success. That is why I made it the first episode in the series. Everything else builds off of this. Click the play button above and give the show a listen.
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Is a truly great life out of reach? Kevin Geary says absolutely not!
This is a replay of a conversation I had with Kevin Geary back in the spring of 2014. In the first half of our discussion, we talk about his approach to helping people down a healthier path as an integrative health coach. In the second half, we dive into the "Chasing Greatness" series he has on his podcast, detailing the steps required to free yourself from the chains of society and become truly great.
Topics covered include:
- the importance of blood tests
- supplements
- authenticity
- choosing who you allow in your circle
- parenting
- spanking
- combining journaling with mindful eating
- dealing with family members who are harming you
We cover all of this and more. You won't want to miss it!
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https://rebootedbody.com
https://sixfiguregrind.com
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Are you looking forward to what your life will be like somewhere down the road? Perhaps you can't wait until you get that big promotion? Or you're waiting for retirement? What if you could have the life you dream about now?
Antony Sammeroff joins me for part six of a new series, where we review the lessons within his personal development course, Surviving to Thriving. In today's episode, we talk about lesson 6 in the course, "Making Life Awesome." In this lesson, Antony shows you how to get the life you've always wanted...today! You don't have to wait. Your life can be awesome right now!
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In 2008, the economy was crashing, and so was my life. While I watched the value of my investments plummeting, my marriage was falling apart, I hated my job, and I was completely miserable.
Then I discovered personal development books. They turned my life around.
In today's podcast, I present to you my personal development reading challenge: a New Year's resolution guaranteed to improve your life!
Topis covered in the show include:
- the best New Year's resolution for 2018
- the importance of goal setting
- listening to podcasts vs reading books
- how all personal development books are not created equal
Click the play button above and listen to the show.
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Got something you've been putting off? I have a simple trick to get you to stop procrastinating.
The pomodoro technique is a time management strategy created by Francesco Cirillo. It's well known as a productivity tool that can help you to maintain focus and flow while getting things done. But I get more out of it than that! Listen to this podcast, and learn how I use the pomodoro technique to conquer procrastination.
And as if that weren't enough, I also use it to fight bad posture, maintain mobility, and age gracefully.
How can that be? Click the purple play button above, listen to the show, and find out!
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Being healthy means more than just not being sick. Health is directly linked with success in the work place, success in relationships, in achieving higher levels of happiness, and to pretty much every other measure of success. But getting health is more than just diet and exercise.
I was recently a guest on the Valiant Growth podcast with Philip Frey. We talked about how to unleash your full potential by taking responsibility for your health. Topics covered include:
- the five pillars of good health
- motivation for making health a priority
- how to get healthy with minimal trade offs
- low hanging fruit to improve your health
- being healthy without sinking a bunch of time
- being a minimalist while being healthy
- being frugal while being healthy
- why you can cancel your gym membership
- the importance of mental health and emotional wellbeing
- mobility
We talk about all of this and more. You won't want to miss it!
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Studies have shown mindful meditation to alleviate pain, cancer, heart disease, depression, and anxiety. It is routinely one of the top remedies doctors prescribe to their patients to relieve stress. But who has time to meditate? Our lives are so jam packed, we can't afford to sit around and "do nothing," right?
In today's show, I discuss how you can get the benefits of meditation without sinking a a bunch of time. These meditation practices are measured not in hours. Heck, not even in minutes! They are measured in seconds. And they are highly effective.
Topics covered include:
- the difference between mindfulness and mediation
- step by step instructions on performing short meditations
- how to use short meditations
- for stress reduction
- for better communication skills
- for improving personal and business relationships
- Do one breath meditations really work?
- But isn't it preferable to mediate for a longer period?
Click the purple play button above to listen to the show and unlock this powerful tool.
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Shit happens. Life throws curve balls at everyone. We often have little control over our circumstances. We do, however, have 100% control over how we respond to our circumstances!
Antony Sammeroff joins me for part five of a new series, where we review the lessons within his personal development course, Surviving to Thriving. In today's episode, we talk about:
- how to take responsibility for your life
- why it's toxic to blame others
- trying to help those who aren't interested in your help
- how to play to win with the hand you've been delt
In addition, Antony and I get into a fun battle of who can quote the most people.
You can take responsibility for your life and be successful. Antony will show you how.
Get Antony's course here:
https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/buy/course-af-0288
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What would you give for a great marriage and a happy home? How much is it worth to avoid divorce?
In this podcast, I'm replaying a conversation I had with Pete Gerlach back in the spring of 2013. In his therapy practice, Pete uncovered five hazards that will ruin your marriage and destroy your happy home.
Some of the key points from today's show:
- the prevalence of psychologically wounded people who are in denial
- how to begin the healing process for these wounds
- how we're not taught to properly grieve
- how to find the right partner
- the lack of informed support
- how these hazards impare your ability to be an effective parent, despite your best intentions
We go over all of this and more. Click the purple play button above and listen to our discussion.
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Is your brain working for you or against you?
Our brains are complex organs. Sadly, they often work against us. If you don't understand how and why your brain does what it does, chances are it's working against you.
In today's episode, I have a conversation with Mary Shores, entrepreneur and author of Conscious Communications, Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. Mary is a brain science junky. She's delved through the science and has unlocked strategies that harness the power of the brain. With Mary's help, you can get your brain working for you instead of against you.
Mary combines science backed understanding with practical strategies and a friendly demeanor. Our conversation is both fun and informative. Click the purple play button above and give it a listen.
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Want to jump start your growth? The online course "Surviving to Thriving" takes the trial and error out of personal development. I can't recommend it enough.
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Can emotional well being determine your success in work, relationships, and even your physical health? In a word, yes!
Antony Sammeroff joins me for part four of a new series, where we review the lessons within his personal development course, Surviving to Thriving. In today's episode, you will learn:
- what emotions are
- the importance of expressing emotions
- the beliefs underlying emotions
- how there is no such thing as an emotional overreaction
- the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people
- a life changing exercise to improve your emotional intelligence
You can improve your emotional well being and super charge your life. Antony will show you how.
Get Antony's course here:
https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/buy/course-af-0288
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You can stop pretending. You can stop worrying about what others think. You can be the you that you've always wanted to be.
Antony Sammeroff joins me for part three of a new series, where we review the lessons within his powerful personal development course, Surviving to Thriving. In today's episode, you will learn:
- What it means to be authentic
- The difference between being authentic and being a "straight shooter"
- The importance of knowing yourself
- How to attract people who like you for who you are
- How to repel people who don't (and why this is a good thing!)
- The childhood roots of inauthenticity
- A powerful exercise to have more authentic relationships
Antony will show you how to be yourself. But not just how to be yourself. How to be yourself and love it.
Get Antony's course here:
https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/buy/course-af-0288
Get my new free ebook, "My Eight Most Influential Books," here:
books.choiceconversations.com
Are you dissatisfied in some areas of your life? Antony Sammeroff can turn you around!
Antony Sammeroff joins me for part two of a new series, where we review the lessons within his personal development course, Surviving to Thriving. In today's episode, you will learn:
- the importance of taking care of yourself before taking care of others
- why this is not selfish (or at least not in a bad way)
- how there are some needs you have that you don't even realize are needs
- and how to satisfy those needs as well as possible
Antony will show you how to rock out in all areas of your life!
Get Antony's course here:
https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/buy/course-af-0288
Would you like to be more succesful in the business world? Or maybe you would like better friendships or more romance? Jordan Harbinger is your man!
In today's show, I have a fun, informative conversation with Jordan Harbinger. He comes to us from the popular social skills podcast The Art of Charm. Here are some of the points we cover:
- networking
- persuasion
- romance
- personal development
- becoming the person you always wanted to be
The discussion is entertaining and informative. Click the purple play button above and give it a listen!
Find more from Jordan here:
https://theartofcharm.com/
You can transform your life and make your day dreams a reality! The best way to do that is to take the online personal development course Surviving to Thriving. I took the course, and it was awesome. I can't recommend it enough.
Get Surviving to Thriving here:
https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/buy/course-af-0288
Do you dream of a better life? Antony Sammeroff will make your dreams a reality!
Antony Sammeroff joins me for part one of a new series, where we review the lessons within his personal development course, Surviving to Thriving. In today's episode, you will learn the differences between surviving and thriving, and explore the origins of survival behaviors. From there, we show you exercises that can help you change these behaviors into thriving ones.
Antony will literally turn your day dreams into reality!
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Ever say to yourself if only???
If only I could get out of debt...
If only I'd chosen a different career path...
If only I hadn't gotten married
Then I have just the book for you!
Kevin Koskella joins me, as we discuss the powerful book from Harry Browne, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. The book is a practical guide to having more freedom in your life. It gives a lot of pragmatic advice on how to have the life you want, and how to start living it today.
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World is one of the most influential books I've ever read. It opened my eyes, and changed my life forever.
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Would you like to escape the rat race and work for yourself?
In today's show, Drew Sample tells us about his path to financial freedom; how he went from getting laid off to having a profitable urban farm. Drew used a combination of people skills, networking, and out of the box thinking. This positioned him to be ready to pounce on some unique opportunities that arose, which led directly to the profitable, lifestyle business he has today.
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http://choiceconversations.com/democrats-and-republicans-are-half-right-with-drew-sample
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Do you want more love in your life? Do you want to improve your relationships? Then The Five Love Languages is the book for you!
In today's episode, I give a review of Gary Chapman's best seller The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts. There are four concepts presented in the book that are super important to understand. That there are five languages of love is only one of the concepts. Find out about all four concepts in this podcast!
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Do you worry about politics? Do you spend a lot of time arguing about it? How is that working out for you?
In today's episode, you'll find an appearance I made on the Flagship Freedom podcast. Within, I discuss how I use to be very concerned with politics, but was disappointed in what I was getting out it. A lot of time and emotional energy spent, with nothing in return. If anything, it was making my life worse! I had anxiety over things I had no control over, and was getting in arguments with people who I otherwise got along with!
I now spend my time and effort on what really matters: making my world a better place. Find out how I rose above politics. Find out how I empowered myself.
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Ever wish you could spend less time sleeping but still feel alert, refreshed, and energized?
In this episode, I discuss my experiment with polyphasic sleep. What is polyphasic sleep? Can it really deliver on the promise of less sleep, more waking hours, while still being well rested, refreshed, alert, and energized? How do you do it? What are some of the problems? What lessons did I learn from the experiment?
I cover all of this and more in this latest episode of the My Life series, the series where I cover the tips and tricks I've learned while living my life. Give it a listen!
Learn more about polyphasic sleep here: https://www.polyphasicsociety.com/
Steve Pavlina's blogs on polyphasic sleep, the inspiration for my polyphasic sleep experiment: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Tim Ferriss's take on polyphasic sleep: http://amzn.to/2tSen0u
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How much happier would you be if you loved your body?
Andreea Harimuri joins me for a wonderful discussion about loving your body, growth and healing. She tells us about her journey, from being locked in a toxic relationship to creating her own successful business. In addition, we talk about conquering food addiction, overcoming fears, gaining freedom, and she introduced a concept with intriguing potential: your body loves you unconditionally.
You'll find all this and more in this enlightening conversation. Give it a listen!
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Do you have trouble getting people to see your point of view?
Most people lack the ability to persuade others. The vast majority result to manipulation or coercion to get their way. Many others are willing to lay down and take it, living life like a Debby Doormat. This is just as bad.
But a few people seem to have that gift of gab. They seem to be able to talk anybody into anything. As a copywriter, this gift is your life blood.
Nathan Fraser is a professional copywriter. This means he writes sales messages for small to medium sized businesses. And without the ability to persuade, he doesn't get paid. Making this task even more difficult, he has to do all his persuading in print. People have to read, they have to be convinced, and they have to buy, based entirely on his printed words alone.
Not an easy task.
But Nathan does it. He does it well. And it's less of a skill, and more of an art form, as Nathan lays out in this episode of Choice Conversations.
If you want to know the secrets that high paid advertisers keep close to their chest, you're in the right place. These secrets can help you make more sales, more friends, have better relationships, and better conversations. But most importantly, they can help you become more persuasive.
Whether you're selling a service, a product, or an idea, this is an episode you can't afford to miss. Download it now, and thank me later.
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Are you in pain? Do you know you have some issues to work through, but can't afford paying for expensive sessions with a therapist? Jay Earley has the solution!
Today, I'm replaying an interview I originally recorded back in early 2015 with author and therapist Jay Earley. Jay's book, Self Therapy, details a methodology you can use for healing psychological wounds, and you can do it on your own, without an expensive therapist! I use his method, and it has been hugely effective. I can honestly say that without this book I wouldn't be where I am today.
Jay and I had a great conversation about his method and about Inner Family Systems Therapy (IFS), the school of psychology that Jay subscribes to.
Healing psychological wounds is foundational to personal development. If you want to improve your life in all areas, I can't recommend Jay's book enough!
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Have you ever considered switching careers, but then thought "Well it's too late now." ??? Today's guest recently changed careers, and she did it at seventy years of age! It's never too late.
In today's conversation, Jeanne Litt shares her touching journey, which led her to becoming a life coach at seventy years old. We talk about the strategies that have helped her to find success in her own life, along with the strategies she uses with her clients.
Talking points include the following:
- growth mind set
- abundance vs scarcity
- tithing
- obstacles as stepping stones
- Does everything happen for a reason?
- all or nothing vs small gains
- going for your heart's desire
- the importance of listening and empathy
We talk about all of this and more in today's enlightening discussion. Give it a listen!
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Are you suffering? Do you ever get the feeling you might be the one getting in the way of your happiness? Guess what? You're right!
Gary Van Warmerdam joins me for a book review of the best seller from Don Miguel Ruiz: The Four Agreements, A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. In this wonderful book, Ruiz provides a code of conduct that will enable you to overcome self-limiting beliefs and take control over your life. Using Native American wisdom, Ruiz shows us the power of choice. You can choose to be happy, or you can choose to suffer. The choice is yours!
Gary and I break all of this down, in this fun and enlightening conversation. Click the purple play button above, and give it a listen!
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Find more from Gary here: http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/
Are you questing for financial freedom down entrepreneurial paths? If so, a podcast is one of the best tools to help you get there! And Joshua Rivers will help to make sure that your podcast is successful.
In today's show, Joshua Rivers, founder of Creative Studios Academy and Podcast Guy Media LLC, tells how to maximize your results from online media. Be it podcasts, blogs, or vlogs, he can help. Online media, and podcasts in particular, are probably the best tools available to any business for marketing and for building relationships with clients. And even if that is not your bag, they are wonderful tools for self-expression for the hobbyist. Either way, Josh provides advice to maximize your efforts. Give it a listen!
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http://creativestudio.academy/
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Would you like to travel, but think you can't afford it? Think again!
Philip Frey joins me to discuss how he hitchhiked across Europe on just $6 per day! (We say $7/day during the podcast, but our math was bad. It was actually $6/day.) He shares how he was able to visit 10 countries in 40 days, embracing the philosophies of minimalism, frugality, and stoicism. Learn the ins and outs of hitchhiking and couch surfing. Learn the importance of networking. Learn frugality hacks, like how to get free tickets to museums.
Philip's tale is inspirational. Not only do we hear how he stepped outside of his comfort zone to have an adventure, but we get to see a nice window into the kindness of strangers. I left the conversation feeling pride in the human spirit and a warm hope for humanity.
Give the show a listen. You won't regret it!
Philip's podcasts on the topic:
http://www.valiantgrowth.com/e32/
http://www.valiantgrowth.com/out-and-about-radical-personal-finance-hitchhiking-europe/
http://www.valiantgrowth.com/e48/
Philip's previous appearances on Choice Conversations:
http://choiceconversations.com/the-art-of-stress-free-relationships-with-philip-frey
http://choiceconversations.com/the-future-is-better-than-you-think-abundance-book-review-with-philip-frey
http://choiceconversations.com/saving-money-on-the-paleo-diet
Choice Conversations travel episodes:
http://choiceconversations.com/how-to-crush-traveling-with-kevin-koskella
http://choiceconversations.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-1
http://choiceconversations.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-2
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Want to be the best dad you can be? Chris Lewis joins me today to discuss just that!
Chris is all about being a dad. He is a blogger and podcaster, with both mediums dedicated to exploring his journey into fatherhood. In today's show, he shares his story as a parent. How has his life changed? What has he learned along the way? How have his blog and podcast impacted his parenting?
We cover all of this and more. Even moms will find value. Give it a listen!
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Want to be more productive, achieve your long term goals, have work-life balance, and find meaning and purpose in your life? These things can be yours! David Allen's books are the tools you've been waiting for.
In today's show, Jake Desyllas joins me as we do a book review of Making It All Work, the best seller from David Allen. Allen is the creator of the time management/productivity system called Getting Things Done (GTD for short). Making It All Work is a companion book to GTD. Where GTD goes more into the nuts and bolts and actionable items, Making It All Work focuses on the philosophy behind the system. GTD will help you empty your inbox. Making It All Work will help you find meaning and purpose.
During the discussion, Jake and I detail our biggest takeaways from the book. I think you will like it. Give it a listen!
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Would you like to retire early? How about traveling? Do you want to travel more? Then you won't want to miss today's show! Mike and Lauren Moyer join me to discuss their perpetual traveler life style. Here are some of the topics discussed:
- perpetual travel
- obtaining dual citazenship
- financial freedom
- early retirement
- extreme savings
- frugality
- minimalism
- entrepreneurship
- having a "lifestyle" business
- the impact of children on a minimalist budget
- raising children while traveling
We discuss all of this and more in this fun, informative interview. Give it a listen!
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Are you searching for natural solutions to what ails you? Or maybe you are passionate about longevity and want to make sure you don't have any deficiencies in your diet? Dr. Phil Carson is your man! In today's show, Dr. Phil and I have a great discussion about supplements.
Why might you need supplements? What are some tests you can run to determine what supplements would be helpful? What are the best companies who provide supplements? What supplements are in Chris's medicine cabinet? :)
All of this and more in today's show! You won't want to miss it!
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Steve Crandall joins me to discuss Leader Effectiveness Training, as developed by Thomas Gordon. LET is a method of communication and conflict resolution that enables anyone who has been placed in a leadership position to get better results and to do it in a manner that is pleasant for both the leader and their followers. It is based on the same principals as Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training, which of course has been mentioned numerous times on the show.
To find out more from Steve go to his website:
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Gordon Training International’s site a tremendous resource for LET:
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Gordon's essay What Every Leader Should Know:
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Do you feel trapped in your current job? Do you feel that there is more to life than this? That you're not fulfilling your purpose? Stephanie O'Brien can help!
Stephanie is an entrepreneur, an author, speaker, coach, and podcaster. In today's conversation, she shares her story. She graduated from college and became a social worker, doing what society told her she should be doing. But she was miserable. Something was clearly wrong. Stephanie tells us how she turned her life around, found her purpose, and now helps others to find meaning in their lives and reach their full potential.
Give the show a listen. You won't want to miss it!
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Have you hit rock bottom? Do you need to relaunch your life? Joel Boggess is your man! Joes is a speaker and author, and he hosts the award winning podcast ReLaunch. In today's show, he tells us about his miraculous tale of survival and recovery after falling off a bridge and awaking from a coma. Joel talks about how he was able to relaunch his life, and provides some tips you can use to turn your own life around. Give it a listen!
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Starting your own business is hard. Many try it, find they are miserable, and their business comes crashing down. Today's guest has cracked the code for making entrepreneurial ventures not only successful, but fun!
Mark Asquith has successfully founded multiple profitable businesses. He is a speaker, an author, and a podcaster. In our discussion, Mark details his secrets for keeping work fun and joyful, while simultaneously bringing in cash. Our talk includes the following:
- being an entrepreneur vs holding a job
- the importance of passion
- making money vs providing value
- the entrepreneur title as a badge of honor
- handling tasks you dislike but that need to be done
- productivity
- willpower
- time management
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We live in a world full of people who were traumatized as children. Daniel Mackler wants to heal that world.
Today's show is a replay of a discussion I had with Daniel Mackler a couple years ago about the healing of psychological wounds. I got so much great feedback about this episode that I decided to release it again! Now new listeners get a chance to hear it. And even if you heard this one already, it's worth another listen. It's that good. :)
We cover the 4 stages of enlightenment (dissociation, depression, grieving, enlightenment), as well as how positive thinking techniques and psychotherapy could be keeping you from healing your wounds. This conversation goes from celibacy, to minimalism, to world travel, and beyond! Give it a listen!
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Are you passionate about a sport, but are getting burned out training? Are you wanting to bring the fun back? Anja Smith can help! Anja is an endurance athlete and entrepreneur. Her innovative product, Drill Deck, helps triathletes to train hard and improve performance, while keeping things fresh and fun. In today's show, we discuss the following:
- making training fun again
- how passion can sometimes lead you off track
- overcoming negative self talk
- the importance of being kind to yourself
- when your short term goals get in the way of your long term goals
- How Anja's product, Drill Deck, implements these principals.
- What are our favorite board games and card games? I know, total tangent. :)
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Are you not happy with your body? Have you tried losing weight, but diets don't seem to work for you? Kevin Geary is your man! In today's episode, Kevin and I discuss the myriad of factors that get in the way making lasting changes so that you can have the body and life you love. Topics covered include:
- why people fail even when they have the right information
- why willpower isn't enough
- how many people have a dysfunctional relationship with food, body and self
- what's wrong with the fitness and diet industry
- what biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors are hostile to your efforts
- working with, instead of against, your inner rebel and inner perfectionist
- how to put your authentic self back in the driver's seat of your life
- using passion and intrinsic motivation
- weighing immediate benefits vs future benefits
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Don't have enough money to travel? Or when you do travel, is it sometimes not as great as you'd hoped it would be? Do you ever feel like you need a vacation from your vacation? Check out this interview with perpetual traveler Kevin Koskella, as we discuss how to take your vacationing to the next level! Topics covered include:
- how to save money while traveling
- how to travel more often
- perpetual travel
- mini-retirement vs binge vacationing
- location independence
- use of Airbnb, both as a renter and a landlord
- minimalism
- tips for traveling light
We talk about all this and more. You won't want to miss it!
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http://choiceconversations.com/living-free-in-an-unfree-world-with-kevin-koskella
http://choiceconversations.com/the-mental-side-of-freedom
Previous episodes on travel:
http://choiceconversations.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-1
http://choiceconversations.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-2
http://choiceconversations.com/the-world-is-our-classroom-with-miro-and-lainie
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Want to eat healthy but also want your food to be delicious? Good news! The perfect diet for health is also the most delicious diet! Paul Jaminet joins me as we discuss how to lengthen your lifespan while pleasing your palate. No compromises here!
We cover a great deal of ground, going beyond just diet. What are the benefits of intermittent fasting and how best to do it? Likewise, what are the benefits of improving your circadian rhythms and how best to do it? What are the best supplemental foods? How do short and medium chain fatty acids help with longevity? Is your strategy for getting probiotics into your diet effective? Find all of this within, plus the answers to several listener questions!
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Would you like more freedom in your life? How about better critical thinking skills? Richard Grove is your man! Richard is an author, film maker, podcaster, and entrepreneur. In today's episode, we discuss ways to free yourself from mainstream propaganda, see the world clearly, and improve your life. Some of the topics covered include:
- how sales can be manipulative
- mainstream media propoganda and fake news
- the nature of self esteem
- the failings of public school
- David Allen's productivity system Getting Things Done
- the nature of personal freedom
- how to develop critical thinking skills
- parenting (and the book Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon)
You won't want to miss this entertaining and insightful conversation. Check it out!
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https://tragedyandhope.com/category/peacerevolution/ (his podcast)
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Could coaching help you be more successful in life? Or perhaps you've thought about becoming a coach yourself? Either way, this podcast is for you! Hannah Braime joins me to discuss her journey as a life coach, author, and blogger. Some of the topics we cover include:
- the differences between coaching, counseling and consulting
- how asking questions is better than providing answers
- What is one of Hannah's favorite exercises she gives her clients?
- how journaling plays a role
- how to find the right coach for you
- the importance of marketing for a life coach
- passive income vs unjobbing vs entrepreneurship
We talk about all of this and more. You won't want to miss it!
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http://www.becomingwhoyouare.net/
https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/54232 (her library)
hannah@becomingwhoyouare.net
The My Life episode mentioned during the intro:
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Looking to improve your leadership skills? Are you a manager who wants to get results, while at the same time building strong relationships with your subordinates? In this book review of The One Minute Manager from Spencer Johnson and Ken Blanchard, I will show you how!
In this episode I cover the following:
- ensuring your employees know what is expected of them
- effective use of praise
- how to take the sting out of reprimands, while still correcting the undesired behavior
- running effective meetings
- getting workers to "buy in"
- how to reduce the time required to manage people, while increasing production
- getting new hires up and running quickly and efficiently
The methods discussed in this podcast are great for any time you are in a leadership position, be it at work, at home, hobbies and clubs, where ever. You won't want to miss this show!
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Would you like to be more relaxed and live life more fully, while at the same time increasing your productivity level? If so, then David Allen is your man!
In this episode, I talk with productivity consultant David Allen about his wonderful book Getting Things Done, and the time-management system that goes under the same name. Getting Things Done, called GTD for short, of course can help you to be more productive, but that is just one of many benefits it provides. Having a tool to manage all of the thoughts, projects and responsibilities that pop into your head gives you the space required to think clearly, be present, and be purposeful. It enables your creativity, while simultaneously reducing stress. And when it's time to relax you can really relax! GTD is more than just a time-management system. It's a way of life!
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Want to reduce your chance for cancer, heart disease and poor health? Want to age gracefully, not losing mobility, not needing a walker or wheelchair? The Sitting Solution is just the thing! In this replay of the conversation I had with Chad Walding last year, we talk about how sitting is the new smoking, linked with all sorts of bad health outcomes. Chad explains how through the restorative exercises found in the Sitting Solution, you can regain lost mobility and poor posture, righting the ship so that you age gracefully and increase your odds of avoiding disease. In addition, improving your posture can improve your mood, your confidence, and your self esteem, which has ripple effects, supporting improvements in all areas of your life!
If you missed it the first time, now is your chance to catch this important discussion. If you listened to it last year, now is your chance to give it a second listen. The Sitting Solution is one of the most influential books I've read in my life, and this powerful episode is definitely worth a second listen! Check it out!
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Ever wanted to start your own online business? Or maybe you have an internet business, but it's not as successful as you'd like? Nathan Fraser can help! This episode is part 2 of a 2 part conversation I had with Nathan about how to build a successful online business. In this episode, we do a deep dive into marketing and copywriting. I truly believe this is the difference between success and failure. Give it a listen!
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Ever wanted to start your own online business? Or maybe you have an internet business, but it's not as successful as you'd like? Nathan Fraser can help! This episode is part 1 of a 2 part conversation I had with Nathan about how to build a successful online business. Some of the points we cover include:
- Dedication to solving your customers' problems
- The importance of passion
- How to judge your target market for success
- Will it sink or sail? Ways to test before you invest!
- How to grow your email list
We talk about all of this and more. You won't want to miss it!
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Want to take power over your life? Want to free yourself from the drama, disease, and suffering that your mind creates? Want to find happiness? Gary van Warmerdam is your man! Gary is an author, coach, teacher, and podcaster, using wisdom from spiritual traditions to help others eliminate suffering and find peace & happiness.
In this show, we talk about some of Gary's strategies that he teaches his clients. We discuss the importance of beliefs, and how you can create more choices in your life. We get into contrasting Gary's strategies with non-violent communication (NVC) and Inner Family Systems therapy (IFS).
All this and more in today's show!
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Ever wonder what your purpose is in life? Or how you could live your life more purposefully? Greg Berg joins me to discuss just that! Greg and I talk about his journey from radio DJ in the 80s, to today, where he hosts the Life on Purpose podcast. He shares with us the strategies he uses to find peace and purpose in his life, including yoga, meditation, and exercise. The details he provides on his morning routine are quite helpful. You won't want to miss it!
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Sticker shock for the paleo diet can be pretty brutal. Meat and produce typically are much more expensive than the sugar filled, processed junk most people eat. And when you start talking about "grass fed," "pastured," and "organic," your budget might get blown out of the water! Philip Frey from the Valiant Growth podcast joins me to discuss strategies for eating paleo, while keeping costs low. We will improve your health AND save you money! Check it out!
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You can improve your love life by changing the way you talk to your partner. Acclaimed author Warren Farrell joins me to discuss this topic! We go over how the human species evolved a certain reaction to criticism which was useful during more primitive times, but is no longer serving us in modern times as we try to have fulfilling marriages. The focus is primarily on communication with a life partner, but we dip into parenting, education, and communication with friends, co-workers, or anyone!
This interview is a replay of one I originally recorded with Warren back in September of 2013. I felt that between all of the new listeners the show has been getting and the high quality of the show it was worth posting it again. This way those who missed it the first time will get a chance to benefit from Warren's wisdom. Plus, you get to see how far I've come in improving the audio quality in my studio. :)
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The future is better than you think, and there is great evidence to back that up. Philip Frey joins me in this episode to review the best seller from Peter Diamandis, Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think, which dives deep into this topic. Does it improve your life to have an outlook of abundance, rather than on outlook of scarcity? As human longevity expands, just how old can we expect to live? What is dematerialization, and why is it important? Are free markets leading to innovation and the enrichment of the human race? What skills will be important to have in a world that is changing at an exponential rate? We discuss all of this and more! You won't want to miss it!
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In this episode of the My Life series, I give you my strategy for crushing email. Handling large numbers of emails is just reality in our modern world, and it can easily eat your day away if you let it. I refuse to let that happen! My systematic approach allows me to process emails quickly and efficiently, enabling me to focus on other projects for most of the day. Listen to this show, and find out how I've tamed my inbox!
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I was recently a guest on An Anarchist Conversation with Neil Sollenberger, and I thought you might like to hear it. We discussed the ins and outs of podcasting, how I stumbled into it, how I've learned along the way, and honed my craft. Then we discussed the difference podcasting is making in the world, how the main stream media gate keepers are no longer an obsticle, and information is now decentralized. Podcasting truly is improving the world. If you have a message you want to share, Neil and I encourage you to pick up the mic! The barrier to entry has never been lower.
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In this episode of the My Life series, I talk about the role strength training plays in optimal living. What are the benefits of strength training? How has my strength training routine changed over the years? How do I motivate myself to work out? What exercises do I do in order to improve functional mobility, reduce injury, and age gracefully?
I cover all of this and more. You won't want to miss it!
Here's what my exercise routine looks like over the course of an average week, as discussed during the episode:
- Days 1 through 6
- Stretches (yoga, sitting solution) - 10 to 15 minutes
- Calisthenics (push ups, pull ups, handstand push ups, squats, plank) - 1 set/exercise until failure, 5 to 10 minutes
- Walk - 60+ minutes
- One of the following:
- Sprints - 3 days/week, 8 sprints/day, 30 seconds/sprint
- Restorative exercises (sitting solution, yoga, gymnastic strength training) - 2 days/week, 60 minutes
- Mow the lawn (push mower that is not self-propelling, hilly yard) - 1 day/week, 45 minutes
- Day 7 (a day of rest)
- Stretches (yoga, sitting solution) - 10 to 15 minutes
- Leisurely walk - 20 minutes
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In this episode of the My Life series, I talk about how I lost weight, and kept it off, eating as much food as I wanted. Too good to be true? Absolutely not! Give it a listen and find out how I make this work.
I cover many great topics in this show, including the following:
- The differences between the paleo and primal diets
- The benefits of grassfed meats and dairy
- Is an 80/20, moderation based approach better, or is abstinence?
- What is an optimal ratio for macro-nutrients?
- What is the difference between healthy and unhealthy fats?
- What are my productivity hacks for the kitchen?
I cover all of this and more. You won't want to miss it!
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In this show, I talk with George Donnelly from the Steem Smart podcast. We do a deep dive into Steemit, the social news site which combines blogging with the cryptocurrency steem.
What are the differences between steem, steemit, steem power, and steem dollars? Can you make money off of steemit? Is it concerning that whales have so much power on the platform? Should we be worried that the power behind the steem block chain is centralized? How do you write a good introduceyourself post? George is actually kind enough to give me some pointers on my introduceyourself post on the air during the show. Good stuff you won't want to miss!
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In this show, I talk with Dani Hemmat from moveyourbodybetter.com. Dani tells me her story, how she became a blogger, podcaster and restorative exercise specialist. From there we cover many subjects, including the following:
- The difference between natural movement, nutritious movement, and restorative exercise
- Life hacks that allow you to improve your health without using up any extra time
- Minimalist shoes
- The power of the subconscious mind and placebos
- Positive thinking, visualizations, and affirmations
- Stacking your life
- All of this and more!
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In this episode of the My Life series, I talk about how I make walking awesome! A whole episode on walking? Yes. Well, sort of. I work quite a bit into my walks, as you will hear in the show. Here are some of the points covered:
- The health benefits of walking
- The best way to lose fat and build muscle
- Life hacks that give you the time needed to fit walking into your life
- The importance of posture
- Going barefoot or wearing minimalist shoes vs wearing traditional shoes
- Improving memory and brain health
- The benefits of sprinting
- How to increase human growth hormone levels by 771%!!!
- All this and more!
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http://www.arthritis.org/living-with-arthritis/exercise/workouts/walking/wow-of-walking.php
http://www.kurzweilai.net/memory-problems-go-climb-a-tree
http://www.rewildthyself.com/sprinting-human-growth-hormone/
http://main.poliquingroup.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Article/989/Eight_Reasons_Everyone_Should_Do_Sprints.aspx
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In this show, I talk with Philip Frey of the Valiant Growth podcast about his recent series The Art of Stress Free Relationships. We do a nice overview of the series, and then dive deep into several related topics, including the following:
- How to categorize relationships
- The difficulties voluntaryists in particular have with relationships
- Fostering loving relationships
- Relationships among the Freedomain Radio community, including a look at Stefan Molyneux's book Real Time Relationships
- Contrasting Philip's view on relationships with Harry Browne's, as presented in his book How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
- Physical attraction verses virtues
- Obsety as a red flag for emotional wounding
- Ayn Rand's personal life
- Positive thinking and affirmations
- Placebos
The Art of Stress Free Relationships series:
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http://www.valiantgrowth.com/e38/
http://www.valiantgrowth.com/e39/
http://www.valiantgrowth.com/e40/
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Commander Dale Brown is the founder of the Threat Management Center in Detroit, where his organization provides an alternative to the local police in the areas of safety and security. Today's show, part three of three, covers a lengthy discussion we had together. In this episode, we talk about the recent police shootings involving Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. We discuss what the police did wrong and what Alton & Philando could have done differently. We go into how the media is stirring up racial hatred, and even have a debate about whether or not free markets work.
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Commander Dale Brown is the founder of the Threat Management Center in Detroit, where his organization provides an alternative to the local police in the areas of safety and security. Today's show, part two of three, covers a lengthy discussion we had together. In this episode, we talk about how his company focuses on prevention and non-violent solutions to the problem of security. Commander Brown walks us through multiple real world examples. We spend more time talking about racism and life in Detroit. We discuss the nature of running a business verses working for someone else, and even get into a debate about whether or not business is cut throat.
Stay tuned for the rest of the series, where we discuss police shootings, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and much more!
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Commander Dale Brown is the founder of the Threat Management Center in Detroit, where his organization provides an alternative to the local police in the areas of safety and security. I'm intrigued by the work Commander Brown is doing, as his focus is on prevention and non-violence. Today's show, part one of three, covers a lengthy discussion we had together. In this episode, we talk about Commander Brown's story and the story of his organization, but our talk goes far beyond that! We get into the nature of police work, where police are failing, and how his strategies are superior. Heedless of avoiding controversy, we then dive right into the topics of racism, racial profiling, Nazism in modern Germany, and sexism. In addition, we cover altruism, law, and the importance of conquering fear.
Stay tuned for the rest of the series, where we discuss police shootings, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and much more!
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Antony Sammeroff joins as me as we celebrate 100 episodes of Choice Conversations. We look back on past shows, and look forward to the direction the podcast will take. This fun discussion covered several topics, including the following:
- Donald Trump
- Stefan Molyneux
- entrepreunership
- financial freedom
- passive income
- unjobbing
- self-employment
- self-help and growth
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Jeffrey Tucker is back to talk about Brexit. We cover the following points and more in this delightful conversation:
- What is Brexit?
- Is it a good thing that it went through?
- What were the right and wrong points on both sides of the argument?
- Is the leave side led by racists and nationalists?
- How will immigration be effected?
- What propaganda is circling about Brexit?
- Will there be another referendum?
- What is the nature of democracy?
- What is the nature of the EU?
- Do large trading blocks help with free trade and economic growth?
- What effects will this have on future wars?
- Will other countries leave the EU? If so, who is next? (Nexit)
- Should the States secede in America?
- Can liberty achieve a permanent victory?
- What about David Cameron's resignation?
- What is the impact of globalization and technological advancement?
Buy Jeffrey's books here:
Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo
Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World
It's a Jetsons World: Private Miracles and Public Crimes
A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age
Advice for Young, Unemployed Workers
99 Ways to Leave Leviathan
The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline
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In this episode of the My Life series, I talk about mindful eating. What is it? Why is it important? How do I implement it in my life? How do I work affirmations, gratitude, and healthy posture into my eating routine? Check it out!
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How To Stop Worrying and Start Living is a classic book from the great author Dale Carnegie. In this book review, I go over the finer points, including the following:
- Being present, living in the moment
- Strategies for problem solving
- Strategies for peaceful conflict resolution
- Strategies for having less meetings
- Strategies for having more efficient meetings
- Dissociation
- Addiction
- The problem with psychology and psychiatry
- Positive thinking
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- Stoicism
- Does prayer work?
- Naps
- Relaxation
- Meditation
- Handling criticism
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In this episode of the My Life series, I talk about my morning routine. Yoga, calisthenics, dream analysis, and affirmations are a big part of how I start each day. I go into detail on how I implement these various daily practices, and discuss the benefits I'm seeing. I close the show by talking about breakfast and my morning tea. Check it out!
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Episode one of the My Life series: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/life-hacks-for-a-great-nights-sleep-my-life-series-part-1
A previous show on affirmations: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/positive-thinking-with-antony-sammeroff
A previous show on dream analysis: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/dreams-from-my-father
Check out Hunter Clarke Fields:
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http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/parent-effectiveness-training-with-hunter-clarke-fields
How to do a psoas release: http://www.lisallc.com/blog/how-i-put-myself-bed
Katy Bowman on stacking your life: https://www.acast.com/katysayswithkatybowman/episode-39-stack-your-life-for-more-natural-movement
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In this latest installment of the Fall of Stefan Molyneux series, Wes Bertrand and I go through a laundry list of concerns over the inconsistent messages from Freedomain Radio. We could not help returning to the topics of IQ, race, genetics, R vs K, immigration, and Donald Trump. These ideas are the backbone of Stef’s thinking these days, overarching themes, so even though they've been covered thoroughly earlier in the series, we still briefly address them in this episode. Having said that, our discussion goes into many new areas, including the following:
- Adam Kokesh's appeal to Stef to debate him about soap opera politics and click bate podcast titles
- Stef's cult of personality, where he is not questioned
- Psychologizing by Stef and the FDR community
- Stef's abondonment of Objectivism and the individual (and his corresponding embrace of collectivism)
- Stef's inconsistencies about the win-win nature of the free market
- Is Donald Trump a lesser evil?
- Is Stef a neocon and/or a proponent of the religious right?
- Does Stef gaslight his audience, denying that anything has changed in his message?
- Trolling in the FDR community
- feminism
- single moms
- Religion
- Culture
- Peaceful Parenting
- Non-Violent Communication and empathy
- Shaming, blaming, and moralistic judgement
The Fall of Stefan Molyneux series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-there-will-be-no-recovery-part-1
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-can-there-be-a-recovery-part-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/gene-wars-iq-and-immigration-the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-part-3
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/a-principled-look-at-immigration-the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-part-4
Find more from Wes here: http://completeliberty.com/
Buy Wes's book here!
Parent Effectiveness Training is still the best book on peaceful parenting. A must buy.
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I was recently a guest on Vince Easley's show on Real Liberty Media, No Time for Rational Thinking, and I thought you might like to hear it. We cover a lot of ground in this show, hitting topics like communication, parenting, education, self-awareness, nutrition, exercise, gardening, mindfulness, meditation, positive thinking, and of course, freedom. Vince, and his producer Flash, mix in a lot of humor, making the show entertaining and enlightening.
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpJTgyg622b4Wu4AsxLsIBQ
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Nick Hazelton, the the Anarcho-Yakitalist, joins me for today's show. We talk about his inspiring story, how he left high school, taking his education into his own hands, and started his own business.
Find more from Nick here:
http://an-yak.com/
http://www.hazeltonfarm.com/
http://freedomfeens.com/
http://lolberts.com/
http://samplehour.com/index.php?podcast=168 (Nick interviewed by Drew Sample, as referenced during today's show.)
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Nathan Fraser, the Anarcho-Preneur, joins me to discuss strategies
that help him to be successful. We spend a lot of time talking about one
of his favorite strategies: mastermind groups. What is a mastermind
group? What are the pros and cons of a mastermind group vs a mentorship?
How can you implement your own mastermind group? From there, we cover
a smargasbord of other strategies and life hacks, including morning
routines, affirmations, journaling, gratitude, mediation, and positive
thinking. We also talk about entrepreneurship, escaping the rat race,
the importance of maintaining a positive attitude, and how public schools
can sabotage our ability to excel in life.
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Wes Bertrand and I are joined by author David Hathaway to discuss his excellent book Immigration: Individual vs National Borders. David's book provides a logically consistent view of immigration from a Libertarian's perspective. It details the various fallacies that are put forth by so called voluntaryists who advocate the use of state power to "protect" the borders.
This show continues The Fall of Stefan Molyneux series. The principled arguments David makes during our conversation match those that Molyneux use to make. The Freedomain Radio shows linked below illustrate this. Unforutnately, Stef has done a complete 180 on immigration, as a supporter of Donald Trump and a proponent of using state violence to "close the borders."
Stefan's stance on immigration circa January 2007. Sadly he no longer advocates this position:
http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/619/immigration-and-empathy
http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/620/immigration-part-2
The Fall of Stefan Molyneux Series
Part 1 in the series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-there-will-be-no-recovery-part-1
Part 2 in the series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-can-there-be-a-recovery-part-2
Part 3 in the series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/gene-wars-iq-and-immigration-the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-part-3
Buy David's book here: http://www.amazon.com/Immigration-Individual-vs-National-Borders-ebook/dp/B018019WRM
Find more from David here: https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/david-hathaway/
Find more from Wes here: http://completeliberty.com/
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Welcome to episode one of the My Life series, where I detail my lifestyle design tips and tricks that help me to be successful in all areas of my life. This show is about the hacks I've implemented that enable me to get a great night's sleep. Check it out!
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Studies linking sitting with poor health:
http://www.iub.edu/~k662/articles/role/sit%20risk%20Healy%202008.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17827399
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22890825
This sleep meditation will knock you out! https://www.patreon.com/posts/sleep-like-baby-7073381
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin interviews Dr. Dan Siegel about his latest book No Drama Discipline. His book provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears. Dr. Siegel’s work is unique in that it places an emphasis on helping parents understand the relationship between brain development and their child’s behavior. Give the show a listen!
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http://www.drdansiegel.com/
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http://rebootyourkids.com/
http://rebootedbody.com/
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Wes Bertrand and I are joined by geneticist Kevin McKernan for more analysis of Stefan Molyneux and Freedomain Radio. This time we take a close look at Molyneux's Gene Wars series, and the R vs K hypothosis discussed within. Kevin details how R vs K has long been dismissed as pseudo science by the scientific community, and that there is no evidence for the claims Stefan is making that political leanings are tied to genetics. From there, Kevin talks about how the claims Stef is making about IQ being linked to genetics also have no scientific evidence to back them. We discuss race quite a bit in this episode, and even dig into global warming a bit. This is a can't miss show, especially if you are an FDR listener!
Part 1 in the series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-there-will-be-no-recovery-part-1
Part 2 in the series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-can-there-be-a-recovery-part-2
Find more from Wes here: http://completeliberty.com/
Cannmed conference mentioned by Kevin: http://www.medicinalgenomics.com/
Superior Pattern Processing is the essence of the evolved human brain
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4141622/pdf/fnins-08-00265.pdf
Joseph Graves refutation of R vs K
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eRtjgKlt8s
Wikipedia refutation of R vs K
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
Self reported race is not accurate. Bell Curve is based on self reported race.
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307746/
Ice Core data (Figure 5)- Not open access but discussed at the link below.
• North Greenland Ice Core Project Members: High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period, Nature, 431, 147-151, 2004
• https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/ice-cores-and-climate-change/
IQ genetics cant be found
• http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-project-probes-the-genetics-of-genius-1.12985
Closest recent finding implies a network of over 150 genes
• http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4205.html
Genetics of Skin Color
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color#Genetics_of_skin_color_variation
Human Microbiome complexity
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3709439
Human Birth Rate
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate
• https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/infantcare/conditioninfo/Pages/born.aspx
Cannabis plants per year are derived from DEA seizure data (likely flawed but black market data is hard to get to)
• http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/estproc.html
• http://www.dea.gov/ops/cannabis.shtml
DEA report over 4M plants seized and believes to only seize less than 10% of whats out there.
10,000 metric tons at 1 pound per plant = 2204 X10,000 or 22M plants in the USA alone (5% of global population)
about 4M people were born in the USA in 2010
The choice quotes Wes read, starting at 1hr 39min:
https://player.fm/series/freedomain-radio-with-stefan-molyneux/fdr3170-dusty-p3ns-syndrome-call-in-show-january-1st-2016
FDR3170 Dusty P3n!s Syndrome - Call In Show - January 1st, 2016
http://cdn.freedomainradio.com/FDR_3170_Call_In_Show_01_Jan_2016.mp3
And finally, some comic relief. The savior is risen!!! http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/be/f8/bef8eab97d7a87196ba549b14839e1d0.jpg
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I have a discussion with Miro Siegel from the Raising Miro on the Road of Life blog. Miro tells us about his life style as an unschooler/world schooler. What are the pros and cons of his nomadic lifestyle? How did Miro and his mother Lainie obtain financial freedom? Where does Miro stand on freedom, liberty, and culture? All this and more in today’s show!
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Chad Walding from SittingSolution.com joins me for a great discussion. We talk about why sitting is the new smoking, linked with poor health, disease, and premature aging. Chad explains how by simply correcting your posture you can improve your appearance, health, mood, confidence, self esteem, and influence. I tell Chad about my experience implementing his program, the Sitting Solution, and how it was life changing for me. We get into many details, like how to eliminate back pain, why switching to a standing desk or a walking desk doesn't solve the problem, the proper posture for sleeping, and much more!
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I have a discussion with Pete Gerlach about how to raise psychologically healthy children. This episode was never previously released, so this is the first time the world will get to hear this enlightening interview. In addition, since the time of its recording in 2014, Pete Gerlach has passed away, making this a posthumous release.
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Mary Maddux from the Meditation Oasis podcast joins me for a discussion. What are the benefits of meditation? What different types of meditation are there? Is there a right and wrong way to meditate? How did Mary, and her husband Richard, grow the brand Meditation Oasis to what it is today? All of this and more in today's fun discussion!
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Anotony Sammeroff joins me as we pay tribute to Pete Gerlach. Pete Gerlach was taken from us on on October 22 2015, after a long bout with a degenerative disease (inclusion body myocitis). Pete was a therapist, author, and founder of the Break the Cycle Website. Pete was passionate about helping others and bringing healing to the world. He was especially concerned about the little ones, that they be provided a nurting, holistically healthy environment to grow up in.
Pete was a guest on both my show, Choice Conversations, and Antony's youtube channel, Enrich Your Life. Antony and I share some of our personal experiences with Pete and do our best to honor his memory. We close out the podcast by inserting Antony's last interview with Pete -> "How to choose the Right Partner for the Right Reasons at the Right Time!"
Gone but not forgotten, the gifts you gave the world continue to bring healing. Rest In Peace Pete.
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http://sfhelp.org/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/five-personal-marital-and-family-hazards-with-pete-gerlach
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/communication-with-pete-gerlach
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/breaking-the-cycle-with-peter-gerlach
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Wes Bertrand is back for more analysis of Stefan Molyneux and Freedomain Radio. Wes and I detail several contractions and double standards that abound on Freedomain Radio these days. In addition, did Stef change his message for increased money or downloads? Does Stef automatically reject competing ideologies like Non-Violent Communication? What would be required from Stef for restitution? Are IQ studies important? Why did we change the title of the series? And of course more on that Donald Trump fellow!
Part 1 in the series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-fall-of-stefan-molyneux-there-will-be-no-recovery-part-1
Find more from Wes here: http://completeliberty.com/
FDR 3103 The Truth About Illegal Immigrants: Was Donald Trump Right?
https://soundcloud.com/stefan-molyneux/fdr-3103-the-truth-about-illegal-immigrants-was-donald-trump-right
Why Trump’s Wrong on Immigration By Benjamin W. Powell:
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8519
Powell's interview on Free Talk Live:
https://www.freetalklive.com/podcast/episode-october-25th-2015
Another article about Trump and immigration: http://www.theanarchistalternative.info/zgb/15A044.htm
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I have a discussion about Kevin's popular and controversial article, 12 Absurd Arguments Peaceful Parents Are Sick of Hearing. Our discussion was quite long, so we broke it up into two parts. Enjoy!
12 Absurd Arguments Peaceful Parents Are Sick of Hearing Part 1:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/12-absurd-arguments-peaceful-parents-are-sick-of-hearing-part-1-reboot-your-kids-recast-008
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Hunter Clarke-Fields returns to the show for a discussion about parenting. Hunter is a big proponent of Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon. We talk about how we've both implemented P.E.T. in our lives, and the struggles and joys along the way. The conversation has some fun tangents, including Montessori schooling, restorative justice, and the Oregon Prison Project.
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I have a discussion about Kevin's popular and controversial article, 12 Absurd Arguments Peaceful Parents Are Sick of Hearing. Our discussion was quite long, so we broke it up into two parts. Enjoy!
12 Absurd Arguments Peaceful Parents Are Sick of Hearing Part 2:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/12-absurd-arguments-peaceful-parents-are-sick-of-hearing-part-2-reboot-your-kids-recast-009
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Wes Bertrand joins me to discuss a couple emails he recently sent to Stefan Molyneux and Mike DeMarco from Freedomain Radio. Those emails are reprinted below:
From: Wes Bertrand
Subject: Ominous parallels
Date: September 4, 2015 at 8:41:45 PM EDT
To: Michael DeMarco
Hello, Michael, and by extension, Stefan. I’ve appreciated the many helpful and insightful messages FDR has sent its listeners and viewers over the years. Thank you for all the time and effort you’ve expended to inspire individuals in so many enriching and enlightened ways. Though this is not a fan email, I hope you note the vital significance of it, so that your show is able to gain more respect from those who value truth. Basically, I’m writing to express my grave concerns about the ideas that have been promoted on your podcast, particularly in this episode:
FDR3052 Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan: An Honest Conversation
http://cdn.freedomainradio.com/FDR_3052_Trump_Immigration.mp3
I realize that both of you believe in the efficacy and morality of free markets instead of tyranny, which in the past have been articulated extensively. So, your advocacy of Trump’s anti-immigration views and his overall anti-economic agenda (which Jeffrey covered with sufficient clarity here: https://tucker.liberty.me/trumpism-the-ideology/ ) runs noticeably discordant. This particular topic of policing statist “borders" really hits home with me, despite not being an “illegal” person (one must be privy to The Anatomy Of Slavespeak - http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/tl07a.htm ). In 2009 I was detained (with threat of being gunned down) by the so-called U.S. border patrol for about 6 hours with my Indonesian friend Siska, who had a student visa, just not with her at the time since we were going to photograph wild flowers, so her sister was ordered to drive for hours to deliver her paperwork to us in the desert of Ocotillo, CA on her behalf. The papers her sister brought were insufficient for our captors, however. Had it not been for a bureaucratic paperwork glitch, she would have been deported that day (through no fault of her own). It might come as a surprise to you that we weren’t crossing any statist borders. The jackboots in southern California were running a check point approximately 12 miles inside the arbitrary statist line in the sand (still present here - https://goo.gl/maps/Y4Bj0 ), which I recounted in this episode of Complete Liberty Podcast:
Episode 63 - Freedom to travel, reside, and work without government, where property rights are respected -> link
When I heard Stefan read Trump's proposed policy of actually building a physical wall from California to Texas (the ultimate police-state boondoggle, aside from the insane NSA data mining process) in order to supposedly keep out Mexicans, as well as any Americans like myself desiring free travel, I waited for some sign of objective, critical philosophical analysis from him. Tragically, there was none, and I’m still waiting to hear it. Instead, I heard various economic fallacies about “illegals” harming the economy for “citizens" amidst the domestic ills of welfare statism. I encourage you to process your fears and concerns with the principles of voluntaryism (honoring individuals and markets, strictly disavowing governmental methods) as well as more evidence; Benjamin Powell has done a lot of freedom-oriented work in this realm - http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1023 .
I’m puzzled about why you did not explicitly note the massive contradictions and intolerable harm involved in playing politics too, i.e., granting any legitimacy to the enforcement of statist “laws”—since no one has ANY right to such a rights-violating process. Not to explicitly and consistently denounce statist policies (i.e., aggression) is not to be philosophical. It’s a massive contradiction to say that, in the absence of a free market, we need to engage in the coercive, political means; such pragmatism only perpetuates rights-violations. The really odd thing is that I suspect you know that a paradigm shift in the philosophy of a society cannot happen with more advocacy of the political status quo (collectivistic, in-group/out-group, tax-fed, law-enforcing, welfare-statist thinking).
As you know, many of the podcasters in the liberty community viewed your initiation of the DMCA take-down process on YouTube as being pro-IP and, thus, a major departure from your previously voluntaryist moorings. I disagreed with that position too, because it violated property rights, as well as Stefan’s previously stated beliefs against IP. Yet, the gravity of your recent choice to promote the totalitarian fascist agendas of Trump overshadows this (as does endorsing the costly, coercive strategies of the spurious “freedom club,” via the collectivistic abstraction of "Western civilization”). This strikes me as eerily similar to the intellectual inception of Nazi Germany—definitely no joke. Trump’s views are the epitome of populism, nationalism, and mob mentality, based on contradictions, fear, distrust, and aggression. There are ominous parallels in our culture to those of Nazi Germany (as Peikoff outlined decades ago: link ), which were evidenced at the end of your episode regarding a survey of Americans’ confused views on immigration.
from http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324577904578557352244619768
"Their theses were often focused on racial and biological studies within populations, particularly where German minorities lived. The controversial borders that were drawn after 1919 in countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia rankled many of them.”
from http://www.slate.com
"Hitler, the suitable ruffian, could never have done it on his own. He could never have done it with all his party. He needed a climate of belief—the belief that Weimar was a problem requiring a solution. Having solved it, he was free to answer his version of the Jewish Question—the question that the intellectuals had fooled with on paper. Only the madmen among them had ever thought it needed to be answered with fire. But the sane ones had helped open the door for the avenger that the madmen had dreamed of.”
wikipedia link
Please let me know if you want to discuss these matters either in public or private. Understanding and promoting the principles of true freedom mean a great deal in an age of philosophical confusion and psychological unawareness.
Thank you for your time and consideration, Wes
p.s., I have a lengthy list of notes I’ve taken over the last year concerning various other ideas conveyed by FDR, because they diverge from logic and sound evidence in places, so clarification is needed. The issue above takes precedence for now, however.
From: Wes Bertrand
Subject: Fwd: Ominous parallels
Date: September 24, 2015 at 3:37:12 PM EDT
To: Michael DeMarco
Cc: Chris Stefanick
Hi again, Michael. It’s been nearly three weeks since I sent the email below to you, and I’ve gotten no reply. Am I correct in assuming that you and Stefan do not want to have a conversation about this disturbing and confusing trend in FDR’s message these days? I want you to know that there is still the possibility to reverse course, make amends, and engage in restorative justice with your listeners who seek philosophical rigor and objectivity. As I see it, that is the only way you can regain credibility as a philosophy show, which I’d like to see you do. If you believe that I’ve somehow misinterpreted your present views, then let’s have a discussion about it (again, in private or on your call-in show).
A few days after I sent this first email, I was waylaid by armed enforcers of the so-called U.S. border, while driving back from Ottawa (visited some dear voluntaryist friends there). After asking a litany of intrusive questions, which seems to be their primary tax-fed “job,” they demanded that I stay in their building while they proceeded to search every nook and cranny of my vehicle, including all my personal possessions, which took the better part of an hour; I was also personally searched. It was a complete violation of property rights, and when I conveyed this simple truth to them, among other liberty-oriented statements, they of course provided rationalizations in place of valid arguments—the mainstay of humans who are trying to downplay the significance of massive contradictions. If I had defended my person and property from their aggressive actions, I would have been murdered. This is the nature of “border enforcement”: individuals are harassed, suffer, and even die as a consequence.
You know, Stefan used to not give disclaimers or caveats in his shows (like you've done on the ones that cheerlead for Trump), because he adhered to the principles of voluntaryism. Here’s an example (from over eight years ago) of the person who the liberty community admired, when he recognized the profound significance of the individual (based on reason, volition, and life-giving values) rather than the collective (based on spurious notions of race, genes, “ethnicity,” etc.):
link
I’ve Cd’d my friend Chris in this correspondence, because I plan on reading my email below that I sent you and Stefan (who also apparently un-contacted me on Skype) as well as sharing related thoughts on his Choice Conversations Podcast, when we record in about a week. We will also post Stef's “Immigration And Empathy” episode in order to show the stark contrast between promoting sound principles and deviating from them. If you take it off your server, I can put it in my Complete Liberty Podcast feed, since these ideas matter so much—individuals matter so much!
Regards,
Wes
Find more from Wes here: http://completeliberty.com/
Also mentioned in the show:
Stef addresses his future self:
http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/619/immigration-and-empathy
http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/620/immigration-part-2
Jeffrey Tucker's excellent coverage of Trump:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/donald-trump-fascism-and-racism-with-jeffrey-tucker
https://liberty.me/podcast/eye-empire/
My appearance on UCY.TV discussing non-violent communication: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/nvc-the-trivium-and-mind-control-with-walter-hendricks
Some comic relief via Trey and Matt:
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s15e09-the-last-of-the-meheecans
http://www.hulu.com/watch/288997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Meheecans
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s19e02-where-my-country-gone
http://www.hulu.com/watch/847805
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_My_Country_Gone
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Walter Hendricks had me back on his show on UCY.TV, Solvinur Event. Again the discussion centered on Non-Violent Communication, with this dive going deeper than the last. Points discussed included:
- Using NVC to talk about politics
- How domination systems are rooted in the family
- The nature of voluntarysm
- NVC and the trivium
- Is NVC mind control?
All of this and more!
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I welcome Judy Pardo on the show. Judy is a certified Parent Effectiveness Training instructor and a psychologist in private practice for over 20 years. Judy, Kevin, and I discuss:
The Behavior Window
Active and Passive Listening
Using I-Messages for Healthier Communication
No-Lose Conflict Resolution
How Power and Influence Are Negatively Correlated
And much more…
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http://www.villageparenting.nyc/
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I was recently invited to call into the show Solvinur Event on UCY.TV. The host of the show, Walter Hendricks, was skeptical that Non-violent Communication (NVC) was a form of mind conotrol known as Neuro-linguistic programming. I provided an introduction to NVC, talked about its relationship to the trivium, and answered a number of NVC-related questions.
There were four different people on the show, each going in varying directions, so it was difficult to address each concern raised as thoroughly and succinctly as I would have liked. Having said that, I still found value in the conversation.
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Jeffrey Tucker joins me for a discussion about Donald Trump. Is Trump a fascist? Why is "The Donald" so popular? Is racism rampant in America? Does Hillary Clinton stand a chance against Trump? What does Jeffrey think of Stefan Molyneux’s support for Trump? Why is a corrupt politician a good thing? Is a demoralized Obama the perfect president? What does Rand Paul have against Libertarians?
We cover all of this and more in this interesting and entertaining discussion!
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fee.org
Here is Jeffrey’s brilliant News Week article that was discussed on the show:
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fascist-354690
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Wes Bertrand is back to discuss his wonderful new book Complete Liberty Inside Out: Honoring Yourself and Others for Optimal Enrichment. We take a hard look at not only the philosophy of liberty, which has been thoroughly covered by those who have come before us, but also the psychology of liberty, which has been not so much. How does culture damage our minds, lessening our lives? Religion, school, and the family are systems of domination, not unlike the state? Sacrifice isn't a virtue? What are the four stages of liberty? Can this book build a bridge between the liberty community and the Non-Violent Communication community, two groups which each have half of it right? We cover all this and more during this enlightening and entertaining discussion!
Get the book here: http://completeliberty.com/pdf_and_ebook_downloads.html
Find more from Wes here: http://completeliberty.com/
Here is the interview with Kevin Koskella discussed during the show: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-mental-side-of-freedom
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I have a great discussion with Darrell Becker. We cover parenting, the trivium, critical thinking skills, and non-violent communication.
Find more from Kevin here:
http://rebootyourkids.com/
http://rebootedbody.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/chasing-greatness-with-kevin-geary
Find more from Darrell here: http://voluntaryvisions.com/
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For the fifth installment of the Artificial Intelligence Series, Darrell Becker and I interview James Barrat. James is a film maker, public speaker, and an author. His book, Our Final Invention, masterfully presents the case for why you should be worried about the singularity.
How is AI different from other multi-use technologies? What are the basic drives that an AI will have? Can't we just program ethics into AIs and alleviate our worries? How does James feel about AI depictions in popular media? We cover all of these questions and more in this delightful conversation!
Click here for the rest of the Artificial Intelligence Series:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/her-movie-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-1
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-book-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/transcendence-movie-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/real-agi-with-peter-voss-artificial-intelligence-series-part-4
Find more from James here: http://www.jamesbarrat.com/
Find more from Darrell here: http://voluntaryvisions.com/
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I tackle the gargantuan topic of alternative education and the problems with modern schooling. The conversation explores: The proposed purpose of schooling. The underlying purpose of schooling. Where did “the system” come from? Are public and private schools the same thing? The toxicity of an environment filled with broken people, be they teachers or students. All of this and more!
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http://rebootyourkids.com/
http://rebootedbody.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/chasing-greatness-with-kevin-geary
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I had the privelege to talk with Vít Jedlička, President of the new libertarian nation The Free Republic of Liberland. President Vít goes into detail about how things typically handled by governments will work in a country where state power is limited and taxes are voluntary. Who will build the roads? How will the justice system work? Can a crypto-currency be a nation's legal tender? How do I become a citizen?
We talk about the Liberland constitution, covering topics like how citizens are granted the right to veto any new bills. Public works will be paid for through croudfunding, and shares for public works will be traded on the Liberland Stock Market.
We discuss all this and more in this fascinating look at the birth of the Libertarian homeland.
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https://liberland.org/
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I explore the challenges parents face in the areas of exercise, play and sleep for their children.
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http://rebootyourkids.com/
http://rebootedbody.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/chasing-greatness-with-kevin-geary
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I was recently a guest on Freedom Lovin with Kevin Koskella. In this show, much time is spent exploring my story and how I came do discover liberty. We talk about how I progressed from being focused on politics, to finiancial freedom, to improving my relationships, and finally to self-knowledge and inner healing.
I had much fun talking to Kevin. I consider his show to in many ways be a sister show to mine. We both have the same end goal, helping people bring more freedom to their lives, it is just that our approaches have a different feel. I highly encourage you to give his show a listen, beyond just my appearance.
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http://www.freedomlovin.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/living-free-in-an-unfree-world-with-kevin-koskella
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this episode, Kevin and I introduce real food nutrition and a generally healthy lifestyle for kids. Some of the questions and topics we dive into: What is real food? The effects of poor nutrition on children. Medicating children. And more!
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http://rebootyourkids.com/
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No, this is not about Barack Obama's book. In this episode, I walk you through a real life example of how I do dream analysis. Step by step, I reveal a process where I combine several strategies, and gain synergies by combining them, in order to obtain greater self knowledge. Strategies covered include meditation, yoga, inner-family systems therapy, affirmations, Nathaniel Branden's sentence completion exercises, Marshall Rosenberg's Non-violent communication, and of course dream analysis.
Below are links to more details on various topics discussed during the show.
Inner Family Systems therapy: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-voices-in-my-head-with-jay-earley
Yoga and mindfullness: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/mindfulness-yoga-and-self-care-with-hunter-clarke-fields
Non-Violent Communication:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-trivium-and-non-violent-communication-with-darrell-becker
Positive thinking and affirmations: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/positive-thinking-with-antony-sammeroff
The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind, audio book by Joseph Murphy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2su2NtRij7E
Nathaniel Branden's Sentence Completion execercises:
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-i
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-ii
Nathaniel Branden's The Art of Self-Discovery (more sentence completion exercises):
http://happinesscounseling.com/happiness-resources/
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While the Reboot Your Kids website lives on, it no longer hosts the podcasts I recorded with Kevin Geary last year. For posterity's sake, I'm putting those shows into the Choice Conversations feed.
In this our first episode, Kevin and I introduce authentic parenting.
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http://rebootyourkids.com/
http://rebootedbody.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/chasing-greatness-with-kevin-geary
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Author and blogger Rosyln Ross joins me to talk about her new book A Theory of Objectivist Parenting. The school of philosophy known as objectivism, proposed by Ayn Rand, is very strong in most ways, but is decidedly lacking in the area of interpersonal relationships and especially parenting. Roslyn shores that up nicely.
Do schools murder the authentic self? Are high achieving youths numbing out in their down time? Is Roslyn moving to Nicaragua so that she can take her kids into bars and casinos? And what’s wrong with Sudbury schools anyway? All this and more during today's show!
Note that when Roslyn mentions "Wes" and "Antony," she's referring to mutual friends, and prominent members of Team Choice, Wes Bertrand and Antony Sammeroff.
My apologies for the accoustics on this show. This is the first podcast recorded in my new home, and I've not yet unpacked everything. The room I was in had nothing soft to absorb sound, and thus it sounded like I was recording in a cave. I'll be sure to remedy that in future episodes.
Find more from Roslyn here:
Her book - http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Objectivist-Parenting-Roslyn-Ross/dp/1502315548/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Her lectures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCmDUquKAUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJG1rrjD3lQ
Her blog - http://roslynross.blogspot.com/
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Antony and I discuss positive thinking. What is it? Why does it work? How do we practice it? What are some of the pitfalls? Isn't positive thinking just magical thinking? Is the Law of Attraction real? We cover all this and more!
Find more from Antony here:
http://Antonysammeroff.com
https://www.youtube.com/TheProgressiveParent
https://www.youtube.com/EnrichYourLife1
enrichyourlife@outlook.com
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/spirituality-with-antony-sammeroff
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/having-relationships-with-people-stuck-in-the-matrix
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-progressive-parent-with-antony-sammeroff
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/authentic-relationships-with-antony-sammeroff
The power of the Subconscious Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2su2NtRij7E
The Science of Getting Rich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadExa-5PWc
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For the fourth installment of the Artificial Intelligence series, Darrell Becker and I interview Peter Voss. Peter is an entrepreneur, inventor, engineer and scientist who has been active in the field of artificial intelligence for decades. He shares with us his first hand experience in the industry: where it began, where it's currently at, where it is going, and talks us through the myriad of ways in which AI will be beneficial to the human race. What motivates an artificial intelligence? How does morality play in? Do we need to worry about a weaponized AI? We cover all of this and more in this entertaining and enlightening discussion.
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http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/her-movie-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-1
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-book-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/transcendence-movie-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-2
Find more from Peter here:
http://www.agi-3.com/
http://realagi.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RealAGI/
http://www.optimal.org/peter/rational_ethics.htm
Find more from Darrell here:
http://voluntaryvisions.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-trivium-and-non-violent-communication-with-darrell-becker
http://rebootyourkids.com/005/
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Antony Sammeroff is back for a discussion about spirituality. What does spirituality mean to us? How have we implemented spiritual disciplines into our lives? But wait, aren't you an atheist? How can you then be a "spiritual" person? We cover all this and more!
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https://www.youtube.com/TheProgressiveParent
https://www.youtube.com/EnrichYourLife1
http://enrichyourlife.co/
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Daniel Mackler joins me to discuss his journey of healing. We talk about how his experience with trauma is a microcosm of what is occurring the world over. We cover the 4 stages of enlightenment (dissociation, depression, grieving, enlightenment), as well as how positive thinking techniques and psychotherapy could be keeping you from healing your wounds. This conversation goes from celibacy, to minimalism, to world travel, and beyond!
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Psychologist and author Jay Earley joins me to discuss Internal Family Systems therapy. What is IFS therapy, and how does it work? Is there scientific evidence for its effectiveness? What are some of my personal successes with IFS therapy? Can you combine IFS therapy with other self-knowledge practices for greater gains?
Find more from Jay here:
http://personal-growth-programs.com/
https://selftherapyjourney.com/
Here is the study discussed during the show: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23950186
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Darrell Becker is back for the third installment of the Artificial Intelligence series. This time we do a movie review of Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp and Rebecca Hall. What are the major themes of the film, and how do they relate to our continuing discussion? This conversation goes from science to psychology to philosophy and beyond!
I’m joined by Fergus Hodgson, the Editor in Chief of the Pan Am Post. We discuss the challenges and rewards encountered working in “new media,” including being harassed by people who earn a paycheck from the government to troll on the internet. Is it important to follow current events? What about political action and personal action and your sphere of influence? Do people get their jollies by being felt up by the TSA? What does Fergus have to say about international living, perpetual travel, and minimalism? Why are some people more open to the message of freedom and liberty? Will artificial intelligence end facebook and twitter as we know it? All this and more in this entertaining and insightful interview!
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Check out my college football podcast with Andy Evans, The Buckeye Leafcast://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=135246&cmd=tc
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Drew Sample and I do a book review of Christopher Ryan’s Sex at Dawn. Are pair bonding and monogamy human nature? What does science say about polyamory and promiscuity? We break down the evidence presented in the book spanning anthropology, human anatomy, psychology, and primatology. What can we learn about human sexuality from the shape and size of the human penis? What does it really mean to have “sex like an animal?” Are women kinkier than men? The conversation covers a lot of ground, even getting into the benefits of communism, the downside of agriculture, the paleo diet, and much, much more!
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http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=124638&cmd=tc
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/democrats-and-republicans-are-half-right-with-drew-sample
https://twitter.com/DrewSample
Here you’ll find several podcasts on ancestral health and the paleo diet: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/webpage/category/Health
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Darrell Becker is back for the second installment of the Artificial Intelligence series. This time we review the science fiction classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress from Robert A. Heinlein. We cover in detail the role of artificial intelligence in this novel, plus many other interesting topics related to the tale. Is this book truly a libertarian manifesto? How well does it hold up as revolutionary guidebook? Are there superior family systems than monogamy? All that, and more!
Click here for part 1 of the Artificial Intelligence Series: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/her-movie-review-artificial-intelligence-series-part-1
Find more from Darrell here:
http://voluntaryvisions.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-trivium-and-non-violent-communication-with-darrell-becker
http://rebootyourkids.com/005/
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Here is part 2 of my discussion with a funeral director. We continue the deep dive into the industry of death, plus branch out into a few related (and not so related) topics, including grief counseling, finding your purpose, and growing your business.
Here is a link to part 1: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/two-beers-with-the-undertaker-part-1
Here is the standup comedy discussed during the show. You may wish to skip to about 9 minutes to get to the good stuff: http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/hound-tall-3-death-with-catlin-doughty-kumail-nanjiani-and-chelsea-peretti/
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Steve is back to talk about his day job as a funeral director. We get an inside peak into what it’s like working in this most fascinating of professions. In addition, we start the conversation off discussing a side topic: the relationship between humility, arrogance, and authenticity.
Due to the length of the conversation, I’m releasing it in two separate podcasts. Part 2 will be published soon.
Here is the standup comedy discussed during the show. You may wish to skip to about 9 minutes to get to the good stuff: http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/hound-tall-3-death-with-catlin-doughty-kumail-nanjiani-and-chelsea-peretti/
Here is the Nfl catch discussed in the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFNfhtlSnLc
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Welcome to part one of the Artificial Intelligence series. In this episode, Darrell Becker and I review the Spike Jonze movie Her. We break down the movie and go over the major themes: love, intimacy, technology. The conversation then led into AI’s in general, the potential for good, the potential for bad, and how they are already changing our world. We laughed, we cried, we had a really good time. Check it out!
Find more from Darrell here:
http://voluntaryvisions.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-trivium-and-non-violent-communication-with-darrell-becker
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Kevin Geary joins me for a discussion with Miro from the Raising Miro on the Road of Life blog. Miro tells us about his life style as an unschooler/world schooler. What are the pros and cons of his nomadic lifestyle? How did Miro and his mother Lainie obtain financial freedom? Where does Miro stand on freedom, liberty, and culture? All this and more in today’s show!
Find more from Miro here:
http://www.raisingmiro.com/
http://projectworldschool.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-world-is-our-classroom-with-miro-and-lainie
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Drew Sample from The Sample Hour joins me for a wide ranging discussion. Here is just a “sample” of what we cover: Democrats and Republicans are half right. Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, and the NFL. Is voting important? Why democrats are a bigger threat to civil liberties than republicans. Why republicans grow the size of government. The importance of living a principled life. What we’ve learned from podcasting. The evils of prohibition. Prison is big business. Maurice Clarett, Terrelle Pryor, the SEC and college football scandals. Hitting rock bottom. People’s relationship to money. All this, and more!
I should warn you that the language on this is a little stronger than what you've normally come to expect from Choice Conversations. Please keep this in mind.
Find more from Drew here: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=124638&cmd=tc
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I was recently on The Rebooted Body podcast with Kevin Geary, talking to blogger and author Christopher James Clark. Christopher wrote an article for The Huffington Post about a potential new tax on sugar in the United States. The three of us discuss this article at length and delve deep into the pros and cons of attempting to use government violence to force social change.
Here is Christopher’s article on sugar taxation: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/christopher-james-clark/sugar-taxation_b_5624785.html
Find more from Christopher James Clark here: http://christopherjamesclark.com/
Listen to more Rebooted Body episodes here: http://rebootedbody.com/
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Hunter Clarke-Fields joins me to discuss mindfulness, yoga, and self-care. What is the difference between meditation, mindfulness, and yoga? What are the benefits? Any useful tips for making life an amazing experience? We cover all of this and more during this engaging conversation.
Find more from Hunter here: http://www.hunteryoga.com
Check out my new podcast with Kevin Geary, Reboot Your Kids! Is one Chris Stefanick podcast not enough for you? I have just the thing! In the Reboot Your Kids podcast, we explore parenting, health, authentic living, and where they intersect: http://rebootyourkids.com/listen/
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So sacrifice is a virtue and selfishness is a vice, right? Not so fast! Wes Bertrand joins me to discuss the philosophy of self-interest. Of course much of the time is spent talking about Ayn Rand’s great book on the topic, The Virtue of Selfishness.
What is wrong with sacrifice? Isn't selfishness evil? Wes and I go deep on this one, exploring the effects of the dominant belief in today’s culture, the philosophy of sacrifice, and how that contrasts with Ayn Rand's philosophy.
Find more from Wes here:
http://completeliberty.com
http://happinesscounseling.com/happiness-resources
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/no-strings-attached-movie-review-with-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-virgin-diet-and-n-1-experiments-with-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/is-society-progressing
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/complete-liberty-with-wes-bertrand
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I was recently a guest on The College Football Show with Andrew T. Evans, talking about Ohio State’s upcoming season. We cover Braxton Miller’s injury, J.T. Barrett, the new defensive coordinator, our predictions for the year, and much more!
I realize this is a bit different from what you’re used to seeing here on Choice Conversations. I must admit that if you’re not a fan of Big Ten football then this is probably not the show for you.
Find more from Andy here:
https://twitter.com/osuae
http://www.andrewtevans.com
https://www.facebook.com/andy.evans.56679?fref=ts
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In today’s show I have a round table discussion with Antony Sammeroff and Rock Barcellos on having relationships with people who are still plugged in to the matrix. What is it like after having taken the red pill?
What do we mean when we say we’ve taken the red pill? We’re talking about going against cultural norms, going through a philosophical awakening. This covers a variety of topics which I’ve discussed in previous episodes:
· Voluntarism
· Atheism
· Philosophy in relationships (defoo, etc)
· Authenticity in relationships (openly expressing emotions, etc)
· IFS therapy
What are some effective strategies for dealing with these blue pill-ers? How do we deal with the fact that we typically look crazy to those still plugged in, even though they are the ones who can't see past the illusion?
Next, we delve into the differences between needs based judgment and morality based judgment. From there, we discuss if morality even exists, or is it just something people made up? What about our thoughts on Stefan Molyneux and "the against me" argument?
Find more from Antony here:
https://www.youtube.com/TheProgressiveParent
https://www.youtube.com/EnrichYourLife1
http://enrichyourlife.co/
enrichyourlife@outlook.com
Find more from Rock here:
http://rocksilesbarcellos.daportfolio.com/gallery/847313 , https://www.facebook.com/rocksilesbarcellos?hc_location=timeline , http://rockbarcellos.tumblr.com/
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Kevin Geary started a new podcast called Reboot Your Kids, “the intersection of real food, peaceful parenting, alternative schooling, and a healthy lifestyle.” He asked me if I’d co-host, and I graciously accepted. Please give it a listen. I think you’ll like it.
Find more from Kevin here:
http://rebootyourkids.com/
http://rebootedbody.com/
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Antony Sammeroff is back, and this time we focus on parenting. We discuss the importance of being authentic and cultivating good will. I relate some of my personal experiences parenting, and Antony shares several of his experiences with children as well. There were definitely some touching moments in the conversation. If you think you’ll enjoy this discussion half as much as I did then you won’t want to miss it!
Find more from Antony here:
https://www.youtube.com/TheProgressiveParent
https://www.youtube.com/EnrichYourLife1
http://enrichyourlife.co/
enrichyourlife@outlook.com
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Paul Jaminet joins me to discuss his book and blog, The Perfect Health Diet. Paul delivers some great news: the perfect diet for health is also the most delicious diet! Learn how to lengthen your lifespan while pleasing your palate. No compromises here!
We cover a great deal of ground, going beyond just diet. What are the benefits of intermittent fasting and how best to do it? Likewise, what are the benefits of improving your circadian rhythms and how best to do it? What are the best supplemental foods? How do short and medium chain fatty acids help with longevity? Is your strategy for getting probiotics into your diet effective? Find all of this within, plus the answers to several listener questions!
Find more from Paul here: http://perfecthealthdiet.com/
Read his book: http://perfecthealthdiet.com/buy-our-book/
Attend a seminar: http://perfecthealthdiet.com/perfect-health-seminar/
Cures for constipation: http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/causes-and-cures-for-constipation/
Free software for improving your circadian rhythms: http://download.cnet.com/f-lux/3000-2094_4-75447318.html
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Jake Desyllas from The Voluntary Life podcast joins me to talk about financial freedom. What is financial freedom? What are the different paths to get there? How does investing fit in? What about real estate?
We cover a great deal of ground in the conversation, dipping into related topics and not so related topics. What are the economics of voluntarism? Why does communism fail? How does the family relate to government? How does the family relate to a job you might take? All of that, and much, much more!
Find more from Jake here: http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/
His new book: http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/p/books.html
Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-dxV8VfPE
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Erik Townsend is back to discuss the recent stimulus package from the European Central Bank. What was done? What was the thinking behind this move? What are the unseen risks? Are government guaranteed loans far behind? Is the economy faltering? Where do investors find yield in this negative interest rate environment? What is the status of the US bond market crisis? We cover all of this and more!
Find more from Erik here:
http://www.eriktownsend.com/
Previous appearances on the show:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-1
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/slow-motion-armageddon-with-erik-townsend
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/episode-10-green-shoots-erik-townsend-interview
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/getting-technical-with-townsend
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-argument-against-hyperinflation-with-erik-townsend
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/beyond-peak-oil-part-1-of-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/beyond-peak-oil-part-2-of-2
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What do Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden have in common? All were part of the discussion I had with Dan Carlin about the state of the media, be it mainstream or alternative. We talk about the importance of the media in a representative democracy, and how far things have gone awry.
From there we segue nicely into a discussion of Dan’s political views and how they compare to mine.
Find more from Dan here: http://www.dancarlin.com/
Previous appearance on the show by Dan: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/wrath-of-the-kahns-with-dan-carlin
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Kevin Geary from the Rebooted Body podcast joins me for a discussion. In the first half of our conversation we talk about his approach to helping people down a healthier path as an integrative health coach. In the second half, we dive into the Chasing Greatness series he has on his podcast, detailing the steps required to free yourself from the chains of society and to become truly great.
Topics covered include the importance of blood tests, supplements, authenticity, choosing who you allow in your circle, parenting, spanking, dealing with family members who are harming you, and more!
Find more from Kevin here:
http://rebootedbody.com/
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Antony Sammeroff joins me for a discussion about authentic relationships. What are the benefits of authentic relationships and, what are the qualities needed to have them? I found this conversation to not only be both fun and intellectually stimulating, but also inspiring. Not only is Antony knowledgeable and well-spoken, but he has a presence about him where you can’t help but want to better yourself after listening to him. I hope you have a similar experience to mine with this interview.
Find more from Antony here:
https://www.youtube.com/EnrichYourLife1
https://www.youtube.com/TheProgressiveParent
http://enrichyourlife.co/
enrichyourlife@outlook.com
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Sylvia Haskvitz, author of Eat by Choice, Not by Habit, joins me for a discussion. Being both a registered dietitian and a certified NVC trainer, Sylvia offers a rare opportunity to talk about improving nutrition and communication at the same time. We discuss the importance of the language we use when talking to ourselves about food, and how self-awareness is key. Why are we eating? Are we hungry, are we filling a nutritional need, or is this a copying mechanism for something deeper? Sylvia has a great saying: “Face your stuff or stuff your face!”
The conversation provides strategies for getting started down a healthier path, working with children, and even how to find nutritious alternatives for dessert!
Find more from Sylvia here: http://www.eatbychoice.net/
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Ralph Weber, President of Medibid Inc and author of MediCrats: Medical Bureaucrats that Rule your Health Care, joins me for a discussion. We talk about why the cost of healthcare keeps rising, and how his company, Medibid, can reduce those costs by stepping outside the system and enabling the free market.
We discuss the ridiculousness of Obamacare, pre-existing conditions, insurance fraud, and more!
Find more from Ralph here: http://www.medibid.com/
Also mentioned during the show, Anesthesia Fraud: http://newportbeach.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/uci-medical-center-fined-1-2-million-in-whistleblower-case
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Wes Bertrand from the Complete Liberty podcast joins me for a movie review as we tackle No Strings Attached, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. This is not your typical Siskel and Ebert or Rotten Apples style movie review. Instead, we take a more philosophical look at the movie, delving into the cultural memes, the psychological wounds displayed by the characters, the lack of self-awareness, and even a quick look at homophobia.
Find more from Wes here:
http://completeliberty.com
http://happinesscounseling.com/happiness-resources
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-virgin-diet-and-n-1-experiments-with-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/is-society-progressing
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/complete-liberty-with-wes-bertrand
Also mentioned during the show:
The War on Masturbation: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/22/1279622/-Mormons-Declare-War-on-Masturbation#
Needs and feelings inventory: http://www.cnvc.org/Training/feelings-inventory
http://www.cnvc.org/Training/needs-inventory
Statistics on the sad state of marriage: http://www.infidelityfacts.com/infidelity-statistics.html
How to pick a life partner (and how not to): http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner-part-2.html
The Four Horsemen of Marital Apocalypse: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Four-Horsemen-of-Marital-Apocalypse&id=613411
Nathaniel Branden = great stuff: http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Romantic-Love-Anti-Romantic-Age/dp/1585426253/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395261988&sr=1-1&keywords=the+psychology+of+romantic+love
Intimacy, a free ebook from Osho: http://baytalinsaan.com/ebooks/INTIMACY.pdf
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Greg and Priscilla Hunt from BetterMarriages.org join me to discuss marriage enrichment. Marriage enrichment is not like marriage counseling. Marriage counseling is triage for when a couple is in serious trouble. Marriage enrichment, on the other hand, is support for couples who are looking to improve their relationship and strengthen their connection, whether they’ve been married for 40 days or 40 years. It includes skills for healthy communication, creatively handling conflicts, increasing intimacy, and more. It includes a community of like-minded couples who learn from each other, modeling more effective behavior, who provide encouragement and support.
Find more from Greg and Priscilla here: http://www.bettermarriages.org
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http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/couples-communication-with-dr-warren-farrell
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/communication-with-pete-gerlach
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-trivium-and-non-violent-communication-with-darrell-becker
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Anna Perry, Executive Director of Seton Montessori Institute and Seton Montessori School, joins me to talk about the Montessori Method of education. We discuss the pros and cons of Montessori and relate some of our personal experiences with Montessori schools.
Find more from Seton Montessori here: http://setonmontessori.org/
Montessori Madness with Trevor Eissler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgN0lEh5IA
http://www.montessorimadness.com/
American Montessori Society: http://amshq.org/
Links to several research papers on Montessori, including the one from Angeline Lillard mentioned during the show: http://amshq.org/Publications-and-Research/Research-Library/Journal-Articles.aspx
In my first ever appearance on Two Beers with Steve I talked about Montessori schools: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/listener-interviews-part-1
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Kevin Koskella from the Freedom Lovin podcast joins me to discuss how he found freedom in an unfree world. We cover his six strategies for increasing personal freedom:
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Emotional freedom. This is the first step before anything else. He recommends Nathaniel Branden's work, Non-violent communication, and Acceptance therapy. Without breaking free in this realm, you won't be free anywhere else in life. Focus on this personal stuff first and go out from there.
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Travel. Traveling can open up new worlds. The world is not a scary place as it turns out.
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Figure out what you need to be happy. Keep those things, get rid of the stuff that doesn't make you happy. You will be freer when you purge like this.
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Become financially free. Don't let this be daunting. What are your priorities? People travel the world making $1000/month. That's freedom.
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Build a business but really think about what will bring you the most freedom. Online businesses offer the advantage of being able to live anywhere. Many businesses will give you less freedom. Watch out.
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Set up an anonymous New Mexico LLC and start using Bitcoin. Try to deal with banks and government agencies as little as possible, but don't break laws- there are too many other ways to be free to risk going to jail (Harry Browne talks a lot about this).
Find more from Kevin here:
http://www.freedomlovin.com/
https://twitter.com/freedomlovinguy
Harry Browne’s great book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World-ebook/dp/B007KTDHJK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391715651&sr=1-1&keywords=how+i+found+freedom+in+an+unfree+world
Harry Browne’s audio course: http://www.harrybrowne.org/AudioCourse.htm
Pete Gerlach’s work on Inner Family Systems therapy:
http://sfhelp.org/gwc/guide1.htm
http://www.youtube.com/user/gercacn?feature=watch
The works of Nathaniel Branden, including sentence completion exercises:
http://nathanielbranden.com/
http://nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-i
http://nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-ii
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Millionaire-Mind-Mastering-Wealth/dp/0060763280/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391700936&sr=1-1&keywords=secrets+of+the+millionaire+mind
Rich Dad, Poor Dad: http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680011/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391701712&sr=1-1&keywords=rich+dad+poor+dad
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Choice Conversations has an opening for an editor. Unfortunately my editor had to retire, and I simply do not have the time to do it myself. Podcasts may be few and far between if I don’t get some help! It is super easy, I can talk you through how to do it, it just consumes more time than I have available. If you enjoy the podcast and otherwise receive value from it, editing a few shows for me would be a great way to reciprocate and give value in return. Message me on facebook for details: https://www.facebook.com/ChoiceConversationsPodcast
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Steve Patterson interviews me about my quest for better health. We discuss my story, going from a 38 inch waste and extra large size tee-shirts to a 32 inch waste and small tee-shirts, all while eating as much food as I want, and having more energy! What is the paleo diet? Why are grains unhealthy? What is 80/20, and how does it make sticking with the paleo diet much easier? How does the vegan diet stack up against the paleo diet? We discuss all this and more.
For full disclosure’s sake, I misspoke when I said that as of last October (2013) I had been on the paleo diet for 3 years. October 2013 was actually the 2 year marker for how long I have been paleo. Sorry about that.
Here is a low commitment option -> Try Mark Sisson’s 21 Day Challenge: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-primal-blueprint-21-day-challenge-infographic/#axzz2rhi4bx79
Here is the podcast with Karen De Coster that started me down the road to the paleo lifestyle: http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/223-government-hates-good-health/
Here is my favorite health podcast. Underground Wellness is great for gaining exposure to many different concepts and topics on health and nutrition: http://undergroundwellness.com/radio/
My first, and still my favorite, paleo book: http://www.primalblueprint.com/product/The_Primal_Blueprint/Books_and_Media
Mark Sisson’s blog also has basically all of the same information that is in the book above, and it's available for free online: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/#axzz2rhi4bx79
Here is a great site, complete with a phone app, for tracking the food you eat, how much you exercise, etc: http://www.fitday.com/
Denise Minger was the woman I mentioned on the show who has done a great deal of work comparing the vegan diet to the paleo diet. Here is a presentation she did on the China Study: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsf9Tpm2Dgc
Susan Schenck is a woman who use to be a champion for veganism. She wrote books on how great it was. And then it stopped working for her, and when I say “stopped working” I’m putting it very nicely! She now writes books on how the vegan diet is awful, that you may feel great the first few years, but eventually the deficiencies catch up with you in a big way: http://undergroundwellness.com/podcasts/when-a-vegetarian-diet-doesnt-work/
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Choice Conversations has an opening for an editor. Unfortunately my editor had to retire, and I simply do not have the time to do it myself. Podcasts may be few and far between if I don’t get some help! It is super easy, I can talk you through how to do it, it just consumes more time than I have available. If you enjoy the podcast and otherwise receive value from it, editing a few shows for me would be a great way to reciprocate and give value in return. Message me on facebook for details: https://www.facebook.com/ChoiceConversationsPodcast
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Professional wrestler Glenn Jacobs, who goes by the ring name of Kane in the WWE, joined me on New Year’s Day 2014 for a great discussion. Glenn told me about his journey, getting into professional wrestling, and how that impacted the growth of his political and economic views. We then took a hard look at the Federal Reserve, the NSA, and the TSA. Was 9/11 not a big deal? Is the public school system undermining American freedom? How far is the USA from Soviet-style totalitarianism? Can the internet save us?
Listen to how Glenn and I ring in the New Year and “celebrate” the 100th birthday of the Federal Reserve. :)
Find more from Glenn here:
https://twitter.com/JacobsReport
http://jacobsreport.com/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/author/glenn-jacobs/?post_type=article
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Steve Patterson joins me for the greatly anticipated Dog Whisperer show. We discuss the TV program The Dog Whisper, and very quickly the conversation turns toward comparing the techniques Cesar Millan uses to train dogs to the tactics parents use to control their children. Are there parenting lessons to be learned from Cesar? What is human nature? Is it hierarchical as is the nature of canines?
And just what exactly does Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter have to do with all of this? You’ll have to listen to find out! :)
This is Choice Conversations’ first Christmas episode, recorded Christmas Eve 2013. Happy Holidays to all the wonderful listeners! It is truly a privilege to have this opportunity to connect, share, and learn with you.
Here is the podcast mentioned on today’s show with Wes Bertrand and Darrel Becker where we discussed whether or not Non-Violent Communication went against human nature: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/judgment-and-responsibility-with-darrell-becker-and-wes-bertrand
Here are previous podcasts on parenting:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-world-is-our-classroom-with-miro-and-lainie
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/webpage/category/Parenting
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Miro and Lainie from the Raising Miro on the Road of Life travel blog and podcast join me for a wonderful conversation. Lainie and her son tell me all about their life on the road in South America, living outside of the main stream, unschooling, or “world schooling” as they call it, using travel as a tool for education for both son and mother. In addition to education, much time is spent discussing the partnership that is required for successful, fulfilling parenting.
Plus we find out which HP Lovecraft tale is Miro’s favorite! :)
Find more from Miro and Lainie here: http://www.raisingmiro.com/
Previous podcasts on travel:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-1
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-2
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Carson and Jeff from Bardcast, the Shakespeare podcast, join me to discuss the life and works of William Shakespeare. This is a fun conversation where we discuss why we love Shakespeare, and attempt to answer questions like “Is Shakespeare still relevant today?” and “Was Shakespeare a racist?” In addition, we spend some time talking about the glorious rock star life style us podcasters get to enjoy, and close it out with a short list of Carson’s favorite Shakespeare themed films and plays.
Find more from Carson and Jeff here: http://bardcast.blogspot.com/
We spend more time discussing King Lear than any of Shakespeare’s other plays, simply because it was the play I’d read most recently and had closest to the forefront of my mind. :) I should mention there are spoilers for King Lear in this podcast.
Here is the lecture on King Lear mentioned during the show:
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/king-lear-audio
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So bitcoin is a can’t miss investment that is guaranteed to go up, right? Steve Patterson joins me to discuss some of the reasons why that might not be the case. Is bitcoin too volatile to be a useful currency? Is bitcoin the AOL of cryptocurrencies? How do you perform a valuation of bitcoin as you would other investments? This fun conversation goes in many directions, covering topics like the Silk Road website, the NSA, pornography, gambling, privacy, competing currencies, and more.
Find out more about bitcoin here: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/episode-117-a-bit-about-bit-coin
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In this conversation Darrell Becker and Wes Bertrand joined me to tackle the topics of judgment and responsibility. I found that these two things, judgment and responsibility (or denial of responsibility as is often the case) often go together. We discuss how these topics handled using Non-violent communication (NVC), and go over many examples, including events in the news, sexism, the Free Domaain Radio podcast, and more!
Find more from Darrell here:
http://voluntaryvisions.blogspot.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-trivium-and-non-violent-communication-with-darrell-becker
Find more from Wes here:
http://completeliberty.com/
http://happinesscounseling.com/
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-virgin-diet-and-n-1-experiments-with-wes-bertrand
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/complete-liberty-with-wes-bertrand
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The conversation continues with Erik Townsend, as he tells us about his epic journey around the world.
Many topics are explored, including the following: How do the considerations differ when evaluating a place for snow birding verses a primary residence? Hawaii is a hell hole? Why not the Carribean? But isn’t Europe fiscally insolvent? What was it like living out of a suit case perpetually? What about our good friends in the TSA? What are some good survival tips for this type of traveling? What is the value in agility? And finally, what was Erik’s pick for a home base? What about a plan B in case things sour there? Conclusions?
Below are the travel destinations covered in this show:
Honolulu
San Sebastian
Paris
Cannes (France)
Monaco
Munich
The Italian country side
Montreal
And more on Hong Kong and Puerto Vallarta
If you missed part 1, you’ll find it here: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-1
Find more from Erik here:
http://www.eriktownsend.com/
http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/slow-motion-armageddon-with-erik-townsend
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/episode-10-green-shoots-erik-townsend-interview
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/getting-technical-with-townsend
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-argument-against-hyperinflation-with-erik-townsend
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/beyond-peak-oil-part-1-of-2
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/beyond-peak-oil-part-2-of-2
Looking for a house in Maine? Buy Erik’s house! http://www.eriktownsend.com/Latest/maine-waterfront-property-for-sale.html
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Erik Townsend is back, but this time to cover a different topic: world travel! Erik had spent his entire life living in the United States, and thought it was time to evaluate what the rest of the world had to offer. Erik tells us about his epic trip around the world, evaluating alternative residences.
Learn about the differences between traveling to a location for recreation and actually living there. Why is it that recognizing that a place is up and coming is not the same thing as determining it is a place where you’ll want to live? Find out that and much more, including what Erik liked and didn’t like about the following places:
Hong Kong
Thailand
Mexico City
Puerto Vallarta
Argentina
Chile
Australia
New Zealand
In order to keep the shows to a more readily digestible size, I broke the interview into two episodes. This is part one. Part two can be found here: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-search-for-greener-pastures-with-erik-townsend-part-2
Find more from Erik here:
http://www.eriktownsend.com/
http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour
Looking for a house in Maine? Buy Erik’s house! http://www.eriktownsend.com/Latest/maine-waterfront-property-for-sale.html
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Jae Jun from the Old School Value blog joins me to talk about value investing. We discuss what is value investing, as well as the importance of having a systematic approach. Jae tells us about some of the specifics to his investment strategy, including tactics to help prevent letting your emotions sabotage your ability to successfully manage your money.
You’ll find Jae’s blog, along with the great utilities and resources mentioned during the podcast, right here: http://www.oldschoolvalue.com/
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Erik Townsend returns to the show to discuss what he sees as a slow motion Armageddon. Yes, there are deep problems in the global financial system, but they’re not going to manifest overnight. It will play out over many years, as the United States uses financial repression to attempt to get out from under its debt load. What can you do to protect yourself?
Many other topics are explored in this enlightening interview: Syria, hypocrisy from Obama, gold and the likelihood of confiscation, the NSA and the police state, and the lack of critical thinking in the United States.
Find more from Erik here:
http://www.eriktownsend.com/
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By popular demand Andrew Horowitz is back! We discuss the Fed’s decision not to taper and how fundamentals are out the window right now if you’re trying to invest in these markets. Andrew talks about how technicals are the only thing working in this environment, and then provides some details of his technical based product Trigger Point Research. Trigger Point Research provides subscribers with detailed, actionable trades, where to get in, where to get out, sent directly to their phones the moment the markets give a signal.
Get a free trial here: http://triggerpointresearch.com/freetrial
After the 2 week free trial, Choice Conversations listeners get a 35% discount for the first month using the following coupon code: chrismoney
Thanks Andrew!
Find more from Andrew here: http://www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/andrew-horowitz-the-disciplined-investor
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Acclaimed author Warren Farrell joins me to discuss couples communication. We talk about how the human species evolved a certain reaction to criticism which was useful during more primitive times, but is no longer serving us in modern times as we try to have fulfilling marriages. The focus is primarily on communication with a life partner, but we dip into parenting, education, and communication with friends, co-workers, or anyone!
http://www.warrenfarrell.com/
Meet Warren in person! Scroll to the bottom to find his latest appearances, including the one discussed on the show in Big Sur: http://www.warrenfarrell.com/sample-page/
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Darrell Becker from Tragedy and Hope joined Steve Patterson and me to discuss merging the Trivium with Non-Violent Communication. This was a fun and fascinating journey into melding two seemingly very different things, a strategy for learning and a strategy for connecting with yourself and others, and finding that the sum of the parts creates something greater.
Darrell is the first person I’ve interviewed where he was the one to initiate contact. He’s been a long time listener, and it was a new and pleasurable experience to have a fan of the show on as a guest.
Find more from Darrell below:
Darrell’s blog: http://voluntaryvisions.blogspot.com/
Darrell on Tragedy and Hope, Merging the Trivium with NVC: https://www.tragedyandhope.com/history-merging-the-trivium-method-with-nvc/
Darrell on Unplugged Mom: http://www.unpluggedmom.com/umradio-podcast/8654/
Below you’ll find more information on the topics we discussed:
Previous podcasts on the Trivium:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/episode-115-the-trivium-education-with-jan-irvin
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/episode-116-gene-odening-on-the-trivium
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/rhetoric-with-gene-odening
Non-Violent Communication: http://www.cnvc.org/
Parent Effectiveness Training: http://www.gordontraining.com/parent-programs/parent-effectiveness-training-p-e-t/
Previous podcasts on Parent Effectiveness Training: http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/the-basics-of-p-e-t
Pete Gerlach’s site on Inner Family Systems Therapy: http://sfhelp.org/gwc/guide1.htm
Previous podcasts with Pete Gerlach:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/breaking-the-cycle-with-peter-gerlach
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/five-personal-marital-and-family-hazards-with-pete-gerlach
42 Fallacies: http://aphilosopher.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/42-fallacies.pdf
Rhetorical Triangle: http://www.mrgunnar.net/ap.cfm?subpage=347030
The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost by Jean Liedloff: http://www.amazon.com/Continuum-Concept-Happiness-Classics-Development/dp/0201050714/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377811154&sr=1-1&keywords=jean+liedloff
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Wes Bertrand from the Complete Liberty Podcast joins me to talk about my personal experience with the Virgin Diet, as well as a general look at N=1 experiments. We spend a good bit of time discussing what makes for good science: removing bias, controlling variables, and so on, while mixing in my own anecdotal findings while trying JJ Virgin's elimination diet.
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Find more from Wes here:
http://completeliberty.com/
http://healthymindfitbody.com/
http://happinesscounseling.com/
http://logicallearning.net/
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Steve Patterson joined me for a free-flowing discussion, a “BS session” if you will. A potpourri of subjects was covered, including the following:
- Edward Snowden
- Bradley Manning
- traitors vs heroes
- The American Revolution
- 9/11
- critical thinking skills
- questioning authority (but I repeat myself)
- the economy
- What would you do if you were chairman of the FED?
- inflation
- competing currencies
- being bearish during a bull market
- the challenges of running a podcast
- being star struck
- setting major life goals
- success in sales
- debating politics
- The difference between progressives, conservatives, and libertarians
- “speed reading” audiobooks and podcasts with applications like stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/
Steve breaks up a bit for a minute or two in the middle of the podcast, but the audio quickly improves afterward. Don’t get discouraged, it won’t last long!
I was privileged to have the chance to speak with legendary investor Jim Rogers. Jim is one of my favorite authors, as his books are not only full of great investing advice, but they also hold a wealth of lessons that are useful in all facets of life. We spent much of the time talking about his latest book, Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets, which details his journey to this point in his life. It is quite possibly his best book yet!
Jim is a hero of mine, having already accomplished two of my personal goals. One, he “retired” from his day job, and then began “working” for himself investing his own money for a living. Two, he then became an accomplished world traveler. I too am working toward both of these goals.
I have to admit, I was a little star struck during the interview because I admire Jim so much. If I didn’t have a few talking points written down ahead of time this could have been a VERY short interview, as my mind was blank for much of the time. :) Fortunately, Jim cared the day and the show still turned out great.
Find more from Jim here:
http://www.jimrogers.com/
And definitely check out his books. Street Smarts and A Gift for my Children are required reading for anyone, not just those who are interested in investing:
http://www.jimrogers.com/books/listing/
Bumper music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA84aIAWEk
Andrew Craig, author of Own the World, is back for another great discussion. Andy starts by sharing his journey from working on “The Hill” in DC, to working as a broker in the banking industry, to starting his own business, and recently returning to investment banking. We learn how he developed his strategies for investing and get a small peak “under the hood” at some of the details of these strategies.
Check out Andy’s blog:
http://www.plainenglishfinance.com/
Bumper music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA84aIAWEk
Today, I’m joined by neurosurgeon Jack Kruse. Dr. Kruse used foundational laws of science to develop protocols to maximize hormones in the body and optimize health. This is done by timing when to eat, getting in tune with natural circadian rhythms, using cold thermogenesis, and most importantly utilizing labs.
Dr. Kruse tells out about the success he’s had, doing such amazing things as adding muscle mass without weight lifting and losing weight while eating more and exercising less! I considered titling this episode “Live Like a Polar Bear, Eat Like a Great White Shark.” :)
SPECIAL OFFER!!!!!!!!!!
Check out this spectacular offer from Dr. Kruse:
http://www.jackkruse.com/choice-conversation-special-offer/
Today’s show was just the tip of the iceberg. Find out more here:
http://www.jackkruse.com/
Bumper music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_850949&feature=iv&src_vid=XCxFTh-XDy8&v=SB9LXpO6yWo
Gene Odening comes back to continue the discussion of the trivium, this time focusing on rhetoric. Gene takes us on a walk through many topics: history, philosophy, psychology, politics, education, Non-violent Communication, and tying all of it back to the trivium. The show ends with Gene detailing ways you can increase your skill with rhetoric.
Trivium Resources:
http://www.triviumeducation.com/
http://www.gnosticmedia.com/triviumstudy
http://triviumbinder.blogspot.com/
http://www.unpluggedmom.com/tag/trivium/
http://www.triviumpursuit.com/
http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/t/29741.aspx
Rhetoric Resources:
http://librivox.org/rhetoric-by-aristotle/
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373312561&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+read+a+book
http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Rhetoric-Aristotle-Student-Guide/dp/1930953445/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373308400&sr=8-1&keywords=rhetoric+aristotle+student+guide
Also discussed during the show:
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/who-is-chris-stefanick
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/five-personal-marital-and-family-hazards-with-pete-gerlach
http://choiceconversations.libsyn.com/radical-unschooling-with-dayna-martin
http://www.cnvc.org/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle/dp/0345409469
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony
http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-History-Universe-Volumes-1-7/dp/0385265204
http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-History-Universe-Volumes-8-13/dp/0385420935/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cartoon-History-Universe-III/dp/0393324036/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y
Here are the show notes Gene promised during the interview:
“The comprehensive self-study course on Rhetoric is:
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Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle, Student Guide - by Martin Cothran (Note: the books Rhetoric by Aristotle & W. Rhys Roberts, as well as How To Read a Book by Adler & Van Doren are also required for this course.)
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Thumbnail sketch of Formal Rhetoric
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RHETORIC - Systematic Wisdom - persuasively expressing or using Knowledge (general grammar) and Understanding (Aristotelean logic).
(Definition of Art - Anything produced by the "arm" of man ["arm" is being used metaphorically to reference etymology]. This is, again, a broad definition that includes the concept of "fine art" which is the most popular connotation of "art". It can be either an idea having only mental existence or a physical art-ifact produced by the "arm" of man from an idea. An unwritten poem passed on from one person to another is an example of the former; a novel, an opera, a sculpture, a space shuttle, or the protocols of medicine are examples of the latter.)
Systematic Wisdom is not the art of persuasion and explanation itself, but the art of selecting the best means of persuasion and explanation from a set of known principles.
As a body of Knowledge has been gathered and arranged, and an Understandable summary or conclusion has been made from that arrangement, the choice of how best to communicate this information to others must be considered and, in the process, the subject being examined usually comes into a still sharper focus to the author of the propositional argument. At this point of clarity, the entire propositional argument can be called a "Statement of Rationale". That is, the conclusion, and - of equal importance - the thought processes behind that conclusion have been stated. In a modern context, what is often overlooked when considering the Wisdom Phase is that it can be more than a form of conceptual expression; i.e., of simply being the Art of Persuasion. In times past, civic matters were the major concerns, and the art of having others come to one's point of view was of paramount importance. Today, due to its product of mental clarity, rhetoric can also be used to provide a physical outcome by deducing a "Statement of Protocols" (a set of instructions) from the Statement of Rationale. A physical result or a man-ufactured artifact can be actualized by proceeding from Knowledge, to Understanding, and on through the Wisdom Phase. Again, this is a broader view of rhetoric than the view proposed by the ancients.
The elements of Systematic Wisdom are:
- The five stages (or what are called "canons") of composition:
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1] invention, 2] arrangement, 3] style, 4] memory, and 5] delivery.
- The three types of discourse: deliberative (political), judicial (forensic), and ceremonial (epideictic). They are related to time: future, past, and present tense, respectively.
The Past and Future belong to men; the eternally present Now belongs to the gods.
--Aristotle
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The three appeals: rational, emotional, and ethical. Stated more succinctly in Classical terms: the rational is the Logos of the proposition or argument being presented, the emotional is the Pathos of the audience, and ethical is the Ethos of the author or orator of the proposition.
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Types of proofs: inartificial (which is external, objective evidence), artificial (is subjectively devised or invented by the author of the proof or argument).
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The topics --
The common topics: genus or kind, comparison, and consequence.
The special topics: the right and expedient (deliberative), the just and unjust (forensic), praise and blame (epideictic).
Oration (Wisdom presented in formal speech)
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Arrangement: the five parts of classical oration: introduction (exordium), statement of facts, confirmation, refutation, and conclusion (peroration).
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Style: diction (selection of most appropriate words), sentences (length, type, and variety), rhetorical figures (schemes and figures of speech or tropes).
Skilled Wisdom authors can use the discipline in two senses. In its most fundamental form, Systematic Wisdom is the art of efficiently passing thoughts from one person to others. In its most effective form, it is the art of passing "validated" thoughts from one person to others.
The internet is a valuable adjunct to the concepts presented above. A simple word search on any of the technical terms listed should suffice to bring the proper clarification needed to implement a useful rhetorical dissertation.
A SUMMARY OF WISDOM / RHETORIC
The work of Wisdom is the cogently expressed communication of Knowledge and Understanding. It leads to a higher levels of knowledge and understanding: the knowing of Knowledge and the understanding of Understanding.
The effect of Wisdom is to demonstrate the usefulness of Knowledge and Understanding. That is, it is to display the insight - the thought process - in an article of persuasion or in the formulation of an outcome.
Through the skilled use of rhetoric, all planned human activity can be communicated and directed. This is a two edged sword. Rhetoric / Wisdom can be directed to beneficial or to malevolent goals.
Let us end by reviewing some of the personal benefits which are inherent in the Trivium Method. The following will be most efficiently and effectively realized by using the trivium to train the mind for critical and creative thinking: 1] the path to a challenging, productive livelihood can be intelligently defined; 2] sound physical and psychological health, a judicious ethical standard, a high level of self esteem and the sense of well-being can be optimized; 3] rewarding personal relationships will manifest through the cultivation of beneficial ethics and well being; and 4] the astuteness to best discern the issues (i.e., the quality of information) regarding security will be developed. That is only the beginning. An adherent of the Method can acquire elevated levels of penetrating insight which would otherwise not be available. Through that insight he can also self-teach the contents of a propositional argument or of an entire, formalized subject of knowledge if he chooses to bring his - likewise - heightened focus to doing so. When a culture's government, education systems, and news media are not corrupt, the constant need for "fact checking" is not as critical as it is during the periods of dis-information and propaganda like that which we are currently experiencing. The trivium is the premier method for independent fact checking. The next two benefits of insight are corollaries: 1] a person is truly educated in that he can now thoroughly entertain any idea without necessarily embracing it (this was an observation made by Aristotle); and, 2] traveling somewhat in another direction, he becomes free from the prison of his own prejudicial opinions ... he obtains an open mind. Because the trivium harmonizes subjective thought with objective reality, he could, in fact, develop new and original propositional arguments and entire bodies of knowledge as competently as those respected people who have preceded him. An integral person, one who is fully mindful, is limited only by his or her interests and ambitions.
He is happy, as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something --
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ”
Bumper music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA84aIAWEk
Liz Wolfe joins me to discuss healthy skin and hair. She provides us with practical, natural solutions that you can make at home for shaving, hair care, and more! There is much more where this came from at her sites below. Check them out!
Liz’s sites:
http://cavegirleats.com/
http://skinterventionguide.com/
http://balancedbites.com/podcast
As discussed during the show:
http://purelyprimalskincare.com/easy-homemade-toner-for-sensitive-skin/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vitamin-Solution-Strategy-Problems/dp/0452296889
Bumper music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ucKaYr7h4
Steve Crandall joins me to discuss Leader Effectiveness Training, as developed by Thomas Gordon. LET is a method of communication and conflict resolution that enables anyone who has been placed in a leadership position to get better results and to do it in a manner that is pleasant for both the leader and their followers. It is based on the same principals as Gordon’s Parent Effectiveness Training, which of course has been mentioned numerous times on the show.
To find out more from Steve go to his website:
http://www.crandallpartners.com/
Or send Steve an email:
steve@crandallpartners.com
Gordon Training International’s site a tremendous resource for LET:
http://www.gordontraining.com/
Gordon's essay What Every Leader Should Know:
http://www.gordontraining.com/wp-content/uploads/What%20Every%20Leader%20Should%20Know%202012.pdf
Bumper music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9LXpO6yWo
Stefan Molyneux is back, and this time we discuss his fantastic novel The God of Atheists. I had a ton of fun talking about this book with Stefan, and if you’ve not yet read it, don’t worry, this episode does not contain any spoilers.
And if you’ve not yet read The God of Atheists, I have to ask why not? This novel is truly a masterwork, the most important work of fiction since The Fountain Head. You’ve got to read this book!
The paperback version can be found here:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/stefan-molyneux/the-god-of-atheists-softcover/paperback/product-1775028.html;jsessionid=E620D82D6A8242A91415F77BAECF6534
PDF and audio versions of the book are available for gold donors on Stef's website:
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Donate.aspx
Bumper music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j1sxvun384
Steve Patterson co-hosts with me as we talk to Alfie Kohn, the best-selling author of many books on parenting and education. We spend a large portion of the show discussing how using punishments and rewards, carrots and sticks, teaches children that they are only loved under certain conditions, they are only valuable when they do good. There are many ramifications of this approach, none of which are desirable. We also discuss some of the flaws of the public education system, how it crushes the natural desire of children to learn.
Find more from Alfie Kohn here: http://www.alfiekohn.org/index.php
Bumper music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM
In this show I speak with Seth Andrews, author of Deconverted: a Journey from Religion to Reason, and founder of the website and podcast The Thinking Atheist.
We talk about Seth’s journey from being a Christian radio DJ to being a public advocate for truth, what proof is required to believe in a deity, free markets, and more!
Please visit Seth’s wonderful site and buy his book:
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/
Bumper music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA84aIAWEk
Andrew Horowitz joins me to discuss investing in the financial markets. He talks about his journey working in the industry the last 20 plus years and how much things have changed. We discuss the economy, and learn what do you do when the economy and the market send you different signals.
Find more from Andrew here:
http://www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com
Bumper music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdQzCq53XE
With Mother’s Day looming, there is no better time to have on one of my favorite mothers, Adele Faber. In this show, we both share stories about our experience as parents. Adele talks about the new edition of her best seller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids will Talk and provides us with scores of sage advice.
You can find Adele here: http://www.fabermazlish.com/
And her books here: http://www.fabermazlish.com/publications.php
Bumper music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI
Sean Croxton teaches us about JERF, Just Eat Real Foods. We learn exactly what real food is, how our friends sabotage us when we’re trying to lose weight, why it’s important to have good reasons to get healthy, the importance of sleep, and how Sean gained a fear of planes!
You can find Sean below:
http://undergroundwellness.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/btr-underground-wellness-show/id296766401
http://www.youtube.com/undergroundwellness
https://twitter.com/ugwellness
https://www.facebook.com/undergroundwellness
Bumper music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM
I welcome back Pete Gerlach to discuss psychology and self-help. We cover his great article “Five Epidemic Personal, Marital, and Family Hazards”:
http://sfhelp.org/hazards.htm
Here is the link to his free 7 lesson self-improvement course mentioned during the show:
http://sfhelp.org/pop/course.htm
Pete’s youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/gercacn/videos?view=1&flow=grid
Pete provides phone consultations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznYTHZGjps&feature=player_embedded
Or find a local therapist who specializes in IFS therapy (Inner Family systems):
http://www.selfleadership.org/find-an-ifs-therapist.html
An interview with Dr. Faye Snyder about RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MrVq-3UviY
Bumper music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI
Two Beers with Steve has now become the Choice Conversations podcast. In this show we learn about the host’s journey; how he unplugged from the matrix.
Below are links to several items mentioned during the show.
Peter Gerlach’s “Break the Cycle” website: http://sfhelp.org/pop/course.htm
Wes Bertrand and Complete Liberty: http://completeliberty.com/
The Market for Liberty free audio book: http://podiobooks.com/title/the-market-for-liberty/
True News 13: Statism is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P772Eb63qIY
“The Law” by FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT: http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf, http://mises.org/media/2648/The-Law (audio version)
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne: http://www.amazon.com/How-Found-Freedom-Unfree-World/dp/0965603679/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366068892&sr=1-1&keywords=how+i+found+freedom+in+an+unfree+world
Nathaniel Brandon sentence completion exercises:
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/exercises/
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/exercises/sentence-completion-i/
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/exercises/sentence-completion-ii/
Bumper music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA84aIAWEk
Our guest this week is Andy Craig, CEO & Founder of Plain English Finance. We talk about his book “Own the World,” which is about the importance of learning to invest; why everyone can and should manage their own money.
Learn more about Andy at his blog: http://plainenglishfinance.com/
Here are links to the free newsletters Andy mentions during the show:
http://www.stansberryresearch.com/products#podcasts
http://agorafinancial.com/
This show is a short conversation Steve and I had while waiting to interview Andy Craig. We talked about parenting, specifically Alfie Kohn’s great book Unconditional Parenting. Since the topic of this opening discussion was dramatically different then the topic of our interview of Andy Craig (which was finance/investing), I decided to break the discussion up into two separate podcasts.
Here is a link to Wes Bertrand’s reading of the book Unconditional Parenting, as discussed during the show:
http://completeliberty.com/magazine/read/episode-137---unconditional-parenting-part-one_143.html
This week Dan Carlin joins us to mix a little history into the discussion. Dan is the host of a political podcast called Common Sense, as well as one on history called Hardcore History. On the latter, he recently did a series on the Mongol empire, and that is the discussion for today’s show.
I had a blast doing this show, getting to pick Dan’s brain on a variety of points about the colorful story of the Mongols. Check out his web site for more:
http://www.dancarlin.com/
In this week's show we revisit a question from the last podcast, is society truly progressing? To help us answer the question we have a round table discussion. Hosts Steve and Chris are joined by previous guests Wes Bertrand of the Complete Liberty Podcast and Brett Veinotte from the Schools Sucks Project. Listen to the show to discover why we almost titled this episode "The Philosophy of Hookers."
http://schoolsucksproject.com/
http://completeliberty.com/
Steve returns from vacation to engage in one of the more unusual podcasts we have ever done. Steve subjects Chris Stefanick to a scenario in which he changes the incentives of the scenario through a series of questions.
Recently Steve has been experimenting with this series of questions in an effort to expose the perverse incentives behind government redistribution. Obviously the experiment is still evolving and Steve would gladly accept different scenarios and questions to add to his experiments. If you are interested in helping out just contact us at twobeerswithsteve@hotmail.com
On today’s show we talk to Dayna Martin, the UnNanny. We discuss her book, Radical Unschooling, and the odyssey she has been on with her family living the life style. It was amazing to hear how different life can be if you do not follow the main stream paradigm.
I encourage you to check out more of the great work she is doing:
http://daynamartin.com
This week’s guest is Wes Bertrand from the Complete Liberty podcast. We cover psychology, ethics, parenting, statism, nutrition; seemingly no topic is off limits!
Wes is so well rounded he has four different websites, each with a different focus. I encourage you to explore them.
http://completeliberty.com/
http://happinesscounseling.com/
http://healthymindfitbody.com/
http://logicallearning.net/
Pete Gerlach joined us once again, this time to talk about the skill of communication. We discuss reasons people communicate, skills needed to communicate effectively, and a few of the more than 30 communication blocks that he details on his website. Here is a link to his "Lesson 2" study guide on effective communication: http://sfhelp.org/cx/guide2.htm Here are links to his youtube playlists on communication: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB607BA268DCAFD5D http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7BC5FBF046A1CFCE
Brett Venoitte of The School Sucks Project joins us to discuss the reason why he does not call our school system the 'Education System', the chief reason is that education is not the goal of our current school system. Brett elaborates on how he does not think reforming our current system will do any good.
Along with many criticisms of the current public school system Brett also gives his vision of restoring critical thinking skills into a truly educational system, something our current system lacks.
We invited Peter Gerlach to talk about his 7 Self-Help Improvement Lessons.
1) Free your wise resident true Self and reduce two to six "wounds."
2) Learn effective thinking and communication basics and skills
3) Learn to practice healthy three-level grief
4) Learn how to choose and maintain high-nurturance relationships
5) Learn how to evolve and maintain high-nurturance families
6) Learn kids' needs and effective parenting basics and skills
7) Use lessons 1-6 to evolve a high-nurturance stepfamily
On today's show we talk to Judy Pardo, a psychotherapist and certified P.E.T. instructor. She tells us about the parenting method's presented in the wonderful book by Thomas Gordon, Parent Effectiveness Training, and the work she does with parents and children in New York City.
You can find more about Judy here: www.villageparenting.com
Gordon Training International's website is a great resource for the P.E.T. method: www.gordontraining.com
Tom Woods the historian, economist, and political analyst joins Chris and I on Two Beers With Steve to discuss his latest venture The Liberty Classroom. A first of it's kind on-line education forum that aims to educate Liberty-minded individuals while at the same time arming the students with tools for debating.
Tom refers to Liberty Classroom as teaching the Real Version of history and the Real Version of economics and when I challenged him on what he was implying Tom responds that he is not implying anything at all, that instead he is explicitly stating that the current narrative taught in public schools and universities is flawed and incorrect at times and goes unchallenged.
The co-hosts of the popular Zen Parenting Radio Podcast join Chris and I for a hearty discussion on Parenting. Cathy and Todd Adams discuss their particular way of being self-aware parents and how they overcome the daily challenges of being responsible parents.
Some takeaway points from this podcast are:
-Parenting is "simple... but not easy"
-Steve provides a really bad sports analogy
-How to handle not becoming "offended" when a child yells back at you or disrespects the parent
-We spend a good bit of time talking about the partnership of parents and how important that is, and also how to manage that relationship in a healthy way
Steve's Aftershow Deep Thoughts:
Oddly (but not so oddly), I walked away from this interview noticing a parallel between 'Parenting Podcasts' and 'Business Management Podcasts' because they both share the same language and structure. Both topics are about empowering the individual who is being managed to be free and creative but yet there is always a need for safe boundaries. Both topics tackle the issue of establishing order. Both topics understand that a reward system is necessary. Both topics understand that discipline must be catered to foster learning from the example (the fear of punishment is a powerful motivator to curb behaviors but not so much a motivator to be innovative).
Management and parenting may just be one in the same. Is there a relationship between how we treat children and how we treat adults? Are there universal behaviors and treatments that can be gleaned from one topic and transferred to the other topic?
Obviously, I will concede that this may not always be the case (diaper changing for example) but in most situations you can transfer a success/failure example in the parenting realm and achieve a relative success/failure in the business realm. It certainly is worth noting and experimenting with in your personal life.
Until next time... take care.
Steve
Stefan Molyneux joins my co-host and I for a discussion about injecting philosophical morals and ethics into our parenting. Stefan introduces and describes what it means to be a 'Philosohical Parent' and reminds us that the relationship between the parent and child is unique in it's structure and therefore we must recognize this disparity of power and respect it.
After a short introduction to the topic I quiz Stefan on how he would handle this situation and that situation in which Stefan responds with several tools that he uses. After a few short discussions of 'how-to's' Stefan realizes that not all tools are fool-proof and universal and will require preparation on the part of the parent, thus requiring a parent to be vigilant and aware. Stefan then brings the discussion back to the morals and ethics of these examples.
We end this episode strangely enough, gushing and fawning over the work of Stefan Molyneux. He is afterall the 'King of All Content' and has recorded thousands of hours of media, which could easily dominate one's thinking and spare time. Maybe I should have quizzed him on his rise to the position as 'Cult Hero' in the Libertarian scene, but I failed to do so... maybe next time.
Cronyism + Capitalism = Crapitalism.
Chris and I recap the election briefly and talk about the future of the Republican Party.
Once every four years I became fully engaged in the "political super-cycle" and this time around is no different. In this episode I focus my energy on the topic of debating. After my interest was picqued through the Presidential Debates I went searching for other debates and found this debate "Stefan Molyneux vs. Sam Seder" and decided to record a podcast on the material brought up in the debate.
In this debate Molyneux and Seder debate Libertarinism and in my opinion Seder is the victor, though his victory was purely a victory of debating "style" rather than "substance". Seder was able to disarm Molyneux from some of his more effective arguments before he had the chance to fully engage them.
For this reason of losing on style rather than substance I decided to discuss the common pitfalls of defending Libertairinism and how to counter the arguments.
How could we not talk about the debates? The political season is upon us and which war-monger shall we choose?
You'll hear my synopsis of the past two debates and why none of it really matters. Also, should I vote or should I not vote?
Beyond our discussion about the debates we also talk about my book recommendation Albions Seed and why I chose this particular novel to read. The discussion surrounding the book brings us to a larger discussion about the founding of this country.
After an extended break I (think I) will be back on a semi-regular basis putting out shows. I've reformatted the show down to 30 minutes (or so) in an effort to get me back in the podcast-o-sphere.
This episode is a meandering conversation with Chris Stefanick on various topics. As you might imagine I am a bit rusty on podcasting but I will get back into the swing of things before long.
Steve
A while has passed since our last podcast but after a long break I'm back with a podcast about Bit Coin.
Bit Coin is a digital currency that is not affiliated with any person, country, or nation. It is an independently operating currency that is very much still in it's infancy after almost four years of being circulated. But in this interview Brian Nugent explains that Bit Coin is not just some passing fancy, it is actually an emergent technology that has the momentum to upend the current monetary system... or to out it more bluntly, the current monetary regime.
This interview is an eye-opening look into what could very well be the future of money. Please don't miss this informative podcast.
Why is it that I've focused the last two podcasts on the Trivium (and soon to be three podcasts)?
The reason is that I think it is vitally important to understand this ancient form of understanding so that we may better interpret the world around us. The Trivium teaches a systematic and methodical approach to learning.
Whenever we come upon new information our minds intuitively begin dissecting it, but can our intuition (or gut feeling) be trusted? Are we wired correctly? Where did we receive our intuition? These are questions I cannot answer completely. Is it our culture? Is it our education? Is it genetic?
The Trivium is a conscious thought based approach to overcome our built-in programming. We can consciously make a choice to re-wire our intuition so that we categorize information and then dissect it from a more methodical standpoint.
This is mind-altering stuff, yet it seems so simple and basic. I know that many listeners feel the same way because after the last show with Jan I received more thank-you's than I have ever had about a podcast. Many of the comments were similiar to mine, the Trivium is simple and basic yet mind-blowing.
Steve
Jan Irvin, host of the popular Gnostic Media podcast stops by to talk about the Trivium education. This podcast covers a general overview of what the Trivium is and how a knowledge of the Trivium can help you discern what is 'true' from what is fallacious.
The Trivium is an ancient method of critical thinking that has three components; grammar, logic, and rhetoric. These three components make up the only three of the seven Liberal Arts. The other four concepts are covered in the Quadrivium (but we did not cover that in this episode).
Jan explains how the sophisticated class (the elites, the sophists, the powerful) has employed the Trivium to use mind control over the lower classes of society. Due to the fact that the educated class has access to better critical thinking skills they employ techniques to manipulate the minds of the less educated. Think of advertisements, campaign slogans, and government propaganda.
With a knowledge of the Trivium (which can be self-taught and is easily accesible) anyone can quickly learn techniques to identify logical fallacies and propaganda.
An introspective podcast into the results of what happens when I tell myself the story of 'how bad things could get'. Is this a dangerous activity? Will I follow the path of the Unabomber? Can I be a functional member of society?
This week I interview Aaron Hawkins of the website Waiting For The Storm.
I don't know how I came upon Aarons videos and website but I am glad that I did. Aaron does what few revolutionaries are capable of doing; condensing their complex message down to a 3 minute video that is Facebook-able (ie. pasting the video into Facebook and having people actually watch it).
Where this interview was intended to go is not where it ended up and I'm glad we discussed what we did... but... there is still plenty to talk about with Aaron (am I hearing a part two?). We eventually settled upon the topic of awakening people to Aarons message and whereas I am sceptical of claims of internet videos making a difference, Aaron defended his position that it is possible and desperately needs to be done, albiet it needs to be done correctly.
The book 'The Crowd' by Gustave Le Bon is available for free download on Amazon for your Kindle or E-Book reader.
Chris and I once again analyze the book Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlett.
We don't complete the entire book but after three episodes we felt the need to move on to more current topics. Besides, I finished this book weeks ago and I want to discuss other things (selfish, I know).
Chris and I once again dig into Chapters 4 & 5 of Hazletts book 'Economics in One Lesson'.
This episodes voice quality was lower than usual but it will be repaired for our third installment of this book review.
I apologize for the long lag between episodes but I am currently very busy with many different projects and have little time for accomplishing everything that is on my to-do lists.
Please email all comments and suggestions to twobeerswithsteve at hotmail.com
Steve
I am trying something new here by examining the book 'Economics in One Lesson' by Henry Hazlett.
My guest, Chris Stefanick, and I dissect this book chapter by chapter and make commentary on the One Lesson presented by Henry Hazlett.
This podcast is meant to be educational while also keeping in the tradition of Two Beers of Steve, which means I have to be entertained as well.
You can either listen along without having read the book or you can pick up a copy and join in the conversation by writing into the show... we'd love to hear from you.
{I'm writing my email this way to avoid an insane amount of spam}
twobeerswithsteve (at) hotmail dotcom
I hope you can decode my email.
Steve
EAT TO LIVE by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. That book and that doctors name have been uttered around this house so many countless times. That book changed the way we eat, the way that we view food, and the way that we view our bodies. Now is he the Guru of Health and Diet? I would argue that he is not and decades (maybe even generations of study) are needed to determine why he is right and why he is wrong.
In this short vignette I open up about the way that I eat and the reasons we do so. I also admit the possibility that the way we eat may not be the optimal diet... but... I argue that we are headed in the right direction.
Take care, have a happy new year, and if you have questions about the Eat To Live diet, my wife and I would be glad to respond.
I discovered Lee Camp on the aggregator site, Knowledge is Asking the Right Questions, and for a few months I caught his videos when they were posted. His videos were aptly titled 'A Moment of Clarity' because of the fact that he shreds apart the Logical Fallacies so evident in politics and the media nowadays. Comedians like Lee Camp (and to an even greater extent, Jon Stewart) are rightly raising their eyebrows at the rhetoric being pumped out of the Big Brother speakers.
Lee Camps Moment of Clarity Videos and Podcasts
Lee Camp on Fox News 'A Festival of Ignorance'
Another vignette that was recorded as I was driving down the road. I announce that I will be interviewing comedian Lee Camp who is morally responsible for the excellent YouTube video series 'The Moment of Clarity'. I discovered his work through some postings on the aggregator site. Knowledge is Asking the Right Questions.
Just me and my Iphone App, recording a vignette as I sit in my office.
The argument I am making, "The Tea Party is Based on False Premise", is one that I make often to people who associate themselves with the Tea Party. Needless to say, I don't get invited back to Tea Party parties.
The song I chose for close out the show is 'The Debtor' by Miles Benjamin Anthony. His entire album is great but this song in particular stands out above the rest.
Dr. Michael Labossiere joins me in a discussion concerning Logical Fallacies. For the unintiated Logical Fallacies are, roughly speaking, an error in reasoning.
My interest in this topic came from a passing comment made by a guest on another podcast I was listening to, he mentioned that logical fallacies are ever-present in commercials. This piqued my curiosity and I explored the topic further including Richard Gula's excellent book 'Nonsense: A Handbook for Logical Fallacies'.
I then sought after a guest that could come onto my show and illustrate the logical fallacies that we most commonly come across; ad hominum, appeal to emotion, appeal to the crowd, the fallacy of confidence, etc.. My search led me to Dr. Michael Labossiere, professor of Philosophy at Florida A & M and also author of two book on logical fallacies; '42 Logical Fallacies' and '30 More Fallacies'.
In this episode I wander over to Occupy Chicago and talk to a few individuals about the Occupy Movement. It was a great time and I recorded an interview with a flag waving veteran. I also spoke with some young gentleman which were a few of the folks that I had hoped to see at the Occupy movement; young, vigilant, curious, capable of listening and learning. That conversation was not recorded.
Once again Mandy Henk joins me on the show and once again I am talking about my guilty pleasure, discussing Occupy Wall Street. I was knee deep into the Tea Party activism, even with it's many flaws, but this time I'm head over heels for Occupy Wall Street, even with it's many flaws.
Mandy has Occupied Wall Street (via Zuccotti Park) on three seperate visits. Having been someone who has seen the movement grow into now what may very well be a revolution, I thought she would be a great guest to discuss the issue. Mandy illustrates the daily goings-on and what the feel of the crowd is. We discuss the logistics of going to the bathroom as well as describing the soap-boxing that goes on.
Nathan Martin joins me to discuss why he is supportive of Occupy Wall Street yet he thinks their focus should squarely be on the ownership of wh gets to control the production and distribution of this country's monetary unit.
100 episodes. That is alot of episodes.
Part 1 of 2 is The Great Big 'I Don't Know' and Part 2 is What Can Be Wrong About Resiliency
This is a two hour conversation split over two episodes, unedited, uncensored, and thoroughly entertaining. It was a return to our roots of having roundtable discussions about anything we damn well feel like talking about. It is what I like to call the Zen of Two Beers of Steve...
Enjoy...
Steve
Oh, how I love doing the podcast! I have missed it over the summer but the tradeoff is that I get to spend almost every free minute with the kids and working in the garden; learning and shaping my knowledge for another fruitful year. I believe that everything that I spend my precious little free time must be used towards creating something of value.
You might be asking how watching Mad Men episodes fit within that 'creating value' mantra. Well, I watch those episodes sitting beside my wife and afterwards we analyze the episodes and discuss the traits that each character possesses and what drives them. Those conversations are helpful ways in connecting with my wife on a different level from our careers, finances, or the children.
Everyone can have afford themselves a little fun, you just have to know to use that entertainment to better yourself and your relationships.
In this episode I drink a cup of coffee and tear into the microphone for 40 minutes. I follow that stream of consiouscness that is SO Two-Beersy-like. Comments are encouraged but you'll have to email me directly. My address is twobeerswithsteve (at) hotmail.com.
I'd love to hear from ya'.
Stev e
I know, I know, the world is goig to hell in a handbasket at the moment... the market volatility is frightening! But what are we are going to do about it? What is the best advice that anyone can give you right now?
In this discussion, which was taped on the eve of the market collapse (and then it's eventual snap back up), I talk with Charles Hugh Smith on his new book The Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times (available now on Amazon in Kindle format). CHS explains the effects that globalization and centralization of power has had on our global economy and how he thinks the pendulum is going to be swinging in the other direction... and soon. Maybe not this week kinda soon, but within this next decade kinda soon. So how do you prepare for that?
CHS gives probably the best advice one can give during these uncertain times, invest in yourself. Sounds easy right? But what does it mean to invest in yourself and what must you consider when you make such a bold move. There are consequences to investing in yourself that need to addressed... and I can't wait to read all about it in his latest book
The enticement of CHS's latest book (since it is only in Kindle format at the moment) pressured me into purchasing a tablet reader, and so I am one of 'those guys' now. Et tu Steve, et tu?
Steve
This is the second part of my listener conversations. This time my guest is Tim Flood of El Paso, TX. Tim is a long time listener of Two Beers With Steve and fellow Chris Martenson Forum contributor.
In this episode we focus in on how a regular Joe Six Pack has taken preparations in his own life to preparre for an uncertain future. We discuss gardening, investing, food storage, water filtering and home brewing.
After a long break, I was able to catch up with Nelson Lebo. After a long monologue introduction by yours truly we launch into a discussion about building raised the beds the fast, cheap, and easy way. Hidden in this episode are a boatload of helpful hints on backyard gardening and homesteading.
Enjoy the episode, I leave for vacation tomorrow and hopefully I will get back on the horse again and knock out a few great episodes so that I can get to that coveted 100th episode. I think we will have a roundtable discussion with the guys that we first started with... I may also pester my wife to join us. Who knows...
Steve
I finally reached the point at which I feel the need to tell Two Beers Nation that I have taken a long extended leave of absence. I have an episode ready to publish but the editing touches have seemed too much like work in the past month, so I've ignored my internet duties.
I'll be back and I think the conversation will evolve. I think long time listeners and philosopher kings know where I am headed next... towards the solution, onward and upwards.
At the moment I am clearly way behind the eight ball for which I put myself under. Many of my current projects are firmly in line with the goals of my show and what I've talked about for the last two years. I need to be part of the society pursuing an answer, I don't need to be part of the society that groans and mumbles about what 'they are doing to us'.
Part of the answer I am pursuing is to immerse myself into building a community that has their eyes on a very different future. It is going to be a very long and slow process and will require alot of me. I apologize for the absence but I have not 'gone away', there are plenty of great podcasts to keep you busy until I get my groove-on again.
C-Realm
KunstlerCast
Freedomain Radio
EconTalk
Common Sense with Dan Carlin
Truth About Markets with Max and Stacey
Get back to work,
Steve
In the next couple of episodes I will be talking to members of the 2BwS audience as we approach the 100th episode of the show. I am always interested by the level of honesty and intelligence of the people that listen to this show. A few times a week I receive emails from listeners where they detail their life, it always fascinates me. it reminds me that my show goes out into the internet cyberspace but yet lands into the Ipods, MP3 players, computer speakers of real people, who seem to think along the same lines as me.
In this episode I speak with sculptor Bill Hopen of Hopen Studios. Please check out his website for images of his work. I was blown away by the quality of his works, if I had known the scale of his works I would've spent more time discussing his body of work. Guess we'll have to talk to him again...
I also speak with Chris Stefanick in this episode, an IT manager from Durham, NC. Chris is a long time listener who I met up for lunch one day while I was in NC. Not so great food but the conversation was hard to pull myself away from. I always like to engage with listeners. Chris is a fellow peer who is raising children during this period of massive social change. His constant reminders that I should consider a guest on education are finally starting to throttle me into action. I think he's right on about that.
In this episode I talk about how I had my car broken into and the valuable contents inside were stolen. I move frlom talking about the physical possessions to the psychological effects of having been violated. I also expand the discussion into talking about how this is the world into which we may see much more of this type of crime as more and more people become desperate to make ends meet.
I read listener emails and make comments based on their thoughts. A listener asks me to talk about the farmers market and I talk at length about how things are going and some of the problems I have had thus far. I expand that discussion into talking about how I am going to start giving speeches about 'intentional communities' (knowing full well that hippies from the early 1970's used that same term to describe their utopian dream-states).
This is a very unpolished and raw edition of Two Beers With Steve. I wish that I had a more polished approach to talking about topics at length, but I simply don't have the training and I don't have the time. Once the record button is hit, no matter how much I want to try to get my speaking pattersn clear, the um's and the ummm's and the ya' knows just come naturally out of my my mouth. Take my speech patterns with a grain of salt and enjoy...
After a few weeks away from podcasting I return with Gonzalo Lira for a random conversation where we cover many topics such as Silver, Osama, Homeland Security, Freedom, and Generational Breakdown.
You may have already noticed but I disabled comments for my show because I was recieving between 30-40 spams daily. Since few people even used the feature ( I appreciate those that did, and I ready every comment) I felt the feature ended up being a big time waster for me (having to delete all those junky ads). If you want to contact me you can do it directly at twobeerswithsteve at hotmail.com.
Enjoy the show as much as I did recording it. I love to engage in conversation like this anfrom time to time as a way to post a great show in very short time period.
This week I speak with Darcy Menard, host of the podcast Stumbling Homestead. We center our discussion around Darcy's transition from a career minded professional to a sustainable farmer (in training). In our conversation we hit many of the high-points that many people wrestling with the transition often go through; talking with the spouse, relating with friends and peers, dealing with children, etc..
We also discuss home schooling, Excalibur dehydrators, and Berkey Water Purification Systems.
Chris Martenson returns to Two Beers With Steve to talk about his new book, The Crash Course. The new book provides a much needed update to his video series by the same name but also delves deeper into the subject matter and the book includes many more topics not discussed in the video.
Since Chris' website is the first website that I have ever have posted a comment on, I must admit that I am preferential to his audience and to his content. Be that as it may, I think in this interview I was able to steer Chris away from many of the talking points to which I know that he has grown accustomed to talking about. This diversion into topics such as his thoughts on the effect of the growth based paradigm have on our culture and his feelings towards complexity prove to be some of the best moments in the interview.
Listen to the podcast, buy the book, pass it on to a friend who is just starting to question r'eality'.
Steve Crower and Erik Townsend come together in a two part episode that looks at the energy industry and how it will come when we have gone beyond Peak Oil.
This week I am joined once again by Gonzalo Lira to discuss his theory of the Lira Principle.
I am joined this week by Paul Wheaton. Paul Wheaton is the host of the largest permaculture website in the world, www.richsoil.com
This episode is filled with useful tips from the permacultural front. During the podcast, Paul talked about his lawn care philosophies, permaculture and diatomaceous earth. He gives a quick overview of his articles on ants and aphids, Sepp Holzer, hugelkultur and flea control
In addition to the helpful info you will acquire by listening to this podcast, listeners may also be thrilled by the amount of chops-busting and hard-times that Paul and I gave each other. I don't know how that happened, it just seemed natural for both of us to take playful jabs at one another. We actually got along famously... I think.
Like most of my guests, Paul is a guest I will have to have back on in the future. I was fascinated by the seminars he hosts that highlight how a permaculturist can make $200,000 by working the land and his/her livestock properly. Amen to that!
Low and behold I run in with one of the worlds most powerful and feared men... and I just wanted to pick him up and squeeze him like a child's teddy bear. He certainly has a media persona that does not match the man himself.
In this episode, which is more of a back-and-forth dialogue between Gonzalo Lira and myself, we discuss my chance encounter with the f*ck#ng mayor of Chicago and meander into side topics that add color to the main discussion.
To see the pics of Rahm, my wife, and me you can visit the Facebook fan page for Two Beers With Steve.
Anybody who is familiar with this podcast knows that I have investigated at great length the problems that we face. But eventually there came a time in which I had to do something and move forward and start looking at realisitic solutions. In this episode and in past episodes and alos in upcoming episodes I want to highlight the people who are going out there and making a difference at the local level. I want to know why they do it and how they do it. I want to know what they are doing and who is doing it with them. I think these podcasts can be an invaluable treasure for those interested in getting involved.
I was introduced to Aaron Wissener through Chris Bedford. Chris mentioned multiple times that Aaron was a go-getter and someone I definitely needed to talk to. He is the founder of a local organization in Muskegon, MI called Local Future. The mission of Local Future is to create local resilient communities but the organization really sprang out of Aaron's realization that Peak Oil was a reality and that the reality of Peak Oil would have real world implications. Therefore Aaron saw a need to organize people around the idea of resilient communities.
In this episode Allan Balliett introduces me to the new term BioDynamics(or is it an ancient term as old as civilization itself?). Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms, emphasizing balancing the holistic development and interrelationship of the soil, plants, animals as a self-nourishing system without external inputs insofar as this is possible given the loss of nutrients due to the export of food.
Allan Balliett mentions the book Ideal Soil: A Handbook for the New Agriculture by Michael Astera numerous times and presents the book as a manual on how to create plants that are both healthy and nutrient dense. The idea that we can just add more compost to solve many of our gardens problems may be flawed because the soil is more dynamic than what conventional wisdom would have you believe. In some cases soil samples may be necessary to identify missing nutrients.
I have been recieving this once-a-week email newsletter from a listener for quite some time, nearly 6 months. The name of the newsletter is 'Knowledge is Asking the Right Questions' and it is an aggregation of the best videos/podcasts/blogs/articles/cartoons on the web and it is all assembled by just one guy.
I have used this newsletter to stay up to date on current events that I missed during the week and to find new guests for the show. I asked the newsletter creator if he would be fine with me forwarding along the newsletter and he said it would be fine.
If you are interested please email me at twobeerswithsteve (at) hotmail.com. Subscription would be free.
Just when you didn't need one more thing to be concerned I bring forth unto you another civilization-stunning problem that threatens our modern living and is by it's very nature the issue is a political pariah. The issue is about water, and why we need to educate ourselves on how we use this valuable resource and realize just how scarce fresh water is.
'Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.'
My guest was Robert Glennon, professor at the University of Anizona and author of the book Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It. In this interview we discuss the amount of freshwater available vs. the amount of water on earth and how the hydrologic cycle has supplied our earth with freshwater since... well... the beginning of the hydrologic cycle.Since that time, we have had the same amount of freshwater as the dinosaurs but we use freshwater in many different ways that are important to our modern living. Some of which are destroying the freshwaters ability to used for human consumption. It doesn't take more than a passing glance at the statistics of water to be concerned. Robert Glennon does more than just glance at the stats and delves into some serious issues that we face when it comes to freshwater use and it's longer term threat. Robert goes as far as to say that we face a Crisis.
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Foss and Lira will be debaing deflation vs. hyperinflation on February 10, 2011 at 9PM EST. The live event will cost you about $45
I love this idea and would like to see more of this info-tainment going into the future. It brings together smart bloggers in a WWF smack-down style debate. It may not tickle your feathers quite like mine, but I think you'll see the very beginnings of a new format of internet media, The Main Event.
Register Here to participate.
My guest this week was Aaron Lucich, the film-maker of the upcoming film 'We Are What We Eat'. Aaron also is a public speaker on the subject of Organic Food.
In our interview we, of course, covered many topics but mainly centered the ideas that are in his film. We talked about the need for more sustainable and natural growing of food rather than the industrial model of farming which is wasteful and ultimately unsustainable. We talk about the best methods of reaching out to the masses and consider options that could be used on a large-scale (beyond the small pockets of already aware citizens). We also talked about eating lifestyles such as Weston A Price and Vegan.
At the end of this podcast I added on another seperate podcast that is just of myself, Steve Patterson, that you will enjoy. I rant and rave like a madman, but not really. I just jotted down a few things I wanted to say, turned on the microphone, and riffed for a good 35 minutes. Let me know what you think of my random thoughts, and if you feel it necessary you can email me at twobeerswithsteve(at)hotmail.com.
Bob Cannard Video Interview From the Aaron Lucich Facebook Page... a must see.
For whatever technical reason my hosting service changed a feature of my podcast that only allowed the past 10 episodes to be posted on my RSS feed. Well, with the help of my new website designer I was able to fix that.
So if you are one of the many who have complained, you can now go to my RSS feed you can download all 81 episodes.
Thank ya, Thank ya...
On a side note, I have been hangin' out at Gonzalo Lira's 'Hourly G' blog where he kicks out quick tidbits about current events a few times a day. They are short and interesting news items that he comments on. The amount of time to eat up each article is really low and the information is newsworthy stuff. Just thought you might be interested.
Johnny Max of the website Heirloom Seed Swap joins me to talk about how you can save your seeds and engage in seed swapping (he also has his own podcast, Self Sufficient Homestead and BeerTalkRadio, interestingly enough).
We go over the basics of seed-saving your own seed from the crops that you grow in your own garden. Then we discuss how you can take those seeds and trade them for a wide variety of different seeds on his website www.heirloomseedswap.com
The discussion also goes over how to cultivate your own species of a vegetable variety. There is some pretty gardening questions put forth by myself (I'm a newbie at this gardening thang) but much of it will have value to even the seasoned gardener.
This week I talk with Stefan Molyneaux, host of FreeDomain Radio. Not only can you get this episode as a podcast but you can also watch the video of Stefan’s Youtube channel, here is the LINK. You can see ol’ Two Beers in action in this video as he interviews a guest, I have to admit that staring into a camera is not the most comfortable experience in the world but it is a new challenge that I hope to overcome. In fact, if you find me terribly dreadful in this interview (which upon review I think is the case) then you can blame it to the fact that it was the camera in my face.
Like every episode on this program we discussed a multitude of topics, some of which were free markets, healthcare, public smoking, the initiation of force, Alex Jones, why I (or Stefan, or anyone looking to make a difference) will never run for office, etc..
As always with Stefan, if you don't agree with him then at least be entertained by his info-tainment, it is truly some of the best out there.
Chris Bedford returns to talk about what is going on since we last talked. In that time frame he has continued work on his local farmers market, worked as a community activist, and is currently working with a committee on bringing a TED Conference to a nearby college.... what have you been doing since Chris was last on our show?
We also wander off into many other topics worthy of discussion, of course, the most notable side discussion is our chat about the Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie. Chris Bedford shared some insightful analysis from someone who was a union activist for many years.
By far the most requested guest from listeners is John Michael Greer and I am pleased to have finally have him on as a guest. Although at first glance I wondered why listeners were so enamored with this gentleman with the long beard who writes for the blog The ArchDruid Report, but I soon found out that JMG's perspectives on many subjects pertaining to economic, techno-industrial, and Peak Oil concerns were in-line with typical guests on Two Beers With Steve.
In this discussion we delve into many topics starting with Druidry and then moving into Peak Oil and the ASPO conference. Interestingly enough JMG was a guest speaker at the ASPO conference and details that difference between the 'suits' and 'sandals' crowd. We also talk about the impact of a world affected by oil shortages and I ask John Michael if he holds out hope for any new technologies that will fill the gaps left by diminishing oil production (and I asked that question with a straight-face mind you).
For the hardcore crowd who can't get enough Two Beersy talk I added on a five minute after-interview discussion I had with JMG that I thought would be interesting to anyone listening. Just let the music play and the credits roll at the end of the podcast and you'll be rewarded.
Patrick of Patrick.net stops by to discuss the housing market. Much of what we discuss has been talked about before concerning housing but in this discussion we have the benefit of a long period of hindsight. We trace the housing crash from its origins through today and then Patrick offers his version of what the future holds for us. Patricks forecasting of the future is insightful because he incorporates the failures of other nations that have faced the same dilemma as the US (mainly Japan) and we are just re-tracing their steps.
Patrick.net
Never before has this program, Two Beers With Steve, had a guest who was as far into the Mainstream Media Culture as Jeff Cohen has been. Jeff Cohens bio reads like a guest on the McLaughlin Group, not this ol' shabby program... but please, nobody tell Jeff.
I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing Jeff Cohen and I also thoroughly enjoyed his book Cable News Confidential (2006). Even though people have made the criticism of Jeff Cohen that he is a typical left-wing liberal I think his book and his rhetoric go beyond the two-party paradigm to expose something larger; corporate control. He speaks as though he has no mainstream media career to protect anymore and that may be true since he has established himself firmly in the alternative media system.
This show was a departure from traditional topics but still is fascinating and worth a double-listen. Take care and let me know what you think about this topic... I'd be interested in knowing.
I've had some difficulties loading up this podcast so please bear with me, the recording of this podcast also had some irregular difficulties. Someday I'll eventually figure this all out.... someday.
In this episode KMO of the C-Realm Podcast stops by to talk about his recent book (Conversations On Collapse), his Podcast, and the Eco-Village. We also explore many other topics including talking about KMO's tales of the road as he has been couch-surfing while promoting his recent book. The conversation also veers into talking about technology and Kevin Kelley's recent book 'What Technology Wants'.
In my first ever interview with Gonzalo Lira we cover a multitude of topics, many of the topics are applicable to the current events that our world now faces and a few other topics are thrown in for good measure and a whole lot of fun. But ultimately, the conversation was informational and important.
The reason we came together to talk was the events surrounding the Irish Banking Crisis that is unfolding in real time. The domino's are slowly starting to fall across the Euro-Zone area and the solutions. GL makes many predictions as well as a defined commentary on the events that led up to the crisis.
Probably the 'gem of the show' was GL's take on the movement of money into commodities and the reasons why. During the editing process I picked up on a few comments he made that I hadn't fully comprehended.
Steve Crower returns to give his latest insight on Peak Oil, or rather the introduction of the term 'Plateau Oil'. The Plateau Oil term refers to the introduction of both new technologies that increase the existing oil fields (marginally improving the yield) and new technologies that bring shale oil to the market. The effect will be a plateau-ing of oil production or, to put it differently, oil supply. The demand part of this equation remains a question mark but we spend most of our time in this interview discussing the supply side.
Josh Kosman returns to once again talk about the Private Equity industry, an industry many of us have little knowledge of and an industry that greatly impacts all of us.
The facts are that the number two private employer in this country is a Private Equity firm, KKR, and among the top ten private employers in this country five of those companies are PE companies. There is no question that PE firms have a direct impact on our economy and thus should be on the radar screens for anyone following the economy.
I asked Josh Kosman to come back on the show to give us an update on PE since we last spoke and to my surprise they are making a dramatic comeback. The reason is simple, with the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates far below the natural rate of interest the investment managers at pensions and mutual funds are looking for some yield to meet the hurdle rate (minimum acceptable rate of return) that is mandated by the fund.
In effect, the Fed is pushing money right into the hands of the very PE firms that saddle good American companies with debt while gutting the infrastructure at the same time. It is a deal that leaves the companies unable to compete internationally and makes the US less competitive as a result. Hopefully Josh can give us some good news that things are changing...
Buy the book "The Buyout of America" by Josh Kosman
Dave Pollard, author of the How To Save The World blog, joins me in an episode dedicated to our Culture of Dependency and how our civilization has evolved into a highly complex system that lacks the resilience to handle the multiple crises that we now face.
This episode examines the structure of our complex society and how it has been a product of an era of abundant cheap energy (ie. petroleum oil). We also discuss overshoot and what that means to future societies. Along those same lines we talk about a transition to steady-state economics (while hashing out the probability of it ever being implemented).
A truly enjoyable guest and a great episode. Thank you all for listening. Towards the end of this podcast we talk about how the listening and reading community is as much a part of the New Revolution as the speakers and writers.
-Ol' Two Beers
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Books mentioned:
Dave Pollards Book Finding the Sweet Spot
The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Nelson Lebo, one of our previous guests and Mr. Permaculture extraordinaire, contacted me yesterday concerning a project worthy of the attention of the Two Beers With Steve crowd. I can't help myself but just forward the information on because Nelson has provided me with some of the best episodes I have done (Full Disclosure: I say this about ALL my guests).
From Nelson:
my wife and I have started our 'Do-Up Down-Under.' We will be doing a full permaculture installation
on a property that was full of rubbish and a house that could have
ended up condemned. This is no exaggeration. Please see:
www.theecoschool.net
http://ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com/2010/11/nature-as-model.html
http://ecothriftydoup.blogspot.com/2010/11/let-sun-shine-in.html
Our goals are to provide the highest quality, low cost sustainability
education possible, and to make learning about sustainability
entertaining and fun. Our motto is 'Act Locally, Share Globally.' The
sharing will be through regular blogs, podcasts and short videos.
We'd like to get our message out to as wide an audience as possible.
I talk with Nelson Lebo about essential tools of a post-petroluem world... or for whatever world you live in (a modern world, a world where credit has dried up and food deliveries are erratic, a world where you care about the food you eat and where it comes from, a world where you realize that anything that ends with a -cide means death).
We only get as far as talking about one essential tool but we learn about many of the techniques that Nelson uses to preserve that tool and how to be the most effective with it.
Jack Spirko of the Survival Podcast stops by to educate Ol' Two Beers on Modern Survivalism. We also talk about Jacks background, the beginnings of his podcast, and where the future may very well lead us.
Both Jack and I spend alot of time talking on this podcast about many of the shortcomings of our modern society and how our ability to handle crisis is limited. Jack also details the differences of our grandparents ability to handle the Great Depression differs from our current generation, and how this particular financial bomb will have more of an impact on our society...
But the episode is not all Fear and Loathing in 2010... the episode is actually uplifting and optimistic. Jack speaks as though he's come from the future and he is here to spread the good news... that we all live in the end, and we manage to lean on our brothers in hard times and we get through this.
T-shirts are finally here and as my buddy Rip commented upon first sight of these amazing shirts he said 'Those are Ahhhh-some'. He was impressed to say the least.
I'm not a T-shirt aficionado but I took the time to buy a T-shirt of high quality and I used a hi-tech form of screen-printing (no sense in having my mug disappear after ten washes). i went the distance on these T's to get the best.
I'm charging $20. You can purchase by clikcing on the BuyNow Paypal link on my site. That includes shipping for all US customers (those outside the US can contact me directly and I'll see what I can do).
I hope to have a good bit of money left over after costs to use for a donation to the film 'Hooked on Growth' by Dave Gardner. I'd like to see our show listed in the credits...
Supplies are limited and I don't think I want to get into the T-shirt business so first come, first serve and when they are done... they may be done.
Steve
After a few years of consuming and digesting massive amounts of information pertaining to our current financial/energy crisis I find it rare that I consume a 'game-changer'. So it was exciting to have an MP3 forwarded to me that provided me with that game-changing moment.
Now, when I say game-changer, I'm not talking about What will happen, but rather How it will happen. The How is focused on the debate about whether deflation or inflation will win the day. Because to get from where we are, (a debt-saturated global economy) to there, (historically normal debt ratios), we have to go down either one of two paths; inflation or deflation. For the most part I really don't care, the outcome of both still means that I need to move up the learning curve on my gardening skills, start building a local community, and continue to keep educating myself on all matters that pertain to self-sufficiency.
Where inflation vs. deflation matters to me is how should I react with my investing strategy. This is why the debate has importance to me and probably you. In this interview Nicole Foss of Automatic Earth makes a compelling case for deflation, probably the best I've heard as of yet.
The title of this episode comes from the fact that Nicole is criss-crossing the globe in an effort to prepare those that are ready to hear her message that something life-altering is coming. Just as Paul Revere rode through Lexington to warn the patriots of sudden attack, Nicole is globe-trotting to warn the patriots of sudden collapse.
Automatic Earth
The table gets turned in this episode and Nathan Martin (A two time guest on 2BwS, woop-woop) asks the questions. We explore topics such as my background, which tends to go on longer than it should have... but who doesn't like talking about themselves, c'mon! We also talk about the show; past guests, thoughts I've pulled away from my guests, what I've learned, yadda-yadda.
The interview eventually breaks down into the typical type of conversations that me and Nathan have had. The conversation seems to follow a narrow stream of consciousness and I think most everyone will appreciate the candidness of both Nathan and I. These are the types of conversations that more people should be having.
I don't think anywhere in the interview are we complaining about what THEY are doing to US. That is an important statement for me to make, because I don't want to view myself as a victim of the system, or some higher power (Royal Order of the Frog? hmmm.).
I hope you enjoy this episode
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Nelson Lebo is an award-winning environmental educator with 20 years
teaching experience. He has been an organic farmer and green builder
for the decade. He is trained in Organic Land Care, Ecological
Design/Build, Eco-Renovation and holds a Permaculture Design
Certificate. Nelson has worked as a design consultant and educator in
the USA, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, India, Australia and New Zealand. He
is currently pursuing a PhD in permaculture education at the
University of Waikato.
Contact: theecoschool@gmail.com
Blog: surf2survive@blogspot.com
Nelson is looking for sponsors in the New England area and the vicinity to host his four hour workshop on how to garden organically and do it successfully without much energy input. If you are interested in hosting Nelson please contact Nelson or myself.
This is not an official episode, be not disappointed. This is a quick chat about what is going at the Two Beers With Steve Factory. I thought there were a few pieces of business to take care. Here are a couple points that I make:
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Steve
Denninger discusses the Federal Reserve, Congress, the financial markets, inflation/deflation, and whether or not gold is a safe haven.
This interview starts out with Karl Denninger recounting his days as CEO of an internet company during the go-go 90's. Karl recalls the stress of betting the company every 18 months to keep in line with the latest technologies and that it was understood by everyone in the industry that we were clearly in a bubble at the time. The bubble promptly busted, but by then Karl had already exited stage left.
Karl was called back into action by the activity in the Asian stock markets in 2007. Since then he has remained an active trader and analyzer of the markets. You can catch up with Karl Denninger at his Market-Ticker blog.
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Erik Townsend stops in to discuss the financial markets and give his viewpoint of what it is like to be living in Hong Kong.
This episode could easily be a two-part episode. The first half hour is spent giving our roundtable a different angle on China and Hong Kong than what we Westerners see in popular media. It was truly an eye-opening discussion as I had this idea of China being a country with little identity besides rice patty fields and toy factories.
The second part, which encompasses about an hour of discussion, focuses on the financial markets. Erik chats with us about his investment strategy, hint: he is a speculator, and what that strategy means as far as what tools he uses and his investment duration. After a few moments of strategy the conversation turns to an overview of where we have been and where we are now.
Great episode and it was great to have all the seats at the roundtable filled.
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Have we come to the tipping point of exponential growth or do we still have room to run? If we have more room to run, then how much further out is the tipping point?
These are serious questions that we should be asking. The conversation needs to be started and Dave Gardner is trying to put it on the agenda. With his soon to be released film 'Hooked On Growth", filmaker David Gardner asks the question that no one wants to hear, 'Do we really want/need more growth?'. In this hard hitting interview with Dave Gardner we dissect the side effects of an unsustainable growth path.
While it is very true that growth has provided our planet with incredible technology and innovation, Dave Gardner explains that we need to re-examine where we are at the moment and develop a more balanced approach to growth in the future. The idea is not to abandon our current system but to look beyond the end of our noses and peer into the future of where we headed.
For a long time I have been receiving complaints of my Facebook page telling me that they couldn't access my Facebook page. I poo-poo'd there complaints as technical errors on their part when in fact it turns out it was mine. The default settings on Facebook only allowed US users of Facebook to become fans, you have to switch that setting manually to allow International users to become fans. So I did that and now my Canucks and Aussies can come play with us.
So there it is. I apologize. But if I was to play the blame game, I would blame Facebook for underestimating the International appeal of Two Beers With Steve....
By the way. While I'm offering Mea Culpa's I should also mention that when you comment to this site it has to go through an approval process first. The reason being is that I get about 3-4 bogus postings a day to this site. It is better for everyone if I screen the postings first to avoid 36 posts advertising ugg boots, and safety vests. The best way to make contact with me is always my email twobeerswithsteve@hotmail.com. I answer all emails... eventually.
Steve
Anybody looking past the bridge of their nose knows that we are headed for some challenging times... for many the hard times are already here. Cam Mather has recently released his book 'Thriving During Challenging Times' to give you a roadmap on how to overcome the obstacles that we soon will face.
One of the hardest aspects for me about preparation is sifting through all the data to find the information that I can really use. Cam's book is a shortcut to the knowledge you'll need. But this book is only a starting point... but a valuable one. I think there is still plenty to explore beyond this point. Enjoy the show.
Order the book 'Thriving During Challenging Times' directly from Cam
Cam Mathers Website
Download this episode to your MP3 player, throw on your work clothes, grab your spade and head to the garden. Leave the European Bailout and the NYSE glitches behind you and grow something real.
Jules returns to the show and this time I (Steve) have moved beyond making lame excuses as to why I don't have time to grow my own tomato's. The questions I have for Jules this time are more directed to the beginner gardener but I have a feeling any green thumb will enjoy this coversation as well.
This episode of Two Beers kicks off with a short chat about Jules' appearance on a reality show on the Food Network channel. It's a lively and humorous discussion but I encourage you to follow the links below and watch the show for yourself. Getting a glimpse of the Dervaes' home is a rare treat and can inspire you to build a two-story Cobb oven... just watch the video already. Enjoy the podcast.
Jules Dervaes - Path to Freedom - Urban Homestead - Find them on Facebook
Jules on Food Network
Chris Bedford discusses his current film, which is still in production and will be released Labor Day 2010.
The idea of the film began from a comment made at his local farmers market that a gentleman was able to cure his asthma through locally grown honey. The story begins there but quickly expands from a narrative of the health benefits of locally grown diet to Peak Oil and it's effect on community and also to a spiritual connection with our world and nature. Steve and Ed question Chris all the way through that journey and get a sense of what Chris is trying to accomplish.
One of my favorite moments was when Chris was asked, 'Do know how your film will end?' (or something similiar to that) and Chris says, 'No'. To me that is the true documentary film. The 'End' just emerges from the process of making the film. There is no contrived conclusion that the storyline is weaved around, rather the opposite happens, the story brings forth the solutions/answers/further questions. Getting to the Truth is the goal.
You can pre-purchase copies of the film, Growing Health, which will fund the movie during it's production phase. Chris would really appreciate the support. You can do this by going to clicking on this link, Pre-Order Growing Health.
"Food is the beginning. As citizens and consumers we can help turn the economy towards true ecological sustainability through our food purchases." Chris Bedford
Once again Steve Crower stops by to visit with the Two Beers With Steve crew and this time his audio is far superior.
As I do with every show, I re-listen to the podcast while editing it and I must say that I feel this podcast is an education on Peak Oil, even for those who feel they are already educated. There were methods of extraction I had never heard of, types of fuels I was unaware of, oilfields I didn't know existed. For anyone who may already have a conclusion as to what the future of oil holds for this may want to give this podcast a listen, and then re-listen again.
'The Episode of Byron Dale' title just stuck with me after recording this podcast. The title reminds me of a good John Ford western film with shadowy characters who avert justice and rule by power... this podcast has alot of that story. Byron Dale tells his own story of how he witnessed justice averted in his own life and what most of us can expect from our government if we decide to take a stand. This is not a story of discouraging others for standing up for what they believe, but instead this story is a wake up call to the powers that you are going up against.
Beyond the 'main story' of this podcast we also discuss Byron's books and the very familiar topic of exponential money and fractional reserve banking.
Buy Modern Money Secrets Here
Byron Dales Website
Watch this:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-april-19-2010/these-f--king-guys---goldman-sachs
I often say that there are two types of media available for the masses; mass media and massturbation media. Jon Stewart is the latter type of media. Yes, he is funny and he is making funnies about subjects we find interesting... but do not be fooled mon frere, this is not information you are getting, it is entertainment.
The Two Beers With Steve Podcast, now there is information that is also entertainment, hoo-wah!
About this Goldman Sachs thing... hasn't anyone else questioned the political aspect of this? This may just be a political move (it totally is, I'm just playing nice). The SEC is a toothless regulator and after having spent the past decade as a Wall Street puppet the SEC now has the hands of Washington up it's arse.
What I gather is that the current administration (Dem's) has made an excellent chess move and forced the died in the wool free-market Republicans to counter with their 'save capitalism' diatribes. Just imagine how unpopular it will be for Republicans to defend the likes of Goldman Sachs right around election time. You can already see this in the Jon Stewart video, the Rep.'s will go down in flames in the world of his soundbytes. The genuis Daily Show writers will only allow a few words from Republicano's to be taken out of context to make their hilarious point. No need to allow the Republicans to complete a thought, oh no, that works against the punchline.
Don't be bamboozled into thinking that I support the two-party paradigm, I definitely do not. But I understand the chess match played between them and the way the massturbation media perpetuates the illusion of the populous having a choice.
The SEC case against Goldman will play out as much in the financial media as it will in the mass media becasue Goldman has become the rich and ruthless villian that Americans all love to hate. Defending the GS bastards, or even capitalism, or de-regulation, or free markets will be a losers gambit. Oh, what a wonderful move the Dem's have made.
Nevermind the fact that what GS did was immoral or unethical, that has nothing to do with it. This is about POWER and very little about anything else.
Steve
BJ Lawson stops by to talk about his campaign for Congressman in the 4th District of North Carolina. He is fighting a tough race in against an incumbent, (D) David Price. Unlike many other political interviews you'll hear, we don't get into the Us Vs. Them, Republican vs. Democrat, going nowhere fast paradigm that you will find everywhere else. Instead it is more of a discussion about finding out what BJ Lawson stands for, and also what he is against; such as the Food Modernization Act.
We also discuss BJ's take on the Tea Party; what is it, what do they think, where do they stand?
In this episode I interview Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio. The title of this podcast is intended to draw in the masses, but don't be disappointed, we actually do discuss bouncing babes and net neutrality. Lucky you.
This interview covers many topics but we cover the topics from a different angle this time. My intent for this show was to have a more philosphical discussion on many of the topics that we talk about all the time on this show. Stefan's podcast 'Freedomain Radio' specializes on the philosophical aspects of our current financial/economic/political situation. In Stefan's words, 'Philosophy is what matters most', when it comes to diagnosing the problems we are facing today.
I wouldn't normally support a political candidate in almost all cases except in this case. BJ Lawson is running for Congress in the 4th District of North Carolina. I know what you are thinking, I don't live in that district therefore I can't vote for him, and that is very true. I also do not live in the 4th district of North Carolina and I also cannot vote for BJ, but that does not meant we cannot support BJ in other ways.
There are many ways to support BJ Lawson. The two most important ways are donating your time, or donating your money. These are the two most valuable resources to you and they are the resources that will get BJ elected.
But I don't blindly support BJ Lawson simply because he has a charming smile and takes his kids to soccer practice. I have posted a few videos that BJ sent me that would be of interest to you and give you, the reader, some perspective on what BJ stands for. I despise the idea of promoting my ideology without giving you the proper information for you to make your own informed choice.
Donate To The Money
Food, Folk, and Funds part 1
Food, Folk, and Funds part 2
Food, Folk, and Funds part 3
James Howard Kunstler, or as we like to call him, Jim, tackles six questions from the listeners of Two Beers With Steve. Questions range from social unrest to finance to, of course, Peak Oil. Too bad we ran out of time for a sort of Behind The Actors Studio style of rapid-o questioning. Maybe next time.
KunstlerCast- JIm's very own podcast that he does with Duncan Crary where they explore a multitude of topics and give us all an example of a what good conversation once sounded like.
In our second interview with Chris Martenson since we've begun this podcast we discuss Chris' recent travels; foreign and abroad. I ask Chris questions such as 'what new perspectives have you gained?' and 'what were the objections you faced?'. Chris also recalls the experience of giving his shortened Crash Course presentation to academia types at the London School of Economic, a place that Chris describes as the 'lions den' of economics.
We also find out exactly what Chris is doing in his personal life to prepare for a world that is full of uncertainty. So download the podcast, upload it to your MP3 device and enjoy the interview while you plant those tomato seeds!
Damon Vrabel, writer for the Free Canada Press and avid poster on the CM website, recounts his time at Harvard Business school and gives Steve a visual on how the school really operates. We also discuss many other issues, most of the issues surround the topic of our debt based monetary system.
The title of todays podcast is a play on a line from the movie Good Will Hunting. The phrase 'How about these apples?' comes from a scene when Will Hunting confronts a group of wealthy, arrogant, elitist Harvard students. From the perspective of an ordinary serf, this scene is a very uplifting moment.
Damon at Free Canada Press
Damons Council on SPER
The title of this podcast, "Unemployed? Become An Organic Farmer!", refers to a comment made in our interview with Ann Adams of Holistic Management International that she believes our agricultural industry will need 50 million more farmers if we are going to have a sustainable farming future. Sometime in the future (5 years, 10 years, 20 years?) the large scale, fossil fuel dependent methods of our current farming operations will be unsustainable for multiple reasons (Peak Oil, the poor soil content, etc.)
The pendulum is swinging back towards the smaller scale farming and there is a desperate need for organic farmers to fill the gap. For those that are seeking employment in industries that will be much smaller in a Peak Oil environment or worse, your industry may become irrellevant, organic farming could be an excellent option.
We also cover may other topics along the lines of organic farming; international as well as what is happening here domestically in the US.
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Holistic Management International
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A Two Beers With Steve original idea! This episode is an interactive reading of an essay I wrote that outlines just how the Federal Reserve and the private banking system are out to own everything is this great country without having done a damn thing. The title of this podcast is a total rip-off of G Edward Griffins excellent book The Creature From Jekyll Island, I don't think Mr. Griffin would mind it though. Enjoy this episode, however, there is a two drink minimum though....
I just would like to let everyone know this is an open-source project and I would value all ideas and if you are interested in getting your hands on a copy of the essay just email me at TwoBeersWithSteve@hotmail.com
I'd love to hear from you...
Be cool, be a fan of Two Beers With Steve on Facebook... every once in a while I post something thought-provoking.
What compels people of all walks of life to break from the herd and begin the process of self-education? In this episode we talk with Peter Gray who explains what were the decisions he made that broke him from the pack and why he thinks his industry, healthcare, is overlooking a very serious threat... Peak Oil.
As always we explore a multitude of topics including medicinal marijuana and the increased use of tranquilizers by Americans. And since we have a Canadian doctor why not ask him what he thinks of the American healthcare debate?
This will probably be the first of hopefully many times we get a chance to talk with currency historian Andy Gause.
In this episode we talk about the Federal Reserve and gold, two subjects that are right in Andy's wheelhouse. He has a long history of being critical of the Fed, and his business specializes in numismatic gold purchases. You got gold and want to sell it? DO NOT call CashForGold.com, instead call Andy at 800-878-2646.
Interesting tidbits of this episode are that Andy is in favor of nationalizing the Fed rather than Ending the Fed and that owning gold is an excellent way of making generation to generation wealth transfers. Excellent episode I hope you enjoy!
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Andy Gause's website
For those fo you who have heard this episode, I apologize. The host of my podcast changed its software and it led to some difficulties on my end. No problemo, I'll just repost and move on with my life.
Sorry for the inconvencience.
Steve
The great thing about our zesty little podcast, Two Beers With Steve, is the range of topics we can cover on this show. In this episode we discuss topics ranging from Peak Oil to organic farming to DDT to local farmer markets. Our guest was Chris Bedford, filmmaker of the film 'What Will We Eat?' which questions the sustainability of our current food system.
Looking ahead and looking for opportunities with Jason Hartman, CEO of a real estate investment firm and host of his very .own podcast 'Creating Wealth with Jason Hartman.
In this New Years Day episode we cover alot of ground, talking about predictions, social media, precious metals, and what Jason knows best... real estate.
Jasons podcast is one I have listened to for over a year now and every few weeks I scan the list of guests to find topics that interest me. His podcast centers around real estate but the topics are varied and the interviews are excellent. You can find his podcast on Itunes.
The Creating Wealth Podcast
Holistic Survival Podcast, Jasons other podcast
Jason Hartmans Website
Some other mentionable links; Life or Debt the movie, John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman,
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When I first got confirmation that Bill Still was going to be on 'Two Beers With Steve' I rushed to my wife to tell her the good news... that I would soon be talking with a legend, an icon of mine. I have to thank Nathan Martin for making the meeting possible, Nathan also sat in during the interview and we all had a great conversation.
Bill Still has been beating the drum for monetary reform for decades, long before my 'awakening' Bill was hard at work writing books, articles and had made the film 'The Money Masters'. His latest venture has been another film titled 'The Secret of Oz', which I have seen and highly recommend.
This interview covers many topics but the most facsinating discovery for me was finding out how Bill Still, a journalist, became to be interested in monetary reform. A great interview, thanks Bill.
Buy The Secret of Oz - Buy the film and support the cause.
The Secret of Oz Website
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Nathan Martin of Nathans Economic Edge talks with me about his vision of where monetary reform should be headed, what he calls Freedom's Vision.
In this first discussion, Nathan points out the problems with our current system and possible tactics to enact REAL change. Nathan also makes the distinction between hoping change will happen and working towards making change happen... (hint, they are not the same thing, at all).
In a later episode we will be discussing a few more concepts of Nathans proposed plan and we will also be talking with Bill Still, narrator of the films The Secret of Oz and The Money Masters. Please join us.
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James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency takes a seat at the roundtable to discuss Peak Oil and the American lifestyle. This was an hour of discussion on the grim reality of a world that is not planning on a world without plentiful and cheap oil, with moments of humor and chat splashed in for good measure.
James Howard Kunstler's Website
Buy the book The Long Emergency
The KunstlerCast, JHK's own podcast.
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Josh Kosman author of the book, The Buyout of America, talks with the Two Beers With Steve crew about how he sees the Next Great Credit Crisis coming from the failures of companies that were acquired by the Private Equity firms during the PE boom of 2000-2007.
Steve picked up this book because it is the only new release to be looking at the challenges in front of us and not what has already happened (ie. the housing meltdown or bailouts). Excellent book, excellent interview.
Buy the book here
The Buyout of America Website
Listen to the NPR podcast with Josh Kosman and Terry Gross
The Two Beers With Steve Magnum Opus. What are we going to do about it? Are we going to keep typing intelligent forum posts and slapping ourselves on the back because we are soooo smart. Or is the constant-student (that would be you!) finally going to get to the point in his/hers re-education and back away from the computer and join in on the movement.
I have faith that the movement is under way you'll just have to find it. Find your role in how you can help and get out there. You can help me (Steve), I most definitely could use the assistance and let me be clear, we will screw up, we'll be amateurs, we'll embarrass ourselves, and we'll pick ourselves back up and keep marching forward.
I'm finally getting busy...
The second part of our two part interview with Steve Crower on the topic of Peak Oil. I would highly suggest you listen to Part 1 before listening to this episode as we make some references to the earlier episode.
In this episode we interview the author of the viral video "Peak Oil 91 * 86 * 90", Steve Crower. Up until two weeks ago Steve Crower was virtually unknown to any of the Two Beers With Steve crew until his video was forwarded onto me. Steve Crower is an energy investment banker with Starlight Investments LLC of Denver, CO who started researching the topic of Peak Oil in 2005 after a Matt Simmons speech.
Watch the Peak Oil video here (8 Minutes)
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In this episode we go back to our roots and give you a glimpse of what happens when we just get together and BS about random topics. Even though there may be some faulty assumptions in our logic sometimes (On a second review I realized the error of my www.prosper.com 100% reserve banking argument) but the discsussions have an important role in our Metamorphosis.
The Metamorphosis from the type of people that read, listen and comment on the topics covered in the Crash Course to the type of people that can talk about these topics and teach others as well as overcoming common objections to our arguments. Obviously, we are still in the learning phase so feel free to comment on our discussions. I consider these sessions 'Practice' for those opportunities when I get in front of people who are genuinely interested in hearing what I have to say and I don't want to confuse or bore them.
Links Mentioned
McAlvany Podcast - Terrific podcast, I highly recommend making this part of your weekly listening (along with Max Keiser). McAlvany might be an offshoot from the Financial Sense Newshour, which for the most part I don't care for, but it is far more insightful and even-handed politically.
Bill Moyer - Joe Mancini made mention of this show. You'll have to do some searching for the actual episode, but here is a start.
Pat Carmack, producer of the film The Money Masters, joins us for a discussion on how the film came into existence along with his thoughts on the banking industry and the Federal Reserve.
Probably the highlight of the show for me was Pat's stance on the gold standard and a 100% reserve ratio for banks. Pat also gave good insight on money creation and the repeating pattern of market manipulations by banks.
The Money Masters Website
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In this episode of Two Beers With Steve I speak one on one with Prof. George Selgin, Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business.
We begin our discussion with definitions of what is money and what constitutes money before we begin exploring George Selgin's theory of Free Banking. Free Banking, in a quick one sentence description, is a completely deregulated banking system, free of a central bank and the FDIC, where private banks make loans and issue their own money.
In this interview Prof. Selgin describes the problems of our current system and offers a possible solution, the Free Banking system. It is becoming increasingly obvious to me, Steve, that the Federal Reserve is not the answer to the problem, but that it is the problem.
More about Prof. George Selgin
Good Money Book by George Selgin. Good Money tells the fascinating story of British manufacturers' challenge to the Crown's monopoly on coinage
In this episode we talk with author Ellen H. Brown, author of Web of Debt, about the creation of money, public banking, and naked short selling.
Upcoming guests for Two Beers With Steve are:
Richard Heinberg - Author of nine books including The Party's Over, Peak Everything and the newly released Blackout
George Selgin - University of Georgia Proffesor of Economics and authro fo the book The Theory of Free Banking
Also we will speak with the Producer of the Money Masters film w/ Bill Still.
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Thanks
Show Notes
Money as Debt
Naked Short Selling
Exponential Growth
In Episode 20 - Investing for uncertainty I outline the approach that I (Steve) will be taking to navigate the near future. I am not a speculator but with interest rates on certificates of deposit near zero and the dollar in jeopardy I've moved into more non-traditional markets.
This podcast has a slow start because I go from reading 'Goodnight Moon' and Thomas and the Big Big Bridge' to walking into my office and recording 'Two Beers With Steve'. Enjoy.
For those that are concerned I have moved my personal financial files to a thumb drive and I lock that thumb drive in a firesafe, I will move it to the safety deposit box next time I make the run.
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Recently I heard a podcast with Dr. Michael Hudson on "Guns and Butter". The podcast was a referral from Nathan Martin and I listened to it on my morning walk. The morning walk has been a compromise for me, I used to work out before the financial crisis hit to focus on researching. That researching came at a cost because now I;m starting to see the pounds come on and the muscle tone melt away. The morning walks won't bring back 'Stallone' but it will fend off the 'Tony Soprano'... kapiche.
In the podcast Hudson makes a remarkable statement, 'Bernanke and Greenspan look at the wealth of our country in terms of how much debt it can service'. What this statement means is that Bernanke has a pretty good estimation of the entire income of this country and has turned that into a stream of debt payments.
For example, if Louie has me a Financial Advisor and he has a job that earns $1000 a week and has no debts he keeps all $1000 and he is that much wealthier. But if Louie has Ben Bernanke as a financial advisor he is as wealthy as to how much money he can borrow and make $1000 payments. The lower the interest rate the wealthier he is. With a 1% interest rate he is quite wealthy but if that interest rate creeps up to 2%, he is either underwater or will have to work harder. The higher the rates go the more he is in trouble. Now Louie might've been smart and speculated with his borrowed money but considering the markets in the past year we can assume he is underwater on that investment.
If Louie followed my advice he is wealthier as interest rates rise. Louis can make bad investments and lose money but he is not underwater simply because he has not leveraged himself, he only loses the capital he risks.
This brings me to my point. Max Keiser has mentioned many times the war of speculators vs. savers though he never expounds much further than that. I have taken the liberty to expound for him. There truly is a war going on and it's not left/right (Democrat/Republican) it's up/down (saver/speculator) and speculators are winning this battle mightily as they have captured the entire system to their advantage.
If the system were to be in equilibrium the savers would have moved in to replace the speculators on Wall Street and Washington and restore order. But instead the markets are rigged in the favor of spec's, 0% interest rates and removal of bad speculative bets onto the Federal debt. Also important to note is that inflation harms the saver and the Fed is taken every step possible to make sure that inflation is a certainty (ultimately I believe they will be succesful long term).
I will not give into speculation in fact I'll just have to get more creative than certificates of deposit. I'll be continuing to save but in more diverse ways that can't be manipulated. I'm investing in rare precious metals, purchasing materials that will be desirable in any environment (cars, tools, generators, etc...), and will be looking to purchase land if possible (prices are in the stratosphere at the moment).
Steve
I read an enormous amount of literature, articles, bloggs, and books to keep on top of the complexity of the markets. As well as reading I listen to podcasts that further explain the complexity of the markets. I love to learn how SIV's are structured or what CDS's do, I especially love to read the Zero Hedge blog because of the amount of technical, wall street insider-type of info. I consider myself to be the constant student, earning my Masters of Crisis Degree.
But at the end of the day all those things don't matter if you do nothing with the information, knowing the train is barreling down the track is far different from preparing to avoid the train by taking action and stepping off of the tracks.
What I'm getting at is that I have to look beyond the stressors of today and peer just beyond the horizon of next week and make calculated decisions based on what I know today. Looking out even 2-3 years right now and making predictions is useless because the market is stressed and things are changing rapidly
In times of stress humans and animals react with physical responses to the apparent threat. The blood pressure rises, the body mobilizes energy to the tissues that need it most, our short term memory improves, and long term projects such as immune system and reproduction are set aside. Focusing on the short term vs. the long term could be the difference between life and death. When the stressful situation has subsided and relative calm has been restored the body moves into a more balanced state (equilibrium).
The marketplace is actually just an extension of the human emotional condition, therefore the marketplace responds in the same fashion. Stressors cause an over-emphasis on the short term and steps are taken to survive the current situation at the detriment of the future. We are certainly seeing this happening now with all the government intervention and spasm-ing of the markets. The world has become very unpredictable and uncertain, therefore how can the investment minded person like myself make predictions 2-3 years in advance. You can't, not with any serious hope of being accurate.
All this leads me to my conclusion, and that is to survive the current crisis I am of the belief that it will require extreme portfolio fluidity, I don't mean moving in and out of positions quickly because that is the path to the poor-house in this market for me (maybe not for everyone). What I mean to say is that I have to be willing to abandon certain bias's in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. A perfect example would be that I am a firm believer that deflation will grasp hold of this economy and make the debts unsustainable, therefore causing more debt-deflationay spirals. But we live in a world of a limited supply of resources and a whole lot of money printing, inflation may win the day. That is my long term strategy in the short termism of today's market. Eventually eqilibrium will be restored, wherever that might be, and we can resume the 2-3 year outlook with a little more clarity.
Staying afloat is more important than being right.
This past week my father in law came to me and handed me a video I should watch. I agreed on the one condition that he would in turn agree to watch a video that I chose, the obvious choice here would be the Crash Course by Dr. Chris Martenson. It didn’t matter at the time whatever he had in mind for me because I could suffer through 1.5 hours of probably the worst cinema in the hopes that he would sit through probably the most well researched and conclusive project on the economy/energy/environment evah (ahem, you know where I hang my hat so I make no apologies).
Now to understand this story you have to understand my father in law, he’s a dyed in the wool republican. I love him and respect him but when he hands me a ‘must watch’ video it comes as no surprise that the DVD is titled the ‘Obama Deception’. I didn’t exactly roll my eyes but I think I might’ve smirked. Personally, I hold no political party as my own, that allows me the freedom to judge incoming information from a view clear of the political-junk that others might (I don’t know them, I can’t judge them). But I have a hard time with people who criticize Obama for the mess we are in. That in my opinion is BS, Obama was handed a broom after the Greenspan Supernova and told to clean it up. Admittedly he is making poor decisions in his selection of Cabinet members and handling of the financial crisis but to pin the blame on him is ludicrous.
That being said, I sat down and watched the video ‘Obama Deception’ and realized three minutes into this thing after the music died down that it was an Alex Jones film! Hot Damn, Alex Jones has penetrated into the common man in the heartland (I live in Southern IL), this is exciting news. The kicker in this tale is that in my book Alex Jones is out to lunch on all his theories of a New World Order in my opinion (I’ll leave that discussion out of this for now). But I had made a deal with my FIL to watch it and so I did, and did, and did. This film has to be about 2.25 hours long.
I’ll save you the details but I agree with Alex Jones on 80-85% of everything he says. The film is very well done and for the CM uninitiated can be unabashedly overwhelming at times but I think for the right viewer this overwhelming-ness sends them to the bookshelves to do some more learnin’.
My conclusion is this, I will never criticize Alex Jones again, we share the same mission regardless of what he thinks is the ‘endgame’ we both believe the system is in deep capture (google the term) by a corrupt regime. He thinks that the corrupt regime is the NWO and I think it’s Wall Street. If people come to the same deep capture belief through Alex Jones, or Peter Schiff, or Max Keiser, or Chris Martenson it doesn’t matter. What is important is that we need the critical numbers to bring down the Federal Reserve, expose the Oligarchs, and take back our system of government. Kudos, Mr. Jones.
Thought I'd start doing some short blogging since I have the ability to do it on this webpage. We'll see if I can keep it up.
On a daily basis I get plenty of emails from all over the poltical and economic spectrum. I usually always reply after having read/seen the material and it is always of an opinion contrary to the material. This usually sparks a small debate but my purpose in doing this is not to create conflict rather it is part of my education process.
When I am locked in debate it forces me to research my topic in such a way that I cannot have my argument poked full of holes. In the process I learn a tremendous amount and discover new sources of great information. I advise everyone to try it, the hard part is not upsetting your counterparty. Good luck with that, I've had to learn the hard way a few times.
The following video link was sent to me, so I checked it out.
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Here is my response after a long chain of emails of men pounding their chests in favor of the material:
I'll be the lone voice of cycnicism in this chain of emails. Great video, well done and accurate in it;s conclusion that Obama should have answered the question politcally arrogantly, we are an exceptional country. But why?
All the reasons in the video can be chased back to one thing that allows us to finance all four of Bill Tuttle's points, the dollar being the world reserve currency. The dollar is the most transacted currency in all of history, most everything that exists has a price in dollars. The most important commodity in the world can only be traded in dollars, oil.
The world reserve currency is an exorbitant privelege to the host country. It in effect installs a toll booth for all international purchases. It allows the host country to run enormous trade imbalances and massive deficits because as global trade increases so does the demand for dollars. But the way our monetary system works for every dollar issued to a country in need of dollars there has to be a corresponding debt (afterall, all money is backed by a debt). The government has obliged these debts by building the worlds largest military, funding scientific research, large govt. projects etc. etc.. International trade is financing this country, not the other way around.
The reason the US does not run as a classical empire but rather as an anti-empire is actually confusing so I can understand why Mr. Tuttle is befuddled. The US does not takover countries it rather 'opens their doors' to trade. Since international trade is done mainly in dollars and ONLY in dollars if you are a small country than the US has no need to take them over, they have just installed toll booths on them and are robbing them of their resources. It's the Neo-classical model of Empire building.
This is not a left or right issue but an issue of m-o-n-e-y. Avoid the Noise.
Steve
We re-visit an earlier episode (Episode 12), which was an episode where the regular roundtable made observations on the current healthcare. This time around we invited a doctor, Dr. Christopher Peters, and a hospital Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Bill Patterson, to give us an insiders perspective to the healthcare discussion going on in towns across America.
Although this is a departure from our normal financial, economic, and monetary topics we discuss I felt it was important to re-visit this topic for a number of reasons. Many of the reasons are brought up in the show but mainly my reasoning is to learn more about the issue. The more we learn the less we are influenced by political rhetoric and the easier it will be to come to clear conclusions.
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I'm very excited about presenting this interview with Leo Kolivakis due to the fact that Pensions are for the most part largely ignored by all media sources, even by the best financial blogs out there.
Pensions not only pose a systemic risk financially but as Leo explains they pose a major deflationary risk. Luckily, I get to edit these podcasts so I get to hear a second listen and I would suggest re-listening to the last thirty minutes a second time.
Websites mentioned.
http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
http://www.zerohedge.com/
http://www.pensiontsunami.com/
After the formal interview concludes we twist the caps off of a few more and have a casual conversation with Nathan about investing for an uncertain future and inflation vs. deflation.
To check out Nathans blog check out
http://economicedge.blogspot.com/
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We titled this episode we talk with Nathan Martin of the website 'Nathans Economic Edge', one of the many excellent blogs on the internet trumpeting the problems in our financial system and how the problems still persist despite all the government intervention.
During our one hour talk we try to look back on the events that led us down the road to our national insolvency. We also explored many of the problems that still exist and will exist unless something... 'happens'. It was an excellent conversation with Nathan and we look forward to talking with again in the future.
We will be releasing an 'Afterhours' portion of this podcast whenever i get around to editing it. Also, I am looking for listeners to submit 3-5 minute audio MP3 files in which they talk about an issue that would be of interest to our listeners. Thank you,
Steve
In our first 'Afterhours' Edition of Two Beers With Steve we let the recorder run while we finished out our six packs before heading off to bed at night. Usually, after we wrap up the show we all stick around because nobody wants to go home and we have some of our best discussions and unfortunately I haven't been taping them, but from now on I will (if there is alot of interest). Let us know what you think.
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In Episode 16 we talk with Jules Dervaes of the Path to Freedom webiste. http://www.pathtofreedom.com/ . Our discussion ranged from how Monsanto has gained control of Mother Natures seeds and have exploited them for profit, to discussions on self-sustainability and what Jules is doing in his own life to be self-dependent.
Other websites to visit that were mentioned in the podcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCPEBM5ol0Q
http://www.freedomseeds.org/
http://www.freedomgardens.org/
http://www.homegrownrevolution.com/
http://www.peddlerswagon.com/
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Daniel from the VisionVictory returns to our show for Episode 15. In this episode we discuss the flaws of the fundmentals being reported through Main Stream Media sources... and why they trumpet these flawed numbers.
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In Episode 14 we have our first ever interview with Dr. Chris Martenson, the author of the Crash Crash video series and the namesake for the www.ChrisMartenson.com website. We spend an hour discussing the most hotly debated topic in the economic blogosphere, Inflation Vs. Deflation.
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In this episode we explore the differences and similarities of Public V Private healthcare.
Another one of our "Notable Faces of the CM Website" interviews. This time around we speak with Patrick Brown. Our conversation centers around a forum posting he put up on the 'bad rap that Fractional Reserve Banking gets'. A somewhat contrarian viewpoint to what I believed to be a flawed system.
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In this episode we talk with another notable face from the www.chrismartenson.com website, Erik Townsend. Erik answers our questions about whether or not these green shoots of a recovery are legitimate and we again re-visit the question 'What if Nothing happens?'... at least not for the next few years.
Please send comments and questions you might have for our interview with Chris Martenson on July 12th to twobeerswithsteve@hotmail.com.
In episode 9 we speak with the author of the Daily Digest on the www.chrismartenson.com website. His blog is required reading for many of the members of the website and provides an outside-the-mainstram look at the economy.
Davos gives us the rundown on how he arrived on the site and where he gets his news from. Davos also takes a few of our questions and lays out the preparations that this pilot is taking to navigate his way through a very uncertain future.
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Loren Howe answers our questions on just how he has invested in the past and how he is investing into the future. You can watch Loren's YouTube videos by searching for him using his username 'Lorax2013'. His videos cover a variety of topics besides economics, such as health and diet including his review of the movie 'The Secret'.
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In this episode we talk with YouTube vlogger Loren Howe about the Creation of Money and the Exponential Function of Money. We also review the flaws of Central Banking and Fractional Reserve Banking.
In this Episode we begin a new series of interviews where we spotlight a few of the familiar faces of the www.chrismartenson.com website. In the first installment we speak with Aaron Moyer author of both the Definitive Firearms thread and the Definitive Agriculture/Permaculutre thread. We could have easily filled two hours worth of great discussion with Aaron but our interview was cut short due to his work schedule. I think I speak for everyone that we were very surprised of Aarons knowledge on a host of different subjects and we hope to have him back on in the future.
In this episode we discuss the difficulties of presenting the Crash Course to our friends and family. We also try to understand the resistance we get when telling people that the 'next 20 years will be nothing like the last 20 years'. Later in the podcast the question comes up 'what if nothing happens' and we spend some time discussing that thought.
In this episode we sit down with Steve Brick of the International Biochar Initiative (IBI). The goal of the podcast was to get a clearer understanding of what exactly Biochar is and what are the benefits. We also discuss whether or not Biochar is the silver bullet of solving our climate problem.
Attendees of the ChrisMartenson.com Lowesville seminar return to give us a rundown on the events and topics discussed.
In this episode we talk with Graydon Blair of UtahBiodiesel and ask him how we can use Biodiesel in our daily life. We talk about brewing our oil diesel and what types of cars or generators will use Biodiesel.
Graydon Blair of UtahBiodiesel talks with us about Biodiesel. In the first episode (3a) we discuss the macroeconomics of Biodiesel (Can we switch off of fossil fuel depedency?) and the political environment. In the second episode (3b) we look at ways to use Biodiesel in our personal lives.
In our second episode we oultine our goals for the "Two Beers With Steve" podcast. We also have a roundtable discussion of current forum postings on the ChrisMartenson.com website.