Podcast appearances and mentions of kevin michael geary

Hello all! I am delighted that you are joining us this week with our guest Matthew Erickson. He is the co-host of Wealth, Power & Influence with Jason Stapleton. We talk of politics, music and philosophy...lots of philosophy. Find out what happens when Nicky meets another chaotic neutral. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/2m0OSHL We analyse Sons of Liberty by Frank Turner. http://bit.ly/2lE6fy2 Is it a solid Bob Dylan? Or can we put it up there with with Eric July?   Here are some of the topics we talked about: Tom Woods Show http://bit.ly/2kB6mKt  Tuttle Twins http://bit.ly/2lFtU10  Foreign Policy Focus http://bit.ly/2Zp31Nb  Jordan Peterson http://bit.ly/2NhdJCL  Joseph Campbell http://bit.ly/2k5FrGr  Kendrick Lamar https://spoti.fi/2m6wOMB  NF https://spoti.fi/2m6J9QU  Lil’ Dicky https://spoti.fi/2kyLLq8  Tom Mcdonald https://spoti.fi/2m5y9Dl  King Los https://spoti.fi/2lJe7hA  Brother Ali https://spoti.fi/2m5x4vk  Hobson https://spoti.fi/2m7B6Dt  Logic https://spoti.fi/2kyEOFH  Action Bronson https://spoti.fi/2lL8AqP  Lucas Brothers Moving Co. (series) https://imdb.to/2m0oPR0  Boondocks (series) https://imdb.to/2lDk4Nb  Rick & Morty (series) https://imdb.to/2lDjTBv  Propaganda Report http://bit.ly/2lS1xwB  Astronaut https://spoti.fi/2lFQyq6  Derek Minor https://spoti.fi/2kD6tVQ  Beautiful Eulogy https://spoti.fi/2kqSoLo  Jay Catano of AnarchoInc http://bit.ly/2kAukWc  Kevin Michael Geary http://bit.ly/2ksgS71  Communists Ruined Christmas - Mongol Horde http://bit.ly/2kyLCD6  Michael Malice on Twitter http://bit.ly/2k9ybJR  Featured Music Show Intro Damn Beach by Burns To The Soul https://burnstothesoul.bandcamp.com/track/damn-beach Show Outro: Closure by Tenwatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NetR3FiAFag 1st Song:  Lucid by 3rd World Leader http://bit.ly/2lGkYbK  2nd Song: Where Have All The Cowboys Gone by Zach Kinkaid http://bit.ly/2kBV60y  3rd Song: War at Home by Volume Zero http://bit.ly/2k7vLez  4th Song: Warning by Jordan Page http://bit.ly/2kcMn4O    Find all the episodes at http://www.ancapmusic.com Check out the show’s spotify soundtrack here:https://spoti.fi/2MFxkKG To Support Us Join The Freedom Choir here: http://www.supportsll.com Click here to sign up for email list:http://bit.ly/2MDWoSg Want the best course in music & liberty online? http://freedomsong365.com

Today we have an interview with Nathan Fraser but first we check out the message of Follow Your Arrow by Kacey Musgraves. Could it be any more libertarian? http://bit.ly/2W1xcJb In I Heard This Happened: Nicky brings us the Long Lungs Ep from California artist Kevin Nichols. His comments: Pure pastiche, The album fits great next to all the 90’s alternative I miss. The album hits hard and fast out the gate and each song moves from hook to hook as ferociously as possible. The longest song on the disc clocks in at 3:31 which means the songs are lean, all the fat trimmed. There’s the part of me that wonders what Matt Pinfield has to say about this guy. This stuff was written with fans of 120 Minutes in mind. http://kevinnichols.bandcamp.com/album/long-lungs I have a brit/dream pop EP here called School is Hard by High Vu.  The vocals are all over the place. ( Don’t really know what I was talking about with the description from the show. Peter Gabriel?! Maybe he sounds like Mccartney might have at 16). It has a jazz/britpop/easy listening feel created mostly by synths. I liked the sound of the first two tracks especially (the 4th track is the 1st track ‘chipmunkified’). An interesting creation from a young musician. https://hughvu.bandcamp.com/album/school-is-hard Today we have an interview with Nathan Fraser of the BYOBoss Podcast. http://nathanfrasershow.com/ Here are some of the artists we talked about: Kevin Michael Geary  https://digitalambition.co/ Copy and Funnels Podcast (w/ David Garfinkle) https://copyandfunnels.com/ School Sucks Podcast http://bit.ly/2Gt3vKK Tom Woods on Twitter http://bit.ly/2GsS1H4 Immortal Technique https://spoti.fi/2XB65oJ Nas https://spoti.fi/2KZ9eNX Black Pegasus https://spoti.fi/2XHQ40v Cypress Hill https://spoti.fi/2UxpfKd New Found Glory https://spoti.fi/2VhVba7 The Psycho Realm https://spoti.fi/2IX41Ud Sublime https://spoti.fi/2Guqyon Beatles https://spoti.fi/2GBdyhS Mase https://spoti.fi/2VjMonR 50 Cent https://spoti.fi/2UPfPip Jesus Baby(South Park) http://bit.ly/2GBCLc2 Nathan Fraser on Facebook http://bit.ly/2IRVmSE Anarcho Inc. https://www.anarchoinc.com/ Porcfest http://porcfest.com/ Nathan  Recommends The Psycho Realm - The Psycho Realm http://bit.ly/2GCztp5 The Chronic - Dr Dre http://bit.ly/2GCSwj6 Doggystyle - Snoop Dogg http://bit.ly/2MDOl7W Get Your Mind Correct - Chamillionaire & Paul Wall http://bit.ly/2VjgbgF Big Baby Jesus - Old Dirty Bastard ??? Find all the episodes at http://www.ancapmusic.com Check out the show’s spotify soundtrack here:https://spoti.fi/2MFxkKG To Support Us Join The Freedom Choir here: http://www.supportsll.com Click here to sign up for email list:http://bit.ly/2MDWoSg Want the best course in music & liberty online? http://freedomsong365.com

Entrepreneur and founder of Six-Figure Grind, Kevin Michael Geary talks side-hustles, entrepreneurship, and why you might consider launching an online lifestyle business. Guest Biography Kevin is the founder of Six-Figure Grind and the Six-Figure Grind podcast. He's on a mission to help you build a successful online lifestyle business, escape the rat race, and live life without limitations. If you're interested in making a living completely online and achieving the ultimate freedom in life – location independence, schedule independence, and financial independence – then head over to SixFigureGrind.com and grab Kevin's free 1-Page Freedom Plan to get started. Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/070 In this episode, you will learn: Why Kevin ditched his brick and mortar business to create an online business. Why Kevin thinks you and I, and everyone is an entrepreneur? How to get started and is being an entrepreneur risky? Find more from our guest: sixfiguregrind.com rebootedbody.com 250ksociety.com Facebook Instagram YouTube Books: The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes Runnymede Money Tip of the Week: Do Americans marry for love or money? Finally, an answer Thanks for Listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Email me your address, and I'll mail you an autographed copy of Kimo West and Ken Emerson's CD, Slackers in Paradise. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Special thanks to Jim Kimo West for the music.

Welcome to Small Scale Life!  This is Season 2 Episode 25, and in this episode, I am completing my interview with Michael Bell from Dallas, Texas.  Michael is a husband, dad, teacher, small business owner, body builder, trainer, and urban farmer.  In Season 2 Episode 24, Michael and I discussed his urban farm called Half Acre Farm, but that is only one of Michael's businesses.  Michael is also a body builder and fitness trainer, and I had to get his Healthy Lifestyle Advice for those of us just starting out on our journey.  What is interesting is that Michael's advice is similar to what he heard from Kevin Michael Geary in HELP Episode 7.  That tells me that these two guys are ON to something.... For all of my homesteader, market gardener and urban farmer friends, you will want to hang through this podcast.  In fine Tomres' fashion (that isn't a spelling error, by the way...I guess I have a nickname), I swerve the discussion back to his urban farming operation and talk about lessons learned and the future of the Half Acre Farm. Thank you Michael Bell for spending the time with me and our listeners at Small Scale Life!  You are always welcome back to our show, and I am sure we will be talking with you in the near future. Topics Hammered quads this morning! Heaviest Ive gone in leg press in a few weeks, I've been doing supersets and rest pause so it was nice to get that heavy weight feeling back in the quads. This was the 5th and final set so I went to failure and got 24 reps. Now I have 6 meals to get in to complete a successful day! #gamedaypreworkout A post shared by Michael Bell (@mbell971) on May 24, 2017 at 5:27am PDT In this podcast, Michael Bell and I discussed the following: Body Building How did Michael get into Body Building?  What is your story? Training others (developing a practice and using technology) As a body builder, what do you eat? What is Michael's healthy lifestyle advice for people just starting on their journey? Urban Farming Lessons Learned in Body Building that translate to Urban Farming Future projects and ideas; expansion? In Part 1 of this interview, we discussed his experience starting and developing his urban farm.  Check it out! Links for Michael Bell Had a freaking awesome bi's and calves training session at home this morning! Hoping to train tri's for the first time in 6 week next week. A post shared by Michael Bell (@mbell971) on Mar 24, 2017 at 8:01am PDT You can find Michael Bell with the following links: Michael Bell on Instagram Dallas Half Acre Farm on Instagram Michael Bell on Facebook Small Scale Life Podcast - Urban Farming in Dallas with Michael Bell - S2E24 Small Scale Life Facebook Group Friends of Small Scale Life Photo courtesy of Aussie Flame Weeder Introducing Aussie Flame Weeders, a new friend of Small Scale Life! 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This is Season 2, Episode 22 of the Small Scale Life Podcast, and today we are going to check back in and provide a healthy lifestyle progress report. I will be summarizing my work and progress, celebrating the wins and adjusting the plan to address the failures. I am not striving for perfection. After all, I am trying to move from a zero to a two, and then from a two to a four….all on my way to becoming an eight out of ten! Before we begin.... In case you are new to Small Scale Life, we are dedicated to intentional living through learning, doing and growing. We are focused on: • Gardening, • Healthy living, and • Having adventures along the way. Focus Areas and the Plan In Season 2, Episode 20 of the Small Scale Life Podcast, I discussed my four point plan for getting on track with developing a healthy lifestyle. The four main points of the plan are the following: Eating Real Food for every meal with emphasis on planning and preparation Getting great sleep every night with focusing on budgeting and using time wisely Getting mentally strong by journaling and podcasting Working out regularly I thought I would circle back in this episode and give you an update on how things are going. After all, it is all fine and good to talk about these things, but it helps to document the work and progress, celebrate the wins and adjust to address the failures. Let’s get into each point and go through them one-by-one and as part of this healthy lifestyle progress report. Eating Real Food for Every Meal -> Planning and Preparation • I am going to achieve this is by planning and preparing breakfast and lunch ahead of time. • For dinner, I will need to choose the right foods and eat enough to last until morning. This is one area that I need to continue to focus on moving forward. We did a great job planning dinners, but I need to work on breakfast and lunch. I think I was taking on a lot with my goals, so I am going to dial it back a bit. I am going to focus on lunch and reboot that meal. Breakfast at times gets sketchy (meaning sometimes I don’t eat at breakfast), but I do eat lunch most days. I am really going to focus on eating real food at lunch and cutting out any snacks. I am going to reread the Rebooted Body information on eating Real Food, and I am going to focus on lunches for the next week. Once I have that under control, I will work on other meals. My action item going forward is rereading the Rebooted Body information on eating Real Food, and I focusing on eat real food at lunches for the next week. Getting Great Sleep Every Night -> Budgeting and Using Time Wisely I have been keeping track of my sleep during the Rebooted Body Walk Challenge. Looking at the data, I have been getting a little over 7.5 hours of sleep per night. It helps when you have a device monitoring your sleep and the quality of sleep. I need to continue getting over 7 hours of quality sleep each night, and I need to get to bed earlier so I can get workouts completed before work. That is the sweet spot because: • We are usually too tired after a long day at work to workout • Our lives get busy after work and nights seem to get short • Days are getting shorter and it is getting dark earlier If I can adjust my schedule, I can get the workouts done early and have the evening to complete other tasks or hang out with my family and friends without guilt or regrets. My Sleep Action Item is going to bed earlier, getting up earlier and getting an average of 7 hours of sleep per night. Getting Mentally Strong ->Journaling and Podcasting I like listening to podcasts and audio books. I find it is a great way to get a lot of good information while I travel around for my job or do other projects like walking, canning or gardening. That said, there were a couple of podcasts that I was listening to that weren’t that great for various reasons, and I have gone ahead and dropped them. They were just adding to the noise. Instead, I have been using my Audible subscription to listen to a book by Greg McKeown called “Essentialism.” It is over six hours, and I am trying to really listen closely to this one and take some notes. I would like to complete a review of this one once I am complete. Also part of getting mentally strong was journaling. In the past, I found that it helps to write something daily because it helped me focus and write what I am thinking and feeling. Over the past week, I just didn’t start writing, so I need to get going on that this week My action item for this week is that I will journal 5 times over the next week. Working Out Regularly - >Planning, Developing Stronger Whys and Choosing to do the Work Over the past 11 days, I have been participating in the Rebooted Body 14-Day Walk Challenge. There were three categories for the Walk Challenge: • 1-mile per day • 3-miles per day • 5-miles per day I have been having some knee pain, so I decided to choose the 1-mile per day category. I figured if I could get at least a mile done a day, I would be doing better than I was now. Plus, I figured I could get some momentum as the weather is getting colder (winter is coming) and the snow will keep us indoors for six months. I have tried to walk every day, and I used Map My Walk on my iPhone to track my mileage and my times. If you have been watching the Small Scale Life Instagram account or Small Scale Life Facebook page, you have seen my healthy lifestyle progress report. Stacking it all up, you can see some real progress: • Day 1 – 2.6 miles; 50 minutes, 38 seconds (9/15/17) • Day 2 – 1.3 miles; 20 minutes, 14 seconds (9/16/17) • Day 3 – 1 mile; 19 minutes, 9 seconds (9/17/17) • Day 4 – 2.6 miles; 49 minutes, 5 seconds (9/18/17) • Day 5 – 2.6 miles; 52 minutes, 18 seconds (9/19/17) • Day 6 – 3 miles; 63 minutes, 9 seconds (9/20/17) • Day 7 – Rest (9/21/17) • Day 8 – Rest (9/22/17) • Day 9 - 1 mile; 21 minutes, 22 seconds (9/23/17) • Day 10 – 2.2 miles; 41 minutes, 8 seconds (9/24/17) • Day 11 – 3 miles; 60 minutes (9/25/17) • Day 12 – 1 mile; 21 minutes, 57 seconds (9/26/17) • Day 13 - Presentations on my feet for 3 hours • Day 14 - Rail Safety Station Blitz - on my feet for 4 hours Total mileage to date: 20.3 miles Walking over 20 miles in 12 days is a pretty cool stat! In addition, I was looking at the historical workout information, and I have improved my walk times. On 9/11/17, I logged 2.6 miles in 55 minutes, 17 seconds. So, even though I have been having a lot of knee pain due to arthritis, my time per mile has decreased over the past 12 days. The Walk Challenge has been good for me to get some momentum and get moving again, even with some significant knee pain. The challenge will end on Friday. After the Walk Challenge is complete, I want to get back into the pool and start swimming laps. This will be easier on my joints while I get a great full body workout. I will also try to get some biking in as well. My action item this week is to keep moving by getting on bikes or getting in the pool and swimming laps for at least 5 days next week. Going Forward - Healthy Lifestyle Progress Report In summary, I am going to be completing the following Action Items over the next week and providing another healthy lifestyle progress report: My Eating Action Item going forward is rereading the Rebooted Body information on eating Real Food, and I focusing on eat real food at lunches for the next week. My Sleep Action Item is going to bed earlier, getting up earlier and getting an average of 7 hours of sleep per night. My Mind Action Item for this week is that I will journal 5 times over the next week. My Movement Action Item this week is to keep moving by getting on bikes or getting in the pool and swimming laps for at least 5 days next week. The bottom line is that I have made some progress on the four parts of the plan, but I am not perfect. In fact, PERFECTION is not the goal. PERFECTION is actually the enemy. When we strive to be perfect, we are setting ourselves up for frustration and failure. Kevin Michael Geary talks a lot about perfectionism at Rebooted Body, and this is a topic for a future podcast! I guess we’ll have to wait for that one. How is that for a podcast tease? The bottom line is that I want to thank Kevin Michael Geary and Zack Franke at Rebooted Body for organizing and facilitating the 14-Day Walk Challenge. Even though my knee has been pretty sore, this has been a great way to get momentum towards developing the healthy lifestyle. The key now is to keep that momentum going and actually do the work. As Kevin said so eloquently in a livestream to the Walk Challenge Facebook Group: [tweetthis]“The only thing that will change your life is execution.” – Kevin Michael Geary[/tweetthis] We can learn and read and think all we want, but it really does come down to execution. We need use that knowledge and do the work. We need to get our offense on the field and execute! I hope this podcast and healthy lifestyle progress report will inspire you to eat real food, move every day and get better sleep. I hope you will be inspired to do a little bit each day and go for the long haul. I hope you will join me on our journey for a healthier life. The road ahead is not easy (if it was easy, everyone would do it), but we need to start with a single step. Put enough of those steps together, and we will start to get some momentum. Did I think I would walk over 20 miles in two weeks? No, I did not, especially with a sore knee. Guess what? I did it, and I will keep going. Why not join me? I will do some thinking about where we go from here. Maybe we run a fitness challenge this fall to help keep everyone motivated. Maybe we run micro-challenges. I’ll have to think about it a bit and talk to folks in the Small Scale Life Facebook Group. If you want to provide some input into what comes next, join the conversation there. Remember: you are stronger when you work with a team and a group, so you should join us in the Small Scale Life Facebook Group. This is where we will end the healthy lifestyle progress report this week. Stay tuned to Small Scale Life for more updates on the Fall Garden, for interesting interviews and more information as we head into Fall. Please share this podcast with others, and feel free to leave a review on iTunes. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send them to me through the Contact Us form on Smallscalelife.com or leave them as comments to this episode. Thank you again for tuning into Small Scale Life. We do appreciate each and every one of you. This is Tom from Small Scale Life. Remember to learn, do and grow. See you really soon!

Nutritional Therapy Association Lead Instructor Caroline Barringer, is joined by founder of rebootedbody.com and the rebooted body podcast, Kevin Michael Geary for Episode 231 of “Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson and Kara Halderman”  Sit back and relax with a raw chicken wing (Ugh) while co-hosts Leah and Kara chat with health and nutrition experts on the latest health headlines! How to Reduce Your Risk of Diabetes: Cut Back on Meat   The Newest Paleo Diet Needs to Stop It With the Raw Chicken (Because Ugh)   On this weeks episode Caroline Barringer discusses life on the road in her RV connecting with local food producers and how her own health challenges guided her to the Nutritional Therapy Association.   Kevin Michael Geary discusses how he was on the path to diabetes and obesity until he discovered real food and functional fitness which changed his relationship with food forever. Leah, Kara, Caroline and Kevin discuss two articles about meat.  The first being the controversial topic around meat causing diabetes and the second article is the trending new fad of eating raw meat.  Would you eat it? And don’t forget the secret health headline! We review one of Kevin's articles on which weight loss methods you should block from your mind! Links used: Caroline Barringer: http://www.immunitrition.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/FreewayFoodies/about/ Kevin Michael Geary: rebootedbody.com  

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LIVE FROM MINNEAPOLIS! This is the Small Scale Life Podcast, and I am your host Tom Domres. Since we are Livestreaming on YouTube, I would like to welcome all of our listeners and viewers there. Thank you for tuning in, and welcome to the show! Today, we are going to discuss one topic that hangs around like a bad skunk smell: debt. We haven’t done a show completely focused on debt before, but it folds right in with our Frugal Living focus here at Small Scale Life. A lot of us have debt, and you might be wondering how to get rid of it. Well, Julie and I have been working on our debt for a long time, and we took one big step closer to becoming debt free yesterday. It is REALLY exciting, so we are going to discuss that on Season 2, Episode 15 or the Small Scale Life Podcast! In case you are new to Small Scale Life, this is a blog and podcast dedicated to developing a sustainable life through • Gardening • Healthy Living • Frugal Living and • Having Adventures along the way! At Small Scale Life, we are always dedicated to learning, doing and growing. This podcast is brought to you by Small Scale Life Facebook Group and the Small Scale Gardening Facebook Group. We’ll hear about both of those groups later in the show. New Tech and Podcast Hosting As we start the show today, I wanted to let you all know that we are making some changes to the way the podcast is hosted and delivered to you. We are leaving the host Blubrry and going to a new host called Fireside. Why does this matter? Well, just to provide a peak behind the curtain, Blubrry and other hosting sites like Libsyn have a limit on the amount of material uploaded on their site per month. I paid a $20 fee, and I was able to upload 250 MB of shows onto their server. That’s a lot of data in a month! The trouble I was having was that hour-long shows are typically getting into the 100 MB range (using my current processing methods). That equates to two 1 hour shows and maybe a shorter show during the month on Blubrry. As we grow and improve our systems, I would like to do more interviews and other shows that might take more time. I needed a better solution. Fortunately, my coach Kevin Michael Geary was also bumping into issues with his Rebooted Body Podcast and Bite Sized Wellness Podcast. He decided to transfer everything to Fireside. He liked the service and analytics, so I decided to move over there as well! The good thing is that those first 6 episodes of the show that were orphaned on Soundcloud have been pulled over, as have the last 10 episodes. I will be pulling the rest over this week. Hopefully there will be no interruptions and this will be a smooth transition! Please let me know if you experience any problems listening to and downloading the podcast. On the Road Again This has been an incredibly busy and chaotic summer (once again)! I am hoping it slows down at some point, and Julie assures me that it will. We have been traveling over the past week again, and we had some really fun trips. I shouldn’t complain! Lake Mills, Wisconsin Julie, Ryan and I went down to Lake Mills, Wisconsin, for a graduation party, and it was great seeing the extended family down there. We reconnected with everyone, and I was able to schedule a family guy’s only event in late August. That should be a lot of fun. So, if you are part of our guy’s group, we will be camping on my land on the weekend of August 26-27. That should be a lot of fun. We stayed in a mom and pop-style resort in Lake Mills, and we had some time on Saturday to enjoy the beach and the lake. Staying at that resort really took me back to the Wa-Chee-Lah Resort my grandparent’s operated in Central Wisconsin near the Dells. There are no tvs; there is sketchy phone service. These places are great for relaxing and getting away from it all. The vintage cabins, the smells, the decoration…it brought me back to my childhood. The one drawback to the weekend came from swimming in the Lake. I got “The Itch.” I had welts on my skin that itched like crazy, and talking with my sister-in-law about her weekend in northern Wisconsin, my nieces and nephews got a case of that as well. It causes discomfort, and I will have more information on that. Winona, Minnesota Last Wednesday, Julie, Ryan and I traveled to Winona, Minnesota. He is going to attend Winona State University in August, so we had to make the journey to get him registered for school. Even with the rain, I have to say that the Winona State is a beautiful campus a few blocks west of the Mississippi River. We had a great, but very short, trip there. We are all excited that Ryan will start a new adventure there, and I know he will like the college. One of the presentations that really caught our attention was from the Financial Aid Office. They walked through all of the various pages on their website that dealt with costs and paying for school. It is stunning that a state school like Winona State University costs about $18,000 per year. That includes tuition, fees, laptop, and housing (plus a meal plan). Books, supplies and the beer money (ahem) are extra. That is A LOT of money, and if you haven’t built a war chest of cash to pay for college, you will be taking out a lot of loans. That equates to $72,000 for four years for tuition, fees, the laptop and housing. Let that sink in for a minute……$72,000. Yikes! So, my message for you other parents and students: get saving OR explore other options like the trades or like Aaron Clarey says, “Become a Reconnaissance Man” and explore the world for a year. All in all, it was a good trip, and we are excited for Ryan to begin this next phase of his life. Ok, we are going to take a little break and hear from the sponsors of today’s episode of Small Scale Life, and then we will be right back to get into becoming debt free! All right, welcome back to the Small Scale Life Podcast. As I mentioned early in the show, having a pile of debt is like a bad skunk smell: it just lingers around and makes you very uncomfortable over time. Having debt is just one of those things that people expect to have in modern America: we wake up in mortgaged homes, drive leased cars or cars with loans, drive on financed roads, put that morning Starbucks or lunch on the credit card, and go back to that mortgaged home to start it all over again. We Americans are FAR too comfortable with having debt. I figured we would have learned our lesson with the Crash of 2008. According to the New York Times, we have not. According to the linked May 17th article, “Americans have now borrowed more money than they had at the height of the credit bubble in 2008 just as the global financial system began to collapse.” In May, household debt had climbed to 12.7 TRILLION dollars, and while politicians, bankers and other might celebrate because our spending on consumer goods, education and housing have increased, this is a horrible signal that we have learned nothing from the last economic downturn. Let me correct that: we learned our lesson FOR A BIT. Household debt actually decreased for 19 quarters starting in 2008. However, by 2013, we started to pile on that debt once again. I guess everyone thought we were in the clear! Our debt consists of the following: • Mortgage – 8.6 Trillion dollars which 68% of our debt • Student Loans – 1.3 Trillion dollars • Cars – 1.1 Trillion dollars • Credit Card Debt – 797 billion dollars (529 billion – carrying a balance) We already talked a little about student loan debt, and we will be coming back to that topic in a separate podcast. It really is a big issue that needs to be addressed because so many people are overwhelmed with student loan debt. Today, we are focusing on credit card debt. Looking at another source of information about credit cards called Magnify Money, author Hannah Mounds has posted a number of interesting statistics about Credit Card Debt including: • As of December 2016, households with credit card debt owed an average of $8,448 (actually down 20 percent from the Crash of 2008) • 195 million Americans have credit cards • Average number of credit cards per consumer is 2.3 • 122 million Americans carry a credit card balance • Average credit card debt per person is $4,354 • Average credit card debt per household is $8,448 • 31% of households carry a balance all year Businesses and Credit Card Companies have invested A LOT of time and money to understand consumers and our buying patterns and habits. Dave Ramsey from Ramsey Solutions talks about this all the time. He tells us that: • A study of credit card use at McDonald’s found that people spent 47% more when using credit instead of cash. • You will spend more if you use credit cards; you don’t feel the pain of handing over those green bills you worked hard to earn. • Even by paying the bills on time, you are not beating the system due to fees and interest charged by the lenders! But most families don't pay on time. Why do we borrow money? Beekeeper extraordinaire Michael Jordan and I recently talked about the why in our recent interview. I am going to play that brief conversation for you. Wages are and have been stagnant. We are taking on too much debt to keep up appearances and buy more worthless stuff. Is it worth it? Julie and I have been there and done that! Since getting married in college, we have worked hard at surviving and keeping the lights on and food on the table. We borrowed money: • To buy our first car and our first computer • So I could complete college. • Buy our houses I also got my first credit card in college. We racked up debt throughout our marriage, and we have been working to eliminate it since the Crash of 2008 (sometimes being more successful at eliminating debt than others). I have learned that debt limits your freedom. Borrowing money eliminates your options about where you live, what you can buy, and even where you work and what your career options are. For example, we had a high mortgage for our house in Illinois. We also carried some credit card debt. When the Crash of 2008 happened, I had clients stopping projects and walking away from our company in order to keep their own employees working. Our company management was looking to reduce staff, and I had to lay off employees. There were times when I thought I was going to be laid off. At the same time, the small company that Julie was working for was struggling. No one was doing construction projects, so there were mass layoffs across the construction industry and trades. The odds for survival were not in this company’s favor. There was no way that we could pay our bills if we were laid off. The debt we had assumed was WAY too high. We had to make some tough decisions about where we were working, where we were living and how we were spending our money. We had to make changes. Let me say that again: WE HAD TO MAKE CHANGES. That is the real reason for creating this podcast today. I have some EXCELLENT and exciting news. As of yesterday, Julie made one final payment to the bank. This morning, we checked the balance to confirm it, but we have paid off our only credit card! We are one step closer to being debt free. In a couple weeks, we will be back on the air to talk about truly being debt free, and that will be a REALLY fun podcast. I will even have Julie on the air for that one. We’ll do our own Debt Free Scream for all of you! Becoming debt free is a process. Like losing weight, it can be hard and take a long time. You need to keep the end in sight. If you want to start changing your life and your family’s financial path, you need to start today. To help you, there are some good resources out there to get you on the right track. • Julie and I have been HUGE fans of Dave Ramsey. Check out his site at daveramsey.com. He has a radio show, podcast, YouTube channel and all kinds of resources for you to help you. It is REALLY worth it, but like anything, it is on you to do the work and help yourself. • If you don’t like Dave or other aspects of his program, there are other resources like Crown Financial Ministries. • If you don’t care for a Christian perspective and want something a little more…irreverent, you can always check out Aaron Clarey’s books like Bachelor Pad Economics, Worthless, Reconnaisance Man and Poor Richard’s Retirement. He discusses some of the same principles from a bachelor’s perspective. There is a ton to discuss about becoming debt free. There is no better feeling than the freedom of not having any payments. It is possible; you can do it. We will discuss this in more detail in the future, and Julie and I can help you. Stay tuned for more about becoming debt free. I will be back tomorrow with a GREAT interview with Michael Jordan, so come back for that. We talk small businesses and bees. He was AWESOME! Thank you for tuning in to this episode! We appreciate you. Get out there and try something new this week. Remember to always learn, do and grow; this is Tom from the Small Scale Life Podcast. See you soon!

The Land of 10000 Downloads – S2E14   Is the world on fire right now?  It seems like everything is coming apart at the seams.  After a busy couple weeks, I was feeling pretty down this morning.  As I opened my computer, I saw something that REALLY brightened my day, and I have to share some great news with you.  This is Season 2, Episode 14, and in this episode we are celebrating 10000 downloads of the Small Scale Life Podcast!  It is a great way to kick off the weekend, and it is a great accomplishment. Special Thanks I have to thank so many great guests I have had over the past year and a half including Greg Burns, Drew Sample, Kevin Michael Geary, Scott Herbert, Todd Ehrhardt, Charles Hugh Smith, Khaled Majouji (The Plant Charmer), Travis Swanson, Bren Haas and of course my good friend Jay Dolan.  I would also like to thank Austin Quinn at Vlog Vibes for creating some great tunes for the podcast.  These folks are all part of this story and the development and growth of the podcast. Most of all, I have to thank all of you for listening and encouraging me to keep going.  There are times when you are recording these episodes where you wonder if anyone is listening, if this is making any sense or if any of it matters.  Looking at the analytics, answering questions and interacting with you, I know it is making a difference.  As long as we are making a difference in someone’s life, we will keep going. The Next 10000 Downloads As I told someone once, I will change the world one garden and one person at a time!  We might not be able to change things in City Hall, State Capitol, DC or some far off land, but we can start right in our backyards.  Start small, keep going and keep pushing.  Reaching 10000 downloads is a great achievement for me, and I can hardly wait to get to the next 10000 downloads.  Let’s do this and continue to learn, do and grow together! Podcast Topics In this podcast, I discuss the following: On the Road Again Forestville-Mystery Cave State Park Kansas City Move Update 10000 Downloads – Past, Present and Future Special Update on a Great Future Guest Friends of Small Scale Life Join the Small Scale Life Facebook Community today! Small Scale Life Facebook Group  – This group will get you a backstage pass and access to other members of the Small Scale Life Community.  We will discuss gardening, healthy lifestyle, frugal living and having adventures along the way! This is also your chance to see what is coming up on Small Scale Life, see some content not shared on the blog, and ask questions of future guests If you like to garden, join the Small Scale Gardening Group! Small Scale Gardening Facebook Group – Share your gardening stories, questions and ideas with over 200 fellow gardeners!  Join today! Subscribe and Rate on iTunes Please consider becoming a subscriber to the Small Scale Life iTunes Channel.  Subscribers and ratings from listeners help us grow the podcast and the blog.  As you know, people look at subscribers and reviews before they listen.  Few subscribers and few reviews mean that no one cares to listen or rate the podcast.  Please click subscribe, and you will get notices when a new podcast is available. If you provide a review for the podcast, consider giving a few stars (not going to lie: I want five stars) for the Podcast.  I really appreciate you as a listener and your feedback. To leave a review, simply follow these simple steps: Click on this link or the image above. Go to ratings and reviews. Click on the number stars (five would be awesome) Subscribe to the podcast (optional, but appreciated)! You can also write a quick review or some words of encouragement (optional, but appreciated) You can also write a longer review, though it’s not necessary.  Again, thank you for listening and your review! Listen We have several options for you to listen to the Small Scale Life Podcast.  You may listen in the following locations: iTunes Stitcher Blubrry YouTube   The post The Land of 10000 Downloads – S2E14 appeared first on Small Scale Life.

My friend Mr. Tactical is back on the Small Scale Life Podcast!  We discuss a yuuuuge armada of Practical to Tactical Skills and Topics ranging from Hawaiian vacations (and engagements), gardening, hunt for rural property, minimalism, and tactical training (grappling and gunning) at Tim Kennedy’s Sheepdog Response class.  This is an information packed episode, so I hope you have as much fun as we did recording it! Podcast Topics and Links   In this podcast, Jay and I discuss the following topics and links: Practical Skills Hawaiian Adventure – Mr. Tactical is engaged! Health and Sleep Contrasting Showers – Wim Hof Benefits of getting more sleep – Kevin Michael Geary’s Rebooted Body Gardening Potting Soil Challenge Mason Jar Kitchen Gardens Mr Tactical’s Three Alarm Garden Soil Amendments Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew Direct Sowing vs. Buying Plant Starts Fencing a Garden Rural Property Jay’s Condo to Compound Blog Saving Plan Debt Reduction Spending Reduction Plan The Minimalists – Podcast and Website Tactical Skills Tim Kennedy’s Sheepdog Response Class Who is Tim Kennedy? Course Elements – Guns and Grappling Why Train?  Does this matter? Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman On Killing – Sheepdog philosophy Hard Times Creates Hard Men Training with the Best Hard Times = Strong Men Friends of Small Scale Life As I develop friendships in online communities and in real life, I have seen really great people doing great work.  For some, I will be setting up affiliates and memberships as this blog and podcasts grow.  Please check out these friends and take advantage of their offers below: Nature’s Image Farm – For a LIMITED TIME ONLY (until 4/24/17), Nature’s Image Farm is offering bundles of orchard products for your urban homesteaders, farmsteaders and preppers!  Check these links out for more details! Urban Homesteader Bundle  Farmsteader Bundle Remember: when you place orders using the code “SSL,” you will receive a 10% OFF all nursery stock plus FREE shipping.  It is time to plant, so why not order something from Nature’s Image Farm?  Even if you do not buy anything, this is a going to be a great resource for new homesteaders like me.  Check out the Homestead How-To Page for more hillbilly homesteading information. Join the Small Scale Life Facebook Community today! Small Scale Life Facebook Group – This group will get you a backstage pass and access to other members of the Small Scale Life Community.  We will discuss gardening, healthy lifestyle, frugal living and having adventures along the way! This is also your chance to see what is coming up on Small Scale Life, see some content not shared on the blog, and ask questions of future guests.   Subscribe and Rate on iTunes If you are a subscriber to the Small Scale Life iTunes Channel, please provide a review for the podcast, consider giving a few stars (not going to lie: I want five stars) for the Podcast.  I really appreciate you as a listener and your feedback. To leave a review, simply follow these simple steps: Click on this link or the image above. Go to ratings and reviews. Click on the number stars (five would be awesome) Subscribe to the podcast (optional, but appreciated)! You can also write a quick review or some words of encouragement (optional, but appreciated) You can also write a longer review, though it’s not necessary. Again, thank you for listening and your review! The post Mr. Tactical: Practical to Tactical Skills – S2E9 appeared first on Small Scale Life.

Kevin is a dad to two young girls, so he’s in the trenches of parenthood every single day. He’s also a founder of RevolutionaryParent.com and he has over 15 years of teaching experience with all ages from the days he was martial arts instructor in Atlanta metro area. Tune in! In today’s show, we’ll get into: Healthy parent-child relationship Forming the relationship with the baby: starts with your attitude and mindset towards the baby talk to your baby have respect for the baby (with bunch of real-life examples) Forming you parenting style and having a set of principles Kevin’s Authentic Parenting 5 pillars Tips for dealing with impatience Connect with Kevin: Website: (revolutionaryparent.com/) FB group: (facebook.com/groups/rebootyourkids/) -- NB! Join the private FB group for new dads! -- Shownotes at: bnfpodcast.com/091 -- P.S. If you enjoyed today’s show, please share it with a fellow soon-to-be or a new dad. That’s the best compliment you can give me and the show!