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Thriving The Future Podcast
by Thriving The Future
Thriving The Future Podcast focuses on 👍- Positive solutions to help you #Thrive 🔨- Design your Intentional life. 🐓- Homestead 🍓- Side Hustle 🤝 – Community 🧰 – #SkillsOverStuff Podcast website: https://thrivingthefuture.com
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Ep. 164 - Building a Sustainable Nursery with Backyard Berry
Travis from Backyard Berry on Substack shares about his series "Building a Sustainable Nursery". His favorite trees: Pawpaws, Persimmons, and Pin Cherries (for the birds). We also talk about his series on "Homegrown National Park". Everyone was talking about national parks being affected by…
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Ep. 163 - Plant a Fall Garden in July!
The seed displays are gone from the store. You can outdo the normies by planting a great Fall garden - even in the heat of July. It's July in Kansas, and next week we are going to break 100 for the first time this Summer. We have had a lot of rain. None of the stores have any plants left. Around...
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Ep. 161 - With Callery Pears the Problem is the Solution
How I turned my pasture of thorny Callery pears into an Asian pear orchard by bark grafting and cleft grating. Do a Google search on Callery pears and feel the hatred. Bradford pears, planted nearly everywhere, are usually grafted onto Callery pear rootstock. Callery pears are thorny pears that I...
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Ep. 162 - Talking Soil Health with Sam Baker from Wrigglebrew
Sam Baker from Wrigglebrew and I talk about soil health, and what does nitrogen poisoning look like? My leaves turned brown, despite enough watering. Maybe I gave them too much nitrogen? Overuse of phosphorus causes plants to not be able to uptake zinc, magnesium, calcium. That's another reason…
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Ep. 160 - Creating Community with Jamon - The Independent American Gardener
Jamon Mysliwiec joins me to share about TIAG - The Independent American Gardener, an online to in-real-life community, teaching permaculture and self-sufficiency through regenerative community. The goal is to move to a closed-loop economy, with communities producing surplus, leveraging home based...
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Ep. 159 - New Perennials I am Planting this Spring
As I get older, perennials have become more important in my garden. It is the first week of May, and this Spring I have not planted any new annuals, besides potatoes. But that doesn't mean that I do not have anything to eat. A couple of years ago I focused more and more corners of my garden and...
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Ep. 158 - Thriving the Future Community Shares Our Spring Plans
Matt from FarmHopLife, Joseph the Homestead Padre from Smith Homestead, and Grant Payne from Christine Acres Farm join me on a community call to share our Spring plans. Matt is growing mini cactus Homestead Padre is growing Ayote squash which tastes like chocolate. He also shares his farmers…
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Ep. 157 - How Goes the Struggle?
Perpend (David), who I started the podcast with, became an Orthodox monk and is now a Novice Monk at the Monastery of St. John in CA. As he was travelling from monastery to monastery throughout America, he occasionally was back in Kansas (the last time in September 2023). He would greet me, and...
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Ep. 156 - What's New with the Catholic Land Movement
Mike Thomas of the Catholic Land Movement joins me to talk about Catholic Land Movement news. We also share about our apple orchards and cider. The purpose of the Catholic Land Movement is "a rural resettlement of Catholics onto productive property which they own". This is a network of Catholics...
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Ep. 155 - Teach Kids Outside - with Roman from Nature School
Roman Shapla, from Nature School Startup, joins me to discuss Nature Schools - where the outdoors is the classroom. Roman recently shared on Twitter how he has taught tracking class: showing kids animal tracks in the dirt teaches kids about pattern recognition, thinking through timelines, as well...
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Ep. 154 - Tips to Start Your Chestnut Orchard
In this episode I cover an overview of the different types of chestnuts. And why do customers prefer hybrids over Chinese chestnuts? I share what named varieties that I am growing this year. And I give you tips to start your chestnut orchard, including soil pH and how/when to fertilize your...
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Ep. 153 - It's Never Been Easier to Reinvent Yourself - with John McCoy
Believe it or not, it's never been a better time to reinvent yourself than it is now. Sure, the job market looks bleak. Stories of downsizing nearly every day. But you can learn new skills, often for Free. John McCoy of John McCoy Writes tweeted a few weeks ago: "Friday reminder: you can just…
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Ep. 152 - Transforming a Farm to a Permaculture Oasis with Graham Towerton
Graham Towerton of Permaculture Canada joins me to share about his Michigan farm and his permaculture plans for this year. He is growing heritage raspberry and asparagus in permaculture with strawberries as the herb layer. Also Olive Leaf Arugula that is essentially perennial. We also share about...
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Ep. 151 - How to Find a Job in This Tough Economy
A former colleague of mine posted a Remote job that got 500 applicants. I will share some tips with you on How to Find a Job in This Tough Economy. You Must Know Someone on the Inside When there are 500 applicants, they are either using AI or a HR-level1 person to filter through the submitted...
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Ep. 150 - Decrease the "Noise" in Your Life
Our reality is choked out by thoughts, static, noise, and by the "cares of this life". (not to mention the electronic noise of being "always on", "always connected". The other night I went to Vespers service at church. Vespers is my favorite service. The candles, the dim lights, the hymns, the…
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Ep. 149 - It Was the Best of Times
This year has been the best of times and the worst of times. Okay, maybe not the worst. (after all, I am still employed). But this is the dichotomy (or is it a contradiction?): It is performance review time at work. It will be another "Meets Expectations". But my Goals and accomplishments in real...
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Ep. 148 - How Do You Use AI? - with Eric Niday
How Do You Use AI? Most people use it as a search engine. Some people use it write blog posts or customer emails. Some for analysis. But some assign it a role to do the analysis, like "evaluate this as an executive of XYZ company" or a hiring manager. My son-in-law, Eric Niday, uses AI for all of...
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Ep. 147 - Jason Snyder on Weathering Hurricane Helene
Jason Snyder of Doomer Optimism shares stories of how his family in NC weathered Hurricane Helene and what he is doing to regeneratively recover from the aftermath. Resiliency through community and culture. "Biblical flood? Plant trees, cultivate gardens, raise livestock." Episode website:...
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Ep. 146 - Flashback - the Real Civil War is Within You - with Cyprian
Next week is the election. Once again it is being billed as the "most important election in our lifetime!". And four years from now they will tell us the same thing. If every election is the same way, then maybe they are not as consequential as they say that they are. In Oct-27's homily/sermon…
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Ep. 145 - How to Position Yourself as an Expert - with Grant Payne
It's been almost a year since Grant and I shared about How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle (recently as a Flashback episode on Oct-11. What has changed with our nursery businesses in the last year? I started my food forest design...
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Ep. 144 - How I Put My Garden to Bed for the Winter
What are you doing to put your garden to bed for the winter time? Maybe you are luck and your growing season is still in swing. We are nearing the first frost date. It has been too hot and dry for my Fall greens to germinate so I will need to start them in the greenhouse, where they can grow…
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Ep. 143 - Flashback - How to Propagate your own Trees, Plants, and Flowers for Free, and Sell the Extras as a Side Hustle
This flashback episode with Grant Payne has tips that you can also use on your homestead to save and propagate trees and plants, with enough abundance to sell the extras. Create your own nursery side hustle, Propagation - from cuttings - elderberry, mulberry, figs, berries, and discarded trims…
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Ep. 142 - How Are You Becoming More Self Reliant?
What are you doing to increase your self reliance and self sufficiency? Jack Spirko's definitions: Self Sufficiency – The percentage of your needs met by your own systems Self Reliance – The duration in time you can live well without systems of support (or to live well with YOUR systems of…
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Ep. 141 - Armagarden - Regenerative Community Design, with Lindsay Brandon
Lindsay Brandon, CEO and Permaculture Consultant at Permaculture Canada joins me to share about Armagarden, her new project to integrate community design into the permaculture design. We discuss Armagarden and how it contrasts with the usual permaculture design. From the website: What is...
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Ep. 140 - Tips to Find Your Homestead Property - with Kerry Brown
With tough times, more people are looking for homestead property, or to add gardens, fruit and nut trees, and chickens to their existing suburban property to be more self sufficient. Kerry Brown of Strong Roots Resources joins me to share tips to find your homestead property: Look for off-market...
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Ep. 139 - More Tips to Design Your Intentional Life
Last time, in Ep. 138, Jason Thomas shared stories and we discussed how to design your intentional life. We talked about the main categories - wealth, health, relationships, and spirituality. I was contemplating my journey to design my intentional life and I had more to add. Having an Intentional...
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Ep. 138 - Jason Thomas on How to Design Your Intentional Life
What does your perfect day look like? Does today look like that perfect day? In this episode, Jason Thomas of Regeneration Nation Costa Rica shares foundational steps to design your intentional life. Needs most people have: Wealth Health Relationships Spirituality What does your perfect day look...
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Ep. 137 - What Will You Do With This Moment?
It's been a crazy week. The assassination attempt on Trump. Now a Global cyberattack (“no, it was just a bad patch!”) What will you do with this moment? Focus on your local Circle of Influence and Circle of Concern Plant trees Cultivate gardens Raise livestock Prepare mentally and spiritually…
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Ep. 134 - Surprising Small Business LLC Tips
My friend Kevin Brubaker from Dallas Media Productions, an independent film producer in Dallas, joins me to talk about LLC Tips (and lots of film stuff). What does a film producer have to do with my usual content of homesteading? It fits into creating side hustles and businesses to Design Your...
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Ep. 133 - Striving for a More Sustainable Life - with DeweyLikeDonuts
Jeremy is better known as DeweyLikeDonuts on Instagram and TikTok. We start his story in 2008 and how a SHTF can be your own personal apocalypse. He turned to "raising chickens, growing his own food, and striving for a more sustainable life" (his tagline). Prepping to Thrive rather than survive....
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Ep. 132 - Never Give Up, Never Surrender
Part of Thriving is embracing both the wins, as well as the losses. Homestead Update: My Spring garden has failed, for the most part. I usually sow plants and then spread lettuce and kale seed around to act as a cover crop - hey, lettuce is a companion plant of everything. This year hardly…
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Ep. 131 - Get Stuff Done - with Grant and Matt
Enough talk. Get Stuff Done. It's Proof of Work. Grant Payne and Matt Derosier share what Stuff they are Getting Done this Spring, as well as Side Hustle and Tree Nursery tips. Hear why "The IBC King is Back": Grant's wedding Grant added MANY chickens and ducks Turkey production - if you start…
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Ep. 130 - Tips on How to Grow Your Side Hustle
Real world examples to start and then grow your side hustle. I am taking a Permaculture Business Design Course through Regeneration Nation CR. The exercises and worksheets are fantastic and have helped me to focus more on the customer. What is the problem you are trying to solve? What does your...
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Ep. 129 - How to Find Your Side Hustle Niche
Times are tough. I talked with a recruiter friend the other day and there are >40 people in my field in our local job market that he knows that are looking for work. And those are just the ones that he knows. Build something for yourself. It’s basic prepping. Build your side hustle. Multiple...
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Ep. 128 - Tales from the Hinterland with Andy Hickman (shagbark_hick)
Andy Hickman (shagbark_hick on Twitter) shares his new adventures. Andy was on on Ep. 83 - You're Gonna Make it. His video "You're Gonna Make it" is still the most encouraging video I have ever seen, and still puts a smile on my face. Andy has a big Summer planned: He is getting married to…
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Ep. 127 - How to Design Your Garden Around Your Diet - with Homestead Padre
New health challenges require Homestead Padre to rethink and redesign his garden to adapt to those changes. After some health issues, Homestead Padre and his wife are adopting the Mediterranean Diet. Padre shares about IBS and Crohn's Disease. Unlike American Italian Food, the Mediterranean Diet…
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Ep. 126 - Tips to Overcome Screen Addiction
Try to go without your phone for a few hours, or even the whole day. Like most people, I reach for my phone when there is any break in the conversation, when a commercial comes on TV, or when I am even slightly bored. This episode will empower you with some tips to reduce your screen use - and...
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Ep. 125 - How to Build Local Community Through Local Food - with Little Pine Farmer
Scott the Little Pine Farmer on Twitter is back with me and we are talking about his bakery and how he favors "Why don't you come down to this market or deliver to the boutique in the city? We want to feed our neighborhood first." Scott the Little Pine Farmer It's all about the goal: "The...
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Ep. 124 - Creating a New Garden Bed with Milpa
Grow Food, Not Lawns How to Create a new garden bed with Milpa How you create a new garden bed depends on what time of the year it is. Most people sheet mulch by covering an area with cardboard, then layers of compost and woodchips. This works well, but only if you do it in the Fall AND you get...
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Ep. 123 - Permaculture Goal #1: Start Simple - with Cormac Harkin
You don't hear this permaculture message very often: Start Simple. Usually people are watching videos of Geoff Lawton and planning swales and dams and grafting, and... Cormac Harkin of Vine Permaculture starts his consults with basic questions: What do you like to eat? What kind of time do you…
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Ep. 122 - Food Security through Landrace Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse
Joseph Lofthouse is the author of Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination. Landrace gardening is adapting crops to your land and climate, and then saving seeds, while also selecting for the best flavor, color, and pest and disease resistance. Joseph…
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Ep. 121 - The Real Civil War is Within You - with Cyprian
A lot of people are talking about Civil War lately. There is even a big budget movie coming out in April 2024 that depicts CW2. In the movie trailer a guy in camo points a rifle at the main characters, journalists, and says, "What kind of American are you?" That clip from the movie trailer has...
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Ep. 120 - You Are Not Defined by Your Job Title
Positive Solutions in a Tough Labor Market You are in a social gathering, like church or some other social function, and the question comes up: "What do you do?" (for a living). How do you respond? Most people answer: "I am (this role) at XYZ company". But what is that really saying? You have…
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Ep. 119 - Concentrate Your Time on Building Your Own Brand - with John McCoy
In this episode, John McCoy and I discuss creating content and building your own brand. John McCoy is a freelance blogger and owner of JustEnoughSEO.com. John was on Ep. 75 - How to Reinvent Yourself as Freelancer. "Time is the most precious asset that I have. And I decided that my time needed to...
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Ep. 118 - How to Build a Side Hustle by Buying a Mini-business or a Pre-made Website
You're looking for a side hustle. What if you could buy a mini business that already has a website created for you? Flippa is an auction site to buy websites. It is similar to eBay - everything is an auction. There are two types of sites on Flippa: Startup site: This site does not have any…
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Ep. 117 - Hashimoto's Autoimmune Disease and AIP Diet - with Ryan
Tips on Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Diet and other ways to deal with Hashimoto's - from our own personal experiences. Ryan Mitchel Brown joins me to talk about Hashimotos Autoimmune Disease, AIP Diet. I have Hashimoto's Autoimmune Disease - where the body attacks the thyroid. Hashimoto’s…
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Ep. 116 - Tips on Skills Over Stuff and Side Hustles with Toolman Tim
How to develop skills while doing your side hustle. Toolman Tim and I talk about how to develop skills while doing your side hustle. Lots of side hustle tips in this episode! It was -46 in Canada in mid-January. What it is like living in a mobile home in -46. Note that Celsius and Fahrenheit…
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Ep. 114 - Sometimes You Just Have to Embrace the Suck
Tips on How to Handle Imposter Syndrome...and January. It's the doldrums of January. Christmas has passed. Deer season is over and I didn't get a deer Although I love the snow. I can't do anything when it's zero degrees outside and 25 mph wind like it is today. After shoveling 2 foot snow drifts…
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Ep. 113 - Finding Heirloom Trees in Long Forgotten Homesteads
With Brendan from Posterity Ciderworks Brendan from Posterity Ciderworks tells stories of how he finds neglected heirloom apple trees on long forgotten homesteads in California and uses them in his cider. His adventures are like watching an apple treasure hunt reality show. Quince - the...
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Ep. 112 - Our Christmas Memories and Traditions - with Homestead Padre and Grant Payne
Homestead Padre and Grant Payne join me and we share our Christmas memories and traditions. Our memories are at times bittersweet. Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. For Homestead Padre and his family, their holiday season starts when eggnog becomes available in the store. They put their...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Thriving The Future Podcast focuses on
👍- Positive solutions to help you #Thrive
🔨- Design your Intentional life.
🐓- Homestead
🍓- Side Hustle
🤝 – Community
🧰 – #SkillsOverStuff
Podcast website: https://thrivingthefuture.com
HOSTED BY
Thriving The Future
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