The Isaac Morehouse Podcast

Derek Carter was racing along the path to partnership at a large accounting firm. He had graduated college with an accounting degree and spent years busting his ass, taking on more responsibility and leading at a large regional firm. He was managing people and working with autonomy in a large organization. But his former colleague Levi Morehouse kept trying to sell him on leaving. They had worked...

Today we're back at it and things get a little weird at first. We cover lots of stuff, and end with a deep dive on deep dives. Also we unveil a cool new totally free resource by Praxis! Philosophy in 30 Days - https://discoverpraxis.teachable.com/p/praxis-philosophy-course Mentioned in the episode: Subway, 'as if it's true', Brian Brenberg, Stanislavsky, barber shops, baristas, labels, Jewish medi...

Is intellectual property law the foundation of an innovative society? Or a racket set up to protect entrenched businesses from competition? Stephan Kinsella joins the show this week to break it down. Stephan is a practicing patent attorney, a libertarian writer and speaker, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), and Founding and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers....

Joseph Coker is a true renaissance man. He is a comedian and podcast/radio host based in Charleston, SC. He’s also a musician, jiu-jitsu instructor, and entrepreneur. In his early twenties, Joseph was married, living in europe, and working for a church. Life felt stable, but it soon turned chaotic. After losing his brother and going through a divorce in the span of six months Joseph realized he ne...

Today we squeezed in an episode before some weekend travel. We talk about conflicting moral intuitions on violence and just deserts, how the market empowers small groups without disempowering anyone else, why good ideas don't need subsidies, and how entertaining self-serious Facebookers can be. Mentioned in the episode: Kevin Johnson, Boogie Cousins, Lady Gaga, How Anonymity Enhances Civility, Qdo...

Lenny Magill is the founder and CEO of Glockstore, the largest retailer of Glock weapons, accessories, and parts in the world. The online store at Glockstore.com alone serves over 250,000 customers around the globe. Lenny is also very well known in the shooting community for his videos on shooting and self-defense. Lenny shares the story of his career, from growing up in Pennsylvania, and along al...

Today TK's new mic got us a little distracted and caused some racially uncomfortable moments. We got over it. We dove into how weird it is that TK doesn't care to check tasks off his list after he's done them and how obsessed I am with list-checking. We discussed the danger of believing you are owed anything. We touched on positive rights (terrible) and negative rights (wonderful but still sometim...

This episode is all about football. Cameron Sorsby, Levi Morehouse, and Ian Vanhover join the show to break down everything from the start of the NFL season. From week one results to Tom Brady’s suspension, and how to create winning cultures. Also covered in this episode: - Is it weird to share a fantasy football team? - Why is deflate-gate still a thing? - Roger Goodell’s reputation and negative...

Kylon Gienger is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of The Successful Dropout Podcast. Since dropping out of college during freshman year Kylon has founded and co-founded companies in the construction, fitness, food, and online education industries. Seeing the ineffectiveness of traditional education and the rise of amazing alternatives, Kylon set out to create the ultimate resource for young p...

Today we hit tons of stuff. TK and I open with a discussion of how small amounts of money or time can pay huge quality of life dividends. We lament the sadness of forcing kids into schools, discuss why a bad resume is like asking someone to pay you for nothing, and then dive into tons of listener questions. Thanks to: Georgia Houghton, Francisco, Matt Needham, Karen Morehouse, Caitlyn Scheel, Nate...

Tim Chermak is the founder of Platform, the digital marketing agency for real estate agents. Tim educated himself outside of the school system, consistently invested in himself, and learned valuable skills to build a consulting career and then a company. If you are or want to be an entrepreneur, you’ll love this episode. Tim shares his stories from getting his first clients as a marketing consulta...

TK is back this week as we explore whether or not beauty is objective, the difference between morality and justice, why the least applicable advice is the best, and what legendary rap producer Suge Knight had to say about Praxis. Recommendations: On the Origins of Money by Carl Menger, Toward an Empirical Theory of Natural Rights by John Hasnas, and fisheconomics.org This and all episodes are avai...

George Beall is a co-founder of Everipedia, an open encyclopedia that takes puts more power in the hands of the public. In his first year of college, George founded a plug and play touchscreen tile technology company that he sold prior to joining Everipedia. George is a perfect example of learning from experience. Jumping into projects that interest him without waiting for permission or credential...

Pulled a fast one on you today! TK is occupied in Chicago at a family wedding and told me the house he's staying in is way too loud and full of nieces and nephews to record today. I called him a wimp. He laughed. Keeping with the family theme, today my brother Levi Morehouse steps in as TK's replacement. He's the Founder & CEO of Ceterus (ceterus.com), which provides cloud-based accounting and boo...

This episode is a short audio essay on one of the most life-changing mindsets I've found. Economics is the most powerful social discipline. It also has tremendous potential to improve our lives on the individual level. Not by understanding the stock market and making money, but by seeing the world through the lens of rational choice theory. The minute you do, problems and challenges become opportu...

This week's guest is Mitchell Earl, the co-author of Don't Do Stuff You Hate and a Praxis participant working at Ceterus, one of the INC 5000 fastest growing companies in the country. Topics covered in this episode: - Mitchell’s journey from growing up in rural Oklahoma to writing his first book and working at a fast-growing startup in South Carolina. - Life lessons from livestock and meat evaluat...

Today TK became inexplicably obsessed with me respecting his name (also he's getting a haircut for the first time in years so he's respecting his mane...ba-dum!) We talk a little about PDP's and persistence without doing stuff you hate, then we dive into tons of great questions from: Eric Olson, Sigal Sharabani, Andrew Stover, Simon Fraser, Thomas Bogle, Michael Hogan, Julia Patterson, Jeff Till,...

Connor Jeffers is the Director of Revenue Operations at Dose Media, one of the world’s fastest growing digital media startups. Dose uses innovative testing to create massively viral content on their popular sites OMGfacts.com and Dose.com. Connor shares how he built his career from interning at an education startup to becoming Director of Revenue Operations at Dose in only a few years. He tells yo...

TK and I get into discussion on a recent post I did about working your butt off before trying to optimize your life, and his story of learning the "carry the tray". Then we dive into a little philosophy and explore crappy arguments for and against the supernatural, aliens, immortality, God, and more. Mentioned in the episode: Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell's Problem of Philosophy, not finding yourse...

Lots of people have ideas, not many take action and create valuable products. Derek Magill, Director of Marketing at Praxis and Voice & Exit, turned a frustrating problem into nohipsterstocks.com in the course of a day. Instead of complaining or talking about your ideas, what lightning project could you be creating this week? Also in this episode, you will learn: - How side projects create value f...

Today we dive deep into the ideas behind a single chapter of a (weird but fascinating) book TK recommended called, "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves". It's about language, and to what extent our vocabulary actually alters our reality, not merely our attempts to give expression to it. Discussed in the episode: Marc Andreesson, George Lakoff, Ben Horowitz, Wayne Dyer, Seth Godin, Terrence McKenna, Clif...

Aaron Watson is a two-time national ultimate frisbee champion and the host of Going Deep with Aaron. On “Going Deep” Aaron has interviewed Wired Magazine founder Kevin Kelly, Chris Guillebeau, Taylor Pearson and over 100 other entrepreneurs, authors, and interesting human beings. This episode is a wide-ranging conversation with Aaron covering: - The benefits of starting a podcast - Life lessons fr...

Today we take a few Ask Isaac questions and dive into the problem of asking your ideology to be an all-consuming identity. Political philosophy needn't be life philosophy, religious beliefs needn't be aesthetic preferences, networks built around one thing needn't serve every other thing. You'll probably end up a perpetually frustrated crusader if you don't realize this. Thanks to David Richelson a...

Kevin Geary (previous guest of this podcast) brings me on his Revolutionary Parent Radio to discuss raising kids who have entrepreneurial know-how. You can't teach entrepreneurship. Attempts to do so are silly. But, you can provide an environment that allows the entrepreneurial spark we all have to grow. School and authoritarian structures do just the opposite. The best thing is to first do no har...

TK and I only had twenty minutes today so we ran down a few things that grind our gears, discussed the good side of being bad, why trying to be what you're not is the greatest evil, why the NBA's Eastern Conference is a big joke, why Thomas Hobbes is the root of all bad social theory, and more. Recommended in the episode: Anarchy Unbound, Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves. Rate and review if you lik...