The Isaac Morehouse Podcast

A new buzzword appears from time to time, and it usually quickly gets plenty of negative connotations. During our Praxis meet-ups, I had the opportunity to meet Declan Wilson who joined me to talk about some positive sides of the Millenials, and how negative prejudices are mostly out of place. Also, we talked about his idea to blog while he goes towards his goals instead of waiting to succeed and...

What does it mean to sell out, water down, or compromise who you are? What are the unseen costs of doing so, and the unseen benefits of resisting? Today we discuss this in depth, including stories about how TK could have been as cool as Beverly Hills 90210's Luke Perry if he hadn't given in to peer pressure and how I nearly ended up a drug dealer. Here's Paul Graham's essay referenced in today's s...

He worked as a teacher in a public school, a tutor, and eventually as a college consultant. He joins Isaac today to talk about why he walked away from those jobs and founded a project called "School Sucks." Brett Veinotte and Isaac discuss how he tried to add more value to test preparation in the form of argumentation and writing skills, where he found that students were mostly interested in just...

*Some weird audio issues going on today, so we were forced to switch platforms and it resulted in some imperfections in sound. Launching a new Friday feature! TK will join for a conversation on...whatever comes up. Today Isaac and TK discuss entrepreneurship, whether the word is too broadly used, the difference between entrepreneurship as an action and entrepreneurship as a career. Check out the 6...

Some of the common fears that I have encountered when it comes to unschooling, are that ‘kids won’t learn what they need to learn’ and that there are things that kids need to be forced to learn for their benefit. I use rational choice theory to dispel these misconceptions. Also I clarified some misunderstandings considering my stance toward high education and why spending time preparing for plan B...

Whenever an activity gets a new, revolutionary approach, bystanders always seem to require it to result in perfection, while old ways remain isolated from such rigorous standards. Same goes for a topic that is discussed in today’s episode with Kevin Geary, who argues for an authentic way to solve challenges instead of copying known patterns. Kevin talks about how he applied an authentic way to sol...

Some questions have gathered on my website and it’s time for an Ask Isaac episode! As you probably know, my family and myself spent a couple of weeks in Ecuador and, of course, there were a couple of questions regarding that adventure - I was interviewed for World Wanderers podcast and in a few days or a week you will be able to hear it all out. Questions that were answered here: Fellow podcaster...

There is a world of difference between driving a car and riding a bike when it comes to experiencing the world around you. One of the chapters in, "Why Haven’t You Read This Book?" was written by one of our guests today, who join me to talk about why they chose to embark on a nationwide journey by bicycle. Both Anna and Peter are employed and are working while traveling and we talk about how they...

Technology has brought about and will surely continue to reduce transaction costs when it comes to education and employment. Taylor Pearson, author of a bestselling book The End of Jobs, joins me to talk about risky and antifragile when it comes to jobs and occupation. His work experience, why he thinks that accounting is the riskiest and entrepreneurship safest job, as well as how to think about...

This episode is an interview that I gave to a local radio station on their Saturday show called ‘Beyond the Business’. The show is about local entrepreneurs in Charleston, where they come from, what they are doing and what influenced them to do what they do today. The hosts asked some good questions and we talked about how it was growing up in Michigan, my education and the work experience that I...

There are some striking similarities between entrepreneurs of today and renegades in the past - from saloons to gay bars, and from first brothels to the Dark Web. Thaddeus Russell comes back to the show to talk about his upcoming project called Renegade University. A combination of online lectures, readings and interactive seminars based on his book A Renegade History of the United States and some...

One of the downsides of formal education is that it fosters learning for the sake of satisfying a person in authority instead of learning in order to satisfy one’s curiosity. Schools generally offer praise and avoidance of pain when learning rules are abided, which is still externally guided and not connected to our curiosity and goals. TK Coleman comes back on the show to talk about the importanc...

An entrepreneur, author and self-publisher as well as a college dropout, Tam Pham is working hard to introduce people to self-directed learning. Tam and I talk about jumping off the conveyor belt, how to identify one’s goals and directions, what obstacles are in the way of anyone publishing a book, the ‘Steve Jobs Fallacy’ and failure in entrepreneurship. Check out his website outsideoftheclassroo...

Our Beginner’s Guide to Startups continues with Evan Baehr joining us in this fourth and final episode of the series to talk about how to get your idea funded. Evan lays down the essentials that you need to think about when you are preparing to ask someone for money. He provides some tools and tips that can help you find the right investor(s) for you and your team, and how to get to that crucial p...

Today’s episode features my appearance at the Free Cities Podcast hosted by Anthony Caprio, where we talked about Praxis, the importance of becoming your own credential and shedding away things that hold you back . What makes you come alive is not easy to discover, but you can do it by going via negativa and by eliminating things that are hurting you and which give you pain. Free Cities Podcast is...

The third episode in our startup series has my brother Levi come back to the show to talk about discovering your thing in entrepreneurship, bootstrapping and getting started, along with ways to grow without (big) investment. Levi’s view is that there are no bad reasons for wanting to be an entrepreneur, whether you want the freedom (and responsibilities) that comes with entrepreneurship, or is it...

Tam Pham hosted me on his podcast at Outside of the Classroom and we talked about Why Haven’t You Read This Book (http://goo.gl/YP0s38) - from the motivation and engaging with authors to some criticisms that the book generated. We also covered how the Kickstarter project for the book went on and eventually turned out successful. Tam Pham featured on Episode 47 of this podcast, go and check out his...

We continue our Beginner’s guide to startups with a discussion that continues on the basics of formatting an idea and preparing a business plan. Michael Gibson from 1517 Fund joins me to speak about the investor side of the story. We cover the types of investors that can be found out there, what to look for and how to approach an investor, what a startup accelerator can help you with and what to c...

Joe Sanok hosted me at his podcast where we talked about entrepreneurship, education and how to optimize your own life and stop doing things that you don’t like. We talked about some of my experiences and also went step by step through the experience which Praxis offers to it’s participants. You can find out more about Joe and his work from Episode 46 of my podcast.

This is the first episode in a four part series on start-ups for beginners. Antony Davies is a great opener for this first episode as he wields both theory and practice when it comes to start-ups and has a good understanding of what it's all about. He Antony covers some of the most important questions and dilemmas anyone who thinks about entrepreneurship faces: from Am I an entrepreneur? to the qu...

From humanitarian missions to engaging in politics and education, I wanted to make the world a better place. I discovered through both experience and theory that I was not changing the underlying causes of unfreedom through politics and that it takes ideas and experience to alter beliefs and open up the possibility for greater freedom. This talk is about my experiences and how they affected my lif...

Are backup plans an absolute must, or can they actually do more harm than good? How can you think about and mitigate risk while not holding yourself back? I asked seven smart, interesting people to give me their take on the concept of backup plans. None of them heard each other's take and I gave no further instructions, just whatever came to mind. It's pretty cool to hear the results! Responses fr...

I'm not big on goal setting, yet I think consistent structure is key to achieving what you want (even if what you want isn't perfectly defined). I discuss this and a few other items on this episode. Check out the episode sponsor, FEE.org/seminars to apply for an amazing experience learning about economics!

Joe Sanok joins me today to talk about his business of counseling counselors and helping others launch, grow and make their own practices much more efficient. We talked about his beginnings in Kirby sales, starting his own counseling service, keeping his finances in control and how to look beyond the zero-sum-game view. Joe also states what he sees as the biggest obstacle people face when they wan...

-Anonymous asks why the new intro music -Thomas Bogle asks what to do with business ideas if you don't have the expertise to build them yourself -Andy Heinen asks how we can really have information without gatekeepers when people are trying to incentivise us to choose certain things all the time -Matt Needham asks for a book recommendation, and what the best and worst things are about living in Ch...